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...home improvements and second homes. But it's unlikely that residential real estate, which has appreciated sharply of late, will beat stocks over the next decade. Don't overlook foreign stocks, which offer diversification and an added kick from the falling dollar. Consider First Eagle SoGen Overseas. And high-yield bonds, now priced for disaster, should beat stocks over the next few years, in funds such as Regions Morgan Keegan...
...Falun Dafa is the name given to the group's beliefs.) To pull off the feat, the activists needed a nearly 30-ft. satellite dish plus about $1 million worth of equipment that would fire a perfectly tuned beam at Sinosat 1. Since two beams on the same frequency yield nothing but static, someone in Beijing had to shut down the official programming to let the illicit message through. The override was not a failure of Sinosat's encryption technology, says Ian Barnard, who runs China operations for the South African firm MIH, provider of the encryption software...
...instructions were laughably inaccurate--more a parody than a plan--but not recognizing that, Padilla took them to Abu Zubaydah and other al-Qaeda planners and said he wanted to detonate such a weapon in the U.S. "He was trying to build something that would attain a nuclear yield," says a senior Bush Administration official monitoring Padilla's case. In response, Abu Zubaydah apparently cautioned his eager job applicant to think smaller--to get some training and attack America with a so-called "dirty bomb," a conventional explosive packed with radioactive waste that would spew when the bomb blew...
Interest rates may look like chicken feed right now--but inflation is low too, so your real return is richer than it looks. Even when bonds yielded 8% in the early 1990s, their return after inflation was under the 3.2% you can net on today's 4.8% bonds (see chart). That's why you shouldn't join the herd of investors stampeding into high-yield--or junk-bond--funds; so far this year, the public has poured $9 billion into these buckets of risky corporate debt, nearly half as much as the money attracted by all stock funds combined last...
...bonds. Uncle Sam isn't going to default on his debt (or, if he does, the world economy will be such a mess that nothing else will be worth investing in either). And TIPS guarantee you can't lose money after inflation. They're no longer cheap but still yield up to 3.1 percentage points over the current inflation rate. Put them in your IRA or other retirement account, where their quirky tax features won't "drive you stark raving mad," as Loomis Sayles Bond Fund manager Daniel Fuss puts it. You can buy tips directly from the government...