| A Growth Maven's New Favorite: Gold
NOT MUCH ESCAPES THE ATTENTION OF THIS wise and wily investor. Near visionary in his ability to identify trends and capitalize on them, Joseph McNay has made a lot of people and institutions wealthy in the 40-plus years he's been plying the investment trade. He manages more than $3 billion at Essex Investment Management in Boston, a firm he founded, including its flagship long-short fund and a natural-resources fund. One of the all-time greats of growth investing, McNay is now pounding the table for, of all things, gold. Attention must be paid. Barron's: Are we in a recession or are we perhaps talking ourselves into one? McNay: We certainly are in an economic slowdown, and my personal opinion is that we are in the early phases of a recession. Whether we are in a recession or not is irrelevant because we are slowing down, and results are becoming more negative.
Chemists set to give 'sickie' medical certificates
Chemists will be able to charge whatever fee they like for the service but the guidelines do advise the certificates be issued for only a short period of time. The move came as a survey revealed patients are asking time-pressured GPs to write out twice as many medical certificates as a decade ago, apparently to meet employers' demands. Patients made 800,000 more requests for "administration procedures" - most often medical certificates - in 2006-07 compared to 1998-99. About one in 60 patients visit a doctor to get a certificate. Share this article What is this? .
Cut-Off Cancer Patient to Get $9M
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Triathlon motivates man to stick to fitness
Vic Biberston knows what it's like to be the fat guy and the last one chosen for sports teams. He knows what it's like to ride the diet roller coaster of weight loss and gain. The 45-year-old Clovis, Calif., man, an executive for Pelco, has tried a lot of different ways to slim down: bariatric surgery as a young man, fad diets, even becoming a certified instructor for stationary-bike spin classes. The weight often came off. Then it went right back on. As millions of overweight Americans prepare to battle their scales this month with New Year's resolutions fresh in their minds, Biberston believes he's found a way to stay fit for good. For the past nine months, he has made it his goal to take part in a triathlon. He even created a Web site, www.obeseto triathlete.com, to share his experiences and track his progress.
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