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...know they are expected to work out their problems peacefully, sometimes with assistance. A parent can be helpful by listening to each side and then framing the problem aloud: "So, I see that you're really mad because..." Depending on the severity of the problem, a parent might then express confidence that the kids can solve it and leave the room...
FREE-FOR-ALL It had to happen. Eager e-brokers have reduced the price of trading to zero. FinancialCafe.com Freetrade.com (an Ameritrade offshoot) and American Express are trying to reel in new customers by giving trades away. And who are we to complain? Zero beats the $5 a trade that even deep discounters like Brown & Co. charge--but there are some conditions. What's next? Free toasters...
While Rose has done quite nicely from his investments, customers of Ace Cash Express and other payday lenders have not fared nearly so well. As you might expect, people who pay interest charges of 300% or more often end up in bankruptcy court. Says David Nixon, a lawyer in Fayetteville, Ark.: "The kinds of people who use payday loans are just barely getting by. They have jobs. They work hard. They try to pay their bills, but they come up short. Here's an easy way to get cash fast--at least it seems easy. But it's like getting...
They gave Cast Away's protagonist a job that symbolizes interconnected, high-tech society: he's a Federal Express efficiency expert. "We took this guy who is modern man to the nth degree," Hanks says, "whose life had been computers and 747s and packages, and reduced him to lapping water that he's collected in a rainstorm from a leaf." Hence, says Broyles, the two-word title: "He is cast away. He has to cast away all the elements of civilized life to survive...
...unassuming Microsoft Excel file known as a macro. Ethan, Marker, Class and Footer hide inside Microsoft Word macros. Happy, Form and Chernobyl work on Windows, while big-league heavies like Explore.zip (not to mention year 2000 contenders Kakworm, Bubbleboy and, of course, ILoveYou) head straight for Microsoft Outlook Express...