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POPSBanks Do Not Make Good Neighbors Ross Wallace, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, turned in his check for $500 and waited on the auction floor in full dress uniform for a chance to buy a Detroit house on the cheap. Wallace, 27, said he did not want to leave his fiancee and two children with a mortgage before shipping out to Iraq later this year. “I still have student loans and I’m trying to be responsible. I don’t want to leave debt,” he said. Wallace waited for the auction to roll around to Detroit’s Boston-Edison district, a once stately area that was home to boxing legend Joe Louis and Motown founder Berry Gordy. But he was quickly outbid. An unidentified investor at the front of the room who had scooped up several dozen properties took the home Wallace wanted for about $15,000. “Why am I competing against a bank?” he said later. “It would be common sense to have a separate process for people who want to move back to the city or it’s going to stay empty.”
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POPSMMA El Dorado Hills, CA Mixed Martial Arts athletes, promoters, and enthusiasts, created City MMA to provide a unique gym open to people of all genders and age groups. Through the many disciplines learned in Mixed Martial Arts, City MMA designed workouts that help meet every member's goal and objective. City MMA opened its flagship location in Folsom, California, and is set to open two more locations in the Sacramento area over the next few months.
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POPSWillard Wigan Indescribable ! I say indescribable, because I don't want to limit my vocabulary of adjectives to wow! The man is illiterate, but a genius just the same. An artistic genius, but I wonder that if someone had taken the time to try and educate him if he would not have become a great surgeon, perhaps the greatest surgeon of our day. Please view the video.
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POPSResurrecting the Champ A knife-wielding burglar had a shock when he attacked a pensioner in his home - and discovered his victim was a retired boxer. Senior citizen Frank Corti, 72, a former junior boxing champion is still a bit handy with his dukes.
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POPSWho coined more popular expressions than anyone else? FTA: Tad Dorgan was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2007 in the category of "Observer"; Jack Dempsey described him as "the greatest authority on boxing." Discovered last night when searching for the origin of "cat's meow." I use the phrase "busier than a one-armed paperhanger" often. Who knew?!
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