Washington - The US Chamber of Commerce Tuesday threw its weight behind a bill being introduced in the US Senate which would eliminate the ban on most US travel to the Caribbean island.
The bill, which has strong momentum in both parties, is seen as a first step towards reexamining the overall restrictions on US trade with the communist island.
"The US embargo on Cuba is a 50-year failure, and lifting the ban on travel is a good first step toward a more rational policy," said Myron Brilliant, a top official in the business group.
Washington - US legislators on Tuesday unveiled far-reaching climate legislation that would boost incentives for renewable energy and for the first time force companies to pay for pollution that is blamed for global warming.
The draft bill, introduced in the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatives, marks the first step in what promises to be a long and contentious battle in Congress.
Washington - General Motors Corp is keeping open the option of bankruptcy in order to restructure the flagging US carmaker, GM's new chief executive Fritz Henderson said Tuesday.
Henderson, who took over the top job from Rick Wagoner Monday as part of a White House-forced shake-up, said he was confident the company could make the necessary changes to survive either way.
"If we're not successful doing it out of court, we will do it in court," Henderson told reporters in his first press conference from Detroit.
Washington, March 31: A space experiment conducted by Italian scientists has for the first time shown that a lack of resistance, that is gravity, activates bone-destroying cells.
An article on the study says that the finding attains significance as it may help better understand why bedridden patients and astronauts experience bone loss.
Published in The FASEB Journal, the article also says that the outcome provides an entirely new drug target for stopping the process.
Washington, Mar 31 : Drew Barrymore has signed on to star in New Line''s romantic comedy `Going the Distance' opposite Justin Long.
`Going the Distance', to be directed by Nanette Burstein, is an observational comedy about a young couple navigating their way through the perils of a long distance relationship who quickly discover that "going the distance" might cost them everything they have, including one another.
Washington, March 31: University of Florida researchers have announced the creation of a lock-live molecule based on exposure to light, which may prove helpful in starving cancer tumours or preventing side effects from a wide range of drugs.
While experimenting in the laboratory, the researchers put the lock on an enzyme involved in blood clotting.
The researcher exposed the enzyme to visible and ultraviolet light.
Washington - The US Chamber of Commerce Tuesday threw its weight behind a bill being introduced in the US Senate which would eliminate the ban on most US travel to the Caribbean island.
Washington - US legislators on Tuesday unveiled far-reaching climate legislation that would boost incentives for renewable energy and for the first time force companies to pay for pollution that is blamed for global warming.
Washington - General Motors Corp is keeping open the option of bankruptcy in order to restructure the flagging US carmaker, GM's new chief executive Fritz Henderson said Tuesday.
Washington, March 31: A space experiment conducted by Italian scientists has for the first time shown that a lack of resistance, that is gravity, activates bone-destroying cells.
Washington, Mar 31 : Drew Barrymore has signed on to star in New Line''s romantic comedy `Going the Distance' opposite Justin Long.
Washington, March 31: University of Florida researchers have announced the creation of a lock-live molecule based on exposure to light, which may prove helpful in starving cancer tumours or preventing side effects from a wide range of drugs.
