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...Federal Communications Commission. Samuel A. Simon, chairman of the Telecommunications Research and Action Center, a consumer advocacy group based in Washington, believes many consumers are irate because they fall for marketing hype and wind up buying more minutes of service than they need. A recent Yankee Group survey of 2,500 mobile-phone users, for instance, found that people on average buy 467 minutes of talk time a month but use just 343 of them. Subscribing to services that best suit your personal calling patterns can save money. Consider these tips...
First, the numbers: a study in the August issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology reports that in a survey of 4,023 American adolescents (ages 12 to 17), nearly 4% of the boys and more than 6% of the girls had experienced symptoms of PTSD during the preceding six months--surprisingly high percentages for a snapshot study of this kind. Among the most common triggers were sexual or physical assaults, but just witnessing a violent act was often enough. Nearly three-quarters of those who met the criteria for PTSD had also experienced major depression, substance abuse...
...biggest surprise in a candid-camera survey of what takes U.S. drivers' minds off the road was what didn't. Cell phones, the favorite target of legislators and late-night comedians, ranked relatively low on the list of distractions captured by Minicams in a weeklong survey for the American Automobile Association. Only 30% of drivers in the study were caught making calls from behind the wheel, in contrast to 97% who were spotted reaching or leaning, 91% who fiddled with the radio, 77% who ate or drank and 46% who groomed themselves. And 40% were seen reading or writing, though...
...Average size of pay increases workers can expect this year, according to a recent survey; the lowest in three decades...
Sadly, you can't always rely on your broker to make the best choices for you. In a new survey by business professors Michael Jones and Vance Lesseig of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Thomas Smythe of Furman University, just over half of the 530 brokers queried said they would recommend B shares for short-term investors, while 53% favored B and C shares for clients with more than $25,000 to invest. Smythe calls this "very disturbing evidence" that brokers are either as fee-befuddled as their clients--or blatantly self-serving. I call it proof that...