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...quality. The first tale, "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," is the worst, a grimly heartwarming trifle about how you should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes, isn't much more successful, though it was a relief to me to learn that the stump in question is a tree stump and not some kind of chortling severed limb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.K. Rowling's Beedlemania | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Barring relief from Washington, pension plan sponsors may revert to benefit cuts. Here's how that might work: A typical pension plan formula is based on an individual's ending salary, multiplied by a variable, such as .015, and then multiplied by the number of years of service. So an employee earning $150,000 a year, at age 60, with 30 years of service, would have the following formula: $150,000 x .015 x 30, which equals $67,500 annually in pension payments for the rest of her life. To reduce costs, a company can reduce that middle variable from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pension Funds Take Another Pounding | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...that. Some economists question whether just lowering interest rates to a historically low 4.5% will be enough to boost housing sales or prices. What's more, the plan could end up costing $25 billion a year, using up valuable funds needed to fix the housing market and providing no relief to the millions of homeowners now facing foreclosure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treasury's Plan for Mortgage Rates Could Be Costly | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

Dybul’s presentation centered largely on the vision, goal, and results of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), an initiative launched by President Bush in 2003 to combat the global epidemic...

Author: By Youho T. Myong, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Funds, Partnership Keys to AIDS Battle, Official Says | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...need to invest in sustainable energy. From the economic crisis to our current dependence on foreign oil, it is undoubtedly clear that the United States needs clean, domestic energy. Estimates have shown that this plant will provide three quarters of the electricity needs for Cape Cod—relief that we need now more than ever...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: In Our Backyard, Please | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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