In the City, Relationships Reduced to Transactions
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At its heart, âLost in Beijingâ is a sturdy morality tale about innocence and corruption, wealth and want, sex and power.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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A deal reached last week between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a small Indian tribe to bring the largest urban casino in the country to a small city near here has been significantly scaled back.
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Travel: Mayor recruits Robert de Niro to soften the image of the Mean Streets.
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Prices for single-family homes fell in more than half of the nationâs biggest metropolitan areas in the last three months of 2006.
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The days of exchanging neighborhood news solely over the back fence or at the local post office are long gone. And often, by the time community newsletters are written, printed and distributed, the information is stale.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Punctuating a fundamental change in American family life, married couples with children now occupy fewer than one in every four households -- a share that has been slashed in half since 1960 and is the lowest ever recorded by the census.
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While some arts groups are likely to benefit from a change in New York Cityâs process for dispensing culture funds, those that fared well under the old system may face significant losses.
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When I moved to this pedestrian-friendly city with plentiful public transit and pricey parking, I said goodbye to auto repair bills, insurance premiums and gas pumps. Recently divorced, without kids to ferry around, I realized my dream of living car-free.
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JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 5 -- The lights dimmed. Couples skated purposefully onto the ice. And at the command of an unseen deejay, teenage lips touched in defiance of what even authorities here have grudgingly come to call "the kissing law."
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The commercial-to-condo conversion trend appears to have run its course, one of many signs that the downtown office market has bounced back.
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The local merchant social network brings some complementary elements to Citysearch's offering.
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ThereÂs a lot of talk about the importance of sustainable tourism that diminishes your impact on the environment while giving back to the community, but talk is cheap.
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The Chicago Board Options Exchange said Tuesday its directors approved steps to reduce its financial ties to two other exchanges in town.
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With stock markets around the world falling last week, New Yorkers cut back on the essentials, like dry-cleaning their sheets.
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Hundreds of the cityâs best and brightest are leaving, driven away by crime, high rents and what many say is a dissipating sense of possibility.
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By some measures, fewer people are managing to stay in the middle class.