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...Partners, and its relationships with mutual-fund companies, including Bank of America's Nation's Funds, Banc One, Janus and Strong. Spitzer says the trail could lead to hundreds of mutual-fund companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating. The Investment Company Institute pledges full support of the probe...
...early stages of a recovery. Bond prices are sliding, and higher interest rates are signaling a slowdown in real estate. So where can investors expect the best returns over the next 12 months and beyond? TIME brought together a diverse group of investment experts to probe the question, and their answers may surprise you. Bonds have fallen enough to be a bargain--at least until the recovery really takes off. But beach houses to rent for income are so five years ago. For more, you'll have to read on. Our panel met in early August and was moderated...
Will these innovations make us safer? Don't forget that Maginot Line. And with terrorists, it's a never-ending contest. We close the old gaps; they probe for new ones. They thrust; we parry. In some ways, we've only just entered the fight. If nothing else, we'll soon be better armed. --Reported by Laura Locke/San Francisco, Eric Roston/Washington and Jyoti Thottam/New York
...planet last week passed closer to Earth than it has in almost 60,000 years. Even as Spirit and Opportunity speed toward their wintertime rendezvous, the European Space Agency has a probe of its own on the way, a stationary lander expected to touch down on Mars on Christmas Day. The Japanese, back in 1998, launched an orbiter, which, after a circuitous route through the solar system, should arrive sometime in December...
...Details By J.F.O. McALLISTER | London Important people will be dreading their mail as Lord Hutton summons witnesses to return to his inquiry next week for cross-examination about the events that led to the death of British weapons expert David Kelly - an inquiry that has also become a probe into Tony Blair's case for war. The evidence so far reveals gaps and contradictions that make some returns very likely...