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BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fox Hill Senior Condominium Community in Bethesda, MD, developed and managed by Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. NYSE: SRZ, continues to thrive during one of the nation's largest housing slumps, as more than 140 condominiums have already been reserved to date and construction on the community is at 70 percent completion. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080219/NETU008 ) Fox Hill is an equity-based independent living condominium community with a separate and distinct area of the community offering short-term and long-term assisted living rental suites for seniors requiring assistance with daily living activities or memory care. This community will offer seniors age 60 and older an upscale lifestyle by combining a prime Bethesda, MD location built on 16.4 wooded acres of forest preserve, with luxury condominium residences, extensive amenities and personalized services.
Scientist jailed for setting lethal mantrap
A FORMER Government scientist who booby-trapped his home to deter burglars has been jailed for 18 months.
Because a judge said he considered Nigel Cockburn to be a danger, an extended licence period of 18 months was imposed.
He told the 53-year-old "eccentric", who worked for the Ministry of Defence for 36 years: "The nature of your former occupation makes you potentially very dangerous. You are an expert in counter-terrorism and have considerable experience in dealing with explosive devices."
Maidstone Crown Court heard that Cockburn invented a lethal mantrap which injured an Army explosives expert when he opened the door of a rundown shed and a metal device packed with 4in nails swung at his head.
Captain Iain Swan, of the Royal Logistics Corps, suffered wounds to his arm as he instinctively raised it to protect head.
Radio controlled male contraceptive developed
AUSSIE boffins have developed a radio controlled contraceptive implant which can switch a cobber's flow of sperm on and off with the flick of a button. According to New Scientist, a radio device is placed inside the duct which carries sperm from each testicle. When the off button is pressed the flow of sperm is stopped. The device is a silicone-polymer valve which allows a set of conducting " fingers" to act as antennae and convert the signal's energy into sound waves that travel through the polymer and create stresses inside the device. Team leader Said Al-Sarawi said that that the on-off button would be stored at your local doctors so that it would not be set off by mistake. We would have thought this would mean that anyone within a 10 metre radius of a doctor's surgery, including the doctor, in they were male, might suddenly find themselves fertile.
Vive la Downtown! Business grants available to instill a touch of ...
Whether it's flowers spilling into the street from a florist shop or sipping coffee at an outdoor cafe, the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership wants to bring a bit of Paris to the city of steel. Through a $1 million grant from the Colcom Foundation, the partnership is offering matching funds to Downtown restaurants, retailers and businesses as incentive to perk up their facades and sidewalks. The Paris to Pittsburgh program is one of two initiatives being launched by the partnership this year in a bid to add vibrancy to the heart of the Golden Triangle. It also is offering property owners loans to convert vacant or under-used upper floors into apartments in the hope of providing more affordable options for people who want to live Downtown. One of the goals of the Paris to Pittsburgh program is to make store and restaurant fronts more transparent, with large window or garage door-like openings that will allow patrons to move freely between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
Will 'Amnesty' Sink McCain?
The perennial controversy over what to call McCain's amnesty is silly. Every program in the world that has allowed illegal immigrants to stay has been called an "amnesty." McCain himself called it "amnesty" as recently as May 2003, when he told the Tucson Citizen "I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people who are eligible … Amnesty has to be an important part ..." But once the focus-group results were in, "amnesty" became a four-letter word. ...[snip] Real Straight Talk would be to say "Sure, it's an amnesty, but we don't really have any choice" ... P.S.: The McCain, post-focus-group argument is that it can't be "amnesty" if it has some requirements--e.g., to pay a fine, learn English, etc. But it turns out that Ronald Reagan's 1986 "comprehensive" reform, which he and everyone else called an "amnesty," had requirements too, including payment of fees.
Moyer to lawyers: Fight foreclosure for free
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer, a Sandusky native, knows home foreclosures are a big problem back home in Erie County and across Ohio. Moyer is asking the courts and Ohio attorneys to reach out and help as many homeowners as they can. The chief justice has asked judges who handle foreclosure cases to use mediation to resolve as many cases as possible. And he's asked Ohio lawyers to volunteer in foreclosure cases to help families who can't otherwise afford a lawyer. A record number of foreclosure cases in 2007 have helped contribute to the growing workload in the Erie County courts, said the clerk of courts, Barbara Johnson. .
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