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...homes. In May, sales of houses under $300,000 (for the D.C. suburbs, that's low-priced) jumped 41%, as compared to the same month last year. Sales of houses $300,000 and above, meanwhile, dropped by 26%. The super-high-end is particularly grim. At the rate houses worth more than $700,000 have been selling, it will take three-and-a-half years to get rid of the existing inventory. And that's not including new houses that come onto the market. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
Boosting tourism, however, isn't merely about attracting foreigners: governments are also courting their own citizens. In China, local authorities have distributed domestic-travel coupons nationwide. In Wuhan, a city along the Yangtze River in central China, $146,000 worth of coupons was snatched up within 10 minutes at a promotional event, and the city has pledged more vouchers, totaling $73 million. In Britain, it's estimated that 5 million more citizens will choose a staycation this year rather than venture to the pricey euro zone...
...children to find dinner for themselves. "What I'm doing here is more important for their future," she said. When people driving by warned her that she might get beaten for speaking so openly, she said, "Let them beat me. My country is going to waste. What am I worth in comparison...
...than half of our energy is lost through inefficiencies, calculations that don't even include the energy we fritter away through wasteful behavior like leaving lights on or idling cars. We're on course to increase electricity usage an extra 30% by 2030, which could require trillions of dollars' worth of new emissions-belching power plants, so it would be much better to eliminate the usage that doesn't add to our quality of life...
...year-old Memphis native is a graduate of the Citadel and the great-nephew of Johnny Cash. He served a tour as chaplain with a Marine battalion in Iraq and baptized nearly 60 Marines during that time. Cash earned his theology degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth - and, yes, that means Obama's new pastor is a Southern Baptist...