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...this is the challenge, of course, for health professionals, because you need to treat the disease in a very early stage, when the symptoms are still non-specific, flu-like symptoms. It?s difficult to diagnose - in order to even test for it you have to have a high index of suspicion, you have to suspect this as a possibility or you?ll probably overlook it. Doctors need to be trained to differentiate this from the flu at an early stage...
...checks on prospective employees. But according to the International Personnel Management Association, only 37% of employers examine criminal records, and only 21% inspect motor-vehicle records. That's about to change, say security consultants. Some countries--though not the U.S.--now offer multinational companies access to their government "intelligence indexes," which include lists of people suspected of terrorist activities, money laundering and other illegal acts. When companies are hiring foreign nationals, an index check "can provide extra safety," says William Daly, a senior vice president with Control Risks Group, a corporate intelligence firm based in London...
...your 401(k) plan. Indeed, kick up contributions if you can. Consider rebalancing too, because with the long slide in stocks you may find that bonds make up a larger part of your asset mix than you like. If so, sell some bonds and buy stocks. Feeling sheepish? Stock index funds that track the S&P 500 or Wilshire 5000 almost always do well over 10-year periods...
While Harvard’s overall return was negative, Meyer said that the endowment’s managers still surpassed their annual targets. While the S&P 500 Index lost 10.9 percent last year, HMC’s domestic equities only lost only 4.6 percent...
...Osama bin Laden isn?t the only one shorting this market; mutual funds do it too), the selloff skipped a beat, and a funny thing happened: It caught on. The market bellwethers exploded, the losers stormed back, and what had been a troublingly indiscriminate selloff - and a plumbing of index levels not seen in three years - became a fast-building, last-minute comeback that left the Dow down only 144 points and the NASDAQ off by only...