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...cents], having all but wiped out employee retirement accounts. The plunge in WorldCom shares has cost investors upwards of $175 billion--nearly three times what was lost in the implosion of Enron. WorldCom is not yet financially bankrupt, but it's clear that it--like a fat slice of corporate America--has been ethically bankrupt for years. We're only now getting a look at the red ink on the moral balance sheets, and new revelations of malfeasance in one company after another are sending shocks around the globe...
RAISE YOUR DEDUCTIBLE. Doubling your deductible from $250 to $500 will slice 15% off your premium; raising it to $1,000 will lop off 25%. And it's a backhanded way to make sure your insurer doesn't fire you. These days, some carriers are refusing to renew customers who file several small claims. Keep your deductible high, and that won't even be a possibility...
...wrecks under a sodium glare. He finds most of his models in the streets around his studio in Walthamstow, in east London. In his "first grand car painting," the car lurks behind a billboard next to a busy road, light falling on the concrete pillars that frame this slice of no-man's-land. Campbell, 27, started painting night and the city while a student at Leeds Metropolitan University. "Day pictures don't have the same emotion," he says. When painter Duncan Swann came into the art supply shop in central London where Campbell works the two found points...
...emulates at Parkheuvel, his Rotterdam restaurant, where the menu features more elaborate dishes, including ravioli stuffed with shoulder of pork and grilled turbot with an anchovy cream. Escoffier would be proud. "You can get so much pleasure from very simple things," says Savoy. "This morning, I feasted on a slice of bread and salted butter." Visit his Paris restaurant (also called Guy Savoy), and the dishes will be more sophisticated (and more expensive) than your basic baguette and beurre. But they'll be created in the same spirit. Savoy likes to work with a single ingredient, emphasizing the multiplicity...
...planning can get intricate. But baseball aficionados wouldn't trade their road trips for anything. "Seeing the monuments to greats like [Babe] Ruth and [Lou] Gehrig at Yankee Stadium is a slice of history at its very, very best," Salomon says. "Couple this with the freedom to get in my car and leave when I want to, and I have the perfect vacation...