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...from $500 to $8,000 annually, depending on the dollar amount per day and the period covered. Some plans offer inflation protection. At current prices, dying costs about $1,000 a day in a hospital; $1,000 a week in a nursing home; $100 a day in hospice care. Count on spending about $1,600 for a good policy from a good company. Buy early--when in your 50s, since premiums jump dramatically as you age--but not before age 45, as the government may yet rehaul the health-care system to account for end-of-life needs...
...from Los Alamos, put out flags last Wednesday and welcomed Lee home with a big backyard party on Barcelona Avenue, the man at the center of the wreckage still has a lot of explaining to do. Lee won back his freedom only after pleading guilty to a single felony count of mishandling national-defense information, which means he downloaded the equivalent of 400,000 pages of classified data about the U.S. nuclear-weapons program onto an unsecured computer system and then transferred them to high-volume cassettes. Lee had refused to spell out why he spent an estimated 40 hours...
...Crimson midfielders and forwards will have to count on the patience and wisdom of veterans such as senior Wells Mangrum, junior Mike Peller and sophomores Steffa and Mark Buan to corral and channel the explosiveness of freshmen George, Fritz and Andrew Nechtem...
...convicted, of course, but not of espionage - in fact, he was never even charged with espionage, and the 59-count indictment for allegedly downloading the "crown jewels" of U.S. nuclear secrets with the intention to share these with a foreign power was reduced, in the plea agreement, to single felony count of mishandling classified information. Still, his case is unlikely to get much attention this election season, and not only because President Clinton has preemptively joined the ranks of government critics...
FLATLINERS In investing, you can't even count on death. With age-adjusted death rates slipping in the past few years, the stocks of funeral homes and cemeteries are looking terminal. Death-care stocks like Service Corp. International and the struggling Loewen Group boomed through the mid-'90s as the industry consolidated and the population aged--seemingly offering a guaranteed market. But debt soared with acquisition costs just as the number of funerals was falling, a tragic combination...