Sep 25th, 2008 · With refineries hobbled by Hurricane Ike, gas shortages are popping up across the South. Drivers in Atlanta, Nashville and other places are devising strategies to find gas. One approach: follow a fuel truck to see what station it is filling up.
Jul 19th, 2008 · Since Birmingham, Ala., Mayor Larry Langford took office late last year, he's been a man on a mission. His city has an annual budget of about $430 million, yet he's proposed more than a billion dollars in new projects. But Langford's ambitious agenda has been hobbled by charges that he accepted kickbacks in the past.
Jun 19th, 2008 · John Cusack's war-for-profit satire sets an emotionally hobbled hit man loose in the fictional Turaqistan — amid a war run by a multinational company (cough, Halliburton, cough) with ties to a former U.S. vice president.
Nov 19th, 2007 · As Thanksgiving approaches, many people are reaching for an old sweatshirt and faded jeans in preparation for backyard football. After years of cleaning up the post-holiday wreckage, physical therapist Peter Schultz reveals how to avoid becoming a hobbled weekend warrior.
Nov 19th, 2006 · For more than 100 years, it has been common practice for the village of Kesten's 5,000 inhabitants to intermarry. The tradition of marriage between first cousins in the Arab world is a way to keep property and businesses in the family. Now up to 800 children in this impoverished village are living with extreme genetic defects.
Jul 30th, 2006 · The Lebanese government is being told it must extend its writ to its southern border and disarm Hezbollah to end the current crisis. Yet the government, which swept into power last year on the heels of massive street demonstrations, is a complicated and messy mass of compromises that have hobbled its ability to do much of anything.
Jan 4th, 2006 · Gas prices have gone up a 150 percent in Iraq, and for more money there is less gas. Threats by insurgents shut down the country's biggest refinery last month, causing gas lines to stretch for miles in Baghdad. Prices have led to a thriving black market.
Dec 20th, 2005 · New York City's transit union called a strike Tuesday after failing to reach a deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The strike left more than 7 million people in and around the city looking for alternative ways to get around. Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports.