Unlike its rivals, which have shares trading on public exchanges, Chrysler is looking to private ownership to enjoy less regulation and shareholder scrutiny.
Attacks on American forces in Iraq using a lethal type of roadside bomb said to be supplied by Iran reached a new high in July, according to the U.S. military.
While more kids are overweight today than ever before, overemphasizing weight issues can have an unintended downside: Research suggests that it may increase the likelihood that children will turn to dangerous dieting behaviors in an effort to trim down. U.S. News recently sat down with five teens who battled anorexia and were treated at the Emily Program, a private eating disorders facility in Minneapolis-St. Paul, to find out what sent their weight plunging. Here are some comments they wish they'd never heard.
About 14 million Americans are afflicted with rosacea, a chronic inflammatory condition sometimes referred to as "adult acne." Most frequently affecting people ages 30 to 60, rosacea can cause pimples, visibly enlarged blood vessels in the face, chronic eye irritation, tough and thickened skin, and, in severe cases, rhinophyma—a swollen, bulbous nose that was famously manifest in actor W. C. Fields. Though treatments, including oral and topical antibiotics and laser therapies, can ameliorate symptoms, there is no cure. But a study published Sunday in the online edition of Nature Medicine points the way to potentially better therapy. We spoke with its author, dermatologist Richard Gallo of the University of California-San Diego.
AP - For one spectacular moment, Barry Bonds and everybody cheering him could forget about the controversy surrounding his chase and appreciate the phenomenal feat: 756.
AP - The leaders of North and South Korea, capitalizing on progress in shutting down the North's nuclear program, plan to meet later this month for the second-ever summit between the longtime foes, officials said Wednesday.
AP - Seismic activity "totally shut down" efforts to reach six miners trapped below ground, causing a cave-in that wiped out all the work done in the past day, a mine executive said Tuesday.
Giants slugger Barry Bonds became baseball's home run king Tuesday night, crushing career homer No. 756 to wrest the most hallowed record in sports from Hank Aaron. Bonds later firmly rejected any suggestion that his feat was tainted by steroids.
Efforts to reach six men trapped in a collapsed coal mine in Utah all but ground to a halt Tuesday by what the mine operator's CEO called continuing "seismic and tectonic activity." It will now be a week before rescuers can reach where the men are believed to be, but it is hoped contact will be made with them in the next two or three days.
Wild weather has plagued the globe this year, a U.N. agency says, causing some of the highest temperatures on record. The extremes include excessive monsoon conditions in Asia, record floods and heat in Europe, and an unusually cold southern hemisphere winter with significant snowfall in South Africa.
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