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...index funds? Zero-coupon bonds? Target maturity mutual funds? Custodial accounts? Prepaid tuition plans? Education IRAs? Each has advantages for folks staring at potential six-figure tuition bills down the road. It all amounts to a terrifying multiple-choice test that leads even straight-A parents to resort to guesswork or to cutting class altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your College Cash | 6/12/2001 | See Source »

...Hopps' guesswork paid off handsomely, as he crushed Reedy's outside fastball for his third homer of the year...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Unloads For 21 Runs, Five Homers | 4/25/2001 | See Source »

...pitcher, I can do some guesswork about what I’m going to get thrown,” Thoke said. “I think about what I’d throw, and that’s what I see. Both home runs [this weekend] were off pitches that I guessed correctly...

Author: By Robert A. Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athlete of the Week: Chelsea Thoke | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

...modern medicine, we're actually doing a lot more guesswork than we let on," says Demers. "We want to say we understand everything. We don't understand half of it. It's scary how clueless we are." Desperate patients consult half a dozen specialists and get half a dozen conflicting opinions. "Well, of course," Dr. Toby Brown, a Manassas, Va., radiologist says impatiently, "it's not as if medicine is a science." Hence the appeal of alternative medicine: aromatherapy, homeopathy, ginkgo biloba. Proponents may be crusading scientists or snake-oil salesmen, but either way, their pitch falls on eager ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Yoga | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...modern medicine, we're actually doing a lot more guesswork than we let on," says Demers. "We want to say we understand everything. We don't understand half of it. It's scary how clueless we are." Desperate patients consult half a dozen specialists and get half a dozen conflicting opinions. "Well, of course," Dr. Toby Brown, a Manassas, Va., radiologist says impatiently, "it's not as if medicine is a science." Hence the appeal of alternative medicine: aromatherapy, homeopathy, ginkgo biloba. Proponents may be crusading scientists or snake-oil salesmen, but either way, their pitch falls on eager ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Of Yoga | 4/15/2001 | See Source »

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