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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Official Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Muslim separatist strike shuts down Indian Kashmir
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Troops, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir 1 dead
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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US News Archive for February 2008:
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Amazon and the Internet Sales Tax Debate
New York State has revived a plan to tax online purchases using a novel legal theory. Amazon is fighting this move, and national efforts to force it to collect sales tax for all states. It says the current rules are too complex, even though it routinely handles far more complected tasks...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
City Room: N.Y.C. Condoms in Translation
Having distributed 36 million of the city's first official condom last year, the city's Health Department has unveiled a redesign and a pair of new slogans -- one in English, one in Spanish -- for Valentine's Day...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
More Students Passing A.P. Exams
The proportion of students taking the courses has grown slowly but steadily over the last five years...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Senate Passes Interrogation Ban
The prohibition would restrict all American interrogators to techniques allowed in the Army Field Manual, which bars the use of physical force...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Man Is Sought in New York Psychologist?s Stabbing
A man armed with a suitcase full of knives fatally stabbed and slashed a well-known psychologist in her office...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Iraqi Lawmakers Pass 3 Crucial Laws
The three laws are the budget, a law outlining the scope of provincial powers and an amnesty covering thousands of detainees...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Obama?s Edge: His Wife Michelle
Outspoken, strong-willed, funny, gutsy and sometimes sarcastic, Michelle Obama is playing a pivotal role in her husband?s campaign as it builds on a series of successes...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Top Hezbollah Commander Killed in Syria Bombing
Imad Mugniyah, one of America?s most wanted men, was accused in a string of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
A Little Piece of Microsoft Aids Small Business
Office Live Small Business gives the nation?s 25 million small businesses the same online tools that the big boys use, and it shows Microsoft can still produce fresh ideas and polished work...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
U.S. Says W.T.O. Backs Claim on Chinese Barriers
The United States has won a preliminary ruling in a World Trade Organization case over Chinese tax policies that restrict imports of foreign auto parts, a U.S. trade official said...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Federal Lab Says It Can Harvest Fuel from Air (With a Catch)
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a way to produce a truly carbon-neutral fuel using carbon dioxide removed from the air as the raw material...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Morgan Stanley Cuts 1,000 Jobs
The company said it will close its business in Britain that issues home loans and significantly scale back its mortgage business in the United States...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Plot Would Thicken, if the Writers Remembered It
One returning Hollywood writer asked, ?Can anyone remember what we were working on three months ago??...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
German Bank Receives Its Third Bailout
The rescue package aims to resolve once and for all the problems at IKB Deutsche Industriebank, which was once a conservative corporate bank but became a global symbol of risky excess...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Yahoo Is Said to Be in Talks With News Corp.
The discussions stem from an approach that Yahoo?s bankers made to News Corporation in an effort to find a ?white knight? and avoid a hostile takeover by Microsoft...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Bush Signs Economic Stimulus Bill
President Bush signed legislation to send $300 to $1,200 rebate checks to millions of Americans as a ?booster shot? for the economy...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
New York Investigates Medical Rate Setting
The attorney general is looking into whether insurers forced patients to overpay for out-of-network doctors...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
EU attacks US flight deal plans
EU officials say US attempts to renegotiate a deal on exchanging air passenger information is "disrespectful"...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
US will appoint 'energy attache'
The US secretary of state says she will appoint an energy envoy to monitor the use of oil and gas for political purposes...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
Football: Ronaldo ruptures tendon
AC Milan striker Ronaldo faces up to nine months out after rupturing a tendon in his right knee...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
Gloves off at US baseball hearing
There are angry exchanges as US baseball star Roger Clemens is grilled by Congress over doping claims...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
Bolivia floods misery continues
Bolivia estimates some 60,000 families have been affected by floods, which show no signs of abating...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
Nostalgia for Christo?s ?Gates?
An event at Gracie Mansion looked back at "The Gates," the Christo art project that Mayor Bloomberg declared a work of genius...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
The Lede: Mia Farrow, Spielberg and Darfur
Steven Spielberg protests China's role in Darfur...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Therapist Is Found Slashed to Death
A man slashed a therapist to death Tuesday night on the Upper East Side and then fled after seriously cutting a physician who had come to her aid...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Bush Presses House to Approve Bill on Surveillance
President Bush?s remarks came after the Senate handed the White House a major victory in a vote on spy powers...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
With Surge in Momentum, Obama Makes His Case
With his lopsided victories, Barack Obama has an opening to urge Democrats to coalesce around his candidacy...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Iraqi Lawmakers Pass 3 Crucial, Long-Delayed Laws
The three laws are the 2008 budget, a law outlining the scope of provincial powers and an amnesty that will cover thousands of detainees...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Under Oath, Clemens Faces His Accuser
The committee chairman, Henry A. Waxman, took Roger Clemens to task for talking to a witness, prompting strong protests from Mr. Clemens?s lawyers...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Top Hezbollah Operative Is Killed in Syria
Imad Mugniyah, one of America?s most wanted men for his alleged links to a string of attacks, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus on Tuesday...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Clemens Says Pettitte Was Wrong About H.G.H. Remark
Roger Clemens said that he was talking about his wife?s use of human-growth hormone, not his own...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Jones Apparel Narrows Loss
The owner of the Nine West and Jones New York brands posted a smaller fourth-quarter net loss of $89.8 million as the absence of a large charge offset the impact of a weak selling season...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Belo Swings to Loss on Write-Downs
The media company said it lost $333.4 million in the fourth quarter on write-downs, the cost of newspaper spinoffs and weak ad sales...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Waste Management Profit Up on Gains
The nation?s largest garbage hauler said its fourth-quarter profit rose 26 percent on tax benefits and the sale of some operations, though higher fuel prices cut into income...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Interest Payments Weigh on DirecTV Earnings
The satellite TV operator said higher interest payments on its debt sent fourth-quarter earnings down 2 percent, to $348 million...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Deere Profit Up on Equipment Demand
The company said first-quarter profit rose 55 percent, beating Wall Street?s expectations, as lofty crop prices stoked global demand for its agricultural equipment...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Total Profits Surge With Oil Prices
The French oil giant said fourth-quarter profit rose 62% to 3.6 billion euros ($5.23 billion) as oil prices rose and and new projects in Angola and Qatar raised production...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
UBS Names New Chief of Investment Banking Unit
Jerker Johansson of Morgan Stanley was selected to run the troubled unit, which is being revamped following the bank?s problems with U.S. subprime investments...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Rio Tinto Profit Up on Record Production
The company posted a 9 percent rise in half-year underlying profit, helped by record iron ore production, and again rebuffed a hostile takeover bid by BHP Billiton...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Coca-Cola Profit Surges on Sales
The company earned $1.21 billion in the fourth quarter as it benefited from sales growth in key soft-drink brands and in its water, sports drink and orange juice categories...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Inquiry Into Medical Rate Setting
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of New York said that he is conducting an investigation of health insurers into allegations that reimbursement rates were manipulated to defraud consumers...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Retail Sales Report Lifts Stocks
Sales of food and retail items unexpectedly climbed 0.3% last month after falling 0.4% in December, a report said...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Mortgage insurer reports big loss
US mortgage insurer MGIC reports a $1.47bn loss, hit by higher payouts to cover increasing bad debt levels...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
Bush insists on new wiretap bill
US President George Bush urges Congress to pass new rules for warrantless wiretaps of foreign terror suspects...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
Berkeley moderates anti-Marine position
The Berkeley City Council voted early Wednesday to rescind a previous vote that said Marine recruiters are "not welcome in this city," but held tight to its anti-war stance. The vote came after more than three hours of animated citizen input and council debate. full story...
CNN - February 13, 2008
Bolivia declares flooding disaster
Bolivian President Evo Morales has declared a national disaster after weeks of heavy storms resulted in widespread flooding blamed for scores of deaths, particularly in northeastern Bolivia. full story...
CNN - February 13, 2008
Buying a Halston Dress Online
When Net-a-Porter announced it planned to sell two styles from the Halston runway the day after the show, I thought it would be interesting to test drive the concept. After all, this was the first time, to my knowledge, that a look from a designer runway would be immediately available to consumers...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Back Pain Spending Surge Shows No Benefit
Many popular treatments for back and neck pain may be ineffective or overused...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Damaging Information Said to Await Clemens
Roger Clemens is expected to be confronted with a new and damaging affidavit from Andy Pettitte when he appears before a House committee on Wednesday...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Hezbollah Says Top Figure is Killed
Hezbollah military commander Imad Moughniyah was killed by a car bomb in Damascus on Tuesday, the Lebanese group said...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Detroit 'has most repossessions'
The Detroit area had the highest rate of US homes entering the repossession process in 2007, a survey suggests...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
US to address Okinawa anger
The US envoy visits Okinawa to address rising anger over the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by a US marine...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
Nicaragua steps up border row
Nicaragua protests formally to Colombia over alleged intimidation of its fishermen in disputed waters...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
House Vote on Contempt Is Expected Soon
The case arose out of accusations that Bush administration officials sought to remove some federal prosecutors so they could be replaced with ones more in line with administration ideology...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Australia Offers an Apology to Aborigines
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened a new chapter in Australia?s tortured relations with its indigenous peoples with a comprehensive and moving apology for past wrongs...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Tale of Dead Texas Dog Bites Mayor Who Told It
A South Texas mayor, Grace Saenz-Lopez, and her twin sister, are accused of dog rustling...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Beagle, a Breed Long Unsung, Wins Best in Show
Uno became the first beagle to win best in show in the 100 times the Westminster Kennel Club has picked a winner...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Religion Joins Custody Cases, to Judges? Unease
Child-custody conflicts over religion are increasing, but constitutional issues make them hard for courts to resolve...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults
Women who say they were sexually assaulted in Iraq by co-workers have found themselves unable to seek justice...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Senate Votes for Expansion of Spy Powers
The vote, a major victory for the White House, would also give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in a program of warrantless eavesdropping...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
With a Surge in Momentum, Obama Makes His Case
The lopsided nature of Barack Obama?s victories gives him an opening to make the case that Democratic voters should coalesce around his candidacy...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Obama and McCain Sweep 3 Primaries
Barack Obama extended his winning streak over Hillary Rodham Clinton, while John McCain succeeded in countering recent victories by Mike Huckabee...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Coke Bottler Posts Gains
Helped by increased volume and higher prices in North America and Europe, Coca-Cola Enterprises posted higher-than-expected quarterly earnings...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Earnings Are Up 13% at Omnicom
The advertising services company reported a 13 percent rise in quarterly profit, but the company also issued cautious comments about the economy...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Quarterly Profit Up 75% at Molson Coors
The Molson Coors Brewing Company reported a 75 percent increase in its fourth-quarter profit, crediting a tax benefit and favorable exchange rates...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Loss Totals $509 Million, IndyMac Says
IndyMac Bancorp, one of America?s largest independent mortgage lenders, posted a $509.1 million fourth-quarter loss and suspended its dividend indefinitely...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Accounting Changes Send Schering-Plough to a Loss
Despite its fourth-quarter loss, the pharmaceutical giant?s results topped Wall Street estimates, and its shares rose more than 5 percent...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Profit Down 62% at Insurance Broker
The Marsh & McLennan Companies said its profit fell 62 percent in the fourth quarter as competition reduced the commissions the insurance broker charged...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Sanofi-Aventis Profit Up 31%
Net profit in the fourth quarter rose to 753 million euros ($1.09 billion), helped by sales of the blood-thinner Plavix in the United States and cost-cutting measures, the company said...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Levi Strauss Reports Best Year Since 1996
The San Francisco-based company said that it earned $267 million during its fiscal fourth quarter, which ended Nov. 25, up from $96 million at the same time in 2006...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Profit at Qwest Increases by 89%
The telephone company reported an 89 percent increase in quarterly profit, aided by an income tax benefit and an increase in high-speed Internet subscribers...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
$300 Million to Burn, With a Catch
In one corner of Wall Street, money is still gushing. Early shareholders may be protected, but long-term investors may be the suckers...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Looking for Sure Political Bets at Online Prediction Market
The Intrade Web site has become expert at predicting election results. Or has it?...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
No Pause Button: TV Studios and Writers Play Catch-Up After Strike
With writers expected to return to their posts on the television production assembly line first thing Wednesday morning, the enormous machinery that generates episodes of series will get a massive restart...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Britain: London Gets Tougher on Gas-Guzzlers
Drivers of 4x4s, high-powered sports cars and other high-emission vehicles will have to pay $49 a day to enter central London, triple the current charge...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Nokia Dominates, but Rivals Insist That Could Change
Competitors say the industry leader, Nokia, is still vulnerable to the vagaries of the cellphone business, with its fickle consumers and aggressive challengers...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Dell to Buy E-Mail Service to Better Compete With Rivals
The $155 million cash deal is the latest in a wave of acquisitions for the computer maker...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Spielberg Drops Out as Adviser to Beijing Olympics in Dispute Over Darfur Conflict
After trying unsuccessfully to prod China to do more to try to end Sudan?s attacks in the Darfur region, Steven Spielberg said he was withdrawing as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Times Co. Nominates Two for Election as Directors
The New York Times Company, under pressure from hedge funds that want to gain representation on its board, nominated two candidates of its own, Robert E. Denham and Dawn Lepore...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
New Chairman at Drug Maker
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a drug maker, named its chief executive, James M. Cornelius, as board chairman, succeeding James D. Robinson III...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Smart Land Deals as a Cornerstone of Free Tuition
To ensure that each of its students can attend the school on full scholarship, Cooper Union has made very savvy moves in the thorny world of Manhattan real estate...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Economists? Tea Leaves Point to Recession
According to Wall Street?s forecasters, the recession of 2008 is now unavoidable. That is, if you read between the lines of their predictions...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Stocks Finish Higher on Buffett News
Wall Street surged higher after the investor Warren Buffett offered to help out troubled bond insurers, easing some concerns about further deterioration in the credit markets...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
A Chicago Hotel?s New Life in a Rising Area
The restoration of the Blackstone, a fabled but long vacant hotel, is evidence of a reviving lodging market in one of the country?s largest convention cities...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Yahoo Acquires Ad Technology Company
Yahoo said it has paid $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, an Internet company that sells a system for managing advertisements in online videos...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Internet Sex Video Case Stirs Free-Speech Issues in Hong Kong
Several arrests in Hong Kong for posting sexually explicit images of what appear to be some of Asia?s best-known pop stars has led to a debate over free speech on the Web...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Flawed Software Upgrade Caused BlackBerry Malfunction
Research In Motion blamed a flawed software upgrade for shutting down wireless e-mail messages to millions of its North American subscribers on Monday...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Boston Scientific Loses Patent Trial
A jury in Texas has ruled that Boston Scientific?s drug-coated stents infringed a 1997 patent issued to a radiologist and has awarded the inventor $431 million...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
In Second Trial, Avastin Is Found Effective in Treating Breast Cancer
The results from the new clinical trial could increase the chances that the Food and Drug Administration will approve the drug for that use...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
A $1.2 Billion Write-Down at Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse is weathering the credit crisis better than its larger rival, UBS, which wrote down $14 billion in the same period...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
At Trial, Lawyer Says Buffett Gave Approval
The lawyer defending the former chief executive of General Reinsurance against fraud charges pointed the finger Tuesday at the investor Warren E. Buffett...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
With the Stimulus Package, the Big Winner Could Be Small Business
Small businesses, in particular, may get the biggest lift indirectly ? from consumers spending the tax rebates they will start receiving in May...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Plan to Aid Borrowers Is Greeted by Criticism
Analysts said President Bush?s plan to aid troubled homeowners facing foreclosure fell short of the broad reforms needed to help people meet mortgage payments...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
In Price and Supply, Wheat Is the Unstable Staple
With demand soaring abroad and droughts crimping supply, the world?s wheat stockpiles have fallen to their lowest level in 30 years...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Creative Juices Flowing for Pro Bono Effort to Aid Global Water Projects
A charitable campaign created last year by a New York boutique agency is arriving next month in more than a dozen other cities...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Writers Vote to End Strike
Hollywood?s writers made it official, ending their bitterly fought strike at the 100-day mark by an overwhelming margin...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Southwest. Way Southwest.
An airline success story in an otherwise grim industry tries to keep its inner quirk...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Buffett Offers Aid on Bonds, but at a Price
The billionaire investor made clear that his offer of a lifeline to three insurance companies battered by the subprime crisis would not come cheap...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
G.M. Offers Buyouts to 74,000
The buyout offer, which covers G.M.?s entire unionized work force, came as G.M. announced a $722 million fourth-quarter loss...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Quitting Facebook Gets Easier
Facebook modified its help pages to tell people that if they wanted to remove their accounts entirely, they can direct the company by e-mail to have it done...
New York Times - February 13, 2008
Venezuela breaks ties with Exxon
Venezuela's state oil company stops selling crude oil to Exxon Mobil, amid a legal row between the two giants...
BBC News - February 13, 2008
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