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US News Archive for March 2007:
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Iranian Seeks to Make Case for Nuclear Program
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran wants to take part in a meeting of the U.N. Security Council to brief member states about Iran?s nuclear program, a government spokesman said...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Islanders Forward Simon Suspended for Season
Chris Simon was suspended for at least 25 games by the N.H.L. for slamming Rangers forward Ryan Hollweg in the face with his stick...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Palestinian and Israeli Leaders Meet Again
After the leaders? second meeting in a month, aides said that there was little concrete progress to report...
New York Times - March 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2007
Google?s Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush
The sheer scale of Google?s new shuttle program for its employees befits the company?s oversize ambitions...
New York Times - March 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2007
Identity Crisis
When a thief steals your personal data, who really pays?...
New York Times - March 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2007
Fuel Lines
Starting at the pump, Lisa Margonelli traces gas back to its source...
New York Times - March 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2007
The Boss: Going Where Mother Led
Leslie V. Norwalk, acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, comes from a family of very strong women...
New York Times - March 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 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 11, 2007
Edison the Inventor, Edison the Showman
A new book examines the reality and the myths surrounding the legacy of Thomas Alva Edison...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
History, Digitized (and Abridged)
In the Internet age, historical records that have not been converted to digital form could vanish from the nation?s memory...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Halliburton plans move to Dubai
Halliburton, the oil services giant formerly headed by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, is moving its HQ to Dubai...
BBC News - March 11, 2007
Kidnapped newborn found
A newborn girl, who was abducted Saturday morning from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, has been located in neighboring New Mexico, a hospital spokeswoman told CNN on Sunday...
CNN - March 11, 2007
Dismay Over New U.N. Human Rights Council
Critics say the new council is not a sufficient improvement over the former, widely discredited, Human Rights Commission...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Girl, 6, Dies, Bringing Bronx Fire?s Toll to 10
The girl was the last surviving child of Mamadou Soumare, who also lost his wife and three other children...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Hungary Coalition Stays the Austerity Course
Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has to convince the Hungarian electorate he can be trusted again after a rocky start since taking office...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Bush Heads to Colombia as Scandal Taints Alliance
Democrats in Congress have increased their scrutiny of a trade pact and an aid package after claims of abuses...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime
With many adults having trouble sleeping, more couples are building separate bedrooms, or his-and-her wings...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
In Romney?s Bid, His Wallet Opens to the Right
Mitt Romney contributed tens of thousands of dollars to groups in a position to influence his image on the right...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Outsiders Tug at Weekly Newspapers in Queens
Community weeklies, as diverse as the borough itself, are growing ? and attracting the attention of the big dailies...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Bomb Blasts in Baghdad Kill at Least 30 Iraqis
A car bomb exploded next to a truck full of pilgrims returning to the capital from the southern holy city of Karbala, the Interior Ministry said...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
News Analysis: Crisis Looms in Market for Mortgages
For investors who watched the technology bubble burst, the problems in the mortgage securities market have a familiar ring...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Between Black and Immigrant Muslims, an Uneasy Alliance
Only 28 miles separate a mosque in Harlem from one on Long Island. Yet a vast gulf divides them...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
News Analysis: Crisis Looms in Market for Mortgages
For investors who watched the technology bubble burst, the problems in the mortgage securities market have a familiar ring...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Police ban rapper from film shoot
US rapper Busta Rhymes is banned from the set of a film he is appearing in after police raised security fears...
BBC News - March 11, 2007
James Brown laid to rest, for now
The body of late soul legend James Brown is moved to a tomb where it will stay until a public mausoleum is built...
BBC News - March 11, 2007
South Korea and US in trade talks
South Korea and the US are in the final round of free trade talks, trying to reach a deal before a looming deadline...
BBC News - March 11, 2007
Baghdad car bomb kills 31 pilgrims
A car bomb tore through a square in central Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 31 people as it struck two buses carrying Shiites on their way back from an annual pilgrimage, police said. The blast came a day after the city hosted a peace conference warned that sectarian violence would spill over Iraq's borders unless its neighbors acted to halt its spread...
CNN - March 11, 2007
Football: Messi in last-gasp strike
Lionel Messi's last-gasp strike earns Barcelona a share of the spoils in a 3-3 draw against Real Madrid...
BBC News - March 11, 2007
Cricket: World Cup to open
West Indies legend Sir Garfield Sobers will officially open the Cricket World Cup on Sunday...
BBC News - March 11, 2007
Hostages issue colors Bush visit
On the eve of a visit to Colombia by U.S. President George W. Bush, the U.S. Embassy confirmed Saturday that U.S. and Colombian soldiers had entered a stronghold of leftist rebels who are holding three Americans hostage. The fate of the three U.S. military contractors is expected to be on the agenda Sunday when President Bush meets with Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe on his Latin America visit...
CNN - March 11, 2007
Against Odds, Iraqi Refugees Reach U.S.
As the violence rages in Iraq, a small stream of Iraqis is trickling into the United States despite improbable odds...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Dismay Over New U.N. Human Rights Council
Critics say the new council is not a sufficient improvement over the former, widely discredited, Human Rights Commission...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
Between Black and Immigrant Muslims, an Uneasy Alliance
Only 28 miles separate a mosque in Harlem from one on Long Island. Yet a vast gulf divides them...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
History, Digitized (and Abridged)
In the Internet age, historical records that have not been converted to digital form could vanish from the nation?s memory...
New York Times - March 11, 2007
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