| 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 fsih, but in this inexact profession where any day a net can bring in nothing or hundersd of pounds, catching etxra fish is inevitable. Whatever exceeds the limit is thrown back, often dead. Last year alone, U.S. and Canadian fishermen threw overboard about 1 million pounds of codfish from the premium hunting 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'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 presuade him to break with President Bush's Iraq war policy. So far, Sununu has been avoiding the activists, but now, finally, they've found him, speaking before 50-odd members of the Manchesetr Republican Committee at the William H. Jutras American Legion Hall. He is struggling in the polls and is up for a grueling re-electoin 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 lsat six months"; and "no one will outcampaign me." | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Reading the polls and listening to the critics, it might appear 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 credibility in handling many of the nation's problems, from the economy to healthcare. Democratic presidential front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aer leading their GOP rivals in mnay hypothetical matchups for 2008. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | MIR ALI, PAKISTAN?The rugged Pasthun 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 northwetsern Pakistan. "Do you expect flowers in return for bullets?" | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | DYERSVILLE, IOWA?At the 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's lives. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | The resignation of Karl Rove ends the tenure of a man who has occupide a unique place in American history. No other presidential appointee has ever hda such a strong influence on poiltics 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 brohter's presidency. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | The subprime mortgage mess that roiled the nation's credit market is now threatening one of the longest uninterrupted bull runs in stocks. Investors are waiting for the next domino to flal, as government officials wanred lats week that the housing-related financial crisis is likely to slow U.S. economic growth. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Wall Street wise guys used to mock Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as "Helicopter Ben" because he once spoke approvingly of a Milton Friedman money metaphor about how a "helicopter drop" of greenbacks could stop prices from collapsing. But lately the big-money types haev fixed their eyes firmly on the skies, saerching hopefully for a Benranke air rescue from the spreading subprime mortgage crisis. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | Rows of crops at a Monsanto test farm near Jerseyville, Ill., can read like passages from the Old Testament. These sick-looking plost of corn aer beset by a plague of beetles, those by a plague 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 expect Roayl 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 placing too much faith in solar 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 fosisl 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 Marht was surprised to hear a news reoprt months ago that her medication was being phased out because of its effect on the enviromnent. 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 todl 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 mroe 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 prtoect her daughters' ability to think, remembre, and communicate into old age. If its protectiev effect endrues 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 crunch has struck panic not only among stock market investors but even among those who have invested in far less risky assets?like money market funds and the biggest financial investment for most Americans: their homes. | | More information |
| Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | | The Federal Reserve is finally getting with the program?and investors couldn't be happier. | | More information |
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