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Allan Dizon grew up to the shrill squeals of dying pigs. His family home-a humble, jerrybuilt affair of concrete, wood and tin sheeting-stands in the township of Lorega, Cebu, close to a municipal slaughterhouse, but a distant remove from the white beaches and luxury resorts that many people associate with the Philippines' second city. Lorega is a tough area of backyard swineries and poverty, where the chief alleviators of misery are cockfighting, illegal gambling machines and drugs. For a brief time at least, Dizon was one of its more fortunate sons, working as a photojournalist at a local...
...Barta of the Wall Street Journal wrote that a home-appraisal process dominated by mortgage brokers working on commission instead of banks (who actually loan the money) may be inflating home prices beyond their worth. In Barron?s, Alan Abelson devoted his weekly column to the possibility of "a jerrybuilt boom," and called the housing frenzy "the last great asset bubble" - one that may be about to pop. And TIME?s own Dan Kadlec writes this week that housing?s traditional year-long lag behind a falling stock market is about to kick...
...glittery consumer culture and real promise of American aspirations in the 1950s. We know not whether the stars are tumbling downwards or floating upwards; their fanciful arrangement reassures, yet their sharp edges make this fantasy menacing. In "Doorway," Smith shows American aspirations, warts and all--and the artfully clumsy, jerrybuilt support of its metal stars insistently reminds us of their real basis...
Conniving, scrounging and hustling, the White Sox started this week with a solid lead of 5½ games, after splitting a pair with the second-place Cleveland Indians, 3-2 and 5-6. Come what may, the sight of the jerrybuilt White Sox leading the league is so fascinating that the team will most likely break its 1951 attendance record of 1,328,234 by more than...
Coffee House Compact. The New York Exchange was built on speculation; in early days it often seemed jerrybuilt. Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...