Can religion help solve the world's many conflicts? Britain's former Prime Minister thinks so
When Pennsylvanians go to the polls Tuesday, the issue at the top of their minds will be the economy. The nation's fiscal health trumped the war in Iraq by nearly 2-to-1 as likely voters' main concern, a recent Quinnipiac University poll showed.
Gas prices hit another all-time high of $3.50 a gallon - and that's bad news for businesses that rely on the summer travel season.
In the run up to the Pennsylvania primary this Tuesday, the headlines have focused on issues such as the Democratic candidates' religious piety and empathy for the working class.
SLICES OF LIFE: So I'm walking in midtown yesterday listening to "Lost Along the Way" by moe. on my iPod. And there lo and behold is the Bear Stearns building. It's gray and grim. There's this pervading gloom in the air. Then I hit JP Morgan's headquarters, the old Chase building and folks going in there are walkin' fast, looking down at their shoes. Not a happy time all around. Except. Except, I truck over to Fifth and suddenly, SMILES. Why everyone here one block away is all-aglow. Shopping and having a blast. What gives?
Despite this week's exchanges of fire, both sides have more to gain than to lose from an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire
A massacre at a birthplace of Jewish religious nationalism threatens to further inflame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israeli forces arrested the local head of a Palestinian militant group in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday night, Israel Defense Forces said.
Christ was born in Bethlehem just five miles away from here, and now thousands of years later this historic city has become the birthplace of -- all things -- a new blog the White House hopes will help bring positive attention to President Bush's Mideast tour that begins Wednesday.
British graffiti artist Banksy has launched an art exhibition in Bethlehem that he hopes will focus attention on the poverty of the West Bank and draw tourists to the traditional birthplace of Christianity.
Can religion help solve the world's many conflicts? Britain's former Prime Minister thinks so
When Pennsylvanians go to the polls Tuesday, the issue at the top of their minds will be the economy. The nation's fiscal health trumped the war in Iraq by nearly 2-to-1 as likely voters' main concern, a recent Quinnipiac University poll showed.
Gas prices hit another all-time high of $3.50 a gallon - and that's bad news for businesses that rely on the summer travel season.
In the run up to the Pennsylvania primary this Tuesday, the headlines have focused on issues such as the Democratic candidates' religious piety and empathy for the working class.
SLICES OF LIFE: So I'm walking in midtown yesterday listening to "Lost Along the Way" by moe. on my iPod. And there lo and behold is the Bear Stearns building. It's gray and grim. There's this pervading gloom in the air. Then I hit JP Morgan's headquarters, the old Chase building and folks going in there are walkin' fast, looking down at their shoes. Not a happy time all around. Except. Except, I truck over to Fifth and suddenly, SMILES. Why everyone here one block away is all-aglow. Shopping and having a blast. What gives?
Despite this week's exchanges of fire, both sides have more to gain than to lose from an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire
A massacre at a birthplace of Jewish religious nationalism threatens to further inflame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israeli forces arrested the local head of a Palestinian militant group in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday night, Israel Defense Forces said.
Christ was born in Bethlehem just five miles away from here, and now thousands of years later this historic city has become the birthplace of -- all things -- a new blog the White House hopes will help bring positive attention to President Bush's Mideast tour that begins Wednesday.
British graffiti artist Banksy has launched an art exhibition in Bethlehem that he hopes will focus attention on the poverty of the West Bank and draw tourists to the traditional birthplace of Christianity.
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He is the second best tennis player in the world. Now the Spanish master of the clay courts will try to beat out No. 1, Roger Federer, in the upcoming U.S. Open. Rafael Nadal will now take your questions
At Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where the Eagles drew an astonishing crowd of 17,941 (I kid you not) to their steamy morning workout. That's the second largest throng in the history of Eagles camp, bettered only by the 20,000-strong crowd that showed up a few years back when Terrell Owens was slated to make an appearance in the team's autograph tent. You probably won't be surprised to learn that occurred in T.O.'s first camp with the Eagles, not the train wreck that was the second go-round.
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FAST-FLIPPING INVESTORS aren't the only ones who love condos. For many empty nesters, nothing beats selling the big old house in the suburbs and hightailing it to a luxury development where sun and golf are plentiful and maintenance is minimal. And what better time to go shopping than during a real estate slowdown? It was condos, after all, that rose the fastest—and fell the hardest. There should be deals aplenty, right? As it turns out, it's not that simple. Some markets have already recovered, while others have yet to hit rock bottom—and not every place was as overbuilt as, say, Miami. To get the real picture, we zeroed in on five once-scorching cities and talked to brokers, analysts, buyers, and sellers. Read on for our results, a guide to finding the best retirement real estate bargains today. And get ready to sell the lawn mower.
Inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, Samir Zedan dons a flak jacket and helmet. But Zedan is not your typical high-level U.S. government employee: He is Palestinian.
Six people were wounded Wednesday night in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, the Palestinian Ramattan news agency said.
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Wilbur Ross, as an investor in bankrupt companies, has seen plenty of tough days in his 40-year career, but none like the first week of 2006, when a still unexplained explosion rocked the Sago coal mine in West Virginia, killing 12 miners and critically wounding a 13th. Ross's firm, W.L. Ross & Co., controls 13.7 percent of International Coal Group (ICG), which owns Sago.
Wilbur Ross, as an investor in bankrupt companies, has seen plenty of tough days in his 40-year career, but none like the first week of 2006, when a still unexplained explosion rocked the Sago coal...
Israel suspended security coordination with the Palestinians on Monday, an Israeli official said, following the killings of three Israeli settlers by Palestinians Sunday.
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A home burglar with a fondness for holiday tunes will have to sing them in prison.
If you call the main number of Bethlehem Steel, and cool your mind while the polite, automated female voice on the other end tells you what to do if you know the four-digit extension of the person ...
Small-business owners have often felt like second-class citizens when it comes to their own health insurance. With U.S. premiums up 13.9% last year, a common strategy for entrepreneurs is to buy "c...
Israeli forces entered Bethlehem early Saturday for the second day in a row, arresting three suspects and conducting house-to-house searches before pulling out, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
It may seem ironic, or poetic, or even just fitting that almost four years after the bursting of the new-economy bubble, the oldest of old-economy industries, steel, appears to be positively frothy...
In today's Darwinian business environment, Robert Stevenson and his family-run company, Eastman Machine, seem like living fossils. Sitting at the same roll-top desk in the same office in downtown B...
The issue du jour is being framed as "jobs," which is a shame because that sounds like a movie we've seen before, and it isn't. Yes, American companies are firing U.S. workers in rising numbers whi...
Each weekday morning at eight, Wilbur Ross and his team of analysts gather around the conference table in their midtown Manhattan offices to go over what Ross calls his "shopping list." On that lis...
On Cleveland's gritty East Side, in a beat-up brick building with broken elevators and empty, yellowing floors, the future of Big Steel in America may be taking shape. Until recently this was the h...
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Ever wished you could hand off troublesome health insurance claims to some third party who would simply take care of them for you? Lately, a little-known class of pros has popped up that would be g...
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If you haven't heard, President Clinton's AmeriCorps national service program kicks off Sept. 12. At the start, roughly 20,000 Americans 18 or older will work for any of 250 nonprofit outfits coast...
It took nearly a century for the Dow Jones industrial average to climb to the 1000 mark, another 15 years to get to 2000, but then only four more to hit 3000 in 1991. And if the pattern continues, ...
President Clinton is turning his attention to health care at last. But some companies, tired of waiting for Washington to bring down costs, have taken the stethoscope into their own hands by settin...
By now you've probably heard the incredible shocker: Superman is dead, bumped off by Doomsday, an underground creature in November's Superman No. 75 comic book. There's even worse news, though. If ...
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The news was grim. Early Monday morning, Dec. 3, 1984, a gas used in the manufacture of pesticides leaked from a storage tank at a Union Carbide chemical plant, forming a lethal white cloud over th...
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DIRGES have been sounded so long over the steel industry that its present revival seems little short of miraculous. For five years through 1986, steel companies suffered an endless chronicle of los...
As attentive readers will possibly have noted, your correspondent has been laboring for years to find some practical use for his IBM PC -- some use beyond word processing, that is. His efforts thus...
U.S. Steel opened contract negotiations with the United Steelworkers of America. The USW has already granted concessions to LTV, National Steel Corp., and Bethlehem. U.S. Steel, however, is stronge...
The first quarter gave Big Steel some unwelcome leverage in its labor negotiations. Bethlehem Steel reported a loss of $91.8 million, its 15th deficit in the past 17 quarters. U.S. Steel actually t...
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