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Vehicle vogue seems to have taken a decidedly luxurious turn, if this week's annual North American International Auto Show in Detroit is any indicator. Nearly a dozen automakers are unveiling new models or concept cars aimed at affluent buyers--the goal being to win a place on the open, prosperous highway of the American luxury-car market. Says Michael Dale, president of Jaguar North America: "The economy is wonderful, Wall Street is doing great, and people want to buy a car that feels like more than just transportation. Frankly, you're just not going to get that...
...years since the store opened, rent control has been abolished in Cambridge and an affluent new class of professionals has begun to move into the city. Bryant says that modern-day Cantabrigians live with little connection to politics...
This unequal access won't bring a rigid caste system a la Brave New World. The interplay between genes and environment is too complex to permit the easy fine-tuning of mind and spirit. Besides, in vitro fertilization is nobody's idea of a good time; even many affluent parents will forgo painful invasive procedures unless horrible hereditary defects are at stake. But the technology will become more powerful and user friendly. Sooner or later, as the most glaring genetic liabilities drift toward the bottom of the socioeconomic scale, we will see a biological stratification vivid enough to mock American...
Alas, not everyone has ambitions so grandiose. In Silicon Valley, 25% of the area's wealthiest people give away less than $2,000 a year. And the spike in giving among the most affluent Americans is at least a little deceiving. The 8% of after-tax income that the superrich give away is still puny compared with their total wealth...
Smith says the new, more affluent population is less inclined to public demonstration...