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President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the Grand Foyer the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 6, 2009, after his trilateral meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zadari.
(photo: AP / Charles Dharapak)
U.S. healthcare faces tough path in Senate
The Star
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After a landmark win in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Barack Obama's push for healthcare reform faces a difficult path in the Senate amid divisions in his own Democratic Party on how to proceed. U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on health care refo...
Police and peoples wearing mask from protection of Swine Flu-Disease
(photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)
Experts warn of H1N1 schemes, 'cures'
Canoe
By Pat Hewitt, THE CANADIAN PRESS | A nurse draws the H1N1 vaccine into a syringe at a vaccination clinic at the Tom Brown Arena in Ottawa, Nov. 2, 2009. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Pawel Dwulit) | TORONTO - Pop a vitamin, ban doctors' neckties, vacuum away swine flu germs and smoke an e-cigarette to ward o...
Health Bill faces tough battle in US Senate
Irish Times
| THE FIRST thing US president Barack Obama did late on Saturday night following the passage of the healthcare Bill in the House of Representatives was to phone the heads of three industry lobby groups to thank them for their support. | Not included ...
Elections are not good for us
Arab News
| Ashraf Ihsan Faqih | Al-Watan | I have no connection whatsoever with the recently held elections for the board of directors of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI). I do not belong to any trading or industrial family. Moreover, I am n...
Gordon Brown backtracks on bank tax after US is unwilling to support it
The Times
| Gordon Brown appeared to step back from a G20 declaration to introduce a bank tax after Downing Street insisted that he was merely trying to open a debate on raising new money from the City. | Last night it emerged that Downing Street had wanted to...
Campus capsule
The Hindu
| Best presentation | A team of students from Bangalore's Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology made the "Best Presentation" at the prestigious International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) Competition, held on November 2 at the Massach...
Spyrogyra green algae Taken on a small pond in Dmbovia county, Romania
GFDL File / Bogdan
As oceans fall ill, Washington bureaucrats squabble
Kansas City Star
Related: | More News | Off the coast of Washington state, mysterious algae mixed with sea foam have killed more than 8,000 seabirds, puzzling scientists. A thousand miles off Calif...
Motorists in a free flowing traffic due to holiday in Quezon City , Philippines , July 27 , 2008.
WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo
Pay-by-the-mile auto insurance gains steam
The Columbus Dispatch
Car insurance by the tankful? | Not quite, but California moved a step closer last month to pay-as-you-drive policies that could allow motorists to buy insurance like they do gasol...
Job seekers line up to speak to a representative of New York Life company at a job fair sponsored by Monster.com at a hotel in Newark
AP / Mike Derer
Jobless: 10 percent is tougher than it used to be
Chicago Sun-Times
| WASHINGTON -- It hurts more to be unemployed now than the last time the jobless rate hit 10 percent. | Americans have more than triple the debt they had in 1982, and less than ha...
NZ moss 'tea bags' clean US pools
NZ Herald
4:00AM Monday Nov 09, 2009 | By | Moss pulled from the bogs of Westland is cutting the whiff of chlorine from American swimming pools, using its natural properties to fight bacterial slime. | A Minnesota company, Creative Water Solutions, has patente...
Gas Could Be America's Energy Savior, With Caveats
Wall Street Journal
| Daniel Yergin and Robert Ineson ("America's Natural Gas Revolution," op-ed, Nov. 3) state that "More abundant gas will have another, not so well recognized effect—facilitating renewable development." This effect is perhaps "not so well recogn...
Why the U.S. Needs Nuclear Power
Wall Street Journal
By ARIS CANDRIS | As America climbs out of one of its worst recessions in decades, we must keep in mind that long-term economic growth requires an abundant, affordable supply of electricity. | By 2030, electricity demand in the U.S. is expected to gr...
Maritime Industry
Waves caused by the arrival of Hurricane Paloma are seen in Prospect, George Town, along the southern coast of Grand Cayman, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. Late-season Hurricane Paloma's center was expected to pass near Grand Cayman late Friday or early Saturday, then gain strength as it moves toward Cuba which is already suffering from billions of dollars in damage from two previous hurricanes this sea
(photo: AP / Joanna Lewis)
Hurricane Ida strengthens, 42 dead in Salvador
The Star
| CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida strengthened off the Mexican resort city of Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday as heavy rains caused by the storm killed at least 42 people in El Salvador. | El Salvador's interior minister said more victims were expected to be found as rescue workers moved into areas cut off by mudslides in the Cen...
Mining
Warren Buffett speak during a press conference Monday, June 26, 2006 in New York. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, recently announced his intention of giving 10 million shares of his company to charitable organizations, the majority going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Found
(photo: AP / Seth Wenig)
Buffett's Berkshire buying Burlington Northern RR
Asbury Park Press
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 Previous Page | NEW YORK - Warren Buffett has made bets on railroads before, but now he's all in. The billionaire investor's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy. | Burlington Northern, the nation's second-largest railroad,...



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