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...Price indexing for benefits Today Social Security benefits are adjusted each year to reflect rising wage rates, so that seniors who made $100 a week in the 1950s still get a decent payout in retirement. Several plans for reform would instead link benefits to prices. Though benefits would keep up with inflation, price indexing would effectively be a cut, given that wages tend to rise faster than prices. Promised benefits would be smaller than currently expected...
...aggrieved last week: President George W. Bush. Speaking two days before Bush's Inauguration, Thomas dismissed the central part of Bush's proposal for reforming Social Security, saying personal-investment accounts "don't really solve the problem." He then tossed a few political bombs, musing that Congress might link retirement benefits to gender because women live longer than men, or might let blue-collar workers retire earlier because "there are certain occupations in which you're pretty used up by 65." He rounded out his comments by declaring that the politics of the House and Senate would soon render...
...Kansas City area for 42 years, and over the past decade he has seen a marked change in how students react when he brings up evolution. "I don't know if we're more religious today," he says, "but I see more and more students who want a link to God." Although he is a churchgoer, Bingman does not believe that link should be part of a science class. Neither does the Supreme Court, which declared such intermingling of church and state unconstitutional back...
...story, "The Future," about a time when email will be downloaded directly into your brain and coffee cups will have interactive features about celebrities, appears in a crude, early draft style that reveals how much goes into a finished piece. (As a result it's the weak link of the collection...
...Legendary Role Our Milestone on the death of ballerina Alicia Markova [Dec. 13] emphasized her link to the romantic role of Giselle. Three years ago, TIME Europe highlighted the popularity of Giselle and included Markova's views, as well as her stringent comments on any radical updating of the classic ballet [June...