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...Doherty-Scannell of Maine was one of the Disney-like characters hired to entertain youngsters at the tea party...
Children should start by identifying a favorite company. Kids tend to be excellent stock pickers because they like established products and spot trends early. A 10-year-old might choose McDonald's or Disney, and a 12-year-old AOL or the Limited. Kids should then research their pick. The Internet is loaded with financial info; one good source, found at thinkquest.org is Investing for Kids, a website designed by three savvy high schoolers. You can show your kids how to decipher the stock pages in the newspaper's financial section and track a stock's progress over time...
Like the pre-Disney Elton John, Williams is blessed with the rarest of pop assets--a sense of humor. As a refugee from the English boy band Take That, Williams pretty much had to learn how to sing with his tongue in his cheek; and here, on the ridiculously camp Rock DJ and the Gloria Gaynor-needling Supreme, he proves that high-energy, danceable pop can be funny for the right reasons. When called upon (Better Man, The Road to Mandalay), he can also sell a song like a more traditional emoter, but what fun is that...
...private portfolios as well as her $1.89 billion Domini Social Equity Funds, the oldest and biggest socially and environmentally screened index funds in the U.S. Domini does not just exclude "booze, butts and bets"--alcohol, tobacco and gambling stocks. She also files shareholder resolutions and haggles with Walt Disney for better working conditions overseas or with Coca-Cola for more recycling. "Global companies are more powerful than governments," she says. "The way we invest creates the world we live...
...want NBC to tell the tale of the Olympics as it truly is and not as Walt Disney would want...