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...home prices in the wings. While there may be some pick-up in sales in the most depressed markets including Nevada and Florida, there is no sign that prices are rising. Clever buyers are moving in to buy homes in foreclosure, but the prices of these houses are so low that their sales may actually bring down the average price of the homes being sold in those markets...
...from their residences. They are probably better off to rent under the circumstances and move back into the housing market when it begins to recover. Some owners have been burned so badly that they may rent for life. That in and of itself will keep demand for home purchases low. (See pictures of the housing crisis...
...solutions to the urban health crisis, including creating neighborhood gardens and courting chains like Aldi, Family Dollar and even Wal-Mart to fill the void created by food deserts. But the supermarket industry suffers from especially tight profit margins and is thus particularly risk-averse, so supermarkets' entry into low-income neighborhoods has been slow. Furthermore, many low-end chains are hardly bastions of fresh, healthy produce and meat. (Read a story about Aldi, a grocer for the recession...
...strike in Farah's Bala Boluk district would kill scores of civilians and reverberate from Kabul to Washington. Criticized around the world and beset by demonstrations in Afghanistan, the U.S. military continues to dispute the high death-toll estimates in Bola Boluk. But even so, it is low-key tragedies like Benafsha's that are adding...
...their way to Oxford academics in anonymous letters. Walcott's withdrawal left two hopefuls, Padel and the Indian poet Arvind Mehrotra, to compete for the support of Oxford's senior staff and graduates, all of whom are eligible to vote for the professorship. There had been, said Walcott, a "low and degrading attempt at character assassination." (Watch TIME's video "Lincoln and Darwin: Birthdays and Evolution...