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...mood isn't any brighter in San Diego, another overheated market. In June the city's median home price fell 1% from a year earlier. That's the first decline in a decade. "$579,000--Getting Desperate!" reads an ad posted on Craigslist in the metro area. "There are three times as many houses on the market as there were a year ago," says Vikki Kuick, a broker who placed...
Honey. That word describes the tenor of both her voice and her roles. In 12 years as a star at the lion of studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and for decades afterward, June Allyson purred sweet reason to the prime men of her era: Jimmy Stewart (in three movies), Humphrey Bogart (in Battle Circus), William Holden (Executive Suite) and her husband, Dick Powell. Other women might get the showy parts, and the Oscars. Allyson, in her movies, got the wedding ring. And from her fans, she received the Photoplay Magazine citation as 1954's Most Popular Female Star...
...diesel fuel to pay 90% of construction costs. Congress subsequently expanded the network to include other routes and the new states of Hawaii and Alaska. And even now, ongoing fidgeting with the system - the repaving and widening of established highways and the construction of new metro commuter routes close to growing cities - suggests that old joke about New York City: "It'll be a great place if they ever finish building...
...that really the way most Americans feel about these roads? Many of us, after all, use them more for daily commutes rather than for recreational trips. And let's be honest -for the millions of metro commuters who endure daily knotted freeway traffic-jams, any portrayal of the Interstates as the latest incarnation of America's classic Open Road rings false. For them -perfectly happy, thank you, to wait to get back on the road again - these highways feel about as romantic as a digital clock...
...cultural center and the former Kai Tak airport?are now in planning stages. "These are three very important pieces in the jigsaw of the city," says Bosco Fung, Hong Kong's Director of Planning. "Once finished with these three, we will have a complete picture of the metro area." Hong Kong could yet have a waterfront to rival those of Sydney or San Francisco. But if it gets things wrong, the city could be stuck with more lifeless stretches of concrete. "This is our last chance to fix this," says Paul Zimmerman, a harbor activist. "Tamar is going ahead...