France may help economy with clean products, electric cars, hydrogen fuel cells

Crisis to Green economy or Champaign friends rescue operation ?   The crisis forces governments to jump on clean technologies as electric cars or fuel cells. The banks bailout created nothing, than credit...

AC City Council Favors Postponing Casino Smoking Ban

" AC City Council Favors Postponing Casino Smoking Ban The latest casualty of the nation's financial crisis may be the ban on...

Fake Foreclosure Rescue Operations Rising

"The national foreclosure crisis did not only result in large inventories of repossessed properties for sale in the market and declining home prices. It also gave rise to a growing number of homeowners who are...

Yahoo Wields New Tool to Battle Google

"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based...

Bennett timeline update

"Details in police's case reveal chilling, devious planning by victim's uncle July 5, 2008 By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau ...

Obama: Unclear on the Concept of Law?

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWell certainly Obama's stance may backfire in his promises to eradicate guns from the citizens of the United States, contrary to the Supreme Courts decision allowing...

Indonesia: Supreme Court Rules Against Exxon in Aceh Case (News + Analysis)

This is an interesting case in many ways. What responsibilities does a corporation have overseas if, due to local politics and wars, employees are harmed or cause harm for reasons that have nothing to do with the company?This article doesn't quite make it clear if the...

Violent Fuel Protests in Brussels

Dozens of angry fishermen were arrested in Brussels after scuffles and violence broke out during a protest against rising fuel prices.The fishermen, mostly from France and Italy, occupied the European Commission's headquarters and fired flares at police, who then charged...

To live longer, go back to school: study

"If you have been contemplating going back to school to get a degree, this might convince you: a study by the Harvard School of Medicine has shown that people with a better education tend to live longer. "Between...

Mexican ex-prostitutes find home

A retirement home for former sex-worked in Mexico City has been set up to take care of women who are retired from the sex trade."An estimated 3,000 prostitutes work in Mexico City at any one time Go to the centre of Mexico City after dark and you can see the women start to...

Actress Halle Berry Still Struggles To Get Roles Due To Race

"Actress Halle Berry may have won an Oscar, but she says she is frustrated at still having to convince movie studios of her ability because she is black. "It doesn't matter that I have an Oscar, an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Silver (Berlin) Bear," Berry, who is pregnant with...

Aristocrat's Lexus car badly damaged in frenzied sexual attack - by a randy p...

"Visitors to a stately home have been warned to keep away from a randy peacock after he caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to a car he mistook for a mate. The amorous bird swooped on the "peacock blue" Lexus car in the grounds of eccentric aristocrat Sir Benjamin...

Dems Fail to Surrender Activists Not happy

This is too funny if it wasn't so sad. Harry Reid took a secret trip to talk to the Anti War Lobby in NYC to ask them for patience. But the Dems have already lost the fight to surrender in Iraq and now must change...

Shifting Sands: Bush Warns Of New Holocaust

  NowPublic contributor phrolen is a veteran of Operation IraqiFreedom and Joint Taskforce Katrina. His commentary is based on actualexperience.         In a speech to the...

The 10 Real Reasons Hiphop Will Never Die

Since “street cred” is way more important than talent, or anything else for that matter, it doesn’t matter how you look. Unlike the pretty-boy forms of pop-music, being ugly might just convey the notion that you are “from the street” (bad teeth, and a face twisted...

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