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...each morning at 5:58 a.m. and crashes at 10:32 p.m. In that window, she logs 49 hours a week doing work she enjoys and spends three to four hours a week at the gym. Her average annual income is $414,000, which represents 71% of her household's income. She has probably been through college (and about half the time paid her own way), and she owns her own home. It's important to her to be able to give to significant causes...
SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. Women millionaires often have a detailed method for tracking household expenses. Of those who are married, only 1 in 20 have ceded responsibility for budgeting and financial planning to their husbands. Almost half make those decisions jointly...
Russia (32,285 homicides in 2002) can lay claim to a worse murder rate than our own, and Boris Akunin takes full advantage of it. His fiendishly witty Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been slaughtered by means of mysterious injections, and Littleby's skull has been bashed in. To add insult to injury, his precious golden statue of the Hindu god Shiva has been stolen. Akunin is the pen name of a Russian academic whose mysteries--all starring stuttering, downy-cheeked young detective Erast...
...ever find yourself dining with a family in the South African kingdom of Lesotho, you'd better have a taste for eyeballs--that is, if you're the male head of a household. Tradition requires the host to honor your family in a truly special way: with the cooked head of a sheep. Everyone will be served the feast, but only you will be presented with the eyes...
Martin Maloney Twenty of his paintings went up in flames, among them Sony Levi (1997). Maloney, not such a household name, lost works he'd want in any retrospective - a first step toward critical re-evaluation. So the fire really hurts...