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Domna Antonia, Annenberg card-swiper I don’t know what the future is going to bring to me. It is hard to predict...
...Sophie's school calls with the news that Sophie just threw up. This would help explain why, in order to write, Chabon stashes himself away every morning in a small cottage behind the house, with his Bakelite radio, his framed original comic-strip panels and his Roberto Clemente baseball card...
...Just ask Barbara Stanny, author of Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life. She's the daughter of Richard Bloch, co-founder of H&R Block, the nation's largest tax service, yet she writes that she has always been "a card-carrying underearner." For her new book, Stanny interviewed 150 women whose annual earnings ranged from $100,000 to $7 million to distill the secrets of their success. Stanny says that the high earners were almost universally passionate about their jobs; the money was just a fortunate by-product. The women...
...ever before. Today its website is its fastest-growing sales channel, gaining rapidly on sales through catalogs and stores. But the firm, based in Woolrich, Pa., has stopped taking orders from abroad. Overseas online orders proved "nonprofitable," says Bruce Heggenstaller, vice president of operations and distribution. "We experienced credit-card fraud, mail fraud and hidden shipping and duty fees...
Merchants and credit-card companies report some progress in combating credit-card fraud in the U.S., but the problem appears to be growing across a wide swath of the developing world, where the spread of Internet access combines with petty official corruption to create a breeding ground for digital crime. Lately, credit-card fraud has been joined with often ingenious forms of postal and shipping fraud, moving more and more U.S. companies to refuse to ship goods to such countries as Indonesia, Russia and other former Soviet republics...