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...Living beyond your means. Too many of us love to buy now and pay later. Metropolitan Life estimates younger boomers have amassed personal debt equal to 95% of their income. Between paying off the mortgage and saving for the kids' education, there's little extra cash to put away for the golden years. Solution: Start paying off those credit cards now. Whittle down as much as you can afford each month--and save. If you start today by investing $150 monthly (with an 8% return), you will have about $27,625 after 10 years, according to Putnam Investments. Start three...
...facts, of course, don?t bear out the idea of equal pay for equal work. According to data provided by the AFL-CIO Working Women?s Department, jobs across the socioeconomic board are subject to male-female disparities: The average female lawyer, architect, psychologist, waiter and lab technician all generally makes less than her male colleagues. Even allowing for factors like time worked and previous jobs held, the study shows that between 11 and 40 percent of male/female wage differences remain unexplained...
...divorced woman over 35, I'm well aware that my chances of marrying again are roughly equal to the probability of my being taken hostage in a terrorist incident. O.K., I know that statistic has been debunked, but from where I sit, it still feels true. Ten years after my divorce, I'm beginning to think I might actually prefer being taken hostage to any more dating. "So," I'd say to Osama bin Laden, "you come here often...
DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, undiplomatic Canadian author whose humorous and often irreverent writings gave equal time to mocking the bourgeoisie, Judaism, life in Montreal and elitist Quebecois; of complications from kidney cancer; in Montreal. Richler's first acclaimed novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), about an ambitious Jewish boy clawing his way out of working-class Montreal, was turned into a movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language...
...company's cells can deliver power at 7[cents] or 8[cents] a kw-h. But when FuelCell increases production by 2004 to 400 megawatts a year, as it plans, the attendant savings could drop the price to 5[cents] or 6[cents] per kw-h, all else being equal...