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Even Americans woozy from the stock market's climb will not be deaf to these arguments. They still cling to their traditional concept of Social Security as a safety net, not an alternative to Merrill Lynch. More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll said they regard Social Security primarily as a benefit program designed to assure the elderly a minimum income during retirement. And that does not take into account that a third of Social Security beneficiaries are not retirees but widows and widowers, children who have lost a parent, and the disabled...
...Climbing Mount Everest is no mean feat. Climbing Mount Everest with only one foot borders on lunacy. TOM WHITTAKER, a mountaineer who lost a kneecap and a foot in a car accident in 1979, is in the Himalayas right now on his way to the top. No, he's not hopping or being dragged up, although he is being carried financially by a vitamin company. He has a prosthesis, which has its advantages (no chance of frostbite) but takes 30% more energy to walk with. This is Whittaker's third assay on Everest. He was turned back once...
...Both the New York Times and Fox News are reporting Jones? firm intentions to climb back up that legal mountain -- a road that would give the hardiest presidential accuser pause for thought. ?Do I want two more years of this?? Jones is reported to have asked friends. Now it?s a rhetorical question. Whether the Rutherford Institute can pay for two more years of it when they?re already hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket from round one is another matter...
Europe is unifying and Americans have a choice: they can allow the Mad Hatters of Wonderland to climb out of the rabbit hole and become part of their world. Or they can wake up one day to find that Wonderland no longer needs them...
What really fuels Mozambique's climb, though, is the energy of individuals tackling problems from the bottom up. Take the "Italian roads." Instead of paying foreign companies for expensive foreign-built, high-maintenance asphalt roads, local authorities are copying a cheap labor-intensive, low-tech alternative pioneered in Italy: roads constructed of small, handmade stone or concrete pavers that can be laid directly on the sandy soil and individually replaced when rains wash them...