Exxon-Xto Deal Forces Congress to Reconsider Natural Gas The New York Times | With a $31 billion swipe of its virtual debit card, Exxon Mobil Corp. has started changing decades-old conventional wisdom in Congress that accessing the ocean of natural gas trapped under U.S. soil is merely a pipe dream. | Natural gas is the cleanest of the fossil fuels, and electric utilities t...
Miss. settles Zyprexa suit for more than $18M Seattle Times JACKSON, Miss. - | Mississippi will receive $18.5 million from drug maker Eli Lilly and Co. as part of a settlement over claims the company promoted the anti-psychotic Zyprexa for ailments it was not federally approved to treat, Attorney General Jim ...
Wal-Mart laying off 300 workers at Arkansas HQ Seattle Times LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - | Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Wednesday that a cut of 300 headquarters workers completes a yearlong series of changes to its corporate structure that including laying off thousands of workers. | Wal-Mart President and CEO Mike Duke ...
Survey shows jump in Midwest economic recovery Seattle Times OMAHA, Neb. - | Business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states are starting to believe that the region's economy is picking up steam, according to results of a January survey released Monday. | The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America re...
Exxon-Xto Deal Forces Congress to Reconsider Natural Gas The New York Times | With a $31 billion swipe of its virtual debit card, Exxon Mobil Corp. has started changing decades-old conventional wisdom in Congress that accessing the ocean of natural gas trapped under U.S. soil is merely a pipe dream. | Natural gas is the clea...
Computer simulations to shed new light on origins of liquids found on Titan Newstrack India | Washington, January 23 (ANI): A scientist from the University of Arkansas, US, has received funding from NASA to simulate conditions found on Saturn's moon Titan to help better understand the origins of the liquids found on its surface and in its a...
Senators Want to Bar E.P.A. Greenhouse Gas Limits The New York Times | WASHINGTON - In a direct challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's authority, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, introduced a resolution on Thursday to prevent the agency from taking any action to regulate carbon dioxide and oth...
Let's sell cookies to save the state The Oklahoman | OK, folks. This is serious. We've got to come up with something. | The state budget is like the droopy balloon your kid got from the circus three days ago. And it looks like things will only get droopier. | Experts guess we'll be about $730 million...
Hair-care magnate wants to be 'Mr. Governor' Houston Chronicle | SAN ANTONIO - Farouk Shami likes to start his day meditating in a pool. | "Then I look in the mirror and say: 'Good morning, Mr. Governor,'" the man who aspires to be Texas governor says. "If you can think about it, it will happen. We can do it." | Shami, 67, a Palestinian born just outside Jerusalem, made a fortune selling hair-care products, in...
New book sheds some light on Clintons' scandals Philadelphia Daily News | By Chris Mondics | Inquirer Staff Writer A searing draft indictment of then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was prepared by federal prosecutors alleging that she lied about her legal work in a corrupt Arkansas land deal, a new book asserts. | Nearly 30 years after some of the events, the book details that prosecutors dropped the case because th...
