Global Briefing: May 7, 2001
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SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE RENTS $56 Price per sq. ft., April 2000 $38 Price today (SOURCE: WHITNEY CRESSMAN)
FANCY WINE $2,750 Winning bid for a bottle of 1992 Screaming Eagle on winebid.com February 2000 $1,350 Winning bid for the same vintage today
COMPUTER SERVERS $8,000 Estimated price of a Sun E-250 server $4,500 Price it recently sold for on bid4assets.com
RESTAURANT RESERVATIONS Two weeks Wait for a reservation at Farallon, a trendy San Francisco restaurant in April 2000 A few hours (if that) Wait last month
AMAZON.OVERSEAS
Last month Amazon.com turned in better-than-expected first-quarter results. A key contributor, it seems, was strong book sales overseas. Here's a sample of what's selling well abroad:
BRITAIN Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution --Robert C. Atkins
GERMANY Der Ewige Gartner (The Constant Gardener) --John le Carre
FRANCE 203 Facons de Rendre Fou un Homme au Lit (203 Ways to Drive a Man Crazy in Bed) --Julie Saint-Ange
JAPAN Toshi Senryaku no Hasso Ho: Yukkuri Kakujitsu ni Kanemochini Naro (Strategic Investment Planning: Become Rich Slowly but Surely) --Takeshi Kimura
Cheap Chateaux!
Update: The France Chateaux agency (TIME Global Business, April) advises us that its new Web address is francechateaux.com
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By Daren Fonda and Victoria Rainert/New York and Tim Larimer/Tokyo
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