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BUSINESS WEEK: PEOPLE TO WATCH IN 2008
Will the credit crunch turn around? Will oil be less expensive, and will the U.S. housing market start to move up? Will the U.S. economy be in recession? Who will be the next President? Which emerging stock markets will be the strongest? And, most important, how will China handle the Olympic Games?
The people who know the answers to these questions will be the ones to keep your eyes on in 2008. Find out who they are in Business Week's slideshow. Click your way through to meet company execs from Richard Anderson of Delta to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook.
http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/01/0101_25towatch/index_01.htm?technology+slideshows
For a feature on Business Week's Businessperson of the Year, Mark Hurd of Hewlett-Packard, click on:
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/dec2007/db20071227_684654.htm
WEALTHIEST ZIPS IN THE O.C. AND CALIFORNIA
If you haven't updated your wealthiest zip codes in a while, you might want to take a look -- Newport Coast, 92657, is the wealthiest ZIP code in Orange County (O.C.), California, (with an average household income of $475,757, according to 2005 data from the Internal Revenue Service) -- and the community is barely 10 years old. It ranks fifth among California's wealthiest ZIP codes, quickly gaining on number four, Beverly Hills' famous 90210, where the average 2005 income was $476,155.
Tables for the county and state showing 2005 average household income and changes from 2004 can be found at:
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/money/article_1932994.php
A related story, "Newport Coast Has Wealthiest O.C. Zip," will tell you the names of residents including Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III, horror novelist Dean Koontz and L.A. Laker guard Kobe Bryant. Also mentioned: mansions with a median sale price of $2.26 million in October, and especially The Villa del Lago, an 18,000-square-foot cottage currently under construction on 12 1/2 acres, featuring a 20-car garage, guard house, tennis court, vineyard and horse stables, priced at $67 million.
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/money/article_1932962.php
But all is not sunny and bright in O.C. You may also want open the link to Orange County Home Prices and Sales, Early January. Sales have decreased 41.8 percent in a year and the median home price has decreased 11.2 percent. Figures are also available for October, November and December.
http://www.ocregister.com/business/orange-county-home-1966837-prices-and
Since we're all looking for philanthropic dollars, it might indeed be wise for us to look to the stars -- celebrities, that is, not the heavenly bodies. No pun intended. We know they earn a lot of money, but, usually, when we're looking at these stars we're told what they wear, how their love lives are going and how much they imbibe. Rarely, unless we're talking about Bono, do we learn much about their philanthropy -- that is, until this Web site came along. It advertises a collection of 880 charities and 973 celebrities. There is a search function, or you can click on More under Top Celebrities for an alphabetical listing of names to browse. Profiles show links to all of the star's nonprofit interests.
Click on More under Top Charities for a listing of charities by category (Abuse to Missing Children to Women). When you pull up a nonprofit's record, you will find links to other celebrities who work for the same cause, as well as other charities with the same supporters.
Pam Patton
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