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...While the revenue of state and local governments are falling, their obligations are not. On average, states have funded only 83% of what they owe or will owe to their retired workers. Many states have done a much worse: West Virginia, Road Island, Connecticut and Oklahoma all have less than 60% of their retiree benefits paid for. "The number of state funding ratios at the low end is startling," says Peter Hayes, who heads BlackRock's municipal bond management committee. "The prospect for even greater liabilities is a reasonable scenario if the country becomes trapped in a prolonged recession...
Next month, Nitschke will stage more suicide seminars in the U.K., and his first webinar on suicide for people who can't travel to Britain. He plans on taking his road show to Los Angeles and New York City in November...
...Philippines, my homeland. Most Filipino farmers are poor and neglected. The Department of Agrarian Reform can't even protect their rights against greedy hacienda owners. Without sufficient safeguards, food-security agreements might only aggravate the lot of farmers and their families from Sudan to Indonesia. Remember: the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dennard Dacumos, Manila...
...heartfelt art. At the end of their march, the zombies began to dance to the flute-tooting of some musicians in the Square—"in a kinda zombie-esque way," as Bennett described it. Around 1:30, the zombies began to disperse, leaving behind streaks of blood on road signs and the glass panes of a bus stop...
...start of a hectic Easter Weekend, the Harvard men’s tennis team sought to resurrect its Ivy League championship prospects.Unfortunately for the Crimson, it proved too hard a feat.With its Ancient Eight defense faltering, Harvard (10-9, 2-2 Ivy) took to the open road to face-off against former title challengers Princeton (11-8, 3-2 Ivy) and Penn (10-10, 1-4 Ivy). In a mixed outcome, the Crimson fell to a narrow defeat against the Tigers but delivered a solid win over the Quakers—characteristic of an unusually unpredictable Ivy League season...