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• Oil slides as the unemployment rate jumps
We're definitely in a short-term bearish trend," said Gavin Went, head of mining and resources at research firm Fat Prophets in Sydney. "With prices falling so rapidly, I think OPEC would like to protect that $100 price barrier.
• Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city
Haiti's government has few resources to help. Rescue convoys have been blocked by floodwaters, although the U.N. World Food Program said Thursday it was sending a food-laden boat to Gonaives from the capital, Port-au-Prince, and would set up a base ...
• Hanna bears down on Southeast as Ike weakens
FEMA was sending hundreds of truckloads of meals, water and other supplies to the East Coast but also leaving resources on the Gulf Coast in case Ike heads there.
• HP's 'End Run' Around Windows
But he adds that HP isn't devoting large-scale resources. "Is HP funding a huge R&D team to go off and create an operating system?" That "makes no sense," he says, given the compatibility problems with users' software programs that such an effort ...
• Soldier suicide rate may set record again
If all are confirmed, that means that the number for 2008 could eclipse the 115 of last year — and the rate per 100,000 could surpass that of the civilian population, Col. Eddie Stephens, deputy director of human resources policy, said at a ...