Experts disarm WW II bomb

VIENNA (AP) — Demining experts have disarmed a World War II bomb found at a major Vienna construction site.

Police say the bomb was discovered during excavation work at the site where the …

Summary Box: Stocks retreat from last week's rally

PULLBACK: Stocks pulled back as traders retreated from a rally that brought indexes to their highest levels since the peak of the 2008 financial crisis last week. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 37 to close at 11,406.

GOLD HITS $1,400: Gold crossed $1,400 an ounce …

THE 2005 AMS MEMBERSHIP SURVEY

Insights into a Professional Society

How does the AMS better serve its membership? One way is to better understand who belongs to the Society. Since 1975, this understanding has in part been obtained through a membership survey. The survey responses provide a contemporary snapshot of the AMS and offer a fascinating historical perspective on how the Society, and the atmospheric and related science community in general, have evolved.

Drafted principally by members of the AMS Board on Women and Minorities, the most recent survey, conducted in 2005, was the first to be administered electronically. The response rate of 66% is exceptionally large compared to previous AMS mail …

House Panel Questions High Pay for CEOs

Lawmakers confronted corporate executives Friday about how they managed to take home hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation while their companies were taking a financial nosedive from the subprime mortgage crisis.

"It seems that CEOs hit the lottery when their companies collapse," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said at the opening of the hearing. "Any reasonable relation between their compensation and the interests of their shareholders appears to have broken down."

Appearing before the panel were Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender; …

Leaders of France, Brazil aim for unity on G-20

The presidents of France and Brazil are to try to forge a united front going into the G-20 summit by building on the two nations' common call for tighter regulation of financial markets.

France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva are slated to meet Wednesday in Paris hours before the opening of the London summit, at which the world's richest countries are to take on the economic crisis.

Silva's spokesman, Marcelo Baumbach, told reporters the Brazilian leader believes that Brazil and France are well placed "to propose a systemic reform that would allow the financial institutions to respond to the present challenges."

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Ben & Jerry's unveils Schweddy Balls ice cream

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Ben & Jerry's is unveiling a new flavor, and it doesn't sound too tasty.

"Schweddy Balls" is an homage to an old "Saturday Night Live" skit featuring Alec Baldwin as bakery owner Pete Schweddy, whose unique holiday offerings included something called "Schweddy Balls."

Sean Greenwood, a spokesman for the Vermont ice cream maker, said Thursday that …