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Children are expensive yet priceless and also, it turns out, valuable. Researchers quantified the worth of babies once they grow up, when their parents need long-term care like nursing-home stays. What are your kids worth? Personal finance reporter Suzanne Woolley breaks it down. –Emily Banks

 

For someone with kids—especially daughters—both time spent in a nursing home and out-of-pocket costs are significantly lower than for those without children. The childless would need to put aside an average of $8,943 at age 57, compared to $6,094 for someone with daughters.

 
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Harvey may be among the world's costliest recent catastrophes. With the storm continuing to wreak havoc in Texas, its full economic impact is still unclear. Current estimates range from $30 billion to $100 billion, either of which would make the hurricane among the world’s most costly catastrophes since at least 1970. Here's how it compares to other insured losses.  

 

Texas refiners spared by Harvey now brace for a second round. Since making landfall Friday night, Harvey moved back into the Gulf of Mexico and strengthened slightly before it’s expected to make a second landfall Wednesday in the vicinity of the Texas-Louisiana border, an area that includes the nation's largest refinery.

 

President Trump vowed "all options are on the table," after North Korea fired a missile over Japan on Tuesday. “The world has received North Korea’s latest message loud and clear: This regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior,” Trump said in a statement. The missile landed in the ocean about 745 miles east of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido.

 

Google has an answer to Apple on augmented reality. The Alphabet company released a mobile developer tool to get more AR features on Android phones without costly hardware tweaks. The software helps apps and websites track physical objects and overlay them with virtual images. Apple will offer AR software on iPhones and iPads later this year.

 

The world's biggest wind turbine maker waves goodbye to oil. In another sign that the petroleum era is drawing to a close, Denmark is selling off its last oil company with barely a peep. Once considered a strategic asset, on a par with national carriers or shipyards, the oil and gas division of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S is being bought by French giant Total SA.

 
 
 

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The original recipe calls for just two ingredients: fat for cooking and eggs, though plenty of ways exist to make them more ambitious, with fancy ingredients and elegant presentation. Chef Daniel Patterson has an alternative with this boiled scrambled eggs recipe that results in a terrifically light, fluffy and tender dish.

 

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