Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wild. From the supercharged Pacific Northwest to struggling Arizona, no region claims a wider range of strengths and weaknesses. Paced by high-flying Boeing, which is working off a four-year backlog of aircraft orders, Seattle is attracting newcomers from across the country. The median price of a Seattle home rose 23% in the third quarter to $110,000, marking the largest increase in the U.S. By contrast, Phoenix is mired in a real estate depression in the wake of a heedless building spree. Lenders foreclosed on more than 15,000 residential mortgages last year, up nearly 20% from...
...defense cuts, which would have a sizable impact on Southern California's aerospace industry. Economists predict that unemployment in California will rise from 5.1%, vs. the current 5.3% U.S. average, to 7.4% in 1992, largely as a result of defense cutbacks. Meanwhile, the median price of a Los Angeles home reached $224,000 in the third quarter of 1989, up 18.7% from the previous year. Says Stephen Levy, director of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy in Palo Alto: "It's very unlikely that home prices will rush ahead in the next two years...
...closer look at the seemingly lifeless land- and seascape reveals an amazing abundance of life. Like most of the coastal waters around the continent, McMurdo Sound is filled with plankton and fish, and its thick ice is perforated by the breathing holes of Weddell seals. Nearby Cape Royds is home to thousands of Adelie penguins, which hatch their eggs in the world's southernmost rookery. Skuas -- seagull-like scavenger birds -- scout the breathing holes and the margins between sea ice and land, seeking seal carcasses and unguarded baby penguins to feast on. The ice itself is permeated with algae...
Around the edges, though, Antarctica is more than just an icebox. On the Antarctic Peninsula, which reaches like a finger to within 965 km (600 miles) of South America, the temperature has risen as high as 15 degrees C (59 degrees F). The peninsula is home to the continent's only two species of flowering land plants, a grass and a pearlwort. Off the coast is one of the world's most productive marine ecosystems. Antarctica supports 35 species of penguins and other birds, six varieties of seals, twelve kinds of whale and nearly 200 types of fish...
...more summer residents can hang out at the four Navy bars, use a two-lane bowling alley, take aerobics classes at the gym, and borrow videotapes from a library. Recent social events included a chili-cooking contest and an amateur comedy night. Even at the South Pole Station, home to no more than 90 hardy workers, there is an exercise room, a sauna, a poolroom and a library equipped with wide- screen...