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Demand for more moderately priced homes is weak as well. Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University in Atlanta, estimates that each year between 2002 and 2006, some 68,000 permits for new homes were issued here, even as only 30,000 jobs were being added annually. "Now," Dhawan says, "it's catching up." The shrinking corps of real estate agents here are taking desperate measures, like offering two-bedroom condos for the price of a one-bedroom unit...
...announced, and most observers expect it would take months, if not years, for the EPA to produce rules that could control the 7.3 billion metric tons of CO2 the U.S. produces, from sources that range from giant power plants to planes and cars. The initial regulations would likely center on emissions from motor vehicles - the cause behind the 2007 Supreme Court case that originally spurred the endangerment finding. (In the case, Massachusetts v. EPA, the court found that the EPA had a responsibility to regulate carbon from cars - despite arguments to the contrary by the George W. Bush-era agency...
...that support the economy.” But Harvard does have an enormous responsibility—that of educating around 20,000 individuals a year. The university is tasked with producing knowledge and research that ranges from cures for diseases to models for understanding modernity. Harvard exists as a center of teaching and scholarship, and it is these activities that the government and taxpayers have deemed valuable enough to afford it tax-exempt status...
...President Faust’s lunch at Eliot. The group has also staged rallies against layoffs, most recently this past Thursday, in front of the Holyoke Center...
...students demonstrated in front of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, and demanded that Hu's political standing - blemished by his removal from power - be rehabilitated. "By the time Hu's funeral came around, 200,000 students had settled in the large public square, a place that would remain the center of activities until the morning of June...