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Biotech / Medical : 2000-Year of the Biotechs! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (194)	2/6/2000 5:25:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Respond to of 1142

( modern medicine is wonderful) In this case modern medicine came up with this: 'oh, the cysts will just resolve if she gets slugged in the stomach someday, we don't generally operate on these things much these days...' Actually, I am being a bit too flip, although we were pretty bent out of shape for a couple weeks, the folks at Swedish perinatal were very pleasant and helpful, quickly squashed our fears, and all seemed extremely competent. I don't think they see too many cases which are as much of a non-event as baby McFarland with the one cystic kidney. Just for fun they checked out the wife and me, yup, we each have both of ours. No worries. <Fidelity Contrafund> maybe this coming summer, but I think you are way too early, just two cents but these quarter point raises just don't mean too much, at least not to me. Maybe shorting individual issues makes some sense, but going against the whole market, seems counterproductive--shorting is not an asset class. Just pick the right sector and ride the wave til she breaks. I've lost tons of money buying puts on paper, so gave up that idea. Just rambling, somewhat sleep deprived today...