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...Since earlier this year, Cox has also come under fire for not acting more quickly to curb short sellers - investors who borrow shares and make money when a stock's price drops. After certain financial stocks started diving over the summer, and market players and attorneys began ringing alarm bells about rumor-mongering, the SEC temporarily banned a particularly aggressive form of short selling in 19 financial stocks. A new ban, which prohibits all types of short selling for some 800 financial stocks, went into effect on Sept. 19 and lasts until...
...Washington Drill, Baby, Drill The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow offshore drilling as close as 50 miles (80 km) from land but would curb tax benefits for oil companies and mandate greater use of renewable energy. Democrats, who for more than two decades have opposed coastal drilling, lauded the effort as a logical compromise, but Republicans dismissed it as a political gimmick unlikely to pass the Senate before the upcoming recess...
...polls show the selection of Sarah Palin and a post--St. Paul bounce gave John McCain a turbocharge (and squelched any positive thrust the Democrats might have had after Denver). Barack Obama seems thrown off by his change in fortune, and Democrats have not been able so far to curb the Republicans' forward motion. Thanks to deft handling of Hurricane Gustav, finessing of the popular-with-the-base/unpopular-with-the-nation President Bush, the crossover appeal of Palin, ample media-bashing and a convention punctuated by chants of "U.S.A.!" and "Drill, baby, drill," Republicans have united around McCain--challenging Democrats with...
...abuse on his computer. "I have served my time. I want to put it all behind me and live my life," Gadd told reporters after completing that sentence. But in 2002, after a move to Cambodia, authorities there permanently expelled Gadd from the country as a "preventative measure" to curb childhood sex abuse. In 2005 police in the southern Vietnamese coastal city of Vung Tau charged Gadd with raping two minors, punishable by death by firing squad. Gadd denied these charges, but did confess to showering with at least one girl and sharing his bed with her because...
...infections in 2006. "These data confirmed that we need to intensify our programs for men who have sex with men, and we need to plan strategically on how to move forward," says Kevin Fenton, director of HIV and sexually transmitted disease prevention at the CDC. Programs to curb unsafe sex have to be more widely cast, Fenton says - for example, targeting the prevention message to patrons of gay bars isn't enough, since closeted men don't show up there. To reach the highest-risk groups, suggests Johns Hopkins' Beyrer, perhaps a more modern approach is needed, such as reaching...