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...With higher borrowing costs, mortgage applications have been falling and home prices have been leveling off in many markets. Taking away the mortgage deduction would further boost the cost of buying; even proponents of scrapping the deduction concede that home prices would take a hit, though they say the brunt would be taken at the high end of the market--homes at $1 million...
Since 1997, the H5N1 strain of the avian-flu virus has traveled steadily west across Asia. The current outbreak began in December 2003, infecting humans in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia. Although Southeast Asia has borne the brunt of the disease, scientists fear that infected migratory birds will spread it further, resulting in a global pandemic...
...country's whites, all signs appeared to point to a new and ominous phase of killing, one that seemed to bear out recent warnings by the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) that "soft" targets--meaning unarmed civilians, including whites--would no longer be off limits. Nonetheless, blacks suffered the brunt of the year-end violence. At least five people died in the township of Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused to observe a "black Christmas" boycott called by the militants to honor those who had died since the violence began in September 1984. In Natal province...
Hendricks seems altogether too chipper to be the brunt of controversy, but her chief extracurricular has seen its share of it on Harvard’s campus...
...rooms that will bear the brunt of the construction noise have become less desirable in housing lotteries. Students also object to the size of the building, and they complain that they weren’t informed about the plans earlier...