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...Chairman Ben Bernanke said that he thinks the government should do more to stop foreclosures. He named a number of possible programs, including a plan floated a few weeks ago by Sheila Bair, who heads the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, for the government to pay mortgage servicers $1,000 per modification and split the default risk in order to encourage them to lower the monthly loan payments of borrowers at risk of foreclosure...
...What is important is not the numbers but the fundamental goal that people must stay alive,” he said. “In Botswana, thanks to the initiation of government spending and international help, the life expectancy of infant population increased at a rate of five years per every year since...
According to a comprehensive study done this year by the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia claimed the highest national per capita rate of adult obesity, overtaking the United States. This begs the question: what has fueled the transformation of skinny, marsupial-enthusiast surfers with great accents into unappealing couch potatoes? My very scientific answer: great television. I can’t help but think that, in a country with more outdoor adventures than even the guy from “Man vs. Wild” can handle, there must be something compelling keeping Aussies indoors and clutching sweaty...
...Sioux are coming into the game after skating against another ECAC foe, Cornell, in a two-game series at Grand Forks. North Dakota took the first game 7-3, only to fall to Cornell by a score of 2-1 the next night. North Dakota, which averages 2.57 goals per game compared with a 3.57 goals-against average, is entering Cambridge determined to make its physicality and size a hassle for Harvard, but the Crimson’s players are determined to make this game about their strengths. “There are definitely systems that every team runs...
...per tradition, the Fed Challenge Team has been very independent and very student-run,” Lo said...