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...backing legislation that will require accountants who uncover fraud in a plan to notify federal authorities immediately. Regulations now allow seven months from the discovery until the time reports are due, by which time a troubled company may have declared bankruptcy. The department is also considering whether to shorten the 90-day grace period that firms have to turn over 401(k) funds to investment managers...
...being robbed of what is rightfully his. The body's first response is a surge of energy, the release of a cascade of neurotransmitters called catecholamines. If a person is already aroused or under stress, the threshold for release is lower, which helps explain why people's tempers shorten during a hard day. Scientists are not only discovering where anger comes from; they are also exposing myths about how best to handle it. Popular wisdom argues for "letting it all hang out" and having a good cathartic rant. But Goleman cites studies showing that dwelling on anger actually increases...
...loser gets half a mil.) The championship is a co-production of the Intel Corp., the computer chip-maker, and the P.C.A., the breakaway chess organization started by Kasparov two years ago. With its heavyweight title-fight purse, a lightweight ticket price, an inspired setting and rules intended to shorten the matches, the event has been designed to reach those of us who still call knights "horsies." Until recently, says P.C.A. commissioner Robert Rice, chess was "a medieval game supported in medieval fashion." Now, quite literally, it has been given a whole new horizon...
...child learns the ritual, born out of curiosity, a desire to rebel and to be accepted," Kessler said. "The ritual tragically lasts a lifetime, and may shorten...
...wrenching social history to the very young assaults their innocence by deliberately disturbing their cozy, rosy view of the world. For what purpose? Is moral complacency among second-graders a growing social problem? They live only once, and for a very short time, in a tooth-fairy world. Why shorten that time further...