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NEW YORK - The largest U.S. lawsuit to date against top banana producer Chiquita Brands International was filed on Wednesday, claiming the company funded and armed a Colombian paramilitary organization accused of killing banana growers. The civil lawsuit seeks a total of $7.86 billion on...

Summary: Overall, 35.52 million people, including 12.63 million children, went hungry compared with 35.13 million in 2005. The survey was conducted in December 2006 and represented 294 million people, an increase of 2.5 million from 2005. Food advocacy groups said the figures showed the United...

I'm pissed, i don't think I can make this game...... Grossman to start in place of injured Griese against Seahawks LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- Rex Grossman has his job back as the starting quarterback of the Chicago Bears, replacing injured Brian Griese for Sunday's game at Seattle. Bears coach...

Worship the almighty dollar..... Megachurch took in $69 million in 2006 The Associated Press ATLANTA --An Atlanta megachurch took in $69 million in 2006, according to a financial statement the church's minister released in response to a Senate investigation into him and five other well-known...

Quick Summary: China is a profoundly polarised society, with hundreds of millions of impoverished workers and peasants at one pole, and a tiny capitalist elite at the other. According to a Boston Consulting Group study, China had 250,000 millionaire households in 2005, ranking the country sixth...

Experts have for the first time created cloned embryos from an adult monkey - a technical breakthrough that could bring efficient human cloning a step closer. A team in the US created dozens of cloned embryos from a 10-year-old male macaque, the journal Nature reports. This could make it...

If anyone is interested Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini will be on ESPN Classic tonight at 8:00PM, which is the 25th anniversary of the fight, and he will talk for the first time in depth about his fight with Duk Koo Kim, who died as a result of this brutal fight. This fight was responsible for the end...

Watch the full fight between Jaidon Cordington and Bika here: http://stage6.divx.com/user/GRIMX/video/1828925/Final-C3-Codrington-vs-Bika Good quality. Great fight.

sRZphn2Nh9s Holy shit if that was my theme song I'd suck ass too! hahaha, that has to be the GAYEST team song ever created, possibly the gayest song ever created, even gayer than YMCA. Monday night football in Seattle. Seahawks win easily, 43 to 12.

Yet another flaw in the creationist argument....The origin of the eye... Original Published Research Article ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2007) — By peering deep into evolutionary history, scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered the origins of...

Looks like this fight is gonna go down in '08. Most likely at Light Heavyweight. :::: :::: Hopkins: "I'll Hand Joe Calzaghe His First Loss" e By Mark Vester WBC/WBA/WBO super middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe (44-0, 32 KOs) is beating the drums for a fight with recognized light...

A genetically modified "supermouse" which can run twice as far as a normal rodent has been created by scientists working in the US. It also lives longer, and breeds later in life compared with its standard laboratory cousin. The research has been conducted at Case Western Reserve University...

A project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) to help understand the cause of diseases has entered the record books. Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network. FAH has signed up...

Oct 30th Edison Miranda vs Henry Porras - Miranda KO, inside 6 November 2nd Calzaghe vs Kessler - Calzaghe UD Juan Manuel Marquez vs Rocky Juarez - Marquez UD November 10th Miguel Cotto vs Shane Mosley - Cotto UD November 17th Joan Guzman vs. Humberto Soto - Guzman UD November 23rd...

Possible fight of the year...... No other weight class is as remotely exciting as the Welterweight division. Unification bout between Williams/Cintron, winner could likely fight winner of Cotto/Mosely and/or Mayweather. ::::::: ::::::: Kermit Cintron-Paul Williams Deal is Reached By Mark...

Russian or Oriental???

This is a kind of cool way to predict whether or not an upcoming fight will be a banger or a sleeper. It also gives individual boxers a score, kind of a like a QB rating in football. This article was written before the Pavlik-Taylor fight and they pretty much guaranteed it would be a good...

So it looks like Taylor (27-1-1, 17KOs) will exercise his option for an immediate rematch with Kelly Pavlik (32-0, 29KOs) for January/February (this will undoubtedly postpone the Pavlik/Duddy fight). Pursuant to the contract, the fight is scheduled to take place at 166-pounds, but the agreed...

Over simplified but still worth checking out: http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html

By CBS 2 Chicago Republished from CBS Recruitment Tactics Evolve in Desperate Times: Critics Say Chicago Public School Is Preparing Students To Serve In Armed Forces (CBS) CHICAGO – A new school just opened in Chicago to a lot of pomp and circumstance. As CBS 2’s Mike Parker...