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Top 10 places to buy a foreclosed home
Here are the Top 10 metropolitan areas to buy a foreclosed home, according to RealtyTrac:
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Evolution of the NFL: 16 ways the game has changed
Forty-seven years after the first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles before a less-than-capacity crowd, let’s look back at some of the ways the NFL has changed.
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Top 10 metros for job growth
Some metropolitan areas have a booming jobs market, thanks to energy, manufacturing, or sometimes just the right mix of highly diversified industries. Here's a look at the 10 metros that have seen the largest percentage increase in jobs over the past 12 months:
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Baseball fans: Take a quick tour of all 30 major league ballparks
Authors Josh Pahigian and Kevin O’Connell explore America's major league ballparks in "The Ultimate Baseball Road."
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10 best cities to buy short sale homes
Foreclosures are tough: Homeowners lose their houses and ruin their credit, while banks get stuck with vacant, deteriorating real estate for months before selling it at a considerable loss. Increasingly, banks are finding another way: the short sale. Instead of waiting to foreclose, a bank preemptively sells a home at a deep discount and closes out the underwater mortgage, even if the house sells for less than the value of the mortgage. The result: Homeowners shed their mortgage debt, and banks unload properties more quickly and inexpensively. Here are the Top 10 metropolitan areas with the biggest average discounts on these pre-foreclosure homes, according to online foreclosure marketplace RealtyTrac. Can you guess which city is No. 1?
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'Steel Curtain II' vs. a big offense: a contest of styles
Super Bowl XLIII will put on display how football is being redefined in front of fans' eyes.
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Home price plunge spreads to stable cities
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USA
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Garden 'siteseeing' in England and the US
Garden blogs in the US and England
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Consumers close their wallets
Retail sales plunge a record 2.8 percent in October, suggesting a dismal outlook for holiday spending.
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Obama grabs Ohio and steadily rolls up Electoral votes
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Obama aides may be smelling the smell of victory
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Review roundup: T-Mobile G1
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One hockey mom’s rinkside regimen – and views of Sarah Palin
Theresa Burgess, a Minnesota parent who shuffles two kids to games, doesn’t feel any particular affinity with the vice presidential nominee but thinks it would be ‘great to have a woman in the White House.’
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Obama, McCain in comic book mode
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Opinion: What's wrong with boredom?
Unstructured time is the mother of creativity.
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Cindy McCain: rodeo queen to first lady?
Both privilege and challenge have marked her life, and now Mrs. McCain could follow her husband to the White House.
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'Pristine' environments and sustainability
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It's not Madonna, but McCain's got Daddy Yankee
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New rays of hope for solar power’s future
High cost of fossil fuel and advanced technology improve this energy source’s prospects.
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Do uranium mines belong near Grand Canyon?
Mining companies stake claims on federal land adjoining the park, while opponents say drinking water will be at risk.
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U.S. Army microgrants help revive small businesses
But soldiers say the program taxes platoon resources – meaning that recipients are often not held accountable for the grants.
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Program helps Arizona prisoners get ready for real life
From Day One, inmates are treated like adults, lowering the chance they will return.
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Citizen journalists make new inroads into political reporting
An MSNBC contest will pick two amateur reporters this week to cover the party conventions.
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Citizen journalists make new inroads into political reporting
An MSNBC contest will pick two amateur reporters this week to cover the party conventions.
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Arizona pair swaps houses to save gas
Julie Lazzarra traded homes with her dad so that the two could enjoy shorter commutes.
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Penumbra Theatre founder defines American black stage
Lou Bellamy's vision is that everything is performed as if there were only black people in the audience.
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Penumbra Theatre founder defines American black stage
Lou Bellamy's vision is that everything is performed as if there were only black people in the audience.
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