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...rivalry that smells nothing like team spirit. The rocky relations between Clijsters, 20, and Henin-Hardenne, 21, roughly parallel the dividing lines in Belgian society. Clijsters, from the Flemish-speaking north, and Henin-Hardenne, from the French-speaking south, have long been cordial, never close. As they've risen to the top of the tennis world, relations have chilled. Henin-Hardenne has won four of their last five head-to-heads, including the Acura Classic final in August in San Diego. After the match, Clijsters hinted that her rival had taken an injury time-out for strategic reasons, an allegation...
Working couples with kids today rake in 75% more than the typical single-breadwinner family did in the 1970s. But the cost of owning a home has risen at a faster clip, leaving these families with nearly half the discretionary income (as a share of total income) of the '70s crowd. the explanation for this is the "trap" of the title. Parents naturally want their kids to get a good education. Trouble is, with so many failing schools, they have to be selective about where they live. The result: bidding wars for homes in the best school districts have pushed...
...soldiers, stripping down to T shirts in the heat, crawled into tiny crevices and under overhanging concrete slabs, washing away the dust from faces on the bodies they found, calling upon a U.N. official to identify the dead. By the end of the week, the death count had risen to 22, Vieira de Mello among them. Scores more were wounded...
...state-sponsored college-savings accounts known as 529 plans doubled in size last year, and now hold $26 billion in assets. No wonder the programs are popular--over the past decade, tuition has risen 38%, and cash-strapped parents are looking for ways to save. Public colleges saw a 10% jump in tuition last year alone...
...stock index has shot up 60% from a seven-year low in March, two leading indicators are also pointing to an upswing in the second half of the year. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research reported that its survey of financial analysts and institutional investors had risen for the eighth straight month in August. And the widely watched Ifo index of business confidence in Western Germany rose from 89.2 in July to 90.8 in August, its fourth consecutive rise. The Munich-based economic institute surveys 7,000 executives each month about production, orders and inventories. "We've turned...