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...thing is very clear from our Internet habits: our food focus is influenced by where we live. If you're an affluent urban dweller (I concentrated on affluent Internet users for this column, as they are more likely to visit food-related sites than their less affluent counterparts), you're eating out in an informed way, being most likely to visit Zagat for restaurant reviews, Opentable to make an online reservation or Chowhound to discuss your favorite food topics...
...estate. So mortgage brokers found ways to squeeze buyers into first and second mortgages even when their finances were questionable. Consider the appellation NINJA, used to indicate a buyer with no income, no job and no assets. "Capital was made available to every Tom, Dick and Harry," says Zachary Urban, who runs the Colorado Foreclosure Hotline...
...Urban is now dealing with the fallout: 18,000 calls in the past 10 months. Calls from people like Essie Kemp, who lives in the hard-hit neighborhood of Montbello. Kemp is faced with losing the home she has lived in for 23 years, since she can no longer make the payments on her refinanced mortgage. She wanted to have money to buy an air conditioner and fix her pipes. What she got was an adjustable-rate mortgage that spiked after two years. It wasn't until she went to see a housing counselor that she realized her income...
While the number of dead is high, authorities recognize that the damage from this and other recent earthquakes could have been much greater if the seismic movement had been centered closer to major urban areas. During his address, President Garcia thanked "Almighty God" for sparing Peru the tragedy caused by earlier earthquakes, such as the one in May 1970 in the central Andes that killed around 70,000 people. Similar earthquakes elsewhere, such as the one that hit Pakistan and India nearly two years ago, killed 73,000 people and left more than 100,000 injured...
...movie’s title, the documentary is noticeably dirt-free and stays clear of the controversy over organic farming. Casting community farming as the savior of American farms over evil big business, Siegel glosses over certain questions—for instance, what is the role of the wealthy urban “shareholders” who apparently fund the operation...