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McDonald's to Take Steps to Cut Potato Pesticides

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.02.2009 | Home


McDonald's Corp, the largest purchaser of potatoes in the United States, has agreed to take preliminary steps to reduce pesticide use in its domestic ...

Historic Shareholder Agreement Reached With McDonald's on Pesticide Use Reduction

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.01.2009 | Home


McDonald's Corp, the largest purchaser of potatoes in the United States, has agreed to take steps toward reducing pesticide use in its domestic potato...

Mystery of Ex-FBI Agent Missing in Iran Gets Close House Attention

Jeff Stein | Posted 04.30.2009 | World


Jeff Stein

Iranian officials insist they don't know anything about the disappearance or whereabouts of Levinson, a career FBI agent with a specialty in international crime.

Obama Signs Wilderness Bill

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 04.30.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed legislation Monday setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness. O...

LaHood's Plane Evacuated Because Of Boxcutter

Infrastructurist | Infrastructurist | Posted 04.30.2009 | Home


The country's top transportation official got to witness an airline security scare first hand last week. On Wednesday evening, Ray LaHood and 150 of h...

Wagoner Resignation: Change Comes but the Green Agenda Must Live On

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 04.30.2009 | Home


So CEO Rick Wagoner's gone - or will be as soon as an official announcement of his widely reported resignation as GM's chairman can be cobbled toget...

Michelle Obama To Deliver Two Commencement Addresses This Spring

The Huffington Post | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics


The White House has just announced that Michelle Obama will be speaking at two graduations this spring. The first will be on May 16th at the Universit...

Tom Selleck: Vietnam Exhibition Unveiling

AP | KAMALA LANE | Posted 04.27.2009 | Entertainment


WASHINGTON — Emmy-award winner Tom Selleck visited the National Mall in Washington on Thursday to launch new exhibits for a traveling museum honorin...

Video: Dry cleaner closure leaves customers hanging

MSNBC | MSNBC | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home


March 25: Customers are left high and dry after a Washington D.C. dry cleaner shuts down with their clothes still inside, visible through store window...

Facebook Gets New Public Policy Director

Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 04.25.2009 | Home


Privacy advocates who are gunning for the social network Facebook will soon have a familiar name to kick around. Facebook's chief privacy officer, Chr...

Postal chief says post office running out of money

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — The post office will run out of money this year unless it gets help, Postmaster General John Potter told Congress on Wednesday as h...

El Salvador veers left in presidential election

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 03.16.2009 | Home


After 20 years of conservative rule by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, El Salvador elected leftist Mauricio Funes o...

Aptera Off to D.C. to Seek Loan Eligibility for Unconventional Advanced Vehicles

Dygest.net | Posted 03.13.2009 | Home


Dismayed to discover that its three-wheeled electric commuter vehicle won't qualify for federal green car manufacturing loans under present policies, ...

Washington Post Profit Plunges 77%

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media


The Washington Post Co.'s reeling newspaper and magazine divisions stumbled again in the fourth quarter, extending an earnings slump that would have b...

Obama's Tuesday Speech: President Addresses Congress

Huffington Post | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics


Barack Obama struck a note of optimism Tuesday evening, declaring that America's best days are ahead even if, at this moment, the future looks bleak. ...