| Starwatch Consumer: GM dealers will list used cars on eBay
General Motors dealers will start listing their certified used car inventories at eBay Motors in the second quarter this year. Certified used cars have longer warranties and often are in better condition than others. Ford recalls SUVs Ford Motor Co. is recalling 123,632 Expedition and Lincoln Navigator sport utility vehicles to fix door handles that may allow latches to open in a side-impact crash. The housings for springs in the interior door handles of 2006 and 2007 models can break during normal use and not return the handles to the locked position. Patch problem Johnson & Johnson and Novartis AG are recalling patches containing the painkiller fentanyl because of possible cuts in the drug reservoir that could cause patients or caregivers to overdose on the potent drug inside.
In Boston, Mayor and Librarian Clash Over Control
Margolis and some of his allies, who say it could have a chilling effect on donors and even lead to the money being spent outside the library system. "It gets to the very core of the independence of the library trustees and the basis on which people give money to the library," said Mr. Margolis, who will step down in June after 11 years on the job. "They give it with the expectation that the library is the steward of that money and of the institution's destiny not with the expectation that the mayor or someone else downtown decides how or when it's used." But Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Mr. Menino, said the city did not intend to use the library trust funds for other purposes, and had no right to do so. "We would never be able to do that," Ms. Joyce said. "We only want to make sure the money is being used for what the people who left it to the library intended it for." Mr.
Environmental emphasis puts Hub, Cambridge on 'green' list
All that "green living" and pedaling hasn't been ignored. For these and other ecological efforts, Boston and Cambridge were named two of America's 50 Greenest Cities in the March issue of Popular Science magazine. The magazine used data on energy conservation from the US Census Bureau and surveys conducted by the National Geographic Society of cities with more than 100,000 people. The rankings were based on four categories - electricity; transportation; "green living," which involves the number of buildings that are certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, Green Building Rating System, as well as the areas devoted to public parks; and "recycling and green perspective." For the administration of Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston, the award was vindication.
Universal Healthcare Is a Fraud
Why do you think when you go to a doctor with a weight problem, they put you on pills or staple your stomach? They are not allowed to you that the secret to weight loss is to eat less and exercise more, that's why. There's no money to be made off that simple advice. Why do you think herbal remedies are outlawed and those who attempt to administer them are charged with practicing medicine without a license? Many natural remedies have a long history of being effective, sometimes more effective than prescription medications, but because they are derived from a natural source and can't be patented, big pharma and the AMA will not allow them to exist. by Watching (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 181 comments) on Saturday, February 16, 2008 at 11:35:11 AM .
'Mr. Floyd' Culver, delivered DN, Inky
NOBODY AT the Daily News or Inquirer ever called Floyd Culver anything but "Mr. Floyd." "That's the kind of respect we had for him," said Bob Palmo, district circulation manager for the papers as he talked about a man who had been selling the papers in the streets of the city since 1947. He was still selling them through helpers until a few weeks ago. After all, he was only 100 years old. "He still wanted to be involved," Palmo said. "But about five weeks ago, he called me and said, 'I can't do it anymore.'" Mr. Floyd, who began his working life on a pecan farm in Alabama, served as a cook in the Navy in World War II, and had been a loyal ambassador for the Daily News and Inquirer for six decades, died yesterday. He had turned 100 on Oct. 3. Well into his 90s, Floyd loaded up the sturdy bicycle he bought in 1954 with newspapers, along with his cane, and would ply the streets of Center City and South Philadelphia, delivering hundreds of papers to the customers he loved.
How towns are redesigned as gyms
Stairs for cardio training. Wider footpaths instead of treadmills. To fight obesity, the towns we live in are being redesigned so we exercise without noticing. Our forebears didn't need advice to exercise for 20 minutes a day, five times a week. Physical activity was part of everyday life - walking to work, wringing mangles and promenading in the park on Sundays. .
Govt urged to take up turban ban issue with France
Dubbing the clamping of ban on headgear of Sikhs in France by the French Government as a grave and unjustified attack on the religious freedom of Sikhs, the Shiromani Akali Dal today urged the UPA-led Central Government to take up the case of Sikhs with the French government and ensure that the law banning the wearing of headgear in France should be revoked at the earliest. Meanwhile, the Political Affairs Committee (PAC) of the SAD has authorised the party chief Mr Parkash Singh Badal to take decision on holding talks with partys alliance partner BJP on the issue of forthcoming byelection for Kapurthala and Garhshankar Assembly seats, selection of candidates and for the these elections and for selection of candidates for election of SGPC president and office-bearers. A resolution of the PAC, the meeting of which was held under the chairmanship of Mr Badal here today, said Sikhs all over the world had been hurt by the ban on wearing of turban in France.
Mother Earth Mother Board
Over the course of two months, photographer Alex Tehrani and I hit six countries and four continents trying to get a grip on this longest, fastest, mother of all wires. I took a GPS receiver with me so that I could have at least a general idea of where the hell we were. It gave me the above reading in front of a Chinese temple around the corner from the Shangri-La Hotel in Penang, Malaysia, which was only one of 100 peculiar spots around the globe where I suddenly pulled up short and asked myself, "What the hell am I doing here?" You might well ask yourself the same question before diving into an article as long as this one. The answer is that we all depend heavily on wires, but we hardly ever think about them. Before learning about FLAG, I knew that data packets could get from America to Asia or the Middle East, but I had no idea how.
Court Roundup
The crime was in possessing them, he said in explaining the prosecution of Wixson. Dawson said a couple of other students had been implicated but were underage and not subject to prosecution. Wells said Wixson was suspended from school for a short time but is back attending classes. The plea deal calls for Wixson to be sentenced to no worse than probation. Brunetti also promised him youthful offender treatment, which will remove the felony conviction from his record and seal the case file. CONTINUED 1 | 2 | 3 Next .
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