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March 05, 2004

Shrimp Fantasia (serves two)

Adapted from Tofu Surprise, this is an easy and delicious meal for two best served over rice or with a baguette.

Ingredients:: 2 six-ounce packages of cooked small shrimp (I like EcoFish), one orange bell pepper, some snap peas, some sliced pineapple and seafood seasoning.

  1. Heat the shrimp on high in a small amount of olive oil with seafood seasoning, draining occasionally.
  2. Add the bell pepper and peas cut into bite-size chunks and cook briefly.
  3. Add the pineapple and cook very briefly.

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Gladwell 2.0

Wired: Warning: Blogs Can Be Infectious:

"There is a lot of speculation that really important people are highly connected, but really, we wonder if the highly connected people just listen to the important people," said Lada Adamic, one of the four researchers working on the project.

Sounds like Malcolm Gladwell. He distinguishes between influentials ('important' here) and connectors, who listen to influentials and spread their ideas.

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Unintended consequences

Interesting piece in the journal on the changing face of stock research [sub req'd]. One consequence of the separation of investment banking and research is that research now has to pay the bills. Can the average joe pay for it? I think not:

At the big Wall Street firms, the focus increasingly is on white-glove service for investment institutions. At Credit Suisse First Boston last week, analyst Ivy Zelman played host to 20 trading clients at a private event at the Detroit-area offices of Masco Corp., a maker of building products. Portfolio managers from clients such as Alliance Capital Management Holding LP and TIAA-CREF got to question executives of Masco and one of its customers over dinner. The next day, they drilled down into operations with division chiefs.

The WSJ thinks we're still better off than when i-bankers owned the analysts, and they're probably right.

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Clinton speaking at Cornell

Former President William J. Clinton to speak during Cornell's 136th Commencement weekend May 29-30

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