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Barrios said, from his experience, college students are much less politically active than other demographic groups. But Barrios did have a positive message for the College...
...parent to do? Preserve the room as a shrine? Store the stuff forever? Bear in mind, advises William Pinsof, a psychologist and president of the Family Institute at Northwestern University, that parents may also benefit emotionally from having their kids' old things around: "It makes the nest a little less empty...
Lots of things, according to a new survey released to TIME. After studying nearly 300 families nationwide who watch TV less than six hours a week, Barbara Brock, a recreation-management professor at Eastern Washington University, concluded that most want to rediscover a gem called time. The Gurney family in Rhinebeck, N.Y., for instance, prefers woodland treks, charades and stories by candlelight. "It's really fun," says Franklin, 11, "because you're not glued...
...class of trading systems known as electronic communications networks (ECNs), can instantly determine where the best price is--on traditional markets, like the New York Stock Exchange, AMEX and NASDAQ, or among orders that come directly into Archipelago. Trades on the fully automated system are completed in less than a second, while a typical trade on the N.Y.S.E. takes 22 sec. "That's a lifetime in an active market," says CEO Putnam. "Our advantage comes from having no human intervention." Investors have been able to trade NASDAQ stocks via Archipelago since 1997, and the system got a huge boost this...
...Since VC bets are notoriously risky, many critics think small-time investors shouldn't be fooling around with this business. Freudenthal counters that as long as you're betting only a small portion of your portfolio, 2% to 4%, "a professionally managed, diversified venture-capital fund is less risky than any single NASDAQ stock." And now, for the first time, it's a risk anyone can take...