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...scrambles up one of the steeper reaches of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing during a recent weekend. Decked out in $80 hiking boots and combat fatigues, Zhou and her boyfriend, co-owners of a real estate company, have turned to physically challenging day trips to stay fit. "Our business has been good, but our stress levels are high," says Zhou, 23. "We've been eating too much and gaining weight. We find we must exercise?otherwise we just can't perform at work." The government is contributing to the cause. In the past two years...
...their male counterparts are showing off their muscles and manhandling smaller boys to flaunt their strength. One of my students doesn’t understand that sports aren’t everything—that physical strength can only take you so far. And dress—brands, labels, fit, color—become a matter of worry or consuming pride, a friendship maker or breaker...
...science. After eight grueling years of hunting in the hot, wind-scoured desert of central Africa, an international team of researchers has uncovered one of the most sensational fossil finds in living memory: the well-preserved skull of a chimp-size animal, probably a male, that doesn't fit any known species. According to paleontologist Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers in France, whose team reported the find in Nature last week, there is no way it could have been an ape of any kind. It was almost certainly a hominid--a member of a subdivision of the primate...
...will need in the next three years should be in cash or cash equivalents such as the Vanguard Short-Term Treasury fund. Money needed in three to seven years is best parked in intermediate-term bonds or bond funds. Preferred stock as well as bonds convertible into stock fit here too, offering decent yields and, in the case of "converts," a shot at capital gains if the market shoots higher. Consider the Northern Income Equity fund. Some blue chips now offer dividend yields of 5%. For those in the top tax bracket, short-term tax-exempt municipal bonds and bond...
Meyer said in an interview this week, however, that Harken may have fit the bill of HMC’s portfolio at the time of the initial investment in October...