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Wall St. boom stirs Hamptons home sales
May 27 2007 11:51PM (CT)
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - Forget window shopping the photos of million-dollar manses in the real estate shops on Southampton's Main Street. If you really want to know how the housing market in the Hamptons is faring as summer beckons, Steven Gaines suggests an unusual yardstick.
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Designer Tang pushes fashion in China
May 27 2007 11:46PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - David Tang is famous for founding the Shanghai Tang label that put Mandarin-collared shirts, cheongsam dresses and other Chinese-style fashion on boutique shelves from New York to Paris.
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Designer Tang pushes fashion in China
May 27 2007 11:46PM (CT)
HONG KONG (AP) - David Tang is famous for founding the Shanghai Tang label that put Mandarin-collared shirts, cheongsam dresses and other Chinese-style fashion on boutique shelves from New York to Paris.
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Manual lawn mowers are making a comeback
May 27 2007 11:36PM (CT)
CHICAGO (AP) - Powerful, loud mowers have been showing lawns who's boss for decades. But now contraptions that couldn't cut butter without a good shove are quietly _ really quietly _ making a comeback.
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EU-Asia talks to focus on trade, climate
May 27 2007 5:23PM (CT)
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - Climate change, energy, closer trade ties and North Korea's nuclear weapon's program will be high on the agenda at talks starting Monday among European Union and Asian foreign ministers.
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Strike forces air cancelations in Sweden
May 27 2007 5:22PM (CT)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Scandinavian Airlines' unit in Sweden canceled some 150 flights in Europe and Sweden on Sunday because of a strike by cabin staff, the airline said.
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Russian miner dies in hospital
May 27 2007 5:20PM (CT)
MOSCOW (AP) - A worker injured in a methane blast in a Siberian coal mine died in the hospital Sunday, bringing the death toll in Russia's latest mine disaster to 39, a government official said.
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Companies working to pare down waste
May 27 2007 2:03AM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - With earthshaking thuds, a plastic-stamping machine hammers a sheet of hot plastic into king-size drinking cups destined to quench travelers' thirst for soda at the nation's convenience stores. The blank white cups aren't just flexible and resistant to splitting _ they're also made from less plastic than Berry Plastics Corp.'s competitors through a manufacturing process the company guards so closely it forbids photographs of those machines.
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Companies working to pare down waste
May 27 2007 2:03AM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - With earthshaking thuds, a plastic-stamping machine hammers a sheet of hot plastic into king-size drinking cups destined to quench travelers' thirst for soda at the nation's convenience stores. The blank white cups aren't just flexible and resistant to splitting _ they're also made from less plastic than Berry Plastics Corp.'s competitors through a manufacturing process the company guards so closely it forbids photographs of those machines.
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Companies working to pare down waste
May 27 2007 2:03AM (CT)
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - With earthshaking thuds, a plastic-stamping machine hammers a sheet of hot plastic into king-size drinking cups destined to quench travelers' thirst for soda at the nation's convenience stores. The blank white cups aren't just flexible and resistant to splitting _ they're also made from less plastic than Berry Plastics Corp.'s competitors through a manufacturing process the company guards so closely it forbids photographs of those machines.
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