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...expat ranks swelled and foreigners put down roots, the city's tonier districts filled up. Prices for apartments in Western enclaves like Tanglin and Orchard doubled in value from 2004 to 2008 as buyers snapped them up. Waiting lists for coveted spots at international schools like the Singapore American School or United World College of South East Asia were so long that expats were encouraged to register their children at birth in order to gain admission four or five years later. The cost of joining the Singapore Island Country Club and the American Club soared as transferable memberships were bought...
...response to requests from DOC winemakers in the Trentino-Alto Adige region. Vintners note that boxes are cheaper and more eco-friendly than glass and can keep wine fresh longer. But while boxed wine may be losing its lowbrow stigma, hold on to that corkscrew: wines with the tonier DOCG (denominazione di origine controllata e garantita) designation are still bottle-only...
...Jenkins best screenplay. "A lot of people in this room didn't want to finance this movie," Jenkins noted, enjoying a bit of schadenfreude. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly also got kudos, with Schnabel taking the director award and his cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, also winning. Kaminski, accustomed to tonier parties as Steven Spielberg's cinematographer, sought to wave off the low-budget crowd. "All of the offers I'm getting to work for $3,000 a week," Kaminski said. "I can't do that...
...Which is about all that's left for female moviegoers to do. Except for the months from December to February, when the tonier Oscar hopefuls allow some good roles for actresses, women have practically disappeared from movies. A decade ago, when the teen audience had established itself as the dominant box office demographic, producers scrambled to "young down" their projects, casting actors in their 20s for roles written for characters in their 30s and 40s. Now, I wonder, are producers "guying up" their movies? Are they having romantic comedy and drama scripts rewritten from guy-girl...
Savings still go far in Central America. "I know people who live here on less than $1,000 a month," says Sadlier. Even in tonier Costa Rica, $1,500 buys monthly comforts (including $150 for a full-time housekeeper). Many doctors in Guatemala City, the capital near cosmopolitan Antigua, have been trained in the U.S. or Europe, and they make house calls. Retirees in Costa Rica can qualify for a $500-a-year version of Medicare or use private hospitals that cater to fussy foreigners. Is your ticker tuckered out? Open-heart surgery can be had for just...