On Our Radar: Ellis Island Live, Jane Fonda Returns, and Tech-Savvy Boomers

It was decades in the making, but the archive of personal stories and recollections of 1,700 people who immigrated to the United States via Ellis Island in the first half of the 20th century is finally available online.

Collected by the U.S. Parks Service in the 1970s, the histories are stored at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Until now, unless you paid a visit to the museum, you couldn't hear the tales. Starting today, anyone with internet access can log on and listen.

Here's a snippet from The New York Times: "The recordings capture moments like Lawrence Meinwald's first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty: `It was very early in the morning and we heard this rumbling,' he says. `My father and I dressed and went to the deck. There were people of all denominations, some on their knees making the sign of the cross, Jews in their prayer shawls as we were passing the Statue of Liberty.'"

The entire collection is available on Ancestry.com, which has a partnership with the parks service.

What can you learn from the rich? How to shield your assets, says The Wall Street Journal. The very public divorce of Dodgers owners Jamie and Frank McCourt is the object lesson here, as previously private details of their financial lives make it into the public record.

One group we shouldn't take financial advice from turns out to be our well-off elected leaders, who The Wall Street Journal calls out as "mediocre investors."

Jane Fonda is back in the exercise business, only this time, instead of urging followers to "feel the burn," she's backing a kinder, gentler approach to fitness in a new DVD.

Beware of job interviewers sitting in soft, cushy chairs: Bosses sitting in soft chairs find more fault with a job applicant's resume than do interviewers sitting in hard chairs, according to a new study by professors from MIT, Yale and Harvard. Liz Wolgemuth explains in U.S. News & World Report.

If you've been traveling this summer and feel squeezed by never-ending airline fees (so far, using the bathroom is no charge) take a spin through Newsweek's eye-opening gallery of the many (many, many) ways that airlines keep reaching for your wallet.

The new book, Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers, causes waves as it puts forth the idea that many men with prostate cancer are the victims of overly aggressive medical treatment. From The New York Times: "About 200,000 cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed each year in the United States, and the authors say nearly all of them are overtreated. Most men, they persuasively argue, would be better-served having their cancer managed as a chronic condition." More from columnist Dana Jennings, a prostate cancer survivor, in the full story here.

That tired notion that baby boomers lag behind in technology? Let's finally put it to rest. Second Act blogger Michelle V. Rafter parses a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and reports that users over 50 are the fastest-growing portion of the social media landscape. Pardon me while I go post the news on my Twitter feed.

Which begs the question--do you follow SecondAct.com on Twitter? We're right here!