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...with when you retire. If the market rises that year, you're fine. If you retired last year, you're toast. And the chances of your becoming a victim of this huge flaw in the 401(k) plan are pretty high. The market fell in four of the nine years since the beginning of the decade. That means anyone retiring this decade had a nearly 50% chance of leaving work in a down market. In fact, your chances of retiring into a down market are even greater than that: forced retirements spike in recessions just as the stock market...
...initial excitement was short lived: a helium leak only nine days after the LHC was switched on led to an explosion that postponed data collection along with the careers of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows an ocean away—including several at Harvard. In the next few months, researchers plan to test the LHC a second time, in the hope that their years of hard work will finally help unravel some of the mysteries of the universe...
...over twice more. Even though the official representative of Ugly American culture and cowboy diplomacy has remained graciously silent in retirement, the committee decided to stick it to him one more time by choosing his newly minted successor, who has been in office for only nine months but has made some of the right noises about rejecting some of his global policies. There will of course be some bogus cover story about Obama's vision for nuclear disarmament and Middle East peace and climate change, but the anti-Bush message couldn't have been clearer if the Nobel had gone...
...boss, Anita Dunn, the aha moment came when the Washington Post ran a second op-ed from a Republican politician decrying the "32" alleged czars appointed by the Obama Administration. Nine of those so-called czars, it turned out, were subject to Senate confirmation, making them decidedly unlike the Russian monarchs. "The idea - that the Washington Post didn't even question it," Dunn says, still marveling at the decision. (Read Mark Halperin's grades for the Obama Administration...
...couple of the stories that he put in there that are complete nonsense are still widely believed: that there was a plot against former Prime Minister Harold Wilson - I now know there wasn't, though there was a file kept on him - and that the head of MI5 for nine years, Sir Roger Hollis, was actually a Soviet agent. The files disprove this too. If you don't have information, you get disinformation...