Mar 16th, 2010 · Honda said over time, brake pedals can feel "soft" and must be pressed closer to the floor to stop the vehicles. Left unrepaired, the problem could cause loss of braking power and possibly a crash. The recall includes 344,000 Odysseys and 68,000 Elements from the 2007 and 2008 model years.
Mar 16th, 2010 · Linda Wertheimer hails a Dickensian novel of London in the boom days of 2007, before the banking bust. An encore by child detective Flavia de Luce (Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie) is both creepy and laugh-out-loud funny. And So Much for That finds the hilarity in a relentless tale of runaway health care costs.
Mar 12th, 2010 · Back in 2007, Hollywood was suffering from serious battle fatigue. But a new surge of war movies has come out — Green Zone takes on the search for WMDs; The Hurt Locker follows a bomb squad; and The Pacific is a 10-hour HBO World War II epic. These aren't battle-strategy flicks — they explore the brutality of war on an individual scale.
Mar 12th, 2010 · As the financial crisis grew in 2007 and 2008, the now-defunct banking giant knew it needed to reduce its reliance on borrowed money. But it was a bad time to sell stuff off and pay back debts. So Lehman Brothers made special use of something called the repo market.
Mar 12th, 2010 · The world premiere of Anna Nicole will be presented by London's Royal Opera next February. It will star Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as the late model and Playboy playmate. Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007. She was 39.
Mar 4th, 2010 · A variety of merchants, from luxury retailers to discount chains, reported the strongest gains in retail sales since November 2007. The upbeat news helped soothe fears among some economists that weak consumer spending might make the economic recovery short-lived.
Mar 4th, 2010 · In 2007, journalist and former soldier Kelly Kennedy embedded in Iraq with Charlie Company. In 15 months, the 1/26th Infantry, charged with fighting insurgents, had the most casualties of any U.S. battalion since Vietnam. Kennedy details her year with the troops in her new book, They Fought For Each Other: Telling the Story of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq.
Mar 4th, 2010 · Two Germans and two Turkish men were convicted Thursday over a foiled 2007 plot to attack U.S. targets in Germany and given prison sentences ranging up to 12 years.