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...file suffers most. Many top execs have been bailed out with supplemental grants and so-called reloads. What may be most interesting about this saga, though, is that after stock prices tumbled from 2000 to 2002 and another bull market was calving, broad-based stock-option plans began to fade. Some 8 million workers received grants in 2000; the number dropped to 3 million by last year, Kay says. The total value of grants has slipped by a third, says the NCEO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consider Your Options | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

Charles thinks that feelings like angst, disgust and anger may fade because as we get older we learn to care less about what others think of us, or perhaps because we become more adept at avoiding situations we don't like. (The Edinburgh researchers, too, found that older study participants scored lower than younger ones on scales of neuroticism - worry and nervousness - and higher on scales of agreeableness.) Oswald chalks up the midlife dip in happiness shown in his study to people "letting go of impossible aspirations" - first, there's the pain of fading youth and the realization that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Our Happiness Preordained? | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...resort to when in need of inspiration: love, life, death, and nature. And the punctuation of her poems, while unorthodox, is hardly innovative. Taken independently, the characteristics that define Hartwig’s writing would hardly be considered noteworthy. But it would be an injustice to allow Hartwig to fade into the woodwork as just another “classically beautiful” poet. Within her seemingly standard framework, Hartwig’s precise diction and conceptual views of the world shatter the “classically beautiful” mold, leaving behind poems that startle and unnerve even...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'In Praise Of The Unfinished' Proves Praise-Worthy | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...This wasn't decency or chivalry at work; it was an understanding that the rationale for his campaign would fade if he became just another grubby politician - or angry black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Play Offense? | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...again the power of the Force seemed to fade. For some reason, the rescue mission was delayed another week. According to the Facebook event, Free Burrito Day will now be March 12, with Chipotle officially opening its Harvard Square doors the following...

Author: By Karan Lodha | Title: Revenge of the Chips | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

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