That Santa Monica property, a quirky melange of nine red barns sitting incongruously in the heart of one of Southern California's most affluent neighborhoods, is where things all started for Rosenfield, who escaped an unhappy and impoverished childhood …

Struggling to pay rent and tuition on her salary as a waitress in Almaty, the Kazakh commercial capital, Samal says she'd drop her boyfriend in a heartbeat if a wealthy older man offered to make her his second wife. “Becoming a tokal would be a fairy …

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The plain fact is that schools in poor neighborhoods are academically disadvantaged compared to those in more affluent communities. If dealing with poverty is too difficult, improving school curricula might be more attainable. The OECD report found …

"Apparently they think that everyone in Marin is affluent," said Deluxe, who would like to see the span run by Caltrans, the agency which operates all other Bay Area bridges. "Where does this end? $10 tolls? $15 dollars? $20?" Transit costs. The bridge …

They worship him in this rich, air-conditioned offshoot of Johannesburg, built to provide a haven from endemic crime. And in …. Official events begin on Tuesday with a mass memorial service planned at the FNB Stadium on the edge of Soweto. A huge …

Modern retail food and beverage stores have more standardized management systems compared to the traditional retail stores and are located in densely populated and more affluent areas in Thailand. “Convenience stores, hypermarkets and supermarkets …

Current tax law provides an enormous preference for employer-provided health insurance, a preference whose benefit goes mostly to the affluent. A freer market in health insurance means eliminating this tax preference, presumably through a tax credit …

Although I'm curious to see how healthy, affluent professionals would purchase (say) knee and hip replacements if they faced the full costs, this won't save much money. Most people in a position to make such choices don't consume much health care.