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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore called Thursday for a "man on the moon" effort to switch all of the nation's electricity production to wind, solar and other carbon-free sources within 10 years, a goal that he said would solve global warming as well as economic and natural security crises caused by dependence on fossil fuels.
"The answer is to end our reliance on ca...
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Marquee starters were long gone. So were nearly all the otherpitchers.
His bullpen empty, National League manager Clint Hurdleapproached David Wright and asked whether he had the right stuff totake the mound and close out the All-Star game. Did the New YorkMets third baseman think chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon orgeneral manager Omar Minaya would mind?
"Don't worry," Wright re...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 25 percent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates Tuesday.
Investors viewed the chip maker's favorable results as a sign that global PC demand is healthy despite a sputtering U.S. economy that has depressed some domestic spending. Intel CEO Paul Otellini said deman...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a bad economy, fun is often the first casualty.
For James Hedrick, that means it's a busy time in his line of work. He's one of those dreaded repo men.
He spends his days scanning megayachts, sailboats and fishing skiffs as he steers his dinghy through a marina west of the city's skyscrapers, looking for a piece of the American dream.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Democrat Barack Obama insisted Monday that blacks must show greater responsibility for their actions. In remarks prepared for delivery at the annual NAACP convention, the man who could become the first black president said Washington must provide greater education and economic assistance, but that blacks must de...
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More Business News Philips profit skids despite good sales
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Royal Philips Electronics NV, the world's largest maker of lighting products, said Monday its second quarter profit fell by more than half, despite resilient sales in a batte...
Hamish Champ: What a naughty boy, talking down the economy like that... -
"By writing about how the economy was under pressure, reporting the latest economic or retail spending survey, we hacks were only making things worse. It was, in effect, all my fault"
According to a friend of mine the Fourth Estate is largely responsible for the state of the UK economy.
If we journalists...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An education-advocacy group will begin airing ads this week seeking to nudge Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on ways to improve the standing of U.S. schools compared with other industrialized nations.
Strong American Schools, a nonpartisan group supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, wants the p...
While the US, Europe and Japan, the conventional epicenters of the global economy, are grappling with the drawbacks caused by their over-sophisticated financial markets, in the rest of the world an economic boom is running at full steam. Three propellants of economic growth are apparent in the developing world.
1) Export of manufactured goods: In this category, the outstanding countries a...