So consider: Last week the top box-office draw in the country was "Max Payne" with Mark Wahlberg as an obsessed cop tracking down the killer who murdered his wife and child.

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For instance, Mark Hulbert of Hulbert Financial Digest fame has been tracking investment newsletter performance for more than 30 years.

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Mark Hulbert, of Hulbert Financial fame, has been tracking various versions of seasonal timing strategies since mid-2002.

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Flights that were scheduled to cross the southern half of the area were delayed an average of 30 minutes, said Mark Duell of FlightAware.com, a flight-tracking website.

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Mark Hulbert, well-known for his performance-tracking newsletter The Hulbert Financial Digest, has been tracking it since 2002, and has reported of it more than doubling the performance of buy and hold over the long-term while taking only 61% of market risk.

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