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...think that one of the fundamental principles of managing money wisely would be to not pay a lot for things you could get cheaper elsewhere. But, according to Worth, you'd be wrong. The personal-finance magazine is raising its newsstand cover price in May to $20. That is, unless you're on Worth's special list of 110,000 extremely wealthy people, in which case you get the magazine for free. (How does that song go? "The rich get richer and the poor get Kiplinger...
...seems counterintuitive to suddenly, during a recession, charge a premium for a magazine that others get for nothing - without putting, say, a Treasury bill in each newsstand copy. Not to mention pulling such a move while competing with all the financial advice that's sitting there gratis on the Internet. But the publishers don't see it that way. "Our audience is of very high-net-worth individuals," says Worth publisher Patrick Williams. "Not someone like me who's worried about their 401(k)." (See the top 10 magazine covers...
...their home as well as a minimum net worth of $2 million). Those prospective readers are so psyched about the wealth-management advice they get in their free bimonthly that they tell their rich but less-favorably-zip-coded friends, who then plunk down the $20 at a newsstand. "If there's six degrees of separation between all of us, there's about one degree of separation between high-net-worth individuals," says Williams. "We think the news will spread pretty fast...
...Tria ’10. Tria said he saw Harvard and Cambridge police officers cordoning off Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets. The scare was precipitated by a call to Cambridge police made by a pedestrian early Saturday morning, according to Nick Nicholas, an employee of the Crimson Corner newsstand. The pedestrian heard a ticking noise coming from the two mailboxes outside of the Harvard Square Bank of America, Nicholas said, and the source of the ticking was later discovered to be a “clicker” placed in one of the mailboxes. A “clicker?...
...authorities' argument that naked hiking should be banned because it could be detrimental to children, Kettiger responds with incredulity. "Oh, please. In this day and age, when kids have access to the Internet and where images of naked people are on every newsstand, how can they be shocked?" he asks. "Is there really a child out there who hasn't seen a naked person...