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...problem of longevity. With millions of seniors eating right, exercising and forgoing tobacco and alcohol, lots of potential beneficiaries are starting to, well, wonder. "There is the concern that, 'Yes, I'll inherit something, but I may be 70 when I get it,' " says Katherine Triolo, a financial planner in Appleton, Wisconsin. Heirs beware: the typical 65-year-old man can expect to live another 15 years, while women can bank on an additional 19. Americans 100 and over constitute the fastest- growing segment of the population. Despite rising life expectancies, older Americans are still retiring earlier, effectively burning...
Experts began predicting the violent collapse of Third World megacities more than a decade ago. Urban planner Janice Perlman recalls the skepticism she encountered in the mid-1980s when she first proposed Mega-Cities, a project to promote the exchange of ideas and innovations among the world's biggest urban areas. She was told that her proposal was futile because such cities as Jakarta and Mexico City would be torn apart by disease and disorder within a few years...
...give squatters title to plots of land. In return, the new landowners agreed to help build footpaths, improve drainage and reduce garbage. "Instead of thinking of themselves as temporary boarders, the poor began to look at their community as their home," says Josef Leitmann, a World Bank urban planner. "A simple change in psychology produced a change in physical surroundings...
...From doesn't look happy to be back in power. Bill Clinton's chief domestic policy planner for the transition appears to be under siege: the austere Little Rock office that From shares with two assistants is strewn with unsolicited faxes, dotted with little yellow Post-it notes and littered with long-forgotten telephone messages stamped URGENT. From endures surprise visits from special-interest pleaders, insinuating state party officials and reconnoitering reporters. After politely thanking another briefcase-toting visitor for the 75-page list of "action items," From sighs. "This," he says wearily, "is my life...
...their stock options because shares have surged in recent weeks and holders want to lock in their profits. "Corporations are trying to persuade executives that it's in their best interest to exercise their options and avoid the tax hit next year," says William Wilson, a senior tax planner for the accounting firm Crowe Chizek in South Bend, Indiana. The rush started early at some companies. Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca and two fellow officers pocketed $5.5 million by cashing in stock options in October, when a Clinton victory seemed almost certain. Iacocca, who plans to retire...