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...BRIAN JUDGE Landisburg, Pa. As uncertain as our retirement futures appear [BUSINESS, July 29], I am deeply bothered by the financial wastefulness and frivolousness of American households, as illustrated by Maria and George Rudd in your article. You noted that together the Rudds, who are in their 60s, earn $280,000 but have a credit-card debt of $45,000 and only $40,000 in savings and investments. The Rudds are only one example of the personal and corporate shortsightedness that has plunged our country into its present financial quagmire. What ever happened to "A penny saved is a penny...
...North Korea is indeed serious about reform, it will begin by rebuilding its decimated manufacturing sector. The country needs to export goods if it is to earn hard currency to pay for the food and fertilizer it cannot produce itself. Cutting off subsidies to deadbeat factories is just a first step, and there is no evidence the government has a blueprint for moving further. "They aren't scrapping the socialist system," says Koh Hyun Wook, an expert on North Korea at Kyungnam University near Pusan. "These are makeshift moves to overcome the current economic crisis...
...indeed let life (or rather death) imitate art by murdering his baby. In the uniquely free-form Sun atmosphere, Sam helped performers express their tangled visions; they would come in with no songs or arrangements prepared but just noodle and canoodle until inspiration struck. Of course, he also should earn a week's detention for dropping the black acts when Presley showed him he could make money with white ones. But, hey, that's show business...
...workers earn about 1,000 RMB, or $122, a month, according to Wu. He says there are no children working in the factory but is not sure if there is a union...
...After she arrived in Korea?on a false passport?Club Y's mama-san took her papers away and told her the rules: she would be serving up her body as well as booze. She would get no days off for the first three months. And later, she could earn days off only if she sold enough drink and sex. She would live in a room above the club and, unless she was with the mama-san, would not be allowed outside except for three minutes a day to make a phone call. The penalty for coming back late...