A recent study by British hotel chain Travelodge has found that 25 percent of men take teddy bears on the road with them when they travel for business. These men report that their stuffed animals remind them of home and the significant others they have to leave behind.
Meet the singer-songwriter - and heartthrob - in Drew Barrymore's Whip It
Marvelous Malia and Sweet Sasha are now "Marvelous Mariah" and "Sweet Sydney"
Michelle Obama doesn't want daughters to be exploited for commerce
If you're wondering why your house has languished on the market for all these months, check out our tongue-in-cheek guide to common mistakes sellers make
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At this point in their lives, Tony Carideo, 57, and his wife Linda, 56, of Bloomington, Minn., thought the financial load of raising their four kids would have become considerably lighter. But so far they haven't noticed much extra cash sloshing around in their bank accounts.
When my kids were young, few parental acts gave me greater pleasure than springing for a surprise trip to the video arcade or some other occasional splurge. This simple act inspired instant delight...
MEET WEBKINZ, the hottest property at your nearest playground. It's a cult toy in the grand tradition of the Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Pony—only this version is tailored to a generation grow...
In an atmosphere of high fuel prices, the market for used cars with high fuel mileage has gotten red hot.
It is one of life's greatest mysteries: What ever happened to the other sock?
Adora Mora knows a thing or two about money. At age 16, the high school junior is already an experienced entrepreneur, running her own graphic-design company after school (see page 74). She also ha...
When it comes to supplying an army in the field, there are thousands of material specialists, quartermasters and supply officers. And then there are the "special forces" -- like the Horn family in LaPlata, Maryland.
"Those of you who knew Bob knew that if something was worth doing, how did he do it? He did it big, didn't he?" Nods of agreement among the hundreds assembled at a memorial service in Shepherd of t...
Cash may be king, but the burger behemoth McDonald's Corp. is giving a little more credit to plastic at its restaurants.
JEFF BEZOS You don't go from obscurity to Time's person of the year in four years--Jeff Bezos made it in 1999--unless you're causing quite a stir. Nearly a decade since he started Internet retailin...
They have trippy, hip-hop names like Def Sea, Star Monkey, and Extra Ordinary Larry. They're infused with unlikely concoctions of coffee, herbs, and essential oils. And as cigars go, they look, wel...
The setting is idyllic: a 100-acre farm, green with vegetation and just a short walk from beautiful Cayuga Lake in upstate New York. Yet the talk from the farm's owner is anything but: "Power corru...
Michelle Whittington, 36, has suffered from serious asthma since childhood. Countless hours at the doctor's office often kept her away from her job at a Virginia investment company. Every few month...
Your portfolio may be skyrocketing and your startup may be all the rage, but don't get smug. Unless you can throw a wicked sleeper, walk the dog, skin the cat, and pull an inside segment on a split...
Fortune: Bookmarksupdated: Mon Mar 15 1999 00:01:00
Ann Livermore, 40, runs Hewlett-Packard's largest division, the $15-billion-a-year enterprise computing solutions organization. Here are the Websites she watches--and one she's still looking for:
When Amazon.com announced in mid-November that it would sell videos online, its stock soared 22 1/4 points, and its market cap rose by $1.2 billion. That and a three-for-one stock split gave Amazon...
Most adults look at a Beanie Baby and see a stuffed animal. Jim Silver looks at a Beanie Baby and sees an investment. "It's turned into a collector's toy," says Silver, the publisher of the trade m...
Money Magazine: Forget Dell!updated: Tue Sep 01 1998 00:01:00
Beanie Babies are where the real action is. Quackers (at right) is up more than 10 times what Dell is since 1995. The question is: Will a high-flying computer stock have a better chance of staying ...
Four hundred fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. According to the formula in The Millionaire Next Door, that's what I should be worth. I'm not optimistic. But when it comes to net worth, you hav...
It's 3:30 p.m., half an hour after the closing of a one-day online auction that I bid in a few hours ago. I click over to Onsale (www.onsale.com), the largest online auction site on the Web, and ch...
Take a walk down any sunny city street these days, or a ride on your local bike path, and you'll likely see more varieties of sunglasses than there are of Beanie Babies. What's up with that? "Sungl...
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