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...visits for help; so far, 171 homes have been saved from foreclosure, and others have received various forms of help. The county is desperate. As of July, it had recorded 15,803 foreclosure proceedings for 2008 compared to 13,695 in all of 2007. Indeed, the need in the area is so great that a third of all requests for assistance come from outside West Palm Beach - and cannot qualify for assistance...
...water. The bacteria also proliferate wildly, taking over the ecosystem and exacerbating the oxygen depletion. If conditions like strong currents, which are common in summer, prevent oxygen-rich water from the surface from mixing with lower layers, bottom-dwelling animals like lobsters, crabs and flounder in that area either flee or die. Relatively immobile animals such as oysters, clams and worms are particularly susceptible to annihilation. Such deaths take the bottom out of the marine food chain, helping to create sustained dead zones...
...economy to a very great extent. All I can do is provide more aid to people who cannot resist the impact ... What we are trying to do is open up, deregulate, liberalize as much as possible. All of these measures are intended to make Taiwan a more competitive area in our part of the world. We'll have a difficult time, maybe even into next year, but eventually we'll make it because our policies are right...
...need of guidelines. "California impliedly allows parents to homeschool as a private school but has provided no enforcement mechanism. ... Given the state's compelling interest in educating all of its children ... and the absence of an express statutory and regulatory framework for homeschooling in California, additional clarity in this area of the law would be helpful," he said...
...women of Casselberry, Fla., had an unlikely inspiration to run for local office: strip clubs. "We'd become known as a red-light district," says vice mayor Colleen Hufford. "All the other cities in our area were flourishing, and we were seeing ours deteriorate." Hufford, with several other women, started holding meetings for community members to discuss the situation. They formed a political action committee and ran candidates for the city commission in 2006. Today, three commissioners are members of the group, and they've brought in a female city manager, city attorney and city clerk. The women have spearheaded...