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...stock picking altogether. For most investors, mutual funds are safer and can still provide strong returns when the market comes back. You can also use funds to diversify farther afield, such as into South Korean shares, which are up this year. For most of your stock portfolio, tracker funds, which simply invest in every stock in an index such as the FTSE 100 or the S&P 500, are your best bet. Trackers don't always win; but their low expenses - the best cost just 0.5% or less of assets per year - give them a huge long-term edge over...
...live round-the-clock video feeds and a continuous audio feed. Another service revolves around the BBC's Top Gear TV program for car enthusiasts, with a VOD database of 140 test drives and reviews. For sports fans, RealOne SuperPass has live audio coverage, combined with interactive match tracker applications of more than 60 UEFA Champions League matches, on-demand highlights of each day at Wimbledon, plus a channel devoted to cricket with audio match reports, interactive statistics and live scorecards. On the news front, RealOne provides hourly reports from BBC News in the U.K. and BBC World...
...choppy market is through a classic hedge fund: one that bets on some stocks to go up and others to go down. Since January 2000, when the Dow peaked, hedge funds have risen 13% on average, while the typical stock has fallen 20%, reports Hennessee Group, a hedge-fund tracker. Over the past three years, assets in the 6,000 U.S. hedge funds have more than doubled, to $563 billion...
...WATCH Do you know where your children are? You do if they're wearing the Wherify GPS Personal Locator ($399). At its core, the tracker relies on global positioning satellites that always know, within a few feet, Junior's location. Designed around a wristwatch, the personal locator also has a built-in pager and panic button for alerting 911. And you thought your mom was overprotective...
...film that treads an at times predictable path, Doyle's work is at once moody, mysterious and mesmeric. Like black tracker Moodoo (powerfully played by David Gulpilil), he sees things in the desert that others can't: sources of Aboriginal dreaming in the color-saturated opening scenes, to ghostly presences in bleached-out hues as the girls struggle to survive in the desert heat. Here they become dots in a more timeless, mythological canvas. "There's no question that the landscape made the film," says Doyle. "So our job was to find the right spaces and time...