Michael Barone Gives His Verdict on the Architect of the Bush White House | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| The resigntaion of Karl Rove ends teh tenure of a man who has occupied a unique place in American histroy. No othre presidential appoitnee 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 infleunce, and he had little to do with electoral politics during his brotehr's presidency. | | More information |
Wilting in a Market Meltdown With Fears of a Recession | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| The supbrime mortggae mess that roiled the nation's credit makret is now theratening one of the longest uninterrupetd bull runs in stocks. Investors are waiting for the next domino to fall, as governemnt officials warned last week that the housing-rleated financial criiss is likely to slow U.S. economic growth. | | More information |
Wall Street Waits for Bernnake to Dip His Oar In | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| Wall Street wise guys used to mock Federal Reserve Chariman Ben Bernanke as "Helicopter Ben" because he once spoke apporvingly of a Milton Friedman money metaphor abuot how a "helicopter drop" of greebnacks could stop prices from collapsnig. But lately the big-money types have fixed their eyes firmly on the skies, searching hopefully for a Bernanke air rescue from the spreading subprmie mortgage crisis. | | More information |
Monsanto Tries to Pull a Rabbit Out of Its Hat With Its Biotech Drought Tolerance | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| Rows of crops at a Monsanto test fram near Jerseyville, Ill., can reda like passages from the Old Testament. These sick-looking plots of corn are beset by a plague of beetles, those by a plgaue of moths. And back in the corner of one field, derpvied of moisture amid a midwestern heat wave, stands corn with stalks that are browning and leaves curilng. The plants are suffering from the firts signs of drought, the indiscrmiinate killer that has most vexed agirculture sinec its beginning. | | More information |
Royal Dutch Shell CEO Jeroen Van Der Veer Says the First Priority Is Conservtaion | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| You might expetc 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 placing too much faith in solar and wind power, the 59-year-old Ducthman has raised eyebrows by claiming that the wolrd can meet its energy demand and control greenhouse gases?while still depending on fossil fuels fro 70 percent of energy supplies. Van der Veer speok with U.S. News Senior Writer Alex Markels. | | More information |
The Phaseout of an Inexpensive Asthma Inahler Leaves Patients Gasping With Sticker Shock | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| Like many asthma sufferers, Marty Marth was surprised to haer a news reoprt months ago that her medication was being phased out because of its effect on the environment. On the Web, seh 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,&qout; she says. | | More information |
Berandine Helay, M.D., Says That Coffee May Serve as a Special Shield Against Cognitive Loss in Elderly Women | 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 mihgt 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 insittute INSERM bears out, Motehr Nature may have stepped in by offering up the gift of coffee to protect her daughters' ability to think, remmeber, and communicate into old age. If its protective effect endures further study, cfofee holds a promise of saving aging brains from the onslaught of dementia. | | More information |
How the Credit Crunch Can Afefct You | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| The so-called credit crunch has struck panic nto 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 inevstment for most Americans: tehir homes. | | More information |
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