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...even in areas like middle-class Lakeview, where the sea of "For Sale" signs can be daunting (one in three houses, by some estimates), speculators are moving in to buy property - sometimes a whole block at a time - with the classically American conviction that this devastation is a buyer's market not to be missed. "It's the young crowd - 20-, 30- and 40-year-olds who are coming back and making things happen in New Orleans," says Ragan confidently. She should know; a 40-something, she's one of them...
...course, any good real estate agent is service oriented, but there's a world of difference between offering general services and anticipating the needs of a specific demographic. "This age group has very different concerns from [those of] a 30-year-old home buyer," says Tom Stevens, president of the National Association of Realtors. "Going to a Realtor with an SRES designation is like going to a medical specialist...
...constantly working to try and reduce the impact of our industry on the environment." The company says it operates its fish farms only half the year in order to conserve the sea's stocks. "We Japanese don't fish anymore, we only buy from other people," says a Japanese buyer who works for another company, checking the quality of the tuna as it is off-loaded at Sevilla's refrigerated warehouse in Barbate, and who refused to be named. "That is because [in Japan] we have nothing left to fish." Environmentalists want the rules tightened. At iccat's next meeting...
...There's a six-disc CD set Lenny Bruce: Let the Buyer Beware (Shout! Factory, 2005), edited by Hal Willner and Marvin Worth, that wraps all the familiar bits and much previously unheard material in a handsome 80-page book. It's a must for any advanced Bruceophile. And two years ago, Comedy Central chose the 100 all-time greatest stand-up comedians. Lenny was #3, trailing only Richard Pryor and George Carlin, two social critics who (as Carlin notes) wouldn't have had the careers they did if Lenny hadn't made unfettered comedy possible...
...does the readership: 60% are female, a group that also dominates book sales. "That demographic hasn't existed in American comics," says Kurt Hassler, a graphic-novel buyer for Borders Group who was on to the trend early...