This scenario is worth thinking about on news that as many as eight officers, most of them doctors at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, will be censured for failing to monitor, supervise and discipline Maj.

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An alternative ending to this wishful-thinking, Edgar Allan Poe-esque scenario has Jimbo leaving the planet entirely, overcoming his xenophobia to allow himself to be rescued by space aliens.

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So when you're looking at your fixed-income portfolio and thinking about putting money to work in this scenario where interest rates are going to be going up, you don't want to be locking in today these very low long-term yields.

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