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The Motley Fool August 4, 2009 Selena Maranjian	A Tax Hike for Dividends and Capital Gains? The administration has proposed capping dividend and capital gains taxes at 20%, even for high-income taxpayers. That's a tax hike, but not as big an increase as some fear.
On Wall Street August 1, 2009 Mark Astarita	Changes at the SEC: Schapiro Should Be Benefit to Advisors One can expect that as head of the SEC Mary Schapiro will understand the impact of new rule proposals and enforcement initiatives and will temper the calls for more extreme changes that would ultimately harm the markets and the financial industry.
AskMen.com	No More Facebook: The Pentagon The Pentagon is reviewing the use of Facebook and other social networking sites on its computers with an eye toward setting rules on how to protect against possible security risks.
Food Engineering August 3, 2009	Collaborative guidelines for foodborne disease outbreak response published The guidelines, targeted to local, state and federal agencies, provide model practices used in foodborne disease outbreaks.
ifeminists August 3, 2009 Trudy Schuett	SWAT team called out to serve warrant on alleged abuser If you're worried about mistreated children, wouldn't you try to minimize further trauma to the kids by keeping official intervention as peaceful as possible?
The Motley Fool August 3, 2009 Anders Bylund	Who's Apple's Real Puppet Master? The FCC is looking over an app-store mess that it overlooked before. Is some dark master of puppets pulling Jobs' strings?
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Bob Veres	A Swiftly Tilting Planet How will brokers and financial advisors fare in the government's battle to regulate the securities industry?
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Katherine Reynolds Lewis	Time to Reevaluate As the government takes a second look at the financial world, it is evaluating whether target-date funds protect investors' -- your clients, whether they are employers or employees -- best interests.
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Ilana Polyak	Critical Care As Congress wrestles with healthcare reform proposals under consideration, Kris Jenner, manager of the T. Rowe Price Health Sciences fund, is faced with just as difficult a task: how to make prudent investments in healthcare that can weather the seismic changes in the offing.
Financial Planning August 1, 2009 Craig L. Israelsen	Bad Match The poor performance of target-date funds, particularly 2010 funds, as qualified default investment alternatives has not gone unnoticed in Washington.
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