Labor Day -- it's that one day in the year that we celebrate America's deep Gilded Age roots in trade unions. In reality, though, the U.S. has been on the decline for years. Here's one staggering fact on the downfall of unions: In the 1950s, one in three American...
BEIJING AFP — Marion Jones will watch the Beijing Olympics from a television in federal prison if she sees the Games at all but the former athletics star's downfall into doping disgrace continues to haunt her sport. Jones began serving a six-month prison sentence in March for lying...
The yellow and white barrettes are what got me most. Danieal Kelly was laid out, nude, her back to us in the searingly gruesome photo - the photo that launched an investigation, led to the downfall of more than a dozen people, including the head of the Department of Human...
Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist James C. Alexander Author House 1663 Liberty Drive, Suite 200, Bloomington, IN 47403 9781434381323, $14.95, www.authorhouse.com To hold a belief so fervently that one begins to ignore reason - this is one definition of religious...
SENIOR Labour MSP Charlie Gordon has broken his silence on the dodgy donation he raised which contributed to the downfall of Labour's former Holyrood leader, Wendy Alexander. Gordon has provided full details of his role in the "total cock- up" as he bids to become a candidate...
Current DTM championship leader Timo Scheider has admitted that he is going to have his work cut out in Sunday's seventh round of the DTM, after he lost out in qualifying. Scheider was fourth in Q2, but when that session was stopped and the times declared null and...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Deloris Mack Kent, WA Getting Active, Boosting Image I want to lose weight because: For health reasons and self-image. I have diabetes and hypertension in my family history, so I know there's a high risk of actually developing it myself....
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Federal Reserve and the Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that they had agreed to deepen ties to better monitor cash-strapped banks which are reeling from a credit crunch. The closer ties were announced as US lawmakers review possible changes to...
Problem: Several weeks ago, the Oregon Court of Appeals dealt a blow to employers fighting medical marijuana in the workplace, letting stand an administrative decision that had granted a victory to a medical marijuana user (Emerald Steel Fabricators Inc. v. Bureau of Labor and Industries). Where...
SOME wag has hi-jacked a scene from the movie Downfall and posted it on YouTube. Instead of it portraying Hitler's final days in his Berlin bunker, the subtitles depict Brian Cowen in the days after the Lisbon No vote. ...
PROVO -- Veracity Communications won't be merging with Broadweave Networks, but it intends to stay on the iProvo network as a service provider. And some fear that will plunge the system back into the bifurcated model that caused profuse financial bleeding. ...
BERLIN AFP — A new branch of Madame Tussauds opens in Berlin on Saturday, including in its display of famous figures in Germany history the most notorious one of all, Adolf Hitler. But in order not to give the impression that Hitler was in any way...
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Lindsay Lohan, 22; Ashley Tisdale, 23; Michelle Branch, 25; Ron Silver, 62 Happy Birthday: Overreacting, taking on too much or letting things get out of hand will be your downfall. The more organized and precise you can be, the better. Change...
What's wrong with the aver age American's diet? In a word, plenty. For starters, it's way too high in dietary fat. Excess fat, especially when consumed by an inactive average Joe, is efficiently packed away as bodyfat. Throw in refined carbs from white bread and...
Daniel Hertzberg Receives Lifetime Achievement Award; Lawrence Minard Editor Award Goes to Frank J. Comes NEW YORK -- Journalists from across the nation gathered tonight at New York City's Cipriani 42nd Street for the 2008 Gerald Loeb Awards Banquet. The Loeb Awards are among the...
The only head coach in Utah Blaze history resigned Monday in what was slightly less than, well, a blaze of glory. Danny White said it himself, two days earlier: "6-and-11 isn't acceptable at all." And it wasn't. He left, he...
Lewis Taylor, Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980-1997. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. Tables, figures, maps, bibliography, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $85, paperback $32.50. In the 1980s and early 1990s, an estimated 70,000 Peruvians died in the violent conflict between the state and the Maoist...
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