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US News Archive for March 2007:
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Kidnapped mother, son on video
Iraqi militants holding a German woman and her son demanded Saturday that Germany withdraw its troops from Afghanistan...
CNN - March 10, 2007
Don?t Be Cruel: Voters Accept Divorced Candidates, With Limits
The American public may not mind if presidential hopefuls have personally checkered lives, but will they be able to stomach adultery?...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Outsiders Tug at Weekly Newspapers in Queens
Community weeklies, as boisterous and distinct as the borough itself, are gaining ad revenue and circulation...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Girl, 6, Dies, Bringing to 10 Bronx Fire?s Toll
The girl was the last surviving child of Mamadou Soumare, who also lost his wife and three other children...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Market Week: One Vote for Less Worry on Wall St.
One analyst expects to evidence of stable economic growth this week, confirming his rosy outlook for the economy and the stock market...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
DataBank: Major Indexes Gain as Global Markets Rebound
Global stock markets bounced back last week, and on Wall Street the three major stock indexes posted healthy gains...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Fuel Lines
Starting at the pump, Lisa Margonelli traces gas back to its source...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Identity Crisis
When a thief steals your personal data, who really pays?...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
The Count: Want to Get Some Work Done? Wait Till April
Warning to employers: this might not be the best time to assign a big, complicated project...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Square Feet | Blueprints: A Bank Oasis, in Rich Shades of Red
When UBS decided to create a new floor dedicated to its wealthiest private clients in New York, it wanted something that would set the space apart...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Re: Framing: Knowledge Is Power Only if You Know How to Use It
?If we can land a man on the moon, why can?t we ...?? is a question that continues to engage innovators and scholars...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
National Perspectives: How Solid a Line Against Development?
The future of the Urban Development Boundary is up for grabs in Miami-Dade County as farmers and environmentalists face off about new construction...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
The Goods: For the Converted, and a Few Others
Vegetarians who prefer a more whimsical approach at trying to convince their friends that eating meat is cruel or wasteful can now choose Food for Thought dishes...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Economic View: Catching a Wave of High-Tech Exports
American companies are making many of the durable goods and other capital equipment emerging countries need to improve their infrastructures...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Career Couch: Sunny or Cloudy, Moods Cast an Influence
In groups, people unconsciously tend to mimic the demeanor of those around them...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
The Boss: Going Where Mother Led
?When you lose someone close to you, in a way you start to focus on what?s important ? the big picture, how to get something accomplished and be more efficient.?...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: Weird and Weirder Numbers on Pay Reports
Shareholders who thought that a quick glance at the summary compensation table would tell them all they needed to know have another think coming...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Fundamentally: This Time, the Turbulence May Last Awhile
Market volatility has returned with a vengeance, raising fears that a full-blown market correction could be imminent...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Investing: Suddenly, Those Treasury Bonds Don?t Look So Bland
Investors lulled into thinking that they didn?t need ?boring? Treasury bonds in their portfolios may have just had a rude awakening...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Everybody?s Business: Where Are the Grown-Ups When You Need Them?
The first step toward fixing the economy: Stop all of the whining...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
A Political Flavor (Waffles Included)
Stephen Colbert, whose television persona opposes virtually everything that the founders of Ben & Jerry?s ice cream stand for, has his very own flavor...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Life?s Work: Can Your Dog Humanize the Office?
It had been thought that the patter of paws would go the way of casual Fridays and massages at your desk, but, the dogs, it seems, are here to stay...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Dealbook: Of Private Equity, Politics and Income Taxes
If the tax collector gets his way, members of the leveraged-buyout crowd could soon be forced to add some zeros to the taxable income line on their federal forms...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Slipstream: A New Battery Takes Off in a Race to Electric Cars
The goal for A123Systems? battery for plug-in hybrid cars is to achieve 155 miles to the gallon and reduce demand for gasoline by 70 percent...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Spending: In the Computer Dating Game, Room for a Coach
Not getting any online dates? Maybe it?s time for an online makeover...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
History, Digitized (and Abridged)
Cash-starved archivists are looking to the private sector for help...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Edison the Inventor, Edison the Showman
?No one of the time would have predicted that it would be an inventor, of all occupations, who would become the cynosure of the age.?...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Bush vows swift end to FBI lapses
President George Bush pledges to end FBI lapses that led to illegal prying into citizens' lives...
BBC News - March 10, 2007
U.S. appeals to Iraq's neighbors
The top U.S. envoy to Baghdad calls on Iraq's neighbors to do more to halt bloodshed in the violence-ravaged country at ground breaking peace talks that united estranged American and Iranian diplomats for the first time in decades. Zalmay Khalilzad told delegates the fate of their own nations depended on the stabilization of Iraq...
CNN - March 10, 2007
Teens arrested after mom's body found in trunk
For nearly a month after she was stabbed to death, Linda Damm's body lay in the trunk of her car inside her garage while her 15-year-old daughter and friends used her debit card to "do teenage stuff," police say...
CNN - March 10, 2007
Bush ignores Chavez 'gringo' taunt
President George W. Bush launched talks Saturday with Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez focused on expanding trade with this tiny coastal nation...
CNN - March 10, 2007
Girl?s Death Raises Toll in Bronx Fire to 10
The deadly fire claimed another young victim, when a 7-year-old girl who had been hospitalized since Wednesday died...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
In Uruguay, Bush Finds a Leftist He Can Embrace (and Name)
In a press briefing, neither President Bush nor President Tabaré Vázquez mentioned President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela by name...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
In Romney?s Bid, His Wallet Opens to the Right
Before announcing his bid for the G.O.P. nomination, Mitt Romney contributed to conservative groups in a position to influence his image on the right...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Distant Brothers | Bridging a Divide: Between Black and Immigrant Muslims, an Uneasy Alliance
Only 28 miles separate Imam Talib?s mosque in Harlem from the Islamic Center of Long Island. Yet a vast gulf divides them...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
To Have, Hold And Cherish, Until Bedtime
According to a survey, 75 percent of adults frequently either wake up in the night or snore ? and many of them have taken to separate beds...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
News Analysis: Crisis Looms in Mortgages
The demise of New Century Financial has been broadly viewed as troubling, as it involves the nation?s $6.5 trillion mortgage securities market...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Blasts rock Iraqi peace conference
Powerful blasts rocked Baghdad Saturday close to a regional peace conference where eyes are on U.S., Iranian and Syrian envoys to bridge a 28-year diplomatic divide...
CNN - March 10, 2007
Bush shrugs off Chavez's taunts
Taunted by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, President Bush insisted the United States is not neglecting Latin America and celebrated an alternative-fuels pact with Brazil as proof...
CNN - March 10, 2007
Cricket: Lara furious with team
Captain Brian Lara is furious with his team after their sorry nine-wicket defeat against India in Jamaica...
BBC News - March 10, 2007
Bush responds to Chavez's taunts
U.S. President George W. Bush, on a visit to Latin America, on Friday shrugged off criticism that the United States has ignored the region, saying, "I don't think America gets enough credit for trying to help improve people's lives." He dismissed fresh attacks by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who on Friday evening addressed an "anti-imperialist" rally in Argentina...
CNN - March 10, 2007
Congressional Memo: Democrats Steer the War in Iraq in Fits and Starts
House Democrats range from nervous centrists to an antiwar contingent that wants a swift withdrawal...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Edwards Seeks Momentum in Iowa
John Edwards has been quietly building his campaign machine in crucial states...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
The Saturday Profile: Kasparov, Building Opposition to Putin
As leader of the political opposition, Garry Kasparov brings the energy and aggression that characterized his chess game to his political career...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Horrific Blaze Unites Cultures in Rites of Grief
The Malian and Muslim community in the Bronx is suddenly at the center of an unspeakable tragedy...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Court Rejects Strict Gun Law as Unconstitutional
Advocates of gun rights said the decision raised the prospect of a national re-evaluation of the meaning of the Second Amendment and the rights of gun owners...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
F.B.I. Head Admits Mistakes in Use of Security Act
Robert S. Mueller III embraced responsibility for the lapses. But his apologies failed to defuse the anger of lawmakers in both parties...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: A Week of Partial Recovery
An unexpected drop in unemployment helped stocks post their first back-to-back gains in almost a month...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Five Days: Investors Get a Break, but Some Lenders Absorb Blows
For all the anxiety this week about what Wall Street would do once investors saw the latest economic indicators, there was little excitement in the markets...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Saturday Interview: Knit Tops Are the Next Challenge
James V. O?Donnell, American Eagle?s chief executive, answered the big question: Where is the company, with $2.8 billion in sales in 2006, heading now?...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Volkswagen Predicts Increased Sales and Profit for This Year
The Skoda Fabia and Audi A5 models have attracted more customers and a corporate overhaul has reduced production costs...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
What?s Offline: Managing Your Aces
What?s the best way to manage the gifted people who are increasingly important in the knowledge economy?...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
What?s Online: Walker, Fiscal Ranger
The federal government?s fiscal crisis is so great that it threatens the future of the republic, David M. Walker, the comptroller general of the United States warned...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Basic Instincts: On Wearing Our Salaries on Our Sleeves
Given how careful we are today about all things financial it?s striking that people appear to have been more frank about money 200 years ago...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Bush and Chávez Spar at Distance Over Latin Visit
President Bush ended up competing for attention with President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who called the American visit an act of imperialism, adding, ?Gringo, go home!?...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Executive Pursuits: Paper Balanchine
Harry Hurt III attempts a specially choreographed 15-second routine with a ballerina from the New York City Ballet...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Buyout Firm and Partner Bid for British Drugstores
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is teaming up with the Italian billionaire Stefano Pessina to make a takeover bid for Alliance Boots, Britain?s largest drugstore chain...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Russian Prosecutors Search Office of Yukos?s Audit Firm
The Moscow office of PricewaterhouseCoopers was searched in connection with its work with Yukos and its own tax filings...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Troubles Hit Real Estate at High End
There are signs that some high-end real estate developers are being hit by a slowdown...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Revisiting Overstock.com and Utah
The crusade against ?naked short selling? by Patrick M. Byrne, the head of Overstock.com, may be in the midst of a meltdown...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
First Loss Ever at Airbus, and Profit Drops at EADS
Profit plunged 94 percent at EADS after its main unit, the aircraft maker Airbus, reported its worst year ever...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
TXU Announces Plans for 2 Coal Plants Designed to Be Cleaner-Burning
The two power plants would use advanced technology intended to capture carbon dioxide before it escapes into the atmosphere...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Your Money: Getting Out of a 2-Year Cellphone Contract Alive
It?s not easy to escape a two-year cellphone contract. But it can be done by turning to the innovators on the Internet...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
More Finding Work in U.S.
Employers added 97,000 workers, and the jobless rate ticked down to 4.5 percent from 4.6 percent...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
Some Sectors in Europe Face a Labor Shortage
The most dynamic, future-oriented industries are having trouble finding qualified employees...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
After Mastering Web Traffic, Google Runs Bus Line
The sheer scale of Google?s new shuttle program for its employees befits the company?s oversize ambitions...
New York Times - March 10, 2007
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