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...explosion at a refinery in Texas City that killed 15 people and injured more than 170. BP agreed to pay a $21.4 million fine in a partial settlement with Federal regulators. And in April, the U.S. Labor Department fined BP $2.4 million for safety violations at another refinery in Ohio; in a sharp rebuke, a U.S. Labor Department official stated that BP had ?failed to learn from the lessons of Texas City.? BP is contesting that fine, but in the wake of the the Texas City refinery explosion, it is cooperating with U.S. authorities investigating the incident, has appointed...
ELECTED. Katharine Jefferts Schori, 52, theologically liberal Episcopal bishop of Nevada; as Presiding Bishop of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church of the U.S.A., becoming the first woman to lead a province of the global Anglican Communion; in Columbus, Ohio. Citing her support of the 2003 consecration of openly gay New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson, conservatives predicted she would further alienate the U.S. church--which 30 years ago made history by ordaining women--from Anglicanism's more traditional branches...
...American soil. As for native suspects, Seas of David--a partly Christian, Muslim, martial-arts, Bible-study group that wore black outfits with a Star of David on the sleeve and met in a pastel orange clubhouse--should defy any attempt at logic. But in cases from Toledo, Ohio, to Lodi, Calif., we do have a rough sketch of which Americans are getting nabbed. Mostly, they're young, lower-middle-class Muslims, Americans who flirt at some level with radicalism. They get caught when they try to get training, weapons or, as was apparently the case in Florida, when they...
...classroom can invigorate discussions. There are also natural synergies, as with a medical or nursing college and a university-linked assisted-living residence. "Every unit of the university has something it can gain from this," says Bonnie Kantor, director of the Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology at Ohio State...
...Service. "What if you've sponsored an assisted-living community and find out that residents have been mistreated?" The damage to the university's reputation could be crushing. There are financial risks too. Not all schools command the loyalty or have the brand name of a UCLA or an Ohio State. Small-college retirement developments might fizzle...