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...stocks from such countries as Taiwan, South Africa, Turkey and Poland, is up 89% over the past two years. That trounces the S&P 500's 18% gain. A dip in stocks worldwide this spring shook emerging markets the hardest--India dropped 29%, Egypt 37%--but even that falloff didn't dampen the enthusiasm more than temporarily. According to AMG Data Services, money moved into emerging-market mutual funds and ETFs at the rate of $3 billion to $5 billion a month in the quarter leading up to the correction. Those funds lost money in the May and June swoon...
...that the number of birds winging along America's flyways may be down by nearly 50% over the past 30 years, and data from the U.S. Geological Survey's annual Breeding Bird Survey and the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count reflect a similar decline. Various reasons for the falloff have been proposed, but climate change caused by global warming is high on the list for many experts...
Only 59% of baby boomers use direct deposit for their federal-benefit checks--a sharp falloff from the 72% rate of older generations. That has officials in a stir because the government spends 83¢ for every check it mails, costing taxpayers $120 million annually. The push is on to convert reluctant boomers before the oldest reach early-retirement age, in 2008. Even if saving the government money isn't top of mind, direct deposit makes sense for Social Security and more. It's easier, and the funds are less vulnerable to theft. "Direct deposit gives you far greater control over...
...Government, which provides about $15 billion in student help, has begun to back off. Since 1981, allowing for inflation, total federal college-student support has dropped about 10%. One result is that some minority students are steering away from the elite colleges. Princeton, for example, is seeing a falloff in black enrollments, from 345 in 1980 to an estimated 316 this year, a trend that may be spreading to other select colleges. "With grant money frozen and tuitions going up," says Reginald Wilson of the American Council on Education in Washington, "black students have to pay more college costs...
Even that small start can yield big dividends. A good walking program may improve overall measures of physical health as much as 15% in just three months. Since the human body after age 25 experiences, on average, about a 1% falloff in fitness for every additional year of life, the numbers are easy to crunch. "That's a 15-year functional rejuvenation," Franklin says...