Some people have bad backs and still walk through life. Others can't get out of bed. Some people with nerve pain gobble pills. Others grit it out. And often these different reactions come from people with equal injuries. Why?
The face-off between deal-seeking home buyers and sellers reluctant to lower their prices continued last month, crimping home sales for the sixth month in a row.
The Big Three. We tend to think of the three domestic automakers–General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler–in lock step. And, yes, all suffer from common problems: aging infrastructure, outdated technology, overreliance on big trucks and SUVs, and huge healthcare and "legacy" costs that pump up the expense of every vehicle they make.
AP - Acknowledging painful losses in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday he is not satisfied with the progress of the long and unpopular war, but he still insisted the United States was winning and should not think about withdrawing.
AP - South Korea said Thursday it will ban the entry of North Korean officials who fall under a U.N. travel restriction Seoul's first concrete move to enforce sanctions imposed after the North's nuclear test.
AP - An angry Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki disavowed a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in the capital's Sadr City slum Wednesday, and criticized the top U.S. military and diplomatic representatives in Iraq for saying his government needs to set a timetable to curb violence in the country.
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its torture flights programme.
Danny Harold Rolling, Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, died singing. He was executed by injection Wednesday evening for the grisly murders of five college students during a 1990 spree that terrorized the college town of Gainesville, Florida. "Mr. Rolling sang a song," a prisons spokesman said. "It was almost hymnal."
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the state's constitution gives gay and lesbian couples all the rights of married heterosexual couples. "The issue is not about the transformation of the traditional definition of marriage, but about the unequal dispensation of benefits and privileges to one of two similarly situated classes of people," the court said.