Fixed mortgage rates fell last week to the lowest point of the year. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 5 basis points this week, to 4.61 percent, according to the Bankrate.com national survey of large lenders. A basis point is one-hundredth of 1 percentage point. The mortgages in this week’s survey had an average...
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Bernard Hopkins became the oldest champion in boxing history Saturday night by winning a unanimous decision against Canadian Jean Pascal to claim Pascal’s WBC title belt. Hopkins, who turned 46 in January, eclipsed the record set in 1994 by George Foreman, who knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round to win the heavyweight...
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Harold Camping, a radio host and leader of an obscure Christian movement, has proclaimed that the world will end on May 21 based on his interpretation of the Bible — and millions of people have taken notice. For Camping and his followers, Judgment Day is serious business, even though past predictions by Camping about...
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The deadline for the apocalypse passed in the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia without a bang. So it seems Harold Camping’s latest prediction that the world will end Saturday, May 21, 2011, is proving to be false. According to the Christian broadcaster, Judgment Day was supposed to bring a massive earthquake, powerful enough...
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Dallas Weins, 25, of Fort Worth received a new nose, lips, skin, muscle and nerves from an anonymous donor. The operation was paid for by the U.S. military, which hopes to use findings from the procedure to help troops with severe facial wounds. Wiens joined surgeons at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston in...
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