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11/12/2007 22:42

Editoweb: USA today, 11 dec 2007


Rudy Giuliani's quest for the Republican presidential nomination is running into turbulence - Huckabee gets Minuteman head's backing - Flexible work life good for your health: study - Wall Streets plunges after Fed cuts rate - Ex-CIA agent: Waterboarding OK'ed at top.



Rudy Giuliani's quest for the Republican presidential nomination is running into turbulence
After selling himself more successfully than many expected, the former New York mayor's lead in national polls is narrowing. He could lose four early primary states -- Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan and South Carolina -- before reaching more favorable territory, such as Florida, New York and California. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's surge is rallying evangelicals and social conservatives who up until now have been divided and dispirited. The business dealings of Mr. Giuliani's company are under increasing scrutiny.

Huckabee gets Minuteman head's backing
The founder of the Minuteman Project, the anti-illegal immigrant group, endorsed Republican Mike Huckabee on Tuesday, while Huckabee dismissed a presidential rival's immigration criticism as the work of "the tattletale in the third grade."
At a news conference hastily arranged to cope with a crippling ice storm, Huckabee brought out Minuteman head Jim Gilchrist, whose private group patrols the Mexican border on its own to keep out illegal immigrants.

Flexible work life good for your health: study
A flexible work life, including telecommuting and job shares, is good for your health, researchers said on Tuesday.
They found that if people have the ability to work from home and to compress work weeks, they are more likely to make healthier lifestyle choices, to exercise more and to sleep better.
"Perhaps it gives people the time to fit in healthier lifestyle into their everyday regimen or maybe it just ...

Wall Streets plunges after Fed cuts rate
Wall Street plunged Tuesday after the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by a quarter point, disappointing investors who hoped the Fed would move more aggressively to help the economy overcome the credit and mortgage crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average skidded more than 290 points.
Investors had been expecting policymakers would cut rates for a third straight time, though there was debate over the size of the cut.

Ex-CIA agent: Waterboarding OK'ed at top
The CIA's waterboarding of a top al-Qaida figure was approved at the top levels of the U.S. government, a former CIA agent said Tuesday as Congress grilled agency director Gen. Michael Hayden about the destruction of videotapes of terror suspect interrogations.
According to the former agent, waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah got him to talk in less than 35 seconds. The technique, which critics say is torture, probably disrupted "dozens" of planned al-Qaida attacks, said John Kiriakou, a leader of the team that captured Zubaydah, a major al-Qaida figure.

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