National Sports Center for the Disabled Announces New Facility
Forbes - Personal Tech Sciences Security Wireless Bonds Commodities Currencies Economy Emerging Markets Equities Options Finance Human Resources Law WINTER PARK, Colo., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ — The National Sports Center for the Disabled, one of the largest outdoor

Politics of hysteria drives Arizona law
Miami Herald - B eginning today, Arizona embarks on a great experiment testing the notion that targeting employers is the best way to deal with illegal immigration. This is a draconian plan that attempts to eliminate a significant part of the workforce, but it’s

Smokey Cafes Are Out As Smoking Ban Goes Into Force in France
ABC News - ban on lighting up in cafes, restaurants and discotheques, a sea change for a country where the cigarette came to symbolize the French way of life. A New Year’s Day reprieve allowed revelers their last legal drags in public places before the new law

Government is offering TV converter coupons
Baltimore Sun - The federal law that mandates the digital conversion required NTIA to start offering coupons Jan. 1. But officials are urging people to wait before applying. The coupons will expire 90 days after they are issued to assure they don’t go unused. “We

Planters of Monsanto corn get insurance break
Baltimore Sun - USDA officials say products such as Monsanto’s seed corn were encouraged in a 2000 crop insurance law enacted by Congress. The idea is to give farmers a break on their insurance premiums if they use corn seed that is higher yielding and shown to

Jeremy Sisto joins cast of NBC’s ‘Law & Order’
Newsday - When Jeremy Sisto got his first glimpse of the updated “Law & Order” opening, there he was in a courthouse setting alongside his castmates, just like so many who had come before him. Sisto hums a few bars of the “Law & Order” theme, and recalls with