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Mortgage woes could be 'tip of the iceberg'

MSNBC

by John W. Schoen

April 9, 2007

Mark and Kerrie Russo of Jackson, N.J., are struggling to hang on. They are among millions of home owners swept up in a wave of questionable lending practices and outright fraud.

Like many borrowers who were sold mortgages they couldn't afford, Russo says that when she called the broker to complain, she was told that because she failed to read the fine print, the responsibility for getting in too deep was hers.

Breach of data at TJX is called the biggest ever

The Boston Globe

by Jenn Abelson

March 29, 2007

At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by hackers who accessed the computer systems at the TJX Cos. (TJ Max), making it the biggest breach of personal data ever reported, according to security specialists.

TJX believes the hackers last year had the capability to steal payment card data from its Framingham system as transactions were being approved. Even the files TJX tried to protect through encryption may have been compromised because the company believes the hackers had access to the decryption tool.

Jury awards mom $4.9 million

The Orange County Register (CA)

by Larry Welborn

March 27, 2007

Seal Beach woman said her children were improperly taken away from her by OC Department of Social Services

A civil jury has awarded $4.9 million to a Seal Beach woman who claimed that the Orange County Department of Social Services violated her parental rights by taking her two pre-teen daughters away in 2000 and placing them in foster care.

21st Century Homesteading: Why Grow Your Own Food?

Mother Earth News

by Harvey Ussery

March 18, 2007

Many people think that the American food supply is the best in the world. So why are so many people going to the trouble of growing their own food, or seeking it from known producers close to home?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year an estimated 76 million cases of food-borne illness - including 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 associated deaths - occur in the United States.

The rice with human genes

dailymail.co.uk

by Sean Poulter

March 6, 2007

The first GM food crop containing human genes is set to be approved for commercial production.

The laboratory-created rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva. Its U.S. developers say they could be used to treat children with diarrhoea, a major killer in the Third World. The rice is a major step in so-called Frankenstein Foods, the first mingling of human-origin genes and those from plants. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture has already signalled it plans to allow commercial cultivation.

The Real Cost Of Abolishing Estate Tax

ABC News 7

by Mark Matthews

March 2, 2007

The President is trying once again to eliminate the estate tax and his critics have come up with some extreme comparisons on who it will impact.

Senator Bernie Sanders has compiled a list of what he calls the winners and losers. The family that owns the Nordstrom department stores? Sanders figures they'd get to save $826 million dollars if the tax is repealed.

Kraft expands chicken recall

USA Today

by Julie Schmit

A chicken-product recall has grown to 2.8 million pounds, making it one of the largest meat or poultry recalls since 2004.

The initial recall of 52,650 pounds of Oscar Mayer/Louis Rich Chicken Breast Strips - Grilled was announced Feb. 18 after listeria bacteria was found in one package.

FEMA wants millions in hurricane aid returned

msnbc.msn.com

February 6, 2007

In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time.

Now the government wants back a lot of the money it disbursed across the region. The Federal Emergency Management Administration has determined nearly 70,000 Louisiana households improperly received $309.1 million in grants, and officials acknowledge those numbers are likely to grow.

Oregon State Trooper Suspends First Amendment

News With Views (OR)

by Jim Kouri

January 16, 2007

An Oregon man says he and his family were accosted and harassed by an Oregon State trooper while exercising their constitutional right to protest the war on a public sidewalk in Portland on December 9, 2006.

David Brownlow, 49, who serves as the vice chairman of the Constitution Party of Oregon, filed a $1 million federal civil rights lawsuit against Senior Trooper Ken Moore for violating his right to freedom of expression under the United States Constitution pursuant to 42 USC 1983.

More Deadbeat Granddads Failing To Make Birthday Payments

The Onion (Satire)

September 12, 2006

ATHENS, GA - With truant payments on the rise, millions of American grandchildren are being left seriously undergifted, officials say.

At 7:34 p.m. on Monday, two Athens County deputy sheriffs forcibly entered Room 3B of the Sunwood Assisted Living complex, and, after waking him up, took Georgia's No. 1 deadbeat granddad into custody - 79-year-old Roy Ehrengruber, who owes over $480 in grandchild birthday-card money.

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