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...team began investigating the cause of a bombing accident at a military training range in the Kuwaiti desert. Three 227-kg bombs killed five American servicemen and one New Zealander when a U.S. fighter jet missed its target in a training exercise. The F-18 navy plane dropped its load on an observation post and parked cars more than 2 km from its intended target. Investigations will focus on the role of the pilot and the air controller in directing the strike, which wounded up to a dozen others, including Kuwaitis...
...competition consisted of nine programing challenges, ranging from the practical problems of "von Neuman Airport's" traffic-load, to the fictitious quandaries of a troubled cheese mite named "Amelia Cheese Mite...
...This is very expensive," he says. "You take a full-time professor and put them with 15 students and it might be half their course load...
...Some load funds have very low minimums or none at all, although you will have to pay a 4% to 6% sales charge. Finding a no-load fund for under $500 is more difficult. But there are a few fund families that will let you in the door for as little as $25 a month. And when the cost of getting into the stock market is less than dinner for two at Pizzeria Uno, you will be amazed at how quickly your appetite for investing comes back...
Pension-fund giant TIAA-CREF--best known for investing retirement savings--also offers 11 funds with a $250 minimum investment, or just $25 a month, in its automatic investment plan. These no-load funds also have some of the lowest expenses in the business. Putnam Research is run a bit differently from other funds in that family's lineup. The fund draws on Putnam's analysts, who pick their favorite stocks to construct the portfolio. It's one of Putnam's smaller large-cap funds, but its returns have consistently been among the firm's best. These gains...