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...performance: so far only 9% of the 3 million-plus at-risk mortgagees have received relief, like rate or principal reductions to reduce monthly payments, despite the federal Making Home Affordable Program. This year MHA made $75 billion available to the nation's 38 major home lenders for that express purpose. (Read "Is Florida the Sunset State...
...death panels" to decide whether lifesaving care for the elderly is cost-effective - despite the fact that the bill says nothing about either of these frightening issues. In fact, geriatricians - doctors trained specifically to care for the elderly - support the provision, arguing that it will encourage patients to express their own preferences rather than leave doctors and family members to guess what they want once they're no longer able to say so themselves. There are only about 7,500 geriatricians in the U.S., and one of them is Dr. Laurie Jacobs, vice chairman of the Department of Medicine...
...risk of seeming old-fashioned, I would like to express alarm at the trend toward the "death of handwriting" [Aug. 3]. As a mother who is teaching her daughter to write, I can say it is hard work, and much discipline is involved. I think this is a statement on our increasing lack of discipline as a society. What's to become of us? Julie Sumner, LANESBOROUGH, MASS...
...With no bailout help from New Delhi in sight, Air India is bidding to bring its profitable international budget brand - Air India Express - to Indian turf. Air India Express, which has been flying routes to the Middle East and Southeast Asia for the past five years, will configure 10 of its 57 planes for budget flights by September, says Air India managing director Arvind Jadhav. The company plans to increase the number of budget flights a day from 25 initially to 43 by October. Ticket fares will be down 25% making it attractive for fliers. The logic, says aviation minister...
...that it is difficult to watch young men and women walk by on the street, flirting and touching each other with limbs exposed. In Azerbaijan, he said, a woman generally speaks sweetly and softly while looking only at her male partner. Royal feels that in New York he cannot express his opinions about relationships, or about religion more broadly. He believes that his English is bad enough that he could not hope to express the truths contained in the Koran, and encouraged me to read it for myself. Though they attend services at a nearby mosque, Royal and Yasin, working...