WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has approved a request by the new U.S. commander in Iraq for an extra 2,200 military police to help deal with an anticipated increase in detainees during the Baghdad security crackdown, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday.
Gates told reporters at the Pentagon that the extra MPs are in addition to the 21,500 combat troops that President Bush is sending for the Baghdad security plan and 2,400 other troops designated to support them.
"That's a new …
Jai Nagarkatti, president and chief executive of biochemicals company Sigma-Aldrich Corp., received a compensation package worth $4 million in 2008, up 25 percent from a year ago, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing made late Wednesday.
Nagarkatti's salary for the year was $750,000, a 14 percent increase from 2007. His performance bonus decreased 19 percent to $356,625. The value of his stock and options on the dates they were granted climbed 41 percent to $2.7 million, but Sigma-Aldrich shares are well short of the options' exercise price of $52.76 per share.
The St. Louis company's profit grew 10 …
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. Project Galileo scientists saidSunday they hope to verify indications received from Voyager 2 adecade ago that Jupiter's second satellite, Europa, contains a bodyof water on the scale of an earthly ocean beneath its icy and rockycrust.
The eight-year mission to Jupiter and its major satellites isscheduled for launching by the space shuttle Atlantis on Oct. 12. Itmarks the first attempt to follow up the discoveries of Voyager 1 andVoyager 2 a decade ago.
The objectives were described at a news conference conductedsimultaneously at Kennedy Space Center and at the Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
The scientists …
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down an unmanned U.S. spy plane that was trying to gather information on an underground uranium enrichment site, a state-owned news site said Wednesday.
Lawmaker Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari said the drone was flying over the Fordo uranium enrichment site near the holy city of Qom in central Iran, the state TV-run Youth Journalists Club said.
The report did not say when the plane was shot down.
Iran is locked in a dispute with the U.S. and its allies over Tehran's disputed nuclear program, which the West believes aims to develop nuclear weapons. Iran denies the accusations, saying its nuclear program is aimed at generating …
A Charlotte insurance agency owner charged in the death of a North Carolina state insurance investigator is set to appear in court.
Authorities say 40-year-old Michael Arthur Howell (HOW'-el) of Indian Trail is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 44-year-old Sallie Rohrbach (RAW'-bak). Howell's initial court appearance will be held Monday afternoon in Superior Court in Charlotte.
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AUGUST 30, 2007
Lucknow
It's been exactly one week since Uttar Pradesh Chief MinisterMayawati ordered the closure of organised retail outlets in thestate. BT's destination for the day is the state capital Lucknow--the city of nawabs and kebabs. Dotted with countless hoardings ofMayawati, the city is the centre of another controversy--the rollbackof state agricultural policy that allowed contract farming and theentry of private sector players in agri-business. The majorstakeholders impacted by the hullabaloo are the farmers and the bigorganised retail players.
It's 7.30 a.m. as we come out of the Amausi Airport. As the localnewspapers report overwhelming …
Case alleging harassment of University of Mich. gay student continues
DETROIT - Former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell was reprimanded by a federal judge last week for attempting to find a shortcut to end a lawsuit against him for allegedly harassing an openly gay University of Michigan college student.
Beginning in 2010, Shirvell waged an online campaign against the former student body president, Christopher Armstrong. Shirvell also stalked Armstrong on campus, protesting his public appearances with harassing signage and shouting out insults. In April of this year, Armstrong, 21, filed a lawsuit against Shirvell, seeking more than $25,000 in …
