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...disaster. It contains a nice, dithering performance by Holly Hunter as a mom making a living by hairdressing at home while trying to sustain a relationship with an unpromising guy (Jeremy Sisto). In the latter, the mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her kid are magically obliged to switch roles, with Mom enduring a day as a teenager and the teenager taking over the woman's psychology practice...
.../investor/smart/401k explains the basics and also offers info for slightly more sophisticated investors--such as insights on asset-allocation strategies based on number of years until retirement, tax implications of borrowing from your account to buy a house, and options for what to do with your money if you switch jobs...
...Josiah Macy Foundation, to teach communication skills to medical students. It's a good idea to try to correct problems and misunderstandings as they arise. But if the frustration persists, the best medicine is to leave and find another doctor, Lipkin says. People often say they are unable to switch because they live in a small, one-doctor town. But for most Americans, that should no longer be an obstacle to finding someone simpatico. Noting that 90% of the population lives near an urban area, Lipkin concludes, "People do have choices...
...there is no doubt that there will be a next time. Genetically modified crops have become so widespread that, even if we wanted to, it would take years to switch back to natural produce—and it may already be completely impossible. By 2000, farmers in the U.S. alone were planting over 75 million acres—18 percent of the total cropland and an area three times larger than the state of New York—with GM crops, and this figure is increasing at an almost exponential rate. More worryingly, though, these GM crops are not only...
...Administration was warned by skeptics inside the government that the switch-out would take some of the pressure off al-Qaeda, but the impending war with Iraq--which emphasized special forces as no war plan ever did before--took precedence over all other issues last winter at the Pentagon. Now some have come to believe that the change in emphasis allowed bin Laden to disperse to other parts of the world operatives who survived the initial months on the run. "The reason these guys were able to get away," says a former Bush official, "was because...