11:39 a.m. - 2009-10-09
Shocks will continue for a long time holding still holding cash at hand is a pseudo-problem
Intense game between the two forces, if see through to the lever, to the bubble process has already begun, will not be able to understand the current volatile trading; if inflation continues to fail to recognize the probability of future major events, loss of market trends will be judged.
United States began to show that theAir Max Solas wishes of the deleveraging dollar volatility, the U.S. stock market ended a unilateral increase of the stock market. This is the dollar some support, if only to see this, then we can not understand the phenomenon. According to the U.S. Bureau of Monetary data from March 31 this year, the U.S. banking system, credit derivatives issued in the name value of 14.6 trillion U.S. dollars, although the decline in the previous year, but higher than three years ago, that is, in 2006, 5.5 the level of one trillion U.S. dollars, nearly twice as much.
September 24, Singapore-based hedge fund data services company Eurekahedge report said that economic recovery is expected to benefit from the stock market innovative high, the scale of global hedge fund assets surge in August of about 21.4 billion U.S. dollars, and get the last 10 years The maximum monthly rate of return. According to Eurekahedge report showed that the overall size of the hedge fund industry has been 4 months in a row expansion trend, the cumulative increase of about 100 billion U.S. dollars.这是自2007年底以来最长的连涨周期。 The report said, the industry recorded a net inflow in August totaled 12.6 billion U.S. dollars; the same time, fund performance growth 8.8 billion in profits, which makes the total size of global hedge fund assets expanded to 1.38 trillion U.S. dollars. Can be seen that the first half of the virtual economy with monetary policy and stock market rise was a breathing space, a comeback. This proves once again triggered the global financial crisis, the virtual economy, highly leveraged operations, etc., behind the real culprit is the junk currency.
TheNike jordan melo 1.5 U.S. domestic financial derivatives the same reaction to this. September 25, the U.S. Treasury Department, Comptroller of the Currency under the agency (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) released the report, as of the end of the second quarter, there were 1110 commercial banks reported derivatives of its ongoing or hold derivative products, compared with same period last year 47. Among them, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs Group, Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo top five bank transactions or total amount of derivatives held by all commercial banks in the proportion of 97%. The report shows that the total income of 5.2 billion dollars lower than the first quarter of 98 billion U.S. dollars, but still is a self-Comptroller of the Currency in 1996 began compiling this data since the sixth high-level, first quarter revenues were a record number of a new high. Although the United States in the second quarter of the "net current credit exposure" (Net Current Credit Exposure) fell 140 billion U.S. dollars to 555 billion U.S. dollars, or 20%, but the Comptroller of the Currency Department is responsible for credit and market risk Affairs Deputy Director凯瑟琳迪克(Kathryn Dick) claimed that "No matter what kind of standards in accordance with, the credit risk exposure is still maintained at a very high level."
The same is true take a look at China, the author's analysis, China's monetary policy can not be divorced from the world's major central banks, especially the U.S. central bank to act independently because of export-oriented model so that China does not have an independent currency system. China's stock market maverick on the surface, in the first half to lead the global market upwards, and is now leading decliners in the global market, but they are leather, as it is difficult to imagine that the world's major central banks monetary policy coherence, the Chinese stock market can be out in the first half of the stock market , and now the same. China's stock market is not independent, and only a half earlier than in other markets beat.
September 25, Chinese President Hu Jintao delivered a speech at the G20 meeting, said that "we must resolutely to stimulate economic growth, while incentives should be the possible negative impacts, particularly the potential inflation risks remain vigilant." Therefore, the current market, there are two dimensions, first, to sustain economic growth, and second, the potential inflation vigilance, in the first half of this year to stimulate growth blindly period has passed.
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In the real economy, there is a concern of the news is that domestic steel prices dropping seven weeks, the domestic steel supply of resources will grow faster than the new growth in demand is the main reason for this round of test a low steel prices. Some people continue to blow big bubbles of coal, it is difficult to imagine that the prices of downstream industries such as steel fell, let the upstream coal prices continue to rise. Something very difficult to go against market principles long, non-ferrous metals is a precedent.
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2:46 p.m. - 2009-10-08
MMA Twitter Mailbag: Will CBS Market Fedor Emelianenko to NFL Fans?
MMA Twitter universe had plenty to say about Dream 11 on Tuesday morning, with a great lightweight fight betewen Shinya Aoki and Joachim Hansen, and a not-so-great series of mismatches and freak shows in other fights.

But before we get to that in our MMA Twitter mailbag, we'll Charles Barkley look at how CBS is promoting Fedor Emelianenko. Your questions and my answers for our MMA Twitter mailbag are below.

MMAConvert: See any Fedor commercials during CBS NFL games this past weekend?
No. There are still four more Sundays between now and Fedor's November 7 fight with Brett Rogers on CBS, so maybe we'll see plenty of commercials promoting Fedor during CBS NFL games, but as of right now, I think CBS is missing some opportunities to hype the fight.

Hard-core fans universally consider Fedor the best heavyweight in MMA, and many consider him the best fighter ever to fight in any weight class. But hard-core MMA fans are still a relativelynike jordan 1 small audience, and for this fight to get a good rating, CBS will need to appeal to casual MMA fans and people who have never watched MMA at all.

I think CBS needs to air plenty of commercials explaining to fans who Fedor is, and what makes him such a compelling figure. There's no better audience for those commercials thanNFL fans, but so far, those fans haven't heard a word about Fedor. I'd like to see that change soon.

MMA_Jaime: It was accidental, and I don't think he kicked him. Aoki milked that for all it was worth. VERY good win by Aoki though.
The Aoki-Hansen fight was halted during the first round when Hansen landed two upkicks, first to Aoki's groin and then to Aoki's head. I watched it several times and I don't think there's any question that Hansen landed an illegal kick Air Jordan 6to the groin, and I'm surprised that the announcers on HDNet and many fans I heard from thought Aoki was faking being hurt. I guess we'll just have to disagree on that.

But we agree that it was a very good win by Aoki: With just seconds left in the fight, he got Hansen to tap with an arm bar. He solidified his status as the best lightweight outside the UFC, and I'm looking forward to his next fight, which will most likely come against Tatsuya Kawijiri on New Year's Eve.

brent_rogers: Who is Hong Man Choi?
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10:47 a.m. - 2009-10-06
Tumor, Not Vaccine, Likely Killed Girl
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Her mother and stepfather say that Natalie was "kind, fun-loving and had a beautiful smile. We will miss her very much."
Britain's National William Anthony Parker4Health Service began offering the Cervarix vaccine to teenage

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5:36 p.m. - 2009-09-28
Hitler's skull of DNA
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and the skull to Moscow. In 2000, theNike Air Force 1 Mid Russian national archives to the first public exhibition of

"Hitler peppered with bullets skull". However, scientists in the United States in the analysis of the skull pieces of DNA that surprising conclusion: the so-called "Hitler's

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An autopsy that belongs to Hitler's skull

At the end of world war two decades, about Hitler's body, the last burial history biography of almost all are that: 1945 April 30, almost scored Berlin allied with Hitler,

mistress Eva Braun suicide in a bunker, then will the bodies of two people burned out, and debris buried in a shallow grave within the bunker. Later, the Soviet red army in

Berlin, scored in the garden outside a bunker part residual bodies, dig out the secret autopsy and immediately. Time has been part of the skull, when Hitler's suicide might be

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Russia's national archives, 1946, because that Hitler are still alive, the Soviet union and launched a second about Hitler's death. They found that the search result, Hitler

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American experts question bravely

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Results: the so-called "amazing" Hitler skull of DNA actually belongs to a dissatisfied 40 of young women. Now, she's identity is unclear.

It is the history channel, in the latest documentary history background of Hitler, fully disclose this latest discoveries. So far, only the physical evidence proved Hitler

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In addition, people are starting to ask, if this is a collection of more than half a century of Hitler's skull, is not the mistress Eva? Because Hitler, Eva suicide, 33, and

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BeiLun Tony said, not love her skull. Because theNike air jordan 18 shoes historical records, Eva not die with

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11:46 a.m. - 2009-09-24
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3:10 p.m. - 2009-09-23
Silicon Valley reinvents the lowly brick
By David Lawsky

NEWARK, California (Reuters) - Forget microchips.

Silicon Valley sees a profitable future in the humble brick thanks to a low-energy production process that illustrates the greening of the U.S. technology capital.

Brick maker Calstar Products is heavy on PhDs and backed by venture capitalists whose vision is to create buildings less expensively and in a way that saves energy.

"We think it Nike Air Structure Triax 91is time for a second industrial revolution," said Paul Holland, a partner at Foundation Capital, which invested $7 million in Calstar. EnerTech Capital led another round that raised $8 million for the business.

"We and dozens of others are trying to create green alternatives for all the things that happen in the building industry," Holland said.

Currently about 40 percent of U.S. energy use goes toward the heating, cooling and general operation of buildings.

Silicon Valley is finding high-tech ways to make age-old materials, pursuing carbon dioxide-eating concrete, windows that insulate better than walls, and wood substitutes.

The field is still new. Venture investments in green buildings have waxed and waned with the Nike jordanrecession, but involved 45 deals worth about $350 million the past year, according to Cleantech Group LLC.

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The process of making the bricks, which look and feel like any other brick, requires 80 to 90 percent less energy and emits 85 percent less greenhouse gas than ordinary bricks, according to Calstar.

Lower energy costs mean higher profit, allowing the company to pay for its research and compete against large companies that have economies of scale. The new bricks -- which the Brick Industry Association says are not actually bricks -- will sell for the same price as traditional clay-based ones. The Brick Industry Association says there is also no proof that products using fly ash will last as well as traditional brick.
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11:04 a.m. - 2009-09-15
Senate negotiators narrow health care differences
WASHINGTON — Senate health care negotiators said Monday they've narrowed their differences on a host of difficult issues with just a day or so left to seal an elusive bipartisan deal that could change the course of the contentious debate.

After months of closed-door negotiations, Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said, "We're getting very close." But it remained unclear if theWildwood Free Trail 90 Montana Democrat could strike a bargain that would mark a turning point for President Barack Obama's top domestic priority.

The negotiators pared the cost of their 10-year coverage plan to under $880 billion, and also reported progress on several issues, including health insurance for the poor, restrictions on federal funding for abortions, a verification system to prevent illegal immigrants from getting benefits, and ways to encourage alternatives to malpractice lawsuits.

With or without Republican support, Baucus said he'll have a formal proposal on Wednesday to meet a deadline for moving ahead.

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His small group of three Democrats and three Republicans has been doggedly laboring in hopes of finding a bipartisan path toward guaranteeing coverage for all and trying to control the rise in health care spending.

The three Republicans — Mike Enzi of Wyoming, Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Olympia Snowe of Maine — are under intense pressure from leaders of their own party, some of whom have publicly dismissed Baucus' framework as a Democrat's plan. Baucus may not be able to get any of them to agree. But all three have invested much time and energy in the talks, and Baucus seems to have a chance of persuading at least Snowe.

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said the negotiators are close on a verification system to prevent illegal immigrants from getting government subsidies to buy health coverage — a big issue for Republicans.

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On abortion, the negotiators are trying to come up with language that would extend current restrictions that prohibit federal funding for the procedure, except in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.

Baucus' plan would require all Americans to get health insurance, either through an employer, a government program, or on their own. New consumer protections would prohibit onerous insurance companies practices, such as denying coverage because of a prior health problem, or charging more to those who are sick.

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"I am very optimistic thatJordan 3 shoes we are going to be able to pass a bill that will get us to 60 votes," said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., a Finance member. "I didn't feel it a week-and-a-half ago, but I'm very optimistic now." Obama's speech last week "hit it head on," said Nelson, adding that the administration has also been responsive to his concerns about cutting private insurance plans operating through Medicare.

But Baucus has work to do to secure the support of other Democrats on his committee, as several made clear when they left a meeting with the chairman late Monday. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said he was concerned that not enough financial help was being provided to help low-income people buy coverage. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said he thought some of the fees Baucus intends to level on sectors of the medical industry were excessive, though he declined to say which ones.

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House Democratic leaders have organized a series of caucus-wide meetings this week and next to focus on specific pieces of the bill. Meetings are being held this week on a possible new government-run insurance plan, needs of seniors and small businesses, and next week on containing costs. The aim is to address concerns raised by lawmakers and their constituents, and get input on final bill language.

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11:56 a.m. - 2009-09-11
What You Must Know About Rose Planting
What You Must Know About Rose Planting

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8:41 a.m. - 2009-09-10
One H1N1 Shot or Two? No Decision Yet From U.S. Health Officials
One H1N1 Shot or Two? No Decision Yet From U.S. Health Officials

Both China and the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis have approved a vaccine they say prevents the new flu in a single dose.

The World Health Organization said it is suryaencouraged after reviewing the test details from the vaccine by Beijing-based drug maker Sinovac Biotech Ltd.; the WHO would not comment on Novartis' vaccine since it had not yet seen the data. It said a number of companies were working on one-dose formulations that could theoretically increase the world's swine flu vaccine supplies.

But the U.S. was taking a wait-and-see position.

“There’s not much we can say at this point,” said Patricia El-Hinnaway, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We’re waiting for data to come in from the clinical trials.”

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It is still unclear what this may mean for the global vaccine supply. Not every drugmaker could simply copy Novartis' vaccine recipe: Novartis' vaccine was made using cell culture, while about 90 percent of the world's flu vaccines are made using chicken eggs.

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11:46 a.m. - 2009-09-07
The Rise of the Female Anchor
ONE female network TV anchor is a breakthrough. Two become a catfight
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Patience is not normally a virtue in the news business, but Ms. Sawyer made it her ally, letting time smooth bumps in her résumé that at one time seemed insurmountable. She moved directly from working with former President Richard Nixon on his memoirs to CBS News back when the line between journalism and government was virtually inviolate — until, that is, Tim Russert and George Stephanopoulos came along and changed the rules. Early on, her golden allure and teen beauty queen status were almost suspect — she was accused of being too fetching to be a “serious” journalist. Time has not altered her appearance — at 63 she is almost absurdly good looking — but mores have loosened. In 2003, Meredith Vieira did a stint in the Broadway show “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” When Ms. Couric sat in for Jay Leno in 2003, workers cut through her desk to expose her gams.

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Ms. Sawyer is not likely to have difficulty adopting a more neutral, impassive persona for the new job. She is at her best, and most natural, when avoiding human emotion. Her worst on-camera moments have been those awkward, almost mawkish pantomimes of empathy or outrage — her 2000 “Good Morning America” interview with the 6-year-old Cuban refugee Elián González, during which she crayoned with the boy and stood on her head, or the way she scolded the Bush-bashing Dixie Chicks in 2003 for what some saw as a lack of patriotism. She’s better, or more believable, in hard news interviews and trips to North Korea.

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3:49 p.m. - 2009-09-02
After 76 years, last call draws near for bartender
PITTSBURGH (Reuters Life!) - Pittsburgh bartender Angelo Cammarata served his first beer a few minutes after Prohibition was lifted in 1933. Soon he will serve his last.

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3:21 p.m. - 2009-09-02
People of Walmart: Site Mocks Worst-Dressed Customers
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People of Walmart, a website that launched earlier this month, catalogs the gloriously absurd attire that is sported by the big-box retailer's customer base.

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11:48 a.m. - 2009-09-01
Sex offenders move to Antioch area 'because they can'
Reporting from Antioch, Calif. - Dawn Cordy always knew her neighborhood was an easy place to hide -- a semirural San Francisco suburb where housing is cheap, sheriff's cruisers rarely appear, residents don't snoop and registered sex offenders have found a refuge.

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Garrido's and Cordy's 94509 ZIP Code is home to more than 100 registered sex offenders, according to the Megan's Law website, and officials say the region has a higher concentration of offenders than other areas.

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The main focus was the house next to Garrido's, where Damon Robinson, a 38-year-old driving instructor, now lives. Garrido cared for the property before Robinson moved in and lived for a time in a wooden shed behind it, according to sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee.

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Terry, who heads the Sheriff's Department's investigative division, said Contra Costa County has about 1,700 registered sex offenders. His station is responsible for about 350, "349 more than the number of detectives I have dedicated to monitoring these people."

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Betty Unpingo, a mother of 10, always knew her neighborhood was "an easy area to get lost in for a while." But until her family threw a backyard party two years ago, Unpingo didn't know exactly who was taking advantage of that anonymity.

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10:12 a.m. - 2009-08-31
Banks on Sick List Top 400
The banking industry continues to deteriorate, with federal regulators adding 111 lenders to their list of endangered banks in the latest quarter, even as the economy shows signs of stabilizing.

Data released Thursday painted a gloomy picture of the state of banking.

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it had 416 banks on its "problem list" at the end of June, equivalent to about 5% of the nation's banks, up from 305 at the end of March and 117 at the end of June 2008. Problem banks had a combined $299.8 billion of assets at the end of June, compared with $78.3 billion a year ago.

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The FDIC data provided at least one ray of hope. The percentage of delinquent loans -- that is, borrowers who are 30 to 89 days past due -- declined modestly in the second quarter. That suggests loan defaults might be nearing their peak.

The swelling of the problem list could be a harbinger of further industry consolidation, analysts said. Large, healthy banks, several of which have paid back their government-rescue funds, are "chomping at the bit" to buy failed lenders from the FDIC, and Thursday's report is likely to further whet their appetites, said Ed Najarian, head of bank research at International Strategy & Investment Group Inc. "They're looking at it as more opportunity to acquire banks."

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Ms. Bair said FDIC officials were in discussions with the Treasury Department about ways to direct more government capital to smaller, community banks. The Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program still has $13.6 billion that can be invested in these banks. The Obama administration, in its latest budget forecasts, has indicated it doesn't intend to ask for more funds from Congress.

The banking industry lost $3.7 billion in the second quarter, mostly because banks wrote off $48.9 billion in soured loans and put away $66.9 billion to cover potential future losses. But loans are souring faster than banks are stockpiling cash. The FDIC said the industry's ratio of reserves to bad loans was just 63.5%, the lowest level since 1991, amid the crisis in the savings-and-loan sector.

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The FDIC could hit the banking industry with a special fee, the second this year, bringing in a likely $5.6 billion. Or it could tap a pre-existing $100 billion credit line with the Treasury and pay the money back later. The FDIC borrowed from the Treasury during the savings and loan crisis, the last time the fund went into the red.

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9:46 a.m. - 2009-08-28
An Era Ends With Death of Kennedy
Sen. Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy, scion of the political dynasty that embodied liberal politics for a generation and also one of the most polarizing political figures of his time, died at age 77 after a long battle with brain cancer.

Mr. Kennedy's death at the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., marked both the end of an era in American politics and the closing of a political career sculpted by profound tragedy and his own extraordinary missed opportunities.

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President Barack Obama on Wednesday noted the outpouring of affection for the venerable Massachusetts Democrat. He ordered flags flown at half staff, and issued a formal proclamation calling Mr. Kennedy "one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy." United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Mr. Kennedy "the voice of the voiceless."

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Blasting what he called "slobbering media coverage" of Mr. Kennedy's death that ignored his past "bad behavior," conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday said Mr. Kennedy was a politician who "uses the government to take money from people who work and gives it to people who don't work."

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Over the course of the third-longest tenure in the history of the Senate, Mr. Kennedy mounted a legislative agenda across a wide range of issues dear to liberal voters and left-leaning Democratic Party constituencies -- school and racial integration in the 1960s, poverty and gender equality in the 1970s, disability in the 1980s and education reform in the 1990s.

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forefront of U.S. political debate but still unrealized. After being diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor in May 2008, Mr. Kennedy was unable to play a central role in the Democratic push to overhaul the health-care system. The senator's death, which deprives Democrats of their 60-vote majority in the Senate until at least the end of 2009, further complicates the legislative battle.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Kennedy also became one of the most divisive figures in American politics. His own presidential ambitions in the 1970s and 1980s were sabotaged by questions of personal misconduct -- especially a 1969 car crash near Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, in which a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne died. Mr. Kennedy survived the crash, but that incident and others reinforced a perception among many that the senator was irresponsible in his personal life.

If ever a man appeared an heir to destiny, it was Mr. Kennedy. He was born on Feb. 22, 1932, the ninth child and fourth son of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy, who were already pushing their children toward high achievement. (Mr. Kennedy's 88-year-old sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver died on Aug. 11. With Mr. Kennedy's death, the lone survivor of the nine siblings is Jean Kennedy Smith, a former ambassador to Ireland.)

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Mr. Kennedy delivered a eulogy that marked his ascent to the leadership of the Kennedy family and the liberal movement. "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good, decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it," he said.

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With his presidential aspirations permanently ended, Mr. Kennedy -- a red-faced, white-haired figure who was frequently caricatured for his bellowing laugh and pronounced Boston accent -- focused on repairing his political and legislative stature. In July 1992, Mr. Kennedy, who had been divorced for a decade, married Victoria Reggie. He strongly supported Bill Clinton, the first successful Democratic presidential candidate in 16 years, who in turn embraced Mr. Kennedy and his family's legacy.

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9:40 a.m. - 2009-08-27
Times Hit Wood Industry Hard
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As an industry, we're off 70%" on production, said Charles Netterville, owner of Fred Netterville Lumber Co., an Arkansas hardwood producer. "Prices now are around what we were getting in the 1980s. We need to see prices go back up substantially in order to survive."

The recession has seen hundreds of hardwood sawmills close, said George Barrett, editor of Hardwood Review Weekly. He estimates 2009 domestic production will be 6.7 billion board feet, down from an estimated 7.45 billion in 2008 and 9.31 billion in 2007.

Until credit availability improves, there is no chance shuttered hardwood mills will ever reopen, Mr. Barrett said. For credit to loosen, owners will have to show profit potential, which will take better markets and higher prices for their product. Many firms with multiple mills have closed a plant to limit the overall amount of product on the market and cut costs, Mr. Barrett said.

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U.S. cabinet sales were 32% lower in the first quarter of 2009 than in the same period a year ago, according to the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association.

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9:52 a.m. - 2009-08-26
Prosecuting the CIA
‘I t would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct that was sanctioned in advance by the Justice Department.” –Attorney General Eric Holder, April 2009

"Justice Department Names Prosecutor to Reopen CIA Abuse Cases" –Wall Street Journal, Monday

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first time. His about-face Monday, compounded by his release of a 2004 internal CIA report on that agency's handling of terrorists, opens a political war that President Obama, the CIA and above all the country will live to regret.

This is a trap the Administration set for itself. Mr. Obama and his team have attempted to appease their political left by publicly denouncing the Bush Administration's national security policies, even as they claimed to want to forget the past. Their disparagement has only fed the liberal demand for Bush prosecutions and increased the pressure on Mr. Holder to appoint a prosecutor.

Justice threw kerosene on those politics Monday with its release of findings compiled by the CIA's inspector general in 2004 about the agency's detention and interrogation of terrorists. The ACLU had won a court order for their release. We were still reading its hundreds of pages at deadline, but most of the supposedly damning details had already been leaked. The new bits include the fact that interrogators threatened terrorists with a gun shot in a nearby room, with a power drill and cigarette smoke, and against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's family. We suspect millions of Americans will be shocked to learn that these unshocking details are all that the uproar over "torture" is about.

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CIA itself commissioned the IG review early in the first Bush term, the agency sent an unredacted copy to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees in 2004, and the entire membership of both those committees was given access to the report in 2006. The CIA also sent the report to the Department of Justice in 2004, referring allegations of abuse for potential prosecution. Current CIA Director Leon Panetta, in a note Monday to agency employees, pointed out that "career" prosecutors (not Bush appointees) evaluated each of those claims "carefully and thoroughly, sometimes taking years to decide if prosecution was warranted or not."

The DOJ brought only one case, convicting a CIA contractor who beat a detainee who subsequently died. In no other case did Justice attorneys decide that a prosecution was warranted. This is no surprise, given that most of the techniques outlined in the CIA report had been approved by superiors and declared to be legal in official legal opinions.

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report's release as an occasion to appoint federal prosecutor John Durham as a special counsel to re-open the cases for potential criminal prosecutions. His decision was supported by a recommendation from Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility, which has been complaining about CIA practices for five years and now finally has a willing ear in the new Attorney General.

By naming Mr. Durham, who is already investigating destroyed CIA videotapes, Mr. Holder suggested this was merely an expansion of an existing probe and would be limited in scope. He described Mr. Durham's task as a mere "preliminary review" of overseas interrogations, which may not result in any charges.

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special prosecutions, once unleashed, have often been impossible to control. Mr. Durham may well begin by examining isolated cases where CIA interrogators are accused of breaking the law, such as the CIA employee who supposedly fired a gun in a room close to a detainee, in an attempt to make the detainee believe a colleague had been executed. This threat of potential imminent death may have violated some statute, though it was used against men who were thought to have information that could save innocent American lives. But Mr. Durham will be under enormous pressure to investigate everyone up and down the CIA chain of command, starting with those who merely followed the legal opinions and going all the way to senior CIA officials such as former Director George Tenet and other Bush Administration officials.

Mr. Holder's decision has already re-energized demands to prosecute the Bush lawyers who wrote the legal opinions that authorized enhanced interrogations. As New York liberal Representative Jerry Nadler declared recently, going after the CIA interrogators who "waterboarded" a detainee with "eight ounces" of water rather than the Bush lawyers who decreed they could only use three ounces, would be "terrible."

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By threatening to prosecute CIA officials, the Obama Administration is taking ownership of future troubles in a way that will only do itself harm. Like the Church and Pike probes of the 1970s, Americans will once again see that the Democratic Party cares as much or more about settling scores against fellow Americans as it does about fighting the war on terror. Mr. Holder yesterday acknowledged that his decision to reopen the old CIA wounds would be "controversial." He will soon learn how much.

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11:33 a.m. - 2009-08-25
Gwathmey’s Death Further Diminishes ‘New York Five’
More than 40 years ago, a group of young Manhattan architects with a shared interest in the aesthetics of old-fashioned Modernism began getting together to talk about their work, their lives and the state of the field. And in the decades that followed, even as their styles grew apart — and as they became celebrities in and beyond the world of architecture — they continued talking
But now the group, long known as the New York Five, is shrinking: After losing its first member, John Hejduk, in 2000, a second, Charles Gwathmey, died last week.

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news of Mr. Gwathmey’s death, at 71, friends and colleagues from within and outside the group spoke about his weekend houses on the East End of Long Island — especially one he designed for his parents, completed in 1966 — and his additions to public buildings, like the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art & Architecture Building at Yale, by Paul Rudolph.

But they also remembered his beginnings as one of the New York Five, or the Whites, as the group was also known because of its proclivity for white buildings inspired by the purist forms of Le Corbusier. Along with Mr. Gwathmey and Mr. Hejduk, the group included Michael Graves, Peter Eisenman and Richard Meier.

The five men, who knew one another through the architecture schools they attended and taught in, were living in New York in the mid-1960s, just starting out as practicing architects and teachers.

“We were all involved in teaching and in practice and we respected each other’s work,” Mr. Meier recalled. “We decided to have a sort of Saturday morning discussion of what we were doing at the time. Each person brought one work.”

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“What united us was a need to convene with each other, to be self-critical, to talk about each other’s work,” he added.

Members of the Five also participated in a larger architectural group organized by Philip Johnson around 1970 that included the architect and historian Kenneth Frampton, then teaching at Princeton; Colin Rowe, another influential architectural historian and theoretician, from Cornell; and Arthur Drexler, then the curator and director of the department of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art.

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way, the five architects started taping the sessions and decided to turn the transcripts into “a little pamphlet,” Mr. Meier said, that would feature two houses by each of them. They couldn’t come up with a title (though the book came to be known as “Five Architects”), so they just put their last names on the white square cover in alphabetical order.

“We didn’t think anybody would read it,” Mr. Graves said.

The book, published by George Wittenborn in 1973, became a sensation. “It was a cause célèbre,” said the architect Robert A. M. Stern, dean of Yale’s architecture school. It was not so much that the five architects shared an aesthetic, Mr. Stern said; they had “a shared camaraderie and belief that the Modern movement of the 1920s and 1930s was worth revisiting.”

All of the five were surprised by the book’s impact, particularly “among students of architecture — in America and Europe as well,” Mr. Meier said. (Young architects in Italy knew them as “I Five di New York.”)

Mr. Graves said: “I think people were probably hungry for something other than commercial Modernism. We cared about urbanism and we cared what was said about architecture.”

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architects with different sensibilities should review the book, and suggested the idea to Mr. Stern, who assembled a group that included Jaquelin T. Robertson and Charles Moore to do just that. Their responses to the book, a series of essays called “Five on Five,” were published in the magazine Architectural Forum; this second group came to be known as the Grays.

After the five Whites, along with some of the Grays, rose to various versions of architectural stardom in the 1980s, some critics argued that they were too concerned with the formal aspects of architecture.

“What was all the fuss about?” Paul Goldberger wrote of the White-Gray debate in The New York Times in 1993, on the occasion of an exhibition and lecture series called “Five Architects: Twenty Years Later” at the University of Maryland. “It was apparent to only a few people then that all these architects, Whites and Grays alike, had more in common than they had dividing them: at the end of the day they were all profoundly elitist, concerned mainly with the aesthetics of the single-family house, and determined to make architecture in a fairly traditional way.”

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Mr. Gwathmey had an office three floors below Mr. Meier’s on 10th Avenue at 37th Street, in Manhattan. The two collaborated — along with Mr. Eisenman and Steven Holl — on a proposal in the 2002 competition to redesign the World Trade Center site. Their scheme featured five glass towers joined by interconnecting horizontal floors.

“This is the one people are going to be fighting about,” Herbert Muschamp wrote in The New York Times in 2002. “Superficially, the design ignores the lessons that postmodernism was supposed to have taught us about context, scale, accommodation and reassurance. It may strike some as a throwback to the megastructural superblocks of the 1960s. So what? The project makes its own kind of statement. Continuity with the epic ethos of the Modern era is part of what it has to say.”

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proposal, Mr. Gwathmey was always the first to arrive. “He was really into it,” Mr. Meier recalled. “It was the only thing we did as a team, and everyone really took part in an equal way — it wasn’t: ‘This was my idea.’ ”

Mr. Meier, who said he had known Mr. Gwathmey for 50 years, has particularly fond memories from the time when Mr. Gwathmey was first courting his second wife, Bette-Ann Damson, and they all picked corn for dinner in a field adjacent to a barn Mr. Meier was renting on the East End of Long Island.

Charlie was a sweetheart,” Mr. Meier said.

Indeed, Mr. Gwathmey’s fellows say the architect’s occasionally gruff manner — he was known for firing off angry missives to critics and colleagues — was only on the surface. “He had a real rough exterior and told it like it was but was a real marshmallow inside,” Mr. Eisenman said.

Of the Nike Air Zoom Talache 1letters and e-mail messages, Mr. Eisenman said that Mr. Gwathmey’s friends often counseled him, “Write ’em, but don’t send ’em.” But sometimes Mr. Gwathmey couldn’t help himself. And when one of his buildings was panned by critics, he took it hard — particularly the recent harsh reviews of his Yale addition and of his glass residential tower at Astor Place in Manhattan. “They say architects have thick skins,” Mr. Graves said. “We don’t. It affects not just your well-being but it affects your practice.”

The last time Mr. Graves saw Mr. Gwathmey was at a meeting of the Philip Johnson group just a few months ago, at the Four Seasons restaurant. (Their usual location, the Century club, was under renov