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Frozen yogurt war de-thaws, tart new brands hit US
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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25 bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Displaced Georgians look to US for hope, aid
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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26 dead as Philippine troops flush out rebels
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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Philippines peace in tatters after rebel attack
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2008:
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High & Low Finance: Global or Local? For Accounting Firms, It All Depends
That big accounting firm may boast having offices around the world ? until an office is sued...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
IAC Chief Defends His Break-Up Proposal
Barry Diller told a court that he had rejected proposals for an asset swap from IAC?s controlling shareholder, Liberty Media, because they did not offer the proper value to IAC investors...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Shares Recover From Early Tumble
Stock markets closed higher Thursday after an early sell-off as investors grappled with a precipitous decline in the dollar, poor retail sales, and an uneasy milestone: $1,000 gold...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
F.D.A. Panel Votes to Continue Use of Anemia Drugs
The advisory panel recommended that widely used anemia drugs should remain available to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
2 Weeks Off for Almost Everyone at Chrysler
The automaker announced that it planned to halt virtually all of its operations for two weeks in July as part of its effort to cut costs and return to profitability...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
The Lede: Bush?s Serenade Hits YouTube
President Bush sings an off-key spoof of "The Green Green Grass of Home."...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
900 Feet Up With Nowhere to Go but Down
Dean Potter, one of the world?s top climbers, has been trying for weeks to cross the Hell Roaring Canyon on a rope with no tether 900 feet above a dry riverbed in Utah...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Monk Protests in Tibet Draw Chinese Security
Chinese security forces were reportedly surrounding three monasteries after what are believed to be the largest protests in two decades...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Singapore Journal: Escapee Eludes Search Party of 4 Million
Singapore?s government has put the entire country on alert after a man believed to be the leader of a terrorist group escaped from prison...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
The Way We Live Now: What?s the Real Racial Divide?
What do Hillary Rodham Clinton?s big-state victories say about race in America?...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
US stocks rise after volatile day
Wall Street shares end up on Thursday after a volatile day's trading that had earlier seen them fall sharply...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
New US rules for credit markets
US finance chiefs put forward new regulations to prevent a repeat of the credit crunch and bad mortgage debt woes...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Bits: Bebo as Rescue Plan for AIM
AOL has announced it will spend $850 million in cash to buy Bebo. The main benefit of the deal is that it can shore up AOL?s large AIM instant message system...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
DealBook: Electronic Arts Starts Tender Offer for Take-Two
The $2 billion tender offer officially marks a hostile effort by the videogame giant to acquire the maker of the blockbuster Grand Theft Auto franchise...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Chrysler to Take Two-Week Break in July
The automaker, which told employees worldwide to plan for a mandatory two-week vacation, said the corporate-wide shutdown should help it improve efficiency...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
French Trader Released After Questioning
An employee of Société Générale has been released after French authorities questioned him in connection with a trading scandal, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor said...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Volkswagen Sets Annual Sales Target of 8 Million
The automaker said it aims to sell 8 million cars a year by 2011 ? almost 30 percent more than last year ? and said it was looking at building a new plant in the United States...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Carlyle Fund Expects Assets Will Be Seized
Shares of Carlyle Capital lost most of their value after the company said it expected its lenders to promptly take over all its assets after discussions with banks to refinance the fund failed...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Retail Sales Post Unexpected Drop
Retail sales fell by 0.6 percent last month as consumers, battered by plunging home prices and a credit crunch, stayed away from the malls in February...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Wheels: Big Man in a Small Wienermobile
This morning in Times Square a small crowd gathered in the cool shadow of ABC Studios to watch Michael Strahan, defensive end for the Super Bowl champion New York Giants, drive a car...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Paper Cuts: ?Physics of the Impossible?
Michio Kaku (Andrea Brizzi) For as much time as you?ve probably spent wondering when all the astounding technology that science fiction promises will start showing up at your local Best Buy, Michio Kaku has thought about it even more. In his new book ?Physics of the Impossible,? Kaku, a professor of theoretical physics at the Graduate [...]...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Bush Warns House on Surveillance
President Bush warned legislators strongly this morning against passing what he called ?a partisan bill that will undermine American security.?...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Report on F.B.I. Use of Personal Data
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made ?significant progress? in how it handles the personal information, a Justice Department report said...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Kidnapped Iraqi Archbishop Is Dead
The body of the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul, Paulos Faraj Rahho, was discovered, officials said...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Gold Hits Uneasy Milestone: $1,000
An exodus from equities in early trading, spurred by fears of inflation, nudged gold to its highest-ever nominal price...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Democrats Face Racial Issue Again
A comment by Geraldine A. Ferraro, a close ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton, has put race at the center of the contest...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Paterson Faces Early Test With State Budget
Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson acknowledged that he has not been heavily involved in what will be the biggest issue facing him as he takes over as governor...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Israel and Gaza Trade Fire
Rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza, and the Israeli Air Force carried out its first strike in Gaza for nearly a week...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Stronger Rules for Mortgages Are Proposed
The nation?s top economic policymakers on Thursday proposed a broad series of reforms aimed at tightening oversight of financial institutions...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
US favours tighter mortgage rules
US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson calls for a revision to mortgage rules, to avoid another credit crisis...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Grand Theft Auto bid goes hostile
Electronic Arts takes its offer for Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two directly to the company's shareholders...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
US sees big fall in retail sales
US retail sales fall by an unexpectedly large amount in February, Commerce Department figures show...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Skiing: Miller wins world title
American Bode Miller wins the overall World Cup title for the 2007-08 season...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Two jailed for Honduras massacre
Two Honduran gang members are given lengthy sentences for opening fire on a bus in 2004, killing 27 people...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Spitzer sex scandal woman named
The prostitute at the centre of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal is named by US media...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Canada votes on Afghan mission
Canada's parliament is expected to pass a motion to extend the army's Afghan mission to 2011...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Stocks fall on weakening dollar
US shares fall sharply, hit by dollar weakness and the news that a billion-dollar fund is on the verge of collapse...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Howard Metzenbaum Dies at 90; Ex-Ohio Senator
Mr. Metzenbaum was a a self-made millionaire before his long career fighting big business in the Senate...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Carlyle Capital in Default, on Brink of Collapse
Carlyle Capital Corp. said it was in default on margin calls of over $400 million and its lenders would likely take possession of its remaining assets...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Suicide Bomber Kills Six Afghans
A suicide car bomber killed six Afghan civilians in an attack on U.S. troops near the airport in Afghanistan?s capital on Thursday, officials said...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Dollar Dips Below 100 Yen as Markets Tumble
The dollar fell to a 12-year low of around 99.8 yen as European and Asian markets tumbled...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Cassini makes audacious flyby
Nasa's Cassini spacecraft made an ultra-close pass of the Saturnian moon Enceladus...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Mexico captures 'key drug lord'
Mexico arrests a US citizen alleged to be a key Tijuana drug cartel figure and is set to deport him to the US...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Charge over 'children with drugs'
A woman is charged with drugs offences after customs officers allegedly found cocaine strapped to the legs of two children...
BBC News - March 13, 2008
Weak Results for Three Clothing Retailers
Talbots, American Eagle Outfitters and Men?s Warehouse each posted declines in fourth-quarter profits...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Richard Burke, Founder of Trek Bicycle Company, Is Dead at 73
Mr. Burke?s company capitalized on the luster of Lance Armstrong?s victories in the Tour de France to reshape the way top-of-the-line bikes are manufactured...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
F.B.I. Made ?Blanket? Demands for Phone Records
The bureau appears to have used the blanket records demands as a quick way to clean up mistakes made over several years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
State of the Art: Media Players, Untethered
The green movement comes to media players with the introduction of two music players that function without batteries or power from a cord...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Billionaire Rivals Spoke Often of Deals, Trial Is Told
The court heard the first hint of drama in the dispute between John C. Malone?s Liberty Media and Barry Diller?s IAC/InterActiveCorp...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: A Day After a Big Gain, Markets Turn Wary Again
Wall Street?s euphoria over a $200 billion relief plan from the Federal Reserve was short-lived. Stocks retreated a day after their biggest rally in more than five years...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Toll Brothers Expands Plan for Bonuses to Its Chief
The shareholders of of the luxury homebuilder approved a compensation plan awarding bonuses to the chief executive even when the housing market is slumping...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
British Budget Raises Taxes and Borrowing
To deal with an economic slowdown, the government, which has been aiming to lower the deficit, said it would borrow an additional £7 billion, or $14 billion, next year...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Target Discusses Sale of Credit Card Assets
The retailer said it was in talks with an investment partner to sell an undivided interest in about half of its credit card receivables for about $4 billion...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
YouTube Coming to TV, With TiVo the Gateway
When it is introduced, the YouTube service will be available only to TiVo users who have a Series 3 or HD set-top box and a broadband connection...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Gates Tells Congress What Is Needed for Better Work Force
Microsoft founder Bill Gates told Congress that educational and immigration reform are critical to deal with a shortage of scientists and engineers...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Liechtenstein Issues Warrant for Tax Informant
Authorities are searching for a former bank employee suspected of selling stolen banking data to German officials that formed the basis of a vast tax-evasion scandal...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Choice of Central Banker Is Snarled in Japan?s Politics
Finding a successor to Toshihiko Fukui before he steps down next Wednesday looks increasingly unlikely...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Blackstone?s Chief Received $350 Million in Pay in 2007
Stephen A. Schwarzman received $350.7 million of compensation in 2007, making him one of the highest paid executives on Wall Street...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
French Police Questioning Bank Worker
Authorities took a second employee at the French bank Société Générale into custody in connection with a $7 billion trading scandal...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Meat Packer Admits Slaughter of Sick Cows
The president of a slaughterhouse at the heart of the largest-ever meat recall grudgingly admitted that his company had apparently introduced sick cows into the hamburger supply...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Can a Toyota Man Fix Chrysler?
Seeking stability, Chrysler turns to James E. Press, a 37-year veteran of rival automaker Toyota...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Advertising: Putting a Hard Number on Retirement
The United States arm of ING is launching a ?Your Number? campaign, which refers to the amount of money that you will need to retire comfortably...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Bill to Propose Expanded U.S. Backing of Home Loans
Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, is expected to offer a plan on Thursday that would provide federal backing to hundreds of thousands of home loans...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Heart Scans Still Covered by Medicare
The federal government reversed course and said Wednesday it would continue to cover the use of an increasingly popular procedure to detect heart disease...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Israeli Raid in West Bank Imperils Talk of Truce
Israeli undercover troops killed four Palestinian militants on Wednesday, shattering a five-day lull in violence and threatening Egyptian efforts to mediate a cease-fire...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
New Inspections Ground 38 Southwest Jets
The episode raises further questions about Southwest?s maintenance procedures and about oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Bridging Eras: What Palmer Did, Woods Is Doing
Tiger Woods?s overall game is most often compared to that of Jack Nicklaus, but there are some stylistic elements of the hard-charging, risk-taking Arnold Palmer there too...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Willemstad Journal: Island?s Treasure, the Dollar, Lures Venezuelans
Venezuelans are flocking to Curaçao to get around currency controls imposed by the government of President Hugo Chávez...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Woman at the Center of Governor?s Downfall
Ashley Alexandra Dupré, 22, the woman called Kristen in an affidavit describing her rendezvous with Eliot Spitzer, said in an interview, ?I just don?t want to be thought of as a monster.?...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Pentagon Cites Tapes Showing Interrogations
The initial findings of an incomplete Pentagon review represent the first official acknowledgment that military interrogators had videotaped some sessions with detainees...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Racial Issue Bubbles Up Again for Democrats
From virtually the start of the contest, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama have sought to move beyond race and sex, but each has used the issue against the other...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Iraqi Troops May Move to Reclaim Basra?s Port
The city?s decrepit but vital port is controlled by militias known more for corruption and inciting terrorism than for their skill in moving freight...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam
User demand for data-heavy videos, social networking sites and multiplayer games could outpace network capacity by 2011, some analysts warn...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Environmental Agency Tightens Smog Standards
The E.P.A. announced a modest tightening of the smog standard, overruling the unanimous advice of its scientific advisory council for a more protective standard...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
Spitzer Resigns in Sex Scandal and Turns His Attention to Healing His Family
Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who rose to power as a fierce enforcer of ethics in public life, was undone by revelations of his own involvement with prostitutes...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
6 Tumultuous Days That Ended in a Resignation
At first glance, the case against four people accused of running an online escort business seemed routine. Then curious elements piqued interest for some reporters...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
A Bipartisan Prediction of Harmony in Albany
As Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson prepares to succeed Eliot Spitzer, many lawmakers are predicting a return to comity between the governor and the Legislature...
New York Times - March 13, 2008
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