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...this may seem like a lot of work, even to make such an appealing dream come true. Those who have done it, though, say it's worth the trouble. "Retiring abroad is a way of revitalizing yourself," says Knorr. "You are reborn, seeing the world with fresh eyes." ACA's executive director Dorothy van Schooneveld has even experienced an unexpected bonus: "You appreciate your own country much more when you come back to it." For when you retire abroad, you're not giving up your homeland--you're gaining another...
Last week Bush's aides felt upbeat, though not quite cocky, about Friday's high-court arguments. "Ted Olson himself urged us not to try to read into the mood of the Justices," says Bush spokesman Dan Bartlett. But even if they lose with the high court, the Bushies believe they're doing very well indeed in the Florida courts. The end of last week brought strong evidence for that proposition. On Friday the Florida Supreme Court refused to order both immediate hand counts of disputed ballots and the revote in Palm Beach County sought by voters confused...
...guzzlers while fretting about the melting ice cap and the diminished rain forest: Your bluff is called. Finally. Just as the U.S. is grappling with the problem of how to meet its international promise to reduce global warming, the first hybrid gasoline-electric cars are hitting the U.S. market. Though these green machines, a major advance in automobile engineering, are getting off to a slow start, down the road they may yet compete bumper to bumper with gas-only cars...
...Divine and Oli Grant, the band's corporate brain trust, feel the group has spread itself too thin. "A few years ago, I told my brothers [fellow Clan members] that the W is gonna be like the Mickey Mouse ears," says RZA. For brands trying to be cool, though, ubiquity can be a bad thing--just ask Gucci. The W began showing up on too many things, while the band hardly showed up at all. It got to a point where the whole group assembled only once a year...
...will be with GE another year, seems to have already said his goodbyes. "You can be sure that they're being pursued very aggressively on the outside and are evaluating their options," he said of Nardelli and McNerney while announcing that Immelt will be his successor. It was as though he wanted to start a bidding war. Was that the consolation prize...