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Remember this scene? Your eighth-birthday party. Grandma slips you a small package. Your heart sinks: it's not a Walkman. Grandma leans in close. "It's a savings bond," she says with a wink. "It will help put you through college." That's still the way too many people plan to save for a child's education. Nearly all parents know savings bonds, and a lot have heard of education IRAs. But not nearly enough know about what could be one of the best investments for college: 529 plans...
AILING. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 48, paralyzed actor-director and tenacious champion of spinal-cord research; with a broken left thigh bone that snapped during routine physical therapy; in Los Angeles. Because of his paralysis, Reeve has bones that are especially brittle. His dream of walking by his 50th birthday, he admitted in June, is somewhat illusory: "2002 was a thing I put forward as a way to motivate the scientists...
...clocks, it's always 78[degrees] and clear, and there are flawless versions of the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal. (That's right--heaven is the Vegas strip.) On Ways a father's ghost saves his son from drowning. On Edward's show the departed promise to appear at birthday parties and family reunions; one even asks a relative to get her blood-sugar level checked...
Take Columbia's Legacy division, which this week sends into the stores a boxed set of yet another remastering of the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of Louis Armstrong. The excuse? To help celebrate Louis Armstrong's 100th birthday, July 4, 2000, say the press materials. This is rather odd, since jazz scholars all agree that Armstrong was born Aug. 4, 1901. Odder still, the vaunted remastering is only slightly better than mediocre. So what is the fair-minded critic's response to all this...
...second day was capped off in Clinton, Iowa, where again thousands of friends waited late into the night to sing happy birthday to Tipper and present her with a beautiful - and delicious - birthday cake (the sixth one she got on this...