WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, Ambassador Andy Young, the chair of Wal-Mart's front group, was forced to resign because of racist statements he made about Jews, Asians and Arabs in defense of Wal-Mart.

By REX SPINGSTON He tamed a drought. Now David K. Paylor gets a shot at another miracle: cleaning the Chesapeake Bay. Paylor, a Richmond native, is the new director of Virginia's top pollution-fighting agency, the Department of Environmental Quality.