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...table to offer a new credit - $6,500 - to move-up buyers who have lived in their home for at least five years. The Senate is near a vote on its version, which includes an extension and expansion of the credit, and the House could quickly accept the Senate version once it is passed. (See 10 ways to spend your tax refund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Home Buyers' Tax Credit Be Extended? | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard, “Atlanta” generates as much recognition as “Timbuktu,” or perhaps even less—it’s a city that one vaguely remembers hearing about but doesn’t remember in what context. Although I accept jokes at the expense of my being from the uncivilized terrain of the South with a patient smile, I find it a bit frustrating that brilliant Harvard students can be so ignorant about the region. How is it that students who can spew out detailed histories of Shanghai or Cairo...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: In Defense of the South | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

Uber acknowledges the stereotype that a lot of female rugby players are lesbians. “Our team kind of makes a joke of it,” she says. “You have to accept that if you play rugby you play because you love the sport...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rough, Yet Personal, Sport | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...have melting may mean air temperatures have increased, but it doesn't necessarily," says Philip Mote, who heads the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. "And in fact, the temperature on the summit of Kilimanjaro is essentially always below freezing, which makes it hard to accept warming as the reason [for glacier loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Kilimanjaro's Glaciers Fading? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...Asking the Arab states to accept Israel's offer to simply slow down construction in the West Bank and its refusal to stop building and demolishing Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem - after Obama publicly and repeatedly demanded it - has battered the Administration's credibility in Arab capitals. And Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated on Monday his refusal to heed Washington's call to begin negotiating with Netanyahu in the absence of a settlement freeze. Abbas has promised his public and his Fatah movement, which is deeply skeptical of the prospects for dealing with Israel's hawkish government, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalemate Looms in Obama's Mideast Peace Effort | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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