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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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. But I still need wheels for the occasional errand or day trip.
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The credit squeeze has even affected the office market in red-hot Manhattan, as prices have declined because loans are not being made freely.
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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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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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Some hubs of cheap retail are struggling, but not all of them.
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Many people now find sense of community more important than privacy.
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Two years ago, at the height of the housing boom, developers realized that hotel property had fallen out of favor. Residential property was worth more, and travelers weren't willing to pay top dollar to stay in fancy hotels.
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The crossroads of high-finance and politics used to exist only at Wall Street and Broadway. Now there's a newer investment crowd, less buttoned-down and more likely to be found wearing deck shoes in a Greenwich, Conn., marina than wing tips in lower Manhattan.
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Facing the loss of jobs and civic prestige, Boston turns to institutions that won't leave.
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For many men, loyalty is sacred. Except when it isn't.
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For a growing number of churches, the boundary between sacred space and marketplace is coming down.
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In the face of gentrification, a waning sense of belonging is being felt in gay neighborhoods across the nation.
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Amsterdam Avenue is no longer a homely cousin of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, the strong retail corridors on Manhattanâs Upper West Side.
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Encysive restructures to reduce its cash burn.
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Less than five years ago the idea of gay couples joining in a legal union akin to marriage was enough to rip apart the very social fabric of this small New England state that prides itself on its sense of community.
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By Frank E. Lockwood, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 16--When it severed ties with its denomination, Church of the Apostles forfeited more than its "Episcopal" label. It also gave up its buildings, its bank accounts, its furniture, even its name tags.