http://www.debthelpdelivered.com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:01:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SOURCE: Los Angeles TimesNew TV shows are failing to live up to both viewers’ and networks’ expectations so far. Two weeks into the fall TV season, the broadcast networks have gotten off to one of their most sluggish starts ever. For the first time in at least five years, not a ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/new-tv-shows-bombing-out/entertainment/2010/10/ SOURCE: ReutersPredatory lending aimed at racially segregated minority neighborhoods is now being blamed for the high rise in foreclosures that led to mass foreclosures that sparked the  U.S. housing crisis, according to a new study published in the American Sociological Review. Predatory lending typically refers to loans that carry unreasonable fees, ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/minorities-targeted-in-mortgage-crisis/real-estate/2010/10/ SOURCE: Los Angeles Times/National Geographic A resident in Monrovia got quite a surprise Sunday -- a bear climbing high in an oak tree in her backyard.  Loretta Keener spotted the bear in her yard in the 200 block of West Greystone around 10:30 a.m. Keener's granddaughter, Kari Nicolas, took video of the ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/bear-pays-california-homeowner-a-visit/outdoors/2010/10/ SOURCE: TIME If you're looking to glean sensitive information from consumers, design a sloppy looking website, says a new study forthcoming in the Journal of Consumer Research. The study found that survey respondents were more likely to admit to engaging in questionable behaviors — trying cocaine, watching someone undress without their knowledge, ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/websites-get-folks-to-open-up/technology/2010/10/ SOURCE: Los Angeles Times The 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine has been awarded to Robert Edwards of Britain for developing in-vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples conceive. Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF as early as the 1950s. He ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/ivf-pioneer-awarded-nobel-prize/healthcare/2010/10/ SOURCE: Los Angeles TimesVerizon Wireless has agreed to repay millions of dollars in refunds to 15 million cell phone customers who were apparently were erroneously charged for data sessions or Internet use. Verizon did not disclose how much exactly it would have to pay but said 15 million customers would receive ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/verizon-to-pay-millions-for-false-web-use/business/2010/10/ SOURCE:  Los Angeles Times Texting and Driving, experts suggest can be deadly as driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. "Border collie jill surveying the view from atop the sand dune." Those were the last words of Malibu plastic surgeon Frank Ryan, best known for "reconstructing" reality TV star Heidi Montag. ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/texting-while-driving-worse-than-dui/education/2010/10/ SOURCE: Associated Press Two decades after a $2 million federal program for reintroduction of gray wolves to the Northern Rockies, lawmakers say it's time for Congress to step in again — this time to clamp down on them due to concerns of ranchers and others. To do so they are proposing ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/wolves-back-in-the-crosshairs/outdoors/2010/10/ SOURCE: Associated Press San Francisco latest target: Ronald McDonald. A proposed city ordinance would ban McDonald's from putting toys in Happy Meals unless it adds fruit and vegetable portions and limits calories. The proposal would apply to all restaurants, but the focus has been on McDonald's and its iconic Happy Meals. Supervisor Eric ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/san-francisco-targets-happy-meals/healthcare/2010/10/ SOURCE:  AFP The IMF's managing director has urged major economies to step up and cooperate in order to prevent a global currency war which could impede economic recovery. Dominique Strauss-Kahn said at an economic conference in the Crimean Black Sea resort of Yalta that a global economic recovery is underway, even if ... http://www.debthelpdelivered.com/imf-warns-of-currency-war/finance/2010/10/