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...lesson: Don't be a yield hog. "I don't think people should be in the long-term sector now--no way, shape or form," says bond specialist Marilyn Cohen, head of Envision Capital Management in Los Angeles. What you can do is capture most of the yield of long-term bonds by sticking with a portfolio or fund of intermediate-term bonds (five-to 12-year maturity). Ditto for one-year bank CDs (now yielding about 2.1%) to five-year CDs (3.7%). "You don't want to bet against the economy for too many years," says Cohen...
...lesson for all of us working stiffs: Heroes don't hog the limelight. They also serve who sit on the bench...
...fair share of it. "As water gets short, tempers get shorter," says Loble. "To prevent anarchy on the streams, there needs to be a water cop." Thanks to Loble's careful oversight and the water court's new electronic measuring devices, which make sure that upstream users don't hog all the river flow, more people in Montana got water this year than in 1988. Sometimes, Loble says, just holding a meeting is all it takes to get two disputing parties to work together. And other times Loble gets tough. A few weeks ago, a rancherwas put on notice...
...National Guard tent festooned with last year's Christmas lights. It's July 1, one of the hottest days of the year, and the stagnant air at the foot of the bridge--the busiest commercial border crossing in North America--is thick with the smell of diesel and hog...
...when you're looking for those things, it's hard to know where to begin. There are 200,000 species of organisms (excluding bacteria and protozoa) in the U.S., and at least 7,000 of them were introduced artificially. The coyote didn't start here, nor did the hog, the sparrow, the starling, the rat or the pigeon. And though some alien species--such as horses, cattle and sheep--are important parts of our culture and commerce, many are pests. "Introduced species are one of the principal causes of endangerment for half of endangered species," says Daniel Simberloff, a professor...