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...from a peak of 16% to less than 9% earlier this year. During that span the previously stagnant building industry boomed, and millions of U.S. consumers rushed to buy new homes or cash in their old mortgages for cheaper ones. Last week, though, lenders, home buyers and builders were shaken by the sharpest mortgage-rate run-up in years. The interest-rate hike may prove to be temporary, but it caused a minor panic. "The rise was so sudden that most consumers are still dazed," says Eric Fessler, vice president of Kadilac Funding, a Long Island, N.Y., mortgage company...
Readers of London's Daily Mail were appalled last week to read that a goldfish nicknamed George had leaped out of his bowl and taken a bite out of 12-year- old Amanda Baker's hand. A photograph showed the shaken girl holding up her bandaged limb. The killer goldfish, the paper explained, was the result of an attempt to breed a male piranha with a female goldfish. The same day the , Guardian reported that the world's first photograph, some 200 years old, had been located in a Japanese cave...
Whatever the fallout for American politics, the showy world of born-again broadcasting has surely been shaken. Falwell has gained a new audience but - finds himself saddled with additional responsibilities at a time when his own ministries have run into fiscal problems. A long-running battle with the city of Lynchburg, Va., to win property-tax exemption for his Liberty University is not yet won. Just a year ago Falwell had to lay off 225 employees at his Lynchburg offices because of high university expenses. His broadcast, the Old Time Gospel Hour, was temporarily canceled last week by cable superstation...
...Soviet intermediate-range nuclear weapons from European soil, wants to be certain the two sides also achieve parity on shorter-range nuclear missiles. Chirac is expected to renew France's commitment to the campaign against international terrorism, a gesture that is certain to be well received in Iranscam-shaken Washington. Chirac is also sure to voice Paris' concern over the rising tide of U.S. protectionism (see interview...
...Deeply shaken, Sofaer yielded to the threat of a Senate subpoena last week to explain his opinion. Although he still believes the ABM treaty permits Star Wars testing, Sofaer conceded that his methodology had been flawed, a failure he attributed to young staff lawyers. Some Senators rallied to the defense of Sofaer. Democrat Ernest Hollings of South Carolina criticized his colleagues for "rushing to judgment" and argued the "record shows no ambiguity that the Soviets refused again and again to agree to prohibit future systems...