Interest rates drive first time home purchases for young buyers
In Chicago and across the U.S. record low rates spur many in their early 20s to buy homes. Buyers like 23 to 25 year olds use low down payments, signing bonuses, and parental help to enter markets from Edmond Oklahoma to suburban Chicago. Real estate analysts note fewer buyers aged under 25 but a rising trend as median first time buyer age drops to 31.
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Erin Engelke
Jason
Edmond
Okla
Dents
Cristi Cola
Safety Harbor
Fla
Jeff Lischett
Kraft Foods
Lischett
New York City
Ellen Bitton
Park Avenue Mortgage Group Inc
National Association of Realtors
Scott Syphax
The
Nehemiah Corporation of California
Erin
Jason Engelke
Oklo
NASA to send twin rovers to Mars for water clues
NASA plans two identical 400 pound rovers to search for evidence of past water on Mars. Launch from Earth is targeted for 2004 with six rocks, high resolution panoramas, and mineralogical data relayed to Earth. The mission aims to boost success odds after 1999 failures and 2004 Mars flotilla plans include Beagle 2 and European, Japanese satellites.
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Calif
NASA
Mars
Red
Space Agency
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
John Callas
Matthew Golombek
Earth
Europe
Japan
United States
Roundworms Used To Probe Genes Linked To Fat, Obesity
Harvard biologist Gary Ruvkun and team identify about 400 fat related genes in the roundworm Celegans and deactivate about 300 to produce leaner worms. The work in Nature explores a genetic protocol that may guide future obesity therapies in humans though experts caution a decade or more for safe drug development.
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Harvard
Gary Ruvkin
Ruvkun
Nature
Leon Avery
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas
Develot
Wellcome Trust
Cancer Research UK Institute
England
Man arrested in girlfriend's shooting death in Times Square
Richard Jenkins, tied to the woman he dated after meeting at a Dark Shadows fan festival, was arrested in New York after investigators say he flew from Oregon with the aim of confronting a possible scam. They say he shot his girlfriend in a Times Square hotel room and confessed to the act.
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New York
Richard Jenkins
Jenkins
Oregon
Times Square
Portland
Ore
Forman
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