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...trip. Rather than stuff passengers into a tour bus to take them to the Taj Mahal, INTRAV has chartered a jet that will get them to the palace in the early morning and back to a four-star hotel in Delhi in time for lunch. The 18-day, hassle-free millennium package costs $75,000. Who's buying? "The percentage of travelers who are millionaires is staggering," says David M. Weber, managing director of two-year-old R. Crusoe & Son. His company has sold all 80 places on one millennium junket--around the world in 24 days through developing nations...
...Philadelphia native whose only previous high-profile role was in a TV spot for Psychic Friends Network ("Ten minutes free! We're totally stoked!"), Donahue, 24, tried out for Blair Witch after answering an ad in the trade paper Backstage. She filmed the mock-documentary with her male co-stars while the real movie's directors stayed out of camera range and passed along notes to the cast. "It was an actor's dream," sighs Donahue...
BONDING WITH UNCLE U.S. savings bonds are Melba toast on anybody's investment plate. And for thousands of holders, they're even less tasty. There are nearly 18 million savings bonds afloat ($6.6 billion worth) that are no longer earning interest. These patriotic bondholders are giving Uncle Sam a free loan. To check the status of your stack of yellowing paper, try the Savings Bond Wizard, a free computer program available for downloading at www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sav/sav.htm It lets you track redemption values and determine the best time to cash...
While suburban and small-town parents often worry about their kids being overscheduled with sports and not having enough free time, many inner-city families say they would love to have such problems. When kids pour out of school each day in scores of lower-income urban communities, all that awaits them is the street--no soccer, baseball or ice skating. They just hang out, while their parents pray that dead-end afternoons won't lead to sex or drugs or violence. "Most teenage pregnancies happen between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," says Les Franklin, founder of the Shaka...
...when the U.S. National Park Service was ready to tear down an aging ice-hockey rink in a lower-income section of southeastern Washington, D.C., some parents from more affluent communities banded together and raised enough private and corporate dollars to save it. Today Fort Dupont Ice Arena provides free skating instruction to some 2,500 local kids, with its $500,000 annual budget funded through admission fees, fund raisers and sale of ice time for practicing hockey teams from private schools and local colleges. Says rink general manager Fred Wilson: "The greatest reward we get is seeing the expression...