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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...plus for the sale of your house, too. Many Accidental Landlords use leases that include an option to buy. There's always a chance that once you've got someone in your space, they'll come to understand how much they don't want to leave it - and will turn from tenant into buyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidental Landlords: Renting What Won't Sell | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...type of person who keeps one eye open while washing your face (the better to catch ghostly reflections in the mirror, of course), here's another horrifying bathroom scenario you might not want to hear: every time you turn on your shower, you are sprayed with a heavy mist of millions of bacteria, which get inhaled deep into your lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Bacteria Lurk in Your Showerhead? | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...Karzai. In Kandahar and Helmand, which are now major Taliban strongholds, the official says, Karzai personally appointed many "violent and predatory" district officials and police chiefs from his own extended tribe. "When the police started robbing and pillaging," the Western official says, "the villagers had no choice but to turn to the local [Taliban] commanders for protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Anti-Taliban Efforts Have Failed | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...what it means to grant asylum. "The government promotes this idea of a 'good' refugee and a 'bad' refugee, which is entirely wrong," Manne says. "Coming to Australia from a place of oppression isn't the same as standing in a queue at the supermarket and waiting for your turn. It's more like escaping a burning house. Sometimes you have to break a window and jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Boat Arrivals of Asylum Seekers Rising | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...latest attack against Italian troops and the bring-home-the-boys reaction show how quickly the dominoes of the alliance could begin to fall. And like the situation on the ground in Afghanistan, the next turn in Italian politics is virtually impossible to predict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Italy Pull Its Troops out of Afghanistan? | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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