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...based on electronically supervised driving patterns. In what some see as a slippery slope, Ohio-based Progressive Insurance has offered 3.6 million customers the possibility of a $100 annual rebate if they install black boxes that gather six months of data and share that information. The theory: drivers proven safe should pay lower premiums...
...most vulnerable are those who have obviously Sunni names, such as Omar. I have interviewed more than a dozen Omars, including two of Mahmud's nephews, who have endured varying degrees of persecution from police or militias. As a precaution, many Sunnis are buying fake ID cards with safe Shi'ite names...
Conversely, short-term cash instruments haven't looked this good in years. Simple, safe money-market funds now yield a healthy 5%--not bad in an uncertain environment in which Treasury bonds yield just a tad more and corporate profits are likely to downshift from double-digit growth to the 6%-to-8% range. For the past few months, money funds have had the best returns of the major asset classes. It used to be tough to find much more than a 1% money-fund yield."Having liquidity and getting 5% are a big deal," says Peter Crane, president...
...diversity in all of its forms to flourish ... is the right thing to do, not because it feels good but because it's going to make them money." But, cautions Herrschaft, that reaction is far from universal. "We have a lot of anecdotal evidence that it is still not safe for gay or lesbian executives to be open about who they are." Employers in 33 states are free to fire people for being...
...into the Lebanese soldiers who had been guarding the previous checkpoint. It should have been members of a Christian battalion, which were our allies, but the night before they were replaced by Shi'a soldiers. Still, we felt safe to be captured by the Lebanese...