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...believed in "sweat equity" and the "theology of enough." It took a while, however, for Millard Fuller, who died on Feb. 3 at age 74, to develop that selfless philosophy into Habitat for Humanity, which he co-founded with his wife Linda...
...donate the proceeds and move to Koinonia Farm, a Christian commune in Americus, Ga. It was there that they conceived their first ideas about building homes with no-interest mortgages for the poor. The family packed up for Mbandaka, Zaďre (now Democratic Republic of Congo), in 1973 to develop a program there...
...effect relationship, since the sharpest decline in women's breast cancer rates occurred in the year after the WHI was halted and its data released, between 2002 and 2003 - too soon to see such a dramatic change in a complex disease like breast cancer, which takes many years to develop...
...deal with facts, I was trained as an engineer. Let’s not let the perfect get in the way of the good.” Leer said. “If you really want to stabilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we have to develop carbon sequestration tactics.” He cited coal’s generation of 49% of America’s electricity, the increasing demand in developing countries such as India and China, and the global availability of coal as evidence that it will continue to be an integral energy source...
...Building the securities which were sold as mortgage-backed financial products was complex. Financial firms had to buy large pools of existing mortgages and develop mathematical models for the cash flows they would produce well into the future as homeowners made their monthly payments. These pools were cut into tranches with each tranche carrying a probability of how many mortgages in it would pay out to maturity and how many would fail. After these calculations were made, they were sold to banks, brokerage firms, and other financial institutions as high-yield paper. The major credit agencies gave these securities...