In 2008, daylight time ends on November 2. Daylight time and time zones in the U.S. are defined in the U.S. Code, Title 15, Chapter 6, Subchapter IX - Standard Time. See history of daylight time at http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php

A number of industries, including financial services firms and internet retailers, have anticipated a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on the patenting of business methods. In a 9-3 decision, the court upheld a ruling made by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences that denied a patent for a method of hedging in commodities trading developed by Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw. (Here’s the breaking news story by Ashby Jones. The LB wrote about the Bilski case here and here.) The ruling in the case, called In re Bilski, largely disavowed the controversial State Street Bank case of 1998. There, the Federal Circuit opened the door to business method patents, which had then been excluded from patent protection, by granting protection to a system for managing mutual fund accounts.
WSJ Law Blog October 30, 008

August Data: Americans Drove 15 Billion Fewer Miles than a Year Ago
News release: Americans are continuing a 10-month-long decline in driving habits, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced. The decline is putting new pressure on the way road, bridge and transit projects are funded at a time of record growth in transit ridership, showing the need for a new approach for funding transportation construction. In August 2008, Americans drove 15 billion fewer miles, or 5.6 percent less, than they did in August 2007--the largest ever year-to-year decline recorded in a single month, Secretary Peters said. She added that over the past 10 months, Americans have driven 78 billion fewer miles than they did in the same 10 months the previous year. Texans alone drove 1.3 million fewer miles, the Secretary added.
FHWA’s “Traffic Volume Trends” reports for August 2008

Unintended Consequences: Ten Years Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "This document, Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA, collects reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors. It will be updated from time to time as additional cases come to light. The latest version can always be obtained at EFF.org. This document is Version Five. The previous version, from April of 2006, is available here."

After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced October 28. The nonprofit paper is currently published Monday through Friday, and will move to online only in April, although it will also introduce a Sunday magazine. Earlier this year, The Capital Times in Madison, Wis. went online only, and The Daily Telegram in Superior, Wis., announced it would publish online except for two days a week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/media/29paper.html?hp
See CSM at http://www.csmonitor.com/

Definitions of maverick http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Maverick&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

Halloween's origins date back about 2,000 years, to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The Celts lived in the cold parts of Northern Europe— in Britain, Ireland, and the north of France— and so for them, the new year began on November 1st, the end of the fall harvest and the beginning of winter. The night before the new year, on October 31st, the division between the world of the living and the world of the dead dissolved, and the dead could come to earth again. This was partly bad and partly good— these spirits would damage crops and cause sickness, but they also helped the Celtic priests, the druids, to tell the future, to make predictions about the coming year. The druids built huge bonfires, and regular people put out their own fires in their homes and crowded together around these fires, where they burned sacrifices for the gods, told each other's fortunes, and dressed in costumes— usually animal skins and heads. At the end of the celebration, they took a piece of the sacred bonfire and relit their own fires at home with this new flame, which was meant to help them stay warm through the long winter ahead.
First the Romans co-opted Samhain and combined it with their festivals, and then the Christians co-opted both the Celtic and Roman celebrations. In the ninth century, the pope decided that these pagan festivals needed to be replaced with a Christian holiday, so he just moved the holiday called All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. All Saints' Day was a time for Christians to honor all the saints and martyrs of their religion. The term for All Saints' Day in Middle English was Alholowmesse, or All-hallowmass. This became All-allows, and so the night before was referred to as All-hallows Eve, and finally, Halloween. The Writer’s Almanac