NEW YORK, April 13, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- This week's Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition will report on a broad range of informative business and lifestyle stories written by the Journal's award-winning reporters. The week's Weekend Edition will be available via home delivery and newsstands on April 14-15.
The following are the top stories from The Wall Street Journal's Weekend Edition:
A-Section Centerpiece:
-- Many school districts across the country are stepping up their
efforts to tackle childhood obesity. New measures include: fitness
and nutrition programs, body-mass index calculations, and
limitations on snack foods. The new rules are sparking a backlash
among parents, children and even some teachers and school officials
for being too extreme and demonizing children.
Money & Investing:
-- Selling Artwork: Appraising and/or trying to sell artworks that you
own can be a frustratingly opaque and intimidating process.
However, there are new services that attempt to demystify the whole
process -- helping you figure out if you own something that's worth
the time and effort to sell once you're tired of looking at it on
the wall.
-- Citigroup Springs for Pandit: The Journal examines Vikram Pandit --
a Wall Street mover and shaker and former Morgan Stanley
executive -- who struck out on his own by forming a firm. Now,
Citigroup is bringing him into its fold by buying his company for
approximately $800 million. Is he worth it?
Pursuits:
-- Baseball Payroll: For years, baseball teams have paid players using
a cost approach rather than a revenue approach. Now, some baseball
economists are touting a new approach that uses revenue as a
starting-point for valuing a player. In this new and highly complex
method, teams arrive at a dollar value for each player by
calculating how much additional revenue each win is worth and how
many wins that player contributes based on his performance.
-- Bottled Water Industry: Environmentalists complain that the $9
billion bottled-water industry commercializes public water sources
and creates garbage (all those bottles). Now they're getting
support from an unlikely group: high-end chefs. More chefs are
sacrificing the easy revenue they've been making by selling bottled
water and they are now looking for ways to make their tap-water
offerings unique and worth charging for.
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