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" A 401(k) is essentially a basket of mutual funds intended to help people save for retirement. "
Mary Pilon
Help
Mutual Funds
Retirement
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" Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity. "
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" It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime. "
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" We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter. "
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" It's still thrilling, even if my work is something that people even pretend they're interested in on a first date or at a cocktail party. "
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" One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep. "
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Great
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" Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks. "
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Cost
May
" Increasingly, football fans are arguing that the game is bloated with too much down time. The officiating is clumsy. "
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Too Much
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" Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition. "
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Sports
Ludicrous
Proposition
" The phenomena of taking photos and sharing them isn't new, but with Instagram being mobile, both have become cheaper and faster, producing the instant gratification of knowing how our shots look in our palms. "
Mary Pilon
Become
Knowing
New
" Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more harmed than baby boomers or recent retirees, who, unlike younger workers, didn't have the time for the market to rebound or were no longer contributing and therefore unable to invest when stocks were cheap. "
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Great
" I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went. "
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Recession
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" As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home. "
Mary Pilon
Friends
Home
Journey
" Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss. "
Mary Pilon
Page
Live
History
" Human beings have kicked around the concept of what individual happiness means for centuries, from the Bible to the ancient Greeks to the 1859 bestseller 'Self-Help.' "
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Happiness
Bible
Human
" To drive a semi-truck, a driver needs a commercial driver's license. While formal training isn't required, most drivers enroll in a program to help prepare them for the written and practical exams in their states. "
Mary Pilon
Training
Drive
Prepare
" Yachting may call to mind champagne flutes and seersucker, but danger and risk have always been a part of the America's Cup. "
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Always
Cup
Danger
" Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well. "
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American
Run
Sports
" While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries. "
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Parents
Football
Children
" Individual participation in the stock market through 401(k)s helped fuel the go-go days of Wall Street in the 1980s and birthed asset management juggernauts like Fidelity, Vanguard, Pimco, BlackRock, and dozens of others. "
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Street
Management
" If workplaces that enlist happiness consultants really care about worker satisfaction, why not offer better maternity and paternity policies? Daycare options? They could advise managers to stop calling workers to come in on weekends or expect them to answer emails late on weeknights. "
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Better
Stop
Care
" While most American labor unions have struggled for the past several decades, professional baseball players comprise one of the strongest packs of organized workers in the world. "
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Baseball
American
World
" Some communities are formed through schools, churches, workplaces. But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks. "
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Together
Society
Learn
" Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib. "
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Marathon
City
New York
" Money can be a reflection of our perceptions of power, self-esteem, personal history, fears, and happiness. "
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Reflection
" At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication. "
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Games
Just
Turn
" Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work. "
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Waiting
You
Lightning
" Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable. "
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Performance
Career
Line
" Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets. "
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Before
Print
Long
" Trucking is the backbone of U.S. commerce. Consumers rely on the industry to move the parts for their cars, the food for their dinner tables, and, increasingly, the goods they order online. "
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Dinner
Move
Order
" Without federal assistance, most elderly Americans would be unable to afford long-term care - and most nursing homes would be unable to keep the doors open. "
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Care
Without
Open