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...like small towns and rural areas and sports like skiing and fishing, even bigger bargains can be found in retirement-friendly parts of the Deep South, the Rockies and the Southwest. In honky-tonk Branson, Mo., the heart of the Ozarks, $120,000 will buy you a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house. By contrast, the same amount would be good for only a 20% down payment on a four-bedroom house in tony Westchester County...
OUTDOORSY CEOS Branson falls; Ellison survives deadly yacht race. Steaks and martinis are sounding healthy...
...round-the-world ballooning attempt by Richard Branson and his team is ever set to music, the tune for the past few days will be "First There Is a Mountain" -- both geographically and politically -- as the ICO Global balloon hovered high over the Himalayas and then briefly faced even more impenetrable obstacles from Chinese authorities, who finally relented and let them pass through their airspace. Today, continuing through the Donovan catalog, the theme song is "Catch the Wind" -- and have they ever: Now well ensconced in the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean, the balloon is moving eastward at speeds...
...record company, an airline and a megastore. Make a billion dollars. Fly a giant balloon over Tibet during a late-December trip around the world. Make the Chinese government angry and -- maybe the greatest accomplishment of all -- get away with it. That's the scorecard so far for Richard Branson, as China bowed to pressure from the British government late Tuesday and granted the entrepreneur and balloonist extraordinaire permission to fly over its airspace.?Branson and his two balloon-mates, American millionaire Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand of Sweden, then drifted placidly -- if more slowly than they'd like -- over...
...world's most closed and paranoid nation, North Korea. If they're fortunate, an atmospheric depression will steer them over South Korea instead. And from there, it's on to America, which the team hopes to reach by Christmas. From his perch 31,000 feet above the earth, Branson is no doubt wishing for the holiday to be a windy...