GM's Lutz declares victory, says he'll retire Star Tribune GM's Lutz declares victory, says he'll retire | Bob Lutz, the longtime auto industry executive who led nearly a complete overhaul of General Motors' lineup, will retire May 1. "My work is done here," Lutz, 78, wrote in an e-mail from the Geneva Motor Show. "The whole organization, top...
Gadhafi Calls for Jihad Against Switzerland Wall Street Journal A Wall Street Journal Roundup | Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi called on Thursday for a "jihad" or armed struggle against Switzerland, which he called an infidel state that was destroying mosques. | "Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against [the Prophe...
Greece Plan Buoys European Markets Wall Street Journal By ANDREA TRYPHONIDES And SARAH TURNER | European stocks rose Wednesday, boosted by a fresh set of austerity measures from Greece and better-than-expected U.S. private sector employment data. The euro gained against the dollar while oil and gold pric...
As China's stock rises, Asia contemplates declining U.S. power Canada Dot Com | It was not an auspicious welcome for the two senior American officials who arrived in Beijing on Tuesday charged with trying to patch up their country's strained relations with China. | Local media are playing up a new book by a lecturer at ...
Chinese-Canadian war vets tell their stories Canada Dot Com | When the Second World War broke out in 1939 more than 600 Canadian Chinese men volunteered to fight for a country that wouldn't recognize them as citizens though they were born here. | On Tuesday a small remnant of the soldiers, sailors...
Automakers show off hybrids at Geneva Auto Show Syracuse | (AP) - GENEVA - Hybrid or hype? | More and more automakers rolled out their newest hybrids, or announced plans to do so, at the Geneva Auto Show on Tuesday, begging the question: Is the future now, or is this just attention-grabbing while the real ...
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Incremental Steps in Iraq To Let Kurdistan Oil Flow The New York Times | ERBIL, Iraq - The semiautonomous region of Kurdistan is the one place in battered Iraq that promised economic boom times, but some of the foreign oil companies that rushed in ove...
AP News in Brief Syracuse | (AP) - Debate at World Economic Forum focuses on tackling climate change without breaking the bank | DAVOS, Switzerland - Fighting global warming and protecting the environment d...
Davos leaders, CEOs debate climate change moves The State | DAVOS, Switzerland -- Fighting global warming and protecting the environment dominated the discussions Friday at the World Economic Forum, a month after U.N. climate change talks...
Polite or panicky may depend on time to react The Boston Globe | WASHINGTON-When the ship is sinking is it really women and children first, or every man for himself? The answer, it seems, may depend on how fast it's going down. | Comparing who survived two of history's most famous sinkings -- the Titanic and the...
Time to react to disaster may mean difference between saving self or others Star Tribune | WASHINGTON - When the ship is sinking is it really women and children first, or every man for himself? The answer, it seems, may depend on how fast it's going down. | Comparing who survived two of history's most famous sinkings — the Titanic ...
Polite or panicky may depend on time to react Wtop By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | AP Science Writer | WASHINGTON (AP) - When the ship is sinking is it really women and children first, or every man for himself? The answer, it seems, may depend on how fast it's going down. | Comparing who survived two of hist...
Kevin Rudd and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's plan to stop people smuggling The Daily Telegraph Australia | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will formalise an agreement to combat people smuggling today. | Dr Yudhoyono will make history as the first Indonesian head of state to address a joint sitting of the Australian parliament. | He will also use his visit to Canberra to formalise an arrangement to prevent pe...
Obama Plans Florida Forum to Discuss NASA's Future The New York Times | President Obama will spell out his vision for the future of American astronauts in space at a conference that the administration is planning for Florida next month. | That pleases Florida lawmakers, who have criticized the administration’s desire to eliminate NASA’s program to send astronauts back to the Moon. | “The president&r...
