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...Electron Beam Tomography scanner, the first of its kind to be installed in a resort setting. This $2 million machine works with high-resolution ultrasound and other space-age diagnostic tools to detect early signs of heart disease and cancer. For around $8,000 per person, anyone whose stock portfolio hasn't tanked with the NASDAQ can splurge on a rigorous seven-day medical screening and fitness program offered at the new Mandara...
...prosperous and peaceful. There was not enough challenge around (no Great Depression, no world war) to elevate Clinton to the top rank of presidents with FDR or Lincoln. When times are fat and everyone in the television ads from cabbie to widow seems engaged in wireless trading, building a portfolio, then the followers of the land may grow frisky and cavalier about their leaders. They indulge the conceit that Bill Gates or Alan Greenspan is much more important in the scheme of things than the President is. A lot of the American followership has grown almost jeeringly independent, confident...
There's nothing easy about it. So most people should never have had more than 20% of their portfolio in tech. If you had held utilities, food and energy stocks and real estate investment trusts with tech, you'd probably would have made money last year. And that brings me to another street rule: diversification works; it just doesn't work fast...
Your goal is to move toward an all-weather portfolio that seeks the higher returns that stocks historically deliver but also includes enough bonds and cash to cover any financial obligations you expect over the next few years--for example, college tuition. Part of this process is ratcheting down your investment expectations. Having come through five consecutive years of stocks gaining more than 20%, we can now expect something closer to the 11% a year that stocks have averaged since 1926. So bonds and cash won't hurt as much as you think...
...Maryland's university system, educators credit K-16 outreach for a drop in remediation rates and a rise in SAT scores and minority enrollment. In a pilot program in Oregon, high school and state-college educators are redesigning college-entrance requirements so that admission will hinge on a portfolio of student work graded on a uniform scale. In the California State University system, 54% of freshmen had to take remedial math courses in 1998; the following year only...