Word: paste
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...Ackroyd endows Plato with several intriguing complexities, including, literally, a Soul with whom he converses. He senses that many of his historical judgments are mistaken and asks his Soul to tell him what the past was really like. Soul refuses: "I am not permitted to dwell on such things. You are becoming. I am being. There is a difference...
...winner for fat-cat execs (as usual) who are sitting on highly appreciated employer stock in their 401(k)s and don't need the money to live on. But the run-up in stock prices over the past five years means a lot of working stiffs will measure up too. If during this time you've contributed diligently to a plan--especially if your employer matches all or part of your contribution--you could easily have $750,000 or more at retirement. It's the appreciation in the company shares that matters. "We see it all the time," says...
...under the steely-eyed supervision of Apple's p.r. department. No taking it home to crash test it under real working conditions. So it hardly seems fair to compare it with Millennium, Microsoft's upcoming revision of Windows 98, which I've been running on three machines for the past six weeks...
...have to go to get past everyone else?" asks Jim Newman, an Irish immigrant just a few years off the boat in the second decade of the 19th century. We've seen his type many times before: one of those restless individualists who helped settle the rapidly expanding American continent. Yet the trek he makes during more than 40 years--from Manhattan Island down the Ohio River Valley to St. Louis, Mo., and beyond--in Howard Korder's extraordinary new play, The Hollow Lands, leaves most of the romance behind. The journey is populated by criminals and charlatans and half...
...smoking while pregnant--high rates of miscarriage, babies with impaired mental development and low birth weight--that mothers-to-be would just snuff it out already. Not so. A new report shows that the percentage of pregnant women who quit smoking--about 50%--has remained unchanged over the past decade. --By Janice M. Horowitz...