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...debts in the commercial or retail arms of the groups. Owing in part to its purchase last fall of Lehman Brothers' U.S. operations, profits at Barclays Capital doubled in the first half of the year, to $1.7 billion. The group's charges for bad debt, meanwhile, leaped by a similar rate, to some $7.7 billion. Vital to the bank in coming years: reducing its reliance on highly cyclical investment banking by boosting the share of income from commercial and retail operations. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...cash-for-clunkers program, in which consumers receive a subsidy of up to $4,500 when they trade in their older, less efficient cars for new models. The House of Representatives has already moved to keep the program going by expanding its funding, and the Senate is considering a similar measure this week. But while the initiative has proved highly popular with consumers, critics are raising concerns about the economic and environmental hazards inherent in the process of ruining so many cars beyond repair...
...linked to significantly higher blood pressure in children - the more TV kids watched, the higher their blood pressure - and the effect held true regardless of whether a child was heavy or at a healthy weight. What's more, other sedentary behaviors, like using a computer, were not associated with similar blood-pressure hikes, according to the study, which was published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. (See the 100 best TV shows of all time...
...refused to return voluntarily to Mass. to face criminal charges which include first degree murder, accessory after the fact of murder, carrying a gun without a license, and armed robbery. Jiggetts already faced a similar extradition hearing last month, which was also adjourned...
...would represent: a continuation of Bush-era policies that allow some detainees to be held indefinitely, without charge. Such policies "are the reason Guantánamo became an international symbol of injustice," says Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project. "If you [open] a similar facility in the U.S., that doesn't solve any of the problems that closing Guantánamo was meant to solve." (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...