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Jittery home shoppers have watched home prices plunge 30% on average from their mid-2006 peak, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, with some markets suffering price drops as deep as 70%. Many potential buyers are further frightened by economists and analysts who predict prices could fall another 5% to 10% before the sector bottoms out - and possibly worse if the country experiences a double-dip recession...
...randomly placed 60 small brass cones on the platform to mimic the effect of unexpected ocean eddies in the current. When they beamed microwaves at the platform, the scientists found that "hot spots" - the microwave equivalent of rogue waves - appeared up to 100 times more often than standard wave theory would predict. Those results indicate that rogue waves might be a lot more common than scientists had believed and could explain why so many large ships - as many as two a week - sink even in the absence of bad weather. One day we might even be able to predict when...
...face of terrorism, we must hold on to what makes America a standard for liberty, not forfeit the very freedom that we hold dear...
...addressed, threatens to stall economic growth and spark renewed waves of confidence crises in global financial markets. "Attention has shifted to the second part of the story, to the impact [of the financial crisis] on government balance sheets," says David Beers, global head of sovereign ratings at Standard & Poor's in London. That has "intensified the pressure that was already there to start a process of repair...
...Bjoergen, undisputed queen of the Olympics. And you, Simon Ammann, the Swiss ski jumper who won his third and fourth career Olympic medals, a new ski-jumping Olympic record. And you, figure skater Kim Yu-Na, the South Korean wunderkind who electrified an entire nation, and set a new standard for greatness in her sport...