Chattanooga: Grease clogs an unwelcome gift for holidays
Kay Keefe and the plumbers on her staff always expect a greasy, gunky day after Thanksgiving.

Plumbers dilemma
SOME Cooma plumbers believe the State Government's plan to change industry regulations are unwarranted while others think simplification of the existing regulations is the way forward.

Astronaut Plumbers Get to Work on Space Station
Astronaut plumbers will hook up the space station's water recycling system today.

Financial storm hits Caribbean
The ocean glows a milky turquoise. Tiny waves lap at the powder-beige sand, in no rush to reach the line of postcard-perfect palm trees.

Candidates make cases in Augusta
U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and challenger Jim Martin were in Augusta at two separate events Saturday trying to garner support for the Dec. 2 runoff.

Historic Plymouth OKs building $488M movie studio
In this place sometimes known as America's hometown, schoolchildren and tourists flock to see Plymouth Rock, a replica of the Mayflower and the place where the Pilgrims and Mashpee Wampanoags Indians shared the first Thanksgiving meal.

Are Labor Unions Trying To Gouge Volkswagen?
National union leaders are said to be asking their Chattanooga members to hike their labor rates, which is causing fear that the move may cost Volkswagen millions more dollars to build it's new plant, or local jobs.

Give 'Em Hill: In a fowl mood
Talking turkey and eating it too, although that's tough to do at the same time

10 things to do this week
The traditional holiday events -- including Winterthur's Yuletide tours and Longwood Gardens' fabulous conservatory display -- see the biggest crowds next weekend.

Financial crisis leaves ghost resorts in Caribbean
Hundreds of luxury villas in the Dominican Republic are positioned to take in the view, but there are no guests.

Waterless Urinals Saving Thousands of Gallons of Water
A urinal that doesn't use water. Smelly or smart?

Julia Moulden: How To Change the World Through Your Workplace (Part 2)
On Monday, I spoke at the Social Entrepreneurship Summit held at the MaRS Centre in Toronto. Although, as the name suggests, people came to learn...

It's Politics: Dreier re-elected to chairman post
Editor's note: It's Politics reports Saturdays on the ins and outs of San Gabriel Valley-area politics and city government.

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COLUMN: A little common sense could go long way
I believe a little common sense is what is needed to help solve the worst economic downturn that I have seen in my lifetime, as well as the foreclosure nightmare that we are facing not only here in Essex County but across Massachusetts and the country.

CNN Student News Transcript: November 21, 2008
November 21, 2008

Blaze damages Milford apartments
MILFORD ? A plumber?s torch likely started a two-alarm fire Thursday night that displaced about 80 people from the Heritage Estates apartment complex.

TRAVEL: Crisis in paradise: Meltdown leaves ghost resorts
PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic ---- Hundreds of luxury villas are positioned to take in a postcard perfect view, but there are no guests. There are no roofs either; neatly tied bundles of red tiles are stacked outside. The wind slams doors and rustles the yellowed newspaper taped to the windows.

Mexico's Dying Occupation
Can you remember a world before email or mobile phones? Well, the scribes in Mexico City can, because that was the world they were able to make a living in.

Through hard work, hustle
Who is Joe the Plumber? In Montana, he's Joe Reber, a Butte-born businessman who grew up in poverty and created a multimillion-dollar plumbing dynasty the old-fashioned way.