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...retirement. Even if the average worker would benefit from private accounts (which may or may not happen), there will be many, many workers whose private accounts would under perform, costing them thousands in retirement. Social Security is meant to be a guaranteed retirement foundation for all retirees, not a slick investment scheme, where every senior on the wrong side of the stock market’s bell curve is left to starve on the street. That was the situation Social Security was designed to remedy, and privatization would break that promise...
Craving more than monochrome? The display's the thing on Toshiba's Gigabeat MEG F20--a gorgeous, 2.2-in. color screen that can crisply handle JPEG images, slick menu icons and even animated graphics that pulsate in synch with your music. Unlike the Sony and Apple players, which are closely bound to the companies' Sony Connect and iTunes Music Store, the Gigabeat can download songs from most music sites, and there's a forthcoming $449 version with an enormous 60 GB of memory...
...thought handheld gaming devices were just for kids, Sony's new PSP (short for PlayStation Portable) could easily change your mind. With its slick, black-lacquer design, bright 4.3-in. display and ability to play movies and MP3s, the $250 PSP makes its main competitor, the Nintendo DS, look like a relic from the Ice Age. The PSP could be the hottest gizmo since the iPod. --By Anita Hamilton...
...publishes an electronic broadsheet called CyberWire Dispatch, in which he tells readers what he thinks is really going on. Last April he investigated an Internet advertisement offering $500 or more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces a $25,000 legal bill that...
...Craving more than monochrome? The display's the thing on Toshiba's Gigabeat MEG F20?a gorgeous, 2.2-in. color screen that can crisply handle JPEG images, slick menu icons, and even animated graphics that pulsate in sync with your music. Unlike the Sony and Apple players, which are closely bound to the companies' Sony Connect and iTunes Music Store, the Gigabeat can download songs from most music sites, and there's a $551 version with an enormous 60 GB of memory...