Despite operational problems that have kept U.S. refineries running at rates well below normal levels for weeks, gasoline production in the United States is nearing record highs.
Online music is in danger. After intense lobbying by giant music labels, the Copyright Royalty Board dramatically increased the rates webcasters must pay to stream online music. The severe change could force most independent and noncommercial Internet radio off the Web. Sign the petition to urge Congress to pass the Internet Radio Equality Act.
A California man smashed the world record for hot dog eating at a contest Saturday, gobbling up more than 59 franks in 12 minutes. Joe Chestnut, 22, of San Jose, shattered the record held by Takeru Kobayashi of Japan by downing 59 1/2 "HBDs" - hot dogs and buns - during the Southwest Regional Hot Dog Eating Championship in suburban Tempe.
Wall Street carved out a solid advance Friday after data on job creation, manufacturing and inflation injected the market with renewed confidence about the economy and sent major indexes to record closes.
And relief is no where in sight heading into the Memorial Day holiday that marks the start of the summer driving season. Prices continue to rise in most of the country, as the Midwest saw prices soar a nickel or more a gallon in one day in several states.
Very interesting record breaker cats. Worlds fattest and the Most kittens in a lifetime is amazing.
The group warned in congressional testimony this week it believes that more record prices could be on the way. It's forecasting prices will approach $3.25 a gallon over the next 60 days.
Gasoline prices hit a record high for the fourth straight day Wednesday, according to AAA, and more records could be on the way.
Maybe record labels are finally starting to get it. Well, they have to start getting it pretty soon, because there 's nothing like the prospect of extinction to get those innovation-juices flowing.
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Forty years ago a new breed of Super Hero was taking the comic world by storm. Created by Stan Lee in 1962 Spider-Man brushed Superman and Batman by the wayside thanks to Stan Lee's innovative twist.
"Spider-Man 3" sold a record $373 million at the worldwide box office in its first six days of release, according to a preliminary estimate issued on Sunday by the film's distributor. Additionally, the film also set a new opening weekend record in North America, with ticket sales estimated in the high $140 million range.
Gas prices are likely to set records this summer but probably won't reach $4 per gallon, energy analysts said yesterday. (((""probably wont""))) its shooting up to 3.19 all over here in Dayton Ohio,it was 2.97 this morning and after driving around and seeing the prices at different gas stations going up throughout the day I
The stock market's best-known indicator surged past its latest milestone shortly after trading began Wednesday, and even made it past 13,100, rising as high as 13,107.45. According to preliminary calculations, it closed at 13,087.46 up 133.52 or 1.03 percent.
PM John Howard warned that irrigation of much of the nation's farmland will be banned unless there is heavy rainfall in the next month. Irrigators are already warning that if they cannot water their land, there will be huge crop losses & consumers will face large price rises. He said there was no choice, and he described the situation as grim.
The average price of gasoline in the United States might touch a record this summer because of refinery disruptions and the high cost of crude oil.
Here is a look at some gasoline prices from around the country in the weekly ConsumerAffairs.Com Gas Price Round Up.
Long winters make cyclists do crazy things. Sometime in early January, I decided to take a shot at a world record riding a streamlined human powered vehicle -- a recumbent bicycle with a carbon fiber shell.
the Indianapolis 500, one of the most prominent races in the world (certainly in America) will feature, for the first time in motorsport history, three female drivers.
Winter Arctic sea ice this year was the second smallest area on record in a sign of greenhouse warming, U.S. climate scientists said on Wednesday.
CBS/AP) The Southeastern United States has been blanketed in pollen during the past week, and allergy sufferers are enduring one of the worst allergy seasons in years. In Atlanta, the pollen count reached 5,937 particles per cubic meter of air on Thursday.
Honda has just announced that it is issuing a recall of 528,406 Chinese-made cars. Apparently they need to fix power steering lines and pumps as well as fuel pump relays on the hundreds of thousands of affected vehicles.
Warner Bros. Pictures' "300" came out fighting at the boxoffice Friday and immediately staked out what's shaping up as a potentially record-breaking weekend. Director Zack Snyder's buffer-than-buff, R-rated retelling of the battle of Thermopylae took in an estimated $27.8 million for the day, according to the boxoffice tracking site, boxo
Phantom sales lost to piracy? Get over it. It's time for the music labels to pull those master recordings out of storage and make some money.
When I first started hearing about phones being monitored, I thought, "Hell, I got nothing to fear. Doesn't affect me." But what I didn't realize, was that it was the start of something nasty. Really nasty. And really invasive.
The united front independent record labels have shown for a proposed tie-up between Warner Music and EMI cracked on Friday when the Ministry of Sound, the largest independent record company in Europe, quit a leading UK trade body backing the deal
There was a time not long ago when a trip across the border from the United States to Canada was accomplished with a wink and a wave of a driver's license. Those days are over. Welcome to the new world of border security. Where visitors with even minor, decades old criminal records are now being turned back at border.
Canadian companies reported record operating profit of $231.7 billion last year, up 7.3 per cent from 2005, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.
An American baby said to have spent the shortest time in her mother's womb is to be released from the hospital in Miami where she was born.
An Australian water melon picker has set a new record by smashing open 40 melons with his head in under one minute.
This village in upstate New York's snowbelt gets a lot of snowfall during the winter, but last week's total - more than 11 feet, unofficially - might be an all-time record.









