Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks The New York Times | PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered species conference that begins this week. | “We’ve decided to go ahead with a shark fis...
Euro Unity? It's Germany That Matters The New York Times | PARIS — Ten years after the euro, it’s still all about Germany, which isn’t the way it was supposed to be. | In the run-up to the common currency’s debut in 1999, the air was thick with talk about harnessing Germany’s economic power, then enshrined in the mark. A fail...
A Reluctance to Ride the Market The New York Times | As they set their energy budgets for next year, the owners of hundreds of buildings in New York will be eligible to join Con Edison’s hourly pricing plan for electricity service, broadening a program that allows customers to monitor electrici...
Airport Built, It's Time to See if the Traffic Comes The New York Times | The first new international airport in the United States in more than decade is set to open in May near Panama City, Fla., a community of 37,000 people on the state’s panhandle. That is no small feat given the environmental, regulatory and fi...
U.K. Plan for Free Elderly Home Care Is a Hard Sell The New York Times | LONDON — Every Tuesday, Janet Isobel Bishop walks the few blocks from her rented one-bedroom apartment in Notting Hill to a painting course, followed by Tai Chi lessons. The classes are paid for by the British government, just like the weekly...
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Groups seek labeling changes for injected chickens Post-Bulletin 2/26/2010 11:13:20 AM By Kevin Freking | Associated Press | WASHINGTON - Many poultry consumers are getting an unhealthy dose of sodium with their bird these days, the result of in...
Washington state union members: No. 8 in U.S. Business Journal Print Reprints RSS Feeds LinkedIn Share Comments Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | Get new image | Aud...
Moderate Dem rethinks position on health bill The Boston Globe | WASHINGTON-A moderate Democrat who had vowed to oppose any effort by party leaders to push a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote is rethinking her position. | Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Tuesday that she wants to see what ...
Iberiabank clears $329 million in stock sale Houston Chronicle | LAFAYETTE, La. - Regional banking company Iberiabank Corp. says it received $329 million from a public offering of just under 6 million shares of its common stock. | The stock was priced at $57.75 per share. | Lafayette-based Iberiabank says it pla...
In 2009, BofA chief was paid little, but ... The News & Observer | NEW YORK -- Former Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis received a compensation package valued at $32,171 in 2009 as the bank struggled with loan losses and repaid billions in federal bailout money, according to a regulatory filing disclosed Friday. | That modest sum is more than offset by Lewis' accumulated compensation and retirement benefits, which t...
![Sulfur dioxide emissions from the Halema`uma`u vent, glows at night. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (as presented by the 2002 World Almanac or in chart form[9]), the following amount of sulfur dioxide was released in the U.S.](http://cdn0.wn.com/vp/i/f4/d695eef04ec939.jpg)
