Snow Strands Hundreds Overnight on German Highway – ABC News
They were rescued after officers and rescue personnel used snow plows and heavy machinery to push through 6.5-foot (2-meter) drifts. The drivers were brought to tents provided by local aid organizations. “Several parts of the highway are still

Blindness Organizations And ASU Settle Amazon Kindle DX Discrimination Suit – TechCrunch
Amazon s Kindle device sparked quite some controversy last year over its text-to-speech capabilities. The Authors Guild was up in arms over the feature, identifying it as a threat to audio book sales, and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) and the American Council of the Blind (ACB) had

SBA’s Deadline for Physical Damage Disaster Loans for Private Non-Profit Organizations is February 8 – Forbes
BusinessWire – The U.S. Small Business Administration reminds eligible Private Non-Profit Organizations (PNPs) of the February 8, 2010, deadline to submit disaster loan applications for damages caused by severe storms and flooding associated with Tropical Depression Ida and a Nor’easter that began

U.N. head urges nuke disarmament – Times of the Internet
The secretary-general commented Friday in New York during a meeting with heads of international organizations opportunities for disarmament and the “number of challenges” faced by nations seeking a world free of nuclear weapons, he said in a

News organizations back NU students in subpoena battle – Chicago Breaking News – Tribune
Journalistic heavy hitters lent support today to an effort to toss out a prosecutors’ subpoena for notes, grades and other materials from Northwestern University journalism students, an investigator and their professor in connection with the case of