| NEIGHBORHOODS CRUMBLE IN WAVE OF FORECLOSURES
Manuel Juarez stood in the middle of his patch of green lawn and gestured at the dead, brown yards of the empty tract homes in all directions. "There are no people in that house there," he said, pointing at a large stucco home with a for-sale sign next door to his right. Then he pointed at two nearly identical houses for sale across the street, then to the one on his left and finally to the house directly behind his. "There are no people there, there or there either," the 51-year-old appliance repairman said in his native Spanish. Epidemic repossessions hit several ZIP codes >> The dead lawns and for-sale signs are stark evidence of the Bay Area's foreclosure crisis - and Antioch's Meadow Creek Estates, where Juarez's two-story home stands, is at the epicenter of it.
Baptist Health System ceases tubal ligations
Ge 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Ge 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. .
Dollar's fall raises costs of outsourcing to India
Like many U.S. startups, RFQConnect, a broker of shipping and warehousing services based in Santa Clara, Calif., looked to India for its software. The program that runs RFQConnect's Internet auction site was produced by a shop of six developers in Pune, a city in the western state of Maharashtra. Now, the decision to buy Indian has suddenly gotten more expensive. As the dollar was plunging against the Indian rupee a few months ago, the Pune programming shop raised its hourly fee from about $22 to $25, an added expense an infant company such as RFQConnect could ill afford. "It hurts. The profit margin suffers directly," founder Sergio Retamal said. "But it's understandable." Around the globe, the falling dollar is touching everyone in the business world, from Saudi oil princes to U.S.
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