Word: franciscos
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...African Americans are five times as likely as whites to suffer from kidney disease severe enough to require dialysis or transplantation. Are the kidneys of blacks that much more prone to disease? In fact, they're not, according to a report by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the San Francisco VA Medical Center. Their study shows there is no difference between the two groups in the rates of early kidney disease. Yet blacks are far more likely to progress to the severe stage of the disease. One possible explanation, say the researchers, is that whites...
...breakfasts in the U.S., 20% are in urban areas, says Pat Hardy, co-founder of the Professional Association of Innkeepers International. They tend to be converted 19th and early 20th century houses, mansions, brownstones and town houses. Popular metropolitan areas for B&Bs include Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington and New York. And they appear to be gaining recognition. There has been a 10% to 20% growth annually in the number of urban B&Bs posted on Placestostay.com a travel website, according to Eric Christensen, its president and founder...
...Hopkins Inn in Baltimore, Md., which is a converted Spanish Revival apartment building dating to 1911, features 25 guest rooms, according to Mike Marshall, president of Marshall Management Inc. in Salisbury, Md., which operates the property. A management company called Joie de Vivre runs four B&Bs in San Francisco, ranging in size from 10 rooms to 23 rooms, says Greg Horner, brand marketing manager...
...remembers you and your taste in art or food or wine. Barry Knox, 63, a retired investment banker from New Canaan, Conn., says everyone knows him when he walks in the door at the 10-room Jackson Court, one of the four Joie de Vivre inns in San Francisco. He has been back to the property half a dozen times since 1998, paying about $180 a night. "It's a nice feeling when you're on a first-name basis with the staff even though you're in the heart of a big city," Knox says. Giving guests those nice...
...looking closely, it's easy to miss the wi-fi antenna atop San Bruno mountain just south of San Francisco. There are a couple of dozen TV and radio broadcast towers, each about 300 ft. tall, surrounded with chain-link fences and electromagnetic radiation warning signs. The wi-fi antenna is a solitary 18-in. plastic stick that radio engineer Tim Pozar stuck up there on his day off. If it disappeared, fewer than a hundred people would notice. "It takes geeks like me, putting up antennas, to make this work," says Pozar...