President Bush said he took “full responsibility” for the slow federal response to the disaster as he made a choreographed trip to the city that suffered most.
With a target price of nearly $5 billion, the sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village would be the biggest deal for a single U.S. property in modern times.
Enter the work space of Vital Marketing in New York City, and you'll find a plasma TV in the lobby as well as an open reception area. No cubicles for founder Joe Anthony's employees. "We group our project teams together.... We try to almost create these bullpens so people will always be able to turn around and troubleshoot," says Anthony, 32, of his business, which specializes in multicultural and youth marketing and averages $20 million in annual sales.
A blog isn't a website. Simply repurposing your site content, press releases or brochures on your blog means death in the blogosphere. When blogging for business, you have to change what and how you communicate.
If you missed the first internet wave, it may not be too late. Working with new business models and boosted by investors' growing appetites for dotcom startups, a second swell of online enterprises is emerging.
AP - Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Wednesday that he refused to have any direct contact with Israel and Lebanon would be the last Arab country to ever sign a peace deal with the Jewish state.
AP - South Florida residents breathed a sigh of relief early Wednesday after Tropical Storm Ernesto confounded forecasters by lumbering ashore without the hurricane-strength winds that had once been feared.
AP - Bombing attacks across Iraq targeting a market, an army recruiting center and a police patrol killed at least 39 people and wounded dozens Wednesday, police said.
Tropical Storm Ernesto made landfall at 11:30 p.m. on Plantation Key, Florida, with 45-mph winds. The storm is about 45 miles southwest of Miami and is moving north-northwest at 8 mph. Forecasters say Ernesto likely will weaken and stay over Florida for a day or so, but could spread rain as far north as Delaware by Thursday.
The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledges that it violated its staffing policies Sunday when only one air traffic controller was on duty at Lexington's Blue Grass Airport -- where a Comair jet crash killed 49 people.