St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Political uncertainty in Pakistan, a nuclear power, is more unnerving than it is in most other places. To the east, across the disputed region of Kashmir, lies India, Pakistan's enemy since partition in 1947. To the west, across impenetrable mountain ranges, lies Afghanistan. Somewhere in these mountains, Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.

The auction-rate securities debacle holds a couple of lessons for small investors:

Let's face it, the Endangered Species Act can create quite a burden. If your goal is to build dams or open federal land to mining, logging and oil drilling, all those threatened animals and plants just get in the way.

In a ritual playing out at schools across the region, the buses started pulling up to Clyde C. Miller Career Academy at 6:45 a.m. Monday. The angular steel and glass building at Bell Avenue and North Grand Boulevard, just north of Powell Symphony Hall, started coming alive.

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In 2003, researchers at the University of Utah put 41 people in driving simulators. They drove once while talking on cell phones, once while drunk.