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...written over the past 12 months. In a way, that's a boon, since lenders have tightened their standards and as a result have sent higher-quality loans to the FHA. During the housing boom, more than a third of the loans the agency insured went to subprime borrowers; today, fewer than...
...university's collections, which range from ancient archeological artifacts to outdated scientific instruments to radioactive geological samples, were acquired over the years by professors who used them in their research. Other items were donated by other museums or private individuals. Now, the university's museums, like many institutions today, are looking to clear some space so they can continue collecting. And not everything in its collections are treasures - hence, the artifact cull...
...like Indonesia, Burma and Cambodia, it wasn't so long ago that the economic dominance of local Chinese communities catalyzed bloody pogroms and discriminatory laws against the ethnic Chinese. Despite the occasional bursts of anti-Chinese violence, businesses in Thailand and Indonesia are still disproportionately controlled by overseas Chinese today. As a consequence, even as Beijing pleads that it's only interested in trade - not political influence - Southeast Asians are wary of their new big brother...
...Diseases have been stamped out before. The last case of naturally occurring smallpox was in 1977, after the disease killed about 300 million people earlier in the century. But finding a cure for malaria has proven more elusive. Artemisinin, which is still considered the most effective malaria treatment today, is derived from sweet wormwood, an herb native to Asia. It's been used to fight the disease in China for more than 2,000 years, but it wasn't until 1965 that the cure was isolated and purified by the Chinese military after its soldiers started falling ill during...
...romance, drawing out the wit of Gilbert’s libretto as Wong gives Sullivan’s music its due. “The Sorcerer” may be a light opera from Victorian England, but, thanks to this production’s charms, the work still amuses today...