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Homebuilding stocks have been on a tear, climbing 168% on average from their trough in March, outpacing the S&P 500's 57% rise during the same period, says Barclays Capital analyst Megan Talbott McGrath, who tracks eight major builders. If Hovnanian Enterprises, whose stock has soared 645% from its trough, is excluded, builders have rallied 89% on average since March, she says...
...program has grown from 24 instructors to more than 350 in 13 countries. Classes in the U.S. are typically offered in private studios, though Crunch gym members in Los Angeles can now take Hula Hoop Pilates. Enthusiasts also form their own organized hooping clubs like the Bay Area Hoopers, whose founder edits the online magazine Hooping.org - or coordinate frequent impromptu "meetups" in public parks and recreation centers. A recent group-hoop took place during the Race for the Cure in New York City, in which members hooped while walking three miles to raise money for breast-cancer research.(See pictures...
...suffers from this genetic predisposition to happiness, she becomes an overnight Internet celebrity. The book charts Thassa’s rise through the blogosphere all the way up to “The Oona Show” (a fictional analog for Oprah), until she reaches a level of fame whose pressure threatens to break even her seemingly indominable happiness.Powers thus combines the recent public attention to the positive psychology movement, genetic enhancement, and the democratic atmosphere of the internet into a novel that examines happiness from a thoroughly modern—and therefore highly empirical—standpoint...
...stem from a perversion of its own language. There are pigoons (pigs with human organs) and mo’hairs (sheep which grow human hair for wigs) both products of the “Corps”—an alliance of corporations (among them, Happicuppa, HelthWyzer, CyroJeenyus) whose laboratories and workers live in gated communities. Outside the Corps are the Pleeblands, a proto-Gotham, but with grosser food and nastier crime. There’s something revolting and enchanting about Atwood’s creations—a fast food chain called “SecretBurgers: Because Everyone...
...National Committee, to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Kennedy's death. Thought to be the Kennedy family's pick, Kirk was once an aide to the Democratic Senator, and currently serves as the chairman of John F. Kennedy's presidential library. "Paul Kirk is a distinguished leader whose long collaboration with Senator Kennedy makes him an excellent interim choice to carry on [Kennedy's] work until the voters make their choice in January," President Barack Obama said after Patrick announced the selection at a press conference at the State House in Boston...