Intellpuke: The following editorial appeared in the New York Times edition for Saturday, April 5, 2008.Fridayâ ™s awful news of 80,000 lost jobs in March surprised economicforecasters, who had not expected such a severe contraction. But itâ ™ssafe to say
The line started forming before dawn, as soon as the day's firstcall to prayer had faded from the trash-strewn streets of the Egyptiancapital's Zelzal neighborhood. Men began pounding on the green metalshutters of the district's sole bakery."Aish! Aish!" - Bread!Bread!
For years, Johnson & Johnson obscured evidence that its popular Ortho Evra birth control patch delivered much more estrogenthan standard birth control pills, potentially increasing the risk ofblood clots and strokes, according to internal company documents.Yet, because the Food and
Charlton Heston, who appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career but whois remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals ofMoses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo, died Saturday night at his home inBeverly Hills. He was 83. His death was
James E. Hansen - perhaps the best-known scientific advocate forcurbing greenhouse-gas emissions - sent a letter recently to the headof one of the nation's largest power companies calling on him toconfront the role that his coal-fired plants play in global
Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental healthof soldiers who would be sent back to the front again and again underplans that call for troop numbers to be sustained at high levels inIraq for this year and beyond.Among
A Christian priest was shot dead outside his home in Baghdad onSaturday by attackers who used a silenced pistol, said witnesses. Hiswife, they said, who stood near him, did not realize he had been shotuntil well after he had fallen.
Strong thunderstorms toppled trees, knocked out power and damagedhomes Friday across the South, while flooding in Kentucky forcedevacuations and left a 2-year-old girl dead.In Mississippi,fast-moving storms unleashed possible tornadoes, heavy rain and somehail. Power failures were reported in several communities,
Amid investigations into fatal shootings of civilians andallegations of tax violations, Blackwater USA's multimillion-dollarcontract to protect diplomats in Baghdad has been renewed, the StateDepartment said Friday.Afinal decision about whether the private security company will keep thejob is pending, said the
Among them are 137 children. Authorities seek a 16-year-old girl and the 50-year-old man said to have abused her.Texas child welfare officials said Saturday that they had removed 183people - including 137 children - from an isolated polygamistcompound in southwestern
A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outsideSri Lanka's capital Sunday, killing a government minister and 11 otherpeople, said authorities. Dozens were wounded.Officials blamed the bombing, the second this year resulting in the death of a government
Russia's Nobel-winningnovelist is now nearly 90, still hard at work - and still outspoken,his wife tells correspondent Luke Harding in a rare interview.Russia's greatest living novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, is workingfeverishly to complete his collected works and is writing every daydespite
Fears are mounting that Wall Street banks are relying too heavily ontens of billions of dollars in loans made available by the U.S. FederalReserve. Their borrowing levels have rocketed by almost 200 per cent to$38 billion (£19 billion) a day
The flood season in the nation's midsection started early this year,and there's no letup in sight, spurring federal, state and localofficials to brace for what looks likely to be an unusually wateryspring.At least 16 deaths were linked to heavy flooding
Intellpuke: This commentary was written by Adam Cohen and appeared in the New York Times edition for Saturday, April 5, 2008.In 1993, the dawn of the Internet age, the liberating anonymity ofthe online world was captured in a well-known New
Robert Mugabe was accused last night of preparing a war againstZimbabwe's people, in an attempt to overturn the opposition'spresidential election victory.Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of theopposition Movement for Democratic Change, who has already claimedoutright victory in last Saturday's election, even though
China's classic tactics - restricting the press and blaming the Dalai Lama -sit poorly with the outside world and a more informed citizenry.As unrest has spread among China's ethnic Tibetan population, Beijinghas found itself caught between its desire to appear
Hundreds of bird species are in danger from plans to plant sugar cane and build a refinery in Kenya.The lush, muddy wetlands of the Tana river delta, teeming with birdsand home to hippos and crocodiles, lions and elephants, are more
Insulted, spat at and attacked -- by ordinary Germans. Unable to bear the daily racism, a pastor's family fled from a small town in eastern Germany back to the their former home in the west.
