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...some regions for the math to work, including in Destin, Fla.; the Outer Banks of North Carolina; Branson, Mo.; and the Smoky Mountains, says Karpinski. Her rule of thumb: if one week of peak rental income can cover a month of mortgage expense, the deal is a winner. The trick is getting over your fears. With retirement facing all of us sooner or later, there's only so much time for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Free | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...trick to getting the most out of my cash is to make it work for me. Once I set up some kind of foundation--something simple, like Dogs Are People Too, Only Better--I figure lots of sucker humans like Leona who've been burned by human relationships will pour cash in. I take out some ads, like "This Dog Will Be Put to Sleep This Weekend Unless You Send Me $500," and in four months that $12 mil is $24 mil, and I've got my nose 12 deep in Pomeranian rump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maltese Millionaire Speaks! | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...trick, says Parsons, is diagnosing exercise-induced asthma, which many parents, coaches and even athletes themselves mistake for over-exertion. And you don't have to be an elite athlete to suffer from it; there's no threshold of exercise intensity that causes the condition, so for some people, it might not take much panting. Temperature changes can also trigger exercise-induced asthma - working out in the cold brings a large amount of cold air into the lungs, which can cause airways to constrict in response. Fortunately, once it has been recognized, exercise-induced asthma is easily treated with short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athletes More Prone to Asthma | 9/5/2007 | See Source »

...brand strength and identification, behind iPod. As a privately held company, Viking is tight-lipped about hard numbers but claims double-digit growth for the past 15 years. Published reports put annual sales at more than $300 million, a figure the company does not dispute. It's a neat trick to create a global brand from Greenwood, Miss., where the company does all its manufacturing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viking Simmers a Strategy | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

...stories he has apparently abandoned. Or he may not. Yet the reader who makes it to the end will be convinced, somehow, that there's a profound, even mystical, connection between the broken stories - that they are part of the same hawk's flight. This is a tremendously difficult trick to pull off, and part of the thrill of a new Ondaatje novel lies in seeing if he has managed it once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bird Flight: Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero | 8/15/2007 | See Source »

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