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...even made some extra money when the director of an HBO pilot set some scenes in her apartment. But she says Michigan's appeal as a location goes beyond the dollar value. "It can double for almost anything. You can make one of the lakes look like an ocean. You can do rural. You can do gritty urban." (In Betty Anne Waters, the state also stands in for Boston and part of Rhode Island.) Shooting in Michigan can mean fewer headaches as well. "To shut down major Chicago streets or take over an office building on a weekday...
When 67-year-old Gary Furbee and his wife Rose decided to go shopping for a time-share vacation home in Hawaii, they couldn't believe the bargains. The couple had rented a two-bedroom ocean-view penthouse unit at Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club on Oahu in 2007, liked it and resolved to watch for resales. The Furbees thought the recession might flush out some distressed sellers, but they were stunned by how far prices had plunged. "At Marriott, it was [listed] for between $50,000 and $60,000, but we paid $18,400," Gary says. He bought...
...spends half his time trying to understand processes deep in the Earth’s interior and the other half understanding surface processes. The two, he says, are intimately connected, although perhaps not on a human time scale. In one recent research project, Mukhopadhyay used noble gas concentrations in ocean coral off the coast of Africa as a way of tracking how dust emission rates have changed in response to climate variation. Because the drying of the Northern African Sahel region has caused widespread famine in recent decades, Mukhopadhyay says his research may be useful in understanding how further climate...
...local bully? President Obama's decision last weekend to authorize force against the Somali pirates holding Captain Richard Phillips brought the end of a crisis, but it may be the beginning of a longer military effort. This year pirates have attacked dozens of vessels in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden, which leads into the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Egged on by generous ransom payments, they're holding more than 300 sailors hostage. Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, was the first one taken off a U.S. vessel. A Red Sox fan, a family...
...sent to help keep peace in Lebanon in 1982 to use deadly force to protect themselves. The Iranian speedboats that threatened oil tankers in the Persian Gulf in the late 1980s confused the U.S. Navy, much as Somali speedboats have befuddled the navies now trying to police the Indian Ocean. (See pictures of modern-day pirates...