In spring 2006, 13 employees from Southern Land Company's architecture department in Franklin, Tenn., flew to Dallas and canvassed neighborhoods including Swiss Avenue, Munger Place and the Park Cities, armed with notebooks and cameras. Their mission: Find the most charming,

WASHINGTON - The government's plan to make sure private managers of a $700 billion bailout plan are free of conflicts of interest is weak, according to some critics, and allows too much room for abuse. The Treasury Department is in

WASHINGTON - The World Bank has agreed to protect poor and vulnerable countries in the current financial turmoil. The head of the bank's policy-setting committee, Mexican Finance Minister Agustin Carstens, said participants in the group's meeting Sunday made the commitment

Forget about the notion of thrift shops as the refuge of the working poor or the vintage fashion hipster. In these troubled times, the lure of a secondhand retail bargain is attracting a new breed of customer. The Salvation Army

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told international leaders on Sundaythat isolationism and protectionism could worsen the spreadingfinancial crisis.

Nations in Europe's single-currency zone agreed Sunday to temporarilyguarantee bank refinancing and pledged to prevent banks failing as partof a raft of emergency measures designed to get credit flowing again.

The government's plan to make sure private managers of a $700 billionbailout plan are free of conflicts of interest is weak, according tosome critics, and allows too much room for abuse.

Over the last few weeks, the authorities and regulators in the European region have taken several measures to rescue large financial firms such as Belgium's largest financial-services company Fortis NA, Britain's largest lender to landlords Bradford & Bingley PLC, Franco-Belgian

The agreement involves 20,000 employees of its 35,000 workforce. Under the new terms, CWA members are secured for an extra year despite hard economic times as Qwest resolves increasing operating costs.

newsweek.com/id/163449 (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081012/NYSU005 ) "The Anatomy of Fear" (p. 31). Senior Editor Daniel Gross reports on the impact of the fear in the economic crisis. In recent weeks, the emotions expressed by the people in finance include anxiety, panic, rage,

2008 Republican Presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) will visit the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, Thursday, Oct. 16 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. This will mark Sen. McCain's first return to LATE SHOW since canceling

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) today announced results from an analysis of nearly 7,500 patients from its TAXUS ARRIVE 1 and 2 registries, which are designed to confirm the performance of the TAXUS(R) Express2(TM) Paclitaxel-Eluting Coronary Stent System in

Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX ) today announced comprehensive data from the TAXUS ATLAS clinical program, a series of global, prospective, multi-center, single-arm, historically controlled trials, which evaluate the TAXUS(R) Liberte(R) Paclitaxel-Eluting Stent System in a variety of lesions and

Mentice, Inc., a leading developer and supplier of virtual reality (VR) based medical simulation systems and Education Management Solutions, Inc. (EMS), a leader in clinical skills training and evaluation software solutions, today announced at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium in

Peroni Nastro Azzurro, the premium Italian lager, today announced it will continue its sponsorship of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios this season. As the official beer of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, Peroni will be available backstage at many shows and

Rentrak Theatrical, a business unit of Rentrak Corporation (Nasdaq: RENT ), today announced the weekend theatrical box office estimates for the weekend period of October 10 through October 12, 2008 according to the company's Box Office Essentials(TM) theatrical box office

Amid all the difficulties and hardship that we are about to undergo, I see one silver lining. This crisis has -- dramatically, vengefully -- forced the United States to confront the bad habits it has developed over the past few

Four nominees for the AT&T All-America Player of the Week award have been announced after the seventh week of college football action, and now it's up to fans to determine the winner. Oklahoma State running back Kendall Hunter, University of

A little week-end application tip for those of you looking for more cool S60 stuff to put on your mobile device (I have these on a Nokia N95 8GB). I've added several cool, new mobile apps to my device in

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Henrietta Fore participated in consultative discussions at the World Bank's annual meetings today and announced the Agency's commitment to partner with the World Bank to develop ways