Actor Duvall takes center stage in fight to keep Wal-Mart away from famed Virginia battlefieldLOCUST GROVE, Va. — Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall has fired a verbal salvo against plans to build a Wal-Mart Supercenter near a Virginia Civil War battlefield where Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee first fought the Union’s Ulysses S. Grant. Product recalls: leg curl machines, spice packagesThe following recalls have been announced: About 20,300 pieces of Halcyon Scuba diving equipment, manufactured in the United States by Halcyon Manufacturing Inc. of High Springs, Fla., because the over-pressure valves on BCDs and other inflatable devices could fail, allowing the devices to leak. This poses a drowning hazard. No incidents have been reported. The equipment was sold by dive retailers and distributors between January 2006 and December 2008. Details: by phone at 800-425-2966; by Web at www.halcyon.net/opv-recall or www.cpsc.gov. 9.9 Media co-founder selected for FORTUNE, US State Dept. Global Women’s Mentoring ProgramNEW DELHI - Anuradha Das Mathur, one of the founders of 9.9 Media, has been selected for the prestigious FORTUNE magazine and US State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Program. Azhar prepares for a new innings in MoradabadMORADABAD - Having weathered the storm on charges of match-fixing all these years and practically shutting himself from public eye, former Indian cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin is excited over his new innings as the Congress candidate from this ‘Brass City’ for the Lok Sabha elections. Kamal Nath defends new foreign investment normsNEW DELHI - The new foreign investment norms will not extend backdoor entry for foreign retailers, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said Friday, defending the clause that does not count minority overseas stake in a holding company as foreign equity. Wall Street gains on MasterCard, retail salesNEW YORK - Stocks rose on Wall Street Thursday as MasterCard exceeded earnings estimates and several major retailers said sales were better than expected last month. Subhiksha chief: We mucked upCHENNAI - The Rs.23.05-billion (Rs.2,305-crore) retail chain Subhiksha Trading Services says its reserves have dwindled to ‘nearly nil’ and that it has ‘mucked up’. US stocks edge higher on quiet, abbreviated trading dayNEW YORK - US stocks made modest gains Wednesday on a shortened trading day ahead of the Christmas holiday, after consumer spending fell less than expected in November. |
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