Crystal Coast Real Estate: Is The Worst Over?

Is The Worst Over? Indications show the Crystal Coast Real Estate market has turned the corner By: Bill Hitchcock The Crystal Coast has some very “promising” indications that the real estate market has just turned the corner. The past 30 days have shown signs of...

Elderly Chinese Women Sentenced to Labor Re-Education

I got a tip from my friend John E. Carey today pointing me to this story about China and its glowing human rights record."Two elderly women were sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor" after they applied for permits to demonstrate during the Olympics, according to...

Giant kites to tap power of the high wind

"A traditional childhood pastime could provide a breakthrough in renewable energy, after successful experiments in flying a giant kite at one of Europe's top research centres.Scientists from Delft University of...

The Good, the Bad and the 3rd Quarter

The Good, the Bad and the 3rd Quarter By: Bill Hitchcock (Note: The Crystal Coast is an area located in the mid-region of coastal North Carolina) The Crystal Coast real estate market has become, shall we say, “Vey Interesting!” Although the over-all market is still...

US plans aid to Georgia as Russia rolls into city

"Georgia - Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape.In Washington, President Bush said the...

Russia calls halt to 5-day invasion of Georgia

"Declaring "the aggressor has been punished," the Kremlin ordered a halt Tuesday to Russia's devastating assault on Georgia — five days of air and ground attacks that left homes in smoldering ruins and uprooted 100,000 people. Both sides accepted the general outlines of a...

One Third of New Owners Owe More Than House Is Worth

Aug. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought in the last five years now owe more on their mortgages than their properties are worth, according to Zillow.com, an Internet provider of home...

Housing Market - Let's Take a Walk

Trying to sell, refinance or take out an equity loan on your home? It doesn't take a world-class economist to see the signs that are all around us - literally.  In today's world of gas prices at an all-time...

Don't inhale that new car smell

"(AOL Autos) -- Ah, that new car smell, that eau de car-logne; it does an ego good while it does a wallet bad. And now it turns out, it can do bad things to your health, too. ...

key packages to help home buyers and repossession families..

UPDATE; 03rd September 2008After months of continuing gloom on the UK housing front with more repossessions, more banks losing money and buyers waiting for the Government to decide what to do with stamp duty. The...

Living One year rent free in a Ghost town?

"We didn't sell one house," real-estate agent Michael McKinnon says.But for the Pfluegers, who won, the outcome appeared to be nothing short of divine intervention. Mr. Pflueger had been out of work for eight...

Humpback whale seen in German seas, experts stunned

This is a very exciting story!A humpback whale has been spotted off Germany's Baltic coast for the first time in 30 years, which scientists are calling a 'scientific sensation'.If this whale is there for a reason...

Wildfire near Yosemite destroys 12 homes

Firefighters are still trying to fight a wildfire near Yosemite National Park.  The blaze has already destroyed 12 homes.  2000 homes are being threatened by the fire. Apparently, two women who went into...

Fifth of Burmese aid cash lost to exchange rate trick

The situation in Burma after getting hit by Cyclone Nargis is back in the headlines. This time, it has much to do with money issues. " International aid agencies helping the victims of the devastating cyclone in Burma are losing as much as a fifth of the money that they...

Orphaned children in care abused, beaten

Sad facts in state orphanages and foster homes...nearly half of the children said they have negative experience in care. " VULNERABLE children in Victorian state institutions were treated "as things, not human beings", a disturbing new report reveals. Children were...

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