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...shortening of their tailgate meant the end of their annual state school role-playing fantasy, Queen’s—an actual state school—pulled the plug on its Harvard-Yale analog until at least 2011. Alumni will instead be wooed back to campus for lower-key reunion events in May, after the undergraduate population has quit campus for the summer...
...more mortgage costs than their battered finances can handle. It's a reminder that rash borrowers are often as responsible for the housing debacle as reckless lenders. But to prevent the foreclosure of a sizable chunk of an entire subdivision, one solution for Coconut Cay lenders might be to lower loan principals down to the houses' current, and more reasonable, market values (especially since the houses in many cases are worth less now than the mortgages anyway). That's the kind of foreclosure-prevention relief that cities like Miami Gardens thought last summer's federal legislation was going to facilitate...
...result of a single cause producing a well-known effect." While the military insisted for years that GWI was another form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the panel concluded that there is no link between the two conditions. In fact, studies have shown that Gulf War veterans have lower rates of PTSD than veterans of other wars...
...first glance, the aims of a movement to lower the drinking age might seem to be entirely disparate from the goals of a push to tighten drinking laws. But, recently, two campaigns with different aims have addressed a common problem: the poor state of drinking laws in the U.S. The Amethyst Initiative is a petition from university presidents that criticizes the current national drinking age of 21. Another group, All-Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education (AWARE), is led by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and supports reforming Wisconsin’s notoriously lax drinking laws. While...
...Slowing consumer demand in America and Europe has cut output at Chinese factories - although China's exports grew at an annual rate of 19% in October, some economists believe that could fall below 10% by the end of the year because of lower Christmas-season orders for products like electronics. And China's notoriously thrifty consumers haven't made up for the drop in foreign demand. Amid the global turmoil, their expectations for rising incomes are at the lowest level recorded in years. All of that threatens to turn Dongxiaokou from the epicenter of a bustling recycling economy into...