We want to have a developed village with at least a car, beams a middle-aged man drawing cheers from fellow men congregated in the village social hall-cum-church. I want to have built a permanent brick house with iron-roof sheets, and to furnish it with good chairs, and nice utensils, another man calls out to which the women respond: we want all our children to go to school and to be able to cement the earthen floors of our pig sties soon. I want to have built a permanent brick house with...

Strickland prescribes prevention for health woes Leader wants Ohio's kids insured, immunized We can spend up front now with prevention or we can spend a lot of money later. It has increased investments in immunizations and flu vaccines while de-emphasizing physical education in schools and diverting hundreds of millions meant for anti-smoking programs to other purposes. Gayle Channing Tenenbaum, an advocate for needy children and their families, thinks the governor gets good marks for progress.

In January, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's suddenly robust fundraising included new checks from groups such as the American Association of Orthodontists and bigger checks from previous donors such as Qwest Communications International's PAC and Genworth Financial inc.'s committee. A wave of new financial disclosure reports today from PACs and the Republican and Democratic party committees is expected to further demonstrate the trend. Why? Republican lawmakers' economic...

But in late 2005, The Sun, like the rest of the newspaper industry, was facing declining readership and advertising revenue, and decided to offer a round of employee buyouts. He s not alone: In the past several years, buyouts have become one of the weapons of choice for large companies to unload staff and reduce costs in the long term, without the ill will of layoffs. The pay was great, but he wanted to do something more entreprenurial, and the long hours were preventing Howard from...

Cahe had said just days ago that Maradona had put on weight and smoked too many cigars, and was planning a trip to Switzerland to get himself back into shape. A statement from the Guemes hospital did not specify what Maradona was suffering from, but said his hospitalization was "not related to an addiction to dangerous drugs. Maradona's return to a hospital was a reminder of the repeated health problems -- many of them drug-related --- he has faced since retiring from the game in 1997. He...