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Just down the street from Farecast's Seattle offices, Zillow.com has generated growing buzz since it debuted last February. It offers free, instant valuations of 67 million U.S. homes. The site says most of its "Zestimates" are within 10% of the eventual selling price. Of the site's 3 million-- plus monthly visitors, more than half are repeat customers, and 54% plan to buy or sell a home within two years...
...Tonight” from Bernstein’s crown work, “West Side Story.” With nearly a dozen voices in harmony, singing intertwining vocal lines in front of great music from the ensemble, the closer sent the audience into a nearly instant standing ovation.The unbilled encore, “Somewhere,” was the perfect end to a fantastic show. The chorus, singing “There’s a place for us,” reminded the audience that there will always be a place at Harvard for Bernstein, and the legacy...
...children of whom Mr. Thayer speaks, Dylan and Tuscany, are entertaining, but a bit flat. Dylan is a drugged out 17-year-old who has no motivation to do anything but go to clubs, chat on Instant Messenger and sleep. He certainly doesn’t care about the SAT, though he has an amusing tendency of incorporating Harriet Tubman into every essay. Dylan’s sister Tuscany is a 15-year-old Lolita. She easily seduces older men and pretends not to care about school, though underneath the pink sparkly exterior, she is actually interested in learning...
...shame that ABC News broke the story of Representative Mark Foley's lewd e-mail and instant messages to teenage pages. He would have made much better TV on Dateline's "To Catch a Predator." In the segments, the newsmagazine conducts elaborate pedophilia stings, using phony chat-room messages and underage-looking actresses to lure a parade of doctors, engineers and Marines to assignations in unassuming houses. There, guys with online handles like "sebastian_for_u" are surprised by reporter Chris Hansen, who grills and humiliates them before handing them over to cops. "Predator" is ratings gold, a jaw-dropping...
...coconut waft around the department store's intimate-apparel and swimsuit displays. One of ScentAir's most popular aromas, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies, has been adopted widely by sellers of model houses and real estate agents in North Carolina to make prospective buyers feel at home the instant they walk in. Upscale ice cream chain Emack & Bolio's recently adopted a waffle-cone smell to attract patrons to the scoop shop within the Orlando, Fla., Hard Rock Hotel, where sales had been flagging. The effect? Ice cream sales shot up more than a third. To stave off olfactory fatigue...