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US News Archive for Octomber 2006:
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U.N. votes to punish North Korea
The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to slap North Korea with trade, travel and other sanctions as punishment for its claimed nuclear weapons test...
CNN - October 14, 2006
Bush praises U.N. resolution on N. Korea
President Bush said Saturday that the U.N. Security Council had sent a "swift and tough" message to North Korea that its claimed detonation of a nuclear bomb was unacceptable to the world...
CNN - October 14, 2006
U.N. slaps sanctions on N. Korea
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to slap North Korea with trade, travel and other sanctions as punishment for its claimed nuclear weapons test...
CNN - October 14, 2006
26 Killed in Attack Outside Baghdad
Baghdad exploded in sectarian reprisals as angry residents killed at least 26 people from a nearby Sunni village...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
It’s Official: To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered
Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades, have finally slipped into a minority of American households...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Expecting U.S. Help, Sent to Guantánamo
A man has remained in U.S. custody in part, it appears, on the strength of a propaganda videotape made by his former Al Qaeda torturers...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
After Duke Case, College Athletes Are Put on Notice
Colleges have profoundly changed how they respond to even the most minor indiscretions by athletes...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Democrats Have Intensity, but G.O.P. Has Its Machine
Republicans say they can offset the Democrats’ enthusiasm with their get-out-the-vote operation...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Correction
An article last Sunday about Archer Daniels Midland and its role in ethanol production described ethanol imprecisely. While it is another term for ethyl alcohol, it is not a form of it...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Executive May Leave Over Stock Options
The chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, a health insurance company that has been criticized for the way it accounted for stock options granted to top executives, is under pressure from board members to resign, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
OPEC to Meet to Discuss Cut in Oil Output
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will hold an emergency meeting in Doha, Qatar, on Oct. 19 to discuss a 1 million barrel-a-day output cut...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
The Goods: On Your Mark, Get Set, Shoot
With four razor-sharp triangular blades that flare outward, the MX-4 "broadhead" is engineered to fly faster and cut deeper than its predecessors...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Economic View: After Years of Growth, What About Workers’ Share?
The real wages of many Americans fell 10 percent over 30 years...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
DataBank: Dow 12,000 Is Just a Step Away
The stock market rallied again, propelling the Dow Jones industrial average to a record close last week that left it within 40 points of the 12,000 threshold...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
The Count: One Constant for Car Buyers: A Short Memory
For some reason, Americans often act as if a set of wheels were a one- or two-month purchase, not something they often hold on to for years...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Market Week: An Iffy Road to Lower Rates
Just when it looked as though a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut might be on the way, the Fed sent a message to Wall Street: not so fast...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: Fresh Air for Board Elections?
Shareholders in the United States have little to say in director relations under the current system. But last month, a Court of Appeals handed investors a victory...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Home Front: Refurbishing Computers, and Lives, Too
Per Scholas upgrades desktop computers that corporations discard as obsolete and distributes them to schools and families...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Career Couch: The Flip-Flops in the Next Cubicle
You come to work dressed for success. Your colleague comes to work dressed for a day off...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
The Boss: Of Strawberries and Ethics
The work ethic of Dawn M. Sweeney, president and chief executive of AARP, was ingrained at an early age...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Fundamentally: If Stocks Look Good, Do Bonds Look Better?
There’s a strong case to be made for investors to maintain their fixed-income exposure, no matter how attractive stocks become...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
On the Contrary: Big Farms Will Keep Spinach on the Table
In spinach farming, could bigger equal safer?...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Investing: Buy-Write Funds: A Blast From the Industry’s Past
Investment vogues seldom die. They just hibernate until market conditions change and investors are ready for them again...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Suits: Seeing Old Friends, Settling Old Scores
Carleton S. Fiorina was in Manhattan last week to celebrate her new memoir, “Tough Choices.”...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Square Feet | Ventures: Buying a Small Part Of Something Big
One solution for the time-pressed investor is a tenant-in-common program, an investment that offers fractional ownership of commercial real estate...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Everybody's Business: You Can Complain, or You Can Make Money
The top 1 percent of all income earners in this great land earn roughly 20 percent of the total income...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Planet Google Wants You
The Web giant, adding YouTube, seeks a mind meld with its users...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Spending: Basking on the Beach, or Maybe on the Operating Table
A growing number of Americans are traveling abroad for medical treatments that cost 20 to 80 percent less than at home...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Spending: You’ve Won! And the Prize Is ... Prepaid Plastic
Technology makes new promotional wrinkles possible...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Corporate America’s Pay Pal
Concerns about shareholder value, corporate governance and the economic impact of soaring C.E.O. pay has led to mounting criticism of compensation practices...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Wallflower at the Web Party
How Friendster missed a billion-dollar break...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Media Frenzy: A Loopy Deal That Actually Makes Sense
If you're a search company worth $130 billion, why not take a stab?...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Competitive Electricity Markets Fail to Deliver Promised Savings
A decade after the electricity business was opened to competition, the market has not produced a drop in prices...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
U.S. seeks Kim Jong Il luxury ban
Diplomats at the U.N. are discussing whether to impose sanctions against Pyongyang that U.S. envoy John Bolton says could put N. Korea's leader Kim Jong Il on "a little diet."...
CNN - October 14, 2006
Police name slain Florida family
Investigators know the idenities of the man, woman and two boys found shot to death at the side of the Florida Turnpike. But the motive for the brutal slaying is still a mystery. Police have sifted through highway garbage and watched surveillance tapes hoping for clues and are appealing to the public for help...
CNN - October 14, 2006
Gerry Studds, First Openly Gay Congressman, Dies at 69
Former Representative Gerry Studds was first elected in 1972 and represented Cape Cod and the Islands, New Bedford and the South Shore for 12 Congressional terms...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Top NPR News Executive Is Reassigned
William K. Marimow resigned as top news executive at NPR and has agreed to take a position as the radio network’s ombudsman...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Cricket: S Lanka thrash Windies
Farveez Maharoof takes 6-14 as Sri Lanka thrash West Indies by nine wickets in the Champions Trophy...
BBC News - October 14, 2006
Mill protests shut Uruguay border
Argentinians protesting against a paper mill being built in Uruguay cut road links between the countries...
BBC News - October 14, 2006
26 dead in Iraq 'revenge killings'
The bodies of 26 Iraqis, apparently killed in retaliation for the killing of 14 Shiite construction workers, have been found scattered in and around the city of Balad, according to an official with Salaheddin Joint Coordination Center...
CNN - October 14, 2006
U.S. pushes for NK sanctions vote
With the United States pushing for a vote on Saturday, diplomats planned to hammer out language on a resolution that would slap sanctions on North Korea in response to its claimed nuclear test...
CNN - October 14, 2006
GOP seeks distance, Dems pounce after guilty plea
Rep. Bob Ney pleaded guilty Friday in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling investigation, the first lawmaker to confess to crimes in an election-year scandal that has stained the Republican-controlled Congress and the Bush administration...
CNN - October 14, 2006
Fund-Raising Obstacles Imperil N.Y. Bid for ’08 Democratic Convention
New York City’s bid to land the 2008 Democratic National Convention is in jeopardy because Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is spread thin with fund-raising commitments, an official said...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
The Saturday Profile: An Accidental Canadian Finds Her Environmental Footing
Her parents’ impulsive move gave Elizabeth May a perspective that was critical in her development into a prominent environmentalist...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Wall Street Woos Film Producers, Skirting Studios
Investors are bypassing studio bosses and dealing directly with producers to gain more control...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Legend Palmer bids golf farewell
Seven-time major winner Arnold Palmer says he has played his final competitive event...
BBC News - October 14, 2006
Attacks 'led to' Gibson outburst
Mel Gibson has said his anti-Semitic outburst may have stemmed from the criticism levelled at The Passion of the Christ...
BBC News - October 14, 2006
U.S. 'finds radioactive debris'
A preliminary analysis of air samples from North Korea shows "radioactive debris consistent with a North Korea nuclear test," according to a statement from the office of the top U.S. intelligence official...
CNN - October 14, 2006
Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Director of ‘Battle of Algiers,’ Dies
The Italian filmmaker explored terrorism and torture in colonial Algeria in the influential 1965 classic...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Mrs. Astor’s Son to Give Up Control of Her Estate
The son of the socialite and philanthropist Brooke Astor will also have to pay more than $1.3 million as part of an agreement to settle a legal dispute...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
A Cult of Backyard Rocketeers Keeps the Solid Fuel Burning
Once a year, on a bleak, 400-square-mile dry lake bed, do-it-yourself rocket enthusiasts meet for the Indy 500 of rocketry...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Congressman Pleads Guilty but Won’t Resign for Now
Representative Bob Ney is the first member of Congress to confess to crimes in dealings with the lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
N.L.C.S. Game 2 - Cardinals 9, Mets 6: Wagner Throws, and Momentum Swings
Billy Wagner allowed a tie-breaking solo home run to So Taguchi leading off the ninth inning to boost the St. Louis Cardinals to a victory over the Mets in Game 2 of the N.L.C.S...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Gay Marriage Losing Punch as Ballot Issue
Some of this year’s proposed bans on same-sex marriage are struggling at the polls and the issue has largely failed to rouse conservative voters...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Peace Prize to Pioneer of Loans to Poor No Bank Would Touch
Muhammad Yunus’s bank in Bangladesh has dedicated itself to helping the poorest of the poor with loans as small as $12...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Air America, Home of Liberal Talk, Files for Bankruptcy Protection
The liberal talk network, started to counter the influence of conservative radio personalities like Rush Limbaugh, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Shortcuts: Teflon Is Great for Politicians, but Is It Safe for Regular People?
The government says nonstick pans pose no health threat, but not everyone is so sure...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Five Days: Investors Catch the Consumer Itch to Buy
Not even the forced departure of several high-profile chief executives was enough to damp investors’ enthusiasm...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Another Record Week for the Dow
The Dow inched to another record close, giving it three consecutive weeks of triple-digit increases...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Cheaper Gas Lifts Spending by Consumers
Lower gas prices encouraged Americans to spend more and propelled consumer confidence to its highest level in more than a year...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Market Values: Long Term Is Way to View Commodities
Investors wonder whether the cascading prices for natural resources are the beginnings of a bear market or merely a deep correction...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
What’s Offline: The Deathwatch for Cheap Oil
Those falling prices at the gasoline pump may be only temporary...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
India Plans Public Offering of Stakes in 4 Power Companies
The sale would help pay for expansion, a move that signals a resumption of its attempt to privatize more industry...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Off the Charts: Seeing Something to Cheer in a Big but Stabilizing Inventory of Homes
The stock market, which hated home builders for much of 2006, now thinks it sees signs of hope...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
What’s Online: Going, Going, Trying to Go Green
Dupont announced a “sustainability” initiative, making it the latest big company to jump on the green bandwagon...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
F.C.C. Delays Vote on AT&T-BellSouth Deal a Second Time
The F.C.C. delayed the vote after two commissioners declined to make a decision until public hearings were held...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Microsoft Makes Changes in Windows Vista to Suit Foreign Regulators
Microsoft said its Windows Vista operating system had been altered to satisfy regulatory concerns and would be introduced simultaneously worldwide...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Boston Tower Is Among 10 Buildings in Big Sale
Broadway Partners has agreed to buy 10 prime office buildings from Beacon Capital Partners of Boston in a multibillion-dollar deal...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Wal-Mart Told to Pay $78 Million
Wal-Mart must pay $78 million to employees for not paying them when they worked through rest breaks and off the clock, a jury said...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Top NPR News Executive Is Reassigned
William K. Marimow resigned as top news executive at NPR and has agreed to take a position as the radio network’s ombudsman...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
G.E. Reports That Earnings Rose Sharply in the Quarter
Buoyed by strong equipment sales overseas, General Electric said earnings were up 10 percent over the period last year...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
[TS] Talking Business: Carly Fiorina?s Revisionist Chronicles
The former Hewlett-Packard chief said her firing in February 2005 was not about performance. But that’s not how the rest of the world remembers it...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Nickelodeon Sees Mouse Ears Over Its Shoulder
SpongeBob can only take Nickelodeon so far as competition from Disney and other cable networks has exploded...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Earnings for Insurers Are Soaring
Profits may reach a record $60 billion from higher premiums and no major payouts for natural disasters...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Fighting for Housing
Champion boxer Oscar de la Hoya and a real estate builder join forces to revitalize Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Saturday Interview: Is Windows Near End of Its Run?
Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, answered questions about the new Windows Vista operating system, his job and the future of software...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
Wall St. Woos Film Producers, Skirting Studios
Wall Street investors are bypassing studio bosses and dealing directly with producers to gain more control...
New York Times - October 14, 2006
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