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...maybe the argument is flawed. New research by David Barker of the University of Iowa and Eric Miller of the Congressional Budget Office indicates that homeownership actually has little to no effect on how kids do in school. Their paper, "Homeownership and Child Welfare," which appears in the summer issue of Real Estate Economics, is drumming up interest in housing-policy circles for calling into question one of the basic rationales for encouraging people to own homes. It's yet another idea - like house prices always go up, and down payments aren't that important - being re-evaluated...
During my two-month internship in India this summer, I was curious to see how Indians viewed America. Had the aftermath of the Bush administration left them with a negative view of our country, as it had for most of the world? Or had the presidency of Barack Obama inspired them to respect our country? To my surprise, I found that India—a country in the midst of a sweeping economic and social transformation—has a much more favorable impression of the United States than I had expected...
...Like the many millions who campaigned for Obama and celebrated his victory, I was confident going into the summer that significant health-care reform would pass and would define his first year in office, if not his presidency. After all, the time was ripe: President Obama had campaigned hard on health-care reform and now had a mandate. The public seemed to understand that reform was not just a matter of extending care to the growing millions of Americans without it, but also a matter of harnessing out-of-control costs. Despite the best efforts of Fox News...
Students in Cambridge over the summer also faced reduced services, as administrators trimmed hours for the Bureau of Study Counsel and the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Services...
...trees are few, the swirling dust pervasive and the summer heat almost unbearable. This is Behesht-e Zahra, the country's largest and most notorious cemetery. Some 12 miles (20 km) south of the bustling capital, this is a sprawling city-within-a-city that most Iranians try to avoid visiting. The only sound here is the constant wailing from crowds of mourning women in head-to-toe chadors...