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6A Tuesday, October 8, 2002 - : _ 1, Economist Robert Shiller wonders why we^iave such faith in the utter rationality of markets when we ourselves can be i |p kinda, you know, irrational. Bad judgment, lousy information, half-baked strategies—there are times when money brings out the y worst in people. That’s why Prof. Shiller’s retirement dollars are invested with a company whose levelheaded thinking stands out in a world where impulse and intuition are bucking intelligence and insight^ 13-year-old boy shot at school by sniper •Nath THE h ATT;; Jews ■the isattai Log on for ideas, advice, and results. TIAA-CREF.org or call (800) 842-2776 \ \ ' ' ' r* ^ - « — —' I 'Managing money far pe'oftie ' ’ with other things to think about." r RETIREMENT I INSURANCE I MUTUAL FUNDS I COLLEGE SAVINGS I TRUSTS I INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Robert Shiller became a participant in 1975. TIAA-CREF Individual and Institutional Services, Inc., and Teachers Personal Investors Services, Inc., distribute securities products. ©2002 Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association-College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), New York, NY. A charitable donation was made on behahof^Robert Shiller. 1 BOWIE, Md. (AP) — The Washington-area sniper struck again Monday, shooting and crit ically wounding a 13-year-old boy as his aunt dropped him off at school, authorities said. The shooting of the gunman’s youngest victim yet heightened fear across the densely populated neighborhoods surrounding the nation's capital. Schools kept youngsters indoors at recess and lunchtime, and parents raced to pick up their children early under the watchful eyes of police. The child was shot once in the chest before the start of classes at Benjamin Tasker Middle School and was in critical but stable con dition at Children’s Hospital in Washington. Doctors said they were optimistic he would survive. “All of our victims have been innocent and defenseless, but now we’re stepping over the line,” Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said, tears streaming down his face. “Shooting a kid — it’s getting to be really, really personal now.” President Bush denounced the attacks as “cowardly and sense less acts of violence” and pledged government support to local authorities and schools. Police say there have been no eyewitnesses and precious little to go on. The sniper has shot eight peo ple since Wednesday, killing six. Five died in Montgomery County within five miles of each other, and the sixth died on a Washington street. The latest attack was 20 miles farther east, in neighboring Prince George’s County north of Washington. Ballistics tests found the bullet that struck the boy was identical to those that killed some of the others and wounded a woman in Virginia, said Joe Riehl, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. All victims were hit by a sin gle bullet. Child shot in Maryland suburb Solar systeif find bigges since 1930 A 13-year-old boy was shot outside of school and critically wounded Monday in Bowie, Md. Ballistics tests linked the shooting to the slayings of six people in Maryland and Washington, D.C., last week. I Six people killed ! on Wednesday and Thursday 95 LOS ANGELES (AP,, A billion miles beyondPfesL astronomers have discovej a frozen miles across — the find in our solar system... the ninth planet was tiJ> ncl ''" ^ L K X spied in 1930. Astronomers do noted sider the newfound object, planet. Instead, it is beliw, elestial body |®rowded Gaza| ;j Jrhe United Stal isjjMy the raid in u ■■■ —' ce to be icy debris left over fjo a miss ' le ,IR :■ . 6S Washington, D C J 95 Child shot outside school ! One woman ! shot and injured 1 Friday afternoon MARYLAND II • Fredericksburg ^ VIRGINIA SOURCES: Associated Press: ESRI AP In Monday’s attack, a shot was heard and the boy slumped over, telling his aunt he thought he had been shot. Fhrince George's County Police Chief Gerald Wilson said. Police cars sur rounded the school and officers put up crime scene tape and searched the campus. Schools in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties initiated a “code blue” alert, keeping stu dents inside during recess and lunchtime. Sharon Healy had just sent her 12-year-old son, Brandon, off to Benjamin Tasker on his bicycle when she heard of the shooting shortly after 8 a.m. She said she ran to the school and pulled him out of class. “You think you're safe, but you're only as safe as your next step,” Healy said. Said her son: “1 was scared.” the formation of the solars] tern 5 billion years ago. The object was provis: ally named Quaoar nounced KWAH-oh-»k'| after a creation force Southern California mythology. It is about one-tenth: diameter of Earth and ort the sun once every' 288\e; at a distance of 4 biiij miles. It is only about hals size of Pluto, which sob astronomers believe shoii never have been called apli et in the first place. But “it’s about the size: all the asteroids put togefej so this thing is really qo big,” said planets astronomer Michael Bro»: the California Institute Technology in Pasadena. Quaoar lies in the Kuip Belt, a swarm of objects my* of ice and rock that orbit li sun beyond Neptune. Tl objects are considered fos remnants of the swirlingdisi| of debris that coalesced I form the solar system. As larger Kuiper Be objects turn up. the case fa Pluto as a planet weaken: astronomers said. “It’s pretty clear, if wedis- covered Pluto today,known! what we know about other ob jects in the Kuiper Belt,m wouldn’t even consider it planet,” Brown said. Hat afte KHAN YOl Islamic militan Hacks Monday Israeli said E amas militant ith 40 tanks b idnight Monc said they were ighters killed i “Everyone : IBoa disp Taft-Hartl in port di The Taft-Hartley workers back o an 80-day cooli Since its creatic been invoked 1 wide disputes. Year Coast 1948 All coast; 1948 Atlantic 1953 Atlantic 1956 Atlantic/C 1959 Atlantic/C 1961 All coasts 1 1962 Atlantic/C 1962 Pacific 11964 Atlantic/G 1967 Pacific 1971 All coasts