Word: appleton
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Cover recalled his favorite book of childhood adventure stories, Victor Appleton's Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. "What an amazing thought," he once said, "stunning people with blue balls of electricity." A rejiggering of some letters later, and Cover had a name--TASER (Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle). Resembling a large flashlight, the device fired darts that delivered an electrical current through the human body, briefly incapacitating anyone on the receiving...
...today’s presidential election, Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 spoke fondly once more of his former student Barack Obama and his “audacity of hope” for the country in his morning prayers in Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel...
...foreclosures continue to pile up and prices edge downward. Properties are at least moving again there, many at 30% to 40% off even last year's lowered prices. "In Los Angeles, one year ago, the median home price was $582,450; this September, it was $376,790," says Leslie Appleton-Young, chief economist for the California Association of Realtors. That may sound awful, particularly if you're the seller, but it may represent a clearance level - i.e., prices low enough to draw buyers - which the market needs in order to stabilize. Other helpful factors: banks are agreeing to short sales...
...distressed properties notably contributing to the surge. "We're seeing a significant increase in sales activity over the last four or five months, but it is the moderate-to-low-end distressed properties, including real estate owned, foreclosures and short sales, that are showing really very significant increases," says Appleton-Young...
...Your issue should have been titled "Our Tribute to Barack Obama." I especially enjoyed the "Five Faces" story. Yes, he's everything: healer, novice, radical, the future! I felt like I was watching an infomercial for OxyClean stain remover. Karl Koenig, Appleton, Wisconsin...