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Earnings roundup: Brown Shoe, Coldwater Creek

Among the earnings stories for Tuesday, Nov. 24, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Tyson Foods, Inter Parfums

Among the earnings stories for Monday, Nov. 23, from AP Financial News:

Movers roundup: Dress Barn, Hibbett Sports

Among the stock activity stories for Friday, Nov. 20, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Phillips-Van Heusen, Petsmart

Among the earnings stories for Wednesday, Nov. 18, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Tween Brands, Perfect World

Among the earnings stories for Monday, Nov. 16, from AP Financial News:

Movers roundup: AeroVironment, Ciena

Among the stock activity stories for Monday, Nov. 16, from AP Financial News:

Movers roundup: Northwest Pipe, The Buckle

Among the stock activity stories for Thursday, Nov. 12, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Nordstrom, Blockbuster

Among the earnings stories for Thursday, Nov. 12, from AP Financial News:

Outlook roundup: Advanced Micro Devices, Lear

Among the earnings projection stories for Wednesday, Nov. 11, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Freddie Mac, PriceSmart

Among the earnings stories for Friday, Nov. 6, from AP Financial News:

World unemployment up despite economic recovery

Despite signs of an economic revival gathering pace around the globe, the millions of people laid off during the worst recession in 70 years are unlikely to see relief any time soon as joblessness is still climbing in many of the world's largest economies.

Earnings roundup: CareFusion, Cardinal Health

Among the earnings stories for Thursday, Nov. 5, from AP Financial News:

Movers roundup: Whole Foods, Amdocs

Among the stock activity stories for Thursday, Nov. 5, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: GMAC, Molson Coors

Among the earnings stories for Wednesday, Nov. 4, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Nicor, Alliant Energy

Among the earnings stories for Friday, Oct. 30, from AP Financial News:

Movers roundup: Alcoa, First Solar

Among the stock activity stories for Thursday, Oct. 29, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: AutoNation, KBR

Among the earnings stories for Thursday, Oct. 29, from AP Financial News:

Movers roundup: Illumina, Panera Bread

Among the stock activity stories for Wednesday, Oct. 28, from AP Financial News:

Sector roundup: Homebuilders, airlines

Among the sector activity stories for Wednesday, Oct. 28, from AP Financial News:

Outlook roundup: Plexus, AmeriGas

Among the earnings projection stories for Wednesday, Oct. 28, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Goodyear, ManTech

Among the earnings stories for Wednesday, Oct. 28, from AP Financial News:

Earnings roundup: Heartland Financial, Masco

Among the earnings stories for Monday, Oct. 26, from AP Financial News:

Outlook roundup: Lululemon, Limited Brands

Among the earnings projection stories for Monday, Oct. 26, from AP Financial News:

Movers roundup: Riverbed Technology, FiberTower

Among the stock activity stories for Monday, Oct. 26, from AP Financial News:

Correction: 3Q earnings roundup

In an Oct. 22 roundup on earnings, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Amazon.com Inc.'s third-quarter net income rose 62 percent. The company's net income actually rose 68 percent.

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Monsanto Even Worrying BIG Ag Now!
Source: St. Louis Business Jornal

The annual conference for the Organization for Competetive Markets is coming next month to St. Louis. Why St. Louis? Central location, and a certain company named Monsanto is located there. So the theme to the conference? "Confronting Threats to Market Competition."

Feds roundup more than 35,000 fugitives
Source: msnbc.com

At a news conference Thursday morning, federal officials in Chicago said the number is a record for the so-called "Operation Falcon," which has been conducted annually since 2005.

A Year Without a Mexican; Iowa meatpacker files bankruptcy
Source: MotherJones.com

In the meantime, dozens of ex-workers still walk around Postville in ankle bracelets, unable to earn a living, making the town something of an open-air prison. Some of them are witnesses in state and federal cases against Agri.

Monsanto's Roundup Residues in GM Food Cause Cell Damage
Source: organicconsumers.org

This new article from CRIIGEN shows that Roundup residues found in GM food and feed can cause cell damage and even death -- even at very low levels. The authors say that their research "...

Prohibition Racket Harms Indigenous Farmers
Source: food.change.org

They say you can learn a lot about people both by the company they keep and the enemies they make. Our War on Drugs is good buddies with Monsanto and a determined enemy of small scale, indigenous agriculture from the Andes to the Yucatan.

Bison roundup shows species' prairie recovery
Source: msnbc.com

Bison are no longer in danger of extinction.� With more than 500,000 living in North America, the animals can be found on private ranches, public parks� and wildlife preserves.

Vanity Fair Investigation: Monsanto's Harvest of Fear
Source: The Latest From VanityFair.com

Monsanto already dominates America's food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.

The World According to Monsanto
Source: Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see.

The World's Vilest, Most Dangerous Corporation?
Source: Google

Monsanto. On March 11, a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE) by journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin: The World According to Monsanto. The documentary was the result of three-years of research across the world.

Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide May Be Spreading Deadly Fungus
Source: organicconsumers.org

Scientists are expressing alarm about the relationship between the application of a common weed killer to food crops and the resultant proliferation of potentially toxic fungal moulds in the harvest.

Report Raises Alarm over 'Superweeds' Spawned by Monsanto's Roundup
Source: Business Week

According to the report, the amount of weed-killing herbicides used by farmers has exploded, rising fifteenfold since biotech crops were first planted.

US Herbicides Exact High Toll on Indigenous Populations
Source: t r u t h o u t

Despite years of ongoing, critical public health controversies in Colombia and Ecuador over the US-assisted aerial herbicide spraying of coca and poppy crops while trying to reduce illegal cocaine and heroin production, US State Department officials are pursuing that very same sp …

Millions Against Monsanto - The Fact Page at Organic Consumers Assn
Source: Organic Consumers' Assn.

1) Take Action! Sign the Millions Against Monsanto petition, demanding that the Monsanto Corporation make changes, 2) Worldwide news items on other consumers' decisions, our patent office, Hillary, Pa.'s Ag Commish, etc. 3) Monsanto's war against family farmers, 4) Roundup aid …

U.S. ignores angry reaction to secret poppy spraying test
Source: mcclatchydc.com

In 2004, U.S.-contracted aircraft secretly sprayed harmless plastic granules over poppy fields in Afghanistan to gauge public reaction to using herbicides to kill the opium poppies that help fund the Taliban and al Qaida.

US officials push to spray Afghan drug crops
Source: Telegraph

"The US government has asked for the use of chemical spray but our officials in the ministry of health and ministry of agriculture are not yet satisfied it is safe," said Zalmai Afzali, a spokesman for counter-narcotics in the Kabul government.

United States to begin Chemical Warfare operations in Afghanistan
Source: www.chycho.com

As we continue to fund, with our tax dollars, the operations in Afghanistan, we should be asking ourselves if conducting chemical warfare on a civilian population and creating "Super Opium Poppy" plants is an agenda that we wish to support in the occupation of Afghanistan?

US News Reports Monsanto PR as fact
Source: US News & World Report

It's hard to know if these writers are limited to the information in the Press Releases, or they lack any investigative qualities, but the public relations and marketing material from Monsanto couldn't spin the facts any better than what went out as an article by US News and Wo …

New Glyphosate-Tolerant Corn From Athenix Demonstrates Superior Performance
Source: CNET News.com

Corn plants featuring a new class of genes discovered by Athenix Corp. have shown that they can withstand at least eight times the standard field rate of glyphosate recommended for currently available glyphosate-tolerant corn, new field trial results confirm.

Studies find DNA damage from anti-coca herbicide
Source: ipsnews.net

US-funded aerial spraying of coca plantations in Colombia near the Ecuador border has severely damaged the DNA of local residents, a new study has found. [...]

Aerial spraying of herbicide 'damages DNA'
Source: scidev.net

Aerial spraying of a herbicide by the Colombian government on the border of Colombia and Ecuador has caused a high degree of DNA damage in local Ecuadorian people, according to a study.

Great Emu Roundup in Colorado
Source: thedenverchannel.com

It likely will be remembered in these parts as The Great Emu Roundup. On Friday, Alamosa County Sheriff Dave Stong authorized the roundup of 100 of the birds that had been abandoned on a ranch south of here.

Who Benefits from GM Crops?
Source: Biosafety Journal

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE REPORT: �Who Benefits from GM crops? An analysis of the global performance of genetically modified (GM) crops 1996-2006�

Monsanto's Roundup linked to health problems
Source: Environmental Health Perspectives

Our studies show that glyphosate acts as a disruptor of mammalian cytochrome P450 aromatase activity from concentrations 100 times lower than the recommended use in agriculture; this is noticeable on human placental cells after only 18 hr, and it can also affect aromatase gene ex …

Football League 2 Roundup: 5th December, 2006

Today 22 of the 24 league teams played in a Tuesday evening fixture. Harsh conditions almost everywhere may have played a part in the 9 wins and losses, 1 non-scoring draw and 1 scoring draw, all detailed below.

Football League 2 Roundup: 2nd December, 2006 (FA Cup Round 2)

Today saw 14 League 2 teams take part in the second round of the E.on FA Cup. 6 wins, 3 loses and 3 games to be replayed, each one detailed below.

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