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...though. What's the continued appeal of ghost stories? It's sort of like the appeal of macaroni and cheese, don't you think? It's delicious and comforting. Or, in the case of my book, not that comforting. But it's one of those childhood tastes that you never entirely outgrow. Even though I would not give this book to a child, I've been trying to echo childhood, "sit around the campfire"-kind of thrills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Niffenegger on Her Ghostly New Novel | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...save. The tax-deferred 401(k) plan, and others like it, such as the 403(b) and the IRA, have become our nation's go-to retirement piggy bank. Invented nearly 30 years ago as an executive perk - one more way to dodge Uncle Sam - the 401(k) was never meant to replace the employer-guaranteed pension fund, supplemented by Social Security, as the cornerstone of our nation's retirement system. But propelled by a combination of companies looking to cut costs and consumers who wanted control of their retirement destiny, that's exactly what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k) | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...markets don't make the accounts a bad idea - and that it's still too soon to tell whether they work. Many companies adopted them less than 20 years ago. Even then, most firms (including mine) still provided pension plans to their workers. So boomers retiring now were never focused on piling money into 401(k)s. In order for the plans to succeed, workers have to stash savings regularly for about 30 years. Most accounts haven't been around that long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It's Time to Retire the 401(k) | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

Huth added that physicists also do not know where mass comes from, but the most likely hypothesis is that it is bestowed by a particle called the Higgs Boson—which has never been observed...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and Huma N. Shah, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Physicists Wait for ‘Surprises’ of LHC | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...direct contact and repel—against what is believed [will happen],” said Bird, a Harvard doctoral student in engineering. Instead of infinitely increasing the coalescing speed of water, an electric field above the critical level causes the drops to deform, combine briefly, and then repel, never actually coalescing...

Author: By Xi Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Water Drops Defy Elemental Physics | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

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