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...Edmund Phelps, a Nobel Prize - winning economist at Columbia University, thinks people should take something else into consideration: Do you really want the bulk of your wealth tied up in a single asset? As we've been reminded, real estate carries risks just like any other investment...
Among those arrested on July 23 were Rabbi Eliahu Ben Haim and Rabbi Edmund Nahum, who are reportedly close to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his son, Rabbi David Yosef. Ben Haim and Nahum were allegedly major fundraisers for Shas and Yosef family networks of educational institutions. According to a report on Israeli television, Rabbi David Yosef was also said to have been the target of Solomon Dwek, the FBI's chief informant, who asked the rabbi to help him launder a check for $25,000. David Yosef reportedly declined. (Read about the New Jersey corruption sting...
...nation that often measures a leader by whether he's the kind of bloke with whom you'd want to have a beer, Rudd comes across as more buttoned-up than many of his predecessors. Talking to TIME, he dropped in a casual reference to Burke (that would be Edmund, the conservative philosopher, not Robert, the doomed Australian explorer). His Twitter feeds - a sample from April 14: "Working hard in sunny Canberra today" - have been mocked as terminally boring...
...good for up to 100 years. The film's archival abilities, coupled with its comparative ease of use, made it the dominant film for both professionals and amateurs for most of the 20th century. Kodachrome captured a color version of the Hindenburg's fireball explosion in 1936. It accompanied Edmund Hillary to the top of Mount Everest in 1953. Abraham Zapruder was filming with 8-mm Kodachrome in Dallas when he accidentally captured President Kennedy's assassination. National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry used it to capture the haunting green-gray eyes of an Afghan refugee girl in 1985 in what...
...frustration, it's not the money that matters to the Omagh families. As they posed in the sun for a group photograph outside the courthouse, the families refused to describe the judgment as any kind of hollow victory. "People threw doubt on whether we would ever get justice," says Edmund Gibson, a former policeman whose sister Esther was killed in the bomb attack. "What we have done today is defied the odds...