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Greenspan's most jarring rant was his call for Social Security reform. He wants to cut future payouts and delay the age at which people can collect. He would shrink future checks by indexing annual adjustments to an inflation gauge that runs a half point below the Consumer Price Index now used. He didn't offer a new retirement age, but 70 is a nice round number...
...Looking ahead into the future, I think it is logical to say the endowment will do better than an index fund, but it’s not certain,” said David W. Scudder ’57, vice president of trusts...
...ranks above-.500 teams based on their performance against common opponents, against one another, and against other above-average schools, as well as the results of their last 16 games and each team’s Rating Percentage Index...
...capsule, a pill that when ingested reports on the functioning of your intestines; a nurse bot named Pearl that will take your vital signs and retrieve basic items; and the Health Dashboard, inspired by the dashboard in your car, which displays everything from environmental metrics like the pollen index and flu trends to personal data like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, exercise patterns and drug compliance...
...says James Alexander, Atlantis' head of marketing. While the big jump in prices has made some investors wary, he says "there's still plenty of demand." That may be the understatement of the year. Chinese stocks, particularly initial public offerings (IPOs), are the hottest investment of the moment. The index for "H shares," as the Hong Kong-listed stocks of mainland Chinese firms are called, spiked 152% in 2003. After three years of indifference to stocks during a bad bear market, many ordinary Hong Kongers are now giddy over just about any new offering with the word China attached...