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Sugarman had only one concern about filming during a Michigan winter: snow. Even on that front, however, the state has cooperated; after three months of record-high snowfall, the eight weeks of production were precipitation-free. Still, on a frigid first day of spring, it's not hard to spot the Los Angeles - based crew members working the shoot on these Detroit streets. They're the ones huddled in their matching parkas, shivering...
...Washington Shelter for Homeowners The U.S. Treasury Department announced an expansion of the Obama Administration's Making Home Affordable housing program, aimed at helping struggling homeowners manage their mortgage payments. The new provisions offer cash incentives of $500 up front and up to $250 a year--as long as the loan remains current--to lenders who are willing to reduce balances, plus $250 a year for borrowers who make payments on time. In response to complaints that the initial plan did not provide enough help to homeowners underwater on "piggyback" second mortgages, the new initiative would also cut interest rates...
...made available over-the-counter, although pharmacists can exercise discretion about who they sell to. Should the outbreak turn into a global pandemic, there simply aren't enough drugs available for universal use; they will be given only to those suspected of being ill with swine flu, and to front-line healthcare and essential government workers as a prophylactic. (See five things you need to know about swine...
...lecture a few weeks ago, I observed a guy sitting in the row in front of me watching three-fourths of the movie “Twilight.” Two seats down from him, two people were going through Google images of Beyoncé. I turned to note this to my neighbor, who nodded while scrolling through her BlackBerry...
...year? And, why is Alabama consistently ranked near the bottom of the nation's education achievement tests, and what would Davis, as governor, do about it? "We pat ourselves on the back when we move from 46 to 42 in education," he tells the audience, standing in front of a large blue sign that says, in white and red ink, DAVIS 2010. There are a couple "uh-huhs" and "hmmmms" from the crowd, as the candidate makes clear Alabamans need "more of a sense of ambition than we've ever...