| Accord reached in St. Croix wastewater lawsuit
Environmentalists and the V.I. Waste Management Authority filed an agreement in District Court last week that would ensure that wastewater is not discharged over marine wildlife off St. Croix's South Shore - instead using it to create water suitable for irrigation and agricultural purposes. The agreement - signed last month by Waste Management Authority General Counsel Iver Stridiron, Attorney General Vincent Frazer, and St. Croix attorney Edward Barry - ends a long dispute between the government and residents and groups that brought the suit. While the settlement has not yet been approved by Chief District Judge Curtis Gomez, Barry, who represents all of the people and groups who filed the lawsuit, said that is likely to happen soon. "The local government is making amends for a lot of bad history," Barry said.
GM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a “Total Crock of Shit”
Automakers ended their opposition to higher fuel standards in 2007 when it became clear that proposed changes would become law with or without their support. In December, President George W. Bush signed a law mandating a 40 percent increase in fleetwide fuel economy by 2020, the first substantial change in three decades. Reporting by Kevin Krolicki, editing by Toni Reinhold © Reuters 2008 .
Allure of an energy drink is the high, not the flavor
If there's a time when anybody can be driven to Red Bull, it's the holidays.
It's the biggest travel time of the year, and chances are excellent that you're sharing the interstate and airport with your American equals: the hurried, the harried, the sleep-deprived.
And nothing announces your pledge to simply get through the next few hours like a Red Bull. Or Jones Energy, SoBe, Full Throttle or Rock Star.
What you want, of course, is that little pop of stamina and intense concentration that you used to get when you could routinely back a street-legal dose of Suphedrine with a 16-ounce cup of burner-crusted caffeine-concentrated coffee: Call it suburban meth, but it got you through the car pool.
But because most energy drinks are at least $1.50 a pop if you buy them in bulk, and at least $2 each from your convenience store cooler, you have to ask: How potent is this brew in a can?
We know that energy drinks are pervasive enough in our culture that the best kind of story - the Urban Legend - has sprung up around them.
Hudson and Wilson Romance Reports Gather Pace
Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson have intensified reports they are in a relationship, after Wilson was spotted playing catch with the actress' 2-year-old son last Saturday. The day before, the "You, Me and Dupree" co-stars were photographed enjoying breakfast together at an organic restaurant in Brentwood, Los Angeles. Hudson and Wilson have kept their distance since they were linked following the break-up of her marriage to The Black Crowes rocker Chris Robinson, the father of her boy Ryder. Both have vehemently denied a relationship. .
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