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...expect that edge to continue. In 2009 the average apartment rent will drop 2.1%, according to PPR projections based on apartment buildings with five or more units in 54 markets. The nationwide vacancy rate is already at 6.8% - the peak during the last recession - and it is likely to grow by another percentage point this year, according to CBRE/Torto Wheaton Research, a property analytics firm that surveys professionally managed buildings with five or more apartments. (See pictures of the recession...
...that financing for new wind farms and solar plants remains all but frozen, halting tentative plans in the U.S. and Europe to expand clean power. The WilderHill New Energy Index - a fund that tracks the stock performance of selected clean tech companies - is down more than 60% since its peak in November of 2007, slammed by the double blow of the loss of venture capital and the reduced urgency for energy alternatives as the price of oil has tumbled. Clean tech startups have already shed jobs, and weaker ones are certain to go under. "The financial crisis...
...there will be no tree-hugging, bird-spotting visits to the Mai Po Marshes, no afternoons in the loft studios of Fo Tan artists and an embargo on sipping ristrettos in Elgin Street bars. Instead, Noble House Hong Kong is all about the old-school icons: go to Victoria Peak, have tea at the Peninsula hotel, get invited to someone's box at the Happy Valley races. Loaf around the lobby of Jardine House, which appears in the series as Struan & Co.'s headquarters. Partake of shark-fin banquets and black-tie suppers of foie gras and lobster. Travel only...
...that Old Publishing will disappear--for now, at least, it's certainly the best way for authors to get the money and status they need to survive--but it will live on in a radically altered, symbiotic form as the small, pointy peak of a mighty pyramid. If readers want to pay for the old-school premium package, they can get their literature the old-fashioned way: carefully selected and edited, and presented in a bespoke, art-directed paper package. But below that there will be a vast continuum of other options: quickie print-on-demand editions and electronic editions...
...Andrews, it turned out, was not actually a collector but a publisher of newsletters. ("Swine Flu Litigation Reporter" was one of them.) He was also a greeting-card manufacturer who had secured all reproduction rights to the Helga pictures. After the publicity storm had been whipped to a peak, he sold the whole bunch to a Japanese buyer for a reported $45 million. At that point, Wyeth found it prudent to come forward to say there had never been a sexual relationship between him and his model, and his wife announced that actually she had seen some of the pictures...