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...period?typically three-and-a-half years?and at the end of that time they guarantee at least your original capital back, and possibly more. At worst, if they don't perform you'll end up losing what you would have made had you stuffed it in a savings deposit. Many guaranteed funds are linked to indexes around Asia. Other funds cover biotech, pharmaceuticals or geographical areas. Warning: look for funds with lots of investors. Funds with few takers don't do as well because they don't have as much money to invest in higher return opportunities, having...
...Harry is Jewish, and so on top of the loveless marriage, boring job and phony friends, he has to put up with the "sheenie" jabs. One day, after getting called back into service by Uncle Sam, he decides to take the cash and gun out of his mysterious safety-deposit box, pound some sense into his anti-Semite boss, and steal an airplane. Shot out the sky, he wrecks into the ocean and presumably finds a watery grave...
...Prime Number $47 billion to be paid to an 84-year-old Mexican woman after a court ruled that her $6,000 deposit in 1988 should benefit from the astronomical interest rates of 1990s Mexico...
...yellow buses deposit their passengers at the Towns County Comprehensive School, serving students in pre-K through grade 12, you can instantly tell which are the middle schoolers: each totes a tough, silvery NetSchools laptop computer that can be dropped from 5 ft. without breaking. Infrared sensors in classroom ceilings connect the laptops to the school's server and the Internet. Teachers of everything from science to American history incorporate the Web into lesson plans. Away from school, kids plug their laptops into phone lines to question teachers or online experts about homework, or check cafeteria menus. When students...
...deposit your coins and make your choice: dried squid or hair tonic, batteries or green tea, boxers or beer. It's all enticingly on display under the fluorescent lights of a truck-sized vending machine parked in the lobby of Tokyo's Shibuya Excel Hotel. The New Economy comes in a variety of offerings, and this is the ultimate in high-tech self-serve. Manufactured by Sanyo Electric, this fully automated mini-convenience store is part of a new generation of vending machines popping up in a country that's long been obsessed with coin-slot culture. Sanyo's Auto...