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...foreclosure by the end of 2012. That number has no precedent, and its impact is only beginning to register. Populist pundits have struck a nerve with angry denunciations of Obama's plan. "See if we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages," CNBC's Rick Santelli demanded - and the gut level reaction of millions of taxpayers across the country was, unquestionably, no. Not if we have a choice. (Read: "How to Fix the Housing Market...
...years. At their infrequent best, they had the sharpest mixture of foolery and character of all movie comedy teams. In the 1951 Sailor Beware, Jer has been suckered into boxing a much bigger guy. Dean, the kid's trainer, dispenses pre-fight advice (with many sly slaps to the gut and face) while Jer does such an acute impersonation of a punch-drunk pugilist that the tough guy and his team are scared away. In their seemingly artless but perfectly timed badinage, the two are slick, robust and funny funny funny...
...Sarkozy's just had a major strike, and he hopes this will keep a lot of people from demonstrating and improve his ratings," he says. "That is combined with the gut reaction of the French to protect, to be interventionist, to centralize. But more importantly, his talk about repatriation undermines the concept of the E.U.'s single market. And when it gets to this level, there is good reason to be afraid...
...there's more to the history of life than the branching of a tree. Every now and then, DNA moves between species. Viruses ferry genes from one host to another. Bacteria swap genes inside our bodies, evolving resistance to antibiotics in our own gut. Some 2 billion years ago, one of our single-celled ancestors took in an oxygen-consuming bacterium. That microbe became the thousands of tiny sacs found in each of our cells today, known as mitochondria, that let us breathe oxygen. When genes move this way, it's as if two branches of the tree of life...
...Columbia doesn’t offer many match-up problems for Harvard down low, and if senior Evan Harris can keep it going, the team may pull out this game. Although I tell myself: never trust your instincts on Harvard, my gut says they got to win this...