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...that have strayed from their neighborhood between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and periodically pass close to Earth -- and sometimes smash into it. The vigil has paid off. Over the years, the couple have discovered more than 300 asteroids, some of which they have named after their children, grandchildren and in-laws. About 10% of their discoveries are ECAs, but none is currently in an orbit that puts it on a collision course with the earth. Still, the Shoemakers keep looking: lurking somewhere out there may be a hulk with bad intentions...
Freidel is survived by his second wife,Madeleine, of Belmont; his mother, Edith, ofOrange, Calif.; a brother; three sisters; fourdaughters; three sons; and eight grandchildren...
...household net worth derived from inheritances and family gifts jumped from 47% in 1962 to 71% in 1989, according to Wolff. "This is a radical turnaround," he says. "People used to support their parents in old age. Now the elderly are supporting their children and in many cases their grandchildren...
...irony is that these are the same children and grandchildren who have complained bitterly that they have been unable to achieve the affluence of their parents, despite two-income families, longer work hours and all the other sacrifices that now define a generation. They have also suffered under the burden of Social Security and Medicare taxes that consume as much as 15% of their incomes -- all monies that are paid directly to their elders in one of the largest transfers of wealth in American history. All told, some 60% of federal entitlements go to those over 64, even though they...
Americans derided Carter, a really bad president, so intensely that he will forever be remembered as really, really bad. Bush, also a really bad president, would like at least to be considered merely bad. American presidents can't help but make history, and the knowledge that his grandchildren will read about Iran-Contra, wonder why their grandfather did nothing to encourage Iraqi restraint before the Gulf War, and bear the brunt of borrow-and-spend economics probably bothers Bush...