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...ratio of searches for "homes for sale" compared to "homes for rent" have reached their lowest point over the last two years in April and May 2007, hovering around 1.5 sale queries for every rent query, which indicates that potential home buyers are becoming more tentative. Maybe the best test of how U.S. consumers feel about the economy is to get in their minds regarding costly projects like building or remodeling a house. In the Internet age, if you're thinking of taking on a large-scale building project, you would likely visit home plan websites and building construction firms...
...want to do before you die. My own "last day on earth" list would include an array of English delights: a pint of Harveys real ale in my village pub (the Royal Oak in Newick, East Sussex), a champagne picnic at Lord's Cricket Ground in London during a test match, an hour spent staring wistfully at the goalmouth in Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium, lunch at the Ivy, dinner at Le Caprice, and a night in the penthouse suite of somewhere historic and magnificent like Claridges...
...Also, while India has declared a unilateral moratorium on further testing, Delhi wants to reserve the right to conduct further weapons tests should it choose to, and it wants the U.S. to guarantee that its nuclear fuel supplies from American companies are not conditional on India's refraining from testing. But U.S. negotiators want Delhi to agree to a test ban, and to make the fuel supply conditional on adhering to that...
Hanging a new museum show is never less than a complicated job. Getting all that art positioned just so--it's a test of nerves. But when the show is for Richard Serra, whose typical work is made from coiling steel plates that weigh 20 tons or so, complicated doesn't begin to describe it. Putting the things in place is like moving a dozen rockets to their launch pads. There's one sizable new Serra, called Sequence, that consists of 12 plates weighing a total of 243 tons. The average commercial airliner weighs...
Price matters more than any quiz show because it's like life. It's random: you don't take a qualifying test but are picked from the crowd. It's social: studio-audience help is not forbidden but encouraged, if often wrong. And it's a little savage: yes, I will bid one dollar over you. Price will keep testing consumers after Barker takes his well-earned rest. And if he ever wants to get a glimpse of real America in his leisurely late mornings, he knows where to come on down...