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...question, though, is whether it's good to see more houses come onto the market. Rampant building was one of the things that helped foster the real estate bubble, after all. Are the same companies that didn't know when to stop prematurely hopping back in? The number of existing homes for sale has fallen over the past year, but we still have a 9.4-month supply on the market - nearly double the rate that's desirable. With desperate homeowners trying to sell, and foreclosures still piling up, are more houses what we need? (See pictures of high-end homes...
...only worrisome part about that is what happens if demand then falters. Nationwide, we've seen an uptick in the number of people buying houses - both existing homes and new ones. But still, according to the Oppenheimer report, "the demand side of the equation is less than impressive." Nearly a third of existing-home sales are currently to first-time homebuyers - a wildly disproportionate amount. What happens to those buyers once the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit evaporates at the end of this year? Even with home prices a steal in many parts of the country, whether demand...
...agent works a little differently than the bisphosphonates, which are designed to paralyze bone-destroying cells - cells that increase in number as people age. While the body continually destroys and replaces bone tissue throughout life, the destruction eventually begins to overtake the construction, and the result in older age is a patchier, weaker type of bone that is more prone to breaking. While bisphosphonates block the activity of bone-destroying cells, denosumab prevents new ones from forming altogether. The end result is a tipping of the bone balance away from bone destruction and toward bone formation. Early studies in mice...
...fact, when I first arrived in Kampala, a Ugandan friend gave me a tutorial on living here. The number one warning: beware the “boda boda.” She recounted harrowing tales of drive-by purse snatchings, gory hit-and-runs, and lecherous propositions. For many in the city, the term “boda boda” man suggests an attitude as much as a profession...
...also occur spontaneously. In the winter of 2007-'08, a seasonal H1N1 variant circulating in Europe did just that, catching scientists by surprise. "We really didn't see that coming," says Daniels, who was one of the first scientists to identify the change. "Suddenly, an increasing number of H1N1 isolates were Tamiflu-resistant, and the resistant strains have persisted such that over 95% of H1N1 virus in America was [Tamiflu] resistant in the 2008-'09 season. And it doesn't appear to have had anything to do with overprescription of the drug. It was just a spontaneous mutation." (See pictures...