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Is Sleeplessness Killing America's Veterans?
Many Iraq War veterans are dying from a vicious circle of sleeplessness and PTSD. Why?
Oyster beds spread across East coast, offer more tasting variety than wine
NEW YORK – ‘Everyone’s growing oysters,’ Chris Quartuccio says over his shoulder as he paddles a kayak across Long Island’s Great South Bay, where he’s raising some 300,000 Blue Island oysters on the shallow seafloor 50 miles east of Manhattan.
He might be right. Close to a hundred oyster farms have sprung up during the past decade or so, in bays, creeks and tidal ponds strung along the Atlantic seaboard from Virginia to Canada’s Prince Edward Island, according to Bloomberg Pursuits magazine....
Now Showing on Czech TV: Financial Battles
Boardroom battles do not usually attract more television viewers than the World Cup, but as financial and political power brokers in the Czech Republic struggle for control of the leading TV station, nearly a million viewers are tuning in to watch the fray.
A Czech Billionaire Buys a Piece of Le Monde
Why did a Czech billionaire buy a stake in France's most prestigious newspaper?
Polish Tale of Bribery and/or Politics and/or Journalism
It reads like the script of a ''B'' movie: A tough-talking, Russian-born heavy promises to smooth out the legislative obstacles facing one of post-Communist Poland's most successful companies. All he wants, he tells one of the country's most influential men, is $17.5 million.
Media Bribery Scandal Threatens Poland's Government
A widening political scandal over a reported attempt by a producer of ''The Pianist'' to solicit a bribe from the editor of Poland's largest newspaper is now threatening to bring down Poland's government and block its entry to the European Union.
Share Sale Buoys Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza : Daily Thrives on its Values
Gazeta Wyborcza, the newspaper that helped Poland's Solidarity labor union movement defeat the Communist rulers in 1989, is taking its ambitions to the next level: financial solidity.
A Prague Perspective for a New York Newsroom
''It's not like we're failed novelists,'' he said. ''We've been running a serious newspaper in a capital city, and now we're going to New York.''
What I learned from retiring Post editor Col Allan/Crain's NY Business
An appreciation of the departing NY Post editor.
In Prague, a New Daily for English-Speakers - by Jane Perlez
Article about a new daily newspaper I helped start
DOZENS ARE DEAD AS FLOODS SWEEP THROUGH EUROPE
Parts of the historic center of Prague were under water tonight and 50,000 residents were ordered evacuated as rivers swollen by more than a week of near constant rain etched ribbons of destruction across Central Europe and southern Russia.
More than a dozen people were killed by high waters today, pushing the toll for the last week well past 70. In Russia alone, 58 people have died in flooding caused by some of the heaviest rains in memory.
With the worst rains since 1890 pelting the Czech R...
Churches grappling with Harlem's development boom
Houses of worship grappling with Harlem's development boom
The Coming Global Water Crisis
The world is running out of water. Here's why you should be afraid.