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...ultimate blame for Detroit goes to the voters who elected Coleman Young mayor five times despite his constant race-baiting of white suburbanites and his unwillingness to work with corporations to keep them in the city to help jump-start the economy. Hopefully, Detroit voters will now realize that electing politicians who scapegoat others instead of finding solutions are not looking out for their best interests...
...Work longer. You knew this was coming. Working longer allows you to save longer and delay the date of withdrawals. It also reduces the number of years that your assets will have to generate income in retirement - a powerful combination. In addition, you'll probably be able to postpone collecting Social Security and become entitled to a higher monthly benefit. A typical 62-year-old would boost annual retirement income 22% if he worked three more years and 39% if he worked five more years, says Christine Fahlund, senior financial planner at T. Rowe Price. "Be flexible with your retirement...
Afghanistan's fraudulent elections complicate President Obama's job as he weighs a recommendation from General Stanley McChrystal, his top commander there, to send as many as 40,000 additional troops to support a beefed-up counterinsurgency strategy. But for that strategy to work, the U.S. needs a credible Afghan partner, which Afghanistan's elections now seem unlikely to produce. (See pictures from election day in Afghanistan...
...shocked the academic experts by writing excellent encyclopedia entries on Wikipedia, so why can't amateurs, if we all work together, create perfect recipes? If enough of us discuss and debate our hamburger knowledge - our meat choices, cooking methods, spices, condiments, bread - then won't our collective experience create the Platonic burger? That's one of the goals of two websites - Foodista.com and the recipe section of Wikia.com - that allow users to post new recipes and revise existing ones any way they want, forming a great burger consensus...
...encyclopedia entry, which is made up of facts, there's a lot of opinion in a recipe. The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song. So will wiki work in the kitchen? (See the 25 best blogs...