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...clear that mild and short is what the U.S. will get. Merrill Lynch & Co. put out a chilling forecast on Jan. 22, saying that the U.S. housing debacle has a long way to run. According to Merrill, nationwide home prices could fall 25 to 30 percent from present levels, which, if true, would put U.S. consumption on ice for a prolonged period...
...surprise to learn that Abu Dhabi is this week hosting the world's first Future Energy Summit, a three-day gathering of more than 4,000 entrepreneurs, analysts and officials from the alternative energy world, including heavyweights like green designer William McDonough and Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson. (Also present was Prince Charles, who gave a speech via hologram...
Using a genetic fingerprint, researchers at the University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute tracked the founder genetic mutation - a mutation that has been traced from many individuals in the present-day population to a common ancestor - back to the Frys. The Fry mutation has not been found in other places that researchers have looked - not in England, Denmark or Germany - further confirming that the mutation started with the Fry immigrants. (The researchers believe the genetic change either originated with George Fry or his wife, or that it began with a Fry in England, who died before passing it further...
...York and the author of the recently reissued book, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s. "And if we don't know why crime fell so sharply throughout the country in the 1990s, and in certain big cities right up to the present, we won't know what policies to follow if crime rates start to rise again...
...joined by, among others, Connie A. Morella, a former U.S. ambassador to the 30-country Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and a longtime Republican representative of Maryland in the U.S. Congress. Drawing from her experience in American politics, Morella will head a study group on the past, present, and future of political moderates in Congress. She was one of six Republicans who voted against authorizing military action against Iraq in 2003 and describes herself as “a minority in the minority and a minority in the majority.” Morella, who was also an IOP fellow...