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STOCKING STUFFER If you're looking for a painless way to teach your kids about investing, consider one of the new board games. Stock Market Madness, available in stores and at amazon.com lets players trade stocks until someone emerges a millionaire. Mutual Mania, a cross between Life and Monopoly, starts players with $25,000 to buy mutual funds. It sells at mutualmania.com Both retail...
...that stake to shareholders as a tax-free dividend. Early this year 3Com sold 17% of its white-hot Palm unit in an IPO, then gave the rest to shareholders in July. The average carve-out does well. Palm has doubled since July, although it remains below March's mania levels. But parent companies tend to lag in this case (not so 3Com), probably because they have left a sexy business...
...Castle Lady period of Ted's life is now over, although it does loom large in his legend (when traveling in public, the women referred to themselves as Ted's "wives"). But Ted has kept women in the forefront of his productions. The latest manifestation of this femme-mania is a wild outing titled "Apartheid Slave Women's Justice." Shot on videotape, the feature is a race-relations allegory about a kangaroo court of black South African women who capture and try their former "master," played by Mikels. The women deliver wildly melodramatic speeches as they kick the hell...
...good, why has Wall Street been doing so poorly, especially now that America has become a nation of stock traders? An explanation is that Wall Street has exchanged its traditional role of follower of economic trends for that of economic pacesetter. Consider the way that the dotcom mania showered wealth on every jaunty entrepreneur with the gleam of an idea but not a clue about earnings. In the past, the stock market would rarely show its checkbook to a start-up sans profits. And now that Wall Street has been burned, the fear is that the current stock pullback could...
...soon as I said it, his eyes lit up and it got written on a chart," Jennifer says. "So whenever I came in it said, 'So and so says you're bipolar. I have some problems with depression, but no mania...