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Experience and the nation's million or so real estate agents tell us that in the long run, owning a home makes the most financial sense. But today, with so many rushing to own, the math often works out in favor of renting. In Boston, as prices have jumped since 2000, the monthly mortgage payment for a median-price house has risen 23%, to $2,079, according to Torto Wheaton Research. (That assumes a 30-year fixed rate with 10% down.) Meanwhile, the average apartment rent has edged lower...
...particular, he says that he enjoyed a class in comparative literature on 19th-century Russian playwrights, as well as his science and math courses...
...school district too, the war created holes that had to be filled and that began to feel like a contagion. First, grade-school librarian Nolan Brown, a grandfather, Vietnam vet and National Guardsman, was called up for a desk job in Baghdad. Math teacher Kathy Mannon stepped into his post. Eleven days later, her husband Dennis, the librarian at the high school, was called up by the Air Force Reserve. Retired teacher Judy Gray, nearing 60, volunteered to fill in for him. Gray's own daughter Regina Jones had just seen her husband Albert leave for Iraq too. Jones...
...Star Wars raised our boys, taught them how to read and do math, and put them on the fast track to an interest in computer science. Both are now young men and college graduates. I'm sure they will save this issue of TIME along with all their other Star Wars items. For Christmas, even after they grew up, we always gave them the latest Star Wars toys. But what will we do after this year, when there won't be any more new episodes in the series? Dale hill Anadarko, Oklahoma...
...Lucas should realize that none of the special effects in the most recent trilogy look real. The lack of popular respect for those movies is a fitting fate for a failed idea. Daniel Fetherston New York City Star Wars raised our boys, taught them how to read and do math, and put them on the fast track to an interest in computer science. Both are now young men and college graduates. I'm sure they will save this issue of Time along with all their other Star Wars items. For Christmas, even after they grew up, we always gave them...