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...Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991--amended in June to include the highly publicized National Do Not Call Registry--covers unsolicited cell-phone traffic, with a $500 fine for abusers. Says the FCC's Dan Rumelt: "Consumers should file complaints with us." In addition, consumer advocates and the FCC recommend that you ask your cell-phone service how it deals with text-message spam under your plan. --By Avery Holton
...Create a rainy-day fund. Advisers recommend having enough money for three to six months stored in an easy-to-access place, such as a money-market fund or savings account. --By Barbara Kiviat
...found that store-bought salmon, most of which is farmed, contained 16 times the PCB levels of salmon caught in the wild. The Environmental Protection Agency considers these levels a health hazard, and if they were found in wild salmon would recommend eating the fish no more than once a month. The Food and Drug Administration, the agency responsible for fish sold in stores, says these PCB levels are safe--for now. But it is investigating the primary source of the contaminant: the ground fish meal that farmed salmon eat. --By Alice Park
...Ford, the head of Ford Motors, meditates, as does a former chief of England's top-secret MI-5. Hillary Clinton has talked about meditating, and the Gores are converts. "We both believe in regular prayer, and we often pray together. But meditation--as distinguished from prayer--I highly recommend it," says the man who nearly became our President. Gore's TM mantra is not, as rumored, Florida...
...growing weight of such research has moved the American Heart Association to recommend that these foods be incorporated into heart-healthy diets. For similar reasons, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration now allows the labels on packages containing such nuts as walnuts, almonds, pecans, pistachios and peanuts to claim that they "may reduce the risk of heart disease." Statins will continue to be important, lifesaving drugs. But it's nice to know that you can get the same results without them...