Originally devised in the mid-1990s by financial adviser Bill Bengen, the rule suggested retirees could safely withdraw 4 percent of their portfolio in the first year of retirement and then continue withdrawing the same amount, adjusted for inflation, each year after.
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Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
That theorem, devised by Stephen Hawking way back in 1971, has profound implications.
Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.
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Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
Two Messor structor males that hatched were hairless, while three Messor ibericus males were covered with hair.
Advertisement Advertisement Synthetic dyes are generally made from petroleum and concocted in labs.
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Alice Park,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
To solve this problem, materials scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have concocted a new sunscreen recipe that spares the ocean’s vital microorganisms.
The report was researched and written by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which was formed by the Human Right Council in 2021, as an independent investigative body.
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Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
In this case, the new, smaller black hole that formed from the collision shot through space at more than 31 miles per second – fast enough to escape its host galaxy and the surrounding globular cluster of stars bound together by gravity.
The students raised money to purchase a garden bed constructed by their school’s geometry and construction class, with the PEAK grant paying for seeds and other garden necessities.
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Janice Phelan,
Kansas City Star,
18 Sep. 2025
As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.
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