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WHAT'S THE IMPACT ON THE ECONOMY? High energy costs will shave up to half a point off GDP growth in 2006, predicts Stephen Brown, an economist with the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank--"a drag on the economy," he says, but not enough of one to tip us into recession...
That's probably because much of the $32 million that the Coushattas paid Abramoff and Scanlon over two years went not toward increasing the tribe's influence but toward lining the two partners pockets. Nearly $11.5 million in secret kickbacks was funneled by Scanlon back to Abramoff, according to court...
Bribery has always been a difficult thing to prove, absent a videotape of a crook stuffing the pockets of a politician with cash. But so large are the amounts involved?and so voluminous the evidence from a man who committed nearly every thought to e-mail?that prosecutors in the...
Randall claims that these dimensions could be infinitely large provided that space has a warped geometry. In effect, we could be living in a three-dimensional pocket of higher dimensional space. Randall refers to these pockets in space as branes. Like a bead on a wire that can only move...
Because winter snows and heavy rains make many of Kashmir's roads impassable, the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) reckons that helicopters are the only means of bringing food to 400,000 quake victims stranded in remote mountain villages. While nearly a dozen governments, led by the U.S. and...