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...with being addressed as Miss before my marriage or Mrs. now. I don't identify myself through my marriage but I believe that it is a sign of love to have the same name as the man with whom I intend to spend the rest of my life. I wonder if the problem is really one of a generation older than myself. Julia Feldmann, UETERSEN, GERMANY
...claims that it forecast. The agency has just $3.6 billion on hand to cover any unexpected losses in its $685 billion portfolio. That paltry level of reserve funding, less than is mandated by the government, has left some members of Congress in a twitchy mood and some onlookers to wonder if the FHA will eventually need a massive infusion of cash. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...number to make even some of us upperclassmen feel insecure. (Back in our day, we were admitted at the embarrassingly bloated rate of about 9 percent. Good thing we managed to slip in when we could.) These days, we wonder, could there be a statistically more impossible dream than getting into Harvard...
...drug in the world's arsenal against malaria's most deadly strain, Plasmodium falciparum. For six decades, malaria drugs like chloroquine and mefloquine have fallen impotent in this Southeast Asian border area, allowing stronger strains to spread to Burma, India and Africa. But this time there's no new wonder drug waiting in the wings. "It would be unspeakably dire if resistance formed to artemisinin," says Amir Attaran, a professor of law and medicine at the University of Ottawa who has written extensively on malaria issues...
...people in order to build a massive dam, as China did in Hubei province from 1994 to 2006. (The value of checks and balances is, in fact, among the many things China could learn from the U.S.) But you don't have to be a card-carrying communist to wonder how effectively the U.S. develops and executes ambitious projects. Ask James McGregor. He's a former chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China and now a business consultant who divides his time between the two countries. "One key thing we can learn from China is setting goals, making...