General Motors has revamped its worldwide purchasing to keep proprietary innovations confidential. The company has instituted a new system called T-rating, says John Calabrese, GM director advance purchasing. It evaluates the customervalue of new technologies. Advances that score high enough "will be taken into consideration in sourcing decisions," he says.
"Supplier technology is now one of the cornerstones of GM," Calabrese …
A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million.
A Brooklyn jury found Emmanuel "Toto" Constant guilty on Friday of fraud and grand larceny. He faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced on Sept. 10.
Human rights groups say that in the early 1990s, Constant led a gang of thugs …
JERUSALEM - Israeli forces withdrew from a Palestinian town earlytoday despite a shooting attack that killed a U.S.-born girl and aJerusalem teenager.
The Israeli forces pulled back a few hundred yards to the edge ofPalestinian-controlled territory at Qalqilya and into Israel, themilitary said.
After sunup, Palestinian police took up positions in threeoutposts the army had abandoned and were set to hold a coordinationmeeting with their Israeli counterparts later in the day,Palestinian security officials said. A total of 22 Israeli tankswere withdrawn from the city, the officials said.
Israel sent forces into parts of six West Bank towns the dayafter …
BAGHDAD, Iraq - After nearly a quarter-century of severed ties, Iraq said Monday it will resume diplomatic relations with neighboring Syria - a move seen as a possible step toward stemming some of the unrelenting violence, which claimed another 100 lives.
The Iraqi and Syrian presidents also received invitations from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a weekend summit in Tehran to tackle the chaos in Iraq, Iraqi lawmakers said. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's spokesman said his boss would attend but that Syrian President Bashar Assad would not. The invitation was thought to be an attempt by Iran to counter U.S. influence in the region.
The announcement of restored …
BOSTON (AP) — A small fishing boat lost off Massachusetts after its crew was thrown out in rough seas has been discovered near Spain more than three years later.
Scott Douglas and Rich St. Pierre were tossed off the 26-foot-long boat in August 2008 and forced to swim two hours to shore. The U.S. Coast Guard says the boat was left adrift because the seas were so …
American fans were obsessing over England for six months, wondering how the Americans would stop Wayne Rooney.
Well, they did.
Now that the U.S. got past the English with a 1-1 tie, a big part of the Americans' World Cup fate will be determined Friday against Slovakia.
"There's nothing flashy about them," Landon Donovan said Tuesday. "There's not a few players, like with England, where you go, 'We need to 100 percent stop that player or else we're in trouble.' But they seem to be a very good team overall. They seem like they have good chemistry. They seem like they know each other well."
Sound familiar?
Sure …
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Pastor Marty Baker preaches that the Bible is theeternal and inviolate word of God. On other church matters, he'swilling to change with the times.
Jeans are welcome at Stevens Creek Community Church, the 1,100-member evangelical congregation Baker founded 19 years ago. Sermonsare available as podcasts, and the electric house band has been knownto cover Aerosmith's "Dream On." A recent men's fellowship breakfastwas devoted to discussing the spiritual wages of lunching at Hooters.
It is a bid for relevance in a nation charmed by pop culture andconsumerism, and it is not an uncommon one. But Baker has wadedfurther into the 21st century than most fishers …
