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...when Tony Blair's Labour government came to power, the ground was shifting. Chris Smith, the only out MP for 14 years, was named Minister of Culture. "The really astonishing thing was that no one pointed out a gay man had been appointed to the Cabinet," he says from Britain's Environment Agency, which he now runs. The same year in Exeter, a constituency in southwestern England, Conservative party candidate Adrian Rogers attacked his openly gay opponent Ben Bradshaw by describing homosexuality as "a sterile, disease-ridden and godforsaken occupation." Voters awarded Bradshaw the seat, in one of the biggest...
That all ended with the bursting of the property bubble, as home prices fell by nearly half. Today new homes sit vacant with dead lawns and boarded-up windows. Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, calls the Inland Empire a "ground zero" for the nationwide housing bust. To first-time home buyers, though, its blighted cul-de-sacs appear as promising as the orange groves did to Dust Bowl refugees. Armed with an $8,000 tax credit and low mortgage rates, they have flocked to cities like Riverside, where auctioneers sell off foreclosed properties...
Doraiswamy is intrigued by many of the new brain-training products but dismayed by the lack of research on their effectiveness. "Manufacturers are putting the cart before the horse," he says. Ultimately, he wants his lab to be a testing ground for claims of enhanced cognition, a kind of Consumer Reports for brain-fitness products...
...scale caused a 10-ft.-high (3 m) wave to strike the Solomon Island of Rendova on Jan. 4, destroying the homes of more than 1,000 people--a third of its population. Recalling a deadly tsunami that claimed more than 50 lives in 2007, residents scrambled to higher ground--a move that may have saved them; no deaths or injuries have been reported...
...Crimson had to hit the ground running in Arlington, as the Ivy squad found itself outmatched against a top-25 team. The Sun Devils (7-4) opened the contest with three straight falls, the most devastating of which left Buxton (141) sidelined with a concussion. Given an 18-point cushion, Arizona State was never threatened, despite forfeiting the 197-lbs. bout. The Harvard captains set a strong example for the squad, though, earning decisions in a pair of tough efforts. O’Connor (18-0) held off illness long enough to notch a 6-5 win over Te Edwards...