| Bayview revitalization comes with huge price to black residents
Below it sits the recently closed PG&E power plant, whose smokestacks were long blamed for high asthma and cancer rates. But, gazing left, one sees beautiful views of the downtown skyline and the bay. Collins, a San Francisco sheriff's deputy who has raised three children on her own, never thought she could own a home in Bayview-Hunters Point, where housing prices rose faster than in any other area of the city in the past decade. In 1996, the median single-family home in the neighborhood cost $129,000, according to the real estate information firm DataQuick. Today, even with the recent downturn in real estate, the median price is $570,000, an increase of 342 percent. But in 2000, Collins became the beneficiary of a government effort intended to keep the Bay Area from becoming an enclave accessible only to the wealthy.
Putting the ogle into mogul
What you need, Kate, is to focus,' says my friend the dating coach, as I stand choosing between sturdy sports bras and bright pink lingerie. 'Skiing is a target-heavy environment: all that frotting against sweaty men in the ski queues, the apres-ski beers, the pheromones: you can't fail to pull.' 'There's a nine to one ratio of men to women in Chamonix,' confirms my driver from the airport. 'Do the boys get a bit girl-hungry?' I ask. 'Do sharks go into a feeding frenzy when thrown fresh meat?' he replies. I reach the chalet - a beautiful monument of carved balconies and new wood - but dreams of finding a husband at the champagne reception vanish as soon as I enter the spanking new tiled-floor, white-wall, wood-beam living room to meet the two banks of fellow guests lined up on stiff red sofas.
SAP Whips Out Web 2.0 Tools for Latest CRM App
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Apple And China Mobile Fail To Agree iPhone Deal
This is the second time that negotiations between the two companies have flopped, but Gao has said that China Mobile is still ready for more jaw-jaw if Apple is willing. With over 370 million subscribers, it's certainly in Apple's interests to pursue a deal with China Mobile, so we fully expect to see them all sitting around a nice cup of tea soon. On this day, years gone by ...Chernin Hints News Corp. to Buy into Video Gaming - 2005Motorola and Oakley Form JV for Wireless Products - 2005Oscar Voter Accused of Film Leak - 2004Did you know? Michael Powell got a TiVo for xmas - 2003Potential for Australian pay-TV DSL service - 2002 .
Rumor Control
A slew of Web sites jumped on the speculation and passed it along with a token dash of skepticism. What we heard: The Sega Dreamcast launched in the US on September 9, 1999. Despite boasting a library of highly regarded games including Soul Calibur, NFL 2K, and Jet Grind Radio, the system struggled to gain a foothold in the market. Less than a year and a half after the system's launch--and only a couple of months after Sony released the PlayStation 2--Sega officially gave up on the Dreamcast and game hardware altogether in January of 2001. Peter Moore, then-president and CEO of Sega of America, explained the company's withdrawal bluntly. "With the hardware game becoming increasingly competitive--especially for companies like Sega, whose pockets are not as deep as our competitors--we've chosen to place our bets on our software, our heritage, and our proven track record," Moore said at the time.
If we had the primary
For a change, the voters would go around the political parties and choose the party�s (or coalition�s) nominee directly. In the 2010 presidential race, a primary system would send presidential candidates Mar Roxas, Manny Villar, Noli de Castro and Bayani Fernando scrambling around the country way ahead of the May election. Every province would want to have the honor of holding the first primary, so the parties and the Comelec devise a system for that purpose. In our scenario, Catanduanes gets the privilege, and the presidential candidates campaign in Virac to win the first-ever Philippine primary. To Catanduanes fly the campaign teams of Mar (Oras Na!) Roxas and Manny (Sipag at Tiyaga) Villar for the opposition, and Noli (Magandang Gabi, Bayan) de Castro and Bayani (Pink na Pink) Fernando for the administration.
The world in 2008: a year and an era
This is the third year in succession openDemocracy has invited our contributors to look ahead to the year to come. The previous collections are: ▪ What does 2006 have in store? - parts one and two ▪ 2007: reflections and predictions The coming year has the potential to be a revolutionary one that forces European publics into a radical re-perception of the world. The Beijing Olympics will mark the shift from a Europe-centred world to an Asia-centred one. The hosting of this major spectacle is but one indication of China's arrival as a global superpower. A worldwide economic slowdown - perhaps recession - will accelerate the shift and make awareness of it unavoidable. And as liberal democracy continues to lose its monopoly on political discourse, the world's China-focus will increase interest in liberal democracy's competitors: Beijing's one-party capitalism or the Kremlin's "sovereign democracy".
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