Bush Returns to Gulf Coast After 6 Mos.

LONG BEACH, Miss. - Hurricane Katrina's damage was so vast that it's hard to estimate when the recovery will be completed, the federal official overseeing the effort said Thursday.

"We all have a sense of urgency," Don Powell, President Bush's coordinator for the Gulf Coast recovery, told reporters traveling with Bush to the region.

"But I think it's important to put it in perspective about the size of the storm, and how overwhelming this storm was," Powell said. "I think there's been some good progress."

The monster hurricane in 2005 was the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history.

Of $110 billion in relief aid that Congress has approved, $83 …

Author Van Jones tapped as green jobs adviser

Author and activist Van Jones will be a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation in the Obama administration.

Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in a release Monday that Jones will start work next week to help direct the administration's efforts to …

Five Chicago players rank as All-Midwest

Chicago-based Tom Lemming is the only football talent scout whotravels throughout the Midwest, East and South during the summer andevaluates film of players in other regions before selecting the top100 prospects in the nation.

Lemming's pre-season All-Midwest team has five players from theChicago area and one from East St. Louis. His 24-man squad:

Offense: QB - Joe Pickens, Cleveland; Chris Weinke, St. Paul;RB - Ricky Powers, Akron, Ohio; Robert Smith, Euclid, Ohio; JeromeBettis, Detroit; WR - Delius Morris, Detroit; TE - Jay Greene,Flint, …

LPGA-Navistar Classic Scores

PRATTVILLE, Alabama (AP) — Results Friday from the $1.3 million LPGA Classic at the 6,607-yard, par-72 Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Capitol Hill, The Senator:

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Second Round
Mika Miyazato	69-63—132
Na Yeon Choi	68-64—132
Cristie Kerr	65-67—132
Brittany Lincicome	67-66—133
Amy Yang	68-66—134
Katherine Hull	68-67—135
Eun-Hee Ji	68-67—135

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Business News

The Airport Circus

There's only one way to straighten out the mess in airportprivatisation, and that is to call in fresh bids all over again.

Kumarkaushalam

Exactly a day after this magazine goes to press, the empoweredGroup of Ministers (EGOM), headed by Union Defence Minister PranabMukherjee, will meet in Delhi to decide the fate of privatisation ofDelhi and Mumbai airports. About 10 days earlier, the Civil AviationMinister, Praful Patel, had expressed hope that the group would takea decision one way or another. There's no doubt that overhauling theairports of India's two most important cities is long overdue. Infact, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had …

A cost-effective protocol for screening patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

ABSTRACT

The incidence of hospital-acquired infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is rising worldwide. Rapid identification of MRSA carriers is an important step in reducing the risk of transmission to other patients. Molecular methods are increasingly popular but are technically demanding and expensive. This study assesses the modification of one of the commercially available latex agglutination tests (Mastalex-MRSA) for the identification of penicillin-binding protein 27' on known strains of MRSA as well as other organisms identified from chromogenic agar plates. A total of 3050 patients with unknown MRSA status were processed through the routine …