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Given the added choice of PRAs, I would choose to divert as much of my payroll taxes as allowed into stock index funds. Others might choose to stay in the pay-as-you-go system or to invest their PRAs in government bonds because of a highly risk-averse nature. That’s the beauty of a system with more choice. In the end, people can choose the level of risk and thus the level of return that suits them best...
There are plenty of people who long ago dismissed Fonda as a professional changeling and controversialist. For them, My Life So Far (Random House; 624 pages) offers juicy celebrity gossip and passages about her adventurous sex life (plus a convenient index). But Fonda doesn't acknowledge skeptics, and she didn't write her memoir--which reveals, among other things, that she suffered from bulimia for 30 years, how she never felt the closeness she yearned for with her father Henry and that she only recently found personal happiness, in part through a conversion to Christianity--simply to tell...
...Sydney and Dublin, writes Florida, but China and India are increasingly able to retain homegrown talent that in prior years saw the U.S. as the premier destination for a university education and career. Florida has adapted for countries his (controversial) way of ranking cities. On the Global Creativity Index--which assumes that creative talent, technology and tolerance lead to economic growth--the U.S. ranks fourth, behind Sweden, Japan and Finland. And to Florida's way of thinking, without changes, even that won't last. --By Barbara Kiviat
...There are plenty of people who long ago dismissed Fonda as a professional changeling and controversialist. For them, My Life So Far (Random House; 624 pages) offers juicy celebrity gossip and passages about her adventurous sex life (plus a convenient index). But Fonda doesn't acknowledge skeptics, and she didn't write her memoir-which reveals, among other things, that she suffered from bulimia for 30 years, how she never felt the closeness she yearned for with her father Henry and that she only recently found personal happiness, in part through a conversion to Christianity-simply to tell...
...things," as one character puts it--and suffocating in a Stepford-perfect marriage. "I lived molded to the smallest space possible," she says, "my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers." When word arrives that her mom has cut off her index finger in a fit of religious mania, Jessie rushes off to take care of her, back to the tiny island off the coast of South Carolina where Jessie grew up. (She's secretly grateful for any excuse to get out of the house.) On the island she meets a skeptical monk...