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...Iowa CASH CRUNCH The American Red Cross announced on June 16 that it has emptied its disaster-relief fund. Six weeks of flooding and tornadoes, combined with fewer donations during a weak economy, have forced it to take out loans to fund shelters, above, and other aid activities...
...McCain campaign sees Obama's resistance to the idea of weekly town halls as a weak spot in his "change we can believe in" armor. Obama's July 4 counterproposal "is a joke," says Steve Schmidt, a senior McCain adviser. "What they are doing is saying one thing and acting in a different...
...grow enough food." That may be so. But food aid is not devoid of controversy. On the one hand, of course, no one wants to see people starve. At the hospital where James Lemukol is superintendent, a mother cradles her 3-year-old son; he's always been too weak to learn to stand. Others arrive so swollen - their bellies distended and extremities bloated from the fluid that leaks out of weakened blood vessels - that medical staff have trouble finding veins for the IV lines needed to fight malaria or other opportunistic infections. But on the other hand, there...
...Best Book of a Musical No good options here. For all four nominees (the same four as above), the book was actually the weak link. I opted for Stew's autobiographical Passing Strange, but only by process of elimination...
...third of U.S. carbon emissions come from cars and trucks - but in an era of ever-increasing gas prices, it would help your wallet as well. Unfortunately, the auto industry has consistently failed to build and sell a truly marketable electric car. They were either too expensive or too weak on the road - or too often both; and back in those halcyon days when our chief climate fear was a new ice age, low gas prices made electric cars unnecessary...