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Recently, I took my 5-year-old grandson to see the animated movie "Kung Fu Panda." My aim was to spend time with a boy I'm fond of, to hold his hand during the scary parts and to listen to him recount every bit of the main character's bathroom humor on the way home, so I was surp …

Mitsubishi is toying with the idea of bringing its jellybean-shaped i MiEV electric car to America and wants two California utilities to put them through their paces and see how they perform in real-world conditions.

The automaker has signed deals with Pacific Gas & Electric and …

This month, restaurant inspectors from New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, scourge of both smokers and trans-fat lovers, will add a new violation to their checklist: the failure to display, in large type and directly on the menu board, the calorie counts of e …

Every city, university, transit agency, school district and local government entity which has promised public union employees (labor and labor overhead is typically about 75% of their budgets) full healthcare insurance and plummy pensions in "good times" is now facing the unhappy …

The NYT reports: Earl Eaton, a dreamer who grew up glorying in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado as a hunter, a hiker, a prospector and a skier, then looked anew at a nameless 11,570-foot-high mountain and envisioned what became Vail, one of America's most popular ski resorts, d …

The NYT reports: As the forces of economic downturn ripple widely across the United States, the job market of 2008 is shaping up as the weakest in more than half a century for teenagers looking for summer work, according to labor economists, government data and companies that hir …

One corporation that has refused to pay the extra penny is Burger King, despite the fact that it would cost them only $250,000 annually , its competitors have agreed to do it, and for workers it's the difference between a sub-poverty wage that hasn't been raised in twenty years a …

Google representatives would not comment on other specifics, including how many employees work at the facility, but the company did provide The Capital Times with a release that stated: "We are opening an office in Madison because the city offers an excellent quality of life, a d …

The move by drug major Cipla's group company, Meditab Specialities, to seek legal action to get clarity on the future of its special economic zone (SEZ) project in Goa is likely to make others notified zone developers follow suit.

"We want to know who will compensate us f …

Despite the recent FAA-forced cancellation of many flights and Congress questioning the oversight ability of the FAA, most other nations' aviation regulatory bodies (including the European Union's) believe the FAA is the standard-bearer when it comes to aviation and air travel sa …