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...great advantage of those vehicles--ease of use--but it can also put your overall portfolio allocation out of whack, morphing you into a middle-of-the-road investor when an aggressive or conservative allocation might better suit your time frame. "Employees think this is another fund," says David Wray, president of the Profit Sharing/ 401(k) Council of America. "But it's an investment-strategy alternative." Life-cycle funds can help you better invest for retirement, but you still have to pay attention...
DIED. FAY WRAY, 96, shriektacular heroine of the original King Kong and other thrillers of the early talkie era; in New York City. Still in her teens when she started in silent films, she developed the scream she would make famous in later films like Mystery of the Wax Museum and Doctor X. She had to fight off all kinds of movie beasts, getting pawed by Erich von Stroheim in The Wedding March and Wallace Beery in Viva Villa! But the great ape was her strangest, strongest suitor, in a horror film that was also a poignant love story...
...forged it by co-founding, with Ed Wray, London-based Betfair, the peer-to-peer cybercasino that has done for gambling what eBay did for garage sales. On Betfair there's no house; the site's 250,000 registered customers simply post their bets and wait for someone to take them on. Betfair charges a commission on each winning bet; the more you bet, the lower the commission. When the site was launched in 2000, with $1.8 million raised from Black's and Wray's network of contacts, it was taking less than $90,000 in weekly bets...
...DIED. FAY WRAY, 96, "scream queen" and star of more than 100 movies, including Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March; in New York City. Despite her lengthy r?sum?, the sultry Wray is mostly remembered for her legendary role as Ann Darrow in King Kong?and for the scene in which she is carried to the top of the Empire State Building in the beast's fist. At the film's premiere she commented, "I wasn't too impressed. I thought there was too much screaming...
...clear what motivated Seiler. Police chief Wray said Seiler "stated that she just wanted to--quote, unquote--be alone." If so, she found a highly public way of expressing her desire for solitude. (Whether she will be charged with a crime or asked to repay the cost of the manhunt isn't yet known.) Her dean offered sympathy. "While we do not condone the behavior attributed to Audrey ... we fully understand that people communicate their need for help in many different ways," Luoluo Hong said in a statement. Whatever her reasons, one question Seiler has raised is whether folks will...