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...median price of a single-family home sold in a particular metro area, using data from the National Association of Realtors. That number then gets divided by what the average apartment would rent for over the course of a year, a number generated by the real-estate-research outfit Property & Portfolio Research. Since each metro area has its own characteristics - there's a lot more land to build on in Oklahoma City than there is in Oakland, Calif., for example - certain pockets of the country have naturally higher price-rent ratios than do others...
DIED Guitarist and founding member of the seminal punk outfit the Stooges, Ron Asheton, 60, would often make waffles for his bandmates--including singer Iggy Pop--at the Fun House, the Ann Arbor, Mich., home where the group lived for a time...
...heady few weeks of triumph after undoing the military leadership of former President Pervez Musharraf. Now Zardari has to deal with Indian charges not only that the Mumbai assailants used Pakistan as their base to organize their attacks but that Pakistan's shadowy but powerful military spy outfit, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), may once again be linked to the radicals allegedly behind the late November assault on India's financial center. The old, poisonous contest between civilian and military leadership seems to be emerging again...
That's not to say every drug-related company has been bulletproof, however. PharmaNet, an outfit that runs drug trials for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, has seen its cancellation rate spike because of drug discontinuations and mergers. Its stock is down...
...names in Italy like those captured in 2006 and 2007, many of the men arrested Tuesday are veteran mafiosi, including Salvatore Lombardo, the 87-year-old alleged boss of the town of Montelepre. The suspects face charges of extortion, weapons- and drug-trafficking and belonging to an organized-crime outfit...