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...Named after a section of the tax code, 529 plans are run by the states, and soon all 50 will have a version. These plans are open to everyone. Contributions are often deductible at the state level, and you can sock away as much as $250,000 per child. The plans are so popular that fund company American Century, one of the first to offer a tailored college-savings vehicle, scrapped its once popular program last year in favor of Learning Quest, a national 529 plan run through Kansas...
FACE THE MUSIC Ever wanted to really sock it to Christina Aguilera? Now you can, courtesy of a new high-tech toy from Hasbro called M.A.G.S. ($19.99), which stands for Music Activated Gaming System. Plug M.A.G.S. into a CD player, or anything else that plays music, and it converts the sound waves into a graphics display, which you can shoot to earn points. Extra bonus for nailing Kenny...
...time I was 15 I always kept liquor in the sock drawer and I was drinking alone. I didn't want to have to share, I didn't want to have to deal with other people. By the end of that year, I was drinking hard alcohol five or six days a week. I started to steal to pay for it, money, things to pawn. I never stole from my family. By the time I was 17, I dropped out of school, I had my own apartment. I'd wake up around noon, and drink bourbon and coffee, in that...
...coins from being included in IRAs. No, you couldn't turn that penny jar you've got stored in the closet into an IRA. But if you've got a coin broker making money for you in a nationally recognized coin-trading network, Breaux's measure would let you sock those profits away in a tax-deferred account...
...school shooter with one of the longest sentences, Ramsey has encountered some of the harder edges of prison life. He spent six months in solitary confinement after beating a fellow inmate with a sock packed with batteries when the prisoner reneged on a gambling debt of four candy bars. Ramsey has heard that an uncle of the student he killed is in the same prison and that the man "wants to do a bunch of different things...