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...money first) and quickly becomes hands-on. Each entering class at Ariel - a K-8 public school that has partnered with a local money-management firm since the mid-1990s - is entrusted with a $20,000 investment portfolio, and by seventh grade, kids are deciding what to buy and sell (profits help pay for college). Last year, for the first time, the eighth-grade class graduated with less than the original $20,000. Talk about a teachable moment: stocks don't always go up. (See the 25 best back-to-school gadgets...
Unemployment benefits are hardly cushy: depending on the state, they pay half of a moderate-income person's salary and less than half the salary of higher earners. And a troubled housing market makes it hard to sell your house - or qualify for a loan to buy a new one - so that you can relocate for a new job. (See which businesses are bucking the recession...
...place to live is the base for everything else - for employment, for keeping kids in school, for your health and for your well-being," says Roman. "In the past, our homeless system did not do much about housing except offer temporary shelter." (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...Belarus, like many ex-Soviet countries, has enjoyed subsidized oil and gas supplies from Russia for two decades, in part to ensure its loyalty after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It has even been allowed to buy Russian crude oil on the cheap, refine it at home and sell it on to Europe at a huge profit. But in the past three years, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has started to assert his independence in subtle ways. Following the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, Lukashenko declined to recognize the breakaway Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, despite pressure from Russia...
...hawkers peddle cheap, illegal copies of the latest book titles at car windows for a fraction of the price. That's hard for small book stores like Full Circle to overcome. "The minute you have a best seller, it doesn't even take five days for book pirates to sell it on the street," laments Malhotra. "You drive down any of the main roads in Delhi, and you'll see all the latest titles for less than half the price." And the cost to the industry is significant a significant one: For the most popular titles, illicit sales of pirated...