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...risky approach. Over at AARP, Deborah Russell, director of workforce issues, says her organization enthusiastically supports an active, fulfilling retirement. But, she cautions, "we do not advocate spending your nest egg" on start-up costs. According to the Small Business Administration, two-thirds of new businesses fail within four years...
...quaint memory. Upward social mobility is failing. (A new study by the Economic Mobility Project finds that American men in their 30s are worse off financially than their fathers.) Real estate may not offer double-digit returns anymore, but it does offer an atavistic promise of security, a nest egg embodied in Sheetrock that you can touch and dirt that can't be outsourced to Mumbai. Property fever is in our blood: this country made its fortune in sweet real estate deals--a Louisiana Purchase here, a few trinkets for Manhattan there--and these HGTV shows tap into something primal...
...Which is not to say that his topic is rich ninnies who somehow stumble through confusion to blissful amour. His people are much more ordinary than that. Take Ben for example. He lives in a nest of nerds on the dwindling remains of a long-ago court settlement. They suck on bongs and beer bottles, vaguely plan a website that will direct readers to skin scenes in movies - not knowing, of course, that it's an already overcrowded field - and dream of dreamgirls they lack the social skills to approach in real life. But if their development is arrested, they...
...Prime Minister visited Sderot on Tuesday, but received an angry reception from the residents - and a few Gaza missiles slammed down nearby, though Olmert and his entourage were never in danger. So far, Olmert is resisting calls by the army to launch a major offensive into the Gaza hornets' nest...
...airline's marketing hasn't done it any favors: The Porter mascot is a raccoon, public pest number one for Toronto home owners because the rampant critters nest under their homes, claw into their garbage and treat TV antenna towers as a ladder. "The airline is elegant and upscale, so why go with a Disneyesque marketing approach?" says Barry Avrich, filmmaker and president of Toronto ad agency Endeavour, who on a recent Porter round-trip was one of six passengers...