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...Bob Horton has survived the arrival of Home Depot and more economic downturns than he can remember. Yet this winter may be the last for his 40-year-old plumbing and heating supply shop in Osceola, Iowa, just south of Des Moines. The heating bill at his business soared to $602 last month, up from $250 a year earlier. He can't raise prices without losing customers, and he has tried everything to save energy, from installing insulation to heating with a high-efficiency furnace. "It's going to break us," he says of his fuel bills...
That electronic exchange, a record of which was reviewed by TIME, is among the evidence that Republican Congressman Bob Ney of Ohio accepted favors from Abramoff and Scanlon as part of an alleged quid pro quo--a charge to which the business partners each recently confessed in larger plea deals. While the plea agreements spell out various gifts, campaign donations and junkets that Abramoff and Scanlon say they provided to Ney in return for "official acts," the e-mails present in one place the specific elements of a swap that Abramoff has told investigators was prearranged and explicitly reciprocal, according...
...genre are now well-defined: endearing stories and characters, lifelike digital effects, and humor just edgy enough to please parents and teens without corrupting the kids. So with the public so hungry for wholesome digital fun, it’s no surprise that formidable Hollywood execs Harvey and Bob Weinstein would try to capitalize on the trend. But their offering, “Hoodwinked,” falls far short of its predecessors, and though it makes a run at all three of the necessary elements, it ends up getting none right. “Hoodwinked...
...pizza box left in an electrical oven in Currier House caught fire late Saturday night, filling an entire floor with smoke and forcing the evacuation of at least 30 students from their rooms for more than half an hour. According to Cambridge Fire Department Captain Bob Blake, firefighters responded to a fire alarm on the fourth floor of Gilbert Tower in Currier House at 12:57 a.m. early yesterday, set off when a pizza box that a student had left in an oven caught fire. The fire was largely contained by the oven, and Blake said the alarm had been...
...1960s family pop group the Cowsills, who inspired TV's The Partridge Family, who disappeared in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and was found on Dec. 28 on the Chartres Street wharf in New Orleans. With their good looks and bouncy harmonies, the Cowsills?including Barry's brothers Bill, Bob, John and Paul, sister Susan and mother Barbara?charted eight pop singles from 1967 to '69, with their biggest hits, Hair and The Rain, the Park and Other Things, both reaching...