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...think the [homebuilding] stocks have run up too much, so it's not surprising to me what he's doing," says Alex Barron, a senior research analyst in the El Paso, Texas, office of Agency Trading Group. "I think there are still significant headwinds facing the housing market," he says, such as rising unemployment, potentially higher interest rates and an expected increase in foreclosures...
...Hoopers, whose founder edits the online magazine Hooping.org - or coordinate frequent impromptu "meetups" in public parks and recreation centers. A recent group-hoop took place during the Race for the Cure in New York City, in which members hooped while walking three miles to raise money for breast-cancer research.(See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...phone. He flipped the device open and said, “Hello? Mom? I told you I had an event tonight!” and consequently sparked a discussion about the role of technology in advanced countries and the developing world. The event was sponsored by the International Development Research Center, an organization that has pioneered the use of technology as agents for reducing poverty, combating disease, and fostering good governance through global engagement. The afternoon’s discussion was guided by Best, who moderated the event, and a group of panelists including two Nobel Prize winning economics professors...
...lifetime atoning for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up. The founder of Prison Fellowship has spent more than three decades working with prisoners in more than 100 countries, and he has mentored generations of conservative Evangelical leaders. This month he launched the Chuck Colson Center, an online research and education center that he calls "the Lexis-Nexis of resources on the Christian worldview." The last of the original religious-right leaders still actively engaged with the movement, Colson spoke with TIME about his latest endeavor, why he thinks churches have failed society and the biggest mistake the religious right...
...Peter Churchouse, a director at a Hong Kong investment research and advisory firm, says he doesn't think Hong Kong's housing market is a bubble. But some analysts worry that low interest rates, high liquidity and a tight supply of new apartments could fuel irrational exuberance. Churchouse says: "I could easily see this market developing into a bubble, but it's not a bubble yet." That should be of some comfort for the buyer who just paid $3.16 million for a 590 sq. ft. apartment...