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...According to the First American CoreLogic report, the states with the highest percentage of negative-equity borrowers are the usual suspects. After Nevada (55.1%) and Michigan (40%), Arizona (31.8%), Florida (30.3%) and California (29.5%) round out the top five. Those statewide averages, though, mask a lot of local variation. One pattern: exurbs, where homes are newer and loans more likely to have been signed during the bubble years, are harder hit. For instance, in the metro area that includes Los Angeles, 23% of homeowners are faced with negative equity. Fifty miles to the east, in the area that includes Riverside...
...diets, only that no one diet is better than another. “The public might be confused as to what the perfect diet is, and this study suggests people should be focusing... on counting calories,” said Stephen D. Anton, a professor at the University of Florida who trained the dietitians who helped conduct the study. “It’s hard to predict how the weight loss industry will respond,” The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, assigned over 800 overweight adults to one of four diets, each composed...
...five houses on one piece of Florida property. His main house is 24,000 sq. feet and has a guest suite designed to look exactly like the presidential suite in the George V Hotel in Paris...
College for many is about learning to live in a new environment and culture, and our current lack of snow days does an unsatisfactory job of introducing students from warmer climates the institution of the snow day. We expect students from Los Angeles, Florida, and other warm spots to take on the harshness of our winters yet do not allow them the benefit of cancellations that are pillars of elementary and high-school education in New England...
...lack of imminent death fueled much of the debate in the 2005 case of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman in a vegetative state whose feeding tube was removed - causing eventual death - after a protracted legal and political battle. Schiavo's husband Michael said Terri would not have wanted to be kept alive, while her parents had argued her mental capacity could have improved with therapy. Acorss the Atlantic, Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman in a similar non-responsive state, died in February 2009 under circumstances that mirrored the Schiavo case. While "right-to-die" cases are different than "assisted suicide...