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...entice JP Morgan Chase to take over struggling Bear Stearns, and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, who just over a week ago committed up to $200 billion in taxpayer funds to rescue mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have opted not to go the bailout route this time. The Fed did announce yet another expansion of its lending programs to banks and investment banks, but so far that's it. The hope seems to be that if Lehman's (and perhaps AIG's) liquidation transpires in an orderly enough fashion, a great load of fear and uncertainty will be lifted...
...remaining in regulation. In overtime, Harvard survived several scares before eventually succumbing to the Minutewomen’s attack. With 1:43 left in the second overtime, UMass gained possession and launched a counterattack in which Parker and sophomore forward Katie Kelly led a two-on-one breakaway. Kelly fed the ball ahead to Parker who slipped a shot past Stone for the game-winner. “The team played a very complete game today,” Caples said. “If we play like this, we’ll end up victorious more often than...
...just consumers in the U.S. who are getting fed up with greenwashing. The Advertising Standards Authority in Britain received 561 complaints about potentially false green ads last year, up from 117 the year before. Norway has banned all car ads from using the terms green, environmentally friendly and clean on the grounds that all cars contribute to global warming...
...than just warm the world; it will also raise pressure on land resources. The FAO estimates that about 20% of the planet's pastureland has been degraded by grazing animals, and increased demand for meat means increased demand for animal feed - much of the world's grain production is fed to animals rather than to humans. (The global spike in grain prices over the past year is in large part due to the impact on grain supplies of the growing demand for meat.) The expanded production of meat has been facilitated by industrial feedlots, which bleed antibiotics and other noxious...
...volunteering since before the Starbucks took up residence in the upscale Fairfax, Va., strip mall, not 10 miles from Washington. They spent the morning retracing familiar paths, calling on homes they most likely have visited before and, as always, completing SAT-style fill-in-the-bubble spreadsheets that are fed to the GOP's massive voter files...