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Few in U.S. move for new jobs, fueling fear the economy might get stuck, too

PALM COAST, FLA. -- The recession is claiming yet another victim: Americans\' near-constitutional right to pick up and move to a better job. Recreation - Business - Business and Economy - Energy - Transportation

washingtonpost.com - 2010-07-30 03:29:21 GMT
Pryor to visit Gulf to tour oil spill damage

Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor is traveling on Friday to the Gulf Coast to tour damage from BP\'s oil spill and discuss clean-up efforts.

arkansasonline.com - 2010-07-29 23:14:38 GMT
BP Oil Spill: Has Environmental Damage Been Exaggerated?

So far, predictions of ecological catastrophe on the Gulf Coast following the BP oil spill seem overblown

time.com - 2010-07-29 20:45:27 GMT
Strategic jousting between China and America: Testing the waters

Tensions rise over efforts to create a new Chinese lake
ON THE face of things, North Korea was supposed to quiver at the presence of a powerful American aircraft-carrier, the USS George Washington, at the head of a fleet of American and South Korean warships off the south-east coast of the Korean peninsula this week. The vessels fired artillery shells and lobbed anti-submarine bombs into the wine-dark sea. This was no idle show of force, but an act of intimidation aimed at deterring North Korea, which South Korea and the United States blame for the sinking in March of a South Korean corvette, the Cheonan.
But more subtly, it was also a shot across China’s bows. China refuses to condemn North Korea over the Cheonan sinking, to the irritation of America and others, while describing the exercises as unwarranted warmongering. America and China have shown growing signs of friction over their competing security presence around the trade-clogged shores of Asia. ...

economist.com - 2010-07-29 16:47:03 GMT
China\'s labour market: The next China

As the supply of migrant labour dwindles, the workshop of the world is embarking on a migration of its own
THE angrier they become, the less intimidating they seem. The strikes, stoppages and suicides that have afflicted foreign factories on China’s coast in recent months have shaken the popular image of the country’s workers as docile, diligent and dirt cheap. America’s biggest labour federation, the AFL-CIO, blames imports from China for displacing millions of Americans from their jobs. But in June its president applauded the “courageous young auto workers” who waged a successful strike at a Honda plant in Foshan demanding higher wages.
While foreign unions cheer, multinational companies fret. According to UNCTAD, foreigners have invested almost $500 billion in China’s capital stock. Their affiliates employ about 16m people in the country. For a decade this combination has dominated global manufacturing growth, dispatching ever cheaper goods from China’s ports. Of China’s 200 biggest exporters last year, 153 were firms with a foreign stake. But the recent unrest has put Chinese labour at odds with foreign capital. ...

economist.com - 2010-07-29 16:47:03 GMT
C-17 goes down at Alaska base

The Alaska National Guard says a military cargo plane has crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage.

arkansasonline.com - 2010-07-29 11:55:59 GMT
The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated?

So far, predictions of ecological catastrophe on the Gulf Coast seem overblown

time.com - 2010-07-29 08:31:53 GMT
Cargo Plane Crashes At Alaska Military Base

The Alaska National Guard says a military cargo plane has crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage.

clickondetroit.com - 2010-07-29 05:55:24 GMT
Military Cargo Plane Crashes At Alaska Base

The Alaska National Guard says a military cargo plane has crashed at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage.

clickondetroit.com - 2010-07-29 05:37:13 GMT
Fayette prison guard firing just, arbitrator finds

A state arbitrator has upheld the firing of a Fayette County Prison guard who was terminated after an inmate hanged himself in a cell.

pittsburghlive.com - 2010-07-29 05:29:17 GMT
Canadian Team Finds Abandoned 19th Century Ship

The HMS Investigator, left in the ice in 1853, was found in shallow water along the northern coast of Banks Island in Canada\'s western Arctic. The ship had been sent out in search of the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin to chart the Northwest Passage.

npr.org - 2010-07-28 22:27:57 GMT
Third most-wanted Nazi suspect charged in Germany

The world\'s third most-wanted Nazi suspect, who lived undisturbed for decades after World War II, has been charged in Germany with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews while serving as a low-ranking guard at a death camp.

seattletimes.com - 2010-07-28 20:35:54 GMT
Teenage boy drowns off coast of Blackpool

A 14-year-old boy has drowned off the coast of Blackpool, the Coastguard said.
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itn.co.uk - 2010-07-28 19:37:25 GMT
German prosecutors charge alleged Nazi death camp guard with murder

Samuel Kunz lay low for 65 years after World War II. Now the 90-year-old former death camp guard is on trial for participating in the murder 430,000 Jews in Poland. Nazi-hunters say it\'s about time.

dw-world.de - 2010-07-28 19:34:03 GMT
Nazi suspect indicted in Germany

A suspected former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday.

seattletimes.com - 2010-07-28 15:36:27 GMT