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New York State cannot give low-income people who are elderly, blind and disabled less benefit money just because they are immigrants, a judge ruled.
Article on road trip along Iowa's Mississippi riverfront, from Davenport in south to Effigy Mounds National Monument in north; photos; map (M)
Wall Street financial analysts and bond investors do not expect General Motors to go bankrupt for next two or three years because it has too much cash on hand; company's prospects beyond that limited time are debatable, with much depending on how chairman and chief executive, Rick Wagoner, remakes company's North American operations; photo (Market Place column) (M)
Housing prices have done better than stocks recently, but not over longer period; investment advisers worry that this reality is getting lost in today's enthusiasm for houses, even as some economists say housing market has peaked; people are buying homes purely on speculation, trading real estate almost as if it were stock; surveys show large majority of Americans consider real estate to be safer investment than stocks; but over 30-year period, and when adjusted for inflation, housing returns do not come close to gains of stock market; in last 25 years, average annual increase of Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was 10.2 percent, while biggest annual increase in real estate value in metro area was 9.1 percent, and increase was lower than that elsewhere; photo; map; chart (M)
Careless accidents with magnetic resonance imaging scanners are causing serious injuries and even death, and prompting widespread calls for more regulation; scanners' powerful magnets have grabbed wheelchairs, gurneys and even floor polishers from hands of careless hospital workers, jamming them deep inside scanner; as number of scanners in country soars, and as magnets quadruple in power, accidents have become more frequent; there are ways to make scanning rooms safer, but they are not required by law or medical profession; Dr Emanuel Kanal, lead author of safety guidelines drawn up by American College of Radiology, says escalating number of blunders and indifference of some scanner operators to voluntary rules have convinced him of need for federal or state laws mandating them; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 2005, covering August 19, 2005.
Faith Hill
Various Artists
Mariah Carey
Young Jeezy
Teairra Mari
2005Mo Mowlam, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1949)[†]
Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam was a British Labour Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar from 1987 to 2001 and served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
2005The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.[†]
Peace Mission 2005 was the first ever joint military exercise between China and Russia. The exercise started on August 19, 2005, and consisted of combined land, sea, and air elements simulating an intervention in a state besieged by terrorists or political turmoil. It concluded on August 25, 2005. The force practiced air and naval blockades, an amphibious assault, and occupying a region. Approximately 8,200 Chinese troops took part along with 1,800 Russian troops. China initially wanted to hold the exercise near the Taiwan Strait, Russia wanted to hold the exercise in Northwestern China near central Asia, but instead settlement was made on the Shandong Peninsula.
In 2005, the world population was approximately 6,586,970,132 people[†]