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Meg Whitman Reportedly Wants To Be Governor of California
Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, wants to be governor of California. At least that’s the interpretation given the fact that she’s suddenly severed all her board ties, stepping down as a director of Proctor & Gamble, Dreamworks Animation SKG and, of course, eBay. The official explanation given by her spokesman was merely “personal reasons.” Whitman is a Republican and was part of the McCain ...
Year in review: a look back at 2008
Jan. 3 — The Central High School dance team begins its inaugural season after seniors Nicole Lind, Abbey Carey and Ashley Zabel organize support. Rick and Paula Gort and Del and Ken Gallup are new members of the Cologne Lions.
Intellectual Property
Personalized medicine companies should implement new strategies to deal with the challenges associated with protecting their inventions.
‘It’s Not Cancer, It’s a Hormone Imbalance': Jobs
The reason Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been looking like a wraith is due to a mysterious new hormone imbalance that was hard to diagnose but now it has and Jobs expects to fatten up by summer. Jobs released a statement saying so Monday morning hours ahead of MacWorld opening apparently to head off further distracting speculation that he’s on his deathbed because his 2004 pancreatic cancer is back. ...
Shashi Tharoor: Air Farce
I have been a frequent air traveller since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to...
State architectural group honors Bohlin with medal of distinction
When he was in first grade, Peter Bohlin built a church. It was small, about shoebox sized, and made of little white stones. It won him an award.
Welcome bid to define directors’ duties in Companies Bill, 2008
Independent directors should be persons of integrity and possess relevant expertise
Tense moments in Minnesota Senate recount
One of the last remaining steps in Minnesota's U.S. Senate race recount was temporarily halted Saturday morning when attorneys with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman's campaign attempted to stop the counting of about 950 improperly rejected absentee ballots.









World stocks rally on some rare corporate cheer
World stock markets rose strongly Tuesday ahead of expected gains on Wall Street and amid some relatively positive corporate news, particularly from the struggling British retailing sector.

Pope: Pollution could destroy world's future
Pope Benedict XVI is warning that pollution in the world could destroy our present and our future.

World markets extend gains, Nikkei up 0.4 percent
Asian stock markets were mostly higher Tuesday, shrugging off lackluster trade overnight in the U.S. and Europe amid growing optimism the world economy would start to recover later this year.

US opens world's largest foreign mission in Iraq
Just inside the gateway of the new United States Embassy in Baghdad, a US Army lieutenant colonel acted as the diplomatic equivalent of a Wal-Mart greeter, welcoming guests Monday afternoon to the dedication ceremony for the largest – and most expensive – American mission in the world.

Canada risked and was rewarded in country's fifth straight world junior gold
OTTAWA - Canada's fifth straight gold medal at the world junior hockey championship was won much differently than the previous four.

Golden again: Canada beats Sweden 5-1 to win world junior championship
OTTAWA - Canada's junior hockey team is back on top of the world, and this gold medal might be the sweetest one yet.

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