Crews were working Wednesday to contain and clean up an estimated 877,000 gallons of oil that coated birds and fish as it poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River, one of the state's major waterways.
His rogue bid for governor could also dim GOP prospects for knocking off 4th District's Rep.
Betsy Markey.
TOKYO -- Her new country needs her, her new employer adores her, and Joyce Anne Paulino, who landed here 14 months ago knowing not a word of the language, can now say in Japanese that she'd like very much to stay.
But Paulino, 31, a nurse from the Philippines, worries about the odds. To stay in J...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/27/AR2010072706053.html?hpid=topnews
Barack Obama has appointed another czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass.
Officially, he is labeled senior policy adviser for healthy food initiatives, but he's joining the list of more than 35 czars given broad and unaccountable power over our lives, habits and spending.....>>
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http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=541692
There's always been a form of healthy rivalry between Reddit and Digg, and its respective user bases.
I'm one of those indifferent people who think there's plenty of room for multiple sites of the kind, and that these sites actually make each other stronger and better in their state of co-existence. Rising tide lifting all boats and all that. Ne
The New York Times Brian Stelter tweeted that, according to Nielsen Media Research, Fox News has averaged just 29,000 black viewers in primetime so far this television season (9/09-7/10).
That represents just 1.38% of its 2.102 million total viewer audience.CNN and MSNBC, meanwhile, both have far more black viewers, both in absolute terms and as
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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/27/fox-viewers-african-american/
The Los Angeles Police Department is willing to spend $7 million for 20,000 e-mail accounts.
What the heck are they thinking?
Two decades ago, Tony Hayward was a turtle'' - one of a handful of young high fliers at BP earmarked for great things, named after the cartoon warriors, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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http://www.wcbs880.com/It-s-Official--Tony-Hayward-Will-Step-Down-as-BP-C/7778796
"We know that there isn't any amount of money that will make our people whole," said Pulia at a news conference. "They've lost heirlooms, property and things in the basement.
You just have to drive around here. It makes you sick."
Fourteen years ago, to protect President Clinton's position on partial-birth abortions, Elena Kagan doctored a statement by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.