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...abducted him, whose beard (believed to be fake) was a different color from his hair. DON'T LEAVE CASH LYING AROUND: Possibly after realizing fresh bank notes are easily traceable, the panicky thieves dumped more than $2 million, along with clothes and firearms that may yield forensic evidence, in a van parked outside a hotel. A passerby alerted the police, who promptly swooped in. EXPLORE STORAGE OPTIONS: It took police less than a week to round up the gang's main vehicles, including two recovered in local pub parking lots and one car found still burning. Neither did it take...
...reveals how challenging such a campaign would be. Just outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, lies a vast expanse of poppy farms. A glut has driven down the market price, but the flower is still the country's most profitable crop, according to farmers. Officials predict this year's yield in Helmand will be double last year...
...government bonds. That's because those bonds pay a fixed interest rate over a long period, and the value of any fixed-income stream erodes as inflation rises. But TIPS come with a twice-a-year adjustment that raises their value at the rate of inflation. You get the yield on top of that. That feature makes TIPS ideal for conservative investors who will hold their bonds to maturity and just want to make sure they stay a step ahead of the inflationary goblin...
...pension and foreign money is flooding into TIPS. With too many buyers chasing too few bonds, TIPS carry a paltry after-inflation yield of 2%. "People are going to wake up one day and decide that a 2% real yield just isn't enough," says Joe Shatz, a bond analyst at Merrill Lynch. If that happens, demand will fall, and TIPS holders will take a hit. Shatz advises waiting for an after-inflation yield of 2.5%. Until then, a short-term bond fund or bank CD will do nicely...
...once more the site of an anti-administration revolt—with more than a dozen professors confronting President Lawrence H. Summers at a full Faculty meeting Feb. 7, and ultimately producing his ouster.Will the Summers storm cast its pallor on the College’s sky-high yield rate—the percentage of admitted students who choose to enroll?Last spring, Harvard’s yield topped the Ivies at 78.5 percent—almost a full 10 percentage points better than next-place Yale. And the director of college guidance at Collegiate High School in New York...