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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sessions are in the $50-to-$60-an-hour range. A less costly technique based on Pilates' methods can be done on the floor using a mat. The multitude of exercise variations focuses on controlling breathing, joining it to movement and developing the power center: the abdomen and lower torso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Stretchers | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...maintain your desired mix of stocks, bonds and cash. I even endorse shifting among assets with part of your portfolio--no more than 20%--to try to take advantage of specific conditions every so often. Early this year I suggested tilting toward bonds because stocks were overvalued and lower interest rates seemed likely. Some wags would call that timing. I call it adjusting to the shifting balance of risk and opportunity. Besides, investing should be at least some fun, or you will lose interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tisch's Bad Bet | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...like, slap it onto a track in the editing room. Lay down a bass line, add percussion and instrumentation--the software will even resolve the key so that everything harmonizes. What's new and astounding here is that everything is rendered in real time: raise the pitch or lower it, speed up or slow down the beat while staying in key. Anything you do can be heard immediately. Not like the old days, when computer musicians had to wait for their compositions to be compiled and processed. Similarly, Play Inc.'s Amorphium ($149.95), which will ship next month, allows people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Year's Model | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...might make friends in an investment club, and you might learn something about stock picking, but you'll probably pay a price in lower returns on your investment. Fully 60% of investment clubs regularly underperform the stock market, according to a new study from UC Davis. Your returns will be higher in an actively managed mutual fund, and higher still in a broad index fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Nov. 30, 1998 | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Despite the increase in street robbery for the first three quarters of 1998, the year's total will likely be far lower than 240, the average of the yearly totals for the past decade, according to the report. Before the increase recorded during the first nine months of 1998, the number of street robberies had been declining precipitously, hitting a 30-year low last year...

Author: By Christopher C. Pappas, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Crime Stats Show Thefts, Assaults Decreased | 11/25/1998 | See Source »

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