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DuPont in deep water over Teflon's hidden danger to humans and the environmentWhile it remains one of DuPont's most valuable assets, evidence suggests that Teflon may be making people sick and harming the environment, and the fact that the company has known and concealed this for decades is not going to help its defense of an upcoming class-action lawsuit in court NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , NEW YORK Sunday, Aug 08, 2004,Page 12 The Washington Works plant near Parkersburg, West Virginia, where DuPont has made Teflon -- and allegedly concealed its polluting and life-threatening properties -- for decadesPHOTO: NY TIMES...

An important and serious argument is going on in Washington about whether taxes on Americans' incomes should stay where they are or dramatically rise, and whether government spending should continue its accelerating growth. We know what Democrats think. They despise tax cuts and believe government spending should be higher. Washington Republicans, on the other hand, are unsure of themselves. They used to be for lower taxes and smaller government; now they seem to want bigger spending even if it means higher taxes, abandoning Reagan conservatism for '60s liberalism. In other words, this is a battle for the heart of the...

Since his death a great deal has been written about Ronald Reagan. About his vision and his ability to communicate with regular Americans. About the extraordinary economic growth his tax rate reductions created, and his belief that Soviet communism was an evil empire, not an alternative form of government that must be understood. About his foreign policy leadership that led Sen. Ted Kennedy to eulogize him as "the president who won the Cold War." But Reagan was something more: a turning-point president who believed that the policy directions of the past were wrong, and that with different policies our future...

<p>"The U.N.'s mechanisms for controlling Oil-for-Food contracts were inadequate, transparency went by the wayside, and effective internal review of the program did not occur. . . . If the United Nations cannot be trusted to run a humanitarian program, its other activities, including peacekeeping, arms inspection regimes or development projects may be called into question."</p>

<p>Wasn't the era of big government supposed to be over?</p> <p>"We know big government does not have all the answers. We know there's not a program for every problem. We have worked to give the American people a smaller, less bureaucratic government in Washington. And we have to give the American people one that lives within its means. The era of big government is over."</p>

WILMINGTON, Del. -- A collaborative group of DuPont-led scientists have discovered an innovative way to advance electronics applications through the use of DNA that sorts carbon nanotubes. This research in the emerging field of nanotechnology appears in the current issue of the journal Science, which is published by the AAAS ? the world's largest general scientific organization. The research paper is titled "Structure-Based Carbon Nanotube Sorting by Sequence-Dependent DNA Assembly." Carbon nanotubes possess excellent electrical properties that make them potential building blocks in a broad range of nanotechnology-related electronic applications, including highly sensitive medical diagnostic devices and mini-transistors more than...

<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - DuPont Co. on Monday said it would reduce costs by $900 million, partly through job cuts, and aims to increase revenue by 6 percent as it grapples with high raw material prices and the impending sale of its key clothing and carpet fiber business.</p>

MOSCOW (AP) -- Tons of chemicals used for the production of plastics have leaked off the coast of a Russian island in the Bering Sea, local media reported Tuesday. A 20-metric-ton container of chemicals owned by Dupont washed up on Bering Island in late July. The container was one of three such containers that Dupont lost at sea in March, Interfax reported. In recent days the container of tetraethylene glycol has begun to leak. Interfax said the container was cracked when a powerful storm hurled it onto some rocks. However, Itar-Tass quoted marine inspection spokesman Sergei Donigevich as saying the...