Storage tight as flood victims seek space across Iowa
After Cedar River flooding, storage facilities face high demand and higher vacancies. Add A Space in Palo reopened in five weeks with help for tenants while Green Acres expands to meet needs. Prices stay steady for flood victims, though late payments rise and some worry about unit auctions.
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Kuzela
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Palo
Cedar River
Dan
Diane Lucore
Jeanne Guthrie
Lucores
Add-A-Space
Guthrie
Highway 13
Green Acres Storage
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Seth Green
Green
the Gazette
Anna Cave
16Th Avenue
Cave
Adams
Tammy Ousley
Southgate Self Storage
David
Dewitte
Gazcomm.com
Obama faces tough week on stimulus and bailout plans
President Obama confronts a divided Congress over an $827 billion stimulus package while seeking a new bailout framework for banks. Geithner delays details to align with Senate work as unemployment spikes and bank failures test the administration.
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Obama
Washington
Barack Obama
Congress
Senate
House
Treasury Department
Timothy Geithner
Geithner
Federal Reserve
Rockets strike southern Israel amid truce talks before election
Two rockets fired by Palestinian militants hit the southern Israeli towns of Nir Am and Ashkelon as Hamas and Israel push toward a long term cease-fire two days before elections. The flare up follows a unilateral Gaza pullback and ongoing Egyptian brokered talks with no immediate claim of responsibility.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Gaza
Hamas
Gaza Strip
Syria
Lebanon
Osama Hamadan
Cairo
ANB
Egypt
Nir Am
Ashgelon
Recent rapid human evolution shaped by disease and diet
New research traces rapid genetic adaptation in the last 40,000 years with about 1,800 genes showing recent selection. Malaria resistance variants spread among Africans, dairy digestion mutations arose with farming, and dietary shifts toward starches tie to evolving diabetes risk among Americans Indians. Blue eyes and pale skin debated as evolutionary byproducts.
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Milford Wolpoff
University of Michigan
Ethiopia
Wolpoff
Hawks
Tropics
Subtropics
Thailand
New Guinea
Darwin
Africa
Equator
TV Shows Go Free Online and Cut Cable Interest
The rise of free online viewing signals a shift as viewers drop or trim pay TV. Time Warner Cable lost 119000 basic video customers in Q4 while streaming services and sites like Hulu YouTube CBS MGM push free full episodes.
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Time Warner Cable
Netflix
Pew Internet
American Life Project
Federal Communications Commission
Bobby Tulsiani
Forrester Research
Tulsiani
Hulu.com
NBC
Fox
YouTube
CBS
MGM
Wildfires kill and burn across Victoria with mass evacuations
Victoria state faces a vast wildfire crisis centered near Kinglake and Churchill as 180 deaths are reported and more than 750 homes destroyed. Fire investigators probe fatalities, while 850 square miles burn, hundreds of homes burned and thousands of volunteers fight roughly a dozen fires amid shifting winds and dangerous roads.
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Kinglake
Victoria
Christine Nixon
Churchill
Melbourne
Nixon
Australian Broadcasting Corp
Victoria Country Fire Service
Associated Press
Wayne Wilson
Kevin Rudd
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