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...will give struggling homeowners a workout. Why do we only want to come in after the fact? My vision for our future is that it should be planned for and priced into the initial mortgage. We could update mortgages in a way they protect people from things beyond their control- like high national unemployment...
...efforts to recognize outbreaks. Real-time warnings would allow authorities to stay well ahead of potential pandemics, prepare local populations with appropriate prevention and treatment, and reduce overall illness and deaths. The Google Flu Trends service, which was launched in the U.S. in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is now working with Mexican officials to track search trends in that country. The goal is to help authorities discern whether and where the disease is spreading, getting worse or starting to subside...
...that the Sri Lankan government long ago forsook the “richness of plurality” and pushed Tamils to the peripheries of power. They must rediscover that richness and bring them back into the fold. Tamils must be granted the immediate ability to not only non-violently control affairs where they live, but also to have a voice in the national government, so that they may one day consider themselves just as Sri Lankan as the Sinhalese...
Three of the nine cases of influenza reported at the Harvard Dental School earlier this week were confirmed as H1N1 “swine flu” yesterday after the Massachusetts Department of Public Health received notice from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, where the testing was conducted. Since the announcement of the original cluster of nine cases on Friday, no new suspected cases have been identified among Harvard faculty, staff, and students, allaying fears of an impending epidemic. As a result, the Harvard Medical School resumed full clinical and classroom functioning as of yesterday, according to David...
...chief of Panama, but only the nominal boss of the canal authority, Martinelli will have little technical control over what will be the nation's most important order of business during his five-year presidency (he is constitutionally limited to one term). That's the Panama Canal expansion, a massive dig that will add a third set of locks able to handle the supersize, "post-Panamax" ships. Those vessels can hold up to 12,000 20-ft.-long containers and are considered the future of commercial-cargo shipping...