It’s no secret that size matters in the National Football League (search), but a new study suggests that a whopping 56 percent of NFL players would be considered obese by some medical standards. The NFL called the study bogus for using players’ body-mass index (search), a height-to-weight ratio that doesn’t …
Read More »
TAMPA, Fla. – In what may prove to be Terri Schiavo’s parents’ “final shot,” their attorney was trying to persuade a judge Friday that the severely brain-damaged woman had expressed her will to live. According to an emergency motion filed late Friday afternoon, attorney Barbara Weller said that during a …
Read More »
NEW YORK – Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS), the top U.S. bookseller, Thursday said quarterly profit fell 11 percent and warned 2005 earnings will miss Wall Street forecasts due to spending on a new distribution center, sending its stock down as much as 7 percent. Including the effect of GameStop …
Read More »
Want Greta’s blog delivered directly to your e-mail box? Click here to sign up! If you saw Wednesday night’s show, you heard an audio tape that Bob Schindler (search) taped when he was in Terri’s room in 2002. I am curious what you thought of the tape. As you know, …
Read More »
NEW YORK – MBIA Inc. (MBI), one of the world’s largest bond insurers, on Tuesday said it will restate financial results from 1998 through 2004 to correct its accounting for two reinsurance agreements with Converium Re. One agreement involved the purchase by Armonk, New York-based MBIA (search) of reinsurance to …
Read More »
NEW YORK – Chemical group Crompton Corp. (CK) will acquire smaller rival Great Lakes Chemical Corp. (GLK) for $1.54 billion, creating the third-largest U.S. specialty chemicals company, the companies said on Wednesday. The friendly, all-stock transaction will create a company with revenue of more than $4.1 billion and a market …
Read More »
WIESBADEN, Germany – A U.S. tank company commander pleaded not guilty Monday at the opening of his military trial on charges related to the killing last year of an Iraqi man witnesses have said was critically wounded. Capt. Rogelio Maynulet (search), 30, from Chicago, could face a maximum sentence of …
Read More »
WASHINGTON – President Bush loses backing from independents, women and older Americans when he changes the topic from terrorism and foreign policy to overhauling Social Security (search), an Associated Press poll found. While a majority of Americans approve of Bush’s handling of terrorism and foreign policy (search), just over a …
Read More »
WASHINGTON – President Bush was briefed by staff on a 8.7-scale earthquake near Indonesia (search) as American diplomatic, geological and oceanic officials moved swiftly Monday to provide aid and planning assistance. Aides gave the president details of the quake as he flew back to Washington after spending Easter week at …
Read More »
WASHINGTON – This article is the second in a two-part series on the return of amputee soldiers to active duty. At Walter Reed Army Medical Center (search), dozens of amputees at a time spend their days learning to rebuild their lives. For many, that process includes the dream of returning …
Read More »