In the experience of the financial adviser David Markle, people who are undisciplined about money during their careers will be similarly undisciplined in retirement. So he pushes the anti-debt message hard with his clients, hoping to curb their free-spending impulses. “I tell them, ‘If you have debt, you’re not ready to retire,’” he said. What […]
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Juul Labs will stop selling fruit and dessert flavors for its electronic cigarettes. The voluntary step announced Thursday is the company’s latest concession as it tries to weather a political backlash blaming its flavored-nicotine products for hooking a generation of teenagers. The move is unlikely to satisfy the company’s critics. Juul will continue selling its
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Image copyright AFP Image caption The painting of Christine Davis, completed in 1971, is the second most expensive Ben Enwonwu painting in the world A painting by the late Nigerian master painter and sculptor Ben Enwonwu this week sold for £1.1m ($1.4m) at an auction in the British capital, London. The painting, simply titled “Christine”,
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Passengers on a British Airways flight to Valencia which filled with smoke mid-air have told the BBC they are still experiencing breathing difficulties two months on. BA said it could not comment for legal reasons. It said it was waiting for the outcome of a Spanish air accident investigation, which is examining why the cabin
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Unless you have the capital to splurge on a flat-bed business class seat, sleeping on an airplane is likely not a comfortable experience for you. Between the cramped space, cabin pressure and general stress of transit, flights don’t offer ideal circumstances for catching some z’s ― even during the red-eye night hours. But there are
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Boxer Patrick Day’s fight for life has ended. The super welterweight died Wednesday surrounded by friends and family, four days after being knocked out by Charles Conwell during a USBA title bout in Chicago. He was 27. Day’s promoter, Lou DiBella, made the solemn announcement on his company’s website, praising the athlete as a “beacon of
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DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds has criticised Prime Minister Boris Johnson for being “too eager by far to get a deal at any cost”. Speaking alongside party leader Arlene Foster, Mr Dodds said the Benn Act had forced the PM into “desperation measures” in order to avoid asking for a Brexit extension. His remarks came
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What did you want to be when you were young? By the time I was in fourth or fifth grade, I wanted to be an elected official or a policymaker. My grandfather Ruby, whom I was close to, read The New York Times every day from front to back and engaged me in conversation about
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Women are often faced with the less-than-ideal choice of buying a bra that doesn’t fit or taking out a second mortgage to pay for one that does. Even worse: Shelling out big bucks doesn’t seem to guarantee you’ll be wearing the right size. I know because I recently visited two high-end retailers and a Victoria’s
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As Halloween approaches, Rudy Giuliani is looking scarier than ever, according to a new cartoon by Jim Carrey in New York Magazine. (See it below.) The former New York City mayor has already been in hot water for trying to get Trump to use his office to pressure Ukraine and for refusing to comply with
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