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...earning more than $100,000 a year. As I've argued before, that low limit unfairly precludes many nonwealthy couples in big cities from converting their old IRAs to a Roth. Still, nagging obstacles are about to get obliterated, opening the door for wider use of this powerful savings tool...
...recommendation is save your money. Use one of the free family-friendly search sites that are popping up all over the Web. Last week the popular search engine Lycos unveiled SafetyNet, an easy-to-use tool. Simply go to lycos.com click on SafetyNet, select a password and activate the filter. Then whenever you or anyone on your computer searches the Web from lycos.com content will be filtered. Be warned though; there are still plenty of bugs: a search of the word sex returned no results. (Sex education, however, was chock-full of advice that most parents would probably tolerate.) Then...
Professor of Mathematics Peter B. Kronheimer, who specializes in geometry and topology, said computers are sometimes a useful teaching tool. However, he said he was skeptical about the impact of Windows...
Musical genres, like city streets, need names to make things navigable. Artists rage against categorization, but it's a useful tool to define the boundaries of a given phenomenon. Neo-soul is the best name to call the latest emerging genre. Simply defined, neo-soul describes artists--like song-stylist Erykah Badu--who combine a palpable respect for and understanding of the classic soul of the '60s and '70s with a healthy appetite for '90s sonic experimentation and boundary crossing. Neo-soul artists tend to create music that's a good deal more real, a good deal more edgy than...
Ironically, it was Rubin's remarks before Congress two weeks ago that seem to have triggered the latest spiral. Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee, he was asked why the U.S. was doing nothing to support the yen. "Intervention is a temporary tool," he replied. "The whole answer lies in Japan doing what it needs to do." As he continued to speak, an aide passed him a note saying the yen had suddenly begun to drop. Apparently assuming that Washington would remain on the sidelines, dealers had sold billions of yen, sending the currency to an eight-year...