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When Health Coverage Determines How Much Pain You Feel
Close readers may have wondered how Octuplet Mom Nadya Suleman was able to manage multiple pregnancies and the resulting child rearing while suffering from a back injury so serious that she has been unable to return to work and collected $167,000 in workers compensation in recent years.
Why the Stock Market Keeps Plummeting
Faced with ubiquitous signs of global economic meltdown, investors sold stocks in force on Tuesday, dragging the broad market indexes down near the lows reached last November. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index, weighed down by financials, fell 4.56%, while the Dow Industrials sank 3.8%, falling to within a fraction of its November 2008 low. Among the hardest hit sectors were bank stocks, down 10%, oil service stocks, down 8.2%, and semiconductor stocks, which fell 6.7%
Leahy’s Plan to Probe Bush-Era Wrongdoings
The Right screams that it’s a witch-hunt, the Left complains it’s a cop-out, and President Obama wishes it would just go away. But Senator Patrick Leahy isn’t about to drop his proposal for a Truth Commission to investigate wrongdoing in the Bush Administration.
Japan’s ‘Drunk’ Finance Chief, Shoichi Nakagawa, Steps Down
Slurred speech. Long pauses
The Revival of Beaujolais
After decades of good times, the Beaujolais winemaking region has been suffering a killer hangover. In the ’80s and ’90s, Beaujolais Nouveau was a global phenomenon, but abuses in overproduction and dubious vinification practices by some growers sullied the brand
Chimp attack 911 call: ‘He’s ripping her apart’
A Connecticut woman pleaded for police to "please hurry" to save a friend from an attack by a pet chimpanzee, according to emotional 911 recordings released Tuesday by Stamford police.
King moved, as father was, on trip to Gandhi’s memorial
In 1959, the Rev.
Solar-power firm fired up about stimulus
A Colorado solar-energy company has high hopes for the economic stimulus bill that President Barack Obama will sign Tuesday in Denver.
Alleged $8 Billion CD Fraud Latest in Rash of Ponzi Busts
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges today against high-flying Houston-based financier R.