Pretoria - There were mixed feelings from commuters and motorists alike in Pretoria on Thursday r... Mixed feelings on Car Free
Pretoria - There were mixed feelings from commuters and motorists alike in Pretoria on Thursday regarding Car Free Day.
"This campaign doesn't mean much to me. I take the taxi to town everyday from Mamelodi," said Andile Sithole who works for an insurance company in the city.
Dave Smit, who drives from Silverton, said the campaign was a waste of time and government money.
Albertans will have to wait a little longer to see Premier Ralph Klein's so-called Third Way of ... No way for 'Third Way&#
Albertans will have to wait a little longer to see Premier Ralph Klein's so-called Third Way of health reform.
The legislation, which was slated to be introduced during the fall sitting of the Alberta legislature, has once again been put on the back-burner.
Klein said yesterday that not all of the legislation that would be required to create private insurance for non-emergency proc...
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Governments need to stop assuming that death and destruction from natural ... Science group urges better
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Governments need to stop assuming that death and destruction from natural disasters are inevitable and work more closely with scientists on ways to minimize the damage, a leading scientific group said Thursday.
Governments focus too much on response rather than prevention, while the number of known disasters has risen from about 100 per decade before 1940 to nearly ...
European Stocks Rise, Led by SAP, Nestle; Paladin, Total Climb Listen Oct. 20 (Bloomberg)... European Stocks Rise, Led by SAP
European Stocks Rise, Led by SAP, Nestle; Paladin, Total Climb Listen
Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rallied, rebounding from their worst tumble since the London terrorist bombings in July, as SAP AG and Schneider Electric AG raised earnings forecasts and Nestle SA's sales exceeded analysts' estimates.
``We'll have a good reporting season,'' said Anders...
"It's time to change the mind-set that natural disasters are inevitable," said Gordon McBean, au... Science group urges better
"It's time to change the mind-set that natural disasters are inevitable," said Gordon McBean, author of a recent report by the council on natural disaster prevention.
"We can't actually stop hurricanes or tsunamis or other extremes of nature. But ... we can avoid a lot of unnecessary human and economic losses," said McBean, policy chair of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction a...
"We achieved our fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth as we experienced strong consumer in... InsWeb Reports Third Quart
"We achieved our fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth as we experienced strong consumer interest in our auto insurance marketplace, steady performance within our term life offering and continued traction in our agent network program," said Hussein Enan, chairman and CEO of InsWeb. "Last month we successfully launched our unique bid-based agent lead generation program, AgentInsider(TM). O...
BARABOO - Two former managers of a Lake Delton recreational vehicle resort face up to 10 years i... Baraboo residents accused
BARABOO - Two former managers of a Lake Delton recreational vehicle resort face up to 10 years in prison after the prosecution charges they took about $120,000 from their employer through unauthorized credit card and cell phone accounts.
Joan C. Loveless, 57, of Baraboo, appeared in Sauk County Circuit Court Wednesday. Her former co-worker Robert J. Williams, also 57 and of Baraboo,...