
BEIJING (AP) - China's commerce minister took the unusual step of thanking foreign companies for donating earthquake aid, on national television yesterday, dismissing accusations spread on Chinese Web sites that they were doing too little.

Musician Eric Hutchinson recalls feeling a bit invisible back when he was a student at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring.
Two days later and Americans remain obsessed with Super Bowl commercials. It's now time to determine what it all means — or doesn't mean.
NEW YORK
Retailers are hitting young shoppers right where they live — on social networking Web sites.
As families begin preparations for the upcoming school year, parents should be aware of a peer-pressure problem burgeoning nationwide: prescription-drug abuse. Parents, particularly those with teen-age girls, should hold frank discussions with their children about this problem, which is causing increased deaths and hospitalizations across the country.
This weekend, all of the Democratic candidates for president (with the sane exception of Joe Biden) will trek to Chicago to speak at the YearlyKos convention, the gathering of those who populate the powerful Democratic blog, the DailyKos.
This weekend, all of the Democratic candidates for president (with the sane exception of Joe Biden) will trek to Chicago to speak at the YearlyKos convention, the gathering of those who populate the powerful Democratic blog, the DailyKos.
NEW YORK (AP) Rupert Murdoch has built, bought and sold more multibillion-dollar media businesses than most rival executives will ever get their hands on.