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Thu, 12/04/2012 - 15:11 by Neka Sehgal
A strong earthquake rocked Mexico’s western state of Michoacan Wednesday, the third major tremor in the Latin American country in less than a month.
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Sat, 11/12/2010 - 09:50 by Sean Williams
Raw materials and metals are one of the very few sectors of the market which have provided relative safety to investors in 2010. As the global economy begins to recover, it pays to keep a close eye on which countries are showing significantly stronger GDP growth than the norm. |
Sat, 11/12/2010 - 07:02 by Prince damin
Las Vegas -- The mayor of Las Vegas said he almost halted the dedication of a solar panel carport when he noticed a sample module was assembled in Mexico.
Mayor Oscar Goodman said the Thursday dedication of the solar carport, the first of a planned trio of ports at the Stupak Community Center, was nearly called off when he discovered the sample was assembled in Mexico, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Friday.
"When I saw that, I went nuts," he said. "I felt that that was totally unacceptable as far as our sustainability efforts in the United States."
However, Goodman said officials told him the panels themselves were made and assembled domestically.
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Thu, 09/12/2010 - 11:20 by Prince damin
San Diego -- A yellowfin tuna weighing more than 400 pounds, caught off Mexico, appears to be the heaviest ever caught with a rod and reel, sport fishing officials said.
The International Game Fish Association has yet to rule on Mike Livingston's catch, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. The current record-holder, caught in 1977, weighed 388 pounds, 12 ounces.
Livingston, a resident of Sunland, Calif., returned Monday to San Diego after a 10-day trip aboard the sport fishing boat Vagabond. The fish was weighed at Point Loma Sportfishing, which cleared it at 405.2 pounds.
Livingston said he spent 2 hours, 40 minutes playing the giant fish before reeling it in. His previous personal record was 100 pounds.
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Thu, 09/12/2010 - 11:11 by Prince damin
Cancun, Mexico -- A world meeting at the Cancun, Mexico, climate summit searching for ways to mitigate climate-changing gas emissions should consider bamboo, advocates say.
Bamboo grows quickly, needs little water, absorbs carbon dioxide, protects estuaries and can withstand storms, Coosje Hoogendoorn, head of the Beijing-based International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, told the Tierramerica news service.
There are more than 1,000 species of bamboo in the world, including 36 species in Mexico, but they have gone unstudied and underutilized, Inter Press Service reported.
People scorn the plant and consider it a pest, particularly in areas where coffee, banana, tobacco and cocoa are grown, or where there is extensive cattle production, INBAR experts say.
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Sat, 30/10/2010 - 00:52 by Prince damin
Dallas -- Southwest Airlines said it will add flights to Mexico and Newark, N.J., and expand WiFi services to more aircraft.
Airline officials said passengers could use Southwest's Web site to make connecting flights on Mexico's Volaris airline, which serves the Mexican cities of Cancun, Guadalajara, Morelia, Toluca and Zacatecas, the Houston Chronicle reported Friday.
The service is open to California passengers Nov. 12 and expands to others on Dec. 1.
Southwest also plans to add flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Chicago Midway and St. Louis in the first quarter of 2011.
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Thu, 07/10/2010 - 07:27 by Prince damin
Austin, Texas -- A U.S. study says skin color leads to profound social inequality in Mexico despite state-promoted ideology denying the existence of such prejudice.
The study from the University of Texas at Austin found individuals with darker skin tones have less education, have lower status jobs, are more likely to live in poverty, and are less likely to be affluent, a university release said Wednesday.
The study by Andres Villarreal, an associate professor of sociology, was published in the October issue of the American Sociological Review.
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Wed, 01/09/2010 - 22:53 by Prince damin
Santa FE, N.M. -- A New Mexico clocksmith said an 1880s-era clock that broke down about a month ago should soon be back to prime working condition, but the job is complicated.
Clocksmith Chester Johnson said the 45-pound brass inner workings of the Santa Fe's Spitz Clock are back to ticking properly, and he plans to reinstall them in the clock this week, The (Santa Fe) New Mexican reported Wednesday.
Johnson said returning the innards to the Santa Fe Plaza clock is a delicate undertaking.
"It is very awkward," he said. "It is like trying to rig a ship inside of a wastebasket. It is so cramped."
However, Johnson, who said the clock's problem likely arose from being wound too tightly, said he has enjoyed working on the piece during the past month.
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Mon, 30/08/2010 - 22:43 by Samia Sehgal
Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders have gotten over their ‘Bachelors’ phase; they are now a married couple.
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Fri, 27/08/2010 - 11:21 by Tim Hanson
Mexico's had a tough week. Last Wednesday, Mexican authorities discovered the body of murdered Santiago mayor Edelmiro Cavazos. This Tuesday, the United Nations declared Mexico "the most dangerous country in the Americas for journalists." Finally, just yesterday, Mexican marines reported finding a mass grave of 72 bodies, apparent victims of Mexico's ongoing drug violence.
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Fri, 30/07/2010 - 23:36 by Toby Shute
"The best thing that I can say about the second quarter is that it's over."
-- Joe Bryant, CEO of Cobalt International Energy (NYSE: CIE)
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Sat, 24/07/2010 - 03:04 by Prince damin
New York -- Crude oil prices slipped below $79 per barrel in New York Friday as investors watched approaching Tropical Storm Bonnie in the Gulf of Mexico.
Prices for September delivery light sweet crude settled 32 cents lower at $78.98 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price of front contract New York Harbor No. 2 heating oil declined 0.087 cents to $2.0808 per gallon. Reformulated blendstock gasoline prices slipped, losing 0.0244 cents to $2.1222 per gallon.
Henry Hub natural gas prices lost 0.087 cents to $4.556.
At the retail level, the national average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline was unchanged Friday at $2.718 per gallon, AAA said.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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