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...area. Apartments in Newport Lofts - Boemio's client, an out-of-town investor, paid $600,000 for one - are now listed for as little as $179,000. And this particular apartment isn't exactly in great shape. A squatter slipped past the doorman and, even more impressively, got a locksmith in to switch the lock and give her keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Vegas: The Casino Town Bets on a Comeback | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

After the break-in, the Cabot locksmith changed the locks and gave the roommates new keys. The fire door alarm was also reset...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burglar Hits Cabot House Suite | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...surge in the sale of locking gas caps. Stant Manufacturing, a leading gas-cap maker, has already sold more locking caps in the first six months of this year--some 1.3 million--than in all of 2007. Yes, these locks can be jimmied, but New York City locksmith Frank Persico thinks they're still worth it. "You have to put time and effort into actually trying to break the thing open," he says. Which people may do if prices get high enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armoring Your Tank | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...cluster of stock characters ambling on screen only to represent their respective ethnicities. The ambling always ended in racial slurs and suspicion. Like Black.White., nearly every action in the movie is explained by race. Carjacking? What else is a young black man to do? Suspicious of your Mexican locksmith? Well, what do you expect of upper-class white women? Racist cop feeling up your wife? That?s what happens when your dad gets screwed by affirmative action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Black and White | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...want to reference. No one wants to say, 'You know I was yelling at this Chinese guy in the store the other day ... ' or 'This person called me a name.' But you can say, 'You know that scene in Crash where that woman got mad about the Latino locksmith? What do you think was going on with that?'" That incendiary ambivalence is what makes Crash enthralling to some, infuriating to many. Anyway, it sold tickets, $53 million worth (roughly eight times its cost) and kept people talking and thinking. The Academy's L.A. voters are still doing both; that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can He Win His Oscar? | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

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