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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even such a law combined with financial incentives for modification won't guarantee that servicers will do what it takes to avoid foreclosure in the long run. Over the past few months, as loan defaults have continued to rise, the Maryland Office of Financial Regulation has noticed an increase in servicers crafting modifications with lower monthly payments. That's a good sign - unless, perhaps, those lower payments come with a balloon payment further down the road, as White has often noticed in the loans he's studied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Loan Modifications Lift the Housing Market? | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

Harvard researchers have successfully tested a new cancer vaccine in mice that could make previously expensive treatments accessible outside state-of-the-art medical centers. The therapy—which destroyed tumors in 90 percent of mice tested—uses small implants to avoid costly cell reprogramming outside the body. The latter technique requires practitioners to have extensive training and specialized facilities that are only available at elite hospitals. The findings, published in the journal Nature Materials last month, seek to combat those tumors that fool the immune system’s normal process of identifying dangerous substances. Normally...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lower-Cost Vaccine Kills Tumors in Mice | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

Disturbingly, the one area in which the U.S. has absolutely no influence is the security of Pakistan's nukes. The military won't let the U.S. anywhere near the arsenal. So the only way to avoid the nightmare of nuclear weapons in the hands of extremists is to trust in the Pakistani military's safeguards--and pray that Zardari and Kayani get serious about eliminating the extremists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Prospects | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...foods to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethics of Octuplets | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...foods to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Choroní: The World's Best Chocolate | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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