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...technicalities, that the two were never legally married. The move shifted sympathy to Hall and took the sport out of choosing sides in the breakup. But for those craving more closely matched feuds, the battle over child support between Revlon head RONALD PERELMAN and ex-wife PATRICIA DUFF should fill the void. Duff wants $100,000 a month for the couple's daughter Caleigh, 4. Duff already gets $12,000 a month for Caleigh and $1.5 million a year for herself. But Perelman, reportedly worth $6 billion, let his bid for sympathy slip away when he took the stand...
...doing taxes in the digital age be as easy as buying a book online? This year it may be. Last week Intuit launched a service at www.webturbotax.com that lets users securely fill out and file all returns ($10-$20 each) on the Web without downloading any software. Kiplinger TaxCut, its main rival www.taxcut.com) just started offering free Web filing, but only for the 24 million taxpayers who qualify for the simple Form...
...over homework is about even larger issues. Schools in the 1990s are expected to fill so many roles--and do so with often paltry resources and ill-qualified teachers--that it's no surprise more work gets sent home. For baby-boomer parents homework has become both a status gauge--the nightly load indicates the toughness of their child's school--and an outlet for nervy overbearance, so that each homework assignment is practically theirs to complete too. Yet the growth in dual-income families means less energy and shorter fuses for assisting the kids. And all the swirling arguments...
...question of the day, of course, is what is the right amount? Cooper recommends 10 to 20 min. nightly in first grade and an increase of 10 min. a night for each grade after that. But the point is not simply to fill up a set amount of time. For preoccupied teachers, admits Michelann Ortloff, a Portland school official and former elementary school teacher, "it's always easy to pull a few things out of the workbook, give them to students and say, 'This is your homework.'" Too many teachers send kids home with mind-numbing math worksheets that...
...listen up--to the advertisement playing on the telephone. Last week BroadPoint Communications introduced a service that gives consumers as much as two minutes of free long distance for every 10-to-15-sec. targeted ad they hear. Already 40,000 callers have surfed to www.broadpoint.com to fill out a detailed questionnaire and obtain a PIN for the 800 service, known as FreeWay. Of course, with long-distance rates already as low as 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute, listening to yet another Blockbuster or T.G.I. Friday's pitch may seem too high a price...