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...number of homeowners headed toward foreclosure is rising so quickly that "you need somebody to project what the projections will be - because they're just changing so fast," said Lindley Higgins, the applied-research manager at NeighborWorks America, an urban revitalization project created by Congress. A decade ago, Higgins said, 400,000 foreclosures nationwide was a busy year. America may see 2.5 million...
...haven't improved much since then. Currently the U.S. spends $376 billion on defense - 3.5% of its gdp - while all the other allies together spend some $140 billion - an average of less than 2% each. "The Americans are already too advanced to work with many Continental forces," says Julian Lindley-French, senior fellow at the E.U. Center for Security Studies in Paris. Only four other countries - France, Norway, the U.K. and (marginally) Portugal - have upped their defense budgets this year, according to a senior NATO official. The French have done so not because the Americans want it, but to keep...
HOFFMAN: The past decade has brought a spate of books sounding the death knell for a host of subjects. Francis Fukuyama served up The End of History and David Lindley The End of Physics. But your more sweeping work The End of Science (1997) attracted a lot more attention and controversy--and with good reason. The idea that science may have had its run--that we've discovered all we can realistically expect to discover and that anything we come up with in the future will be pretty much small-bore stuff--left people either intrigued or outraged. With today...
DIED. AUDRA LINDLEY, 79, veteran actress best known as sex-starved, muumuu-clad landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company; of complications from leukemia; in Los Angeles. A daughter of actors, Lindley played Broadway, big-screen and television roles, most recently as Cybill Shepherd's mother on Cybill...
Gandhi and Humanism. Mark Lindley,assistant humanist chaplain, United Ministry.Science Center D, 1 p.m.1 May Monday