Are you your brother's keeper?
"The Lord said to Cain, 'Where is your brother Abel?' And he said, 'I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?'" --Genesis 4:9 Traditionally, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advertising investigations focused on the party most responsible for the creation and dissemination of the advertising. Usually, that...

Health savings accounts, other products can promote better health behaviors.
Health savings accounts and other consumer-directed insurance products can help lower health care utilization and encourage better health behaviors, according to an industry expert. Consumers "begin to recognize that the behaviors that they have can lead to a health outcome that can actually cost them money in...

Can livelihoods training alter girls' lives?
A program providing reproductive health education and livelihoods skills training to adolescent girls in the slums of Allahabad, India, has shown that such interventions are acceptable to parents, feasible to implement, and exert some positive influence on the circumstances of girls. However, investigators found that narrowly focused, short-duration programs...

Treasurer's report 2005.
OPERATING BUDGET (CHECKING ACCOUNT, FIRST AMERICAN, COLLEGE STATION, TX) Beginning Balance: $4,614 Income: $14,247. Dues ($10, 451), Dodge & Cox dividends ($1,410), advertising ($900), sales and royalties ($654), Murray Fund donations ($575), Cohen fund donations ($100), balance adjustment ($97), interest on checking ($60). ...

Koizumi Junichiro.
Status: Prime Minister of Japan, Reformer par excellence, Architect of Japanese revival. Reputation: Cool dude, Rebel for the rich, Ninja reborn. It's hard to fathom how they keep doing it. How those who are defenders of the status quo, defenders of power and privilege, can...

Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development: The Role of Postal Financial Services.
Small Savings Mobilization and Asian Economic Development: The Role of Postal Financial Services. Edited by Mark J. Scher and Naoyuki Yoshino. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 265 pp. $74.95 (cloth). Mark J. Scher and Naoyuki Yoshino have compiled a helpful reference volume on what used to...

You own you: when identity thieves open an account in your name, it should be the bank's problem, not yours.
In 1995, a freelance editor in Washington, D.C., named Anne Meadows began a five-year nightmare when she got a call from an alert employee of BellSouth, who warned her that she had become a victim of identity theft. A year earlier, she learned, thieves had stolen her name, address,...

Fidelity's BrokerageLink[R] adds another vehicle for retirement savings.
Since retiring from NTCA in June 2004, my wife and I have been very pleased with our decisions to take a monthly annuity from the NTCA Retirement & Security (R&S) Program and draw our Social Security benefits at age 63, rather than waiting until age 65 or later. The...

Estrada asks court to allow him to attend Mom's 100th birthday.
Byline: EDMER F. PANESA Saying he could not afford to be absent on such a rare and special occasion, former President Joseph Estrada has asked the court to allow him to attend the 100th birth anniversary celebration of his beloved mother, Dona Mary Ejercito, on May 2....

Withdrawal declined.
After his shift at Hershey Foods, Jacob Evans of Memphis, Tennessee, drove home--right into a kidnapping. Arriving at home, Evans and a friend riding with him were immediately accosted by two men in their 20s who were carrying guns. The two armed men told Evans' friend to...