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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nearly 1 in 5 Owe More Than Homes Are Worth | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

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...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Makes Snow Sense | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assisted Suicide | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...other day," Wagoner says, "I had a visit from a corporate executive who moved to town and bought a house." Which should be fine; a big wheel need not fear a big mortgage. But this guy's one strike was moving from Florida, where the real estate market is so screwed up that judges in one county are hearing nearly 1,000 foreclosure cases a day. Mr. Exec was stuck with his old house too, and that one was dragging him down, down - until there was nothing left to do but pay a visit to the bankruptcy attorney. " I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...disappointed to move on, but we’re going to move on with optimism.” Tompkins also said that he is still looking to open a “Life is Good” store at a different location and has considered Cape Cod and even Florida. David M. Orazine, who has worked at Everything’s Jake since July of last year, also attributed the store’s waning sales to the recession. “People just aren’t buying and consumer confidence is down, although you don?...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Store Closing As Sales Plummet | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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