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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patrick Taylor knows that first-hand. On Sunset Beach in North Carolina, he's selling a half-acre of marsh three-quarters of a mile from the beach. It has no amenities--no water or sewage. Taylor is not even sure what can be built on it. To reach an inlet, you'd have to build a long pier to cross the marsh. He's asking $20,000 for it, and even as Hurricane Floyd approached last week, Taylor was fielding calls from prospective buyers who had read his classified ad in out-of-state newspapers. "They know a good...
...life by painting over it. Entirely. And in a style that someone thought was Kuniyoshi's yet was really more like what you might see on the homemade backdrop of a high school production of Oklahoma! But the handsomely repainted version by Yohannes Aynalem will delight no more than half the Music Hall's audience. It decorates the ladies' powder room on the mezzanine...
...relationships, detailing how to find the love you want, how to get married and how to create, and try to maintain, those "positive illusions." In our popular culture, marriage seems to flow naturally from romance--Julia Roberts keeps running off with Richard Gere. Americans love to get married, but half our marriages don't take. Then we switch partners and remarry, with roughly the same odds of success...
...money held in tax-deferred accounts like a 401(k), this isn't a big deal. But more than half of all stock-fund assets are in taxable accounts, where the annual distribution is a long-standing sore point. Fund managers can minimize the hit by cutting down on trades, but with this year's heavy redemptions, even tax-conscious managers can't avoid a deadly double whammy...
...live in Baltimore, where you can buy a three-story town house for $100,000 or a mansion on half an acre for $300,000. I'm a 15-minute drive from the symphony, the opera, three art museums, a dozen colleges and two new stadiums. Manhattanites and TIME staff members, come on down where life is good! JOHN MACLAY Baltimore...