Baby crocodiles tell each other when to hatch

"Umph, umph, umph" - not the sound of a grumpy old man but baby crocodiles talking to each other from inside their eggs - more evidence that I wasn't that mad when talking to my unborn children - if it works for...

Blue-collar GM staffers take buyout en masse

The auto industry has been hit hard with the rising fuel prices and the effects echo through the ranks. More than one quarter of GM's auto workers have decided to take their buyout offers - some ranging up to...

Dangerous correspondents

BAF reports on two Turks who are being prosecuted for 'insulting the Turkish identity', 'inciting hatred of Islam' and for 'spreading the message of the Bible by correspondence' (I'm not sure what this latter means: by mail? a correspondence course?); according the site a...

Chinese Consumers Gang Up on their Retailers

"ON AN otherwise quiet Friday afternoon in Guangzhou, a city in southern China, 500 shoppers gather outside a Gome electrical superstore in the downtown district. They arrive en masse at the designated time—June...

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