| Rules for selecting the best stocks remain the same
The question posed to Stan Lock, stock picker from Brewin Dolphin: "What do you think about these newspaper adverts claiming to make loads of money for delegates from attending a stock picking seminar?" The answer, in short, is "not a lot", and Stan's four golden rules on the art of stock picking (see table). "The game hasn't really changed," says the veteran of 45 years of stock picking, "the rules that applied to good stock selection after World War II apply today". Echoing Warren Buffett, Lock continues, "Maybe these seminars are selling technology but, other than improving your ability to time the market, I haven't seen any technology that can make the subjective decisions that constitute a good selection." Art So here is the point: despite the range of strategies and seminar glossies, there is no recognisable fool proof method of stock selection.
Campuses may get money to sell ideas
TALLAHASSEE — A researcher at Florida Atlantic University has invented the world's thinnest flat-screen television - at least on paper. But for three years, FAU has not been able to find a company to make Grigoriy Kreymerman's patented invention - a fiber-optic TV screen about a quarter-inch thick, roughly 2 to 3 inches thinner than today's plasma or LCD televisions. .
Sharks: not cute, not safe
If these animals lived on land there would be a global outcry. But the great beasts roaming the savannahs of the open seas summon no such support. Big sharks, giant tuna, marlin and swordfish should have the conservation status of the giant panda or the snow leopard. Yet still we believe it is acceptable for fishmongers to sell them and celebrity chefs to teach us how to cook them. A study in this week's edition of the journal Science reveals the disastrous collapse of the ocean's megafauna. The great sharks are now wobbling on the edge of extinction. Since 1972 the number of blacktip sharks has fallen by 93 percent, tiger sharks by 97 percent and bull sharks, dusky sharks and smooth hammerheads by 99 percent. Just about every population of major predators is now in freefall. Another paper, published in Nature four years ago, shows that more than 90 percent of large predatory fish throughout the global oceans have gone.
Should the captives sell their stories?
The Ministry of Defence is to allow the Royal Navy personnel held captive by Iran to sell their stories to the media because of the "exception circumstances" of the case. Some of the 15 have already said any money will go to charity. Former Gulf War PoW John Nichol and one time head of the Royal Navy Sir Alan West expressed differing opinions on the MoD decision when interviewed on BBC News 24. .
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