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Officials in northern Texas could soon impose restrictions that would halt all new construction and renovation.
The Chinese drug artemisinin has been hailed as one of the greatest advances in fighting malaria, the scourge of the tropics, since the discovery of quinine centuries ago.
MOSCOW — A Russian scientific spacecraft whizzing out of control around the Earth, and expected to re-enter the atmosphere on Saturday, may have failed because it was struck by some type of antisatellite weapon, the director of Russia’s space agency said in an interview published Tuesday.
Editor's note: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto is William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame and the author of many books, including "1492: The Year the World Began" and "The World: A History."
(CNN) -- Until 2011, we were in a Rip Van Winkle-world. Events unfolded so fast that every morning, we seemed to wake up in circumstances unrecognizably transformed from those of the previous night. Yet this year has broken the mold. Nothing happened: certainly, nothing worthy of record by an historian like me.
Soon after taking the reins of MF Global in 2010, Jon S. Corzine visited the Wall Street firm’s Chicago offices for the first time, greeting the brokers, analysts and sales staff there
WASHINGTON — The summons from the president came without warning the Thursday before Labor Day. As she was driven the four blocks to the White House, Lisa P. Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, suspected that the news would not be good. What she did not see coming was a rare public rebuke the president was about to deliver by rejecting her proposal to tighten the national standard for smog.
GRAND RAPIDS — When the recession wiped out nearly 70 percent of the domestic market for hot tubs, Viking Spas looked to growth in foreign markets.
TOKYO — Olympus said Tuesday that more than $1 billion in merger payouts were used to hide years of losses on investments, an acknowledgment that is an abrupt about-face for the company, which had denied any wrongdoing in the wake of a widening scandal.
At least Eastman Kodak didn’t pin its latest turnaround effort on the fax machine. Just the same, as one securities analyst said, Wall Street worries that the once pre-eminent film company is jumping “from one buggy whip business to another.”