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...been moving in the right direction since the Columbia accident [in 2003]," says Chris Shank, NASA's chief of strategic communications. "The concern is that we'll lose that." Lately, that concern appears well-placed...
...Florida homeowner advocates say most lenders were hardly as amenable to mortgage relief last summer as they've become in recent months, when local governments like Miami Gardens began pressing the issue. "We're seeing a change, more willingness among the banks to cooperate," says Arden Shank, head of the Miami nonprofit Neighborhood Housing Services, which is working with Florida cities to counsel homeowners on foreclosure prevention. "Not too long ago, most banks wouldn't even talk to us." (Read "Fannie and Freddie Offer New Plan to Help Homeowners...
...destabilization. That's another reason many cities would have preferred a focus on efforts to prevent foreclosure and keep existing families in those homes. Another problem is that the NSP is tacitly obliging cities to become property managers, something "local governments just aren't set up to do," says Shank, whose organization is also a licensed lender and mortgage broker that helps cities acquire and resell foreclosed homes in situation like this. "It's not their role...
...keep Mulder addled for years.) And Scully has reasons to get back to her day job, as a surgeon at Our Lady of Sorrows Hospital. She hopes to find a treatment for a boy whose cancer the hospital authorities think is incurable. (X-philes will recall that, in the shank of the series, Scully bore a child, William, through in vitro fertilization; the sperm may have been Mulder's. The boy in the hospital would be about...
...Boleyn sisters, the chronically unmarried or uncomfortably pregnant or serial-killer imperiled women - you'll hardly be seeing any women at all in star roles. Even Judd Apatow and his goofball satyrs are taking a break. (The reigning producer of R-rated comedy has two movies opening toward the shank of the summer.) Fallible, ordinarily engaging, human-size, earthbound characters just don't measure up when the weather turns warmer. We need another hero, and lots of 'em, the bigger, stronger and cartoonier the better...