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...homeowners feel more confident about spending, the U.S. housing market has tumbled. Construction of single-family homes dropped 18% in the third quarter of 2006, and real estate prices have cooled, particularly in overheated markets like California. Steve Steele, 53, made a good living buying houses on credit in San Diego, fixing them up and then reselling them for a lush profit. But now he's shifting his focus to New Mexico. "I think reality has set in," he says. "California is going to be flat for some time...
...less of a threat to American Airlines' fortress hub at Dallas--Fort Worth International. Virgin America's planned rally website, letVAFly.com uses the same technology Southwest did to link consumers wanting to complain with legislators and officials--especially those in California, since Virgin America is based outside of San Francisco...
...world. No American has ever made it onto the winner's podium in the nine previous meets that have been held. But Gavin Kaysen means to change that. At just 27, Kaysen is already head chef at El Bizcocho, the restaurant at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif., which the Zagat Survey has named one of the best places to dine in that city, and he has outfilleted, outsautéed and outroasted 30 other contenders to become the official U.S. representative at the Bocuse. "If there is something I want, I go and get it," Kaysen says...
ELECTED. Cal Ripken Jr., 46, "Iron Man" of the Baltimore Orioles who played in a record 2,632 consecutive games; and Tony Gwynn, 46, a 15-time All- Star with the San Diego Padres; to baseball's Hall of Fame; by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Voters overwhelmingly rejected nominee Mark McGwire, who slugged 583 career homers and was the first man to hit 70 in a single season, but has refused to address persistent allegations of steroid...
...problem of rising tuitions hardly surprises Jennifer Pae, the president of the United States Student Association. The 2005 graduate of the University of California at San Diego said students feel pinched from every direction. Federal grants are down, student loan interest rates are up, and tuition continues to rise. "We're seeing students across the U.S. locked out of an education," she said. "Federal aid, especially, has decreased. Students are having to work two and even three jobs to make...