Word: arens
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...billion on efforts to help homeowners, especially those facing foreclosure. But one of the leading ideas on how to do that - rewriting home loans to make mortgages affordable to struggling borrowers - is based on a startling lack of data about what works, and early evidence suggests that many lenders aren't going to make substantial changes without serious strong-arming...
...when a school attempts to liquidate part of its art collection, an option that it appears Brandeis is still considering, museum groups aren't the only bodies paying attention. Three years ago, Fisk University, facing a serious budget shortfall, attempted to sell two paintings from a collection donated to the school in 1949 by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. A Tennessee chancery court turned down the deal, finding that it violated the terms of O'Keeffe's bequest. When Fisk then negotiated a $30 million deal to share its entire collection with the museum being built in Bentonville...
...theorize that drug-using kids may think that prescription and other drugs are harder to detect by urinalysis, so they switch from pot to something else. (This assumption is usually incorrect - most drug tests capture everything from heroin to Valium - although certain lesser-used drugs like the anesthetic ketamine aren't detected by the usual tests...
...gave me $2,000 for the right to computer-animate an old column of mine about going to a water-treatment facility in Orange County, California, to drink tap water filtered from sewage. NationalBanana.com intended to sell this to a cable channel, but it turns out that cable channels aren't in the business of supporting a series of avant-garde poop jokes. (See the top 10 Sundance hits of all time...
...Some, however, aren't so pleased with the deference the Obama team showed. Apparently responding to public disaffection, a small but growing number of moderate Republican and Democratic Senators are opposing the bill, which they claim has become loaded down with pet projects and spending that have little to do with spurring immediate job creation and economic growth. "Unfortunately, the House-passed bill is much more like an omnibus bill than a stimulus bill," Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins told reporters on Wednesday after meeting with the President. She asked him to force Democrats to remove things from the stimulus...