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...People in Delhi have abandoned their own traditional clothing," says Bilal Ahmed, 24, a weaver who works for his family business in Jammu and Kashmir. Ahmed and his family specialize in Kadhai work, a type of embroidery. "We have started making more suits and shirts than saris," he says. "People don't buy saris anymore. Now they buy jeans." (Read about fashion and the recession in India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dying Art of the Sari | 6/25/2009 | See Source »

...arrive at their forecasts, the Deutsche Bank analysts, led by Karen Weaver, assessed several leading variables, with affordability being a key driver. The pronounced decline in home prices across the nation, coupled with a downward drift in interest rates, has greatly improved nationwide affordability, the report noted. Indeed, in some famously overpriced regions that have since corrected, such as Los Angeles and the Riverside-San Bernardino areas of California, affordability is as good now as it has been in decades. That's a big reason that many California areas may see prices fall only an additional 10% or so, despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Home Prices Forecast to Drop 40% | 6/16/2009 | See Source »

...died in 1945.BERENSON’S BEQUESTEven as the man shaped the villa, though, the villa shaped the man. “It made Berenson into the lord of that manor, the sage of that hermitage, the bait of that gilded trap,” wrote William F. Weaver, author of “A Legacy of Excellence: The Story of Villa I Tatti.”Located in Fiesole at the western edge of Florence, the I Tatti estate covers 75 acres and contains about a dozen major buildings as well as an immaculately tended historic garden, which...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Art Scholar Bequeaths Villa to Harvard | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...growing up as a child star help when your own kids wanted to get into the same field? Michael Weaver, HONOLULU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ron Howard | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Primary-care physicians now have to add to their battery of tests - which include colonoscopy, PSA and breast exams - something for the asymptomatic older person for the prevention of heart disease that now has greater benefit than anything we have ever had in the past," says Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Statins May Halve Heart-Attack Risk | 11/9/2008 | See Source »

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