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...with potential disaster in the long run. Some plans, such as those at Sherwin-Williams (92%), Dell (88%) and Pfizer (89%), are almost entirely in company stock. It looks great when times are good, but there's a double whammy that hits home if the company's fortunes ever fade, as has been the case at Dell lately. While the stock falls, those who get laid off see their savings obliterated when they need them most...
...when hope of finding the missing finally does fade, there will be pressure to recover the bodies, even if that means raising the Ehime Maru from 530 m down on the seabed. Japanese custom requires that families bury their dead?or some artifact from them?so that their souls are not condemned to an eternity of restless roaming. For the people of Uwajima, a town that has not lost a boat at sea for more than 50 years, this is a crucial matter of closure...
...wounds and work on his house; George Herbert Walker Bush disappeared to Houston, content to load his dishwasher and walk his dogs. But from the hour Bill Clinton's successor was sworn in, the youngest former President in modern history made it clear that he didn't intend to fade from view for even a minute. "I'm still here," he declared as the jet engines revved at Andrews Air Force Base. "We're not going anywhere." The almost spoken promise: Clinton would dominate the power salons of New York City, bask in ovations on the lecture circuit...
White. No horizon. In the distance, sky and tundra fade together into a blue-white wash. The Arctic landscape has a great many shades of white: the crystalline white of blown snow. The gray-green white of ice on the sea. The silver white of a fox's fur. The turquoise white in the northern sky an hour before the sun comes up in the south to illuminate another short winter...
...Nobody really expected him to just fade into obscurity. But even the most pessimistic among us couldn't have predicted Bill Clinton's dogged refusal to grant a weary nation even a few sweet days without him. This week capped a month of Clinton news - as if in retaliation for six months of relative obscurity during the presidential campaign, the ex-president grabbed headlines (as well as a few chairs and a rug) on his way out of the White House and clung fast...