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...didn't yield smarter investors. In the 1990s, employees at some fast-growing companies kept up to 90% of their 401(k)s in company stock. When Enron and WorldCom tanked in 2001 and '02, they each took more than $800 million in savings with them, prompting landmark lawsuits. The current meltdown has skimmed about 20% from 401(k)s since 2007 and ignited debate over their retirement-income reliability. "Unlike Wall Street executives, American families don't have a golden parachute to fall back on," said California Representative George Miller at an Oct. 7 hearing on retirement savings...
...election laws. Push for polling places at universities. Make university-issued photo ID an acceptable form of identification. Clarify residency rules on the universal voter registration form. Make forms and information easily available online. And as for HAVA, stop letting procedural errors disenfranchise people on the eve of landmark elections. These are all just causes, but they will only earn legitimacy if more students speak...
...landmark ruling, a federal judge ordered the Bush Administration to immediately release 17 Muslims from Guantánamo Bay and bring them to the U.S. The captives, members of China's Uighur ethnic minority, haven't been considered enemy combatants since 2004 but remained at Gitmo because no country except China would take them. (The detainees' lawyers insist the captives would be tortured in their homeland.) The ruling, which faces appeal, could pave the way for more detainee releases...
Instead of settling in the North, where he could have avoided de jure discrimination, J.L. decided to set up shop in his hometown, Selma. After the success of the Selma-to-Montgomery march that led to passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965, J.L. dedicated his life to making sure that the promises of the civil rights movement were realized...
...With all the American scientists working at the LHC, it’s true that we can benefit somewhat from the discoveries made at CERN without having to foot the bill. But we risk losing our leadership role in science and technology if we continue to let similar landmark projects be completed elsewhere. As President Clinton wrote in 1993 in a vain attempt to stop the cancellation of SSC, “the United States is compromising its position of leadership in basic science - a position unquestioned for generations.” In the time since then, we have also...