The dwellers around him in the hamlet had also finished their dinners, and the smoke from cow-dung fires hung over the darkening roofs, a harsh spicy smell, like rough tobacco.

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Consumers should be able to trust the American dream of homeownership without worrying about losing the roofs over their heads and the shirts off their backs.

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Countries with the highest levels of owner-occupation, such as Finland, Ireland and Spain, where around 80% of households own the roofs over their heads, tend to have the highest rates of unemployment (see chart).

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In that short time, white-gloved candidates drive around waving from their campaign cars, repeating their names and asking for votes over loudspeakers attached to the car roofs.

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Roofs also collapsed over the weekend at a Suffolk County bowling alley and a home.

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Most strangely, the prints traveled uninterrupted by obstacles in their path, running up walls, over roofs, haystacks and across rivers.

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It offers 56 megabits per second over a 30-mile radius. (The current standard is 11 megabits per second over a half-mile.) Wi-Max antennas on roofs and water towers will spring up like crazy and may begin to threaten the cable and local telephone empires.

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