Day September 11, 2005

A time for action

Many are stunned and reeling from Katrina; from the devastation, the grotesquely inadequate response of the government, the hundreds of thousands of homeless, and from the now obvious fact that millions of Americans live in poverty and are ignored by…

Storm stretches refiners past a perilous point

Oil and gas production in the Gulf is starting to come back, however the major problem area is the refineries, many of which are down with flooded and disabled machinery, no power, no roads, and no work force. Because the…

Great moments in dining

A restaurant in north-east China has been raided and closed for listing stir fried-tiger meat on its menu, a dish that turned out to be donkey dressed with tiger urine.