Journalists were watchdogs who didn't bark until after the stock market bubble burst, Jim Michaels told about 70 journalists Tuesday at a conference sponsored by Strong Funds in Menomonee Falls, Wis. "We've just come off the worst investment bubble in history that cost investors something like $3 trillion," said Michaels, who served as editor of Forbes magazine for 38 years and is still a vice president there. "The whole thing was a Ponzi scheme, yet during much of it, business journalists were cheerleaders for it.

Amazon.com has never managed to turn a profit but it has pioneered some interesting internet marketing techniques. Its latest is "virtual thumbing" which places 20 pages of a book onto its website so that interested browsers can read parts of a chapter, the index, the cover art and back cover "blurbs." Their excerpt from our book Toxic Sludge Is Good For You features our story of how Ketchum PR, Edelman PR, The California Raisin Advisory Board, Elizabeth Whelan's American Council on Science and Health, The U.S. Department of Agriculture and former Surgeon General C.

"Cluster bombs" are a hideous military weapon for use against people, an "antipersonnel device" developed and used by the U.S. during the Vietnam war to maim, terrorize and demoralize both soldiers and civilians. Today the U.S. began broadcasting radio warnings to Afghanistan civilians to not confuse yellow unexploded cluster bombs with yellow food packets, both being dropped from the air by the U.S. The warning claims that it is "unlikely" but "possible" that some of the cluster bombs will fail to explode and thus threaten anyone who comes across them.