International Business News - Years http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana. With a small entourage, Rep. Leo Ryan had come to investigate the remote agricultural settlement built by a California-based church. But while he was there, more than a dozen people had stepped forward: We want to return to the United States, they said fearfully. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081115/30-years-after-the-legacy-of-jonestown.htm Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:21:57 EST It is not a tidy anniversary this year. Seven years between that awful day and this Sept. 11, the terrorist attacks linger somewhere between the immediate, a conscious part of our days, and the comfortable remove of the distant past. No longer yesterday and not yet history. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080906/7-years-on-sept-11-is-so-far-and-yet-so-close.htm Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:47:41 EDT The week before the 2004 Democratic National Convention, John Kerry drafted his presidential nomination speech and then set off on a cross-country trip that brought him home to thousands of delegates waiting in Boston. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/112901-kerry-four-years-later.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/kerry-returns-to-stump-4-years-after-nomination.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/kerry-returns-to-stump-4-years-after-nomination.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:16:26 EDT Five years after the worst blackout in North American history, the country's largest power providers say the problems that turned out the lights on 50 million people have largely been resolved, but they fear that larger, systemic issues could soon lead to even bigger and more damaging outages. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/108340-blackout-5-years-later.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/5-years-after-a-giant-blackout-are-we-better-off.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/5-years-after-a-giant-blackout-are-we-better-off.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:22:56 EDT It's been nearly seven years, but folks in Oxford, Conn., still remember the workers in hazmat suits, scouring the pews of Immanuel Lutheran Church for unseen spores of anthrax. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/102086-anthrax-scientist.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/answers-in-anthrax-case-may-have-died-with-suicide.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/answers-in-anthrax-case-may-have-died-with-suicide.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:38:54 EDT They were precocious toddlers, both blond-haired and blue-eyed, separated by a thousand miles between Miami and a small Kentucky town. The two girls would never meet, but would be brought together through unthinkable tragedy: Trine Engebretsen was born with a genetic disorder that would require what at the time was an extremely rare liver transplant, and Amanda DeLapp would die at just 18 months after being stricken with a brain tumor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080706/liver-donors-family-recipient-unite-online.htm Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:00:34 EDT You're never too old to fall in love. Just ask Susan Schuehler (SHOO'-ler) and Earle Ehly (EE'-lee). She is 75 and he is 89. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080527/pa-couple-89-and-75-reunite-marry.htm Tue, 27 May 2008 10:09:01 EDT The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080428/rnc-demands-networks-yank-mccain-ad.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:10:53 EDT