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...troubles that exist in distinct pockets can ripple outward. In the northern suburb of Thornton, Stephanie Brown is trying to sell her four-bedroom house for $445,000, just enough to break even on her investment, since she's eager to move closer to her new job. Yet in a month on the market, she's had only a single showing. On one side, she is up against home builders who are knocking $100,000 off the price of houses similar to hers. On the other, she faces a market flooded with foreclosed properties, like the hundreds up for sale...
...these successes won't necessarily make NextGen a silver bullet. First is the question of safety. Because the satellite technology lets aircraft maintain shorter distances from each other, planes will be able to fly closer together. Blakey insists the planes will be at safe distances, but for air traffic controllers that's not enough. "We have 1100 fewer air traffic controllers working today than we did on Sept. 11," says Doug Church of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, a union currently in a labor dispute with the FAA. Air traffic controllers are already overworked, Church adds, and NextGen does...
...Even critics might agree that the Administration's concern for developing nations in this particular case is admirable - as long as it's not simply a justification for paying less attention to the endangered site closer to home...
...overall traffic has been disappointing: the site has nearly 8.7 million registered members, but the number of active users is closer to 600,000. One reason for this gap may be that the technology isn't intuitive. (I spent my first hour on Second Life wearing both sneakers and high heels because I couldn't figure out how to discard one pair. And yes, I passed Computer Science...
...been talking in different terms about the crisis there. Listen, for example, to Liu Guijin, China's Special Envoy on Darfur, speaking in June at a conference on Africa: "China supports African countries in their efforts to improve democracy and the rule of law, and to practice good governance ... Closer cooperation between China and Africa is helpful to African countries in maintaining stability and enhancing governing capacity...