They are biased towards bigger universities, which tend to be better known and to produce more research. (This may have helped Argentina's UBA, whose glory days are inthepast.) But what they do capture matters.
While Dodington relishes recapturing the city's pastglory, he is nevertheless drawn to the dynamic changes in Shanghai, now home to some 20 million residents -- a far cry from his hometown hidden inthe cornfields of central Texas with a population of 953.
If theglory days are very much inthepast, the numbers suggest that investors are slowly regaining their appetite after the initial shock of the Arab spring.
Like its namesake navigator, the Fidelity Magellan fund has seen its share of glory, though for thepast several years the once mighty mutual fund has been a study in mediocrity.