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Still a lot more bottom in Vancouver Real Estate

This just in:  Vancouver has been ranked fourth on the world’s list of least affordable cities.  This is well ahead of cities like Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.  As most rational people know, the city’s thundering real estate...

Waiting For Spielberg..

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/magazine/magazinespecial/ MFMERHANT.html September 21, 2003 Waiting For Spielberg By MATTHEW ROSE Unlike most urban legends, the one about the Iranian exile stuck at the Paris airport for 15 years is true. Surrounded by a mountain of...

Wireless and Web Buzz Again as Wifi Catches On

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cidX2&ncidX2&e=5&u=/nm/20030513/wr_nm/tech_wifi_dc Wireless and Web Buzz Again as Wifi Catches On Tue May 13, 4:09 PM /By Christopher Noble/ PARIS (Reuters) – Landgrabbing and takeover frenzy are...

Goodbye, Concorde

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030410/bs_nm/ airlines_concorde_dc British Airways, Air France End Concorde Thu Apr 10, 9:48 AM ET Add Business – Reuters to My Yahoo! By Daniel Morrissey and Noah Barkin LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – The...

Veni, Vici, Vidi: Latin Lives On..

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,580910,00.html Veni, vidi, vici: how Latin lives on Latin has survived the fall of empire, the rise of the vernacular and the incomprehension of generations of schoolchildren. In this exclusive online essay from the...