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...retirement savings plus" accounts should spur much needed saving. And if poorer workers take full advantage of the tax credits, they could wind up with a $200,000 nest egg at retirement...
...mastered the tricks of trading peer to peer, there are all sorts of hidden pitfalls. Files can take forever to download. Servers can crash or go offline before you finish. Files advertised as containing one song may hold another. Or they may contain a so-called cuckoo egg--a gotcha message posted by anti-Napster activists. Last week Napster users downloading the new Barenaked Ladies single, Pinch Me, and got a version implanted with a "Trojan horse": a spoken message from the band telling fans to buy the song instead. Worse still, P2P files may harbor a file-eating computer...
...egg-and-bacon sandwich is an Aussie favorite. Damper bread is a source of native pride. McDonald's managed to insult both. The official restaurant of the 2000 Games took exception to an Olympic Park restaurant's putting an egg-and-bacon damper sandwich on its menu. Calling it an Egg McMuffin rip-off, the double-arched bully demanded that the homegrown dish be banned. A compromise was struck; the offending sandwich will be served on hot-dog buns. Corporate muscle, 1; indigenous cuisine...
Conjoined twins are rare, occurring once in 50,000 to 100,000 births. They happen when the fertilized egg starts splitting into twins but the process stalls, leaving a partly separated embryo that matures into a conjoined fetus. Many are aborted or stillborn. Surgical separations often fail, depending on how many organs are shared. At a leading U.S. center for this work, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 14 sets of twins have been separated since 1957. Seventeen children survived, and both twins lived in seven cases...
...battle with prostate cancer. The former lawyer was being treated in two of the best hospitals in New York City. He wasn't fabulously wealthy; he had devoted most of his time to producing jazz records, which aren't big moneymakers. But at age 69, Cummins had a nest egg...