Anti-government demonstrators say they will gather in the thousands in the capital city Wednesday in a bid to force Thailand’s prime minister from office.
Thailand braced for huge protest
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Don’t Panic About the Economy
Unlike many of my colleagues in the mass media, I am suffering from outrage-deficit disorder. It’s not that I’m not angry
Feds go after Bernard Madoff’s riches
Federal prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of Bernard Madoff’s four homes and other assets after Madoff’s guilty plea to masterminding a massive investment fraud. Madoff is in jail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan after pleading guilty to operating on the largest Ponzi schemes in history.
Madoff worth more than $820 million, document says
Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty to operating a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, is worth up to $826 million, according to a document filed with a federal court on Friday. Madoff values his business — Bernard L.
Could Rising Seas Swallow California’s Coast?
Imagine San Francisco Airport under water, or Long Beach Harbor in Los Angeles, home to the second busiest port in America, washed away. Picture Orange County’s Newport Beach completely submerged under the encroaching ocean. That’s the soggy future that could be in place for California at the end of this century, if climate change continues unabated.
Tents on wheels give homeless people roof and pride
Brenda Gardenhire shows off her new home with pride. It looks like an oversized shopping cart covered with a khaki canvas. But to her, it’s "wonderful" — a stepping stone to get her off the streets and get her life back in order
The Last Shopping Mall? New Jersey Awaits Xanadu
It rises out of the tidal murk near the Meadowlands — the sports complex built on top of polluted northern–New Jersey wetlands some 33 years ago — like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing
5 championship surf spots
For pro-surfers like nine-time world champion Kelly Slater, flying from continent to continent looking for the perfect wave seems like a freewheeling lifestyle, but for amateurs, it requires careful planning. Surfers checking out unique vibes at sites in Australia, Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaii and France are driven by the buzz that comes from exhilarating swells, breaking waves and amazing barrel tubes created by truly awesome forces of nature. Unlike other travelers, surfers are interested in surfer-friendly places to crash, snagging the best airline rates for surfboards and where to hang out
Former addict gives homeless veterans a second chance
Following a faint trail through a dense patch of woods in Florida’s Palm Beach County, Roy Foster is a man on a mission. Foster, 53, is searching for homeless veterans — and he knows where to look. Whether in a vacant lot behind a supermarket or a small clearing off the highway, homeless vets aren’t that hard to find: One in three homeless adults has served in the military, and more than 150,000 veterans nationwide are homeless on any given night, according to the Veterans Administration.
Economy puts bite on shark attacks, researcher says
Shark attacks on humans were at the lowest levels in half a decade last year, and a Florida researcher says hard economic times may be to blame. Sharks attacked 59 people in 2008, the lowest number of attacks since 57 in 2003, according to George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File, part of the Florida Museum of Natural History on the University of Florida campus in Gainesville. There were 71 attacks in 2007