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...mood to play along with the Administration's hopes for quick and conspicuous consumption of the tax rebate. In a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released Monday, only 17 percent plan to spend the money. Some 47 percent say they'll pay off bills, 32 percent will save or invest it, 2 percent say they'll donate it to charity and 2 percent just can't imagine what they'll do with all that moolah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Sam Wants You to Spend Your Rebate | 7/17/2001 | See Source »

...Roberts still manages to connect with moviegoers in ways that few other actors have. Possessing so much information about her, and especially about her blithe but wayward romances, audiences feel they know her intimately in all her vulnerable charm; they feel protective and affectionate; and these feelings in turn invest her screen performances with a special immediacy and resonance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking America's Best | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...most ambitious innovation is revolutionizing how movies are financed and promoted. Koreans can now invest directly in films through online entertainment funds, with stakes as small as $10. Money raised by a fund goes toward production costs, and investors get a share of the profits if the movie is a hit (if it flops, they lose). Besides the funding, production companies get a squad of investor-marketers who care as much about box office numbers as they do about whether the guy gets the girl. Choi Chang Yeop, a 31-year-old freelance business lecturer, invested $750 in the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roll the Credits | 7/4/2001 | See Source »

...decades has been shattered beyond repair. "He is in a state of absolute shock, maybe even denial," says son-in-law Sandeep Harlalka. "It will take him some time to face the truth and start thinking about the future." The truth is that Changoiwala has little money to invest and even less work to do. His firm is deathly ill and his relatives are looking for jobs elsewhere: a daughter is thinking about opening a stand in the local market. Others may try the insurance business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of Stock | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...Buying a minivan with a VCR and television in the back Too many parents unthinkingly invest in a car outfitted with a newfangled "entertainment" system, then stick their kids in the back and drive happily to their destination, undisturbed by the usual squawked demands for soda and high-pitched infighting over whose foot is creeping over the imaginary boundary drawn down the center of the back seat. When the trip is over, the now drooling kids are ushered into a cabin/beach house where a Playstation is warming up. Years later, when the kids are 22 and serving time for armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer's Hidden (and Obvious) Dangers | 6/28/2001 | See Source »

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