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Before you pull up stakes, ask yourself how much money you might need to live year to year. Experts say it's somewhere between 60% and 80% of your annual income before retirement. Even if you plan to retire with lower fixed costs in a state with little or no taxes, "don't go much lower," Satovsky warns. "If your cost of living drops, you may decide you want to spend more money on new, more expensive habits, like travel...
Next, determine how much money you can expect to get from your pension, assuming you have one. One important question to ask: Will your pension be reduced by the Social Security benefits you receive...
Does the world need saving? Just ask the folks in Russia, who saw their economy strangled last August by an outflow of confidence that was as fast as it was lethal. Ask Latin American countries, whose economies were concussed by the Russian shock waves even though the two regions have few direct economic links. Or ask the thousands of ethnic Chinese who fled Indonesia last summer after impoverished locals concluded that Chinese businessmen had magnified their misery by shipping cash out of the country in search of stability...
Lynch said about a dozen groups and individuals, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Department of Education, approached the committee to ask that it not appeal the decision...
...Ardennes Forest" goes on to explicitlyaddress this problem. It contrasts the thousandmagical fluttering eyelids with "a thousand lidspressed/ tightly on motionless eyebrows,"presenting the ancient Ardennes along with itsidentity as the setting for the Battle of theBulge, and in the end Herbert asserts that even"the dead also ask for fairy tales," eschewing thepost-World War II idea that fanciful poetry is nolonger appropriate, associating fairy tales forthe dead with "a handful of herbs," "needles byrustling / and the faint threads of fragrances":concrete instances of the sleepy and fantastic innature that persists in spite of human history.Herbert would honor...