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...Flint, which had 124,000 residents at the last census. Today, streets are mostly abandoned, the average value of a single-family home has dropped to $16,400 and the city's unemployment rate hovers at 27%, which is two points better than it was in August when it hit 29%. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...long ago, a boxed DVD set of the 1980s yuppie-hit TV show thirtysomething showed up in the mail. My wife, who was suffering a bout of nostalgia, had bought it, I guess, as a way to punish my oldest two daughters, who were heading off to college. She claimed she wanted to show them what life was like when they were born...
Luckily, at around that time, Optoma - a company that makes digital projectors - had just come out with the first high-definition projector to hit the market for less than $1,000. These things used to cost many thousands of dollars and were found in only the highest-end home theaters. But with the Optoma HD20 ($999) and subsequent offerings from competitors, the middle market can now afford super home-theater projection too. In fact, with all these pocket-size microprojectors flooding the lower end of the market, it's practically raining projectors these days...
...came to us courtesy of Vans Shoes. I suspected that these trend-setters were in fact the world’s most intentionally unkempt marketing reps. It would be an understatement to say that the “free shit” was a hit, as was the ensuing screening of a snowboarding highlight reel accompanied by rap and European-sounding techno. All in all, it was an evening filled with plenty of advertising and mainstream music...
...take him long to notice one of his new home's more glaring paradoxes. Despite the country's vast wealth and medical resources, the working-class Miami neighborhood where his family settled had scant access to family physicians - and most people saw a doctor only when a costly emergency hit. To Lau, it didn't seem much different from the situation back in his impoverished Nicaraguan hometown of Chinandega. "Miami has a lot of problems, but the biggest is that too many people don't get primary medical care," says Lau, now 23. "There's a bit of a mind...