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There's still plenty you can do to protect yourself in a Lyme-infested neighborhood: tuck your pants in your socks, spray DEET on your clothing, check yourself and your kids for ticks. And if you develop a spreading red rash--particularly if it's accompanied by joint pain, chills or confusion--make sure you see a doctor right away. The trick, as always, is to be vigilant without overreacting...
Meanwhile, NASD is cranking out new rules to protect investors from themselves as well as from overzealous stock pickers. From now until November, and once a year after that, brokers must send a letter to each margin customer spelling out the risks associated with such accounts. This fall NASD and the New York Stock Exchange will raise the daily cash requirement for day traders from $2,000 to $25,000 and reduce the time they have to meet margin calls from seven days to five. NASD has also decreed that online recommendations must be tailored to a customer's investment...
...sick prank. Most prefectures have high-tech departments dealing with Internet and related crimes. But it's difficult to catch the author of an anonymous message if the bulletin board is accessed through a public computer. "Sometimes all we can do is advise the callers about how to protect themselves," says Masao Tatsuzaki, life division officer of the National Police Agency...
...Dark and intense with close-cropped black hair, Kim spent a year roaming around North Korea stealing to stay alive before escaping to China. (As with all of the other North Koreans mentioned in this story, Kim's name has been changed to protect his identity.) An orphan, his slight, wiry frame makes him look much younger than his 18 years. The Chinese have already arrested him on several occasions and sent him back: the last time he was put in a North Korean labor camp for repeat offenders. He and his older brother overpowered the guard and ran away...
...granted now but that Americans were only vaguely aware of at the time: the splintering of the classic New Deal Democrat coalition. Blue-collar union guys (like Archie) had depended on FDR and organized labor to secure them contracts, provide Social Security, look after their comfort: in short, to protect them and keep their world stable. Social justice to Archie was a pot roast on their table and an evening sit-down in his favorite chair. He was Nixon's "silent majority" personified; he was a Reagan Democrat years before anyone knew they existed...