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Sorting through such issues is beyond most investors. A handy rule is to avoid shares of companies with pension shortfalls equal to 10% or more of their market value--and consider buying shares of those whose pension plans are generously funded...
...COLD CASH Roll up all those unwanted pennies in papers, or put a dozen or two in drawstring bags. With any luck, the kids will use them for something other than candy shopping--maybe even give them to UNICEF. (Avoid this one for kids 3 and younger...
...core domestic and foreign policy objectives. China requires economic growth to achieve stability, and the U.S. takes 40% of China's exports, directly and indirectly employs millions of Chinese workers, and is the single largest foreign direct investor there. Furthermore, learning from the Soviet experience, Beijing wants to avoid bankrupting itself in a futile arms race with America. As for Taiwan, though the U.S. is Taipei's principal guarantor, not even the Bush Administration is prepared to support independence. For the status quo to continue, Beijing has to engage Washington, not rebuff...
...down. Every suspect has been interviewed dozens of times by U.S. intelligence and antiterrorism agencies. Yet not a single prisoner has been brought before a U.S. military tribunal. The Pentagon insists this will happen soon, but mid-level officers say privately that the Bush Administration is moving slowly to avoid high-profile legal proceedings that would reveal a sorry fact: the U.S. mostly netted Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters of only low to middling importance, bagging few of the real bad guys...
Medics rushed Pham Dang Hieu, blood seeping from his crushed skull and his panicked family trailing, into the emergency room of Hanoi's Viet Duc University Hospital at 9:30 on a Sunday evening. The 27-year-old engineer had swerved his 100cc Honda Wave motorcycle to avoid a bicycle and crashed into a concrete lane divider near his home. His bleary-eyed brother stared blankly at the widening pool of blood on the sheet beneath Hieu's head as the doctor explained the family's options: hook him up to life support, or take him home to die. Either...