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...their respective countries. In Britain, meanwhile, the government announced this week it had taken control of problem mortgages from Bradford & Bingley, Britain's second biggest mortgage lender. Despite those moves amid the spreading U.S. crisis, however, observers believe European companies and homeowners are not as exposed to financial ruin as their American peers. "For better or worse, depending on your perspective, these aren't the same property-owning societies like you have in the U.S.,"Buik says. "The temptation, even pressure to borrow as much as you need to buy as much as you want was never the same...
...Instead, as skeptics had predicted, the process is getting bogged down by a host of partisan fears: fear that one candidate could be perceived as breaking the logjam and saving the country from financial ruin, fear that one party could be blamed for passing a costly government bailout of fat cats on Wall Street, and fear of who might be blamed if nothing is done. "I'm not clear that in a very difficult situation like this that doing things in the spotlight and injecting presidential politics is necessarily useful," Obama told reporters Thursday...
...Duchess” isn’t meant to be a groundbreaking movie by any stretch of the imagination. Its aim is to entertain rather than to educate. But gorgeous dresses and champagne can’t mask the fact that stale dialogue and flat storylines will ruin a movie, whatever its aim may be. Director Dibb’s offering isn’t terrible—but it isn’t great either. If you want light entertainment and social scandal, an “OC” box set is likely to give you more satisfaction?...
...what Pennsylvania's state beekeeper Dennis vanEngelsdorp found when he examined victims of CCD: "[W]hat he saw looked like an infinitesimal World War I battlefield. Everywhere was shiny, pockmarked ruin. The bees' guts, which should have been white, were stippled brown with infection. Their sting glands had blackened - a melanization last reported fifty years ago in connection with rare fungal infections. VanEngelsdorp found deformed wing virus, black queen cell virus, and many more. The bees didn't have one disease. They had them...
...terror, which Roxanna optimistically interpreted as worry.She looked down at the paper in her hand:The StableFelicitous, my fate, of late, is not.I feel as though I’ve been most cruelly shot,By heartache’s arrow, so strong, and long, and hard.And now against whole ruin must I guard.I dream of stables wherein my heart will die,I cry, I cry, I cry, I cry.Roxanna required a moment to collect herself. She daubed at her tears with a handkerchief. She could not help herself; she thrust the parchment into her bosom.Her pangs of shame at having...