| Team GP W D L GF GA Pts |
| River Plate 18 12 4 2 26 11 40 |
| Boca Juniors 18 10 6 2 27 13 36 |
| Estudiantes 18 10 6 2 27 15 36 |
| San Lorenzo 18 11 1 6 28 19 34 |
| Independiente 18 8 6 4 24 14 30 |
| Velez Sarsfield 18 8 5 5 22 16 29 |
| Rosario Central 18 7 6 5 25 21 27 |
| Argentinos Juniors 18 8 … |
BULLS 96, grizzlies 88
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Although the Bulls have yet to record back-to-back victories, they quietly are putting together a solid stretch ofgames. With a 96-88 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesdaynight at the FedExForum, the Bulls have won three of five.
It's a modest streak, to be sure, and nothing that will shift thebalance of power in the NBA. But considering the hard times of theprevious six seasons, there may actually be a hint of optimism thesedays.
"I knew it because this is a young team," forward Tyson Chandlersaid. "I see it coming together for us. People forget we took thatlong West Coast trip. That's tough for a veteran …
Story sharing is a tradition that communities have used for centuries to express their needs, pass on traditions and preserve their history.
It can also be an effective learning tool. This is our story. It highlights our journey as we challenged traditional practice assumptions and embraced a different way of working.
We work in an acute care hospital setting. As with most health professionals, we were trained in the expert model. What we have come to learn is that this approach offers only a one-way sharing experience that creates dependency. It focuses on the "don'ts" rather than the "do's," leading one of our colleagues to refer to dietitians as the "no-no" ladies - …
In a Dec. 13 story about the arrest of New York money manager Bernard Madoff, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Madoff attended Hofstra University Law …
Playmobil Noah's Ark with 13 pairs of animals - and of course itfloats. Playmobil. Four years-plus. GBP49.95, John Lewis Lego HarryPotter Castle in 927 pieces of Lego. Eight years-plus. GBP79.95, JohnLewis Tomycar Remote control …
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The governor of Florida is being asked topardon the late Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, 38 yearsafter he was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert.
Dave Diamond, a cable TV producer …
Republican John McCain is getting campaign help from some controversial world leaders.
Oversized photos of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Russian President Vladimir Putin accompany the presidential candidate as he seeks to remind voters that the United States must push for energy independence.
"They illustrate the fragility of our independence on foreign oil and how these people control a large part of the world's oil supply, and how important it is for us to achieve energy independence," McCain told reporters Tuesday as he stood between two photographs _ one of Chavez and Ahmadinejad embracing, the …
PARIS (AP) — Formula One's governing body dropped a controversial ban on team orders Friday, allowing for situations where a driver can let a teammate pass him during races next season.
Following a meeting of its World Motor Sport Council in Monaco on Friday, FIA said in a statement that the rule that banned team orders that could interfere with a race result will not be in place for next year.
Ferrari was handed a $100,000 fine this season after driver Felipe Massa let teammate Fernando Alonso overtake him to win the German Grand Prix following Ferrari radio messages. Alonso was ahead of Massa in the overall standings at the time, and the victory boosted his chances of …
ANI DIFRANCO: CANON
For Ani Difranco fans, Canon is nothing new, which is exactly why it's a new thing for Ani. The pint-sized indie folk singer has a habit of releasing and re-releasing and doing it on double disc collections, but she also has a habit of recording the same song in different keys and time signatures every time she throws down a track. The ills of capitalism, the failures of democracy and the catastrophes of love are all here on Canon, her latest double-disc release that's mostly a retrospective of already released work. Of the almost 40 songs spread over two discs, five are "brand-spanking-new studio versions" of old Ani favorites. In fact, the retrospective even …
Kimmi Raikkonen is the drivers' early choice to win the 2008 title and make it back-to-back championships.
Five of the six drivers at the FIA news conference immediately after Friday's season-opening free practice sessions tipped Ferrari's Raikkonen to be atop the standings at the end of the season.
McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen was the one dissenter.
After initially refusing to comment on it, Kovalainen was cornered into a choice between his new teammate Lewis Hamilton and Finnish compatriot Raikkonen. His answer: "Lewis."
Red Bull driver Mark Webber, on his home circuit, was asked first and nominated Raikkonen without …
Nicky Richards may be feeling apprehensive about Monet'sGarden's reappearance against Kauto Star in the Bonusprint.com OldRoan Chase at Aintree tomorrow.
If the dashing grey cannot beat Paul Nicholls' superstar inreceipt of a stone, what hope does he have of turning the tables on alevel playing field in the King George at Kempton on Boxing Day?
The cards are stacked in favour of Monet's Garden this weekend,however.
He is a decidedly …
The high cost of being a student and teacher
A 2011 back-to-school quiz:
According to the National Retail Foundation, families with children in grades K-12 will spend more than $600 on apparel and school supplies this year. But facing tighter budgets or worse - unemployment -what are parents to do?
A. shop smarter
B. shop less
C. ask for help
D. all of the above
The answer requires some economics and a bit of sociology. While Idaho's school districts consider budgets in the tens of millions of dollars, families face a more basic challenge: whether to buy a new pair of sneakers or backpack, or simply do without for another …
Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. By John Majewski. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi + 240 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $39.95. ISBN: 978-0-8078-3251-6.
Reviewed by Mark R. Wilson
Many historians have been struck by the forcefulness of economic regulation in the South during the American Civil War. That the confederate national state wielded such a powerful visible hand is often portrayed as an ironic turn of events, given that the South ostensibly stood for local control and free trade. In Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation, John Majewski argues that the many economic interventions of the Confederate state were actually consistent with antebellum secessionist ideas about political economy. "Many secessionists," he explains, "envisioned industrial expansion, economic independence, and government activism as essential features of the Confederacy" (p. 3). By showing that southerners pursued a variety of state-sponsored schemes for economic development well before the era of the New South, Majewski successfully refutes those who would like to remember Dixie as a pastoral bastion of economic liberty.
Modernizing a Slave Economy builds on some of the work presented in Majewski's first book, A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War (2000). As in that book, Majewski here again uses an impressive blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis to shed light on Americans' efforts during the antebellum era to achieve regional economic growth. But instead of exploring differences in Northern and Southern development, in Modernizing a Slave Economy he focuses on two Southern states: Virginia and South Carolina. He is especially concerned with describing the economic ideas of leading secessionists. Many of these men, including Edmund Ruffin, James H. Hammond, and George W. Randolph, supported various forms of state intervention to encourage regional economic development, as well as slavery and secession. Focusing on the antebellum writings of these proslavery modernizers, Majewski suggests that the Confederacy's statism came not only from wartime expethency, but also from its ideological origins.
Although much of the book is taken up with an analysis of political rhetoric and economic ideas, it begins with a first chapter that is far more materialist. In this opening essay, Majewski explains that the South's inferior soils promoted the practice of shifting cultivation, in which farmland was used for crops for five or six years and then allowed to rest for two decades at a time. This contrasted with the practice of continuous cultivation, more common in the North, which involved crop rotation and greater use of fertilizer. Using statistical analysis, Majewski concludes that the South relied more heavily on shifting cultivation because of soil quality, climate, and topography- not because of slavery, lack of urban markets, or cultural backwardness. Although this technical discussion of agricultural geography fits somewhat awkwardly with the remainder of the book, it provides an important foundation for all that follows. Poor soils were an important cause of the South's failure to keep pace with the North in the race for economic development.
Far from being content with shifting cultivation and an agrarian economy based entirely on cotton exports, many Southerners pushed for economic modernization. In the middle three chapters of the book, Majewski discusses the vigorous efforts of many Southern leaders to champion agricultural reform, railroad construction, and anti-Northern trade policies. Of these, the Southern states' very large public investments in antebellum railroads provide the most impressive evidence in support of the book's central argument. Like other Southern states, Virginia and South Carolina spent millions of dollars in state funds to promote railroads before the Civil War. At a time when most of the financing for Northern railroads came from private capital, Virginia and South Carolina together spent over $45 million in public money, which represented about seventy percent of total investment on railroads in those states. This was indeed a remarkably statist approach to the development of transport infrastructure.
Given this antebellum record, Majewski argues, the Confederate approach to wartime political economy, which some have dubbed "war socialism," did not require great leaps of imagination. The book's final chapter describes some of the steps taken by the Confederacy to ramp up economic regulation and create new state-run enterprises, including railroads, gunpowder plants, and uniform manufactories. Many historians have described these developments before. What Majewski's discussion adds is an emphasis on the continuities between antebellum ideas and practices and wartime measures.
Modernizing a Slave Economy shows that well before the emergency of the Civil War, many influential Southerners were interested in using government to promote economic development. However, it is never quite clear how these modernizers compared to the larger population of Southerners, or secessionists. As Majewski acknowledges, although the states did make huge investments in railroads, they did much less to promote agricultural reform or other antebellum public enterprises. One reason for this mixed record, almost certainly, is that the modernizers featured in this book had more conservative, anti-statist counterparts, who at certain times and in certain places may have been at least as influential in state politics. One task for future historians in this field, who will all benefit from Majewski's many valuable contributions, will be to do more to measure the relative influence of different camps of economic thinkers and policymakers in the South, and to assess how that influence changed over time.
[Author Affiliation]
Mark R. Wilson is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Business of Civil War (2006) and several articles on US. military-industrial history.
DETROIT (AP) — The Red Wings have agreed to terms with defenseman Jonathan Ericsson and wings Patrick Eaves and Drew Miller, keeping all three players in Detroit.
The team also signed veteran defenseman Mike Commodore on Friday, the first day of NHL free agency. The 31-year-old Commodore played for the Columbus Blue Jackets last season.
Ericsson agreed to a three-year, $9.75 million deal, and Eaves was brought back for three years and $3.6 million. Miller reached a two-year agreement for $1.65 million.
Miller told The Associated Press he agreed to his deal just before a noon deadline when he would have become a free agent.
"I wanted to stay, but it had to work out and make sense for both sides," the 27-year-old Miller said. "I'm happy to be back and with a two-year contract, I'm hopeful that I can grow my role as a player with the organization."
Miller had 10 goals and eight assists in 67 games last season.
Ericsson has played four seasons in the NHL, all with Detroit. He set career highs in 2010-11 in games (74), points (15) and penalty minutes (87).
"Jonathan Ericsson has made significant strides with us over the last three years," general manager Ken Holland said. "We believe in his abilities, we like the physical dimension that he brings to our team and we look for his continued progression as a player over the next few seasons as he enters into the prime of his career."
Eaves is coming off a season in which he had 13 goals and seven assists in 63 games for the Red Wings.
"All three guys are 27 years of age," Holland said of the three returning players. "All three of them, I think, their best years are ahead of them."
Commodore, who signed a one-year deal, joins his sixth NHL team. He played 20 games for Columbus last season. He asked for a trade and was waived, but at the time, his contract made it hard for other teams to pick him up.
"We think he's going to give us some presence on the back end," Holland said. "(Coach) Mike Babcock is excited to have him. He's a pro. He's been around the game."
Detroit lost in the second round of the playoffs to San Jose, but got good news recently when Nicklas Lidstrom decided to return.
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AP Sports Writer Larry Lage contributed to this report.
NEW YORK - Comedian Chevy Chase depicted the late Gerald Ford as a bumbling and accident-prone president 30 years ago on "Saturday Night Live," but he says the two shared a more serious link.
Former First Lady Betty Ford's courageous decision to talk publicly about her problems with alcohol inspired him to get treated for his addiction to painkillers, Chase wrote in an essay published in Saturday's editions of The New York Times.
Chase sought rehabilitation at the Betty Ford clinic in the 1980s to kick a painkiller habit after some back problems, and while there his bond with the Ford family grew. The facility was located near the Fords' residence near Palm Springs, Calif., and Betty Ford often stopped to talk to the patients, Chase wrote.
He also noted that the president apparently had a sense of humor about his reputation for klutziness, which Chase exploited in "Saturday Night Live" skits.
During one lunch date between the Ford and Chase families, the former president suggested the couples watch videotape of actors being considered for roles in a TV biopic about his wife.
The hookup for the tape machine was a puzzle, and Betty Ford and Chase's wife, Jayni, got down on their hands and knees trying to figure out the connections.
When Chase suggested the men help out, Ford said: "No, no Chevy. Don't even think about it. I'll probably get electrocuted, and you'll be picked up and arrested for murder."
"I'll never forget that moment," Chase wrote.
A Scottish man is facing charges after the Philadelphia-to-London flight he was on made an unscheduled stop in Boston because he was allegedly being belligerent and disruptive.
A spokesman for Logan International Airport says John Alexander Murray of Glasgow was arrested shortly after US Airways Flight 728 landed at around 11 p.m. Monday (0400 GMT). The plane departed for London two hours later.
Prosecutors say the 50-year-old Murray was blocking the aisle with his arm, which was in a splint. They say he would not move his arm, despite several requests from the crew, and demanded to be taken back to Philadelphia.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in East Boston District Court on a charge of interfering with a flight crew.
A CLASS ACT: Words of wisdom from famed former Labour MP Tony Benn Review by Ruth Latta Letters to my Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future, by Tony Benn, Hutchinson (Random House), 2009, $48.50.
"Every generation has to fight the same battles for peace, justice and democracy," writes Tony Benn, "and there is no final victory or final defeat.'
Benn is best known to North Americans through Michael Moore's documentary, Sicko, about the American need for a national health care program. His eloquent, informative remarks when interviewed by Moore provided one of the film's highlights.
Now retired after a 50-year career as a Labour Party Member of Parliament in Britain, Benn considers the National Health program to be his country's greatest achievement. These days, the 84-year-old Benn is president of Britain's Stop the War Coalition and has just published Letters to my Grandchildren: Thoughts on the Future.
Older readers may remember him as Anthony Wedgwood Benn, elected to Parliament at age 26 in 1951, after serving in the RAF and working for the BBC. Both Benn's grandfathers were Liberal MPs, as was his father, who switched to Labour and was later made a peer. Upon his father's death, Tony Benn declined to leave the Commons for the House of Lords (which he wants abolished) and ultimately renounced his peerage.
Benn does not subject his grandchildren, who range in age from 13 to 31, to a longwinded, preachy discourse. Only when past events pertain to a current issue does Benn take a quick trip down memory lane. For instance, he views the environmental crisis as basically one of shortage, and asks, "How has shortage been handled in the past?
"In theory, it would have been perfectly possible to tackle the food shortages [in World War ? Britain] by raising prices," he writes, "but this would have meant starving the poor, which was not acceptable, not least because the poor were needed to fight the war." So food was rationed. "However wealthy you were, you could not get more than your allotted ration... The height of working class children rose by two inches as a result of their improved diet."
Benn relates rationing, "an incredible act of public policy," to the principle of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and links this in turn to his objection to carbon credits as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Remembering the 1930s, Benn sees the current economic situation as "a rerun" of those hard times, only this time on a global scale. He deplores Brown's New Labour government for failing to seize the day.
"A really determined government," he argues, "would not just be bailing out the banks in the hope that the old system could be recreated and made to work again. It would be analyzing the need for food, work and homes, and would invite local authorities to make a list of what is needed to be done... and would fund them to do it." This is not happening because New Labour's policies do not differ much from those of ultra-conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Benn's assessment of Thatcher is highly relevant to readers outside of Britain who are now living under conservative administrations. Also of universal interest is Benn's delineation of the ways in which �lites maintain and exert power and control. These include violence and terror; religion; debt slavery (which puts people at the mercy of their employers); fear of a dangerous enemy (the "war on terror"); divide and conquer (pitting men against women, young against old, one race/ethnicity/culture against another); demoralization (the idea that only a few have the capacity or entitlement to run things); and cynicism.
"Confidence," writes Benn, "is a class issue," and "encouragement is the most important thing that can be given." He advises demonstrators never to say that they are "protesting," for "protest" implies that all is lost and that one can only complain. Rather, he advises them, speak of demands for change.
Benn is wholeheartedly in favour of social media and the Internet as great tools for rapid organizing and building solidarity worldwide. Although many older adults worry about youth illiteracy, Benn does not. Oral communication is more important than written, in his view. He writes: "It has often occurred to me that the great civilizations of the world were made up of illiterate people." He claims to have learned more by listening than through formal education, which can be used as a means of social control by making people feel inferior.
But what of Benn's 20 previous books, listed in Letters to my Grandchildren! Although Benn says modestly, when asked about his education, that it is "still in progress," he is an Oxford graduate who had a grandfather in the publishing business and who has benefited from being part of a milieu that values the written word. His belief that "what we want for ourselves we desire for all" therefore seems inconsistent with his notion that illiteracy among young people is not a serious problem.
Generally, though, Benn has written a wise and warm book. Let's hope it will soon be published in paperback and win a wider readership.
[Author Affiliation]
(Ruth Latta is the co-author of Grace Maclnnis: A Woman to Remember, and author of They Tried: The Story of the Canadian Youth Congress).
| Through Jan. 29 | |
|---|---|
| 1. Victoria Azarenka | $2,536,950 |
| 2. Maria Sharapova | $1,214,975 |
| 3. Kim Clijsters | $492,691 |
| 4. Petra Kvitova | $492,201 |
| 5. Sara Errani | $359,610 |
| 6. Svetlana Kuznetsova | $316,801 |
| 7. Vera Zvonareva | $305,051 |
| 8. Agnieszka Radwanska | $277,995 |
| 9. Ekaterina Makarova | $267,677 |
| 10. Caroline Wozniacki | $247,220 |
| 11. Roberta Vinci | $182,639 |
| 12. Li Na | $172,423 |
| 13. Zheng Jie | $169,063 |
| 14. Kaia Kanepi | $154,267 |
| 15. Iveta Benesova | $151,750 |
| 16. Daniela Hantuchova | $149,876 |
| 17. Jelena Jankovic | $145,694 |
| 18. Julia Goerges | $135,134 |
| 19. Serena Williams | $131,423 |
| 20. Ana Ivanovic | $129,023 |
| 21. Elena Vesnina | $125,940 |
| 22. Sabine Lisicki | $121,391 |
| 23. Bethanie Mattek-Sands | $114,693 |
| 24. Lucie Hradecka | $110,272 |
| 25. Mona Barthel | $102,732 |
| 26. Sania Mirza | $102,716 |
| 27. Vania King | $99,473 |
| 28. Monica Niculescu | $98,293 |
| 29. Andrea Hlavackova | $95,621 |
| 30. Angelique Kerber | $83,182 |
| 31. Francesca Schiavone | $81,402 |
| 32. Galina Voskoboeva | $80,680 |
| 33. Maria Kirilenko | $80,071 |
| 34. Nina Bratchikova | $74,942 |
| 35. Marion Bartoli | $74,086 |
| 36. Sorana Cirstea | $71,102 |
| 37. Anabel Medina Garrigues | $66,557 |
| 38. Greta Arn | $66,232 |
| 39. Christina McHale | $65,732 |
| 40. Flavia Pennetta | $61,815 |
| 41. Shahar Peer | $61,667 |
| 42. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova | $60,187 |
| 43. Irina-Camelia Begu | $60,007 |
| 44. Romina Oprandi | $59,896 |
| 45. Dominika Cibulkova | $59,117 |
| 46. Nadia Petrova | $58,629 |
| 47. Casey Dellacqua | $56,898 |
| 48. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | $55,860 |
| 49. Jelena Dokic | $55,235 |
| 50. Alla Kudryavtseva | $54,422 |
Looking back on an early childhood worship experience, I remember: kneeling beside my mother (on the "woman's side" of a simple prairie sanctuary) my small bony elbows rest firmly against the polished grain of the cool wooden pew warmed by her nearness and the bright yellow sun- light streaming through the high cross- framed windows I listen to the comforting drone of the white-haired Aeltesta whose quiet words drift upwards mingling with the echoing remnants of an acapella song as he moves slowly through the cadences of a High German prayer: Gnaediger Gott, Beschuetze deine Kinder... (Gracious God, watch over your children) At that moment, I was fully at home in a world where all that I loved --physically, emotionally, spiritually-- became one flowing into and around each other. Even now, the stillness, warmth and simplicity of that experience of wholeness, shapes the way I measure (and seek to lead) worship.
Many closet hanger rods are just plain wooden rods that rest onthe curved ends of special mounting brackets. One problem is thatthe ends of the rods are exposed and this makes it easy for thehangers to just slide off the end of the rod and dump your clothes onthe floor. An easy solution might be to drive a nail halfway intothe side of the rod a half-inch from the end. The head of the nailsticks up and keeps the hangers from sliding off.
Dear Al: I have had a hard time getting the vacuum cleanerunderneath my workbench to suck up the sawdust and other debris thatcollects there. My solution to this problem was to use my oldhairdryer to blow it out from under the bench where I can get to it.After that, I can go around the shop and vacuum up everything on thefloor.
A SUPER HINT: When replacing panes in wooden window frames, it'simportant to use a sealer before applying your glazing compound. Itwill keep the wood from drawing the moisture from the glazing,causing it to shrink and pull away from the glass.
Dear Al: My friend always pours boiling water down her kitchensink drain to keep it running smoothly. It works for her so I triedit. I use boiling vinegar, though. It works too and I feel it mightbe doing a better job since the vinegar will help dissolve some ofthe mineral deposits that tend to build up in the pipes in my city.It makes sense to me and, since I've had no problems with my drainbacking up, I must be doing something right.
Q. I am going to install new glazed ceramic tiles just below thecoping around the swimming pool. All that I've seen are sold with anet backing that holds the tiles together as a group. How do I peelthis off to set the tiles?
A. You don't. This backing allows you to set larger areas allat once with the proper spacing already taken care of. If a tileadhesive is used, you just come back and add the grout between tilesafter the adhesive sets up.
Dear Al: I had to drill through a piece of pipe and it wasreally hard to pin it down to do the job. It kept rolling out fromunder the drill and it was getting marked up pretty bad. I finallydecided to hold it in my vise but that was hard at first too. Iwrapped an old leather belt around the pipe and then put the ends ofthe belt into the vise to hold it down tightly. This worked greatand it didn't damage the pipe any more.
A suburban Dallas mother accused of killing her two young children told a 911 operator she choked them with a wire after trying to poison them.
Saiqa Akhter also told the dispatcher that she killed her 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter because they were autistic and she wanted "normal kids."
Those details were on recordings of the calls released Wednesday by Irving police.
Akhter is charged with one count of capital murder and faces a second capital murder charge for the Monday night attacks.
In the recording, she says she initially tried get the children to drink bathroom cleaner, but they wouldn't drink it. Police say she called 911 after strangling the children.
Jail officials say Akhter does not yet have an attorney.
What's up, Doc? Ask Warner Home Video, and the answer is a newsuite of DVDs celebrating the wit and whimsy of the classic LooneyTunes cartoons.
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Sylvester andfriends make their way to the digital medium for the first time Oct.28.
The releases are timed to coincide with the theatrical debut of"Looney Tunes: Back in Action," a combination live-action/animationcaper slated to hit theaters in November.
Although several dozen Looney Tunes compilations have arrivedthrough the years on VHS, Warner put those titles on hiatus lastApril to ensure a clean pipeline for the upcoming DVDs, says DorindaMarticorena, WHV executive director of kid marketing. Marticorenanotes that the October releases are the culmination of a two-yearrestoration project.
"We consider the Looney Tunes cartoons to be the crown jewel ofcollectible animation," she says. "Many of them needed to be restoredand remastered before we were willing to put them out on DVD, and thecollectors have been sitting around waiting for the new-formatrelease."
Indeed, while the cartoons' subject matter may be light, WHV hasbeen all business in its development of distinct content andmarketing strategies targeting three particular consumer audiences--the collector, the nostalgic parent and the teen--the studioidentified through extensive consumer testing.
WHV conducted studies last winter that "looked at everything fromthe type of content to the packaging design to the enhanced contentto promotions," Marticorena says.
For the adult animation collector, there is the four-disc "TheLooney Tunes Golden Collection." It comprises 56 shorts and a bevy ofextra content that includes never-before-seen cartoons, pencil testsand commentaries by directors and animation experts.
"The enhanced content is geared specifically to the collector,"Marticorena says of the set's $64.92 suggested retail price.
The two-disc $26.99 "Premiere Collection," assembled for the morecasual collector and/or parent who grew up with Bugs Bunny andcompany, contains 28 cartoons culled from "The Golden Collection" andfamily-oriented enhanced content.
To reintroduce the brand to teens and 'tweens, the $19.98 single-disc compilations "Reality Check!" and "Stranger Than Fiction!" eachfeature new animated shorts that Warner Bros. Animation has developedduring the past 18 months. In the spirit of their forerunners, thecartoons provide a distinctive Looney Tunes twist on current eventsand popular culture.
Based on reality TV, "Reality Check!" contains cartoons rangingfrom a "Survivor" knockoff with Daffy Duck plotting to get the othertoons kicked off the island to a "Judge Judy"-like court drama."Stranger" blasts the sci-fi phenom to comedic heights with suchshorts as "Loch Ness Mess," featuring a Yosemite Sam and Porky Pighunting expedition.
WHV is releasing the two discs of new content on VHS and DVD. Thelatter format includes such features as outtakes, characterinterviews and unique Looney Tunes-style commercials embedded in themotion menu.
The new Looney lot also includes a special edition of "Space Jam,"which in March 1997 was one of the first titles to ever be releasedon DVD. It was WHV's best-seller until the Harry Potter franchisecame on the scene.
The new disc, which carries a $26.99 suggested retail price,offers the film in widescreen for the first time and includes extraslike the featurette "Jamming With Bugs and Michael Jordan," plus anhour's worth of classic Looney Tunes shorts not available on theother collections.
Additionally, Warner is raising the content bar by including"mini" versions of the "Back in Action" ROM games Electronic Arts(EA) developed in conjunction with Warner Bros. InteractiveEntertainment. "Reality Check!" and "Stranger Than Fiction!" containexclusive games; nonexclusive games are wrapped into the "PremiereCollection" and the special-edition "Space Jam."
"The strategy here is that EA expects most of the consumers forits 'Back in Action' game to be between 8 and 15. So we decided totake exclusive mini games and put them on those titles that have thesame core target audience," Marticorena says.
Billboard
| Dallas | 1 1 0—2 |
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| Detroit | 1 1 3—5 |
First Period_1, Dallas, Eriksson 9 (Daley, Ja.Benn), 7:09 (pp). 2, Detroit, Kronwall 4 (Cleary, Holmstrom), 17:17. Penalties_Ribeiro, Dal (slashing), :55; Lidstrom, Det (interference), 5:11.
Second Period_3, Detroit, White 3 (Miller, Lidstrom), 3:08. 4, Dallas, Morrow 3 (Ribeiro, Burish), 12:11. Penalties_Miller, Det (interference), 6:12; Morrow, Dal (hooking), 14:47.
Third Period_5, Detroit, Franzen 9 (V.Filppula, Stuart), 3:47. 6, Detroit, Helm 2 (Hudler), 9:19. 7, Detroit, Stuart 1 (Franzen, V.Filppula), 10:32. Penalties_Burish, Dal (cross-checking), 17:08; Ja.Benn, Dal, served by Petersen, minor-major (slashing, fighting), 19:46; Kindl, Det, major (fighting), 19:46.
Shots on Goal_Dallas 11-7-9_27. Detroit 15-16-9_40.
Power-play opportunities_Dallas 1 of 2; Detroit 0 of 4.
Goalies_Dallas, Raycroft 0-3-0 (40 shots-35 saves). Detroit, Howard 8-3-1 (27-25).
A_20,066 (20,066). T_2:27.
Referees_Tim Peel, Justin St. Pierre. Linesmen_Michel Cormier, Jay Sharrers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years after Karen Kraushaar settled her sexual harassment complaint against Herman Cain and quit the trade association where they worked, she filed another complaint at her new job. She argued that supervisors there unfairly denied her request to work from home after a car accident and accused one of them of circulating a sexually oriented email, The Associated Press has learned.
Kraushaar, 55, says she later dropped the complaint that she filed while working as a spokeswoman at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in late 2002 or early 2003 and left the agency to take a job at the Treasury Department. She says she considered the immigration service complaint "relatively minor."
But three former supervisors say the allegations, which did not include a sexual harassment claim, were investigated and treated seriously. Two former supervisors say she initially demanded a settlement of thousands of dollars, a promotion on the federal pay scale, reinstated leave time and a one-year fellowship to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. The promotion itself would have increased her annual salary between $12,000 and $16,000, according to salary tables in 2002 from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Details of the second complaint come as Kraushaar says she will provide specifics about the allegations she made against Cain, the GOP businessman now running for president who led the National Restaurant Association when she worked there. She is reaching out to three other Cain accusers, suggesting they can schedule a joint news conference to rebut Cain's insistence that he has never sexually harassed anyone.
The accusations against Cain surfaced briefly at Monday night's debate on the economy. The audience booed loudly as Cain was asked how the allegations would reflect on a business' chief executive.
Cain countered that Americans "don't care about the character assassination; they care about leadership." He added that says that since the allegations surfaced more than a week ago, "voters have voted with their dollars," and contributed to his campaign.
Earlier in the day, Cain's campaign said news of Kraushaar's complaint at the immigration service and details about another accuser's financial problems were "interesting revelations."
"We hope that the court of public opinion will take this into consideration as they, the women, continue to try to keep this story alive," spokesman J.D. Gordon said in a statement Wednesday.
The Cain campaign projected an air of business as usual with the release of his first TV ad of the season and the announcement that he will appear on the "Late Show with David Letterman" on Nov. 18.
Cain also appeared Wednesday night at a GOP candidates' debate in Michigan.
The 60-second ad, airing only in Iowa, amplifies Cain's oft-repeated claim that the Environmental Protection Agency is hurting farmers by attempting to regulate methane gas from livestock and agricultural dust. The EPA under President Barack Obama has said it has no such plans.
And the campaign announced an endorsement from Georgia state Sen. Renee Unterman, a Republican woman whose backing comes as Cain works to steady support among female voters amid increasingly graphic sexual harassment allegations.
Democrats were beginning to speak up on Cain.
The party's national chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, said at a news conference before the debate, "They are very serious allegations and he must be called to account and be specific in his response to those allegations. He has not done that to date."
When Kraushaar filed her immigration service complaint against supervisors in late 2002 or early 2003, she turned to Joel Bennett, the same Washington lawyer who handled her earlier sexual harassment complaint against Cain.
"The concern was that there may have been discrimination on the job and that I was being treated unfairly," Kraushaar said.
Kraushaar said she did not remember details about the complaint and did not remember asking for a payment, a promotion or a fellowship. Bennett declined to discuss the case with the AP, saying he considered it confidential.
Kraushaar now works as a spokeswoman in the office of the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration.
Her complaint at the immigration service was based on supervisors denying her request to work fulltime from home after a serious car accident in 2002, three former supervisors said. Two of them said Kraushaar also had been denied previous requests to work from home before the car accident.
The complaint also cited as objectionable an email that a manager had circulated comparing computers to men and women, a former supervisor said. The complaint contended that the email, based on humor widely circulated on the Internet, was sexually explicit, according to the supervisor, who did not have a copy of the email. The joke circulated online lists reasons men and women are like computers, including that men are because "in order to get their attention, you have to turn them on." Women are like computers, it says, because "even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval."
Kraushaar told the AP that she remembered the complaint focusing on supervisors denying her the opportunity to work from home after her car accident. She said other employees were allowed to work from home.
Kraushaar, who is married and lives in suburban Maryland, was one of two women who formally settled harassment complaints against Cain in exchange for severance payments in the late 1990s when they worked at the restaurant association. Bennett has said Kraushaar settled her claim during the summer of 1999, shortly after Cain left the organization. Neither Kraushaar nor Bennett has described exactly what Cain was accused of saying or doing when she worked there. The New York Times has reported that Kraushaar received $45,000 in the settlement with the restaurant association.
Kraushaar agreed to discuss some aspects of the complaint at the immigration service if the AP agreed to protect her privacy, as it did in previous accounts of her complaint against Cain. She subsequently waived her privacy by confirming for news organizations her identity as one of two women who settled complaints against Cain, so the AP no longer is shielding her identity.
Cain said allegations of sexual harassment by Kraushaar — whom Cain identified by name in a televised news conference Tuesday — were determined to be "baseless" at the restaurant association. But he did not explain who made this determination, and Kraushaar has disputed this. Cain said that after negotiations between Bennett and the association's outside counsel she received money under an employment agreement, which Cain said was different from a legal settlement.
"When she made her accusations, they were found to be baseless and she could not find anyone to corroborate her story," Cain said.
Cain said he remembered gesturing to Kraushaar and noting that she was the same height as his wife, about chin-high to him. The Georgia businessman said Kraushaar did not react noticeably, but he said the restaurant association lawyer later told him that was the most serious claim that Kraushaar had made against him, "the one she was most upset about."
"Other things that might have been in the accusations, I'm not aware of, I don't remember," Cain said.
Bennett told reporters Wednesday that Kraushaar suffered multiple incidents of harassment and would not have filed a claim based only on a comment about height.
"My client is an intelligent, well-educated woman. She would never file a sexual harassment complaint about a comment like that," he said.
Cain has vowed to strike back at his accusers and respond to any allegations. His Atlanta-based lawyer, Lin Wood, said Wednesday the campaign had asked the restaurant association for the complaints that Kraushaar and the other employee filed so he could prepare a more complete response, but the group refused to release them.
Sharon Bialek, a Chicago woman who once worked for the restaurant association's education foundation, accused Cain this week of groping her and attempting to force himself on her inside a parked car after they had dinner in 1997. Another woman told the AP that Cain made unwanted sexual advances to her while she worked for the association, and a pollster said he witnessed Cain sexually harass another woman after an association dinner.
The complaint at the immigration service was "nobody's business," Kraushaar said, because it was irrelevant to her sexual harassment settlement with Cain years earlier. "What you're looking for here is evidence of an employee who is out to get people," she said. "That's completely untrue."
Kraushaar, who started her career in Washington as a reporter, was praised for her work in 2000 when she traveled to Miami to help immigration officials during the coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case when federal agents seized the boy from relatives to return him to his father in Cuba.
"Ms. Kraushaar's assistance was invaluable and her performance extraordinary," wrote Robert A. Wallis, the immigration service district director in Miami. Kraushaar provided seven such letters of recommendation to show that her performance was commendable while working at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the restaurant association and the immigration service.
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Volleyball's governing body announced a new rule Sunday that could allow teams to suit up two extra players.
The move to increase match squads from 12 to 14 players _ including two for the libero position _ will be voted on by delegates from more than 200 countries at the FIVB Congress which starts Monday in Dubai.
"Many coaches and national federations were requesting to go at least to 13 players," FIVB spokesman Fabrizio Rossini said in an e-mail statement.
"With 14 players, the coaches will be free to have more technical solutions."
Six players are on court with coaches allowed to use a libero as a specialist replacement on defense.
The proposal was made by the FIVB executive committee and could come into force immediately. It would not apply to the Olympics tournament in Beijing in August.
The two-day congress is scheduled to be the farewell for FIVB President Ruben Acosta after 24 years in charge.
The 74-year-old Mexican has overseen the lucrative growth of beach volleyball and its introduction into the Olympic program.
Acosta said last month he planned to retire but would make a final decision at the world gathering.
Toyota is stricken by massive recalls in the U.S. and stalled sales at home, but it is not without a lifeline _ big, fast-growing markets like China and Southeast Asia where drivers seem unfazed by what is troubling consumers in the West.
The world's No. 1 automaker could certainly do with a cushion if it's going to keep its pole position in the auto world. Recalls totaling 8.5 million vehicles globally for faulty brakes, floor mats that can entangle the gas pedal and sticking accelerators have battered its once stellar reputation.
Toyota's share of the United States market is already nose-diving and a return to profit after big losses from the global recession is imperiled by an estimated $2 billion in recall costs and lost sales.
The backlash in the U.S., its biggest market, has been swift and merciless. Drivers feel betrayed after being lured by Toyota's promises of unmatchable quality and safety.
But in developing countries, where the scale of recalls was small, it doesn't face such high expectations. Auto safety problems tend to draw less attention in nations where consumer protection agencies are a relatively recent innovation and compete with more pressing concerns such as ensuring basics like clean water and uncontaminated food.
Chinese consumers are all too familiar with quality problems, thanks to a slew of scandals involving everything from tainted milk and medicine to crumbling buildings and roads. The government's difficulties in preventing such troubles has left many somewhat philosophical about the challenges involved.
"Chinese cars have a lot more problems than Japanese cars, so we know that no product is perfect," said 42-year-old entrepreneur Li Lianjun as he joined his family for a Lunar New Year's dinner.
"I'm willing to take a chance on the car if I really love its specs and the way it looks regardless of recalls," he said.
Beijing construction worker Zhao Zushen drives a Volkswagen. But if anything, Toyota's problems have left him even more confident about the quality of its cars.
"Every car has problems. Japanese carmakers are very meticulous about details and quality, so this ordeal will only make them more careful in the future," Zhao said.
In India, where Toyota has high hopes for the launch early next year of the Etios compact, the recall crisis has barely registered. That partly reflects Toyota's still low profile there. Moreover, Indians have only recently become sensitive to quality as competition has brought more brands to the market.
The most ubiquitous cars on the streets of the financial capital Mumbai today are decades-old, shuddering Fiat Premier Padmini black-and-yellow taxi cabs, whose brakes seem almost an afterthought. Still, no one complains. Commuters in suits squeeze in four at a time for shared cab rides to the local commuter train station. Most people seem happy enough not to have to wait in line for the bus.
Attitudes like that, especially in China _ which last year overtook the U.S. as the world's biggest auto market with vehicle sales surging 45 percent to 13.6 million _ could be Toyota's salvation.
The Japanese automaker was slow to commit heavily to China and other big emerging markets. But just as for General Motors Co. and other rivals, growth in such regions is now helping to offset weakness in its traditional strongholds.
Toyota's sales in the U.S., Europe and Japan accounted for less than two-thirds of the total in 2008, down from over 80 percent a decade earlier. China is its biggest overseas market, with sales hitting 709,000 last year, but the company is also seeing double-digit growth in countries from Brazil to Thailand.
"While everyone talks about China, if you add them up: Indonesia, Thailand, Brazil, South Africa, there is a lot of growth," said Christopher Richter, an auto analyst with CLSA Asia Pacific Markets in Tokyo.
In Thailand, Toyota's biggest Southeast Asian market and a major export base, loyalty to the brand seems as strong as ever. The automaker's Thai vehicle sales jumped by half in January from a year earlier.
"I've been driving Toyota for 20 years, and I don't see any problems from them," said Tepchai Nunthawonaruch, a 50-year-old businessman in the capital, Bangkok, who dotes on his 2001 Toyota Camry.
In Russia, Toyota sold slightly less than 69,000 cars last year, down nearly two-thirds from the year before. But that was due to the global financial meltdown, says Yuliy Matevosov, an auto analyst at the Aton brokerage in Moscow.
"Russian people don't worry too much about such things," Matevosov said of the recalls. "Toyota's brand is not likely to suffer from this. Those Russians who drive a Toyota will continue to do so."
To counter the potential impact in Russia from a recall of 160,000 cars _ a figure comparable to Toyota's pre-crisis yearly sales _ the company has launched a promotional campaign offering special deals on the Corolla, its best-seller there.
Toyota is reaching out to Indian consumers with a four-month promotional tour of 10 cities launched last month. Its venture there, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, expects its sales to reach 65,000 units this year and to more than double in 2011 with the launch of the Etios _ the company's first made-for-India compact car.
"We are quite bullish about the India market," said Toyota Kirloskar spokesman Sandeep Singh. A planned March launch of imports of the Prius _ Toyota's iconic gas-electric hybrid that was recalled for braking problems _ will go ahead, he said.
Even as Toyota benefits from enormous growth in developing markets, it also faces tough and intensifying competition in China and elsewhere from global and aspiring local rivals.
Still, its strong position across the developing world, compared with its biggest Japanese competitors, means that overall it is benefiting more from the boom in sales to emerging markets, said Koji Endo, managing director at Advanced Research Japan in Tokyo.
"There is no question that the Indian and Chinese markets are going to be very, very important in the coming years," he said. "It won't take long for those two markets to be more profitable than the U.S. for major automakers, including Toyota."
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Associated Press writers Erika Kinetz in Mumbai, Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow, Marco Sibaja in Brasilia, Brazil, Peerapatra Puspavesa in Bangkok and Chi-chi Zhang in Beijing contributed to this report.
The panel that charged New York Democrat Charles Rangel with 13 counts of ethical misdeeds recommended he receive a relatively mild rebuke by the full House, one of the investigators said Friday.
The House ethics committee has a range of punishments it can administer or recommend to the full House. A reprimand is simply a vote by the House to express displeasure with a member's conduct, and would follow a finding of guilt in a trial.
Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, said the two Democrats and two Republicans on the panel that investigated Rangel for two years were not unanimous in bringing all 13 charges against him, and "the recommendation we had was a reprimand." Green is one of the Democrats on the panel.
A separate ethics panel on Thursday set the stage for a trial of Rangel this fall. A trial would mean any decision on penalties would be months away, if Rangel's guilt is proved.
A reprimand is less serious than a censure, which requires not only a vote but forces a member to appear at the front of the chamber while the speaker or another designated member reads the censure resolution.
The eight ethics committee members who will conduct the trial held its organizational meeting Thursday. The message going forward, from the top Republican on the panel, was: Let the trial begin.
Rangel was "given the opportunity to negotiate a settlement during the investigation phase," Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas said. "We are now in the trial phase."
But Green said a settlement was still possible.
Republicans have already been making Rangel a campaign issue, and a fall trial would give them expanded opportunities. It can't start until September, because Congress takes August off.
Soon after the charges were revealed, the National Republican Senatorial Committee warmed up its campaign message, issuing news releases in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Louisiana and Florida. The statements asked why Democratic Senate candidates in those states haven't yet returned money Rangel raised for them.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs countered: "I feel confident that this party and this president have a record on ethics reform and taking on the special interests that we're happy to put in front of the American people in November." He spoke on ABC's "Good Morning America."
For Rangel, a trial could be a terrible embarrassment for the former Ways and Means Committee chairman who held sway over taxes, trade, Medicare, Social Security, portions of the health care overhaul and other major issues.
In the frantic hours before the televised ethics proceeding, Rangel did take the advice of some Democratic colleagues and offered a new plea bargain in an effort to head off a trial.
At one point, people familiar with the talks said the committee's nonpartisan lawyers accepted the offer. But since committee members have to sign off on any deal, Republican statements indicate they would accept nothing less than a capitulation by Rangel in which he acknowledges guilt on almost all the charges. Rangel's offer was not made public.
It would take at least one Republican vote to halt a trial. And ethics chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., has made it clear she wants the committee to be unanimous at this point to avoid partisanship.
If Rangel admits to all the violations, the trial could be stopped and the ethics committee would proceed to penalty deliberations. Possibilities range from a highly critical report of Rangel's conduct, a reprimand or censure by the House to a fine or even expulsion. The latter is highly unlikely.
A 40-year House veteran from Harlem who is now 80 years old, Rangel himself seemed resigned to a trial hours after the charges were read publicly.
"Even though they are serious charges, I'm prepared to prove that the only thing I've ever had in my 50 years of public service is service," Rangel told reporters Thursday night. "That's what I've done and if I've been overzealous providing that service, I can't make an excuse for the serious violations."
The allegations include failure to report rental income from vacation property in the Dominican Republic, along with hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income and assets on his financial disclosure statements.
Other charges focused on Rangel's use of congressional staff and stationery to raise money for a college center in New York named after him; accepting favors from donors who may have influenced his congressional actions; use of a subsidized New York apartment as a campaign office instead of as a residence, as required; and misuse of the congressional free mail privilege to solicit donations.
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Associated Press writers Ann Sanner, Alex Brandon and David Martin contributed to this report.
A producer being sued by Farrah Fawcett's estate has fired back in a court filing by claiming the late actress' money is being mishandled.
The trustee of Fawcett's estate has withheld money from some of the actress' beneficiaries, including her father, according to a filing by producer Craig Nevius. The document filed last week in Santa Monica is in response to a lawsuit filed by a Fawcett's estate against him in January.
Nevius, a one-time Fawcett confidante, also claims the lawsuit against him filed by trustee Richard B. Francis is a misuse of the actress' money.
The filing takes numerous swipes at Fawcett's longtime companion, actor Ryan O'Neal, and friend Alana Stewart. Both were constant figures in Fawcett's final months and worked on the television documentary "Farrah's Story."
Nevius sued O'Neal, Stewart and Francis over the documentary last year, claiming it didn't adhere to Fawcett's wishes and improperly cut him out of the process. His recent filing repeats an allegation that O'Neal threatened him in a phone conversation.
The filing claims Stewart misused her relationship with Fawcett to sell a book.
"I've read Mr. Nevius' response to our complaint which I think contains spurious and outrageous allegations," said Howard Weitzman, who represents Fawcett's estate and O'Neal, Stewart and Francis. "I'm confident the truth will all come out during the course of the litigation."
Attorneys for Fawcett's estate claimed in their lawsuit that Nevius botched a first edit of the documentary and "embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars" from the actress' company. Nevius first teamed up with the former "Charlie's Angels" star on a reality television series called "Chasing Farrah" and later teamed up in a business that produced the documentary.
Nevius is not seeking any money from Fawcett's estate, his court filing states. The filing states any business decisions Nevius made were done in good faith.
Fawcett died at age 62 on June 25 after a three year battle with anal cancer.
DAMASCUS, Syria Metropolitan Philip Saliba, head of theAntiochian Orthodox Archdiocese in North America, yesterday launchedan effort to win freedom for three U.S. hostages held in Lebanon.
"We'd like to see an end to this," Saliba said in an interviewin the Syrian capital. "I don't think the captivity of these threepeople . . . is contributing to the image of Arab people around theworld."
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Credit Suisse Group-which said this month that it plans to shutter its private banking business in the United States and Canada-announced a restructuring Tuesday of its private banking business worldwide.
The Zurich-based banking company said it would reorganize the business into five groups serving onshore and offshore clients in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region.
The company also said that Ruedi Stalder, a member of the executive board who heads private banking for the Americas region, will retire at yearend. A former chief financial officer of Credit Suisse First Boston, Mr. Stalder joined the bank in 1980 as a founding member …
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ALBANY -- There's a crisis brewing in finding qualified lawyers to represent poor people, advocates say. That's because New York hasn't changed the rates it pays court-appointed lawyers since 1986 and now ranks second-lowest in the nation, below states like Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas.
As a result, the pool of lawyers willing to take indigent cases is shrinking -- dramatically in some areas like Binghamton, Buffalo and Brooklyn. Turnover is also high.
It's had a spillover effect backlogging court dockets and stalling trials, lawyers and judges say. And it's taken a toll on the quality of legal …
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WASHINGTON - Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 under a bill the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee says he will introduce next year.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said Sunday he sees his idea as a way to deter politicians from launching wars.
"There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way," Rangel said.
Rangel, a veteran of the …
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BioWorld International Correspondent
MUNICH, Germany - "The IPO window will most likely open again in 2004," said Mark Clement, managing director for Europe with Merlin Biosciences. "It will be very selective. It will be driven by corrections in the secondary market, and it will be U.S. led."
Clement spoke to BioWorld International about coping strategies for his company's third fund, which is focusing on early and mid-stage investments in human life sciences in Europe, and how to deal with difficult market conditions across the continent. When the public markets are ready for biotechnology companies again, Clement said, "London will be leading Europe, companies with products …
Byline: Patrick Kurp Staff writer
Brides and grooms are growing older, and Betty Friedan probably shares some of the responsibility.
"Much of it is women deciding to start careers first. It's certainly connected to feminism, 'The Feminine Mystique,'" said Robert Wells, professor of history at Union College, citing Friedan's epochal 1963 study.
One apparent byproduct of the Women's Revolution has been the steadily advancing age of marriage in the United States - now the highest in a century. The social reverberations of such a shift include slower birth and divorce rates, changing sexual behavior and new real estate markets.
In 1890, the …
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Albany It was just before midnight on a hot August night when one teenager climbed into the passenger seat of Kenneth Rossman's cab. The other approached the driver-side window. Within seconds, there was a gun and a demand for money.
``It was a big gun. It looked like he could hardly hold it right,'' said Rossman, 44, who lives in Colonie and has been driving and dispatching taxis most his life.
Rossman rolled the dice. He pushed the gun toward the ground and pressed the gas pedal to the floor, trapping the alleged accomplice in the car. Minutes later, with the one teenager still in the cab, Rossman was telling …
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Managing director Pattaphong Iamsuro said that last year total sales of Tasto potato chips were worth some 800 million baht, up 25 percent from the previous year.
Traditionally, Mr Pattaphong said, potato production has been limited by the fact that the crop cannot be grown with much success during the rainy season. After encountering this problem for several years, the …
Premier Romano Prodi announced emergency measures Tuesday to deal with Naples' garbage crisis including three new incinerators and that other Italian regions might be able to help dispose of the trash.
Prodi also named a new trash commissioner, tapping a former national police chief to deal with the crisis over the next four months. But he said that over the long term, Naples' garbage must be managed locally, not through a government-appointed commissioner.
The premier announced the measures after another night of violent protests between demonstrators and police at the site of the Pianura dump outside Naples. Officials have said the site would be reopened …
NEW YORK (UPI) Most American Catholics say they can disagreewith the pope and still be good Catholics, said a Time magazine pollreleased Sunday.
Three-fourths of the Catholics surveyed said it is permissibleto "make up their own minds" on issues such as birth control andabortion, according to the poll in the magazine's Sept. 7 issue.
Time said 93 percent of the Catholics polled agreed, "It ispossible to disagree with the pope and still be a good Catholic."
The research firm Yankelovich Clancy Shulman took the telephonepoll Aug. 17-19 of 860 adults, including425 …
In this recent article published in the journal Archives of Surgery, scientists in Hong Kong, People's Republic of China conducted a study "To compare self-expanding metal stents with emergency open surgery in the treatment of obstructing left-sided colon cancer. A randomized controlled trial."
"An acute care hospital. Adult patients with an obstructing tumor between the splenic flexure and rectosignioid junction. Successful I.-stage operation, cumulative operative time, blood loss, hospital stay, pain score, and postoperative complications. Forty-eight patients were analyzed. Twenty-four underwent endoluminal stenting followed by laparoscopic resection and 24 underwent …
