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...your loan, along with all others, will be assets in a bankruptcy proceeding. Chances are, some bank will come along and buy the loans, and then you'll have to mail your mortgage payment to a new address. That's it. The callable mortgage--in which a lender can demand its money back--pretty much ended with the Great Depression...
Even in Sierra Leone there are glimmers of hope. Aid organizations recently began training traditional birth attendants; several towns now demand that they deliver babies in clinics, where nurses can monitor their work. An hour east of Freetown, I visited a village where local elders had just passed a law requiring all women to give birth at a clinic or face fines of about $8--more than the clinic fee. And the World Bank, UNICEF and the British government's Department for International Development have agreed to jointly invest $262 million over the next three years to overhaul Sierra Leone...
Like Chuck, NBC's Life should have an advantage returning poststrike: its episodes are also designed to be enjoyed individually, with simple ongoing plots. This format was in vogue at the networks in 2007, a step back from complicated serials like Lost that virtually demand a postgraduate degree to watch. The strategy amounts to unintentional strike-proofing, since it requires viewers to remember less mythology. Like canned peas, these shows are just as enjoyable after a year on the shelf...
...We’ll go out and look for people interested—which we’ll probably not have to do because there’s a lot of demand,” he said...
Schwartz, significantly, is the first non-fighter pilot to head the Air Force in a generation (he is a pilot, but primarily of special-operations aircraft). To meet the soaring demand for drone operators, he says fledgling pilots will be used. But the service soon will "develop an unmanned aircraft systems operator career field with specialized training potentially distinct from current manned pilot training," he said. That will come as a relief to many young pilots who have feared having their flying careers crimped by being ordered to fly drones from Nevada's Creech Air Force Base. Schwartz said...