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Nowhere are the symptoms of this disease more exposed than in the elevator. In this most unfortunate of social mini-interactions, there are a number of methods employed to cope with the threat of actually having to chat with a fellow rider...
...Leblanc doesn't believe that Armstrong or other U.S. cyclists will encounter any hostility, but he did raise the issue of security during a May meeting with France's Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who ordered his staff to determine whether additional measures should be taken to reassure the American riders. "I am convinced that it will be the same as last year," Leblanc predicted. "There'll be no particular reason to smother Mr. Armstrong with protection." During last year's Tour, observers detected a warming trend in Franco-Lancian relations. Armstrong conducted more interviews in French, hired less-menacing bodyguards...
...cover not only the employee's contributions to a defined-contribution plan but also the employer's matching contribution if the worker becomes totally disabled. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., which provides a stand-alone policy, also offers the option of attaching to its individual disability policies a rider that would pay the employee's plan contributions plus the employer's match. [This year's limit for 401(k) contributions is $12,000; self-employed workers or small-business owners can set aside up to $40,000 in a SEP-IRA.] The added coverage pays a separate disability benefit...
...trend, often called share boarding, is on the rise as owners look to cut spending or get too busy to ride, says Marlene Schrader, co-owner of Beech Hill Farm in Pleasantville, N.Y. Her stables board 40 horses, 80% of which are shared, up from 50% in 2000. Riders say horse sharing is a relatively inexpensive way for a young person to move from a once-a-week lesson to a bigger commitment, and it works for owners too. Computer consultant Kate Bushman, 40, of Boylston, Mass., will half-lease her aging Thoroughbred to a thrice-weekly rider...
Those who send spam for a living contend that some vigilantes, in their antispam fervor, take it too far. "I have had death threats against my family," complains Robert (Bubba) Catts, a former used-car salesman and professional bull rider from Shreveport, La. Catts, who runs a 10 million--message-a-day direct-marketing business and clears up to $700,000 a year, was exposed when his address and phone number were listed, along with those of 179 other "top spammers," on the British-based website Spamhaus.org...