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...good thing MARTHA STEWART knows how to fill the hours with domestic projects. The lifestyle mogul has agreed to extend her court-imposed home confinement three weeks, until Aug. 31, after reports that she violated the terms of her house arrest. Stewart may have irked authorities by unrolling her mat at a nearby hatha yoga class and tooling around her suburban New York estate on a Kawasaki Mule four-wheel-drive vehicle. Imprisoned for lying about a stock trade, Stewart will still be freed in time for the fall debuts of her new TV programs, the syndicated daily talk show...
...happy to have won but I didn’t have any energy to celebrate,” Ogunwole wrote. “I just sat down at the edge of the mat, which I have never done in my life...
Going to the mat with the best young competition in the world was a challenge for Ogunwole, who just missed All-American status at the 2005 NCAAs. But the wrestler said he has his sights set on next season—when he’ll have to adjust back to more endurance-focused American wrestling—rather than the highest ranks of the international circuit...
...every corporation's nightmare: a throng of rowdy activists gathers outside company buildings to demonstrate against alleged environmental and human-rights abuses. That was the scene in New York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices of JPMorgan Chase to protest what they claimed was the bank's underwriting of illegal logging in Indonesia and human-rights abuses tied to a Chase-funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank...
...Amro all say green issues are increasingly important when they consider funding global projects. "[In the future], the Equator Principles will be seen as a catalyst for how banks conduct themselves in other areas of their business," says ABN Amro's Burrett. If that happens, activists in haz-mat suits will have to find another target...