RESORT MARKET IN MEXICO STILL HOT (San Jose Mercury News)
Real estate experts in Mexico worry that the giant sound they hear is the softening U.S. housing market sucking money Americans have poured into vacation homes south of the border.
Gere has serious goal for new film (Orange County Register)
Peole column of celebrity news. Relevant, internationally flavored People news today? Are we joking? No, we wouldn't stoop to taking cheap shots at Richard Gere . Well, at least not in this case.
In Britain, good things in small packages (Los Angeles Times)
I had been on hold for nearly an hour, killing time by doodling tiny airplanes flying around a spinning Earth. Uplifting classical music played in my ear, but I was in a deep blue funk as I waited for an airline booking agent to answer a question.
Avoid protest crowds and leave the bling at home (The Wichita Eagle)
EYES WIDE OPEN Terrorist threats. Political demonstrations. Late-night muggings. Pickpockets. Travel is supposed to be fun, right? But the first time your cash and credit cards are pilfered on a London street corner, or you find yourself caught in the middle of a crowded protest in Mexico City, you may wonder why you didn't just stay home.
Destination: Sales Meetings (Sales and Marketing Management)
You know something is wrong when the destination for the annual sales meeting overshadows the meeting itself—and not in a good way. Unfortunately, that's what happened recently for AtHome America, a direct sales organization based in Alsip, Ill., that relies on in-home parties to sell home goods.