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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...
...great American obesity epidemic has given rise to its own literary sub-genre. You could call it Chunk Lit: memoirs of the overweight. This wicked, paradoxically lean example chronicles McClure's overeating, her love-hate cycles with Weight Watchers, her rationalizations ("Everyone says Renée Zellweger looks hotter in that one movie"). And what it's like to binge, postbreakup, on hamburger buns sprayed with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!: "It is like a sandwich ... made of emptiness and disbelief." I'm Not the New Me is, in every way, tastier and more filling than that...
...Boylston Basement–The competition for the fifth spot was hotter than a post-Felipe’s feces because I decided it should represent the most solid standard bathroom. Boylston makes the grade with its large mirror, soft lighting, and intimate vibe...
While the weather was cooler than last year, Gordon says that it was hotter than would be ideal...
Management buyouts are hot and growing hotter because they have so far produced countless winners and few if any losers. A typical deal involves bankers, institutional investors, Wall Street firms that specialize in buyouts and the managers of acquired companies. To start a transaction, the executives turn to Wall Street experts to arrange financing. "We look for three things," says Leonard Shaykin, managing partner of Adler & Shaykin, an investment house that specializes in buyouts. "They are consistent past profits, predictable future profits and quality management...