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Morning came on the first day of my new wireless life, and I couldn't wait to get started. No more walking barefoot to the edge of the driveway to fetch a rain-soaked newspaper--and getting an acorn or two wedged between my toes. Instead I jumped onto the Web, touched base with time.com scanned a few hot blogs, checked out the competition and clicked to espn.com for box scores. All without missing a beat or a drop of breakfast cereal. What I did miss, however, was the screaming of an infant in her high chair and the smoke...
...Index, a top performer (up 2% a year the past three years). That will give you diversification, including value and growth stocks. For a more pointed approach, lean toward top-performing small-cap growth funds like Buffalo Small Cap (up 9% a year the past three years) and Liberty Acorn USA (up 8% a year). They're more leveraged to a recovery--without which small stocks of any kind are a bad bet anyway...
...from the real sinners. "If a stock is trading at $1 and it was trading at $50, it is telling you that unless a rabbit is pulled out of a hat, it is going bankrupt," says Jason Selch, analyst with Chicago-based Wanger Asset Management, which manages the Liberty Acorn Funds. Selch looks for orphans, stocks that have fallen so far out of favor that even brokers aren't paying attention to them. One orphan he owns is Navigant Consulting, which traded as high as $50 in 1999 and is now less than $6, a casualty of several class actions...
...ordinary citizens who support a social policy that emphasizes work. The coalition "cuts against conventional fault lines," says Dan Cantor, executive director of New York's Working Families Party, a three-year-old organization. Jen Kern, director of the Living Wage Resource Center, an arm of the community organizer acorn, says, "It's risky not to do anything when people working on the public dollar are sleeping in cars at night...
...sales of purebred puppies and teddy bears. The marketing can get desperate: a Denver furniture company advertises its mattresses with a picture of "Mike Ziegler, Area Fire Fighter" and the tag line "This is Mike. He can't afford a bad night's sleep." Maureen Wilkinson, owner of Acorn Travel in River Forest, Ill., sharpened her sales pitch. "Are you uncomfortable leaving your family behind?" asked the ad. "Take them with you! Family reunions are great fun on an Alaskan Cruise...