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...third, and a fourth was put together for anyone who did not fit the first three groups. Leif and Lori--described by a neighbor as "the kind of girl who used to wear jeans, climb fences and carry rocks in her pockets"--were married outdoors on a working ranch in a small grove of oak trees by a creek. Thinking about the troubled farm economy, Rancher John Wilson looked around and said, "It's a happy thing to see all the cars here and not have it be an auction...
...Lori always loved that ranch," her mother said. "I wouldn't have changed a thing," her father said. "The occasion has more meaning if you share it," Lori said. In Kansas that day, the meaning was clear enough. Must have been the country...
...indulgence, is the new favorite of the fitness-minded. "Three or four years ago, I don't think I booked a spa except La Costa," notes Selma Weiner, owner of a travel agency in New York City. "Then suddenly it was Rancho La Puerta, Palm-Aire and Canyon Ranch." About 5 million people now sign up each year, says Edward Safdie, a spa developer. That is up phenomenally from 400,000 five years ago, and Safdie projects 30 million guests annually in five to ten years. To handle the growing popularity, spas are sprouting across the U.S. Only five years...
...families who already own homes; they represent more than 60% of the population. Many hope to move up, as the brokers put it. Translation: they want a more expensive house with more space or more status. Emily and Bill Jones aim to step up from their three- bedroom ranch house in Marietta, Ga. Says Emily: "We are building something bigger, better, newer." Developers are responding to the demand. A survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders reports that about 80% of all builders plan to begin constructing homes for the "move-up market" this year, compared with...
...affordable house in a Chicago suburb while they lived with their two sons, 6 and 3, in a two- bedroom apartment. When interest rates tumbled, the couple was finally able to swing a mortgage and buy a home. In July they will move into a three- bedroom ranch house in Woodridge, Ill. (price: $90,000). Says Richard, a credit supervisor for J.I. Case, a farm-equipment manufacturer: "If we didn't buy a house this year, we wouldn...