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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for December 2005:
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L.A. leaders urge peace if Williams is executed
Community leaders Friday called for peace in the city if convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams is put to death next week as scheduled...
CNN - December 10, 2005
Students among Nigeria crash dead
A passenger jet crash-landed and burst into flames on a runway in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing almost all the people onboard. Officials said 103 people died and there were only seven survivors who were taken to hospitals...
CNN - December 10, 2005
Deadline passes; no word on hostages
International concern for four Western humanitarian workers heightened Saturday as the hours before their execution deadline turned into minutes, then passed with no word on their fate. After the deadline, the daughter of one of the aid workers taped a plea to her father's captors...
CNN - December 10, 2005
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy dies
Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89...
CNN - December 10, 2005
Former Senator Eugene McCarthy Dies at 89
Eugene J. McCarthy, a Minnesota Democrat, stunned the nation by upending President Lyndon B. Johnson's re-election drive amid the Vietnam War turmoil of 1968...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Police Officer Is Killed in Bronx; Actor in Mafia Roles Is Arrested
The officer, shot while trying to stop a burglary, is the second New York City officer to die in the line of duty this year...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Can This Man Reprogram Microsoft?
Bill Gates is counting on Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft just eight months ago, to help the company tackle Google...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Vietnam opponent McCarthy dies
Prominent anti-Vietnam war campaigner
Eugene J McCarthy dies at his Georgetown retirement home, aged 89...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Credit Card Offers Stacking Up at Homes of the Newly Bankrupt
Credit card companies are soliciting the more than two million Americans who rushed to file for bankruptcy this year before a tough new law took effect...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Lawmaker Adds More Vegetables to Amtrak Load
Amtrak says it could lose less money if it stopped hauling cars of "premium" freight, but Congress is ordering it to haul more...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Croatian war suspect flown to Hague
Croatian war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina was flown out of Spain to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, on Saturday, news reports said...
CNN - December 10, 2005
False Positives From H.I.V. Test
Officials in New York and San Francisco said the results have been frightening healthy people into thinking they might be infected...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
NBA: Bulls retire Pippen's number
The Chicago Bulls honour former star Scottie Pippen by retiring his number 33 shirt in a special ceremony...
BBC News - December 10, 2005
Deadline looms for Iraq hostages
With a Saturday execution deadline looming, the brothers of a Canadian man held hostage in Iraq made another plea to his abductors, saying their brother was in Iraq to gather information on alleged human rights abuses...
CNN - December 10, 2005
Hamas leader: No room for truce
The leader of Hamas says his group is growing weary of its pact with the Palestinian Authority to avoid conflict with Israel. "There is no room for truce. I say to our brothers in the [Palestinian] Authority that we are witnessing political stagnation," Khaled Meshaal said in a fiery speech at a rally in Damascus, Syria...
CNN - December 10, 2005
Lieberman's Iraq Stance Brings Widening Split With His Party
Some Democrats are saying Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut is more of a wayward son than a favorite son...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Doubts on Donors' Collection Cloud Met Antiquities Project
The questionable provenance of some objects in the Levy-White collection at the Met is a growing source of problems for the museum...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Your Money: Matching the Wide Screen With Clear Thinking
Consumers are snapping up digital TV's this holiday season, but cutting through the clutter to select the right model can be trying...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
[TS] À la Carte? Nah, Hand Me the Remote.
Are television consumers really going to give up decades of ingrained viewing habits in favor of downloading and paying for a vastly inferior viewing experience?...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Executive Gets 5-Year Term in Fraud Case
A former chief financial officer at HealthSouth, William T. Owens, was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in an accounting fraud at the company...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
U.S. to Offer Cuts in Tariffs on Cotton
The United States will make new offers to cut tariffs on cotton next week at global trade talks in Hong Kong...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Wynn Drops Out of Singapore Casino Bidding
Wynn Resorts Ltd. has dropped out of the competition for development of a casino resort in downtown Singapore, a spokeswoman for the company said...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Appeals Court Is Asked to Reject Rule on Regional Vehicle Recalls
At issue is a rule that allows the government's highway safety agency to limit some vehicle recalls by region...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
From Russia to Europe With a Natural Gas Pipeline
Gerhard Schröder, the former chancellor of Germany, was named chairman of a pipeline-building subsidiary that has begun building the first direct energy link between Russia and Western Europe...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Losing Week Puts the Dow Back to Negative for the Year
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Eli Lilly Predicts Latest Drugs Will Lift Its Earnings in 2006
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Hong Kong Girds for Protests During World Trade Conference
With the World Trade Organization ministerial conference scheduled to start here on Tuesday, Hong Kong is like a city preparing for a siege...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
London Stock Exchange Rejects Takeover Offer
The London Stock Exchange rejected as "derisory" a £1.48 billion ($2.6 billion) preliminary bid from Macquarie Bank...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Consumer Confidence Rises for a 2nd Consecutive Month
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Shortcuts: The Act of Giving Makes a Nice Gift, if Done Correctly
THE message is everywhere: This holiday, give the gift of giving. Do good and feel good. The perfect gift is a gift to charity...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Settlement Rejected in BlackBerry Case
The patent holding company NTP Inc. has rejected an offer by Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device, to settle their patent dispute and the two sides are not currently negotiating...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Odd Coalition Opposes Criminalizing Patent Violations
Declared adversaries are on the same side of an argument in the technology industry, urging European lawmakers to drop legislation that would impose prison time on patent violators...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Prize in Indian Talent Search Is a Year on Bill Gates's Team
Bill Gates announced a contest to identify promising software students in India, offering as top prize an internship with his technical team for a year...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Market Values: Murphy's Law and Forecasts for Next Year
YEAR-END forecasts are arriving earlier and earlier, like holiday shopping without the inconvenient parking. Here are some otherwise unexpected events that some investment advisers predict for 2006, along with ways to profit should they come to pass...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
What's Offline: Root for $5-a-Gallon Gas
Gasoline prices stubbornly hover near $2 a gallon, but $5 would be even better, writes Spencer Reiss in this month's Wired...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Off the Charts: The Jobs Recovery Looks Good, Until a Longer Look Is Taken
Jobs numbers have shown steady gains since hitting a low in May 2003, but by invoking historical averages, President Bush may have invited comparisons that do not make the recovery look so good...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Private Equity and Paper Companies May Bid for Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder, the newspaper giant that put itself up for sale last month, received several preliminary bids from both rivals and private equity firms...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
The Saturday Interview | Ed Colligan: Hand-Helds and Palm: What's Next?
Ed Colligan, the chief executive of Palm, recently spoke about competition and the future of hand-held devices...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Yahoo Acquisition Expands Its Social Networking Services
Yahoo has acquired Del.icio.us, a nine-month-old company that provides software for bloggers...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
California's Stem Cell Program Is Hobbled but Staying the Course
More than a year after Californians approved a program to harness human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases, not a single dollar has yet been spent on research...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Judges Weigh Hedge Funds vs. the S.E.C.
A federal appeals court sharply questioned the Securities and Exchange Commission's plan to tighten oversight of hedge funds...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Doctor Links Merck Trial to His Demotion
Dr. Eric Topol, a prominent cardiologist who lambasted Merck in a videotaped statement, has lost his title as chief academic officer of the Cleveland Clinic's medical college...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Five Days: Boston Scientific's Guidant Bid Muddies the Water
HOLIDAY preparations did not slow the deal makers, who were busy from the heart of Wall Street to Beijing. The economy showed some encouraging signs of health, even while some doctors were concluding that junk food ads were to blame for the lack of health in young people...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
What's Online: Cuts, Cream, Claus and Coffee
Globalization presents challenges, writes Jim Jubak, a columnist for TheStreet.com, but too many companies use it as a lame excuse...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Live Tracking of Mobile Phones Prompts Court Fights on Privacy
In recent years, law enforcement officials have turned to cellular technology for monitoring the movements of individuals...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
Viacom Seals Deal to Buy a Studio
DreamWorks SKG agreed to be acquired by Viacom and its studio division, Paramount Pictures, for $1.6 billion, according to executives involved in the negotiations...
New York Times - December 10, 2005
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