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...learning cannot be painless, he said...
...George W. Bush's nominee to head his Treasury Department - and square his $1.6 trillion tax cut with Congress and the Fed chairman - joked during his short, painless, not-controversial-enough-for-live-coverage hearings Wednesday that he was "thinking about whether I can still get away with being a maverick for a few more days... I think I will...
...Battelle laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, researchers are working on those problems. They are devising painless alternatives to the hypodermic needle, fear of which causes many diabetics, for example, to delay necessary injections of insulin. One such device is the Mosquito, a small disk equipped with a tiny needle that penetrates only seven micrometers into the skin--not deep enough to impinge on nerve endings and cause pain. Attached to a patient's side, the disk allows mobility while it delivers the prescribed dose of drug evenly over a 24-hour period...
STOCKING STUFFER If you're looking for a painless way to teach your kids about investing, consider one of the new board games. Stock Market Madness, available in stores and at amazon.com lets players trade stocks until someone emerges a millionaire. Mutual Mania, a cross between Life and Monopoly, starts players with $25,000 to buy mutual funds. It sells at mutualmania.com Both retail...
...price tag means the program may go bankrupt 10 years earlier; to cover the cost, Bush will have to cut benefits. If the market continues its historical rate of return of 7% a year (or even if it gains a more modest 5% a year), such cuts would be painless because the private-account nest egg for most future beneficiaries would more than equal the benefits they would receive under the current system. But there's no benefit floor to protect losers...