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...particularly baffling. If you invest through a broker instead of directly through the fund company, you probably pay a load. To buy Class A shares, you often pay as much as 5% of your money up front before the fund company buys any stocks for you. Class B shares skip the up-front fee, but add an extra average fee of 1% annually and hit you with hefty fines if you cash out early, which proves more costly in the long run. "The whole idea of B shares," says Max Rottersman, founder of FundExpenses.com which tracks mutual-fund fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: The Real Fund Rip-Off | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...infamous Marcy projects, shot his brother in an argument at age 12, hit the streets to sell drugs soon after, dodged some bullets at close range and then, at 23, dedicated himself to making millions through rap. "I've taken the whole ride," he says. "I didn't skip any floors. I started at the lower lobby. Went all the way up to the penthouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In His Next Lifetime | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...SMARTER WAY TO SKIP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: For Your Health | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...years, women on birth control who didn't want to worry about menstruating while on vacation or while participating in sports have been skipping their period by starting their next 28-day supply of pills one week early. But women can regularly skip three periods in a row with Seasonale, a 91-day pill pack with 84 active tablets followed by seven inactive pills. More than 40 years since the original Pill went on sale, we'd say it's about time. INVENTOR Barr Laboratories AVAILABILITY Now, $1 per pill (or less with insurance) TO LEARN MORE www.barrlabs.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: For Your Health | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...Dzogchen Center holds weekly sittings every Monday night at 7:30 p.m. just a hop, skip and a jump from Harvard Square. The Dzogchen tradition hails from Tibet but, according to Lama Surya Das (via the Center’s website), “was a secret teaching in the East, almost unknown even to Tibetans.” It is focused “not on oriental Buddha, not on historical Buddha, not one of stone, not male or female, but the Buddha nature within each of us, true and wise, loving and compassionate.” Some Tibetan...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meditation in Cambridge | 11/6/2003 | See Source »

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