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...married for the fourth time and pregnant with her second son before, at 36, she realized her dream. "Even if I knew that Richard Reid would be on my flight someday, I would still have been a flight attendant," she says, sitting surrounded by travel mementos in her Coral Gables, Fla., home. Since Flight 63, she has been on medical leave for injuries to her shoulder suffered in her scuffle with Reid. When the White House invited Jones and Moutardier to be the First Lady's guests at the State of the Union speech in January, Moutardier considered not going...
First, rebalance your portfolio to be sure you are comfortable with your exposure to stocks. Financial planner Harold Evensky of Coral Gables, Fla., says that, on average, his balanced investors (40% bonds, 60% stocks) are down only 2% annually over the past three years. How is that possible? Bonds, small caps and value stocks kept them afloat. Reaching your equilibrium in this market may mean selling your losers on the way up or putting all or part of your new investment capital into safe alternatives to stocks and traditional bonds. In general, you should keep in a safe haven...
Threatened reefs As much as 86% of Indonesia's coral reefs, home to thousands of marine species, are severely damaged by overfishing, sedimentation and pollution...
Sources for map Land use: NASA/Boston University department of Geography; urbanization: NASA Visible Earth City Lights; U.N. Population Fund, 2000; Amazon deforestation: ActGlobal.org/Instituto Socioambiental; coral reefs: World Resources Institute: Reefs at Risk; carbon-dioxide emissions: Energy information Administration; trouble spots: AP; U.N. Environment Program, Global Warming Early Warning Signs 1999; World Resources Institute...
Life is slow in the northeastern state of Terengganu and that is exactly what visitors like about it. The long stretches of unspoiled beach along its 255-kilometer coast, the coral reefs and even the odd sea turtle attract more than 1.4 million tourists each year, including 150,000 foreigners...