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Gold is also a traditional safe haven from a weak dollar, which many (including Warren Buffett) are betting on. Dollar pessimists point to the massive U.S. budget deficit, which if uncorrected should weaken the buck over time. With that in mind, insurers and pension funds have begun allocating 2% to 5% of their portfolios to precious metals and other commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Panning For A Golden Hedge | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

After what began as a weak first half, BachSoc was able to work itself to an impressive closing piece. The evening closed with a standing ovation for Chetel and BachSoc for a concert and season well played...

Author: By Matthew J. Kan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BachSoc Redeems In Sixth Symphony | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...don’t take any positives out of this loss,” he said. “We made mistakes that we shouldn’t be making at this point of the season, things characteristic of a weak high school team...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Drops Ugly One to URI | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to exist in real life, would not be adorable at all, but in fact deformed and helpless, unable to walk on their stumpy, swollen legs, cursed with useless, fat fingers and with heads too large to be held up by a weak infant's neck. Science has borne out that such helplessness is exactly what beckons the observer of cute: We are hard-wired to respond to big eyes set low on a round face; low, small ears; and other signifiers of infancy. The drive to nurture what only remotely resembles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Isn't That Cute? | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

They have stripped the young man of his shirt, and are pummelling his skull. His hair and face are covered with blood and he is reeling about in a daze, too weak even to protest; yet blows from sticks and fists of the angry men keep raining down on him. This kind of scene, taking place on a main road in the neighborhood of Chabhail, a suburb of Kathmandu, has been all too common in the past two weeks in Nepal, where the police have often brutally attacked peaceful protestors with sticks and batons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: An End to the Nepal Crisis? | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

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