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...home to ?100,000, according to the Nationwide Building Society. That's over 16% higher than a year ago. And to help pay for these high-priced properties, Britons have also been piling on staggering amounts of debt, at a recent net rate of ?7 billion a month. They owe back at least 117% of their annual incomes, more than they did during the height of the 1980s boom, which ended with the collapse of the last great U.K. real-estate rally. In the difficult months since Sept. 11, the British economy has been kept out of recession...
...survivor of prostate cancer, I owe my life to those on the front line of medical research, the courageous participants in clinical trials. But to those researchers who use shoddy procedures and put their patients at risk, as well as those institutions whose lax oversight undermines public trust, shame! Without well-designed research efforts, fully informed patients and strict oversight, we will not be able to find and develop the medicines and therapies we desperately need to treat debilitating diseases. As a board member of Friends of Cancer Research and a cancer survivor, I am all for clinical trials...
...back together. The woman who I have reassembled is much different than she once was. She feels no need to reinvent herself. More than anything else, my relationships at this school have made me more comfortable with myself and with the decisions I will have to make. And I owe much of this to my Harvard angels, all the people who have knowingly or unknowingly stepped into my memory...
...neighbors in a nearby five-person sweet. Additionally, by including the costs in termbills, the telephone office will be far more likely to collect the payments successfully. Currently, both because of inefficient account management and student delinquency, HSTO spends much time and money pursuing a number of students who owe hefty balances. Of course, students (and their parents) ought to know how much they are paying for phone service, and it should be enumerated separately on the termbill. But overall, a flat rate paid up front will both eliminate billing confusion and equalize phone costs...
...don’t owe anybody anything in the sense that I am not part of Beacon Hill,” Reich says. “I think the public wants someone who is fresh...