Paul Solman: Back in the 1970s, my wife and I, then in our 30s, began saving for the future. My biggest concern: outliving our nest egg. Worst case: a devastating disability that would require care we couldn’t afford. I thought that we shouldn’t subject our kids to a future choice that might pit their penury against our misery. We began to save like ants. Or maybe dung beetles. Then — I think it was in the 1980s — we heard about long-term care insurance. Read More...
“Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead.”
So said Ernesto “Che” Guevara before his capture on the day before his execution. Guevara is now a communist martyr — the Argentine doctor staring into the distance on many a T-shirt and dorm-room poster who devoted himself to Fidel Castro’s revolution in Cuba, then tried to export it South America and Africa. He may be better known to some as the romantic character played by Antonio Banderas in the film version of Evita. Read More...
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged consumers to stop eating raw cookie dough after a national salmonella outbreak hospitalized three people.
“Flour doesn’t look like a raw food, but most flour is raw,” the CDC cautioned in a report updated Thursday.
The agency’s report explained that raw, or unbaked, flour used to make baked goods such as cookies could be contaminated with salmonella germs, a type of bacteria that causes foodborne illness and leads to the patient experiencing fever, chills, vomiting, cramps and an upset stomach. Read More...