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If you have a fixed-rate annuity, or a life insurance policy, the ruling regulator is the state where you bought the policy. This is a little trickier. The payout AIG has promised you comes from assets it holds in its general account. If the state insurance commission believes AIG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street's Bomb: What's the Fallout for You? | 9/16/2008 | See Source »

Efforts like these to connect Africa will do more than add friends on Facebook. Boosting connectivity should do the same to countries' social and economic health, stoking trade and granting citizens access to crucial online health, education and government services, economists say. Stymieing the Web's expansion in Africa until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Speed Internet Coming to Africa | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

Today, immigrants from Africa and Asia, some who have no legal right to be in an E.U. member state, are typically aching to cooperate with authorities in order to gain legal residency or citizenship. After centuries living on the margins of established European society, often choosing separate schooling and housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparing for a 'Gypsy Summit' | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

Suspicions of fixed bouts arise occasionally, but lately the commitment and character of ranking sumo wrestlers has come under question. Mongolian yokozuna (grand champion) Asashoryu begged off from participating in a tour of Japan, citing an injury, but he was then filmed playing soccer at home in Mongolia, earning him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal in Sumo Land | 9/12/2008 | See Source »

2 | How will this bailout affect my mortgage? It shouldn't affect existing loans at all. But Treasury's guarantee of Frannie's debts has already brought down rates on new mortgages because worries about the companies' future had been driving up rates. Two days after the takeover, the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Fannie and Freddie, the US Is Bailout Nation | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

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