This Is Not A Normal Recession: Moving on to Plan B

""The Winter of 2008-2009 will prove to be the winter of global economic discontent that marks the rejection of the flawed ideology that unregulated global financial markets promote financial innovation, market efficiency, unhampered growth and endless prosperity while...

UK unemplyment rises to 1.72 mn

The meltdown in the US financial sectory had dashed hope for thousands of people and now the latest data released in UK has also painted a grim picture.   "The jobless rate in Britain rose by 0.2 per cent to 5.5 per cent in the three months to July as the number of...

U.S. exports cigarettes, bras, bull semen to Iran

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. exports to Iran -- including brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics and possibly even weapons -- grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused Iran of nuclear ambitions and helping terrorists. ...

Bacteria make major evolutionary shift in the lab

This brings to mind lectures my mother gave me about not leavingdirty plates or pizza crusts laying about in my room lest they growsomething. We'll it's a fortuitous thing that at least one persondidn't do what they were told."Amajor evolutionary innovation has unfurled right...

Pizza.com Web Domain Sold For $2.6 Million

A reminder that domain squatting can be a lucrative hobby!"Chris Clark doesn't need any venture capital to fund his Internet protection startup: he just sold his pizza.com domain name for $2.6 million.Clark had the presence of mind back in 1994 to register the pizza.com...

Mr. Senator, Its Time to Step Down

"I am lifelong democrat & a successful business owner for 20 years now. My business branches are spread across 4 states. As my business grew, I have always made it a point to increase my financial support to the democratic party that I love & believe in. I am part of...

Drug 'strangles cancer's spread'

Little action from Kama Sutra

"The warnings were based on a Web counter that, though initially reporting the number of Kama Sutra infections accurately, was manipulated later in the process to claim millions of machines had been compromised. Overhyping threats could lead to a ''cry wolf'' syndrome where...