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Changing life-styles have contributed to the eating-out boom. There are more one-parent households, more working mothers, more fast-tracking singles who have little time or inclination for an evening over a hot stove. "People eat out more because they are out of the house more," says Carl DeBiase, a partner in the research firm Restaurant Trends. For city dwellers, many of whom live alone in cramped apartments, restaurants have become a place to escape and socialize. "As rents skyrocket and the amount of space per person dwindles, the American kitchen has lost priority in urban centers," says...
Though big-name autobiographies have always been reasonably popular, the boom in megabuck success stories--political, financial, sporting and otherwise--started with Bantam's astonishing sales of Iacocca, more than 2 million copies in hardcover and still the No. 2 nonfiction best seller after eight months as No. 1. Indeed, the only hardcover that is selling better is another autobiographical success story from Bantam, Yeager, by Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos...
...soaring from 523,000 in 1970 to 1,988,000 last year, the out-of-wedlock cohort actually declined slightly in this year's survey. Demographers attribute this mostly to economic and age factors. Said Author Bryant Robey: "It's not a case of new morality. As the baby-boom generation gets older, it slows down the trend for unmarrieds living together...
...legacy of two decades of change will continue to show its effects, demographers say. The older median marriage age translates into fewer children and a diminished demand for schools. The decrease in household size--from an average 3.14 people in 1970 to 2.69 this year--has fueled a prolonged boom in apartment rentals, health clubs and upscale restaurants, and a corresponding, disturbing decline in the national savings rate. The single life is more expensive, notes Economist George Sternlieb of Rutgers University: "There's nobody to share the telephone bill with. With no one to cook at home, singles...
...result of Qaboos' modernization, 196,000 men and women now receive free education, and a university is under construction. Autos can use more than 2,000 miles of paved road. A building boom has transformed Muscat, set amid rough mountains rising from the sea, into a clean and tastefully designed capital...