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...markets are also a good place to buy gasoline - the dealer sticks a hose in his can, takes a quick suck on the other end to start the flow, and hastily plugs that end into the buyer's can. Going to the gas station could mean an all-day wait...
MAKE YOUR 2003 IRA CONTRIBUTION. One mistake many people make is waiting until April 15 to make a previous year's IRA contribution. At the last minute, they scrounge for funds--often unsuccessfully. Moreover, they sacrifice valuable compounding time. If you contribute $3,000 to an IRA at the start of each year and earn an average 8% a year, you'll have $367,000 after 30 years, according to Ed Slott, editor of the newsletter Ed Slott's IRA Advisor irahelp.com) Wait for the IRA deadline to make those same contributions, and you'll accumulate $27,000 less...
...problems of tobacco bonds, which are state-issued debt backed by future payments of tobacco companies as part of a landmark 1998 liability settlement. States including California and New York have issued some $18 billion of these bonds to get their mitts on the tobacco loot now rather than wait to collect it in dribs and drabs over the next few decades. The bonds have always offered a higher yield than similarly rated munis--today, about 5.5% vs. 4.1%--because no taxing authority stands behind them, only a handful of private companies that a lot of folks would like...
...close the Harvard Seers Project, a performance art installation designed by Lee Mingwei, the OFA’s visiting artist this year. Students and community members lined up early on each of 10 nights for brief sessions with that night’s psychic. Every night, the wait list was full by 5:15 p.m. and many of the 30-odd visitors turned away came back night after night...
Last night, Lee was also keeping time, crossing names off the wait list and interrupting when each seeker’s 10 minutes were...