| Medical Tourist Has Cosmetic Surgery Correction in Turkey
WorldMed Assist assisted Tina Iovene in flying to Turkey to take advantage of having quality cosmetic surgery at less than half the price shed been quoted in the U.S.
Staten Island, New York,Jan 02,2008-- -- Medical Tourism company WorldMed Assist (www.worldmedassist.com) assisted Tina Iovene in flying to Turkey to take advantage of having quality cosmetic surgery at less than half the price shed been quoted in the U.S. Just ten days after her departure, she was back home, healing quickly from dual surgeries: correction to the rhinoplasty done in the U.S. four years ago, and breast augmentation.
When I smiled, my nose was crooked, and it was hard to breathe on one side, Iovene said. My doctor in the U.S. wasnt interested in redoing the surgeryhe said I was too picky, and my nose was fine.
World's most recession-proof economy? The Super Bowl
VIP tickets to the "Super Village" in Scottsdale, where events such as a celebrity flag-football game featuring Pamela Anderson and Matt Leinart will be staged, are going for $500. The Super Village alone has 10 corporate sponsors aiming to connect with well-healed consumers. Pontiac will present a 50 Cent concert, while showing off its 2008 model. Samsung is prominently displaying its latest HDTVs. Some of the NFL's biggest sponsors have had their bells rung lately. Motorola last week reported horrible year-end results for 2007, with revenues falling 15 percent because of its sagging cell-phone business. Sprint Nextel lost 109,000 wireless subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2007 and recently announced it was laying off 7 percent of its workforce and closing 8 percent of its company-owned retail stores.
Highlands Ranch Healthcare Plaza is acquired
Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT Inc., based in Santa Ana, closed the acquisition on Dec. 19. The purchase price wasn't disclosed. BRCP Highlands Ranch LLC was the seller. Highlands Ranch Healthcare Plaza has two adjacent, three-story medical office buildings totaling approximately 80,000 square feet. They were built in 1983 and 1985 on nearly seven acres. The buildings are home to a mix of medical services, including family practice, dermatology, plastic surgery, orthodontics, onsite lab and diagnostic testing stations, an after-hours urgent care center and a pharmacy. The property is 82 percent occupied. Tenants include Littleton Pediatric Center, Family & Occupational Medicine and Vision Care Specialists PC. .
Wanderers spoil Keegan's party
Newcastle Utd 0, Wanderers 0. WANDERERS produced a determined rearguard action to spoil Kevin Keegan's homecoming party. On the back foot for much of the second half, they shut out the Newcastle attack, frustrating the Toon Army and denying Keegan a win on his emotional return to Tyneside. The better side in the first half, Wanderers had to withstand much more pressure in the second as Newcastle were more threatening. .
Bubble bursting?
But this episode seems more serious than the dotcom one however, and it probably won't be resolved quite as easily. Why? Because in 2000, we only managed to soften the landing from the crashing of the stock market bubble by creating a housing bubble. That supported American consumer spending, (enabling Asia to carry on exporting). Alas this time there are no more obvious bubbles to create. So today's cut in interest rates will struggle to support consumer spending at the levels necessary to act as a motor to the global economy. Indeed, fiscal policy will struggle to do that either. If you want to know the challenge facing the world, it is summarised by the American savings ratio - the proportion of disposable income saved by American households.
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