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TIME won another first-place World Press Photo award last month, this one for Christopher Morris and a portfolio of photographs he took while covering George W. Bush's re-election campaign last year. We're proud of Jim and Chris, but the awards are not so much about TIME as about the power of a photograph, simple and unadorned, to tell a story in ways that words cannot...
Rips believed that his father was the epitome of all things placidly, plainly Midwestern: "Born in Nebraska, he was Republican, affluent and content." But after Rips' father died, a loose thread appeared: a portfolio of paintings of a naked black woman. Nobody knew who the woman was or anything about the nature of her relationship to the family patriarch. Rips began tugging at the thread, and before long the whole gray flannel suit unraveled...
Another warning: each fund has its own one-size-fits-all mentality--and that size might not be yours. The American Century My Retirement 2025 Portfolio, for example, aims this year to have 67% in stocks, 28% in bonds and 5% in a money market. Yet Vanguard Target Retirement 2025--pursuing the identical goal--holds a 59% stock, 41% bond split...
Finally, life-cycle funds are meant to be all-in-one portfolios, yet a survey of retirement savers by Hewitt Associates found that people who invest in them held an average of six different funds in their 401(k)s. That not only undercuts the great advantage of those vehicles--ease of use--but it can also put your overall portfolio allocation out of whack, morphing you into a middle-of-the-road investor when an aggressive or conservative allocation might better suit your time frame. "Employees think this is another fund," says David Wray, president of the Profit Sharing...
Beefing up the FDA's safety portfolio or farming it out to another agency are two ways to address that kind of failure. Another would be for manufacturers to design their drug trials so that more attention is paid to the effects on all patients who take them, not just the relatively healthy ones usually used in their studies. A fourth would be to force drug companies to publish all their clinical data, not just the data that show their product in the best light. Editors at several prominent research journals are calling for measures that would do just that...