The 450-page book went into exhaustive detail explaining the advantages of index funds — in terms of tax exposure, low costs and performance — over stock picking.
"On the immigration form you would write that you were going for pleasure, though your suitcase would be full of business suits and portfolio evaluations, or marketing materials and presentations explaining the advantages of a trust in the Bahamas".
If you are ever shipwrecked with a journalist, God help you, Charlie Brooker might be funnier and Polly Toynbee better at explaining the advantages of the alternative vote system, but trust me: you will be much better off with a sub if you need an all-round journalist to write, edit and produce the desert island newspaper and website.
"So long as one family earns, the rest can eat," said another South Waziristani, explaining the advantages of thus spreading political bets.Making for the hillsThe journey to Waziristan began on December 7th in Peshawar, NWFP's capital, with a thunderous roar, as just across the street a man blew himself up.
She pressed the mother every time she saw her, explaining the advantages of breast milk over formula, until finally the mother explained that a previous child of hers had died in infancy, and that a houngan (voodoo priest) had told her that her milk was no good and that she must never nurse any subsequent babies or else they, too, would suffer a similar fate.
The use of paper and plastic pipes are considered in detail, explaining the advantages of these devices in the process of burying and unburying sensor nodes.
