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...interest-rate climb is slow and takes place over an extended period, says Christopher Haley, a REIT analyst at Wachovia Securities. And that's just the scenario many economists anticipate, as the rebounding economy finally generates jobs and pushes up the price of everything from aluminum to zinc. The best REITs focus on apartment buildings, where vacancy rates are poised to start falling next year...
...quitting smoking or never starting. Eating lots of fruits and vegetables and wearing sunglasses that block harmful ultraviolet rays may also help. Three years ago, a study sponsored by the National Eye Institute showed that a high-dose regimen of vitamins (including C, E and beta-carotene) plus zinc was moderately successful for intermediate cases of AMD. (Smokers should not take beta-carotene, as it may increase their risk of lung cancer.) Most important of all are regular visits to an eye doctor, who can monitor the risk of AMD as well as other more readily treatable causes of blindness...
...grimmest legacy of a century of intensive lead and zinc mining are the "lead heads," or "chat rats," as the kids who grew up around here are known. As toddlers, they played in sandboxes of chat--the powdery output of mills after ore is extracted from rock. As preteens, they rode their bikes across the gravel mounds and swam in lime-green sinkholes. Their parents used mine tailings to make driveways and foundations, never thinking that contaminated dust might blow through the heating ducts of their ranch houses. In the past decade, studies have shown that...
...became a drawcard for Australian fans. Hookes walked onto the ground with a simple plan: to entertain and give value to the punters who had paid $5 to come to the ground. That may sound quaint nowadays, but back then sincerity could not be faked in front of the zinc-creamed kids who packed the country?s pulsating sports arenas. Or the TV viewers in its lounge rooms. As cricket began transforming television, the beer-heads at home with a tinny in their hands yearned for the big hits of Viv Richards and Hookes and the chin music delivered...
...stuck. Jean-Louis and Gilbert Costes grew up in the business; their mother Marie-Josèphe Costes turned the family farm at Saint-Amans-des-Cots into an inn, which filled up with returning Auvergnats every summer. They told tales of the money they raked in over the zinc-topped bars of Paris, and the Costes boys listened and dreamed. "For us, Paris was the universe," recalls Gilbert, who moved there in 1968. "When we first arrived, we felt Lilliputian. We felt lost." But like others before them, they fell into a café welfare system. The Auvergnats...