“Rather than get quick cash, you need to determine what is the best long-term solution for

“Rather than get quick cash, you need to determine what is the best long-term solution for property.”

Dan Kildee, president and co-founder of the Center for Community Progress, gave that advice to about 250 leaders from Youngstown, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. A major mistake made by cities, particularly those that are cash-strapped, is to quickly sell vacant property to a person or a company instead of taking the time to evaluate its most effective use, Kildee said.

“The evidence is overwhelming and condemning. The torpedo that sank the Cheonan ... was fired by a North Korean submarine.”

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as the fallout from the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship intensified.

“I just worry about 18-year-old kids saying, ‘Oh, I’m a fast metabolizer, I can drink a lot of alcohol, it won’t affect me.’”

Dr. Muin J. Khoury, director of the National Office of Public Health Genomics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on a plan by the University of California, Berkeley to voluntarily test the DNA of incoming freshmen.