Lance decided to open a thrift store because he figured it would be easy for him to run, didn't take a lot of skilled workers, and he could hit up wealthy churches for donations of clothing and other articles.

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Nevertheless, in a continent where education is a way to the city, a suit and an office job, finding well-qualified people to stand in the open fields all day will not be easy.

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If I walk outside the door today and these policies have been implemented, it would be as easy to go down the street, particularly if you're a low income, to open a savings account, to put some money aside as it is to, say, get a debit card or a store credit card or what?

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Attachments to e-mails remain a particularly easy place to store malicious code of all sorts, so be sure of an attachment's provenance before you open or save it.

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"We're beginning to work through it and there is a lot of focus on how to open the credit markets up again, " he said, adding that none of this will be easy.

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