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...summer months," says Brad Geisen, president and CEO of the online service. "More significantly, we're seeing an increase in foreclosures in a majority of states. These blanket increases may indicate that factors such as weakening sustainable home ownership and the volatility of the housing market are beginning to add to geographic economic factors that contribute to foreclosures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interest Rates and Your Real Estate Options | 8/9/2005 | See Source »

...target for anti-Darwinists. In 2000, 10 states had no mention of evolution in their curriculum standards. Now only Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi and Oklahoma--states with long creationist traditions--make this omission. In June, Alaska's state board of education was pressured by scientists, teachers and concerned citizens to add evolution to science standards that had avoided the topic. Other states, most notably Kansas and New Mexico, have wobbled on whether to teach evolution, deleting and then restoring it to state standards depending on who was elected to the school board. The Kansas reinstatement occurred after the state was given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evolution Wars | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

Observe the phrase “your inconsolable artist,” for example, which here has been declined enough to constitute linguistic torture under several international conventions (though, one must add, not necessarily under domestic ones). Here are the 6 cases, all of them troublesome...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: No Crime, Just Punishment | 7/29/2005 | See Source »

...from that same left side of the ship in the final seconds of the flight. Now the film that already got a once-over is going to be looked at a lot more closely. "We can't discount that those [events] may be connected," Dittemore admits, then hastens to add, "but a lot of things look like they're going to be the smoking gun in this business and turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

...your control (see the self-test), chances are that you have a problem. It's a problem of special interest to researchers because it reveals a lot about addiction as a whole. One of the difficulties in understanding drug or alcohol abuse is that the minute you add a chemical to the body, you muddy the mental processes. "It's hard to tease the connection out because you don't know how much is the drug and how much is the behavior," says Whyte. "But gambling is a pure addiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Gambling Becomes Obsessive | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

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