Reuters - Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKa.N) (BRKb.N) lost $310 million in the first quarter from betting against the U.S. dollar, but has nevertheless maintained its roughly $21 billion stake against the greenback, the billionaire said on Saturday.
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AP - A provision in a House-passed energy bill would require federal compensation to private companies for costs associated with oil and gas leases that can’t be developed.
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Apple fans flock to release parties in major cities for the new Mac OS X Tiger. Some folks just have to be the first to own a new product. Daniel Terdiman reports from San Francisco.
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to CD’s own Matt Weiner, whose paper, “Must We Know What We Say?” (draft, in pdf format, available here), has been accepted by my favorite journal, The Philosophical Review. This is almost month-old news, but I just recently heard. So while I’m issuing somewhat belated congratulations to Matt, …
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Wow, check out this reaction to the election of Benedict XVI in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. I mean, the editors might as well have assigned a heavily sedated Matthew Fox to write the piece on the election of the first German pope since 1048. The long subhead reads: Joseph Ratzinger has spent his entire life […]
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According to the seminars offered by our friends at Poynter.org, one of the quickest ways to improve religion news coverage in the MSM is for journalists simply to stop removing the faith elements of stories in which they are already present. This is the opposite of trying to find religion news. The goal is to […]
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Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Saturday estimated that April sales at its U.S. stores open at least a year rose 0.9 percent, meeting its forecast, thanks to strong demand for food.
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Reuters - Investors are likely to remain slightly nervous next week with another rate increase expected from the Federal Reserve and the crucial April non-farm payrolls report on tap.
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New Yorkers turn out in droves for the chance to dismantle Barbie phones and make them emit sounds they were never intended to produce. Rachel Metz reports from the Bent 2005 electronic arts festival in New York.
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Experts at the Climate Modeling Group at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), part of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, expect drought to worsen in the Plains and the West over the next several years due to La Niña-like conditions.
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