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...government's decision to extend the $8,000 first-time home-buyer tax credit to mid-2010 and expand the program to include a $6,500 credit for non-first-time home buyers will likely help lure home shoppers into the market. Also, the slide in prices is making homes more affordable. Notes Burns: "If you go to Phoenix, it's $800 a month to buy a brand-new house," making it more affordable than renting...
...inaugurated "Happy Children Amusement Park." At a nearby military tent, dozens of other children and adults merrily grab at a generous selection of unloaded assault weapons of different makes and calibers, and casually take aim at passersby who move hurriedly toward other park rides. Some of the teenagers knowledgeably slide and lock the bolt handles on their assault rifles with a nimble familiarity that seems to belie the innocence of their youthful looks. Despite the presence of several soldiers, the atmosphere in the tent is considerably laid back - even when one of the more rambunctious boys shoves a grenade launcher...
...that Afghan forces can be built up to eventually take over the mission from the U.S. It may sound like a limited goal, after the sweeping visions of democracy promised during the Bush years. But even that relatively modest strategy is based on some very questionable assumptions. (See a slide show of the war in Afghanistan up close...
...become hardened to it. Clearly, a student won’t drop a class because the professor’s beard isn’t long enough. Yet I can’t ignore that twinge of satisfaction I feel when a professor’s style or mannerisms slide right into place in my mind. Maybe someday, “aesthetics” can even be another category in the Q Guide...
...curling newbies, here’s how the sport works: Two teams of four players slide heavy rocks down a sheet of ice toward a target, known as “the house.” Sweepers with brooms –what is it with Harvard kids and sports with brooms? – help direct the stones on their journey...