ABC's prime-time schedule for the fall:
Monday
8 p.m. _ "Dancing With the Stars"
10 p.m. _ "Castle"
Tuesday
8 p.m. _ "Shark Tank"
9 p.m. _ "Dancing With the Stars Results"
10 p.m. _ "The Forgotten"
Wednesday
8 p.m. _ "Hank"
8:30 p.m. _ "The Middle"
9 p.m. _ "Modern Family"
9:30 p.m. _ "Cougar Town"
10 p.m. _ "Eastwick"
Thursday
8 p.m. …
Truck maker Navistar International Corp. today reported itsfourth straight quarterly loss and said it expects to shut down truckassembly operations for four to five weeks in its fiscal fourthquarter.
A one-week shutdown of Navistar's Springfield, Ohio, assemblyplant occurred in early August, and Navistar workers will get aroutine vacation week off next week, said spokeswoman Mary Moster.
She said further shutdowns of three to four weeks could affectas many as 4,000 hourly workers - 3,200 at the Springfield plant and800 at a smaller assembly plant in Chatham, Ontario. Navistaremploys about 13,000 people worldwide, Moster said.
Despite cost-cutting and a …
German airline Air Berlin PLC says it will increase its stake in Austrian carrier Niki Luftfahrt GmbH, to 49.9 percent from 24 percent.
Air Berlin said late Tuesday it will pay euro21.1 million to lift its stake.
Niki offers mainly holiday flights to European and North …
I believe in the democratic process as much as the next guy, so Iwas happy to sign those two neighborhood petitions aimed at puttingmodest updates'' for Wrigley Field and a slight increase in thenumber of night games'' on the November ballot. I do think, however,it would have been sporting of the Cubs to note somewhere on thepetition that they were sponsoring them.
Hold your coats, guys? I see where Enron is suing TribuneCorporation. There are Cubs fans who don't know whom to root for inthat one.
I take Jerry Reinsdorf at his word when he says he isn't involvedin the baseball negotiations, but with Padres owner John Moores onthe job, he doesn't have to be. Just as …
Sifting out the best matzah: Testers taste the difference
Mix flour and water; roll, shape and bake, all within 18 minutes.
The result?
Matzah.
Give such a simple procedure, with so few ingredients, how different can one brand of mass-produced, machine-made matzah be from another?
The Jewish Star decided to find out.
We purchased seven different brands of machine-made matzah and invited seven men and women to participate in a blind taste test.
While we were at it, we also purchased a variety of macaroons to be tested, since Pesach isn't Peach without those tins of macaroons.
Our testers were given unmarked samples of each brand of …
Household products maker Henkel KGaA said Wednesday that its second-quarter earnings dropped by nearly 84 percent as a result of costs related to a restructuring program.
Henkel, which makes Persil detergent and owns Dial Corp., said it earned euro38 million (US$59 million) in the April-June period _ a decline of 83.8 percent from last year's figure of euro234 million.
Henkel's operating profit declined by two-thirds _ dropping to euro113 million (US$175 million) from euro339 million.
The company said it took restructuring …
