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...overextension of debt? We have to go back to the notion of credit basics. In other words, to buy a house, you can't borrow more than, let's say, 2½ times your gross salary. We know the financial institutions are retrenching themselves right now. The question is, Has the consuming public learned anything from this? That's the more difficult issue...
...nation's 55 million children prepare for a new school year, the foremost question on many parents' and school administrators' minds is, How will we protect our students from swine flu? Some education officials anticipate that each of the country's 100,000 public schools and thousands of private schools may have to close at some point between now and next summer to stem the tide of the H1N1 pandemic...
...than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic, 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957, and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series of question marks. The punctuation was designed to make a larger point. As a senior official in charge of responding to the crisis later told TIME, "You are going to see a spike in deaths." (See pictures of the swine flu in Mexico...
...Counsel for the plaintiffs, by contrast, presented a methodical run-through of the facts, bolstered by expert testimony that the files in question had been downloaded on Tenenbaum's computer and that illegal file-sharing had caused a precipitous decline in the revenues of the recording industry...
...ordered a judicial commission to investigate what happened and Parliament unanimously passed a resolution condemning the violence. Islamabad's gestures, however, have done little to assure Pakistan's estimated 3 million Christians, who are 60% Catholic and 40% Protestant (the second largest religious minority, after Hindus). Many now question whether they can remain safe in a country that has long neglected them and continues to have blasphemy laws that have been repeatedly exploited by violent extremists...