Sunday, February 24, 2008

weekend up date, Feb. 24, 2008

--Three local [as in Elkhart] recreational vehicle makers are finding themselves targets of a congressional inquiry into formaldehyde levels in travel trailers. –2-22-08—ELKHART TRUTH, A1.

--Ominous signs remain in city run by Iraqis: Militias maintain Grip on Basra Institutions. 2-23-08, NYT A1

--Grand Jury indicts [GOP] Arizona Congressman -2-23-08, NYT A9

--Banks, which rarely want government intruding, now say they want it. -2-23-08- NYT ,B1,B4

--“Problems once confined to the working poor—lack of health insurance and access to guaranteed pensions, job insecurity and staggering personal debt, bankruptcy and home foreclosure—have .. become an increasingly normal part of [USA] middle class life.”—Prof. Jacob Hacker, THE GREAT RISK SHIFT, cited at NYT BR 2-24-08 p.28

--Six years after the US invaded Afghanistan ... [it] remains a security danger zone for Americans far more so than in 2002 NYTWK 2-24-08 WK1

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