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...place last year, to allow the agency to expand into pricier markets. "The government may need to inject billions of dollars into the FHA, but the alternative - another perturbation in the housing market, more foreclosure aid, more bank bailouts - could have cost dramatically more," says housing economist Thomas Lawler...
...net.That deadlock would change drastically in the beginning of the second, when the Wisconsin offense came to life to explode for three goals within the first seven minutes of the period.Just 0:18 seconds into the second, the Badgers took the puck into the Harvard zone and forward Erika Lawler wrapped around the net before backhanding the puck past Crimson sophomore goalie Christina Kessler to tie the game at one apiece. “Erika being what she is—she’s quick, she’s very smart, and she’s sneaky with...
...districts have climbed aboard, helped by video-game makers like Nintendo and Sony, which are designing systems to meet the demand; small companies like Expresso Fitness that donate equipment; and federal grants and private donations that bankroll the purchase of equipment. "The old system is failing kids," says Phil Lawler, director of training and outreach at PE4life, a nonprofit based in Kansas City, Mo., that helps modernize P.E. "We are tricking them into exercising...
...track pretty much has to do it, critics argue that there's no need for video games in gym classes even if they do have some health benefits. But there's a physical difference between an hour of exercise enthusiastically pursued and one that's merely plodded through. And, Lawler says, "most kids aren't volunteering to do pull-ups after school." Develop a taste for aerobic video games, however, and you just might carry the habit home...
...houses don't trade like stocks, so when it comes to correcting the system when it gets out of whack, we're talking years, not weeks. "Real estate," says housing economist Thomas Lawler, "is a slow, tedious process." In July, after the two Bear Stearns hedge funds first ran into trouble, bond guru Bill Gross of Pimco wrote a foreboding investment outlook, pointing out that hedge funds tied up in trading are the top layer of the problem, not the root. That can be demonstrated in the Mile High City and, as Gross wrote, "in the Summerlin suburbs...