Word: ranched
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...serious? Choose to rent when owning seems a sure way to riches? On closer view, he just may be on to something. The Choes sold their tiny ranch in Sacramento, Calif., for $369,000, or nearly twice what they had paid three years earlier. But rather than plow his money back into a sky-high market in which people were bandying about the word bubble, Choe rented a bigger house in a better neighborhood--at a monthly expense similar to his old mortgage and for less than half of what it would take to buy the new place...
...would already be ordering hamburgers made from ground cloned beef. Coover is one of scores of U.S. farmers who have taken the trend toward homogeneity in American agriculture to its logical extreme, duplicating--Dolly the sheep style--their best beef and dairy cattle. Working out of his Galesburg, Kans., ranch, Coover has sold more than 500 units of semen from five cloned bulls, each of them a near perfect genetic replica of a prize breeder known as Full Flush. Now their semen is impregnating cows across the U.S., spawning champion offspring that are, technically, half-clones. "This will revolutionize agricultural...
...blistering real estate market, where dreams of big bucks come wrapped in aluminum siding, and you can get a three-bedroom ranch house with your hair extensions and a mortgage with your Grilled Stuft Burrito. The stock market may be dragging, but home prices are soaring, fueling a national obsession with real estate. Your house is now your piggy bank, ATM and 401(k). House gawking is a hobby; remodeling, both entertainment and an investment. Folks brag about having bought their home in the '90s the way they used to brag about having bought Microsoft in the '80s. Even...
...colonial families; after a High Court judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to try him for the killing of Kenya Wildlife Service warden Simon Ole Sisina; in Nakuru. Cholmondeley told police he thought the warden, who was investigating allegations of illegal bush meat trading on his 400,000-hectare ranch, was an armed robber in an increasingly violent region. Cholmondeley's great-grandfather, Lord Delamere, was among the first whites to settle in the then-British colony in the early 20th century, and established a reputation for decadence chronicled in the 1982 book White Mischief, later made into a movie...
Perhaps inevitably, such frenetic activity, combined with rising concerns about health and fitness, has led to another trend: camps for wellness. Tina Krinsky likes to think her company kicked off the rage four years ago when it launched a partnership with the upscale spa Canyon Ranch on the campus of Bryn Mawr College ($1,445 a week) in Bryn Mawr, Pa. She asserts that even though the male and female campers have the option of the occasional pedicure or facial, they spend the majority of their time exercising, working with personal trainers, learning about proper nutrition and getting serene through...