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...million workers pumping cash into a 401(k) savings plan, hidden fees could be slowly chipping away at your nest egg. That's the conclusion of a new Labor Department consumer guide (available at www.dol.gov or by calling 800-998-7542), which advises Americans how to comb through prospectuses to figure out the precise level of those extra, buried administrative charges. Over time, those fees really...
...were Formosan termites--the most voracious, aggressive and devious of over 2,000 termite species known to science. Formosan termites can chew their way through beams and plywood nine times as fast as their more laid-back cousins. Their colonies are huge, housing up to 10 million insects. They nest underground, in trees, in walls--just about anywhere there's wood and water. And they're on the move: long confined in the continental U.S. mostly to Louisiana and a handful of other coastal areas, Formosan termites are now happily chewing their way through real estate in 14 states, from...
...that conservatism may be exactly theproblem. As the humming stock market has allowedother universities to spend freely to strengthencertain academic areas, some in the Faculty feelthe University is being too stingy with itsenormous nest...
These packages will eliminate all loan requirements and, officials hope, will attract a core of outstanding students without straining the capacity of Penn's nest...
...always Carrey's take on the main character. "Truman isn't the man next door," says Weir. "He's someone who was brought up by wolves and lived in a nest of liars. The people around him were ambitious actors, and all his life they were leaning in very close to him. There was a lot of grinning by overfriendly people trying to gain his influence. Thus he has a very public persona, an exaggerated external self." The director could be describing the Jim Carrey who in 1994 had emerged from supporting status into the heat of celebrity and sycophancy...