In August of 2007 luxury hotelier Leona Helmsley passed away. Her Will revealed that her beloved pooch Trouble would receive a $12 million trust fund. The heiress left two of her grandchildren with nothing.

Although letters representing the three billion pairs of molecules that form the “rungs” of the helical DNA “ladder” are routinely called the human “genetic code,” the DNA they comprise transmits traits across generations in a variety of ways, not all of which depend on the sequence of letters in the code.

Fine print in the new Pension Protection Act passed last year is now coming to light. Much of what we heard is laced with new requirements, and many workers are going to get caught in a web of confusion if they relay on the basic new rules outlined by the press.