News Topic - South America
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Worried demand for road salt leads to high prices, shortages
Weeks before the first snowflakes fell on Hamilton County, Ohio, officials hunted far and wide for road salt. The only supplier that had some was in South America -- priced nearly 300 percent above what the county paid in 2007.
PittsburghLive.com – Nov 16, 2008 05:55 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
Weeks before the first snowflakes fell on Hamilton County, Ohio, officials hunted far and wide for road salt. The only supplier that had some was in South America -- priced nearly 300 percent above what the county paid in 2007.
PittsburghLive.com – Nov 16, 2008 05:55 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh
Author, retired newsman recalls Jonestown aftermath
Even with the passage of 30 years, Kentucky author David Dick still remembers the "putrid smell" from the dead bodies of those who died Nov. 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple deep in the jungle of Guyana.Dick, then a CBS-TV newsman stationed in South America, was one of the first CBS newsmen ... more »
CourierPress.com – Nov 16, 2008 03:41 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Indiana: Evansville
Even with the passage of 30 years, Kentucky author David Dick still remembers the "putrid smell" from the dead bodies of those who died Nov. 18, 1978, at the Peoples Temple deep in the jungle of Guyana.Dick, then a CBS-TV newsman stationed in South America, was one of the first CBS newsmen ... more »
CourierPress.com – Nov 16, 2008 03:41 AM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Indiana: Evansville
Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese votes to leave Episcopal Church
By TERRY LEE GOODRICH BEDFORD -- Clergy and lay delegates of the Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese, which is theologically conservative, voted overwhelmingly Saturday to leave the Episcopal Church, which is more liberal.The vote by 219 valid delegates was nearly 80 percent in favor of leaving. The vote w ... more »
Star-Telegram.com – Nov 15, 2008 7:27 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth
By TERRY LEE GOODRICH BEDFORD -- Clergy and lay delegates of the Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese, which is theologically conservative, voted overwhelmingly Saturday to leave the Episcopal Church, which is more liberal.The vote by 219 valid delegates was nearly 80 percent in favor of leaving. The vote w ... more »
Star-Telegram.com – Nov 15, 2008 7:27 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Texas: Dallas-Fort Worth
Uruguayan president vetoes abortion law
Associated Press - November 14, 2008 1:43 PM ET MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - A presidential veto has kept Uruguay from having South America's most liberal abortion law.
KHQ Right Now – Nov 14, 2008 6:43 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Washington: Spokane
Associated Press - November 14, 2008 1:43 PM ET MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - A presidential veto has kept Uruguay from having South America's most liberal abortion law.
KHQ Right Now – Nov 14, 2008 6:43 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Local: Washington: Spokane
Deadly U.S. superbugs spread to South America
Variations of two deadly superbugs that had previously only been discovered in the U.S. have surfaced in South America.
CNN.com – Nov 14, 2008 6:31 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Health
Variations of two deadly superbugs that had previously only been discovered in the U.S. have surfaced in South America.
CNN.com – Nov 14, 2008 6:31 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Health
To understand a mockingbird: specimens that sparked Darwin's theory of evolution
The significance of the two birds lying side by side on a purple cushion with tags dangling from their feet is easy to miss. But the subtle differences - a strip of white on the wing, a smudge of dark on the breast - set Charles Darwin on course to develop the most important scientific theory ever c ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 14, 2008 5:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Technology: Science
The significance of the two birds lying side by side on a purple cushion with tags dangling from their feet is easy to miss. But the subtle differences - a strip of white on the wing, a smudge of dark on the breast - set Charles Darwin on course to develop the most important scientific theory ever c ... more »
The Guardian – Nov 14, 2008 5:00 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Technology: Science
Telefónica boosted by LatAm expansion
The Spanish telecoms group's expansion into South America helped offset declining revenues in Europe where consumers are tightening their belts
Financial Times – Nov 14, 2008 12:07 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Companies
The Spanish telecoms group's expansion into South America helped offset declining revenues in Europe where consumers are tightening their belts
Financial Times – Nov 14, 2008 12:07 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Companies
U.S. 'Super Bugs' Invading South America
Two clones of highly antibiotic-resistant organism strains, which previously had only been identified in the United States, are now causing serious sickness and death in several Colombian cities including the capital Bogotá, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Science Daily – Nov 13, 2008 6:23 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Health: AIDS - HIV
Two clones of highly antibiotic-resistant organism strains, which previously had only been identified in the United States, are now causing serious sickness and death in several Colombian cities including the capital Bogotá, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Science Daily – Nov 13, 2008 6:23 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Health: AIDS - HIV
Operation Southern Partner ends
Operation Southern Partner ended after two weeks in South America as 70 Airmen aboard a C-17 Globemaster III touched down at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base at about 10 p.m Nov. 7 here. Airmen representing more than 25 career fields exchanged information and ideas with counterparts in the air forces of ... more »
The United States Air Force – Nov 12, 2008 10:36 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Politics: Military
Operation Southern Partner ended after two weeks in South America as 70 Airmen aboard a C-17 Globemaster III touched down at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base at about 10 p.m Nov. 7 here. Airmen representing more than 25 career fields exchanged information and ideas with counterparts in the air forces of ... more »
The United States Air Force – Nov 12, 2008 10:36 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Politics: Military
Best Buy cuts outlook amid consumer-spending dropoff
Best Buy Co. Inc. cut its outlook for the rest of fiscal 2009 in the face of what Vice Chairman and CEO Brad Anderson called the most difficult climate weve ever seen. (BBY) (CC) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:41:15 GMTBest Buy cuts outlook amid consumer-spending dropoffhttp://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/w ... more »
bizjournals.com – Nov 12, 2008 5:21 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Retail
Best Buy Co. Inc. cut its outlook for the rest of fiscal 2009 in the face of what Vice Chairman and CEO Brad Anderson called the most difficult climate weve ever seen. (BBY) (CC) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:41:15 GMTBest Buy cuts outlook amid consumer-spending dropoffhttp://www.bizjournals.com/ct/rc/30414/w ... more »
bizjournals.com – Nov 12, 2008 5:21 PM [GMT] – comment?
found in Business: Retail