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...Cauvery River. Valanoor is a picture-book angler's haven. The waters are home to the silvery Mahseer fish. Known as hard fighters when hooked on lures or flies, the Mahseer (meaning "big head" or "big mouth") is the king of Indian river game. Pay a small fee, and rent gear from the Coorg Wildlife Society for about $10. On most days, you'll have a stretch of river to yourself?the locals have their own favorite hot spots where the setting may not be as nice but the angling is free...
Suzanne Simmonds was fed up. For 6 1/2 years, she had been unable to collect the child support her ex-boyfriend was legally required to pay. So in January 2001 she signed a contract with Child Support Network. She agreed to pay the Arizona company a $500 application fee and a 35% commission on any collections of the $3,800 owed to her daughter. After five months, the agency had pocketed $885, and Simmonds had received just $215. When she tried to get out of the contract, the company refused, ordered her to pay more than...
...connected to the Internet at home, with more than half using high-speed connections. A new service offered by Daum, a South Korean Web portal with 32 million users, allows users to forward the free e-mail they receive on their PCs to their mobile phones for the nominal fee of $1 a month and has become an instant...
ETFs have distinct advantages over open-end stock funds. They tend to be widely diversified, and investors can get a daily view of what's in the fund. The annual management fee is low, and ETFs are tax efficient because the stocks within them seldom change and their unusual structure ensures that holders rarely if ever get socked with a capital-gains distribution. You can even sell an etf short (bet on the price to fall). There are disadvantages, like trading commissions that can quickly erode the benefits of ETFs, which for that reason make no sense for investors...
...buyers. The Nature Conservancy bought the rights to 1.6 million acres adjoining Bolivia's Noel Kempff Mercado National Park in 1998 for $1 an acre--doubling the park's size. In 2000 Conservation International leased 200,000 acres of forest in southeastern Guyana for a $20,000 up-front fee and annual payments of 15[cents] an acre. Even where loggers cannot be bought out, the damage they do can be reduced. In the Congo the Wildlife Conservation Society has persuaded the German firm CIB to feed its workers beef and chicken instead of wild bush meat from its logging...