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Angel investors are networking groups that support growing businesses with private funds. During investor gatherings, participants exchange information about new companies. Most investors are seeing returns of 40 to 50 percent.

Julie and Jeff Warner found themselves $50,000 in debt after living beyond their income became their lifestyle. A credit counselor helped them to devise a plan to pay off their credit card debt through smaller and more affordable monthly payments and to reform their spending habits.

In today's crazy, fast-paced world, it can seem harder than ever to teach children the golden rule--from the news to the movies to the courts, it's the bad guys who […]

Parents can control who gets their assets in the event of their death by drawing a will. They should select a guardian for their children, name an executor of the will, select a trustee and obtain legal advice.

An overview of the strategies used by supermarkets to maximize customer spending, and how a customer can avoid falling prey to them is presented. Supermarkets use a variety of tactics to entice shoppers to buy certain products, but a smart shopper can overcome them and shop for true bargains.

The article focuses on increase in real estate market to short supply of space in Long Island, New York, and talks of demand for office, retail and industrial space, impact of improvement in health care system, and charts on leases which include retail, office, government development works.

It is becoming clear that the popularity of social networks and other sites using 'user-generated content' has provided a promising business opportunity for internet-savvy firms. What is less obvious, however, [...]

LUC VANDEVELDE, 51, chairman and CEO of Marks & Spencer, the venerable London-based retailer, recently relinquished his CEO title after a little more than two years on the job. He […]

Threatened by foreign compettition and saddled with antiquated machinery, the U.S. textile industry has been engaged in a massive modernization program. Spurring it on in this endeavor, strangely enough, has [...]

Check out the seven biggest on-the-job bummers and how to beat them. Yawn. What to do when your job's a snore? Since landing another one may not be your best […]

When a friend moves ... your child really can go into mourning. "His feelings about a friend leaving can be similar to feelings about divorce and separation. It's less permanent, […]

Some kids cling to the magic of the man in red--and that's fine, says Cindy Dell Clark, author of Flights of Fancy, Leaps of Faith. But most catch on by […]

Hitting or slapping may harm a child's intelligence and language skills, according to a four-year research project conducted by the University of New Hampshire's Family Research Laboratory in Durham. The […]

Mary Kay Hahn could never understand why teachers insisted on separating their lessons--say, addition and subtraction--from how those skills might be applied to the real world. So Hahn encouraged an […]

Are you at wit's end trying to get your little one to give you some downtime? Try these techniques from Susan Miller, professor of early childhood education at Kutztown University […]

Name your goal--from an amazing vacation next year to a retirement nest egg decades from now--and we'll tell you the smartest way to get from here to there So you […]

Spend 10 seconds in the lobby of the New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL) and your preconceptions of libraries as repositories of out-of-date periodicals and yellowing [...]