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Again, though, let's not hail a solution as the solution. A targeted tool like loan modification is probably a more useful allocation of resources than a blanket policy like cheaper mortgages. Since half of all repossessed-home sales are in just four states (California, Michigan, Ohio and Florida), we can focus efforts there...
...success was the outrage it provoked, as critics charged David's father with exploiting his son's obvious discomfort by sharing it with the world. YouTube viewers seethed; media-types parsed the inherent ethical dilemmas with Kantian nuance. The tempest subsided when eight-year-old David, reached at his Florida home by a Wall Street Journal reporter, said that becoming an Internet celebrity was "exciting...
Crist is not in an enviable position these days, as he gets hit from all sides. Fiscal conservatives say his Accelerate Florida spending hasn't stopped the state's unemployment rate from rising above 8%, while those on the left say his lowering of Florida's exorbitant property taxes has given the GOP-led legislature an excuse to make steep budget cuts in schools and health care - cuts that Crist last month had to step in and reverse amid citizen complaints. "I'm a fiscal conservative," says Crist, "but I just returned from visiting an unemployment office in Orlando...
...some justifiable positions on the stimulus," says Leslie Lenkowsky, a public-affairs professor at Indiana University who served in George W. Bush's Administration with Indiana's Republican governor, Mitch Daniels. (Daniels also offered the stimulus support before Obama on Monday visited his state, another GOP stronghold that, like Florida, went for Obama.) "But I would find it amazing if in the end they didn't accept the money. The job of a congressional opposition is to oppose, but the job of state governors is to make state government work...
...commercial frontier. Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, another Seoul lab run by Hwang Woo Suk who led Snuppy's cloning at SNU but was later shunned by the international scientific community for fabricating research on human embryos, made headlines in early February for cloning a Labrador named "Lancey" for a Florida couple who paid $150,000 for the pup. Lee says he's cloned 35 dogs - and five wolves - in the past four years; Sooam, which is associated with a U.S.-based company called BioArts International, says it has cloned 75 dogs...