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...white stone and dancing waters but not much connection to the neighborhood. In 1964 the Music Center of Los Angeles County was deposited into the nowheresville of downtown L.A., a part of the city where very few people actually lived. It wasn't just that the place didn't reach out to the neighborhood. There was no neighborhood to reach...
...Slowing foreclosure rates by cutting the monthly interest rates of homeowners who could not otherwise afford their mortgages may actually string out the amount of time it takes for housing prices to reach a nadir and swing up again. A homeowner with a $300,000 mortgage on a house which is worth only $200,000 will keep that house off the market if at all possible, to avoid having to come up with $100,000 to subsidize a sale. That house sits in limbo while the government makes the monthly mortgage payment low enough to keep it in the hands...
...Just when it appeared that a win would be in easy reach for Harvard after the second set, Newbury started to prove otherwise...
...becoming a cliché: California lawmakers again fail to reach agreement on a budget. As California engages in a budget battle that has left the government of the world's eighth largest economy slipping toward insolvency, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislative majority continue to search for one last Republican vote to pass a budget. But the complex negotiations hit a snag Wednesday when Republican state senators ousted their leader, Senator Dave Cogdill, who had dared to agree to a plan involving a tax hike, and replaced him with a staunch antitaxer. To avoid a collapse of state...
...population of Japan ages - with a peak expected in 2025 when the number of those aged 75 or older will reach 22 million, or about 19% of the projected total population, compared to 13 million today - the situation is not likely to improve anytime soon. The need for emergency transportation jumped 50% between 1996 and 2006, and 108% for the elderly. One solution, Kondo says, is to increase the number of doctors, which, given the fierce competition for medical school slots in Japan, will take time despite the fact that Japan has fewer doctors and nurses than the average developed...