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Unlike most people in earlier generations, the Bours view the equity in their home as a smart source of cash for the lifestyle they intend to maintain. And they are far from alone. In 2004, Americans took almost $400 billion in cash out of their homes in refinancing and home-equity loans, says David Lereah, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. People ages 45 to 59 are the most likely to refinance, according to Demos, a nonprofit public-policy organization in New York City. Is refinancing so close to retirement a smart financial move...
...week, could be a problem for him. On the old schedule - Likud primaries had been scheduled for spring, ahead of a November general election - the electorate would have a better chance of knowing whether Sharon or Netanyahu had been right about terrorism and Gaza. Currently, Hamas says it'll maintain the "calm" it promised to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas until January. Unless there's a big wave of terror, Sharon won't be compelled to send troops back into Gaza, which would of course be a measure for many Israeli voters of the success or failure of the "disengagement." There...
...whether that would be too radical a reaction for his taste. Conservatives hope Roberts will line up with Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas in favor of overturning Roe, which would match the quartet--David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and John Paul Stevens--that wants to maintain it, leaving Anthony Kennedy as the swing vote. While Roe might survive, such a lineup would probably ensure that the 2003 congressional ban on partial-birth abortion is upheld...
...Every year 145,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed, and unless the disease is diagnosed early, the prognosis isn't great. For now, your best bet is to limit red meat and processed meat in particular--both have been linked to colorectal cancer--and to maintain a normal body weight. And although no one likes to talk about it, beginning at age 50 you need to schedule a regular screening test such as a colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy. --With reporting by A. Chris Gajilan/New York...
Evolutionists are trying to maintain a kind of dictatorship in our schools that allows for nothing but one theory and denies students the right to think for themselves. Evolutionists are un-American and are afraid that if intelligent design is discussed, students might take more interest in God than in science...