| THE SAVINGS GAME
Millions of U.S. workers who under new Labor Department rules are automatically enrolled in their companies' 401(k) plans and invested in "default" diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds will actually take the time to read over plan documents and understand their investments.
Investments in these default 401(k) portfolios are expected to increase by as much as $116 billion by 2034, the government estimates. That's a lot of money to invest in something you don't understand.
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Jean-Jacques Taylor chat: Dallas Cowboys need to get younger
Dallas Morning News sports columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor answered questions on Tuesday, Jan. 15. - - - Jean-Jacques Taylor: What's up? Sitting in my office listening to some Alicia Keys. Let's roll. Nothing is off limits. Cowboys. Mavs. Stars. UT. A&M. Rangers. I just don't want any grief over the Buckeyes getting popped. Let's roll. - - - From e-mail: With the early exit of the Cowboys this year, are their any obvious areas of need that have to be addressed in free agency or the draft as you see it? Tony Jean-Jacques Taylor: I think it's pretty clear they need an infusion of talent at receiver, cornerback, running back, safety and inside linebacker. With T.O. and Terry Glenn each turning 35 before the end of next season, the Cowboys have to add some youth.
'No reason' for Hicks apology
The left wing intelligencia had no voice when the human rights of Hanson were removed but for some bizaar reason have a voice when a terrorist with intent to murder has his rights removed. Another example of the left wing intelligencia being vacuous voices of convenience. The left really have become irrelevant in main stream society. Posted by: Macca of Ipswich 5:48pm December 30, 2007 Comment 237 of 315 .
Baidu, Alibaba ranked among top ten search engines
BEIJING, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Baidu.com and Alibaba.com, two of China's major Internet search engines, ranked the world's 10 most popular search engines last month by comScore, an Internet research firm. Nasdaq-listed Baidu ranked third, with 5.2 percent of worldwide searches, according to the survey of 66.2 billion search queries. Baidu is often referred to as China's version of Google due to the Chinese-language search engine's soaring popularity and profits. It made a net profit of 24.2 million U.S. dollars in the third quarter of 2007. Alibaba.com got 0.8 percent of global searches, worked its way to 10th place, its first appearance in the top ten, according to the survey. Hong Kong-listed Alibaba.com, the business-to-business unit of Alibaba Group, is one of China's fastest growing Internet companies.
Fighting war's demons, soldier seeks help
Sgt. 1st Class Chad Stephens. Many scenes were witnessed in person, but some were re-created. Many conversations between Stephens and Patty Desens were re-created through interviews with both of them and with Dan Desens Sr., Desens' husband. Other documents reviewed include: mental-health assessments provided by Stephens, transcripts of congressional hearings, mental-health surveys of soldiers and Marines deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and various reports from the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the federal Government Accountability Office and the President's Commission on Wounded Warriors.
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