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...effort to stem foreclosures and the depressed house prices they perpetuate entered a new phase on Tuesday as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced a fast-track program meant to make hundreds of thousands of mortgages affordable to people who can't currently meet their monthly payments. The roll-out follows on the heels of new loan modification programs at JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup, but the move at Fannie and Freddie, which together hold or guarantee some 58% of single-family home loans, has the potential to reach much farther since the mortgage industry often takes its cue from...
...potential concentrators will have two choices to make: They can either choose the “History of Science” track, intended for humanities-oriented students who do not want to take science courses beyond the core requirements, or “Science and Society,” the track that will maintain much of the old concentration’s expectations for students to focus in specific area of science...
...Medicine and Society,” one of the two honors-only subfields within the “Science and Society” track, allows students to combine medical school requirements with a more holistic look at health through a social and humanities angle. Shapin said that the creation of this option reflects the trend of senior theses about biomedicine’s role in the modern world...
...Also within the “Science and Society” track is the “Mind, Brain, and Behavioral Sciences” subfield, and Harrington said that the department is considering the possibility of developing an “Engineering and Society” choice as well...
Given the Bush Administration's track record, no one ought to have been surprised when much of the Middle East raised a skeptical eyebrow in response to Washington's claim that the Syrian site bombed by Israeli warplanes in September of 2007 was part of a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. The Israelis kept mum about their reasons for attacking the site, but the U.S. let it be known that the target was a secret nuclear reactor being built with North Korean assistance - a claim that was widely viewed through the prism of false U.S. claims about Iraqi weapons of mass...