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...Bush may be trying to eventually turn Social Security into something like a 401(k) plan, but not even the Enron mess is going to scare him into turning 401(k)s into something like Social Security. Nobody in Congress is moaning about the employees who signed up at a dot-com for salary-plus-150,000-stock-options and lost it all when the stock ceased to exist - what's so different about Enron? That company's employees joined a high-flyer and apparently bet it all on high-flying company stock. The company failed - and either none...
...game itself was intense and showcased everything I could have hope for. The first half was tight, with Virgina holding the Blue Devils to 35 percent shooting from the field. It even looked like the Cavs might give Duke a scare, fighting to a 42-42 halftime...
...rambunctious royal, PRINCE HARRY reportedly had a marijuana and alcohol problem. Last summer, according to the News of the World tabloid, Prince Charles ordered his younger son to spend a day with hardcore heroin addicts at a South London rehab center. It apparently was a ploy to scare the then 16-year-old Eton student straight; sources at St. James's Palace say it worked and that Harry had experimented with drugs only a few times. But the hard-partying prince also reportedly spent too many late summer nights downing pints at a pub near his dad's country home...
...extremists. "This will be a test of the strength of the fabric of our society," is the stark assessment of Singapore's National Development Minister, Mah Bow Tan. The 13 men might have been nabbed before they could set off any bombs?but they have thrown a big scare into their small, island nation...
Before the anthrax scare, Jupiter predicted that companies would increase their spending on e-mail marketing by 80% in 2001, but that only 3.5% of the new spending would come from direct-mail campaigns. He doesn't expect the anthrax scare to make a permanent dent in those numbers. And even if more poisonous letters emerge in the months ahead, they're not likely to wipe out direct mail. Says Blank: "People are just very attached to paper...