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...flip the properties for a quick profit. Then the music stopped. "Our best guesstimate--and we've talked to lenders and developers--is that you will not see a residential construction crane in the sky in downtown Miami for a generation," says Peter Zalewski, a real estate broker and founder of Condo Vultures, a realty-intelligence service. "Well, at least seven years," he says before modifying his forecast yet again. "Let's go with a decade," he finally concludes...
...Business School student Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06, who co-founded the fashion line Lewis Albert as an undergraduate. Whitman smooths out her full black skirt as she makes final comments on her score sheet. Rounding out the trio is Timothy M. Parent ’09, founder of fashion show Project East. Clad in a naval jumpsuit and fierce boots, Parent has cutting opinions—and an even sharper tongue—when it comes to fashion...
...It’s mostly the ugly and the small that are keeping life going,” he said. Unfortunately for humanity, this species of frog has been extinct for over a decade. In a book signing Thursday night at the Harvard Coop, Chivian, the founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School stressed the importance of preserving the planet’s biodiversity. Co-authored by Aaron Bernstein, his book addresses the loss of biodiversity in terms of potential medical research and treatment. “We have no [environmental...
...seems to me that not enough people look into the provenance of these compilations, and thus, are missing out on some great stuff.Take the DFA Radio Mixes as an example. Started in 2005 by DFA Records, the first discs in the series were crafted by label co-founder James Murphy, and, according to the liner notes, were “recorded at home in Brooklyn.” While those same notes later reveal that the discs were also intended to be spun on BBC 1, most of the albums in the seasonally released serial are well worth the download...
...founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill of Denver, another tech multimillionaire; James Hormel of San Francisco, grandson of George, who founded the famous meat company; Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., the billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp.; and Henry van Ameringen, whose father Arnold Louis van Ameringen started a Manhattan-based import company that later became the mammoth International Flavors & Fragrances...