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...Interest rates across the board are near 45-year lows. How could it be a mistake to lock in a low rate now and know your monthly principal and interest payment will never rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: A Call to ARMs | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...loan, the fixed rate costs $1,160 a month, while the ARM costs just $921 a month for the first year. What happens after that is where it gets interesting. Within two years the ARM could rise as much as 4 percentage points, bringing the monthly payment to $1,407. Most homeowners don't want to worry about that, so they lock in the fixed rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: A Call to ARMs | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...ways it's better to be single. For instance, if a bureaucrat is determining whether you can get Medicaid, he is allowed to consider how much money your spouse makes. A gay man could get Medicaid--or a veteran's pension or a student loan or a crop-support payment--regardless of his partner's income. At the other end of the economic spectrum, the law prohibits Senators' spouses from accepting gifts worth more than $250 a year. But if, say, a Senator left his wife for a man, the new boyfriend could take a Ferrari from a Saudi prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Law: 1,138 Reasons Marriage Is Cool | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...This payment helped significantly to defray the $940,000-cost on Sigma Chi’s new property. The fraternity has only a decade of alums to draw on for donations...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sigma Chi Settles Into New Home | 2/11/2004 | See Source »

When 9-month-old Hunter spent 18 days in Sunrise Hospital, where he was treated for a brain aneurysm, the Westers received a bill for $135,000. Bills from other doctors and health-care providers brought the total to $180,000. Wester says he began making payments on the hospital bill, but they weren't enough. Sunrise turned the bill over to a collection agency and then sued. A judge knocked the total bill down to $98,000, which included court costs and attorney fees. An attorney suggested bankruptcy, but then a friend of a friend who worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Your Life Become Too Much A Game Of Chance? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

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