Quoted: An alliance of companies led by Google plans to roll out a common set of standards to allow developers to write programs for Google’s Orkut and other social networking Web sites.

Quoted: He's a genteel man, with a sprawling plantation house, courtly manners and an estate of carefully trimmed tea bushes that stretches across the gentle hills of Assam, blanketing the land as far as you can see.

Quoted: The surprise in BusinessWeek's second annual ranking: Accounting firms have raced to the head of the pack.

Quoted: Maryland knocked New Jersey out of the top spot this year, while Mississippi and West Virginia were the poorest states in the Union.Maryland is now ...

surprised to see Miami in the poor bracket, but i guess it makes sense. Wondering what Seattle's median income is...can't be too far off from the 10 richest cities, with Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, etc, all being there.

Quoted: World's largest casino opens in China. With the crash of a champagne bottle against a gondola, Macau's Venetian casino opened Tuesday, dwarfing anything in Las Vegas and big enough, its operators say, to shift the magnetic north of the gambling world to this small city in southern China.

Quoted: For many in the West, diseases are a bit like birds: everyone gets them but poor countries have more exotic species. Rich-country maladies are things like heart disease, cancer and diabetes: “chronic” conditions often resulting from diet or physical inactivity. Developing countries suffer more lurid and acute infections: malaria, tuberculosis, measles, cholera. HIV/AIDS is unusual in that it affects rich and poor alike.

Quoted: By Rachel Breitman NEW YORK (Reuters) - How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study released Friday. In the study to be presented at a conference on man

Quoted: During a two week trial, a Birmingham jury weighed charges that the local Drummond Coal Company bore responsibility for the murders of three union leaders ...

Reminds me of the People of Bhopal, India vs. Union Carbide case, which is still not settled by the way

Quoted: Fisher Price recalls nearly one million Chinese-made toys over fears their paint may contain too much lead.

That's it, I'm not buying anything that's "Made in China". First toothpaste, now toys, what's next, T-shirts?