Topic: William Howard

It was a time of "severe global warming," paleobiologist Elisabetta Erba of the University of Milan and her colleagues wrote, after studying the carbon isotopes embedded in deep seabed cores drilled in the Pacific Ocean and locations in the ancient Tethys Ocean ...

Dramatics founder Ron Banks, 58, dies

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Singer Ron Banks, a founding member of R&B; group the Dramatics, died Thursday (March 4) at his Detroit home of a reported heart attack.Originally a vocal sextet known as the Dynamics in the early '60s, the group changed ...

Cops on Steroids

Officer Jimmy (not his real name) knew his steroid use was paying off when, one day, the Ohio policeman needed to wrestle a suspect to the ground--and the guy crumpled like a piece of wet cardboard. Former Suffolk County, New York, officer ...

Profit from the falling dollar

The article offers information on how to gain profit from the falling dollar in the U.S. According to the author, one should invest in foreign cash with currency mutual funds. He added that one should steer clear of savings accounts that ...
Fla. woman claims debt collectors hounded husband to death in unique wrongful death caseA widow claims that debt collectors hounded her husband to death with as many as nine caustic calls per day, causing stress that contributed to his fatal heart attack ...

Climate change blues: how scientists cope

"Science is exciting when you make such findings," said Konrad Steffen, who heads the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) in Boulder, Colorado. What haunts scientists most, many said, is the feeling that -- despite an overwhelming consensus on the science ...
Ocean acidification driven by climate change is stripping away the protective shell of tiny yet vital organisms that absorb huge amounts of carbon pollution from the atmosphere, a new study has revealed.Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, the calcium carapace ...

Prosecutor ends Spitzer probe

Prosecutor Finds No Crime in Flight Scandal; Ends Probe of Gov. SpitzerGov. Eliot Spitzer's administration didn't commit any crimes while compiling state police travel data about Republican Senate leader Joseph Bruno, a district attorney said Thursday.The announcement came after ...
New York Ethics Commission Will Investigate Governor's Aides' Role in Tracking Top RepublicanThe state Ethics Commission will review an investigation into the use of state police by the Democratic governor's top aides to discredit the Republican state Senate leader, according ...