If a 30-year-old employee consistently socks away 15% in a 401(k) plan, gets a 4% raise each year and earns 6% a year on his investments, at age 65, his 401(k) balance will equal 7.3 times his final year's pay.

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Austin, now 16, helps his 46-year-old mom put on her socks and shoes.

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Stepping cautiously through the slime until he reached solid ground, looking disoriented, he regarded his image in the shallow water of the river while the paratroopers dried their feet with an old shirt, then pulled on their socks and boots and rolled down their pants.

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Now the 49-year-old is raving about the eight pairs of socks he owns from Teko LLC, in Boulder, Colo.

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Liz Thomas, a 27-year-old professional hiker, says she used to have to replace her socks every 10 days.

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It could have broken him, but for the last six months he has worked his socks off in Kenya and the 25-year-old is reaping the rewards.

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At a pool near a covered bridge on the East Branch, Charlie and I once ran across two old men wearing beat-up rubber waders and stringy, woolen wading socks.

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Then, in some trick of the light, or because she sagged her chin into her wrinkling neck, or her too short trousers rode up above her ankle socks as she was sitting cross-legged, Ally saw for a moment the old woman she would become, vulnerable and stubborn, cut adrift.

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