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...nation's highest foreclosure rates, according to property tracker RealtyTrac, many parts are doing just fine. Prices in Denver's newly hip Highlands neighborhood, a community full of bungalow homes and yuppies, were up 13% last year, according to listings data crunched by real estate agent Ed Tomlinson. And ski resorts like Copper Mountain can't build enough pricey condos...
...year in high school. He was about 60 years old, with graying hair and an inexplicable Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. I was shy, he was confident, it was my first time, and he was experienced. I was his student, and he was my driver’s ed teacher...
...kids from Illinois, the experience of driver’s ed is oddly universal. After-school hours and summers are spent in stifling classrooms memorizing road signs by shape, learning hand motions that became obsolete with the invention of the turn signal, and watching movies such as “The Nightmare After Prom” and “Red Asphalt.” It’s not uncommon to have a creepy teacher like mine, who carried three cell phones and two pagers with him at all times and frequently asked me to drive...
...York City kids don’t share the common memories of driver’s ed. Among 20-somethings from New York, having a driver’s license is not common. And honestly, it’s easy to condescend them for it. In Illinois, not having a driver’s license before turning 17 is embarrassing. In New York, however, it’s completely acceptable...
Will you bring more of an edge to the show? Tell me you will use a cordless microphone! -Ed Schofield, CLARKSTON, MICH.[Laughs.] I am going to use a cordless microphone, and there is a new coat of paint, but nothing else will change. The games and sets are all the same. I won't be doing a Bob Barker impression. I can't be dirty like I am in my act. I am just going to be myself, and people will accept...