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...that's changing fast. Financial advice geared specifically at women has become a thriving industry, encompassing targeted marketing by Wall Street, special attention from the financial press, innumerable books--and now some useful websites. Muriel Siebert, who runs the discount brokerage firm Siebert Financial Corp., bought two of them last month. Her relaunched wfn.com is the only women's financial site to offer trading as well as online bill paying and the ability to aggregate all your accounts...
...farther away somewhat better than those that are nearby) or astigmatism (a kind of warping of the outer layers of the eye). Because of the more complicated optics involved, you need prescription lenses or contacts to compensate for any of the three conditions. Drugstore reading glasses, which contain two lenses of identical magnification, won't help if one eye is significantly weaker than the other. Nor will they help you drive better or see a movie screen...
...debased of theatrical forms (a decent impersonation, a little library research and--presto!--you've got a play), Bankhead offers unusually rich material. The masochistic anecdotes just keep on coming. In Tallulah we learn that the star once fired a young Marlon Brando from her play The Eagle Has Two Heads because she couldn't stand him "yawning and pawing his privates during my speeches." In Tallulah Hallelujah! we find out that she had gonorrhea, wanted the Bette Davis part in Jezebel and turned down the role of Blanche in the original production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In Dahling...
...from 42 million to 60 million Americans consider themselves bird watchers--birders, to use the preferred term among the faithful. These people spend roughly $20 billion a year on items ranging from seed for backyard feeders to high-priced guided tours in pursuit of rare or exotic species. Only two purchases are required, however, to get started: a pair of binoculars and a field guide, i.e., a book illustrating the identifying characteristics of birds encountered in nature. A good field guide is a bird in the hand...
...pioneering A Field Guide to the Birds (1934), and more than 8 million copies of Peterson's guide and its diverse updatings and amplifications have been sold. Numerous competing volumes have crowded into this commercial niche. Now the birding world is aflutter over the near simultaneous arrival of two more, highly publicized guides: Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America (Houghton Mifflin; 384 pages; $20) and David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Guide to Birds (Knopf; 544 pages...