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...roof exposure were large enough to make him a good candidate for its solar panels, the company, based in San Jose, Calif., helped him find a 15-year loan for the $64,500 system. Yes, his $550 loan payment is more than the $300 or so he used to spend each month on electricity bills--so far, he has generated enough solar power that he doesn't need to take any juice from the grid--but after he pays off the loan, his power will be free. And this year, he'll get a $16,000 rebate in the form...
...give birth should be regarded as a civil rights issue. "Legislating against home birth is totally un-American and unfair," says Joan Bryson, who has worked as a midwife in New York City for 17 years. "We rank 42nd in the world in live births, and we spend more money than anyone else. You can't blame it on home birth...
...want to. That's why Americans spend over $2 billion a year on antiperspirants and deodorants. Despite that investment, 25% to 30% of people in a national survey feel the products they use could do more to control sweat. Enter Unilever's new clinical-strength versions of Dove and Degree. Ditto for Procter & Gamble's Secret, Old Spice and Gillette. Says P&G spokesman Jay Gooch: "At the end of the day, we want to make sure we don't stink...
Where will the money come from? Al-Sheikhly says still more outside investment is needed to revitalize the city. That kind of talk only compounds the grumpiness of the country's biggest donor: the U.S. government. Washington is increasingly unhappy over the Iraqi government's seeming reluctance to spend funds from its own coffers on reconstruction projects. "Despite Iraq earning billions of dollars in oil revenue in the past five years, U.S. taxpayer money has been the overwhelming source of Iraq reconstruction funds," said Senator John Warner of Virginia, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...your children get sick every year. But if you kill your animals, you're ruining everything you have, and everything you're going to have. You're risking the lives of the whole family." Even the decision to take a starving child to hospital - and spend a family's life savings on a bus ride - was agonizing. The children who died mostly belonged to parents who, hoping for a miraculous recovery, left it until too late...