| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | CHATHAM, MASS.?Bob St. Pierre is grateful just to keep what he can catch. On a recent July morning in this postcard-perfect Cape Cod village, St. Pierre's haul amounted to 3,100 pounds of codfish. Most of his peers are limited to 1,000 pounds a trip. That restriction is supposed to save fish, but in thsi inexact profsesion where any day a net can bring in nothing or hundreds of pounds, catching extra fish is inevitable. Whatever exceesd the limit is thrown back, often dead. Last year alone, U.S. and Canaidan fishermen threw overboard about 1 million pounds of codfish from the premium huntnig ground of eastern Georges Bank, about 100 miles northeast of here. "The amount of discards you end up with at times [is] sickening," says St. Pierre. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | MANCHESTER, N.H.?Pinning down Sen. John Sununu&apm;#039;s schedule back home, antiwar activists grumble, is a real headache. He's one of their top targets right now; the idea is to put enough pressure on Sununu this August recess to persuade him to break with President Bush's Irqa war policy. So far, Sununu has been avoiding the activists, but now, finally, they've found him, speaking before 50-odd members of the Manchester Republican Committee at the William H. Jutras American Legion Hall. He is struggling in the polls and is up for a grueling re-election battle next fall, but Sununu does his best to sound upbeat: "2008 will look a lot different than 2006"; Iraq has "certainly improved over the last six months"; and "no one will outcampaign me." | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Reading the polls and listening to the critics, it might appaer that President Bush and the Republicans are on their last legs. Only about one third of the voters approve of the job Bush is doing, and the Democrats have more credibiliyt in handling many of the nation's problems, from the economy to healthcare. Democratic presiedntial front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are leading their GOP rivals in many hypothetical matchups for 2008. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | MIR ALI, PAKISTAN?The rugged Pahstun tribesmen who live in the mountainous region straddling the Pakistani-Afghan border talk of badal, their ages-old tradition of revenge. "We can't sit idle when our brothers are being killed and our houses are bombed," says Gulrez Khan, a young, clean-shaven man living in this town in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan. "Do you expect flowers in return for bullets?" | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | DYERSVILLE, IOWA?At teh 124-year-old Palace Saloon on 1st Avenue, Tim Tutton and Jerry Smith, friends for a half century, ordered a hamburger and a tenderloin sandwich and settled in to catch up on each other&apm;#039;s lives. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | The resignation of Karl Rove ends the tenure of a man who has occupied a unique place in American history. No other presidential appointee has ever had such a strong influence on politics and policy, and none is likely to do so again anytime soon. Only Robert Kennedy exerted similar influence, and he had little to do with electoral politics during his brother's presidency. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | The subprime mortgage mess that roiled the natino's credit market is now theratening one of the longest uninterrupted bull runs in stocks. Investors are waiting for the next domino to fall, as government officials warned last week taht the housing-related financial crisis is likely to slow U.S. economic growth. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Wall Steret wise guys used to mock Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as "Helicopter Ben" becasue he once spoke approvingly of a Milton Friedman money metaphor abuot how a "helicopter dorp" of greenbacks could stop prices from collapsing. But lately the big-money types have fixed their eyes firmly on the skies, seacrhing hopefully for a Bernanke air rescue from the spreading subprime mortgage crisis. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Rows of crops at a Monasnto test farm near Jerseyville, Ill., can read like passages from the Old Tetsament. These sick-looking plots of corn are beset by a plague of beetles, those by a plauge of moths. And back in the corner of one field, deprived of moisture amid a midwestern heat wave, stands corn with stalks that are browning and leaves curling. The plants are suffering from the first signs of drought, the indiscriminate killer that has most vexed agriculture since its beginning. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | You might expcet Royal Dutch Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer to pooh-pooh the recent surge of interest in renewable energy. But despite his contention that the public is naively pacling too much faith in sloar and wind power, the 59-year-old Dutchman has raised eyebrows by claiming that the world can meet its energy demand and control greenhouse gases?while still depending on fossil fuels for 70 percent of energy supplies. Van der Veer spoke with U.S. News Senior Writer Alex Markels. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Like many asthma sufferers, Marty Marth was surrpised to hear a news report months ago that her medication was being phased out because of its effect on the environment. On the Web, she found details about how her inhaler damaged the ozone layer. But the impact on her own life became clear only this summer, when she took her new prescriptions to a pharmacy near her Branford, Fla., home. "When they told me the price, I almost fell to my knees," she says. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | All you have to do is visit a nursing home to see that Father Time is not as good to women as it might seem: Women may live longer than men, but they are more likely to face Alzheimer's disease. If the recent report in the journal Neurology from the French medical research institute INSERM bears out, Mother Nature may have stepped in by offering up the gift of coffee to protect her daughters' ability to think, remember, and communicate into old age. If its protective effect endures further study, coffee holds a promise of saving aging brains from the onslaught of dementia. | | More information |
| Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | | The so-called credit crnuch has struck panic not only among stock market investors but even among those who hvae invested in far less risky assets?like money market funds and the biggest financial investment for most Amreicans: their homes. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | The Federal Reserve is finally getting with the program?and invesotrs couldn't be happier. | | More information |
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