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...Healthier Way to Pay Doctors," Jeffrey Kluger writes, "Any job that averages $179,000 per year and lets you be your own boss is a job most folks wouldn't turn down" [Oct. 26]. I wonder if "most folks" would be willing to first invest 10 years of their life for training, after college, in order to qualify. I also wonder if "most folks" would be willing to regularly jump out of bed at 2 a.m. and run to the hospital. Would "most folks" consider this job "being your own boss" after they learn about the enormous regulatory and financial...
...radio content, it's mostly talk. Satellite radio has been stunted by the recession and a lack of must-have content beyond Howard Stern. Consumers have taken slowly to HD radio receivers--there's an industry joke that HD stands for Huge Disaster. And there's no money to invest in digital. "The biggest challenge we've got right now in the industry," says Agovino, "is that companies are struggling to stay out of the way of their bankers...
...cast list. That meant certain funding for the filmmaker no matter how good or bad the film turned out to be. The filmmaker could then go to a private investor who, knowing that the movie was already presold to foreign territories, would view it as less risky and invest. With money from both foreign rights and private investors, the filmmaker could then secure a bank loan for the remaining funds. (See the top 10 Cannes film-festival moments...
...Here's how it works. You join FarmVille, a game on Facebook in which you can create a virtual farm by growing crops and livestock and tilling the earth. Through your toil, you earn virtual money, but to farm more efficiently or quickly, you can also invest real cash (through PayPal or a credit card) to buy virtual goods, such as seed or a tractor. Should you not have any real cash to spare on things that after all do not actually exist, you can instead accept an offer from one of the advertisers on the game site...
...Venezuela's élite. But Flerida Rengifo, a demographics analyst at the Central University, says stories of the Venezuelan middle-class brain drain are getting more common. "There's no support for private industry," she says, "so people feel unsupported by the state in terms of their ability to invest in the country...