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...recent study conducted by Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies and the Brookings Institution named metropolitan Boston a "hot market" for housing construction...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Area Housing Boom Leaves Out Affordable Options | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

...People who live in and around Boston know that the real estate market is booming," says Alexander von Hoffman, a senior research fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies and the author of the report...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Area Housing Boom Leaves Out Affordable Options | 2/16/2000 | See Source »

...televised debate, Gore said he would give a litmus test to his Joint Chiefs of Staff on whether they would support gays serving openly in the military, but took back the litmus test part the next day when everyone howled, all the while insisting through his staff that he was not doing so. Last Wednesday on Good Morning America, he corrected Diane Sawyer when she said he had lost the youth vote, asserting that he had "won in every single demographic category." Well, it depends on your definition of youth, perhaps. Among voters 18 to 29, Bradley beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stretching the Fabric | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

That's the vision of many telecommunications firms, which recognize that in an age of satellites and fiber optics, it is almost as easy to serve customers in Bhutan as in Manhattan. AT&T, for instance, has formed a joint venture with BritishTelecom, called Concert, that is designed to help build a one-stop global phone network for businesses. This is possible because national phone companies, which were once tightly controlled by governments, are suddenly open to international competition just about everywhere in the world. In coming decades, AT&T, Vodafone and others expect to be competing for customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vodacious Deal | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

Which explains why the Mannesmann deal got so much attention. David Dorman, who heads the AT&T-BT joint venture, calls the merger with the German company "a jewel" for Vodafone. The sparkle comes from the fact that both firms have a special focus on wireless, mobile communications. Wireless is a key part of the new international telecoms order because wireless systems are far easier to build and maintain than in-the-ground copper or fiber-optic networks. And in an age of globalization, Vodafone--which also owns AirTouch--could offer to let its users roam freely from nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vodacious Deal | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

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