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...biggest markets are much, much hotter. Prices of single-family homes in the Los Angeles area have gone up 135% in five years. Down the coast in San Diego, the figure is 132%. In Las Vegas, 117%. Miami, Washington, San Francisco--128%, 108%, 65%. Fortunes are being made, jealousies are being kindled and the claws are coming out--literally. In Manhattan, where the average apartment costs more than $1 million, the housing market is so cutthroat that a real estate agent attacked a seller--who had committed the sin of not hiring a broker--at his open house...
...built on the kind of hot air that promised that theglobe.com would be the next General Electric. Rather, he says, it is based on fundamentals that include tight housing supply--especially in places where it is tough or expensive to build, like New York City and San Francisco--such population factors as immigration, foreign buyers (snapping up properties cheap because of a weak dollar) and baby boomers' demand for second homes. "It's the demographics, stupid," he says...
Ellison told the San Francisco Chronicle on May 8 that the Ellison Medical Foundation would be undertaking a major project with Harvard “very soon.” SPH Dean Barry R. Bloom sits on the Foundation’s scientific advisory board...
...thing Peyroux decided was that, for her, singing was "empowering" and "uplifting." A couple of years ago, she began easing back into the business. And now? In back-to-back performances at the San Francisco Jazz Festival recently, and with a long string of U.S. bookings ahead of her, there was no mistaking her conviction as she swung through an old Holiday number: "In a happy setting/ We're getting/ Some fun out of life." And that's a true story. --By Christopher Porterfield
...part of the campaign. "This fight is won by persistence," says Cheskin, "not extreme firepower." Longtime veterans of the weight- loss wars can certainly vouch for that. --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/Dallas, Melissa August/Washington, Amanda Bower/ New York, Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Dan Cray/ Los Angeles, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Laura Locke/San Francisco...