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...risk in annuities is actuarial. If you die within a few years of purchasing an immediate fixed annuity, you will merely have financed someone else's retirement--a fact that can scare off customers. "People tend to worry about being losers," says Craig Copeland, a senior researcher at the Employee Benefit Research Institute. "And they don't want to run that risk." Inflation is another hazard: a modest 3% rate can cut the purchasing power of fixed-annuity payments 45% in 20 years...
...some blood centers turned everyone else away, told them to come back another day. "It's just amazing," said nurse Anne Taylor, standing in the donors' line. "There'll be a three- or four-hour wait, and just look at all of these people standing here. They can't scare us." Bellevue hospital had so many donors, it ran out of plastic bags...
Despite moves toward normal operations, much of the country remained tense two days after the initial attacks. In Washington, D.C., the Capitol building was briefly evacuated after a bomb scare, sending members of Congress and thier aids scurrying down the Capitol steps. Near the same time, Vice President Dick Cheney was moved to Camp David in what administration officials called a “precautionary measure...
Originally slated to take place in Copley Square, the vigil was moved to Harvard Square after a midday bomb scare and FBI raid caused the original location’s safety to be called into question...
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