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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031104866.html?nav=igoogle
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The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate market has begun to stabilize.
About 5 million to 7 million properties are potentially eligible for foreclosure but have not yet been repossessed and put up for sale. Some economists project it could take nearly three years before all these homes have been put on the market and purchased by new owners. And the number of pending foreclosures could grow much bigger over the coming year as more distressed borrowers become delinquent and then, if they can't obtain mortgage relief, wade through the foreclosure process, which often takes more than a year to complete.
About 5 million to 7 million properties are potentially eligible for foreclosure but have not yet been repossessed and put up for sale. Some economists project it could take nearly three years before all these homes have been put on the market and purchased by new owners. And the number of pending foreclosures could grow much bigger over the coming year as more distressed borrowers become delinquent and then, if they can't obtain mortgage relief, wade through the foreclosure process, which often takes more than a year to complete.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/03/12/single_payer/index.html
There are any number of explanations for why there aren't any votes for a single-payer plan; the massive campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures by the insurance industry and other big healthcare players surely didn't help the cause. But as the public option looks like it may, once and for all, be ruled out of the bill, it's worth remembering that even the Democrats in Congress are a change-averse bunch when it comes to healthcare.
17th case of mad cow disease delays Canada's movement into better risk status
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/breakingnews/17th-case-of-mad-cow-disease-delays-canadas-movement-into-better-risk-status-87420927.html
Scavenging Energy Waste to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03
Materials scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel
Aquatic 'Dead Zones' Contributing to Climate Change
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311141213.htm
Winter roads close, leaving communities short on supplies
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Winter-roads-close-leaving-communities-short-on-supplies-87368137.html
As many as seven northern native communities were unable to get needed supplies after a portion of the province's winter road system shut down because of the mild weather.
Jerry Knott, chief of Wasagamack First Nation, said the communities were unable to get needed supplies including heating fuel, gas, building materials, and supplies needed for the operation of water treatment plants.
Knott said the affected communities include the Island Lake communities of Wasagamack, Garden Hill and St. Theresa Point and Oxford House, God's Lake and God's Narrows.
TB rate more than 30 times higher for aboriginal Canadians:
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/rate+more+than+times+higher+aboriginal+Canadians+Report/2666002/story.html
The numbers were released Wednesday and were accompanied by a call from the federal NDP for an emergency debate in the House of Commons to discuss the issue — particularly as it relates to Inuit communities, where the numbers are even worse.
Tuberculosis is 185 times higher in Inuits than in non-aboriginals," said NDP health critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
"Rates of TB . . . are higher than in . . . Third World countries."
Deadly TB Hits Epworth Amid Worsening Health Crises
http://allafrica.com/stories/201003111069.html
A deadly strain of tuberculosis has reportedly hit Epworth, amid a rapidly worsening health crisis and critical shortages of food across the country.
One case of the deadly multi-drug resistant TB strain has been confirmed in the high density area of Epworth and two more people in the same area are suspected to be infected. Zakaria Mwatia, from Epworth Clinic, confirmed the cases to local press, explain how the disease attacks those with already weakened immune systems. Drug resistant TB is believed to have an 80% mortality rate and has been created by TB sufferers not finishing their course of medication. In a country where a steady supply for both TB and HIV medication is often not available, many people's health is already compromised.
Scientists Identify microRNA as Possible Cause of Chemotherapy Resistance
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311074125.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29&utm_content=Google+International
Scientists find "mother" of all skin cells
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre62a4kq-us-skin-cells
Dutch and Swedish researchers conducted a study in mice and found that the stem cell that gives produces all the different cells of the skin actually lives in hair follicles.
Scientists Discover 600 Million-Year-Old Origins of Vision
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311151724.htm
Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/11/legal_scholar_michelle_alexander_on_the
Tomgram: Michelle Alexander, The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175215/tomgram:_michelle_alexander,_the_age_of_obama_as_a_racial_nightmare
California’s inmate population is among the highest in the nation. Its complex of prisons spills over with tens of thousands of inmates housed in every available inch of space and sleep-stacked three-high. So overcrowded are California’s prisons that the state penal system has been successfully sued for violating the constitutional rights of inmates -- essentially by subjecting them to a public-health crisis. That its inmates consistently resort to violence in prison should come as no surprise.
The dire state of California’s prisons can, in part, be traced to its draconian “three-strikes law,” which throws three-time felons behind bars for a mandatory 25 years. Overflowing prison populations have, in turn, contributed to that state’s bleak economic future, helping consign California to a perpetual budget deficit, annual financial crises, and repeated deep cuts in education and social funding. The state currently spends a staggering 10% of its annual operating budget, or $10.8 billion, on its prison system and its nearly 170,000 prisoners -- more than it spends on the University of California system, once the jewel in the crown of American public higher education.
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