| Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions
An ABC News analysis of the videotapes of at least four stockholder meetings where Clinton appeared shows she never once rose to defend the role of American labor unions. The tapes, broadcast this morning on "Good Morning America," were provided to ABC News from the archives of Flagler Productions, a Lenexa, Kan., company hired by Wal-Mart to record its meetings and events. A former board member told ABCNews.com that he had no recollection of Clinton defending unions during more than 20 board meetings held in private. The tapes show Clinton in the role of a loyal company woman. "I'm always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else," she said at a June 1990 stockholders meeting. Clinton would not agree to be interviewed on the subject but now says she no longer shares Wal-Mart's values and believes unions "have been essential to our nation's success." The videotapes do show that Clinton used her role to push for more environmentally friendly policies and better treatment of women.
New blow for Wendy Alexander as key aide quits
He will be the third spin doctor to leave since Ms Alexander became leader less than five months ago, and news of his departure comes as the Electoral Commission prepares to announce whether they are calling in the police over the illegal donation to Ms Alexander's leadership campaign. Mr McElroy, who has been Scottish Labour's head of communications for the past four-and-a-half years, is leaving to take up a public affairs post with the supermarket giant Tesco. His departure follows that of Brian Lironi, who resigned as Labour's chief spin doctor at Holyrood after Ms Alexander became leader last September. Matthew Marr was also forced to resign as Ms Alexander's spokesman in November after shouting an obscenity at First Minister Alex Salmond during The Herald Politician of the Year awards ceremony.
Candidates offer final messages before Iowa caucus
I have always admired your family and the things they stood for. I was in college when that fatal day came and we no longer had our inspiration, your brother. I am disappointed in who you are endorsing. To think about all the times that the Clintons were here for you, and now you just put them aside. I think about it, and I thougt you were above the good old boys. Not so sure about that now. Hillary, a women. Maybe that just does not sit well with you Kennedys. I just don't understand. She is a great lady that certainly helped your party out by staying with Bill. The party owes her more than a senate seat. She should have all of you out there shouting her attributes. It was alright for Bill to be used to get votes for our new governor. He also has a short memory. I will have a hard time voting for either one of you because of this.
Mirtle: The injury factor
Dealing with injuries is certainly part of life in the NHL these days, but Pierre LeBrun's piece on the level of parity in the league reminded me of just how much of an effect one absent body can have on a team's fortunes.
Looking at the standings, three teams jump out as feeling the loss of key personnel so far:
Nashville (7-7-0)
There's been an awful lot of talk about the Predators missing Tomas Vokoun, Paul Kariya and Kimmo Timonen, but the absence that's hurting the this team the most could be that of defenceman Shea Weber. Weber was second on the team in even-strength ice time last season, and generally paired with Dan Hamhuis against the toughest opposition forwards.
He turned 22 over the summer and was poised to join the ranks of the elite blueliners in the Western Conference before dislocating his knee cap in the season opener.
Jet-pace growth for Indian tourism
A Lonely Planet survey of 167 countries also ranks India among the world's top five most popular destinations.
Last financial year, when more than 5 million tourists arrived, was the fourth running that India's growth in arrivals picked up pace, with an increase of 13% from 2005-06, according to governmental data. India expects to host 6 million tourists in 2007 and 10 million by 2010.
"Tourism has high potential for generating both income and employment across the country," President Pratibha Devsingh Patil told Parliament on February 25. "The 'Incredible India' campaign has given a thrust to tourism in India, with foreign tourist arrivals touching 5 million for the first time. Foreign exchange earnings from tourism touched US$12 billion in 2007."
Businesses at the tourism frontline are seeing more than just an increase in numbers.
New baseball stadium could lead to tax hike
Gwinnett County officials have said no property tax increases are planned to help pay for the new baseball stadium, but records obtained under the Georgia Open Records Act reveal that's not necessarily the case. The documents show officials discussed a small property tax increase in the context of the overall financing package for the stadium, which will house the top minor-league affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. .
NCSU, RTI International share in biofuels grant
A team that includes researchers from North Carolina State University and RTI International has gotten a three-year, $3.2 million federal grant to study biofuels. NCSU said in a statement that the Department of Energy has given the money to the team, which also includes researchers from the University of Utah, to figure out a cheap, viable way to produce liquid fuels from products such as wood waste and sawdust. The idea is to see whether biofuels can be made on a mass scale more cheaply than ethanol, an alternative fuel made from corn that's backed by heavy government subsidies. Researchers from the two universities and RTI, a nonprofit based in Research Triangle Park, will study how to break down organic mass into a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
BMMI deploys Sun solutions to boost performance
Our prior experience with Sun and our ongoing relationship is a source of confidence for BMMI. The professionalism and expertise displayed by them during implementation was remarkable. We expect to start seeing ROI within twelve months of all systems going live.' Slated to go live before the end of the year, BMMI's deployment includes Sun Fire servers (V890, V490, V240, T2000) which will offer unmatched performance and scalability, significant power, cooling and space savings. Delivering up to three times the throughput of previous generation servers, Sun Fire servers offer the industry's most robust, secure, and popular UNIX operating system. The Sun Fire family of servers is designed to meet BMMI's most challenging network computing requirements. 'We have worked with BMMI closely to understand their business requirements, and have been successful in fulfilling them through this implementation,' said Hani Esber, territory sales manager Gulf, Sun Microsystems, MENA.
Blair received into Catholic Church in private Mass at cardinal's home
There has never been a Roman Catholic prime minister of Britain, although there is no constitutional barrier to such a move. However, it had been suggested in the past that Mr Blair would wait until after leaving office, to avoid possible clashes such as that of the .
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