Life Settlement Solutions, Inc. Opposes Proposed Excise Tax on Life Settlements (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN DIEGO----May 31, 2006--The valuable options life settlements provide consumers are being threatened by proposed legislation to impose an excise tax on life settlements and transactions related to the acquisition and financing of life insurance.

Cardinals' Pujols Goes on Disabled List (North County Times)
ST. LOUIS - This is a much larger challenge for the St. Louis Cardinals: Albert Pujols will be out indefinitely with a strained muscle on his right side.

From Cairo's trash, a model of recycling (Detroit News)
CAIRO, Egypt -- At a school unlike any in the Middle East, 15-year-old Magdi Shenuda learns how to use a computer to track the number of plastic bottles he recycled in the past month.