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Coming off a tough loss, Harvard should receive an extra adrenaline boost from playing a key rival on Homecoming Weekend...
...Though less than 1% of Vietnam's primary or old-growth forest remains, overall, forest cover is actually on the increase. Vietnam's central government has been pursuing an aggressive national planting program to boost tree cover to 43%, up from a low of 28% two decades ago, says Dao Xuan Lai, head of the U.N. Development Program's Sustainable Development office in Hanoi. Unfortunately, many of the reforested areas are replanted with fruit orchards or fast-growing trees for the pulp and paper industry...
...tricky since going from a loss to a profit isn't truly a percentage improvement. "When you cross over zero, comparisons get weird," says Van Dijk. Even so, the financial group's turnaround - it should log $15 billion or more in fourth-quarter profit - will give a strong boost to the S&P 500 composite earnings. The S&P will also be boosted by a famous departure: "GM was losing billions last year, but it's no longer in the S&P," observes Van Dijk...
...China's cultural ministries saw Frankfurt as a way to boost the country's clout overseas. The General Administration of Press and Publication sponsored the translation of more than 100 Chinese books into German and English to be sold at the fair, part of China's $7.5 million investment in the event. The writers who were approved for the official program in Frankfurt included Yu Hua, an author of earthy, sometimes profane novels of human struggle including To Live and Brothers. While Yu's sex- and drug-laden writing could have been banned as late as the 1980s...
...date of withdrawals. It also reduces the number of years that your assets will have to generate income in retirement - a powerful combination. In addition, you'll probably be able to postpone collecting Social Security and become entitled to a higher monthly benefit. A typical 62-year-old would boost annual retirement income 22% if he worked three more years and 39% if he worked five more years, says Christine Fahlund, senior financial planner at T. Rowe Price. "Be flexible with your retirement date," she advises. "In today's world of greater longevity, retiring at 60 or 62 is getting...