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...listen to CNBC? Turn the dial a few notches to HGTV, and the housing boom has never been boomier. HGTV, the homespun redoubt of gardening and glue-gun projects that became a cable hit in the post-9/11 cocooning era, is now dominated by what it calls "Property Buzz" shows: series about buying and selling homes, which now make up six of the channel's 10 highest-rated shows. Shows like Secrets That Sell!, Designed to Sell, Bought & Sold, Get It Sold--notice a pattern?--offer a guide to tapping, Jed Clampett--style, the gusher of wealth sitting under...
...buzz is resonating beyond official circles. In the last few days my friends and I have heard people talking about the film in restaurants and museums, at parties and on the subway. This is not just the kind of movie that will get people seeing it to catch up with the tastemaker crowd; it's the uncommoner kind that will lure people who, given what they've heard, are expecting to hate it. They'll see it so they can join the debate, if only to say It wasn't that good...
...Backed by an international marketing campaign, Sentosa Cove homes are nearly sold out-more than half of the buyers are foreigners-and are generating a little bit of buzz that is music to the ears of the city fathers. When Hong Kong housewife and property investor Betty Ling first saw advertisements for Sentosa Cove three years ago, her Singaporean friends warned her "only ghosts live there." But she says she chose to buy in Singapore instead of Bali or Phuket because, "It's an international city and you have all the infrastructure of city life. You can feel safe there...
...other hand, is ever going to be dubbed the smartest man in America, as Ken Jennings was, for winning a Showcase Showdown. Price rewards skills that are dismissed as instinctual, nonacademic--let's be honest: housewifely. (Jeopardy!, which favors the kind of buzz-in-first competition boys get drilled into them early, historically had problems getting female contestants.) Players don't show up on Jeopardy! in IT'S-MY-40TH-BIRTHDAY T shirts. They dress for it as if it were a job interview. Contestants leave not with refrigerators but with paychecks. Jeopardy! is about breadwinning; Price is about bread...
...sentence or citation - or a blatant omission - that inadavertently ignites controversy, if not outright rage against the Pope. The Vatican eventually kicks into damage-control mode, and finally, Benedict is left with the awkward task of serious papal (and public) backtracking. Indeed, there was a "here-we-go-again" buzz circulating among Vatican insiders as the Pope went out of his way this week to clarify his view of the Christian colonization of Latin America that he'd laid out on his recent trip to Brazil...