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US News Archive for May 2007:
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[TS] This Land: Where Little Grows, Capitalism Takes Root
The Internet has quickened the timing referred to in a familiar saying. Now, it seems, there?s a sucker born every second...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Doctors Detail Corzine?s Fast Recovery
In interviews, a medical team that saved the life of Gov. Jon S. Corzine revealed new details about his recovery...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Dam?s Allies Have a Change of Heart
Why a farmer who depends on a tame river is talking to fishermen who want to remove the river?s dams...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
A Hard Race From Backstretch to White House
Calvin Borel has had a remarkable ride, from the son of a farmer to the winner of the Kentucky Derby...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
In a New Role, Senator Clinton?s Strategist in Chief
Bill Clinton is the master strategist behind his wife?s presidential candidacy, advisers say. But there are potential pitfalls to his involvement...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
The Count: A Good Summer to Leave the Car in the Garage
Retail prices for gasoline are projected to average $2.95 a gallon, compared with $2.84 last summer...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Market Week: Surprised? Maybe You Shouldn?t Be
Analysts were off the mark largely because of the so-called guidance provided by company after company, setting investors up for a pleasant surprise...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
DataBank: Earnings and Reports Give the Dow a Lift
The Dow Jones industrial average rose again last week on strong corporate earnings and economic reports that sustained Wall Street?s hopes for lower interest rates...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Homefront: Students See the Future, and It?s Elderly People
The need to find and train people to work with the elderly has become more urgent as the baby boom generation ages and people live longer than ever...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Fresh Starts: Drive to Cut Emissions Creates Jobs Engine
The job market for climate change experts has evolved as governments, businesses and environmental groups create markets aimed at reducing greenhouse gases...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
The Boss: Staring Down Risk
"I believe I am making a difference," said W. Montague Winfield, commanding general, United States Army Cadet Command...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Suits: Did That Power Dad Get His Hands Dirty?
Some executives are much more hands-on than others. That was made clear last week during a panel discussion titled ?Power Couples ? How They Live and Work.?...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Strategies: Shareholders Benefit When Managers Have a Serious Stake
Public companies often pay a much higher price than private equity firms when buying other companies, according to a new study...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Economic View: Pop Quiz: Did the Tax Cuts Bolster Growth?
The answer, in a nutshell, is no. But there is a lot more to the story...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
The Goods: Keeping Precious Artwork Safe
Art Guard, a palm-size alarm, can be a security solution for museums short of cash...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: Managers and Investors, Well Met
Markel does not avoid or abuse its shareholders; it serves them...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
National Perspectives: Reviving a No Man?s Land Along the Tennessee River
On the river?s south bank, developers and city officials are focusing on both shores of the river and trying to attract year-round crowds...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Spending: To Land a High-Paying Job, Some Try an Executive Coach
Consultants and résumé writers might improve the odds...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Everybody's Business: Assorted Mysteries of Economic Life
The world of economics is in good measure terra incognita even now, 231 years after publication of ?The Wealth of Nations,? Adam Smith?s free-market bible...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Sqaure Feet | Spotlight: An Open, Sunlit Space at 7 World Trade Center
Mansueto Ventures wanted its new offices in New York to emphasize that its magazines were no longer part of a huge global stable of mainstream publications...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Novelties: A Diet, Oddly Bland, of Continuous Images and Chat
Even as they mimic television, Joost and Babelgum incorporate the social networking and communication tools of cyberspace...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Investing: Manager Frets Over the Market, but Still Outdoes It
Earning 22 percent on your investments while holding half of your portfolio in cash is no easy trick, but last year Seth A. Klarman pulled it off, again...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Media Frenzy: Like a Marriage That Ended Up in Court
In the case of Conrad Black and David Radler, their professional relationship was idiosyncratic in many ways, not least in that it lasted for decades...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Slipstream: A Microsoft Alumnus Shares His Good Fortune
A computer engineer from India wants to help schools in his homeland...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Tilting at a Digital Future
As is so often the case with Rupert Murdoch, his bid for Dow Jones is counterintuitive and seemingly quixotic...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
The Greatest Mystery: Making a Best Seller
The advance is usually the estimate of the first year's royalties. It's often wrong...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Religious Groups Granted Millions for Pet Projects
An analysis of federal records shows that an increasing number of religious organizations are hiring professional lobbyists to pursue earmarks...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
US takes Iraq war to YouTube
The US military launches its own video clip channel on YouTube, to give a "boots on the ground" perspective of the Iraq war...
BBC News - May 12, 2007
A Hard Race From the Backstretch to the White House
At the state dinner for Queen Elizabeth II, Calvin Borel could have told a remarkable tale about how a son of a farmer came to win the Kentucky Derby...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Face of Abortion in China Is Young and Unmarried
Abortion in China is no longer associated with married women complying with the country?s one-child policy...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Crisis in Pakistan Over Judge Turns Violent
At least 17 people were killed in gun battles related to a political crisis over the suspension of the judge...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
5 Soldiers Dead After Attack in Iraq; 3 Missing
Seven U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi army interpreter came under coordinated attack today in a Sunni stronghold south of Baghdad...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Sheryl Crow adopts baby
US singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has adopted a two-week-old boy, who has been named Wyatt Steven...
BBC News - May 12, 2007
Deadly violence erupts in Pakistan
At least 16 people have been killed during massive clashes between government supporters and opposition party members backing former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi...
CNN - May 12, 2007
Pentagon Opens Inquiry of Troop-Support Group
The Pentagon is looking into whether Defense Department officials might have engaged in improper fund-raising...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Your Money: A Contrarian on Retirement Says Wait
An economics professor suggests that retirees should delay collecting Social Security benefits to maximize their returns...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Virginia Tech students graduate
The US university where 32 students and staff were killed in a gun rampage has held its graduation ceremony...
BBC News - May 12, 2007
Pleas, anger in missing girl hunt
A British girl -- who should be celebrating her 4th birthday Saturday -- has been missing for more than a week after being snatched from a Portuguese vacation resort. Her anguished parents today pleaded again for her return. The British media meanwhile, descended on the vacation area and slammed police, who they reported would rather sit out a rain shower in their cars than man roadblocks...
CNN - May 12, 2007
GOP anxiety, Blair's exit test Bush's mettle
This week President Bush's staunchest ally on Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, announced he was stepping down, and anxious House Republicans came to the White House for a "frank" exchange about the looming political dangers of the war. And amid it all there were signs of flexibility coming from the White House...
CNN - May 12, 2007
Tears Are Mixed at Virginia Tech Commencement
During an evening ceremony, students shared hugs and in quieter moments they spoke of feelings of guilt...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
A Father?s Pain and an Empty Pizzeria
The father of one of the Fort Dix terror plot suspects says he has received daily death threats and lost customers...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Pentagon Inquiry Looks at Fund-Raising
The Pentagon is looking into complaints that Defense Department officials may have engaged in improper fund-raising...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
In New Hampshire, Soft Sell Eases Vaccine Fears
The demand for a free vaccine against cervical cancer has been so high, physicians can?t satisfy all the requests...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
U.S. Won?t Limit Detainees? Visits With Attorneys
The Justice Department withdrew one of its proposals to tighten restrictions on lawyers representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
The Critical Years: A Model Middle School
Briarcliff Middle School has emerged as a nationally recognized middle school that gets things right...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Giuliani Takes On G.O.P. Orthodoxy on Social Issues
Rudolph W. Giuliani said that Republicans needed to tolerate dissenting views on abortion rights, gun control and gay rights if they wanted to retain the White House...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Colleagues Cite Partisan Focus by Justice Official
By the time Monica M. Goodling resigned, she and other Justice Department officials had revamped personnel practices from the top of the agency to the bottom...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
U.S. Aircraft Leasing Business Sold to European Equity Firm
Terra Firma Capital Partners bought the aircraft leasing business Pegasus Aviation Finance for $5.2 billion...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Alfred D. Chandler Jr., a Business Historian, Dies at 88
Alfred D. Chandler Jr. argued in almost two dozen books that the emergence of professional management propelled modern capitalism...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Google to Block Video Clips That Thais Say Insult King
Google also said two other videos that had angered the government would stay on the site, because they did not break laws...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Alcatel Posts Loss on Merger Costs
The telecommunications equipment maker was hurt by costs and accounting changes related to the merger that created the company last year...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Saturday Interview: Medical Gear That Rarely Makes News
Edward J. Ludwig, head of Medtronic, spoke about his company?s product line and its acquisition of GeneOhm Sciences last year...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Five Days: Rates Hold Fast, and Movie Smoking Takes a Hit
Policy makers in Washington kept their eyes on inflation, but held rates steady. In Hollywood, the M.P.A.A. tossed smoking into its ratings system...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Market Values: In Investing, Passive Beats Active
Actively managed stock portfolios find it hard to achieve the returns of low-cost index-tracking funds...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
What's Online: Online Ads vs. Privacy
The huge costs and many dangers of online advertising for advertisers and consumers...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
What's Offline: When Failure Is a Good Thing
Quiz time: What percentage of dot-com start-ups have failed?...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Off the Charts: Asian Growth Offsets U.S. Slump to Prolong Industrial Metals Rally
Just how much the prices of industrial metals like copper have risen since the end of 2000...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Battle to Acquire the Chicago Board of Trade Heats Up
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange raised its bid to acquire its crosstown rival, the Chicago Board of Trade, by 16 percent...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Thomson Agrees to Sell Educational Group
The $7.75 billion deal comes as the Canadian information company ponders a merger with Reuters...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Rally Resumes on Outlook for Rates
Investors interpreted a government report of milder inflation as a signal that the Fed might consider cutting interest rates later this year...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Retail Sales Fell 0.2% Last Month
The weak retail spending and a big rise in gasoline prices were seen as delivering a double whammy to the economy...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Tough Sell: An American Yogurt in Paris
The Danone Group is turning to an American to introduce organic yogurts in Europe, starting in France...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Shortcuts: Paint by the Numbers (When Your Canvas Is the Bathroom Wall)
Some new kinds of expensive paint reduce the fumes, need no primer and stop the grays...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Artificial Sweetener Makers Reach Settlement on Slogan
The makers of Equal and Splenda reached an undisclosed settlement over Splenda?s slogan ?made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar.?...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Suspicious Trading on the Rise
Regulators are again knee-deep in insider trading cases, with profiteers spanning the globe, from Hong Kong to lower Manhattan...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Making Sure the Negative Can Be Heard
Companies that sue their critics are no friends of free speech...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Last Big Piece of Russian Oil Giant Is Sold
The headquarters building for Yukos oil company was sold for a startling price to an unknown buyer...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Hands on the Wheel, Not on the BlackBerry Keys
More legislators are worried about the dangers of driving while texting with a BlackBerry or other mobile device...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Your Money: Retirement Contrarian Says Wait
An economics professor suggests that retirees delay collecting Social Security benefits to maximize their returns...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
The Energy Challenge: Incredible Shrinking Packages
More companies are cutting down on packaging to reduce expenses and address growing environmental concerns...
New York Times - May 12, 2007
Costa Rica embassy drama ends
A hostage drama at Russia's embassy in Costa Rica ends peacefully when an armed man surrenders to police...
BBC News - May 12, 2007
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