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“If your friends jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it too?”

--Statement uttered by countless New York metropolitan area mothers in response to children who yielded to peer pressure (For those raised in different regions, insert the name of a locally prominent span).

Most of us think of peer pressure as a phenomenon that primarily affects adolescents. Utter the phrase ‘peer pressure” and thoughts of catty high school cheerleading squads and drunken college fraternity houses spring to mind. Most passive investors (that means you if you have money invested in

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Friday August 14, 2009

Over the next few days you're likely to hear more than you need to about Woodstock as pop historians mark the 40^th anniversary of the famous music festival. The commemoration will give the content-desperate media an opportunity to run stock footage of semi-naked hippies wallowing in mud holes and Jimi Hendrix playing the national anthem, while offering aging baby boomers one more opportunity to engage in self-congratulatory nostalgia. As we look back through rose colored granny glasses, Woodstock has been elevated to near-mythic status as a wonderful, utopian moment in

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