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Housing Slowdown Could Spell Trouble
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:42 pm PDT
AP - The nation's red-hot housing market may finally be nearing its peak, meaning the end of double-digit annual percentage price gains for homeowners and potential trouble for more recent purchasers who stretched to buy. Full Story | Top |
Sodium Nitrate Could Be Disease Cure
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:19 pm PDT
AP - Could the salt that preserves hot dogs also preserve your health? Scientists at the National Institutes of Health think so. They've begun infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it could prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies. Full Story | Top |
Alan Dershowitz: Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist
Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:16 pm PDT
HuffingtonPost.com - My mother always told me that when a person dies, one should not say anything bad about him. My mother was wrong. History requires truth, not puffery or silence, especially about powerful governmental figures. And obituaries are a first draft of history. So here’s the truth about Chief Justice Rehnquist you won’t hear on Fox News or from politicians. Chief Justice William Rehnquist set back liberty, equality, and human rights perhaps more than any American judge of this generation. His rise to power speaks volumes about the current state of American values. Full Story | Top |
A Week After Storm, Levee Break Is Fixed
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 04:47 pm PDT
 AP - A week after Hurricane Katrina, engineers plugged the levee break that swamped much of the city and floodwaters began to recede, but along with the good news came the mayor's direst prediction yet: As many as 10,000 dead. Full Story | Top |
Katrina could prompt new black "great migration"
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:21 pm PDT
 Reuters - If refugees end up building new lives away from New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina may prompt the largest U.S. black resettlement since the 20th century's Great Migration lured southern blacks to the North in a search for jobs and better lives. Full Story | Top |
Despite Warnings, Washington Failed to Fund Levee Projects
Sun, 04 Sep 2005 04:55 am PDT
Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON — For years, Washington had been warned that doom lurked just beyond the levees. And for years, the White House and Congress had dickered over how much money to put into shoring up century-old dikes and carrying out newer flood control projects to protect the city of New Orleans. Full Story | Top |
Bush, Blanco Reveal Strained Relationship
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:09 pm PDT
 AP - Like estranged in-laws at a holiday gathering, President Bush and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco kept their distance as both toured a relief center for storm victims Monday. At their next stop, the Republican president kissed the Democratic governor on the cheek, but it wasn't clear whether they had made up. Full Story | Top |
French Quarter Holdouts Create 'Tribes'
Sun, 04 Sep 2005 04:59 pm PDT
 AP - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor. As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a bar, a bartender put near-perfect stitches into the torn ear of a robbery victim. Full Story | Top |
Katrina Victims Get Seized Knockoff Items
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:48 pm PDT
 AP - The Yves St. Laurent and Tommy Hilfiger labels may be phony, but the thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims getting knockoff items seized by federal customs officials probably don't mind. Full Story | Top |
World stunned as US struggles with Katrina
Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:16 am PDT
 Reuters - The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society. Full Story | Top |
Bush Chooses Roberts, Weighs Other Vacancy
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 04:08 pm PDT
 AP - Seizing a historic opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court, President Bush swiftly chose conservative John Roberts as chief justice Monday and weighed how to fill another vacancy that could push the nation's highest court to the right on issues from abortion to affirmative action. Full Story | Top |
Court Orders Kazaa to Stop Pirates
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:50 pm PDT
 AP - A federal judge on Monday ordered distributors of the popular file-swapping program Kazaa to alter the software, which millions have downloaded, so it can no longer be used for music piracy. Full Story | Top |
Excessively sleepy? Could be more than poor sleep
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 07:31 am PDT
 Reuters - Doctors commonly view excessive daytime sleepiness as a cardinal sign of disturbed or inadequate sleep. But a new study suggests it could also signal depression or even diabetes, regardless of whether an individual doesn't sleep well. Full Story | Top |
Katrina Evacuees Distraught Over Lost Pets
Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:40 am PDT
 AP - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs. She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday. They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive. Full Story | Top |
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