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Businesswoman Dorothy Pitman Hughes brought a spirit of financial independence when she moved to New York City from a home she shared with 10 siblings in Lumpkin, Ga., 30 years ago. By starting her own office-supplies business, Hughes taught her three daughters the principle of entrepreneurship she had found...
Now two of Hughes' grown children work in her business, which is itself embarking on an IPO aimed at young investors. Hughes has taken her message of entrepreneurship outside the family, offering seminars at schools and encouraging local children to buy into her business at $1 a share. "The most...
Educational programs sponsored by community leaders like Hughes can go a long way toward teaching kids the basics of money management. And other experts like Junior Achievement, the Stein Roe Young Investor Fund and Merrill Lynch offer parents plenty of help (see accompanying box). But sometimes a kid just has...
There is a wild card in the Internet deck too: wireless services. Hughes Network Systems sells DirecPC and DirecDuo dishes (the latter with both Web and TV reception) that can download Web pages at a relatively brisk 200,000 to 400,000 BPS. Last month Loral's CyberStar unit joined...
While traveling in Australia last summer, our art critic, Robert Hughes, saw an exhibition titled "New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian and American Landscapes" and read press coverage of it, which included a review by Patricia Macdonald in Australian Art Collector. After the exhibition moved to the Wadsworth Atheneum...