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Too late for the bulk of subprime homeowners? Mortgage Pros Scramble to Modify Loans Lenders Scramble to Help Struggling Homeowners -- "We Don't Want to Foreclose" Wednesday April 4, 4:35 pm ET By Ellen Simon, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- As home foreclosures mount...

Wal-Mart Defends Security Measures Wednesday April 4, 6:04 pm ET, By Marcus Kabel, AP Business Writer Wal-Mart Defends Security After Ex-Worker Details Surveillance of Employees, Consultants BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Wal-Mart's normally low-profile security efforts were thrust into the...

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Curing Cancer: A Patent Impossibility by Bill Walker DIGG THIS The good news this month is that a Canadian team under Dr. Michelakis at the University of Ottawa has discovered that a simple, inexpensive chemical is a powerful anticancer agent, effective against a broad range of...

DCA Research Information The Official University of Alberta Website Letter from Dr. Evangelos Michelakis Department of Medicine, University of Alberta March 15, 2007 Dear Friends: Let me first express my heart felt thanks for all of your support. Our entire team has been...

Nature 446, 474-475 (29 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446474a; Published online 28 March 2007 Cancer patients opt for unapproved drug Helen Pearson Internet trade pre-empts clinical trial. An experimental cancer drug shrinks tumours in rats with no apparent side effects. The scientists...

Hey, this latest greatest fad is so interesting, it deserves it's own spot in Chitty Chat, not Economics. Graphic from the New Scientist article at thread start: Another article: Patients buying illegal cancer drug United Press International, 03-30-07 NEW YORK, Mar 29, 2007...

Grand Canyon Skywalk adds to the wonder By CHRIS KAHN, Associated Press Writer, Fri Mar 30, Few tourist attractions at the Grand Canyon have generated as much hype as the Skywalk, the mammoth glass-bottomed deck that extends 70 feet past the rim of the Grand Canyon and offers breathtaking...

Haven't been to the Hualapi Indian Nation's Grand Canyon Skywalk yet, but here's some info for those who may be interested: Don Havatone, of the Hualapai tribe, watches the rollout of the Skywalk on the Hualapai Indian Reservation at Grand Canyon West, Ariz., Wednesday, March 7, 2007. The...

U.S. Tax Guide for Aliens - Publication 519 International Income Taxes (including "the Aussie end")

Vancouver third-best place to live By CRAIG WONG, CNEWS, April 2, 2007 Photo courtesy of Tourism Vancouver VANCOUVER (CP) - Vancouver ranked third in a global survey ranking overall quality of life, narrowly losing out to Swiss cities Zurich and Geneva, says a new global survey...

Solomons: 13 dead from tsunami • NEW: 12 dead, several people missing, Solomon Islands government says • Tsunami warning issued for other Pacific Rim nations • Earthquake estimated to be around 220 miles northwest of Honiara • USGS: 8.0 magnitude quake was followed by 6.7 magnitude...

OK, I'll bite. 5-point-favored Gators retain their NCAA basketball crown over Ohio state by 1-point. Billy Donovan stays at Florida after receiving a near-lifetime contract extension plus more mega $$$ to make/keep Florida on the fast track as the new-era Kentucky of college BB.

Iran's Seizure of U.K. Sailors Heightens Risks of a U.S. Clash By Judy Mathewson and Janine Zacharia April 2 (Bloomberg) -- After years of patrolling in close quarters in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian and U.S. navies have learned how to leave each other alone; the same isn't true of Iran's...

Cheapest Stocks in 20 Years Signal Bull Market as Economy Slows By Michael Tsang, Daniel Hauck and Nick Baker April 2 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy is slowing. Mortgage defaults are rising. And stocks are the cheapest in 20 years, a ``buy'' signal for some of the world's biggest money...

A powerful magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands, sending a tsunami wave crashing into the country's west coast and prompting region- wide disaster warnings, officials said Monday, April 2, 2007. (AP Graphic) Tsunami Hits Solomon Islands; 4 Missing By EVAN...

And here we thought EliteTrader's (pre-Politics & Religion) Chit Chat Forum was a disorderly disaster a year and a half before, and after the 2004 Election. The way things are shaping up, the Politics & Religion (Polecats & Righteousness) Forum is going to be a real slop-slinging Pyscho...

EliteTrader Search locates a Turtle blast from the past in St. Croix worldatlas.com

Correct. Scrolling at the start of CNBC's "Mad Money" is this attorney-combed-periodically-tweaked viewer caveat: "All opinions expressed by Jim Cramer on this show are solely Cramer’s opinions and do not reflect the opinions of CNBC, NBC UNIVERSAL or their parent company or affiliates...

Here's even another April Fool's Day joke - and it's on us from Baron! Check your watches, guys - what time do YOU have?? :D