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US News Archive for January 2006:
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Student shot at school brain dead
The eighth-grader who was shot Friday at school after a SWAT team member mistook his pellet gun for a 9 mm handgun is brain dead, the family's attorney said. The teen is being kept on life support until his organs are harvested...
CNN - January 14, 2006
Snowmobiles Keep Coming Though the Ice Is Melting
In the self-proclaimed Snowmobile Capital of the World, there are perhaps two kinds of snowmobile enthusiasts: speed demons and nature lovers...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Shelley Winters, Tough-Talking Oscar Winner, Dies
A major movie presence for more than five decades, Shelley Winters turned herself into a widely respected actress who won two Academy Awards...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Oscar-winning Winters dies
Two-time Oscar winner Shelley Winters dies from heart failure at the age of 85, her publicist says...
BBC News - January 14, 2006
Al-Zawahiri 'not killed in strike'
Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in the al Qaeda terrorist network, Ayman al-Zawahiri (left), was not in a remote Pakistani village targeted by a CIA airstrike, according to news reports. Eighteen people were killed in Friday's strike, Pakistani intelligence sources tell CNN...
CNN - January 14, 2006
Democrats See Wide Bush Stamp on Court System
With the success of President Bush's latest Supreme Court nominee, Democratic leaders see little hope of holding off a tide of conservatism...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Preaching a Gospel of Wealth in a Glittery Market, New York
A theology called "prosperity gospel," which connects faithfulness to material riches, is establishing a foothold in New York...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
NASA Mission to Explore Solar System's Edge
A spacecraft called New Horizons is set to be launched on a nine-and-a-half-year journey to Pluto, the last planet left to be visited by human spacecraft...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Near the DMZ, Koreans Find Prime Property
South Korea's economic expansion is washing away psychological barriers and now laps at the southern edge of the long-feared demilitarized zone...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Energy Trading, Post-Enron
The industry that Enron made infamous is springing to life again, with help from former Enron traders...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Golf: Wie revival too late
Michelle Wie misses the cut at the Sony Open in Honolulu despite a two-under-par second round...
BBC News - January 14, 2006
Al-Zawahiri 'not near airstrike'
Ayman al-Zawahiri -- Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in the al Qaeda terrorist network -- was not in a remote Pakistani village targeted by a CIA airstrike, according to news reports. Eighteen people were killed in Friday's strike, Pakistani intelligence sources tell CNN...
CNN - January 14, 2006
An Eccentric Politician's On-Screen Escapades
Even some of George Galloway's supporters believe he may have overstepped his own generous mark, appearing on "Celebrity Big Brother."...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
New Light on Origins of Ashkenazi in Europe
Researchers report that four women, who may have lived 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, are the ancestors of 40 percent of Ashkenazis alive today...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Fire razes Hemingway haunt
A Bahamas hotel known as a haunt of US novelist Ernest Hemingway is destroyed in a fire...
BBC News - January 14, 2006
Al Qaeda No.2 'may be dead'
A CIA airstrike on a building in Pakistan may have killed Osama bin Laden's most trusted aide, Ayman al-Zawahiri, sources tell CNN. The U.S. Defense Department and the White House have declined to comment...
CNN - January 14, 2006
Sources: Airstrike may have killed bin Laden's No. 2
A CIA airstrike on a building in Pakistan may have killed Osama bin Laden's most trusted aide, sources tell CNN. There has been no confirmation that Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed but sources say there was intelligence suggesting he was in the building at the time of the strike...
CNN - January 14, 2006
Governor Plans Agency to Fight Medicaid Fraud
Gov. George E. Pataki pledged millions of dollars to police Medicaid, which provides health care for 4.2 million New Yorkers...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Wealth Grows, but Health Care Withers in China
The collapse of socialized medicine in China has opened a gap between care in the cities and the rural areas...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Disarray at Center for Dr. King Casts Pall on Family and Legacy
Problems at the institution named after Martin Luther King Jr. are so bad that some family members want to sell its buildings...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
The Overview: Wider Fight Is Seen as Alito Victory Appears Secured
Democrats and Republicans used Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s nomination as a flashpoint for races next fall and future court selections...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Interpublic Group in Dispute With a Former Top Official
The world's third-largest advertising company has accused Sir Frank Lowe of trying to poach clients and employees for a new agency...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Video Game Sales Up 6%
Rising sales of portable games reflect the popularity of mobile products...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Major Indexes Finish Week of Surges With Modest Gains
Stocks were little changed in trading yesterday as a slowdown in retail sales and profit warnings kept investors from building on earlier gains...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Business Briefs
Sam Goody Operator to Close Third of Stores...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Tyco Says It Will Split Into 3 Companies and Warns About Profits
By Associated Press...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Businesses Are Getting Price Break on Fares
A substantial gap still remains between business and leisure fares, but some order has intruded on the black art of airline pricing...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Its Sales Down 15%, Lucent Cuts Revenue Forecast for Year
The company said weaker demand in the United States and China had pushed sales down to $2.05 billion in the October-December period...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
G.M. Chief Says Results Will Improve
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
[TS] Disclosure Won't Tame C.E.O. Pay
Better disclosure rules are all fine and well, but we already know plenty about executive pay...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
DuPont Heir Sues Trust Over His $36,000 Stipend
Alexis I. duPont-de Bie Sr., 62, says in legal papers that he is "destitute and homeless" because of the trust's bad investments...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Getting Reacquainted With Good Times
After a generation of stagnation, Japan tries to adjust to economic health...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Microsoft to Drop Some Mac Software
The company decided to offer free technology that lets people play Windows Media files using Apple's own software...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Five Days: The Bidding Keeps Going and Going and Going
It was like a TV Land rerun marathon this week...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Former Refco Chief Resigns From Board
Phillip Bennett was fired as chief executive and arrested in October after disclosing he hid $430 million in debt...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Off the Charts: When the Market Values Hope Over Experience by a Factor of 18
Google, I.B.M. and Berkshire Hathaway all have market capitalizations in the vicinity of $135 billion...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
El Paso Selling 6 Latin American Power Plants
The deal with Globeleq Ltd., part of El Paso's efforts to reduce its debt, comes amid a recent surge in merger activity in the energy industry...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Wholesale Inflation Increases by Highest Amount Since 1990
The Labor Department reported that soaring energy prices pushed wholesale prices up by 5.4 percent in 2005...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Basic Instincts: The Inflation of Our Expectations
I'd like to send up a small alert about another kind of inflation that's taking just as big a bite out of people's finances as inflation...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
U.S. Bars Spain's Sale of Planes to 'Antidemocratic' Venezuela
The United States will not allow Spain to sell military aircraft with American technology to Venezuela, the American Embassy announced Friday...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Your Money: Depreciation Appreciation 101: The Ins and Outs of Deducting for a Home Office
As home prices have risen so sharply, more homeowners may find themselves paying a bit more in taxes than they had anticipated because they keep a home office...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
What Detroit Could Learn From Nissan
Carlos Ghosn has led Nissan through two successive turnaround plans and is the auto industry's version of a rock star...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
What's Online: What Is the Value of Truth?
Something strange happened after the Smoking Gun revealed this week that James Frey had apparently made up huge portions of his memoirs...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
What's Offline: Hispanic TV Without the Spanish
A second front has broken out in the battle for Hispanic television viewers - and this time the programming is in English...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Executive Pursuits: Is Anybody Necessary? Dr. Ying and the Four Noble Truths
Every year I try to re-examine what is real and what is not, and the exercise just about always lands me into a deep heap of existential trouble...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Johnson & Johnson Pulls Ahead in Takeover Battle for Guidant
Johnson & Johnson was able to dissuade Guidant from backing out of a previously announced merger and going with a higher bid from Boston Scientific...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Boutique Bank Lands Ex-Goldman Star
Peter A. Weinberg will join the former Morgan Stanley deal maker Joseph R. Perella in his still unnamed high-profile boutique investment bank...
New York Times - January 14, 2006
Morales in energy talks in Brazil
Bolivia's President-elect Evo Morales meets his counterpart in Brazil for talks on his plans for the energy industry...
BBC News - January 14, 2006
Elderly US killer loses mercy bid
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denies a plea for clemency by an elderly and infirm killer...
BBC News - January 14, 2006
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