CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama selected New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his commerce secretary Wednesday, naming a prominent Hispanic to his new Cabinet and calling him a leading "economic diplomat for America" in troubled times ...
3 Dec 2008
The largest storage available currently for iPod Touch is 32GB due to its capability to house two 16GB NAND Flash chip. With recent announcements of 32GB and 64GB NAND Flash chip becoming available if 4Q08 and 1H09 respectively, it may now become ...
3 Dec 2008
(WCCO) Running into your ex is almost always awkward and stressful. David Snyder and Nancy Partridge deal with it nearly every day. The Denver couple divorced after six years of marriage but have been forced to live together for months because they ...
3 Dec 2008
Adobe Systems Inc. released better-than-expected preliminary earnings for the fourth quarter late Wednesday, but said it will cut 600 jobs, or 8 percent of its work force, because of slower revenue growth. The company said it expects earnings of 45 ...
3 Dec 2008
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. bonds rose on optimism that the U.S. government will bail out the auto industry after the companies promised to cut costs and asked Congress for $27 billion in aid. Bonds of GM due in 2028 ...
3 Dec 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers want the Treasury to do a better job of insisting that banking institutions sharing in the $700 billion bailout comply with limits Congress imposed on executive salaries and use the money for its intended purposes. In the ...
3 Dec 2008
Naomi Wolf in the documentary “The End of America.” “The End of America,” an unsettling documentary polemic about the erosion of civil liberties in the wake of 9/11, brings up matters many of us would rather not contemplate in the middle of a financial crisis and on the eve of a new administration.
3 Dec 2008
Another week. Another NBA coach gets the ax. This time it's Sam Mitchell of the Raptors.
3 Dec 2008
The United States has done too little to fight the spread of weapons of mass destruction, U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden said on Wednesday, as he got a congressional report warning of their pressing threat.
3 Dec 2008
A hard-hitting £1m television and internet advertising campaign to warn teenagers of the dangers of cocaine use is being launched.
3 Dec 2008
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern Japan on Thursday, the Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
3 Dec 2008
A Minnesota judge has blocked the NFL's suspension of Vikings stars Kevin and Pat Williams for violating the league's anti-doping policy.
3 Dec 2008
The Short End of The Socialist Stick - The Huffington Post.
3 Dec 2008
First, human beings, regardless of their choices in life, are of ultimate value to God and should be viewed the same by others. At the same time, one’s personal choices lead to outcomes either positive or negative. ...
3 Dec 2008
Just a pretty little shot of Tinyus of on Gorgonnash back in 2007, taking his ram for a spin in Blackrock Mountain. Azeroth misses you guys, you know. When you left to go to Outland, it was heartbroken! ...
3 Dec 2008
Senator Hillary Clinton is forbidden from being the nation's Secretary of State—by the Constitution! All the hope in the world can't get around that little document, you monster. Here's the Constitutional bit in question, Article I, ...
3 Dec 2008
There are certainly a few clever ideas, as we see in the first shot of a cooking space promising to be 1/3 the size of modern stoves. The pots and pans double as serving dishes, and while we don't quite understand how one stirs the food ...
3 Dec 2008
We read a lot of articles on Detroit these days, but this one stands out for being both broad and narrow in the right ways: broad in that it takes a look not just at the business of auto manufacturing but at how that business has played ...
3 Dec 2008