Word: palming
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...polls on Tuesday, more than 1.4 million Floridians had voted early, a figure that elections officials say could double by Sunday evening. In Miami-Dade County, where Birgin voted, 162,456 people had cast ballots through Tuesday, over 40% more than during the same period in 2004. In Palm Beach County, site of the disastrous butterfly-ballot controversy of 2000, 56,685 people voted early in the first week, more than in the entire two-week period of 2004. This, despite the fact that Palm Beach County voters are dealing with their third voting-machine technology in as many presidential...
...single-family houses, condos and townhouses for sale. Some 55,000 new foreclosures were filed in the first nine months of this year, and an additional 19,000 properties were taken back by lenders. In many areas in and around the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, the value of property has plummeted so much that in some instances, banks are willing to take less than one-third of a property's value just to staunch the flow of money being spent on taxes and condo fees for unoccupied units. For example, Zalewski the grave dancer...
...country, buyers are finding the current "buyer's market" increasingly frustrating. Realtors say wait times for deals to close have gone up, and more and more buyers are walking away, even when they find prices attractive. "Banks are a mess," says Dawn Connelly, a real estate investor in Palm City, Fla., who, despite dozens of offers, has bought only six houses in the past year. "They take months and months to accept an offer and aren't typically willing to make deals...
Wilcove then discussed the harmful effects of oil palm cultivation on bird and butterfly populations in Borneo. His studies found that the conversion of forestland into plantations caused huge drops in biodiversity...
...want to choose one development that is likely to cause the greatest number of species to reach endangerment or extinction in the next twenty years, it is the oil palm,” said Wilcove, who teaches biology and ecology courses at Princeton...