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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
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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US News Archive for February 2008:
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Mayor Calls Recycling Bill ?Illegal?
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today invoked a rarely used power not to enforce a law he deems illegal, saying he would ignore an electronic recycling bill passed by the City Council, even if his veto is overridden...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
London Fashion Videos
Two new videos bring London Fashion Week to your computer ...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Well: The Boy Dating Your Daughter
Teen boys really do care about relationships, a new study shows...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Steve Fossett, Missing Adventurer, Declared Dead
Mr. Fossett was a wealthy record-setting adventurer who for years blithely sailed, soared and drove through all manner of danger before disappearing in September...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Randolph Confident Mets Can Kick ?Funk?
It took until his arrival at spring training for Manager Willie Randolph to get past the bitter, nasty feeling of last season?s collapse...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
McCain Calls for Obama to Use Public Financing
John McCain said that he expects Barack Obama to abide by his pledge use public financing for his general election if Mr. McCain does so as well...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Details Bedevil Kenya Negotiations
The country?s rival political parties have agreed on a few minor issues, but the big problems that were supposed to be solved by now seem as nettlesome as ever...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Gunman Was Once ?Revered? on Campus
A day after a lecture hall was attacked at Northern Illinois University, the two portraits of Steve Kazmierczak that emerged were not easily reconciled...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Tax Break Helps a Crusader for Deficit Discipline
Can the co-founder of the Blackstone Group emerge as a credible voice in favor of fiscal constraint in Washington?...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Wal-Mart Chooses Blu-ray
The nation?s largest retailer said it has decided to sell only Blu-ray DVDs and hardware in its 4,000 U.S. stores and no longer carry rival HD DVD offerings...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Stocks Finish Mixed After Weak Data
Stocks fell for second day after lackluster economic reports offered investors little incentive to put down big bets ahead of a long weekend...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
US election: Day at-a-glance
A day-by-day guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - February 15, 2008
Afghan mission on track, US says
America's top soldier, Admiral Mike Mullen, dismisses claims that Nato's Afghan mission is in jeopardy...
BBC News - February 15, 2008
City Room: In Ozone Park, the Mob Ties That Bind
People in and around Ozone Park, Queens, still say mostly positive things about the time when John J. Gotti and the Gambino crime family reigned in the neighborhood...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Fancy New Digs for Bear?s Chairman
Lloyd Blankfein and Sanford Weill are among the current and former Wall Street heavyweights who have recently bought into 15 Central Park West, New York's uber-luxurious new condominium complex. But James Cayne, the chairman and, until recently, chief executive of Bear Stearns, has chosen a different trophy address. Documents filed with the city of New York [...]...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Wheels: Can a Toyota Win the Daytona 500?
Believe it or not, Toyota will have two cars in the top five positions at the start of the Daytona 500 on Sunday (and three in the top six)...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Imagining Equal Emissions
If everyone on Earth generated the 20 tons of carbon dioxide emitted by each United States citizen yearly, the global tally now would be 134 billion tons a year, instead of 29 billion. That's a lot of billions...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Medvedev Pledges Reform in Russia
Dmitri A. Medvedev, the presumptive next president, struck markedly liberal notes in a speech...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Gunman in Campus Attack Is Identified
Stephen Kazmierczak, who killed five at Northern Illinois University before turning the gun on himself, was a former student who had stopped taking medication, officials said...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
J.M. Smucker Earnings Rise on Sales Growth
Third-quarter profit rose 5 percent, helped by sales growth in its U.S. retail market and Canada, the company said...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Hormel Profit Up 17% on Strong Sales
The company said first-quarter earnings rose to $88 million on strong Spam sales and a recovery in its turkey business...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Heinz Raises 2008 Outlook
The company said quarterly profit would be higher than analysts? estimates and it raised its full-year outlook as exchange rates and price and volume increases offset high commodity costs...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Abercrombie & Fitch Profit Up 9%
The retailer cited increased sales from its expanding Hollister Co. chain that cater to teens and its abercrombie stores for children...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Campbell Soup Profit Down Slightly
The soup maker said its second-quarter profit slipped 3.9 percent to $274 million even though its sales rose...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Best Buy Lowers 2008 Outlook
Citing weak January sales and a difficult retail environment, the retailer said it also expects fourth-quarter revenue to fall short of expectations...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Bond Insurer Wants to Split Into 2 Companies
FGIC Corp, a bond insurer whose main unit has lost its top credit ratings from the three major agencies, has told New York regulators it wants to split into two companies...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
China January Trade Surplus Up 22.7%
The trade gap totaled $19.5 billion as foreign demand for exports stayed strong despite worries about slowing global growth, the government news agency reported...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Stocks Decline on Economic Readings
Wall Street fell after a weak manufacturing report raised investor concerns of a further economic slowdown...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Bleak New Batch of Data on Economy
New reports showed rising prices of imported goods, struggling manufacturing and an erosion in consumer confidence...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Bush set for second African tour
US President George W Bush is scheduled to leave for Africa, seeking to highlight US development projects...
BBC News - February 15, 2008
Gunman Slays 6 at N. Illinois University
Friday?s classes were canceled at Northern Illinois University after a gunman went into a lecture hall on Thursday and killed six students and himself. Sixteen other students were wounded...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet
The companies are hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Buffett buys stake in Kraft Foods
Billionaire US investor Warren Buffett has built up an 8.6% stake in Kraft Foods, making him its largest shareholder...
BBC News - February 15, 2008
Football: Ronaldo ruptures tendon
Clarence Seedorf believes AC Milan team-mate Ronaldo may not return to playing football after a serious injury this week...
BBC News - February 15, 2008
First order for pet dog cloning
A South Korean company
signs what it says is the
world's first commercial deal to clone a pet dog...
BBC News - February 15, 2008
Ivy Road to N.C.A.A. Tournament
The New York Times tags along with the Cornell men?s basketball team for a weekend road trip...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
A Farewell Note From a Departing Yahoo
Bradley Horowitz, a Yahoo vice president who left this week for Google, pens a loving note to his troubled ex-employer...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Insurance for the Self-Employed
Let's talk about health insurance for small business owners and the self-employed...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
House Leaves Surveillance Law to Expire
The House broke for a week?s recess without renewing terrorist surveillance authority demanded by President Bush, who warned of risky intelligence gaps while being accused of fear mongering...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Hezbollah Threatens Attacks on Israeli Targets
Sheik Hassan Nasrallah vowed revenge against Israel, which Hezbollah blames for the killing of a commander...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
An Upper East Side Co-op for a Pittance
Matthew Thomas is the proud new owner of an apartment on Manhattan?s Upper East Side. He paid $14,000...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
U.S. to Produce Data on Iran?s Nuclear Program
The decision reverses the United States? longstanding refusal to share the data, citing the need to protect intelligence sources...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
House Votes to Issue Contempt Citations
The citations would be against the White House chief of staff and a former White House counsel for refusing to cooperate in an investigation into the firings of federal prosecutors...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered
Astronomers have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy ? the first planetary system that really looks like our own...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
U.S. to Attempt to Shoot Down Faulty Satellite
Military officials laid out a plan to shoot down a spy satellite before it tumbles to Earth carrying toxic fuel...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
When Strains on Military Families Turn Deadly
An examination of cases of fatal domestic violence and child abuse indicate wartime pressures have complicated the Pentagon?s efforts to change the current system...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Signs in Kenya of a Land Redrawn by Ethnicity
After a wave of ethnic violence, Kenya has been in the process of segregating itself...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Gunman Slays Five in Illinois at a University
The man walked into an ocean sciences class on the campus of Northern Illinois University and opened fire. Four women and one man were killed, and 16 others were wounded by the gunman, who then killed himself...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Black Leader, a Clinton Ally, Tilts to Obama
Representative John Lewis said he planned to cast his vote as a superdelegate for Barack Obama in hopes of preventing a fight at the Democratic convention...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Clear Channel Reports Earnings Rose 52%
The radio and billboard giant said net income increased to 65 cents a share, or $320.6 million, from 43 cents, or $211 million, in the year-earlier quarter...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Make Big Profits Illegally (and Maybe Keep Them, Too)
In a strange anomaly to American securities laws, it is not clear that someone who illegally obtained insider information has broken the law by trading on that information...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Profit Down 20%, Marriott Lowers Annual Forecast
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The hotel operator Marriott International said Thursday that its fourth-quarter earnings fell 20 percent, hurt by the closing of its synthetic fuel business...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Goodyear Exceeded Expectations in 4th Quarter
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, the largest American tire maker, posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit Thursday as it benefited from higher pricing and a focus on more profitable branded tires...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Profit at Daimler After Chrysler Sale
Net income was 1.7 billion euros ($2.5 billion) in contrast to a loss of 12 million euros in the period a year earlier, Daimler said...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Plan to Rescue Bond Insurers Is Outlined
The New York State insurance superintendent, Eric R. Dinallo, has been working with banks on rescue plans for several bond insurers, which guarantee $2.4 trillion of debt...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
William D. Modell, Seller of Sporting Goods, Is Dead at 86.
Mr. Modell joined Modell?s Sporting Goods, a 118-year-old family-owned business, at the end of World War II and became chairman in 1985...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
A. D. Lewis, Administrator Behind Conrail, Is Dead at 88
In the 1970s, Mr. Lewis played a pivotal role in determining the future of the railroad industry in the United States...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Frank Piasecki, a Pioneer in Helicopters, Is Dead at 88
Mr. Piasecki was the first to develop a tandem-rotor helicopter ? the so-called Flying Banana ? capable of carrying large cargo loads or troops into combat...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Large Union Backs Obama; Another Is Likely to Do Same
The United Food and Commercial Workers endorsed Senator Barack Obama on Thursday, while members of another giant, the Service Employees International Union, were casting votes Thursday night...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Bank of Japan Leaves Key Rate Unchanged
TOKYO (Reuters) ? The Bank of Japan left its policy rate target unchanged at 0.5 percent on Friday as expected, with turbulence in financial markets and fears about a United States recession heightening concerns over the economic outlook...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Judge Says Use of MySpace May Violate a Court Order
The case was one of the first in which a judge in the United States had ruled that a restraining order had been violated by contact made through MySpace...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Ford Introduces One Small Car for a World of Markets
Ford unveiled its new Fiesta small car on Thursday. It goes on sale in Europe this fall, with introductions in Asia, Australia, and North and South America to follow...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Market Drops on Fed Chief?s Glum Words
Wall Street retreated Thursday after the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, forecast a ?sluggish? economy until later in the year...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
New Top Editor for Los Angeles Times, the 4th in 3 Years
Russ Stanton, who has been running the newspaper?s Web site, was named to the post three weeks after the previous editor, James E. O?Shea, was forced out for resisting staff cuts...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Company Behind Many TV Hits Is Sold
Ben Silverman, the co-chairman of NBC Entertainment, announced Thursday the sale of his independent production company Reveille to a British firm, the Shine Group, for $125 million...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Trade Deficit Shrank by 6.2% Last Year
Yet while the numbers reflected strength in exports, they also indicated that American consumers had cut back on their spending as the economy flagged...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
European Union Seeks Longer Music Copyrights
The move to extend copyright protection for singers and musicians to 95 years is intended to let performers receive royalty payments later in life...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
British Judge Questions Halt to Arms Fraud Inquiry
The judge questioned why the government ordered the Serious Fraud Office to stop investigating claims of corruption related to a 1990s arms deal with Saudi Arabia brokered by BAE Systems...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
UBS Posts Huge Loss and Warns About 2008
UBS offered no hope Thursday for a near-term turnaround as it posted an $11.3 billion fourth-quarter loss and warned that 2008 would be a ?difficult? year...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Marketers Are Putting Nascar on Different Kinds of Circuits
The shift parallels the increasing appearance in the new media of ads celebrating sports...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
New Trouble in Auction-Rate Securities
Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and other banks have been telling investors the market for these securities is frozen ? and so is their cash...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Union Expects 15,000 to 20,000 G.M. Workers to Take Buyouts
The head of the United Automobile Workers union added that General Motors would replace nearly all of the workers with lower-paid employees...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Microsoft Reassigns Several Top Executives
The company placed new executives in charge of operations facing fierce new competition from Google, Apple and cellphone makers...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Deutsche Post Chief Under Tax Inquiry
German prosecutors accused one of the country?s most prominent business executives of tax evasion on Thursday after conducting raids on his home and office...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
The Times to Cut 100 News Jobs
After years of resisting the newsroom cuts that have hit most of the industry, The New York Times will bow to growing financial strain, the executive editor said Thursday...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
French Trader?s Bets Said to Assure an Alarm
New questions emerged about when Jérôme Kerviel?s superiors at Société Générale became aware of the scale of his unauthorized trades...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Municipalities Feel Pinch as Another Debt Market Falters
Alarmed by the running turmoil in the debt markets, investors have refused to buy certain securities that not long ago many regarded as equivalent to cash...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Some Cities Are Spared the Slide in Housing
The real estate market these days is a tale of two Americas, and one of them is not doing too badly...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Reconciling Opposites
Can the co-founder of the Blackstone Group who has scored riches from a controversial tax break emerge as a credible voice in favor of fiscal constraint in Washington?...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
Top Officials See Bleaker Outlook for the Economy
Both Ben S. Bernanke and Henry M. Paulson Jr. said they were scaling back their more optimistic forecasts...
New York Times - February 15, 2008
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