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Encore

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  Have You Learned Your Lessons?

  The financial crisis supposedly has been a painful, but valuable, education about finances in later life. Let's see how much you've really taken away from the past year. (See the full report)

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  Test-Driving Retirement Plans

  More companies are rolling out detailed and affordable services to help get your finances in shape. We tell you what's good about them—and what's not so good. (See the full report)

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  Making Suburbia More Livable

  Sprawling suburbs may have been a good place to grow up, but they're a tough place to grow old. Here's how towns are "retrofitting" neighborhoods—and what your community might look like in the future. (See the full report)

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  Making the Most of Changes to Roth IRAs

  New tax rules are about to give more people access to a Roth IRA, one of the best savings plans for later life. (See the full report)

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• Quarterly Markets Review

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  Best Quarter Since '98 for Dow

  The stock market continued to confound the skeptics in the third quarter, ending near its highs for the year, with many of the riskiest stocks leading the charge. (See the full report)

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  After the Collapse, Guarded Hope

  After one of the U.S. stock market's worst years in more than a century, many investors are hoping for a turnaround in 2009. (See the full report)

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  Global Markets Going Their Own Ways

  There was a wide divergence in markets' performance in first three months of 2009, with results ranging from poor to middling to stellar. (See the full report)

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  Dow Rose 838.08 in Quarter

  The Dow industrials closed the second quarter at 8447.00, up 11%, or 838.08 points, for the last three months but down 3.8% for the year. (See the full report)

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• Executive M.B.A. Rankings

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  Top M.B.A. Programs if You're in a Hurry

  Many workers in these tough times are turning to M.B.A. programs that let them earn a degree in half the time, often at a fraction of the cost. (See the full report)

• Energy & Environment

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  Innovations in Delivering Health Care

  In this report, we discuss innovations in health-care delivery that touch on a variety of areas—public policy and high technology, hospital procedures and market competition. But all of them in some way revisit the most important relationship in care—the one between doctor and patient. (see the full report)

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  Five Technologies That Could Change It All

  As the world tries to wean itself from dependence on fossil fuels, technological breakthroughs in these five areas could be a huge help. (See the full report)

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  Cutting CO2 Without Hurting Growth?

  There's little doubt: Cutting greenhouse gases will be costly. But that leads to two big questions. First, how costly? And second, can nations afford it? (See the full report)

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  The New Nukes

  The new generation of nuclear reactors is on its way, and supporters say they will be safer, cheaper and more efficient than current plants. Here's a look at what's coming -- and when. (See the full report)

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  It's Time to Cool the Planet

  Cutting greenhouse gases is no longer enough. To avoid climate disaster, we have to do something more direct, writes Jamais Cascio. (See the full report)

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  The Green House of the Future

  We asked architects to draw up plans for the most energy-efficient houses they could imagine. They imagined quite a bit. (See the full report)

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  How to Go Green in Hard Times

  We've chosen 10 energy-saving changes and laid out how much they'll cost you and how much they'll save, as well as the payback time. (See the full report)

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  How to Kick Our Oil Addiction

  Now that oil prices are less than half their July peak, how do we keep our oil addiction at bay? (See the full report)

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• Business Insight Reports

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  Too Big to Manage?

  Ability to cope with complexity has never been more important. Before another corporate giant further tests the notion of "too big to fail," here's how to manage complexity more effectively. (See the full report)

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  The New, Faster Face of Innovation

  Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds and prices that were unimaginable even a decade ago. (See the full report)

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  Why Business Plans Don't Deliver

  Successful business plans that impress investors are seldom written on the back of a napkin. Here's how to write a plan that won't end up in the trash. (See the full report)

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  Surviving the Downturn: Lessons From Emerging Markets

  For some companies, a volatile economy is business as usual. What have they learned? No. 1: Take the offensive. (See the full report)

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  Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World

  Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. And they are leaving a lot of marketers behind. (See the full report)

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