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...retirement. But the White House has signaled that extra funds built up in Medicare are fair game for bolstering the budget. Democrats are fuming; most G.O.P. lawmakers back Bush, but some, like House Budget Committee chairman Jim Nussle, seemed to box in their President by promising that Congress will "protect 100% of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. Period...
...inheritance. With more couples blending families, a postnup can mandate that a mother's assets pass directly to her biological children, not the stepkids. Or a husband can cap the total amount his wife would receive from his business assets in case of divorce. Postnups can also protect one spouse from financial obligations flowing from a legal judgment against the other's business...
...Failing to protect your main asset: you. Nearly 40% of workers surveyed in the ING report don't have disability insurance. Yet the same percentage have a good chance of being out of work for three months or more at some point. Solution: Get some disability insurance--the inflation-indexed kind is best...
...putting ferns before humans. The White River Conservation Project criticized the plan as too little too late and called for blocking off 300,000 additional acres. "Red Table is one of the finest undisturbed mixed forest stands in the Rocky Mountains, and making it a wilderness area would protect that," says the project's director, Richard Compton. And, he points out, the plan would still leave a yawning 1.5 million acres for snowmobile use. All told, the public fired off 14,000 impassioned responses to the proposal, with no consensus emerging...
President Kim Dae Jung treasures his reputation as the pro-democracy hero who risked his life?more than once?to end South Korea's long period of military rule, for which he earned the sobriquet of Asia's Nelson Mandela. Kim took office promising to protect Korea's fledgling democracy and its freedoms, including an unharassed media. In a 1998 address, the newly elected Kim stressed the importance of a vibrant, sharp-tongued press: "A President should not wish to hear only sweet words...