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...possible to indicate orders of magnitude. Currently there are a bit more than three taxpaying workers supporting one retiree. By the 2030s, when the tidal wave of baby-boomer retirements crests, there will be only two. Somewhere around 2014, the system is expected to be paying out more in benefits than it collects in taxes, forcing Social Security to start cashing in the Treasury bonds in its trust fund, whose assets are now more than $760 billion. By 2034, that too will be gone, and taxes will cover only an estimated 71% of annual pensions...
Instead of 12 days of finals preparation, we are loaded down with research papers, problem sets and extra material not covered during the semester. In the space of a second, those two empty weeks are engulfed by a tidal wave of last-minute, high-pressure assignments. Papers are barely due in enough time to catch a night's sleep before sitting down for exams...
...Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy group operating out of California, released a report last week that sent a tidal wave through one of the least practical industries in America. It turns out that bottled water, according to the group, is hardly any better than tap water--in fact, 17 percent of the samples tested by the group flunked the water industry's own purity standards. The group accompanied the report with a call for tighter FDA regulations on bottled water and Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J) said last Tuesday he would introduce a bill that would...
This is one place you really can't spend four years in Boston without visiting. The aquarium is rightfully famous for its beautiful underwater displays, including a four-story, 187,000 gallon recreation of a coral reef and hands-on tidal pools. There are also sea lion shows on the "Discovery," a floating pavilion attached to the museum. A new harbor seal exhibit with above and below water viewing opens soon. Open M-F 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Central Wharf. (973-5200) T-stop: Aquarium...
...State. But "female" still tends to connote the oozing, bleeding, swelling, hot-flashing, swamp-creature side of the species, its tiny brain marinating in the primal hormonal broth. From Aristotle to Freud, the thinking on gender has been that only one sex had fully evolved out of the tidal pool, and it wasn't the sex that wears panty hose...