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Entering the range, patrons go to their assigned cubicle Long clotheslines stretching down in front of each booth have clips to hold the paper targets. Next, they load their weapons, send their targets whirring away to an appropriate distance and fire away down the 75-yard range. Glass windows offer admiring spectators a chance to get in on the action. For the uninitiated, it is a bit jarring to the nerves, ear-muffs and all, to have your fumbling attempts to shove bullets into an unwieldy cartridge punctuated by rapid fire. It is even more heart-pounding to raise...
Sullivan's new book is a series of three connected essays. The title refers to both recent changes in the prognosis of HIV patients, who can now reduce their viral load to undetectable levels, as well as to the conspicuous absence of love in the dialogue of gay and lesbian issues...
...Wide Load Boat Club...
...geniuses. While the term hedge refers to techniques for reducing risk, funds such as Meriwether's often do just the opposite by using vast sums of borrowed money to make highly speculative bets in global markets. At the peak of its borrowing, the secretive fund reportedly carried a debt load 100 times as great as its net assets, or ownership capital. This would be like putting down $1,000 of your own money to buy a $100,000 house--in a flood plain on the San Andreas fault. "Most hedge-fund managers believe that a leverage ratio in excess...
...taxes on the value of your portfolio at the time of the big switch, so now that the Dow has gone south, it might be wise to roll back into a traditional tax-deferred IRA and then instantly reconvert into a tax-free Roth, potentially lightening your tax load come next April 15. But don't wait too long to roll over: the IRS could amend the rules this fall to restrict the tricky savings maneuver...