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...take in now. Yet if you also have to pay retiree medical costs and are depending on only your 401(k) and Social Security, you will be left with about 57% of your preretirement income, according to a study by the benefits firm Hewitt Associates. To boost your nest egg, don't retire until 67, the age at which many workers are eligible for full Social Security benefits, and contribute an additional 2% of savings to your 401(k) plan...
...thought of slurping a raw egg makes you gag, try easing your hangover with some prickly-pear fruit extract. Researchers in--where else?--New Orleans asked 55 volunteers, ages 21 to 35, to get drunk and endure a hangover for the sake of science. Half the tipplers were given an extract of the prickly-pear cactus plant before their binges; the other half were given a placebo. the following morning, people who took the cactus extract suffered significantly less from nausea, dry mouth and loss of appetite than those who got placebos. The latter group also had 40% higher blood...
...continual slide," she shrugs. Moser lives frugally, in a house she bought with her sisters seven years ago. Single, she tries not to spend more than €400 per month on food, household and personal expenses, including clothes, so she can pay off the mortgage and have a nest egg saved up when she retires. She enjoys traveling and takes sculpture classes, but only once in her life has she bought something on credit - a secondhand car. "I'm my own Finance Minister," she jokes. "I don't run up debt." Still, if the state didn't take such...
Sheila King ’54 recalled one regular who had particularly bizarre eating habits: “corn beef hash with an egg and a scoop of chocolate ice cream...
...Just Dessert Guimaraes is often called the "cradle of the nation" because it was here, in 1128, that Portugal declared its independence from the Spaniards of Castile and Galicia. Today, however, it is better known for a dessert called Toucinho do Céu (bacon from heaven), a rich egg and almond cake that originated in the Santa Clara Convent, founded in the 16th century. When a Republican decree banned all religious orders in 1834, the convent disappeared, but its descendants have passed down a version of the dish. The Toucinho do Céu has a unique sugary taste...