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...block prefer the old way: their agents usher clients door to door and show house after house. Frequently the houses are closely held listings on which the agents have exclusives, and they pocket a hefty 5%-to-7% commission on each sale. Today that clubby world is being shaken more and more by a handful of upstarts. Internet interlopers like LendingTree, along with regional discounters like Foxtons in the Northeast and CataList Homes on the West Coast, have been gaining traction with a new scenario--one that simplifies and shortens the process for buyers and offers sellers overdue relief...
...enable many more to escape their poverty and their extreme vulnerability to natural disasters. Currently, our military spending outpaces our development aid by roughly 30 to 1. U.S. leadership in another battle, the fight against global poverty, would not only help restore the hope and confidence of a shaken planet but would also do much to promote the U.S.'s own long-term security as well...
...link between PSA blood-test results and prostate cancer has become increasingly controversial. Faith in the PSA test was shaken when studies showed that many men whose test readings were in the normal range turned out to have prostate cancer. That faith was somewhat restored when further research suggested that the rate of increase in a man's PSA level, not the absolute level itself, determines the risk of death from the disease. Should there be new standards for interpreting PSA readings? Not necessarily. While tighter guidelines would almost certainly find more cancers, they would also prompt more unnecessary biopsies...
...past eight months a series of curious incidents have shaken the newly named Kingdom of Mekamui, and at their heart is the conman Musingku, thought to be the power behind the jungle throne. Bougainville-born, he fled P.N.G. in 2002 after the collapse of u-vistract, a pyramid scheme that swallowed millions of kina of P.N.G. residents' savings. Musingku surfaced later that year in Solomon Islands, involved in a scheme to bail the islands out of bankruptcy, but when his role became public he fled again - this time into Ona's no-go zone...
...free-for-all that broke out after a man slugged DR. DRE, left, and another came to the rapper-producer's defense, stabbing the assailant. When the show aired the next night, nothing appeared out of the ordinary except that Dr. Dre looked more shaken than a man getting a lifetime-achievement award should. Within a day, the cops thought they had their perp, rapper YOUNG BUCK (né David Darnell Brown), right, who was caught on video during the melee wielding a knife (another reason gangstas don't tape). Later Young Buck surrendered to police, was released on bail...