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...last three months of 2008, according to a survey of large apartment buildings in 79 metro markets by real estate analytics firm Reis. Even though landlords often find it tough to raise rent prices in winter months, the fourth quarter's decline is significant for being the first quarterly drop since the beginning of 2003. (See who's to blame for the financial crisis...
...drop of Palestinian blood is more valuable than the treasures of the world.' KING ABDULLAH OF SAUDI ARABIA, on donating $1 billion to rebuild Gaza...
...start with the statistics: First, most plane crashes are more like this one than we think. More people survive than die. Aircraft in distress don't drop, screaming, out of the sky into the fires of hell. They end up on the ground or in water, and people must get out quickly. Those who fare best are usually those who are prepared: the pilot who has flown for four decades and trained for calamity; the man in the exit row who has read the safety card...
...Bank of England was created more than 300 years ago, and the banking industry may have already received $55 billion in government money, but nervous British lenders are simply not lending enough. The result: British GDP will tumble 2.7% this year, Ernst & Young forecast on Monday, the biggest drop since 1946. "Without additional government intervention," it added, "a deep recession could evolve into a depression...
...find an empty desk all for yourself. I, however, have been holed up in Lamont since last Thursday, trying to finish my junior thesis, retiring to the cushy chairs at night, only to drag myself back to my study spot come sunrise. And you think a casual 3 p.m. drop-by warrants a desk? Now don’t get me wrong. I understand how frustrating it is to finally muster the resolve to march over to Lamont only to scour every floor, and find one absentee desk after another, effectively claimed by littered with open textbooks and marked...