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May 15, 2008 |Story| Associated Press

NYC enacts tougher child welfare laws

NEW YORK (AP) _ Child welfare authorities are allowed to remove newborns from homes if the parents had other children taken from their custody and the case is still open, under a new policy enacted by the city. The policy was influenced in part by the...

Tags: Employees, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy

May 15, 2008 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

Kentucky Derby death of Eight Belles casts pall on horse racing

Los Angeles Times

When 13 horses line up for Saturday's Preakness, horse racing will hold its collective breath. The sport absorbed a devastating blow two weeks ago at the 134th Kentucky Derby, when Eight Belles suffered a fatal breakdown moments after she finished second...

Tags: Mass Media, Equestrian, Churchill Downs, Jockey Club Incorporated (The), Preakness Stakes

May 15, 2008 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

GE to sell appliance division

General Electric is planning to sell its appliance division, one of the oldest businesses in the conglomerate's 120-year history, people briefed on the proposal said Wednesday. A sale of the unit, which makes refrigerators, microwaves and washer-dryers...

Tags: General Electric Company, Electrical Appliance, The Goldman Sachs Group Incorporated

May 15, 2008 |Story| Associated Press

Religion today

Associated Press Writer

For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals. Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are "barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don't know, sleep with their sisters or...

Tags: Tennessee, Protestant, Jonathan Edwards, Sinclair Lewis, Clarence Darrow

May 14, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

Obama: We're gonna lose. Big.

Spin Cycle

In case anyone hasn't been listening, Obama issues a pre-WV expectations emphasizing, again, that he expects to lose badly, and that he doesn't think it matters: "And for perspective, while 28 pledged delegates are up for grabs this evening, Obama......

Tags: Primaries, John McCain, Government, Hillary Clinton, National Government

May 14, 2008 |Blog| Newsday

Al Michaels still free to watch NBC on Thursday nights

Watchdog

Speaking of The New York Times (see post below), it offered a small story today on the fact the NFL Network's attempt to land Al Michaels as its play-by-play man had run into a dead end. The story indirectly confirmed......

Tags: Football, National Football League

May 14, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

'A Freewheelin' Life' by Suze Rotolo

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

May 15, 2008 They were cherub-cheeked kids when each landed in Greenwich Village in early 1961, drawn like moths to the flames of art, music, theater and ideas that burned so brightly in every cranny of the Big Apple's most bohemian quarter. She was 17....

Tags: Bertolt Brecht, Manhattan, Greenwich, Brendan Behan, Radio Industry

May 15, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

NBC will take on issue of Eight Belles' death

Special to The Times

Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown may be the center of attention at the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, but runner-up Eight Belles -- who had to be euthanized on the Churchill Downs track after breaking both ankles -- will be a significant part of NBC's...

Tags: Major League Baseball, Baseball, National Football League, Motor Racing, New York Mets

May 15, 2008 |Story| Hartford Courant

Why Call Slump A Crisis?

Lewis Carroll, call your office. Or, better still, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" should call Washington, where the government's determination to solve the housing "crisis" produced this lead paragraph in a recent New York Times story:...