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By Bill Singer, Contributor If sometime between 2001 and 2009 you had met Randy M. Cho, 39, of Newton, MA, and formerly of Chicago,IL, he may well have told you that he was a self-employed securities trader. At that point, if you were lucky, you would have walked away – if you were smart,you would have run away as fast as your feet could have taken you.
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Many people around the world were thrilled to see a transit of Venus in June (June 5 in the United States and June 6 in Asia, on the other side of the International Dateline), the dark silhouette of Venus passing in front of the Sun. Jay Pasachoff of Williams College (Williamstown, MA) and the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) and Glenn Schneider (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona) organized extensive observations of the transit. With support from the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society, they observed the six-hours of the transit from the 10,000-foot mountaintop of Haleakala on Maui, Hawaii.
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By Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Contributor A recent visit to the Wind Technology Testing Center in Charlestown, MA demonstrates the technology challenge for the huge blades that will be needed – especially offshore.
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By ETFChannel.comLooking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the Vanguard Information Technology ETF (AMEX: VGT) where we have detected an approximate $41.4 million dollar inflow — that’s a 1.7% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 35,940,843 to 36,540,843). Among the largest underlying components of VGT, in trading today Intel Corp (NASD: INTC) is up about 1.1%, MasterCard Inc (NYSE: MA) is off about 0.1%, and Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NASD: ADP) is lower by about 0.2%. For a complete list of holdings, visit the VGT Holdings page »
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