By Bob Secter and Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune Aug.

By Victoria Shannon When David Gross heard last month that the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, wanted to lower- case the word Internet as a matter of official policy, he did not know whether to be alarmed or amused.

By Melissa McGrath, The Idaho Statesman, Boise Mar. 10--The cost of prescription drugs has risen in recent years, causing some people to point fingers at pharmaceutical companies or start buying drugs from Canada.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Prescription drug prices continue to outpace the rate of inflation, although the rate of increase is slightly less than it has been in the past two years.

The United States refuses to relinquish its role as the Internet's principal traffic policeman, rejecting calls in a United Nations meeting for a U.N. body to take over, a top U.S. official said Thursday. "We will not agree to the U.N.