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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Astronauts end spacewalk to repair gummed-up joint
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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UN expects new peacekeepers in Congo in weeks
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Afghanistan markets its brand of pomegranates
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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China says 19,000 students died in May earthquake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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US News Archive for August 2005:
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Gaza deadline passes
The midnight deadline for Israel's evacuation of Gaza has passed with Israel Defense Forces preparing to remove the remaining Jewish settlers. Thousands of Israeli soldiers went door to door late Tuesday asking residents to leave as the deadline loomed. An IDF general said about half of Gaza's 9,000 Jewish settlers had left the territory before the deadline (9 p.m. GMT)...
CNN - August 16, 2005
Tension rises near Bush ranch
Some of President Bush's neighbors asked county leaders Tuesday to prevent large gatherings near the Crawford ranch like the ongoing anti-war protest led by a mother of a soldier who died in Iraq...
CNN - August 16, 2005
Memorial to Troops Killed in Iraq Is Vandalized in Texas
Cindy Sheehan said today that she was "very disturbed" that crosses bearing the names of dead U.S. troops had been knocked down...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Opponents Hold Off in Striking at Ferrer
Any attempt to damage Fernando Ferrer, his rivals fear, could ricochet and do even greater damage to themselves or their campaign strategies...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
J.P. Morgan and Canadian Bank Settle Enron Lawsuit
J.P. Morgan Chase agreed today to pay $350 million in cash to settle claims for the role it played in the accounting fraud that led to the energy company's collapse...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Brazilians rally to support Lula
Thousands of Brazilian students and trade union members march through the capital in support of President Lula...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
160 feared dead in Venezuela crash
One hundred and sixty people are feared dead after a Colombian plane crashes in a remote area of Venezuela, aviation officials say...
CNN - August 16, 2005
Iraq constitution delay
Following a delay in agreement over the Iraqi constitution, the White House is insisting "they are going to finish this." President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice led the orchestrated U.S. effort to allay concerns that failure to meet the Monday midnight deadline was a setback...
CNN - August 16, 2005
Putting Jesus in Every Mailbox
The movie "Jesus" has come to be viewed by many evangelical Christians as a singularly modern tool for spreading the Gospel...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Mayor's Thorn on City Council Is Used to Low Expectations
Three years after rising to City Council speaker at 32, Gifford Miller is hoping to move to the other side of City Hall...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Fuel Costs Drive Consumer Prices Slightly Higher in July
But the core rate of inflation remained contained during the month, a government report released today said...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Wal-Mart Says Oil Prices Held Down Profits for Quarter
Citing high oil prices, Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, announced its smallest quarterly profit growth in four years today, missing Wall Street's earnings forecast...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Supply fears keep oil price high
Oil prices stablise for a second day on hopes that recent US refining problems have eased...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
'Babies hit' by terror flight ban
Small children are being stopped from boarding planes in the US for having names similar to those on a no-fly list...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
Costly fuel raises US inflation
A sharp surge in gasoline prices meant July's US retail prices up rose at their sharpest rate in three months...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
NHL: Penguins add LeClair
Pittsburgh's rebuilding continues with the signing of NHL veteran forward John LeClair on a two-year deal...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
Spanish troops die in Afghan crash
Seventeen Spanish troops died in what appeared to be an accidental helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Tuesday, a spokesman in the Spanish prime minister's office told CNN. They are the first Spanish troop fatalities in Afghanistan...
CNN - August 16, 2005
Gaza pullout in second day
As the pullout of Jewish settlers in Gaza enters its second day, Israeli security forces said they had arrested 500 right-wing protesters trying to infiltrate Gaza...
CNN - August 16, 2005
Schröder, the Underdog, Plays an Old Card With a New Face: Iran
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder introduced Iran into the current German campaign, saying he would not allow German troops to be used in any military campaign there...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
When Companies Adopt Online Booking, Are Their Jobs Necessary?
Many dot-coms selling leisure travel are moving to grab a piece of the $91 billion market for managed business travel...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Fuel Economy Plan Seen Omitting Rule for Big S.U.V.'s
The Bush administration is expected to abandon a proposal to extend fuel economy regulations to include Hummers and other jumbo sport utility vehicles, auto industry and other officials say...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Gateway cuts 2005 sales forecast
Gateway, the US PC maker, cuts its sales and profit forecast for 2005, as it sees margins come under pressure...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
Baseball: Giants boosted by Winn
Randy Winn hit for the cycle as San Francisco beat Cincinnati Reds 7-3...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
'Protest mom' in divorce blow
The husband of a woman calling for troops to leave Iraq files for divorce as she camps at Mr Bush's ranch...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
Oil slides as refinery fears ease
Oil prices dip for a second day on relief that recent US refining problems have eased...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
Executed US maid to be pardoned
A black woman sent to the electric chair in Georgia 60 years ago is to receive a posthumous pardon...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
F1: Barrichello quits Ferrari
Rubens Barrichello is to leave Ferrari at the end of this season to join BAR-Honda...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
Farc rejects prisoner talks offer
Colombia's Farc rebels say conditions are not right for talks with the government on a prisoner exchange...
BBC News - August 16, 2005
Injuries from Japan quake
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has hit northern Japan, triggering a tsunami alert in its aftermath, the Japanese Meteorological Agency reported...
CNN - August 16, 2005
'No-fly list' keeping infants off planes
Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the United States because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government's "no-fly list." Mother Ingrid Sanden said: "I completely understand people wanting to be safe when they fly. But focusing the target a little bit is probably a better use of resources."...
CNN - August 16, 2005
In the Hospital, a Degrading Shift From Person to Patient
Even when they benefit from first-rate doctors, people say they often feel resentful, helpless and dehumanized in the process...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Roberts's Files From 80's Recall Big Debates of Era
There was nothing "squishy" about Judge John G. Roberts Jr.'s response to an employment discrimination theory known as "comparable worth."...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Prices of Drugs for Elderly Said to Far Outrun Inflation
For the third consecutive year, the average prices of dozens of brand-name prescription drugs widely used by elderly Americans have risen more than twice as fast as general inflation, according to a survey to be released today by the advocacy group AARP...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
MCI's Unpaid Bills May Trim Its Selling Price to Verizon
Verizon Communications said yesterday that it could reduce its price for MCI by as much as $60.8 million, or 21 cents a share, if the company's tax and bankruptcy liabilities exceeded forecasts...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Mining Deal Prompts Talk of a Takeover
Falconbridge, Canada's largest mining company, purchased just under 20 percent of the Swiss coal producer Xstrata on Monday...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
6 Plead Guilty to Fraud in Currency Trading Case
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Now This Is Luxury
NOW THIS IS LUXURY Eos, a new trans-Atlantic airline offering all-business-class service, is expected to start flying around Sept. 15 between Kennedy International Airport in New York and Stansted International Airport in London, using Boeing 757 aircraft outfitted with just 48 seats, its chief executive, David Spurlock, said yesterday. Boeing 757's typically carry more than 200 passengers. Eos, an upstart premium carrier, showed off its seating configuration yesterday at the annual National Business Travel Association convention in San Diego. Passengers will have 21 square feet of personal space, including lie-flat beds. That's more per-person space than in any other business-class cabin, Mr. Spurlock said in an interview. Eos has pledged that its fares will be about 25 percent lower than the approximately $8,000 "rack rate" of major carriers with top-level business-class cabins, said Mr. Spurlock, a former top executive with British Airways...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
What Flies Coast to Coast and Isn't Very Funny?
Independence Air set itself up by partnering with the Laugh Factory, a comedy club, just as the airline was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
What That Reassuring Pilot Neglected to Mention
EVEN though I travel quite a bit, I hate to fly, and although I know commercial airliners are much more reliable than smaller aircraft, I always feel inexplicably safer on a six-seater than a 747...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
A.M.D.-I.B.M. Agreement
Advanced Micro Devices and I.B.M. have broadened a three-year-old technology development agreement to cover new research areas and have extended it through 2011...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
News Corp. in Talks for Blinkx Search Service
The News Corporation is in discussions to acquire Blinkx, a service that scours the Web for video and audio clips and organizes them automatically in folders...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Agilent to Return to Its Core Businesses
Agilent Technologies said that the sale of its semiconductor business to a private equity partnership for $2.6 billion was part of a strategic realignment...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Criminal Charges Are Said to Be Unlikely for a Fired Executive of A.I.G.
A former top executive of American International Group in Bermuda, who is described in a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general's office as having destroyed evidence amid an investigation into A.I.G., is not expected to face criminal charges by that office, two people briefed on the investigation said...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Travel Managers' Lament
When companies adopt online booking for flights, are the jobs of corporate travel managers still necessary?...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Rumor of Sale of Dow Jones Helps Bolster Newspapers
A report suggesting a possible sale of Dow Jones & Company tapped into growing investor sentiment that newspaper stocks may be undervalued...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
With Housing Strong, Lowe's Profit Climbs 20%
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 15 (AP) - Fueled by the nation's strong housing market, second-quarter profit for the Lowe's Companies, the No. 2 home-improvement retailer, jumped 20 percent, beating Wall Street estimates...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Fields of Bio-Engineered Dreams
The debate over gene-altered rice has a certain urgency in the United States Farm Belt, where finding new products will help reduce reliance on commodity crops...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Possible Bidder for Exchange in London
Australia's largest investment bank rejuvenated the prospect of a bidding war for the London Stock Exchange when it expressed interest in buying the exchange...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Reliant to Pay Millions to End Energy Cases
Reliant Energy has reached an agreement to pay $460 million to settle claims that it unfairly profited from the West Coast energy crisis in 2000 and 2001, company executives and state officials said yesterday...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
News Corp. Starts to Fill the Shoes of a Departed Murdoch
Roger Ailes, who has been chairman of Fox News Channel since its inception, has been given an additional title: chairman of Fox Television Stations...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Big Airline Catering Service Faces Trouble at Every Turn
Things have gone from bad to worse at the in-flight catering company Gate Gourmet since the Texas Pacific Group purchased it in 2002 from Swissair...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
4 Ex-Brokers Are Accused of Conspiracy
Four former stockbrokers at major securities firms were accused yesterday of conspiring with day traders who wanted to eavesdrop on customer order information to make easy profits...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Shares Advance Slightly, With Technology in Lead
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Gone a Month, an Executive Returns to CBS
Fred Reynolds, the former chief financial officer of Viacom's television station group, is returning to become chief financial officer of CBS...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Home Prices Surge 13.6% in Quarter
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
China and India Vie for Kazakhstan Oil
Chinese and Indian state-owned oil companies are trying to buy a Canadian company with oil fields in Kazakhstan...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
To Market a Magazine, Fill It With Celebrity Gossip
The demand for gossip, from Brad Pitt's love interests to Tom Cruise's spats, drove circulation increases for celebrity magazines in the last six months...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Big Rise in Corporate Taxes Is Predicted to Reduce Deficit
However, the Congressional Budget Office discerned no improvement in the long-term fiscal outlook for the next decade...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
U.S. Fuel Economy Plan Seen Omitting Rule for Big S.U.V.'s
The fuel economy regulations that the Bush administration is expected to abandon would have almost solely affected the troubled domestic auto industry...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Doctors' Links With Investors Raise Concerns
Nearly 10 percent of the nation's doctors have signed up as consultants with a new breed of company that connects investors and professionals, raising ethics questions...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Fighting to Avoid Chapter 11, Delta to Sell Regional Line
Delta Air Lines agreed to sell Atlantic Southeast Airlines to SkyWest Airlines for $425 million...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Wall Street Seeks Stakes in New Spots for Trading
Wall Street banks are scrambling to secure places to trade stocks that could eventually be alternatives to the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq market...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
Some Funds Taking Role Far Beyond Just Investor
Taking advantage of a mood oriented toward rooting out corporate misdeeds, a growing number of hedge fund managers are waging battles against chief executives...
New York Times - August 16, 2005
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