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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
