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While mortgage interest rates have recently increased and home prices have reached record heights in the past few months, first-time home buyers are being squeezed out of the market. Home prices are now 34 percent higher than they were two years ago, with prices that have continued to grow month-on-month in April, according to data published by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on Tuesday. But while the housing market is bad for buyers all over the country, home prices have grown disproportionately in certain areas, leading some to raise concerns of a potential housing market crash....

You might wonder why a bunch of women have to take lessons in caring from a man. But it shows how far women have come this year. They are a real force, and they know how to play hardball so well that-like men–they’ve got to worry about programming in their sensitive side. If Lee Atwater has an heir in Democratic politics, she’s wearing a skirt. Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald, one of two women (along with Sherman) who is a full partner in a major media firm, is a master of jujitsu politics-turning an attack into a counterattack....

Though her movie career was short, Dandridge is in no danger of becoming a footnote. Two biographies have come out in the last decade, and Berry’s been vying with Whitney Houston, who bought rights to one of the books, to get her film out first. Besides the eerie coincidence of Berry and Dandridge being born in the same Cleveland hospital, Berry related to Dandridge’s struggles in an industry that still barely acknowledges black talent....

Pakistan had got to the semi-finals in six of the past 10 World Cups just like Australia and New Zealand, but have not qualified this time and thus remain on 6. Meanwhile, India will be playing their sixth semi-final when they take on Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Thursday. South Africa have got to their fourth semi-final since playing their first World Cup in 1992. Like New Zealand, South Africa have also not won any of their World Cup semi-finals....

However, you would be mistaken if you thought the IPL was just about cricket. The league is a distinctive illustration of the amalgamation between cricket and business. From ‘DLF Maximums’ and ‘Karbonn Kamal Catches’ to ‘Dream 11 Gamechangers’ and ‘Vodafone Super Fans’, brand integrations have been an inseparable element of the ‘festival of cricket’. The IPL carries a brand value of $4.7 billion, according to an annual report by Brand Finance....

Picking apart several of the advanced statistics out there, it becomes obvious that all of the contenders that have emerged thus far have their own weaknesses that could be costly in May or June. They’re still the favorites, but the questions on these teams mostly become obvious with a close look at the stats: Blazers: Post defense It’s not just that the Blazers struggle defending the post, it is that they are almost the worst in the league at it, allowing 0....

There are more than 20,000 medications available by prescription, and still more available over the counter. Some can be used to treat several different health conditions. Aspirin, for example, can be used to treat pain, inflammation, and fever. In addition, aspirin can prevent heart attacks if taken on a regular basis. The following information is a basic overview of how some drugs work to improve your health. Fighting Infections An infection occurs when microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses, invade your body....

The romance ended for Hinton when the United States dropped the atomic bomb. In December 1948 she joined the communist Chinese cause, inspired by accounts of the communist struggle from her brother, author William Hinton, who was accused by McCarthyites of propagandizing “for the brain-washing, soul-killing Red Chinese.” She surfaced four years later at a Beijing peace conference to express “a deep sense of guilt and shame” for Hiroshima and to denounce the bomb as “a crime against humanity....

As it stands, the Kabul government and its security forces are crumbling due to motivational mismatch—not a withdrawal of American soldiers. Afghan soldiers and police primarily fight for pay, while the Taliban claim to fight for national liberation, and the warlords’ militiamen purportedly defend their ethnic enclaves. Facing an uncertain future, coupled with the collapsing and kleptocratic Kabul government’s inability to consistently pay its troops, some Afghan army units are simply evaporating....

That background made Tuesday’s events all the more surprising, as Gulati announced the hiring of Arena to take on his old job a decade after leaving it. Arena returns to his old post with more experience, and a better understanding of the demands of the position. He also admits now that Gulati’s decision to let him go a decade ago was the right one. “Whether I like to say this or not, it probably was the right time to make a change, and as you get a little older you look back at those things and you see it makes sense,” Arena told Goal USA on Tuesday, shortly after being introduced as the new U....

Insofar as it represents anything more than a post hoc rationalization for President Donald Trump’s caprice, the postmortem for the pre-2015 Republican Party reads as follows. By the 1980s, a set of serious problems had arrived in the United States. Thankfully, President Ronald Reagan and his fellow travelers had good answers to these problems and, by and large, they managed to solve them. But, having done so, the Republican Party and its friends within the institutionalized conservative movement failed to move on....

Blind senior oversaw a sapping 2-0 loss to Bulgaria on Saturday, which left the country that finished second and third at the past two World Cups in danger of missing out on a second consecutive major tournament. Having replaced Guus Hiddink during the Oranje’s ill-fated bid to reach Euro 2016, Danny Blind departs with Netherlands fourth in Group A – six points behind leaders France. Daley Blind played 90 minutes in Sofia as Spas Delev’s first-half brace gave Bulgaria the points and, following his father’s dismissal on Sunday, he reacted on Instagram....

The Vault Boy bobblehead appears in Bethesda Game Studios’ Fallout game series, appearing in Fallout 3, 4, and 76. The Fallout bobbleheads can be collected and stored by players, and affect gameplay, increasing stats or granting perks dependent on the type of bobblehead collected. As a character, Vault Boy has become a gaming icon, and is a mascot for the Fallout franchise. RELATED:Fallout 4 Car Glitch Instantly Kills Player and Ruins Survival Mode Run...

At the same time, physical activity can pose certain challenges to someone with type 1 diabetes: Without careful planning around meals and snacks, it can lead to dangerous dips in blood sugar (hypoglycemia) both during a workout and afterwards. Benefits The many health payoffs of regular exercise are as applicable to people with type 1 diabetes as they are to everyone else, namely: Improved insulin sensitivity Better weight management Stronger muscles and bones Reduced blood pressure Heart health and reduced cholesterol More energy...

Debuting in 2003, the Trackmania series has had over 15 entries over the last 19 years, each with its own unique game modes. However, the key element that sets Trackmania apart from other racers out there is that the player is often tasked with constructing their own racetracks. With the Trackmania reboot set to release on consoles early next year, it’s the perfect time to look back at the series’ history....

Disaster scenario for the 21st century? No, historical footnote. This happened 50 years ago. There was a global-warming scare in the 1930s. Then, as now, temperatures rose for several years running. Then, as now, scientists speculated that artificial carbon dioxide was the culprit; that the future could only be hotter. Immediately it got cold. From 1940 through the 1970s global temperatures declined, hitting bottom during the frigid winter of 1976-77....

Asked what her fifth and sixth grade pupils learn about George Washington, a teacher says: ““That he was the first president, that he was a slave owner, that he was rich – not much.’’ She does teach about another white male: Eli Whitney. She says her pupils ““know that he stole his invention from a woman who didn’t patent it.’’ How does the teacher know this? ““Another teacher told me....

Creed’s idea was to promote sportsmanship across the world. But in the early 1900’s the exhortation to play fairly was badly needed in this country, too. Betting scandals plagued baseball, culminating with the spectacular Black Sox affair in 1919, in which eight Chicago players were banned for throwing the World Series. Ivy League football was so boorish that Teddy Roosevelt held White House meetings about the rough play. (His reform efforts eventually led to the establishment of the NCAA....

A blessed change has come over me. Events of recent months have revealed to me that I have been laboring as a university professor for more than 20 years under a misguided theory of teaching. I humbly regret that during all those years I have caused distress and inconvenience to thousands of students while providing some amusement to my more practical colleagues. Enlightenment came to me in a sublime moment of clarity while I was being verbally attacked by a student whose paper I had just proved to have been plagiarized from “The Norton Anthology of English Literature....

The most substantial advance in the move to exert conservative influence in the courts started in 1982, with the creation of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. The Federalist Society, as it is more commonly known and referred to, started as a student organization in some of the nation’s most elite law schools. The eventual Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia helped organize one of the original chapters in his role as a law professor at the University of Chicago....