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...half of 529 portfolios had one-year returns of -30%, and a third had returns of -40% or less, according to Morningstar, which tracks the performance of over 3,600 plan portfolios. In some cases, 529 investors may not have been well informed of the risks. On April 13, the state of Oregon sued the managers of its 529 plan, OppenheimerFunds, alleging that Oppenheimer took too much risk with its "ultra-conservative" and "conservative" portfolios, alleged mismanagement that Oregon claims resulted in a $36.2 million loss for 529 plan investors. (See how students are paying for college...
...very profitable. Some large dailies made margins of over 30%. The Internet as we know it would not be invented for nearly 25 years. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis.) The Pulitzer announcement must have brightened an otherwise dreary newsroom. If any regional economy is at risk for completely collapsing, it is the one around Detroit, where in some parts of that city unemployment is already close...
...glucose (which is made when the body breaks down starches such as carbohydrates) and fructose, (the type of sugar found naturally in fruits), researchers at the University of California Davis report in the Journal of Clinical Investigation that consuming too much fructose can actually put you at greater risk of developing heart disease and diabetes than ingesting similar amounts of glucose. In the study, 32 overweight or obese men and women were randomly assigned to drink 25% of their daily energy requirements in either fructose- or glucose-sweetened drinks. The researchers took pains to eliminate as many intruding factors...
...Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, notes that studies have shown that long-term consumption of sugared drinks can double the risk of diabetes, with half of that risk due to the excess weight brought on by the calories, and the other half due to the beverages' high sugar content - mostly fructose. "This study provides the best argument yet that we should either decide to consume less sugar-sweetened beverages in general, or that we should conduct more research into the possibility of using other sweeteners that may be more glucose...
...military personnel aboard the ship. But the troops were not on a combat mission; they were engineers and specialists who were supposed to repair roads, hospitals and schools and train a new Haitian police force. Some carried only sidearms, some no guns at all. Clinton decided he could not risk sending them ashore and ordered the Harlan County to pull up anchor and steam away. At U.S. request, the U.N. Security Council voted to reimpose as of midnight Monday an embargo on oil and arms shipments to Haiti. An earlier embargo had pushed the Haitian military leaders into agreeing...