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Where are we in the foreclosure cycle? To use a baseball analogy, I'd say we're probably in the middle of the sixth inning. We don't see foreclosure activity peaking until sometime in 2010, and we probably won't be down to normal levels of foreclosure inventory until sometime in 2013. Year to date, we've already seen about 2.3 million households receive a foreclosure notice. That's roughly the same amount we had all of last year. We're looking at nearly 7 million households that are past due on their loans or already in foreclosure. There...
...method of cloud-seeding used by the Chinese involves dosing the atmosphere with silver iodide, a chemical solution either dropped from planes or shot up from the ground. (Other methods use salt or dry ice.) The silver iodide particles supercharge cloud formation, as they act as excellent condensation nuclei. Once clouds form, they also start a positive feedback effect. As droplets freeze and are added to the cloud, they release their heat, creating an updraft which draws additional moisture from the ground into the atmosphere...
...anesthetics are now under way among both young children and elderly patients. Wilder anticipates that "we are about five years away from getting to the bottom of this." If anesthetics do prove to be neurotoxic, it could be a regulatory and ethical nightmare to decide how best to continue using them. For Xie's part, he thinks researchers must come up with alternative drugs for vulnerable patients if such a scenario unfolds. "Science doesn't always tell us what we want to hear. If certain drugs are dangerous to use, then we should not use them," he says...
...This deal] is part of our broader efforts to be sustainable where we can and wherever possible to use renewable products to reduce our environmental impact,” said Mary H. Smith, an energy strategist at UOS. “We look at this as a long-term pricing strategy that is very competitive with other prices...
...different and important positions, left and right, people will try to manipulate the image of this triumph and use it for their own very perverse purposes,” Pastor says. “You can see it in the way people project to take the ‘selecionados,’ the heroes of the story, into their photo...