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...come to Moreno Valley because a home in more established California cities can cost as much as a space shuttle. In "MoVal" a typical four-bedroom house on a 7,500- sq.-ft. lot costs $140,000. The affordable homes and quality of life have made Moreno Valley the fastest growing city in America...
...astonishment of its citizens, who have maintained a hangdog pride in being off the beaten path, Fresno has become one of the fastest-growing major cities in America. In Fresno people had always felt that they were in California but not of it -- a little bit of Iowa under the palm trees. Now their sleepy farm town is growing nearly as fast as crops planted in the dull, rich land of the surrounding San Joaquin Valley...
...sooner had scientists and engineers discovered the intellectual benefits of supercomputing than they found themselves bumping into the computational limits of the current machines. Everything they wanted to do, it seemed, required 1,000 times more computer power than the fastest machines could provide. Today's models, for example, are not able to determine the structure of a protein from a sequence of genes. They can map the earth's atmosphere or its ocean currents but not the interactions between the two. They can predict hurricanes, but not such smaller meteorological events as thunderstorms and tornadoes...
...aging and smooth the pockets of fat, dubbed cellulite by cosmetologists, that dimple many women's hips and thighs. Thanks to the aging of the baby boomers, U.S. sales of skin- care products have surged more than 50% since 1985, to $3.7 billion a year. That makes them the fastest-growing segment of the toiletries and cosmetics industry, which rakes in almost $24 billion annually...
Perhaps the fastest-growing field for investment bankers is bailing out foundering companies. "We're the cleanup crew who are picking up the pieces left over from the decade-long party of debt," says Wilbur Ross, a senior managing director at Wall Street's Rothschild Inc. "What you're seeing now is a mirror image of the 1980s." Memories of the '80s have left some skeptics doubting whether once high-flying dealmakers really have reformed. "Just when we thought it was safe, they're back again," says Perrin Long, director of research at First of Michigan Corp. "We have...