Demand for Lithium Is Poised to Take Off
For many years, few metals drew bigger yawns from mining executives than lithium, a lightweight element long associated mostly with mood-stabilizing drugs.
Suddenly, the yawns are being replaced by eurekas. As awareness spreads that lithium is a crucial ingredient for hybrid and electric cars, a global hunt is under way for new supplies of the metal.

Proposal for European Monetary Fund Meets Resistance
The German proposal to establish a European monetary fund ran into skepticism at home and abroad Tuesday, highlighting the political and legal hurdles that such an undertaking would face.
In her first public reaction, the French economy minister, Christine Lagarde, described the idea as interesting, but not urgent.

Pressed by Charters, Public Schools Try Marketing
Rafaela Espinal held her first poolside chat last summer, offering cheese, crackers and apple cider to draw people in to hear her pitch.
She keeps a handful of brochures in her purse, and also gives a few to her daughter before she leaves for school each morning. She painted signs on the windows of her Chrysler minivan, turning it into a mobile advertisement.

Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases
Every person's life is a mix of the things revealed and unrevealed, secrets spilled or kept. Ted Gardiner, who committed suicide last week, was no exception.
"He had a lot of demons," said his son Dustin, 23.
As an undercover federal source in a years-long investigation into the shadowy world of the excavation and trading of ancient American Indian art and artifacts in the Southwest, Mr. Gardiner, 52, was at the center of a sprawling criminal case unfolding in federal court here and in Colorado. On Monday, federal prosecutors said at a hearing that the cases would go on.

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