Byline: -- Associated Press
BUFFALO -- A Chinese man will serve 1 years in federal prison for bribing immigration officials in a scheme to illegally bring as many as 1,000 of his countrymen into the United States.
Hua Chu Wu also was fined $2,000 Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John T. Elfvin and ordered to forfeit $23,400 he paid in bribes to an undercover …
Former super middleweight champion Carl Froch and Arthur Abraham will fight on neutral ground in Monaco in the third stage of the World Boxing Classic, as both try to secure a spot in the tournament semifinals.
The fight will take place on Oct. 2 at the Chapiteau de l'Espace Fontvieille in the principality on the Mediterranean Sea. Froch had wanted the fight in his native England, Abraham wanted it in Germany, and tournament backer Showtime discussed staging the fight in Montreal.
"The intensity of the selection process for this venue speaks to the enormity of the moment," Showtime vice president Ken Hershman said in a statement. "All the …
Nicholas Di Genova
FREDERICKS & FREISER
Art built around the repetitive accumulation of objects and images has been around for long enough that it could constitute an extensive collection of its own. From China's 2,200-year-old Terracotta Army to Antony Gormley's Field, 1991; from Andy Warhol's early-1960s soup cans and Coke bottles to Allan McCollum's "Shapes Project," 20052006, countless artists have exploited the power of sheer number for visual impact and associative effect. And though this compulsive racking and stacking has perhaps most often been linked to Minimalism and its direct descendants - think, to take one iconic example, of Walter De Maria's Broken …
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen found on Monday an explosive charge and ammunitions cache which belongs to the former Iraqi army in two separate areas in southern Kirkuk, a source from the joint coordination center said.
"A police patrol found on Monday (May 17) an explosive charge in Mafraq Doumiz region behind al-Sulaimaniya restaurant in southern Kirkuk," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
"The …
Byline: ELLEN GOODMAN
BOSTON -- What got me were the sheep. The newspaper ad featured a shepherd and his flock on some remote moor. And the caption asked: ``Wish you had more free time?''
Well, yeah. Summertime and the livin' ain't easy. Free time is the subject of more fantasies than frozen yogurt. But these sheep weren't posing for a rural getaway or a pastoral retreat. They were modeling for wireless phone service.
I usually glaze over ads. This one caught my eye because it was wrought by AT&T, the same folks who conned an entire country into believing we could ``reach out and touch someone'' with nothing more tactile than a voice. In the …
Energy prices fell for a second consecutive day Friday as the U.S. reported a sharp plunge in jobs.
Crude and gasoline price have risen sharply for more than a week with economic data suggesting that manufacturing activity has accelerated across the globe.
Yet if the job picture remains gloomy, it is unlikely that higher energy prices can be sustained.
Benchmark crude fell 42 cents to $82.24 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after closing down 52 cents on Thursday.
U.S. companies shed 85,000 jobs last month, more than expected, and the numbers would have been worse if more people had been looking for work. Many have left …
"Fat loss during cooking of duck 'foie gras' is the main quality issue for both processors and consumers. Despite the efforts of the processing industry to control fat loss, the variability of fatty liver cooking yield remains high and uncontrolled," scientists in St. Genes Champanelle, France report.
"To better understand the biological basis of this phenomenon, a proteomic study was conducted. To analyze the protein fraction soluble at low ionic strength (US), we used bidimensional electrophoresis and mass spectrometry for the identification of spots of interest. To analyze the protein fraction not soluble at low ionic strength (NS), we used the shotgun strategy. The …
