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Meanwhile, college costs are going up 6% a year; health-care costs 8%. Both far outstrip the expected 3% annual inflation rate over the next few years, and are taking a toll on boomers with college-age kids and dependent parents. What can they do? William Stern, 48, an optometrist in Shawano, Wis., has invested aggressively in stocks for 23 years. He recently shifted 20% of his assets to bonds. "I'm trying to reduce the risk in my portfolio," he says. He has also beefed up his savings rate, tucking away more than his goal of 20% of income...
...Hamas leadership is concerned about the deteriorating condition of Palestinian life in the West Bank and Gaza. Poverty rates that have spiraled past 50 percent and the social and economic trauma of living under siege and curfew are taking a heavy toll on increasingly desperate ordinary Palestinians. Hamas wants to avoid anything that would cause the group to be seen as prolonging that agony, or provoke a conflict with...
...said that a New Hampshire economics professor estimated the total civilian death toll in Afghanistan to be between...
...given a single overt clue as to how they feel toward each other until Lanchester stoops to the positively Victorian device of a misplaced letter. Lanchester neither shows nor tells, infuriatingly keeping every important moment of emotional revelation offstage. That sort of writerly reticence would exact a stiff toll in a shorter book; in an epic, it's lethal...
...widely known as Madame Tien Percent. "Everyone was afraid of her when she was at home," says Taufik, "let alone when she went out." But while Suharto's family members squeezed the government for contracts and concessions, Taufik is not interested in taking on projects for himself. No toll roads, no national cars, no monopolies. "The Suharto businesses were easier to track because there were documents," says Teten Masduki, head of Indonesian Corruption Watch, which is not monitoring Taufik. "Taufik uses a lot of operators and also his political influence...