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...catch: the interest rates that really matter would have to decline for this formula to succeed. And as anyone looking for a mortgage will tell you, that hasn't happened. We're talking about two rates here. The first is the Treasury's 10-year bond, which is the instrument that dictates mortgage rates. Even after a tumble last week, the yield on the T bond was at 4.99%, vs. 4.91% at the start of the year; 30-year fixed-rate mortgages average 7.16%, higher than in March and down just a bit from 7.3% in January, rate-tracker...
...company's first completely new model in a half-century, aims to change all that. "This is the first departure from their traditional customer base," says Don Brown, a motorcycle consultant with DJB Associates. And it shows. With its aerodynamic look, clamshell-style instrument panel and unpainted aluminum-and-steel frame, the long, low-slung V-Rod lives up to its billing as Harley's first "performance custom" motorcycle--although a pricey one at around $17,000. (A classic hog goes for $10,000 to $15,000.) It features a 115-hp engine, designed with help from Porsche, that claims...
Unnecessary? Had we not all agreed that it is unethical, a violation of the elementary notion that we don't make of the human embryo a thing--to be made, unmade and used as a mere instrument for others? Dr. Michael Soules of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine was even more appalling. He saw nothing wrong with the procedure, except the "timing." Meaning, I suppose, that it would have been better if this news had remained hidden until President Bush had decided whether to fund stem-cell research, believing, falsely, that only discarded embryos were being used...
...best place for it." Like many ritual objects rescued from the ravages of China's Cultural Revolution, these works have found their way to the West from monasteries and homes of prosperous Tibetan families. The more than 700 items on display include religious sculptures, ritual objects, musical instruments and monastic utensils, as well as cloth scroll paintings, or thangkas, images of deities and saints. In the words of the Dalai Lama, who inaugurated the exhibition in May, to a Buddhist the sacred images are a "source of inspiration ... and enlightenment." Scroll paintings, for example, portray the Buddhist conception...
...instrument measures different kinds of physiological parameters, for example, perspiration and respiration, your rate of breathing. One of the big problems here is that it's possible to get what looks like a lie that's really the physiology of the person, responding to the situation...