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...worker's pay. Our research shows that at that level of savings, you put away enough to generate as much as 70% of pre-retirement income after you stop working. Lastly, a low-cost annuity option would be available to guarantee enough income to meet basic needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There a 401(k) Fix? | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...Last Call” initially lies in the guilty pleasure of observing human relationships, knowing that they are about to go horribly wrong, by the end of the play both the characters and the audience have managed to find some truth—both the basic discoveries of who loves whom and about relationships generally. The audience is left with questions about the characters’ intentions, about the meaning of a sigh or a slammed door, but this is as it should be. Chainey’s story is ultimately successful, and deserves to be performed and interpreted elsewhere...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Last Call’ Exposes Emotion in Screenplay, Actors’ Flaws | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...realize the aspirations of the Asian Century. Just as the financial crisis of the late 1990s was a wake-up call for the region to put its financial house in order, the global crisis and recession of 2008-09 is a strong signal for Asia to refocus the basic structure of its economic-development model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution of Asia | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...idea is bound to spark opposition, especially in France. Organizations representing parents, teachers and students from the right and left alike have denounced the measure as sending an unacceptable message to students about what education is about. "We strongly oppose the idea of remunerating students for having fulfilled the basic requirement of attending school," says Philippe Vrand, president of the Parents of Public School Students group. "We should spend this money making sure vocational students who wanted to learn cooking can get into those programs rather than being shunted into car repair because there was no room left. Instead, students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid to Do Well in School? | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...idea is to retrofit roadways with charging stations and tailor routes to low-speed, limited-distance electric and muscle-powered vehicles, including EVs, hybrids, bicycles, scooters, horses and Segways. The basic law: stay under 35 m.p.h., unless your vehicle is crash-tested and certified for higher speeds. Of course, good old gas guzzlers are welcome too, as long as they go slow. "Everyone that's in this movement has a yearning for a slower pace," says Dean Curtis, who operates the website Green Interstate. "The great thing about the green highways is that they already exist. People just have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off the Interstate: Turning 'Blue Highways' Green | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

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