FEDERAL Housing Minister Tanya Plibersek has given the thumbs down to tax breaks on loans for first home-buyers.
Aussie Home Loans boss John Symond has said the measure would help ease the housing affordability crisis.
But Ms Plibersek said it wasn’t the fairest way of helping first home buyers.
What needed to be done was to make sure [...]
Gao Ping’s arms are still bruised and scratched from scrambling over boulder-strewn roads and dodging rain-slick landslides.
The 43-year-old migrant worker wasn’t here when the earthquake struck on May 12. Instead, he is one of millions who had left their hometowns for better jobs in their country’s white-hot economy, only to race back on a wrenching [...]
After years of living a street life, Woody Easley has finally found a home, and a new life, at a residential facility in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood.
Easley, 60, was asked to leave another residential house in Chicago when he disclosed he was HIV positive. Now, he is one of six residents of Jo-Ray House, a home [...]
That leaves almost 80 percent who are suffering more than they need to, said the study’s lead author, Jill Halterman, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Golisano Children’s Hospital at Strong. They may be experiencing unnecessary symptoms, missed school days, and restrictions on activity. That’s a problem.
Halterman said the survey results are striking because, [...]
Refugio Ramirez has a pioneer spirit, roaming his unfenced ranch, tending to his livestock and enjoying the stomach-dropping views from the cliffs of this wide-open country.
Nearly four decades ago, as an immigrant in Chicago, Ramirez blazed a path that would transform his hometown. While working as a dishwasher at the Congress Plaza Hotel, Ramirez [...]
Our results suggest that an autonomous glial mechanism may drive circadian rhythms in the activity of a Drosophila protein known as Ebony, says F. Rob Jackson, PhD, director of the CNR and professor of neuroscience at TUSM. Ebony activity and the glia containing that activity explains Jackson, function independently of, or in concert with, other [...]
Most start-up companies have some of their biggest problems getting out of the starting blocks. Every young company struggles to find financing in its infancy. If you’re considering launching one, take a good look at a home equity loan as a funding source.
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The American Red Cross St. Louis Area Chapter received a $10,000 grant from The Home Depot to support the chapter’s goal in 2008 of educating at least 80,000 St. Louis-area residents through Community Disaster Education presentations.
The presentations are designed to prepare people for a variety of emergency situations, including fires, floods, earthquakes [...]
Animal migration fascinated the ancients and continues to fascinate researchers today. An often highly complex, synchronized suite of changes in behavior, morphology, and physiology enables journeys that may be epic in scale. These feats of endurance and navigation are widely regarded as some of the most astonishing of nature’s spectacles. Researchers have gained some important [...]
In the United States, half a million to a million colonies out of a total 2.4 million colonies have died this winter. Both tracheal mites (Acarapis woodi) and varroa mites (Varroa destructor) have threatened the bee industry since the 1980s, causing similar catastrophic die-offs to bee populations in the winters of 1995-96 and 2000-01. The [...]