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...Brown owns a four-bedroom, colonial-style home in Wrentham, Mass.; a six-room house in Rye, N.H.; three small condo units in Brighton, Mass.; and a time-share unit in Aruba...
First he showed me a small industrial park built not long ago by a local businessman. It's got tenants, and the owner has been making his mortgage payments. But when his loan comes due - commercial mortgages generally run three to 10 years, not the 30 that homeowners get - he almost certainly won't be able to refinance because building prices have dropped and lending standards have tightened. Which means he will either have to cough up a lot more up-front cash or lose the property...
...understand all of the criticism surrounding TIME's decision to name Bernanke Person of the Year. You throw a small man in a small boat into raging, uncharted waters, and he takes it to a calm, safe place. What more could...
Although its 1996 constitution expressly forbids slavery, South Africa has no stand-alone law against human trafficking in all its forms. Aid groups estimate that some 38,000 children are trapped in the sex trade there. More than 500 mostly small-scale trafficking syndicates - Nigerian, Chinese, Indian and Russian, among others - collude with South African partners, including recruiters and corrupt police officials, to enslave local victims. The country's estimated 1.4 million AIDS orphans are especially vulnerable. South Africa has more HIV cases than any other nation, and a child sold into its sex industry will often face an early...
...Sensing the growing outrage, Crist last month won approval to empower a special statewide grand jury focused on public corruption. Fort Lauderdale has been especially hard-hit recently by major scandals involving figures from sheriffs to school-board members. "I love Fort Lauderdale," Scherer says. "It's the biggest small town in America. But it's still got to learn that all that glitters is not gold." And that wannabes who glitter are often big trouble...