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Home-equity loans are available at fixed or variable interest rates. Householders can borrow a lump sum or set up a revolving line of credit that they can tap into as they please; amounts repaid can be borrowed again. Though such loans were once used for home expansions and remodelings, today's householders are borrowing for all sorts of purposes. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House-Rich | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...that this Congress has a lot to learn about public relations? The GOP wheeled out House golden boy J. C. Watts Thursday to explain that the re-jiggering only meant 12 monthly payments to these families (just like his own back in the Dust Bowl) instead of one lump sum. But factor in inflation, and whatever interest might be earned by socking the money away, and what the Republicans are offering is undeniably less money. Worse, it sounds heartless, especially within the context of an ugly budget that?s already breaking the fiscal bank in a hundred other ways. These...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Takes a Page from Clinton's Playbook | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...rate is 100%. For that reason, many experts suggest that men (of all races) should perform self-examinations monthly, starting at age 15. The best time to do this is after a warm shower, when the scrotum is relaxed and soft. The danger signs include a hard, painless lump attached to the testicles or, less commonly, testicular enlargement or scrotal swelling. Probing their testicles, even gently, may not be high on most men's list of appealing ideas. But given the potential payoff, they should do it anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curable Cancer | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Whoever said that modern technology has taken the human spirit out of adventure? The plight of a woman at the South Pole's Amundsen-Scott research station who has discovered a lump in her breast shows that boldness and bravery are alive and well. Trapped in the hellish cold and ice of the region, which averages 80 degrees below zero during the current Antarctic winter, the woman, who is the doctor of the station, according to the New York Times, has had to deal with the possibility that she may have breast cancer. The Air Force jet crew, which over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Than 'E.R.': High Drama at the South Pole | 7/13/1999 | See Source »

...deliver full benefits only if you live to a ripe old age. Others don't cap premiums, so if you do make it to 95, you could spend $30,000 for a $5,000 funeral. Make sure any policy is portable, and try to pay for it in one lump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: May 10, 1999 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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