Word: perring
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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...
...these policies are having an effect. From being one of the most wasteful cities in the U.S.--in the 1980s, Las Vegas used almost twice as much water per capita as did far wetter New York--Vegas may now get more economic bang for its water than any other place on earth. Though the city has grown by 300,000 people since 2002, it uses less water today than it did six years ago, and leakage is below 5%. "Failure is not an option," says Mulroy...
...let’s say 1400 people, through bad decisions and utter negligence, destroyed the equivalence of 1400 Washington Monuments in a period of four years—about one per day. Morever, instead of leveling a few 19th century phallic monuments symbolizing our nation’s might, they razed the United States economy—you know that thing that keeps us from fighting over road kill in order to survive...