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...October, a week apart, two new federal courthouses will open at opposite ends of the country. One sits in full view of the Atlantic Ocean in Islip, N.Y.; the other rises from the desert in Phoenix, Ariz. Both were designed by Richard Meier. There is perhaps no more appropriate building for Meier to design than a courthouse, a place where rules are enforced and and order is established. His adherence to Euclidean geometry and classical modernism begins to seem almost quixotic in an era absorbed in Gehryesque deformed surfaces and blobby forms. While both federal buildings have all the Meier...
Dotcom-related price spurts in real estate aren't confined to the tech-heavy Bay Area. The cities with the highest rates of growth when it comes to technology companies--places like Phoenix, Ariz.; Denver; Boston; Portland, Ore.; Fort Worth and Austin, Texas--also happen to be the cities with the fastest-rising house prices. "This is no coincidence," says Ross DeVol, an economist at the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, a nonprofit think tank. "The indirect effect of [dotcoms'] being there is that landlords jack up the rates on everyone else. It's out of control...
Only the oil companies and OPEC are in favor of oil profiteering. However, relatively low gasoline taxes and the resulting insatiable U.S. demand for oil have led to environmental destruction around the world as well as to urban sprawl and blighted city centers. ROLAND JAMES Phoenix, Ariz...
Dallas -0.1% 5.7% Denver 0.5% 7.8% Phoenix 0.4% 6.7% Seattle -0.4% 7.0% U.S. average...
...partly because it's such a nurturing place. A student who shows up with dirty clothes will get new ones. There's a medical clinic on campus. And nearly every kid takes home a box of food each month along with toothpaste, shampoo, socks and underwear--all donated by Phoenix residents. Once a month, Pappas holds birthday parties replete with clowns, cake and a closetful of new toys from which honorees can pick a doll or racing...