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...burden may be easing. A coalition of groups backed by the School & Home Office Products Association and World Vision's Brother to Brother International has begun setting up "free stores" to offer teachers a place to fill their needs without worrying about who pays...
Gilchrist stresses, however, that he is definitely not a professional. "I don't intend to make a career out of it. Harvard doesn't train well for it anyway." The rigors of academia have certainly begun to take its toll on the wunderkid. He adds," When my roommate came to visit me this summer, we decided to play mini-golf. I was losing through the ninth hole." No longer burdened by the celebrity appearances, lucrative commercial endorsements and high-profile talk show guest shots, Gilchrist affirms that for now, mini-golf is but "a relaxing waste of time...
...What we are talking about today is nothing less than a watershed event in how Americans think about retirement security," he said. "An era of self-reliance has begun...
Paul Epstein, associate director for the CHGE, added a scientific perspective to the dialogue. A gradual rise in temperature, an increase in night temperatures and a greater variability around mean temperatures are all indications that global warming has already begun to alter the world's climate, he said...
Beyond that, we have just begun to unwind a decade of indifference to risk. Since the early '90s, investors have been migrating to riskier assets like high-flying stocks and emerging-market securities in search of higher returns--leaving bonds and bank certificates of deposit behind. Now the inherent risk behind those high returns is becoming obvious, and the trend is reversing. This is the so-called flight to safety that you've heard about, and it's occurring at all levels--from fund investors who find they aren't so comfortable having everything they're worth tied...