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...models, 15 percent of which are hybrids like the Toyota Prius and Toyota RAV4 and Ford Escape SUVs. Also available are high-end vehicles like the Mini Cooper and BMW 325i, and soon, the BMW 5 Series. The cars can be found scattered around cities like Boston and San Francisco, or in places like New York state commuter rail stations, Washington Metro stations, or Ikea stores, some of which reserve parking spots for Zipcars...
...bedroom Harlem apartment in exchange for help with his dog-training business, used to ask his roommates to "find some time" to help out, but he now requires them to dedicate three hours each weekday to those chores. Similarly, Gerry Freitas, an athletic recruiter based in San Jose, Calif., enjoyed a collegial relationship with his housemate but asked her to leave after she started slacking off on the typing she had agreed to do in exchange for reduced rent. "I can't say, 'I have a nice friend,' and let my work fall by the wayside," he says...
...financial burden of hiring a housekeeper or the emotional commitment of living with a lover. He found the solution in what you might call an adult au pair. With more Americans single than ever and rents sky high in cities like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, many women are open to the idea of keeping house for a casual acquaintance or even a stranger in exchange for a rent-free place to stay--as long as there are no sexual strings attached. According to nationwide matching service RoommateExpress.com about 25% of its male clients specifically...
...long, Chunky-bar-shaped plastic device. "The Slingbox gives you exactly what your home TV experience is when you're on the road," says Sling Media's 38-year-old chief executive Blake Krikorian, who co-invented the gadget with his younger brother Jason so that they could watch San Francisco Giants baseball games while globetrotting. "It frees the TV from the confines of the living room." Krikorian put the device to the test in Cannes a few weeks ago. Attending an annual television conference called MipTV, where producers, broadcasters and Internet companies buy and sell programming, he stayed...
...aberrant fluke," that's not exactly true. More than 1 in 3 doctors in a 2002 survey by the Harvard School of Public Health reported errors in their own or a family member's medical care. Dr. Robert Wachter, chief of the medical service at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, who co-wrote last year's best seller Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, says he has seen it all: patients who had the wrong leg amputated, were given the wrong (and deadly) medicines, had surgical instruments left behind...