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SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Governments need to stop assuming that death and destruction from natural disasters are inevitable and work more closely with scientists on ways to minimize the damage, a leading scientific group said Thursday.

Governments focus too much on response rather than prevention, while the number of known disasters has risen from about 100 per decade before 1940 to nearly ...

European Stocks Rise, Led by SAP, Nestle; Paladin, Total Climb Listen

Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks rallied, rebounding from their worst tumble since the London terrorist bombings in July, as SAP AG and Schneider Electric AG raised earnings forecasts and Nestle SA's sales exceeded analysts' estimates.

``We'll have a good reporting season,'' said Anders...

"It's time to change the mind-set that natural disasters are inevitable," said Gordon McBean, author of a recent report by the council on natural disaster prevention.

"We can't actually stop hurricanes or tsunamis or other extremes of nature. But ... we can avoid a lot of unnecessary human and economic losses," said McBean, policy chair of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction a...

"We achieved our fifth consecutive quarter of revenue growth as we experienced strong consumer interest in our auto insurance marketplace, steady performance within our term life offering and continued traction in our agent network program," said Hussein Enan, chairman and CEO of InsWeb. "Last month we successfully launched our unique bid-based agent lead generation program, AgentInsider(TM). O...

BARABOO - Two former managers of a Lake Delton recreational vehicle resort face up to 10 years in prison after the prosecution charges they took about $120,000 from their employer through unauthorized credit card and cell phone accounts.

Joan C. Loveless, 57, of Baraboo, appeared in Sauk County Circuit Court Wednesday. Her former co-worker Robert J. Williams, also 57 and of Baraboo,...

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Wells Fargo & Co.'s third-quarter profit rose 13 percent as the bank continued to feed consumers' appetites for home mortgages and a variety of other loans - a recipe that has generated double-digit earnings growth thr...

DETROIT, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA - News ) today reported third quarter 2005 earnings of $238 million, or $1.41 per diluted share, compared to $217 million, or $1.28 per diluted share, for the second quarter 2005 and $196 million, or $1.13 per diluted share, for the third quarter 2004.

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RIO TINTO TO SPEND US$1.35 BLN EXPANDING IRON ORE OPS IN W.A.

SYDNEY - Rio Tinto Ltd (ASX:RIO - News ) is spending $US1.35 billion to expand its iron ore...

DETROIT, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comerica Incorporated today reported third quarter 2005 earnings of $238 million, or $1.41 per diluted share, compared to $217 million, or $1.28 per diluted share, for the second quarter 2005 and $196 million, or $1.13 per diluted share, for the third quarter 2004.

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It's down to the final four teams in the Inter-Government Slow-Pitch Softball League playoffs as No Zone, DCCA, DOL, and the Governor's Office are all that remain of 11 teams that advanced to the postseason.

After squeaking past the Division of Environmental Quality, 5-4, the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation experienced a power outage on Tuesday night as they ended up on the painful e...