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Dow Corning Corp. announced today that it will eliminate 800 jobs, or about 8 percent of its 10,000-member global work force, due to the poor economy. It is not known how many jobs will be affected at Dow Corning's corporate headquarters in Bay County or at its mid-Michigan operations, according to Jarrod Erpelding, a Dow Corning spokesman. Dow Corning has about 3,500 employees in Michigan and about 1,300 working at its Williams Township headquarters and factory in Auburn combined. The job cuts will occur during the first half of 2009 across the entire company through a combination of voluntary retirement...

Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for...

<p>Call it Superman meets the Terminator meets Predator meets Universal Soldier. A futuristic battle suit being designed by Dow Corning, the U.S. Army and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would, among other advantages, give soldiers the ability to leap tall walls with a single bound, blend in to various backgrounds with the push of a button and repel bullets.</p>

Big boobs 'suffocate mum' A MUM allegedly murdered by her lover may have been suffocated by her own huge BOOBS, a jury heard yesterday. The theory was put to a Home Office pathologist after 17st Yvette Dow, 24, was found face down on her floor — her head enveloped by “her very large breasts”. Professor Guy Rutty admitted it was possible the mum of two may have collapsed from a fit — and smothered herself. He told Nottingham Crown Court: “When a person is very large they can die because of their own sheer weight.” Yvette lay dead for two...