Padded Pensions Add to New York Fiscal Woes
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH and AMY SCHOENFELD
Published: May 20, 2010
In Yonkers, more than 100 retired police officers and firefighters are collecting pensions greater than their pay when they were working. One of the youngest, Hugo Tassone, retired at 44 with a base pay of about $74,000 a year. His...
Euro’s slide may give U.S. more rope to hang itself
May 20, 2010 17:06 EDT
currencies | euro | stocks | U.S. dollar
By Agnes Crane and Christopher Swann
Haven status in a market storm sounds good for the United States — but could make it less safe. Sure, it bolsters the dollar’s standing and delivers the perk of cheap financing. But for...
But BP's "top kill" method to stanch the spill could also break it wide open.
By Peter Fairley
BP is preparing to launch a procedure as early as Sunday to clog the flow of oil and gas from the month-old Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But the proposed...
US army screening process found wanting as untrained Texan claiming to be a former Marine joins Army Reserve as sergeant
Friday 21 May 2010 15.34 BST
A Texas man with no military experience managed to trick the US army into letting him enter a reserve unit as a noncommissioned officer earlier this year, putting an untrained soldier in a...
Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.
5/20/2010 10:00:00 AM
If there’s one entertainment device that people know and love, it’s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*....
