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...forced into early retirement at 55 by health problems. He's reasonably cheerful but laments his lost opportunities to save. "I should be able to retire," he acknowledges. "Due to my own stupidity, I can't. But it's expensive to raise a family, buy a home, all that stuff." A big source of Alexander's problems is his puny pension benefit of just $130 a month. With modest savings and monthly Social Security benefits of just $1,040, things are tight, even with his $28,000-a-year...
...keeping an enemy down but not out is good enough. The Southwest Research Institute in Texas has created a sprayable antitraction gel for the Marines that is so slippery it is impossible to drive or even walk on it; one researcher describes it as "liquid ball bearings." Spray the stuff on a door handle, and it becomes too slippery to turn. The antitraction gel is mostly water, so it dries up in about 12 hours. It is also nontoxic and biodegradable...
...people believe in the 3G dream anymore that beaten-down telecom shares rose sharply the day Telefónica finally said "No más." The future just isn't what it used to be. Investors and consumers alike have gotten the message: Forget all that stuff about "the Internet in the palm of your hand" - mobile phones are for talking, and maybe some short texting on the side. Those vaunted wap handsets turned out to be an unusually complicated and slow way to get a football score. And for most of us, GPRS - the data-friendly wireless system...
...been busy putting together deals with networks to provide, ahem, content. "In the early days on the content side, I think [sex] will be a big, big driver," says Orange executive vice president Richard Brennan. Operators are quick to insist that parents can block kids' access to this stuff, but as with the Internet, there's a lot the networks can't control. Of course, multimedia GPRS isn't just about porn; it's games and gambling and news and, yes, even business applications. But even if the next wave of phones does live up to these flashy promises, will...
...part of that complexity is dealing with the emotional attachment that some women have to their HRT regimen. Many like the way they look and feel on the stuff. Change is scary...