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...Yardeni and others are worried that higher interest rates could push housing prices lower, and hurt banking profits. What's more, rising rates could indicate that inflation, which has largely disappeared in the recession, is coming back. To be sure, the increase in borrowing costs has already slowed home-loan-refinance activity, but it is unlikely to do much else to damage the economic recovery. (See pictures of the housing crisis...
...when victory could mean an extra 20,000 votes, McAuliffe's and Moran's much larger GOTV machines could prove decisive - especially if they can turn out black voters who accounted for more than 30% of the vote in the 2008 presidential primary. McAuliffe in particular has made a push for black voters, focusing on issues like cracking down on predatory payday lending and aggressively pursuing endorsements from the state's civil rights leaders. While Deeds appears to have the momentum, Sabato says, the race is far too close to call. (See 10 things that never happened in a campaign...
...international troops. In 2008, 172 troops died from a record 3,276 IEDs, a 45% jump from the year before, according to the Joint IED Defeat Organization, a Pentagon agency. This trend is expected to worsen in the months ahead, as thousands of incoming U.S. reinforcements push into areas where the Taliban has operated unchallenged. (See pictures of Afghanistan's deadly Korengal valley...
...helm, the Tories would romp home 74 seats to the good. More evidence of that nature - or defeat in either of the two tricky by-elections Labour faces in the coming months, following the resignation of a pair of its own MPs - could yet prompt dissenters to push for a new leader in the fall. With Brown, says Neil Stewart, once political secretary to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, "that connection is not there and that connection is not an optional thing in modern politics, as Obama has demonstrated." (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama's election...
Because drugmakers now include women and, thanks to a 2003 law, children in appropriate drug studies, Second Wave organizers are hoping to push federal agencies to gather more data on pregnant women - what they're taking and with what effects - and draw more blood samples so doctors can prescribe an effective dosage rather than winging...