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Scrupulously apply makeup, banking on the liquid eyeliner and body glitter for competitive advantage...
...About a year before you retire, you may want to switch some of your portfolio to more conservative investments, says Paul Westbrook, a Ridgewood, N.J., financial planner. Total up your annual personal expenses--such as rent or mortgage, utilities, food, health insurance, clothes, car, entertainment--and plan to have liquid assets--such as Treasury bills and money-market mutual funds--available to cover three years' worth of those demands, Chasnoff recommends...
...empty stage,but the efforts of director Nick Parrillo andproducers John B. Cearley '99 and Ali Ruth Davis'00 to capitalize on the details give theproduction its finessed perfection. The set of theMaGrath household is brilliant. The stage isfilled with infinite, touching details--ahalf-empty bottle of diswashing liquid on acluttered counter top, cheap curtains, Coke in therefrigerator, flowered wallpaper--which appeal notonly to the domestic nostalgia of an itinerantcollege student, but to anyone who has ever spenttime in a home kitchen. That the set has runningwater is in itself a technical triumph--a touch,however, that was not flaunted...
...traffic on the way to the Cape this morning, closed highways later on(the fact that the President drove in didn't help the situation any). And you could forgive space shuttle Discovery's army of technicians some jitters as they pumped in more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen fuel. As the agency freely admits, there was a flip side to all this positive publicity. If there's a bug in the system, the whole world is watching...
...sales have taken off, energy-bar makers are avidly extending their brands. PowerBar has introduced PowerGel, a liquid goo for athletes who don't have time to chew. But many of the new products cater to consumers' baser instincts. Balance Bar has a new larger bar with 300 calories and more than a quarter of the saturated fat you need in a day. Even the purists at PowerBar have rolled out a better-tasting Harvest line, with twice the fat of the original. Maxwell diplomatically calls them "a recognition that people want a complete eating experience...