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| Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:00:00 EST Cashing out your pension |
| First, the steelmakers reneged on their pensions. Then the airlines. Now that parts-maker Delphi has entered bankruptcy, many are warning that the automakers will be next to walk away from their promises to pay a monthly stipend to retirees. |
| Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:00:00 EST I do leave a little breathing room |
| There isn't a single recipe or flower-arranging tip in The Martha Rules, but Martha Stewart still uses her new tome to guide readers through the ultimate craft: starting a business. Inspired by her fellow inmates at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia, many of whom came to her for advice on future entrepreneurial ventures, she penned a list of her 10 tenets (such as "take risks, not chances," and "make it beautiful"). The backbone of the advice comes from her ascent from a simple caterer (who once burned the Moroccan b'steeya pies she baked for Paul Newman) to a dominant media mogul. |
| Sat, 22 Oct 2005 18:00:00 EST Q&A with J. Craig Venter, president of J. Craig Venter Institute |
| Who is the leader past or present who has most inspired you? |
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| Bombers target journalists' hotel |
| 5.15pm: As many as 17 people killed in Baghdad when three large bombs, one of them packed into a cement-mixing truck, explode beside hotels used as a base by many foreign journalists. |
| Hurricane Wilma hits Florida |
| 5.30pm: Flooding and at least one fatality as winds reach 125mph. |
| Blair unveils school reforms |
| Education: PM announces plans for new era of independent state schools driven by needs of parents and pupils. |
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