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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan farmer Abdul Ghani looks over his field carpeted in s... FEATURE - Taliban, poverty
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan farmer Abdul Ghani looks over his field carpeted in small, green plants and knows this crop will feed his family.
His field is covered in opium poppies, now only leaves about 10 cm high and yet to flower.
Ghani explains his simple logic that makes him part of an illicit industry that the government says is funding terrorism and threatens t...
Scripps buys British online comparison shopping firm CINCINNATI (AP) - Media company E.W. S... Scripps buys British online comp
Scripps buys British online comparison shopping firm
CINCINNATI (AP) - Media company E.W. Scripps Co., continuing its push into the online comparison shopping business, announced Thursday that it has bought a British company for $366 million that provides specialized Internet searches.
Founded in 2000, uSwitch.com helps consumers compare rates on gas, electricity, home phone, digita...
"The existence of a large number of regulators, together with the Competition Commission, may rai... Overlapping of regulators
"The existence of a large number of regulators, together with the Competition Commission, may raise issues of overlaps with unintended problems of forum-shopping and delayed decision-making," Rangarajan said at a seminar organised by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
He said sectoral regulators had been established in India in the capital market, insurance sector, telecommunicati...
Gates' comments came in a speech in Washington, where he touted a much more expensive mobile lap... Bill Gates slams $100 chari
Gates' comments came in a speech in Washington, where he touted a much more expensive mobile laptop, recently unveiled by his own company Microsoft, reports said Thursday.
Gates predicted a bright future for mobile computers and phones but scoffed at the $100 machine being developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) media guru Nick Negroponte, for use by children in the deve...
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ongoing shortages of polysilicon is expected to restrict the growth rates... Solar market to cool down
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ongoing shortages of polysilicon is expected to restrict the growth rates in the worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) market to just 10 percent in 2006, according to Solarbuzz LLC.
The lackluster figure follows sizzling growth in 2005 despite polysilicon material shortages, which has hampered the entire industry.
Still, world solar PV market installations reach...
(Lafayette, Ind.-AP) Indiana officials are cheering an announcement this morning that Toyota will... Toyota Makes It Official..
(Lafayette, Ind.-AP) Indiana officials are cheering an announcement this morning that Toyota will begin building Camry sedans at the Subaru plant in Lafayette starting in spring of next year. Toyota officials say the new assembly line will bring about one-thousand jobs to the plant. Governor Daniels is on hand at the plant for the announcement. The Lafayette plant has 2,300 employees and makes ...
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The... The Almanac : Thursday, Ma
The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include James Madison, fourth president of the United States, in 1751; German physicist Georg Ohm, a pioneer in the study of electricity, in 1787; former first lady Pat Nixon in 1912; actor Leo McKer...
In a signal that the pending buyout of KeySpan Corp. faces unexpected hurdles, the New York State... State delays KeySpan's
In a signal that the pending buyout of KeySpan Corp. faces unexpected hurdles, the New York State attorney general's office has said it will delay reviewing the Long Island Power Authority's new contract with KeySpan until LIPA is comfortable with its partner's newly proposed parent, National Grid Plc.
The delay also has prompted similar action from State Comptroller Alan Hevesi's off...
The suit by the Employees' Retirement System of Livonia, Mich., is now tentatively set to begin ... Trial date set in NWC lawsu
The suit by the Employees' Retirement System of Livonia, Mich., is now tentatively set to begin April 25.
The retirement system contends NorthWestern's board is not listening in good faith to offers to buy the Sioux Falls-based corporation, which provides electricity and natural gas to about 600,000 customers in South Dakota, Montana and Nebraska.
The company announced late last m...
TXU Corp. chief executive John Wilder plans to increase the amount of power the company generates... TXU outlines strategy...
TXU Corp. chief executive John Wilder plans to increase the amount of power the company generates in Texas by as much as 50 percent by using coal.
FILE 2004/Staff photoTXU chief executive John Wilder is focused on coal because it is cheaper than natural gas, so coal generation plants offer a wider profit margin than natural gas plants.
So far, TXU has announced plans for two coal pr...