Word: pros
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...best thing about these local pros, besides the fact that they can rock a Red Sox hat by day and designer dresses by night, is that they recognize our large contribution to Boston’s fashion street cred. Meghan A. Mills, co-owner of Serenella, a Newbury boutique, loves watching college kids come into her store. "They’re trendy—less hipster than New York. They step it up…I’m sort of jealous," laments the Bryant University graduate who remembers Doc Martens being all the rage around the time...
...recorded his first tackle in the pros just five days ago, in the Raiders’ 13-10 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. Surely he will accumulate more, hopefully starting Sunday. But the key for him will be to light up his stats with ones across the board. One tackle leads to one sack, which leads to one forced fumble, one recovery...
Call them Accidental Landlords (the real-estate pros already do). Insurance company Allstate has been tracking the new demographic by watching the wave of people switch from homeowner- to landlord-insurance coverage, a figure that's up 27% year-over-year. The web site Rent.com, which helps renters find places to live, has rolled out a new option for small-time landlords and is adding 1,000 properties a month. "We're finding that a lot of people have houses that they would have sold and now need to rent," says Rent.com president Peggy Abkemeier. "The demand is there...
...writer, O'Neal is actually beating us pros. He is the 10th most popular writer on Twitter, while I am way behind, at 195th. This would be less upsetting if it weren't for the fact that before O'Neal signed up for Twitter, his writing career consisted of spelling his name with a Sharpie. He's crushing my Dorothy Parker-level quips, like "Beer summit koan: If you dispel low-income racial tension by removing alcohol, you dispel upper-income racial tension by adding alcohol," with Shaqisms like "Happy birthday, harry potter main charachter dude." I am being beaten...
...debate rages in the U.S. over greater federal involvement in health care, Britain's socialized health-care system has come under scrutiny. The McKinsey report, and its fallout, highlights some of the pros and cons of such a system. On the one hand, McKinsey's analysts laid bare the scores of redundancies and inefficiencies within a bloated national health-care structure that employs some 1.5 million people in England. According to the Health Service Journal, which obtained a copy of the confidential report, McKinsey believes the NHS could afford to eliminate 137,000 clinical and administrative posts...