| For a good part of this evening, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio 10th District) has been live on C-Span reading Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush.
| An 8 gigabyte model is to sell for $199 starting July 11. A 16 gigabyte model will cost $299. They'll come in a black case with a white case optional on one model. The devices are to roll out initially in 22 countries.
According to the American media, the emergence of African-American man and a woman as leading presidential candidates represents a social advance for masses of people-despite the fact that Obama was carefully groomed by wealthy corporate interests, while Hillary Clinton owes her political prominence to her marriage to the former president.
| ...In other words, the non-abortion and non-gay-rights issues have now become the elephant in the room for evangelicals. So what to do?
When a South Coast primary school in the Australian state of New South Wales decided to pull out all the stops to engage Aboriginal students, it discovered something very surprising. It was a different way of knowing, a way that has been missing from the education of indigenous children for decades.
A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007 but for years did not report much of this income to university officials, according to information given congressional investigators.
NSW householders are wasting up to $300million each year through inefficient use of home appliances, an EnergyAustralia study has found. Bad habits such as leaving the fridge door open and neglecting to switch off lights are adding hundreds of dollars to energy bills and pushing greenhouse gas emissions up by 2.5 million tonnes each year.
| Rep. John Lewis D-Ga. was about to enter his Capitol Hill office on Wednesday afternoon when a tourist from Miami rushed up to him. "I was watching Barack last night, and I just kept thinking, 'What would Dr. King think?'" the tourist, Larry Ellery, told Lewis expectantly.
| Campaigners for cheaper import products, including pharmaceuticals and electronic equipment, have suffered a setback in Switzerland's parliament. The House of Representatives voted for a legal amendment aimed at banning so-called parallel imports of goods which benefit from patent protection.
An Indian court has ruled that the national airline Air India can ground overweight cabin crew members, a spokesman for the carrier said today. Two years ago Air India warned its nearly 1600 cabin crew workers to shape up in two months or risk being assigned to ground duties. When the airline grounded staff it deemed overweight, some of them took it to court
Fox News, Dick Cheney's favourite news source, is being sued by an employee for having bed bugs
| It is important to remember that Roe v. Wade did not mean that abortions could be performed. They have always been done, dating from ancient Greek days. What Roe said was that ending a pregnancy could be carried out by medical personnel, in a medically accepted setting, thus conferring on women, finally, the full rights of first-class citizens - and freeing their doctors to treat them as such.
The United Nations world food summit in Rome is unlikely to lead to the radical changes needed to tackle the crisis says a Swiss non-governmental organisation.
The three-day conference, which ends on Thursday, is trying to find short-term solutions to spiralling food prices as well as a more lasting strategy to deal with causes.
Her site - HuffingtonPost.com - has blossomed from a handful of staff to 50 and an audience of nearly 15 million visitors a month. Her Internet newspaper is attracting eyeballs and advertising that might otherwise gravitate to traditional media outlets. The site is also helping to set the media's agenda.
Imagine Vancouver's supervised injection site being situated not in the Downton Eastside, but in Montreal's gritty east end. The Harper Conservatives, so careful not to interfere in Quebec affairs, would stay as far away from the issue as politically possible.
| Steroids are legal in 28 of the 38 U.S. states where horse racing is held, including the 3 states holding Triple Crown races, and their use is prevalent. The Triple Crown with an asterisk? Or should they all have asterisks? In any case, regular steroid use in horse racing is wrong and should be stopped.
The battle over who has control of the thermostat in your house could become even greater.
| A conversation between The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nobel laureate and DNA pioneer James Watson about race and genetics, Jewish intelligence, blacks and basketball and Watson's African roots.
| Last fall, James Watson, the father of DNA, spoke the unspeakable, saying that blacks are intellectually inferior. In a conversation with The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr., Watson clarified his views about race and genetics. Read what he says now - and why Gates regards him as "a racialist."
| American Axle workers began to return to work earlier this week, after the end of a three-month walkout in Michigan and New York. The struggle-one of the longest walkouts in the auto industry in decades-ended in a bitter defeat for the workers.
The locks are off. The Globe Insider subscription program has retired, and much of the content that required paid access has become free to all globeandmail.com visitors. Every Globe columnist, daily horoscopes, crosswords, Sudoku puzzles and a suite of news-tracking tools are now free. Margaret Wente, Christie Blatchford, Jeffrey Simpson and the rest of The Globe's best-known columnists can join the fray and add their talented voices to the freewheeling conversations of the Internet era.
| "I'm in. And I'm in to win." Except she was late. Hillary Clinton launched her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination via the Internet on a January Saturday in 2007, with a statement and a webcast, that found her seated on a sofa in a room that people with enough money call "comfortable." "I'm not just starting a campaign, though," she maintained. "I'm beginning a conversation with you, with America … and while I can't visit everyone's living room, I can try."
| Tobacco manufacturers in Switzerland are going from strength to strength, with exports almost doubling in the past five years. However, the number of Swiss smokers is gradually decreasing as anti-smoking measures gain momentum - Saturday is World No Tobacco Day - and the number of Swiss-made cigarettes sold on the domestic market continues to fall.
| Nearly 200 countries, including Switzerland, have agreed on steps to save animal and plant life from threats including pollution and climate change. At a 12-day conference in Bonn, they also decided on a roadmap for working out by 2010 new rules, with legally binding elements, on access to natural resources and sharing their benefits. While governments and the United Nations hailed the biodiversity meeting as a success, non-governmental organisations were disappointed by the results.
| Merger would help negotiations against multi-nationals, according to press report. This could also be "the first step towards a global union that could take in labour movements from the world's emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia", according to press report. Unite's 2 million members in UK and Ireland are employed by BP and Rolls Royce. USW has "more than one million members in the United States and Canada."
