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...told, hate to rent.) "Go for a prime location in the city center," advised Wayne Zane, an analyst at Colliers. "In a downturn, it will be less affected." So I began touring apartments in buildings with names like Baroque Palace and Sea of Clouds Garden. The target zone: three downtown districts--Xuhui, Jingan and Luwan--that all seem certain to remain prime locations. It soon became clear, though, that everyone else got there first; foreign investors, mostly from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, have driven up prices at an astonishing rate. In some luxury buildings, prices surged...
...foiled attempt to detonate the bomb in his shoe on an American Airlines flight in December 2001, jihadists have mostly avoided hard targets such as planes and government buildings. Instead they attack nightclubs, hotels--and commuter rails. The newer terrorist network has found that even in a war zone like Afghanistan, spending a little on motorcycles and satellite phones can make killing infidels that much easier...
...effort seems bound to pay off. Last September, the Parkfield zone gave rise to a magnitude-6 earthquake whose throaty rumblings were recorded by a rich array of seismometers and other instruments, including several nestled inside a mile-deep pilot hole the SAFOD team reamed out just two years earlier. Puzzling to many scientists was the seeming absence of precursory activity, save for subtle signs that strain may have increased ever so slightly the day before...
...basic cause of earthquakes on the San Andreas is well understood--the fault marks the major interface between two sections of the earth's crust that are grinding past each other--scientists argue endlessly about the details. Among the most pressing questions are whether the rock in the fault zone is intrinsically strong or weak and whether an increase in fluid pressure helps trigger earthquakes by prying apart the fault. "We have lots of ideas, and finally we're getting a chance to test them," says William Ellsworth, chief scientist for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Team...
...seven arrests made by police included four protesters costumed in blood-stained fatigues and traditional Middle Eastern dress who had made their way into the celebration. The remaining three arrests came as police were trying to relocate protesters into the free speech zone...