Word: closing
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Down the street at the Red Bull, manager Jamie Burgess prepares to close up shop after a slow day. In the past year, three Crawford souvenir shops shut down for good. "We were the first ones to open and the last ones standing," she says with a laugh. For her, the Bush years were a worthwhile experience. "Before, when people came to Crawford, it was for [high school] athletic events, they were kin to someone or were just lost," she says. "Now I have met people from all over the world." And while some came in anger, she says...
Especially since sexting might actually be the least of our worries. Compared with what they are actually doing, teenagers' virtual sex lives may be less a mirror than a mirage, an image of how they see themselves that vanishes as you get up close. The research suggests that even as they get more electronically immodest, they are delaying actual sex, having fewer partners and generally behaving more responsibly than many of their parents did. By all means, come down hard on the kid who uses a phone to cheat or bully or harass or cause harm. But when it comes...
...launched goswap.org whose 10,000 or so users are trying to swap not only real estate but yachts and motor homes too. Alice McLaughlin, a caregiver in Canaan, N.H., is close to inking a deal to swap her two-story log home for a place in Hawaii in which she could care for people who otherwise must be in a nursing home. "So far, this [site] has seemed like an easy way to get a win-win situation," she says...
...said her focus was on security for herself in case her business suddenly dried up and she had to retire. If the market keeps dropping, which she expects, she plans to invest more: "It wouldn't surprise me if in the next year or two, I have close to $2 or $3 million in the market," she said. She values her five homes at $15 million: the San Francisco town house; a two-bedroom beach condo near Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; a house in South Africa; and two apartments in Manhattan. Orman believes that people who don't have money shouldn...
...Jean-Claude Juncker, who chairs meetings of the eurozone's finance ministers, dismissed the idea of relaxing the entry criteria to the euro. And French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who just a few weeks ago raised the specter of a return to protectionism when he suggested that French carmakers should close their factories in the East and move home, accused Eastern Europe of putting the entire E.U. at risk...