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...spur UM law professor Michael Froomkin to create the foreclosure-defense program. It places fledgling attorneys like Paschal with legal-aid-service organizations to help tackle the backlog of cases - more than 50,000 foreclosure filings so far this year in Miami-Dade County alone. Many homeowners don't know what legal defenses are available to them as they battle lenders to keep their properties - or at least make foreclosure less painful and less costly. "Potentially, one of the most significant [defenses] is that the lender, because so many home loans were securitized during the housing boom, often doesn...
...rally Friday morning at the state Capitol to protest the furloughs. During the rally, parents handed a petition bearing thousands of signatures protesting the furloughs to the governor, whose office is on the fifth floor of the state Capitol. (See the top 10 things you didn't know about Hawaii...
...patients would be allowed to segregate them in a separate site for treatment, which might slow the spread of the disease. It's not unlike declaring an emergency before a hurricane hits landfall - the action removes legal barriers that might slow a rapid response. (See what you need to know about the H1N1 vaccine...
...time, actually getting the vaccine to the people who most need it - pregnant women, kids between the ages of six months and 24 years, health workers - hasn't been easy either. Complaints of vaccine shortages have emerged around the country, and local public health departments say they don't know when more vaccine will arrive. Worried parents say they don't know where to go to get the vaccine for their kids - their doctor's office, the school, a local hospital? Nor is it clear who should get the bulk of the complaints - while the federal government is in charge...
...Middle East regional adviser for food and chemicals. "[Mercury] affects your nervous system and your mental capability and capacity. It's a very poisonous metal. And if there is a high level of parasites in the fish then you also have the problem of parasitic diseases. We don't know what is in the sewage cocktail...