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When Scodras decided to take his current position as lab director of Southwest Florida Fertility Center in Fort Meyers, Fla., Kamrava hired Dr. Shantal Rajah, an embryologist he recruited from England. "Honestly, I was surprised he hired a woman because, although with his patients he got along very well, I just pictured him as more suited to a male in the lab," says Scodras. After just three weeks in Kamrava's employ, Rajah found herself at odds with the doctor over the heating of the laboratory and was abruptly asked to leave the practice. She sued him for breach...
...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't buy things--they should fund their IRAs instead--while those who have a lot of it should spread it around. Her biggest indulgence...
...Another trend: a creeping problem in the Midwest. It's true that property markets never went wild in Des Moines, Iowa, or Omaha, Neb., the way they did in Merced, Calif., and Fort Myers, Fla., but this means even modest declines in home values can erase equity, especially for recent buyers who have less of a cushion against falling prices. In Iowa, 18.6% of homeowners have negative equity; in Nebraska the figure is 16.6% (both jumped more than three percentage points from September). (See pictures of struggling Cleveland...
...after about 15 minutes.) There's also the delightfully twisted Palacio de la Inquisición, which, despite its grand name, is a tiny museum that features some of the many torture devices used to elicit confessions of witchcraft. A 15-minute cab ride away, there's the historic fort Castillo de San Felipe, built in 1657 and site of the crocodile-filled penultimate scene in Romancing the Stone...
...with a sunset stroll along the promenade on the Pacific to see Panama both old (Las Bovedas, a 17th century Spanish fort) and new (Frank Gehry's Museum of Biodiversity, which is still under construction but rising rapidly) before heading to the recently opened Pony Club (www.limoncillo.com) for dinner. Panamanian chef Clara Icaza has worked at Manhattan hot spot Aquavit, and her nuevo-Panamanian menu includes signature dishes such as Turkolimano (grilled jumbo prawns, tomato and feta with lemon-ouzo vinaigrette) and squid risotto in a broth of octopus and roasted red pepper, all served in a pale-wood dining...