Word: grows
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...like setting an allowance, learning to save, working after-school jobs and weighing expensive purchases. The goals are to make both the family's day-to-day life easier and the child's financial future more stable. "Every parent hopes they'll raise a money-savvy kid, who'll grow up to be a financially secure adult," says financial planner Peg Eddy. The trick, say Eddy and most experts, is letting kids learn by having a little money of their...
...replacing prescription medicines with a profusion of pills and potions that contain various medicinal herbs, vitamins and minerals. Some are proved safe and effective; many are not. Consumers spent more than $12 billion on natural supplements last year--nearly double the amount spent in 1994, and sales continue to grow at better than 10% a year. Shoppers can stock up not only at incense-scented tofu-and-sprouts shops but also at corner pharmacies and supermarkets, and from mail-order houses, websites and Amway distributors who rattle their pillboxes door to door. Preparations made from herbs--from aloe for regularity...
...Wumba and Olivia Newton John will have to look elsewhere for their fix of mainstream pop and other musical schlock. A written blurb really cannot do justice to this unique source of hifi records and rare gems of the forgotten eras. The titles undoubtedly speak for themselves: "Music to grow Plants," "Music for the Halfassed," "Polka Encounters of the Honky Kind," and "Music for Washing and Ironing" among others. The bust of Elvis in the window beckons passersby to pick up their own personal "Limbo Party" collector's series, great for any Harvard dorm bash. And when your Citystep formal...
...produce literally any tissue in the body or can make only the few types already seen in the lab. And if it is the latter, why? If the experiment had been done in mice, the next step would have been to test the stem cells' versatility by trying to grow an entire mouse. Such an experiment would clearly have been unethical with human cells...
...when he edited the Whole Earth Review. In this short, trenchant book, he explains how the networked economy is turning old economics upside down: the more plentiful things are, the more valuable they become; dumb parts, when connected, yield smart results; and if you really want a business to grow, give away your product free. Fun reading--even if you aren't trying to figure out how to survive online...