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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The realty space is being disrupted.
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In a long-depressed Washington area, gentrification is finally taking hold.
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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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Its coffee shops of the past are gone, but the chain can rebound by slowing down.
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Gang killings in the city dropped sharply last year after local, state and federal agencies worked together to crack down on street violence
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As a city moves to curb its canine population, typically timid middle-class citizens find themselves fighting the power
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New York is on the verge of becoming a wireless city, but not everyone is happy about the prospect.
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Galvanized by the record profits at energy companies, the city has shaken off the effects of the Enron implosion.
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As real estate values fall, local governments from Virginia to California are cutting services and shelving projects.
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With two of Boston's best-known mutual fund companies put up for sale last month , the city may seem like it's losing its edge in a sector it helped build.
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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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Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
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Although mobile phones have long been a part of the business community, they are quietly becoming entrenched in personal lives.
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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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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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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.