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Data on new-home sales, though, are notoriously imprecise and volatile. The margin of error on July's 9.6% gain, for instance, is plus or minus 13.4%. In other words, strictly speaking, the Commerce Department can't be sure the figure didn't actually go down. For that reason, new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Market: Has It Turned the Corner? | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

On Tuesday, The Daily Telegraph reported that the hormone tests had been carried out in South Africa before the World Championships and that the results had contributed to the decision by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to request a detailed gender-verification test of the athlete. Semenya came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Female Track Star a Man? No Simple Answer | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Despite his grass-roots support, it's uncertain if Williams can muster a council majority next month to pass the ordinance, which would likely be the first such law to emerge amid the Great Recession. (A Pennsylvania judge last year mandated a program in Philadelphia that requires lenders there to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One City May Punish Banks for Foreclosures | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

"You sit up discussing all your problems and think you've solved everything, but in fact you haven't done anything in the last four hours, because you've just been chewing khat and all your problems actually got worse," says Adel al-Shujaa, a professor of political science at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

But elsewhere, Mr. James, dressed in his buttoned-up red polo shirt, tie and khakis, is seen as playing to Japan's xenophobic tendencies. Annoyed expats have described the character as "white, dorky" and speaking "mangled Japanese." The chair of the Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens' Association of Japan, Arudo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Everyone Is Lovin' Japan's New McDonald's Mascot | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

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