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Enviros Lay Down Hesquiat Ultimatum
Remember Clayoquot Sound? British Columbia Vancouver Island? Whatever side you were on get ready.Who would have ever thought this could be re-visited. The Clayoquot Sound area is a UN Biosphere... Attack injures 5 near Obama's Jerusalem hotel
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The driver of a backhoe was shot and killed after he drove the construction machine over a number of vehicles near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama is scheduled to stay Tuesday night,... U.S. agency to ink new phases of air safety project - Vietnam Airlines
" Officials of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency are expected to arrive later this month to ink new pacts for the next phases of an ongoing project aimed to enhance the safety oversight capacity of Vietnam's... Barack Obama's fundraising roars to life
"The Democrat raised $52 million in June, up from $22 million in May. Republican John McCain's June take was $22 million. By Dan Morain, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 18, 2008 ... Coming soon to a plane near you... Ad space!
"Coming soon to the airline boarding pass clutched in your hot little hand: advertisements.Printing advertisements on the boarding pass is part of airlines’ continuing frantic search for new sources of revenue to offset higher fuel prices. Here’s betting it will be less...Planes fly empty to keep value take-off slots at Heathrow
BMI, the third largest airline in the UK, has admitted it is planning to keep running virtually empty flights in spite of decreasing passenger numbers in order to hold on to its landing and takeoff slots at airports.... Starbucks is Closing Stores - Now Only 3 on Every Block
These guys are going to have the worst real estate problem in the US...."Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) has announced the next step in its multi-faceted plan to transform the company, with a decision to... California Court to Rule on Dex-Cool Settlement
" Millions of consumers could collect repair costs from General Motors for engine damage caused by the coolant Dex-Cool following a hearing in California scheduled for late August. Two class-action lawsuits are pending in California state court involving GM customers who... Florida Supreme Court denies child killer's last-minute execution appeal
Frankly, I can't find a reason to be sorry at all about this pending execution of a confessed child killer. But I'm sure the usual "please don't hurt him, it's not nice" pickets will be out at the state prison." Child-killer Mark Dean Schwab is a step closer to lethal... International torch relay for Paralympic Games snuffed out
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorSecurity concerns are quoted as the reason for depriving disabled athletes who train harder than able athletes in order to attain a goal even us able bodied armchair... Burj Dubai, June update on world’s tallest building « Peter J. Cooper’s ...
"Completion is now scheduled for September next year but the Burj Dubai is almost fully clad and the next stage will be to add the final spire to the top, which is under construction in Jebel Ali. What a statement about the brash, bold self-confidence of this amazing city... Colin Powell, Keep Out
Colin Powell is in Vancouver to give a speech. Some of the locals aren't too happy about it."Colin Powell, George Bush's former secretary of state and previously the general in charge of the slaughter of Iraqi troops in the first Gulf war, is scheduled to speak in... Belgian Cyclist Tom Boonen Tests Positive for Cocaine
"Tomeke" quick stepped in some real crap here. While it should be noted that there is no mandatory suspension for an out of competition non-negative for cocaine use, there are a host of "discretionary" disciplinary...Discovery Astronauts Begin First Spacewalk of Mission
Although they've become "routine," a spacewalk is anything but. The training and preparations for becoming a spacewalker are arduous. The work is always risky. There's no such thing as just "dinging" your thumb while doing construction work outside a space shuttle or the...GM Selling North America's Birthright to Mexico
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOutsourcing North America's Manufacturing Birthright, has taken another turn for the worse, 2,600 General Motors jobs (not 1,000 as previously reported) are heading south...
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