The Washington Post reports here:The Federal Emergency Management Agency gave a holiday reprieve to about 150,000 evacuees of hurricanes Katrina and Rita yesterday, saying the vast majority will not lose government subsidies for the hotel rooms where they have been living until Jan 7.
The skyrocketing cost of oil is sending pump prices soaring. But it’s also subsidizing research into new technologies that can change the energy game. See this page for the full article at Wired News.
And besides that guess some room for political maneuvering opens up, see this report from BBC: Officials from Venezuela and Massachusetts have [...]
Check out Spiegel Online here on this interesting article and let us know please what you think: Europe’s largest nation is in decline and has been for several years. The very core of its economy has begun to shrink: a process that no reforms have managed to halt. Germany’s problems are rooted deeply in the [...]
E-mails purporting to come from FBI are phony !
Washington , D.C. – The FBI today warned the public to avoid falling victim to an on-going mass e-mail scheme wherein computer users received unsolicited e-mails purportedly sent by the FBI. These scam e-mails tell the recipients that their Internet use has been monitored by the FBI [...]
Sony BMG Music Entertainment’s troubles over anti-piracy technology on music CDs deepened Monday as Texas’ attorney general and a California-based digital rights group said they were suing the music company under new state anti-spyware laws. See this Washington Post report for more info. Wonder how much damage this hole saga is causing Sony.
CNN reports: For the second year in a row this destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, has been named the nation’s most dangerous, according to a company’s annual ranking based on crime statistics.
Listed as the most dangerous cities are: Camden, New Jersey; Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Flint, Michigan; Richmond, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Atlanta, Georgia; [...]
Henry Paulson, CEO of the investment bank Goldman Sachs discusses global imbalances, the rise of China and German pessimism. Interesting Interview found here at Spiegel Online, please let us know what you think how globalization will affect us.
CNN reports here: A former top State Department official said Sunday that Vice President Dick Cheney provided the "philosophical guidance" and "flexibility" that led to the torture of detainees in U.S. facilities. Whats your take on this? Do you think that Cheney is the one to blame?
SSRIs are a potent weapon against depression, but sexual side effects scare off patients. Now there’s help. See this article from Newsweek for more info.