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US News Archive for September 2006:
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Police: Baby snatcher slit mother's throat
Police are looking for 8-day-old Abigale Lynn Woods after a woman allegedly stabbed the infant's mother and slashed her throat before taking the child from her rural Missouri home, investigators said Saturday...
CNN - September 16, 2006
Analysts: Bush clout waning on world stage
When President Bush addresses world leaders at the U.N. this week, he will have fewer options and lower expectations on almost every major foreign policy front than a year ago. Analysts say the U.S. has less room to maneuver as it relies on more international institutions for help in Iran, Lebanon, North Korea, Sudan and elsewhere...
CNN - September 16, 2006
Vatican Says Pope Benedict Regrets Offending Muslims
The Vatican statement stopped short of the direct personal apology from Benedict that many Muslims have been demanding...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Psychiatrist Is Among Five Chosen for Medical Award
Dr. Aaron T. Beck, who upset Freudian dogma in the 1960’s by developing cognitive therapy, received the Lasker Award...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
High School Football, Under Prime-Time Lights
National broadcasts of high school football have put coaches in the spotlight, and in potentially dangerous territory...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
In Campaign Ads for Democrats, Bush Is the Star
As Republican candidates are avoiding President Bush, Democrats are invoking his image to call for change...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Red Sox 5, Yankees 2: Beckett Stifles Yankees in Game One
With the A.L. East race all but over, the Boston Red Sox managed to beat the Yankees in game one of a day-night doubleheader...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Economic View: A Fable, Adapted From Aesop
Some economists are starting to question the magnitude of housing’s impact on national habits of spending and thrift...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
The Boss: The Professor in the Back Lot
Being the lowest person on the totem pole and a producer has made James Schamus think about filmmaking from the point of view of everyone with whom he works...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: The Best and the Worst in Executive Pay
Stockholders have learned that while their shares may sink, executive pay rarely does...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
The Goods: A Spork With an Added Edge
A Swedish designer takes an American idea and reinvents it...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
DataBank: Lower Oil Prices Push Key Stock Indexes Higher
Oil prices fell and stock traders celebrated, propelling the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to its highest weekly close since May...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Image Help Isn’t Only for the Famous
“People are getting the message that it is O.K. to pay attention to the way you come across, and that it’s not just for the rich and famous.”...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Off the Shelf: An Uncertain Threat in Venezuela
Nikolas Kozloff apparently believes that Americans have much to fear from Venezuela...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Career Couch: Taking a Rain Check On a Promotion
The boss has offered you a higher rung on the career ladder, but you're not ready to climb...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Someone’s Spoiling the Party, the Housing Market Says
The news media have always helped shape public perception of markets. But exactly how much the press influences mass consumer behavior is subject to debate...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Renewal Money for New Orleans Bypasses Renters
As billions in housing aid begins to flow, most of it will go to homeowners, despite the fact that roughly half the city’s residents rented housing before Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Hungry Workers, Tied to Desks, Clicking to Get Culinary Delights
Elite firms balance job demands by simplifying quest for food...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Some Bosses See the Virtues of a Long Break
Sabbaticals — once considered the exclusive bailiwick of academicians, who are often granted an entire year to pursue research — now come in many sizes and shapes...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Square Feet | Ventures: It’s a Good Time to Be a Landlord
Landlords are enjoying booming times these days as more people are choosing to rent...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
The Count: Who Produces The Most Oil? Not Who You Think
Those not attuned to the finer points of the oil market may have missed a shift in the rankings over the summer...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Market Week: Oil Slips, Giving Fed Some Room to Sit Back
Now that oil prices are well into their descent, some analysts think it even more likely that the Fed will keep its foot off the brakes on Wednesday...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
On the Contrary: The Good News About Oil Prices Is the Bad News
Anything that reinforces the role of fossil fuels — particularly oil — as the industrial world’s primary energy source is bad, not good...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
For Insurance, Adult Children Ride Piggyback
In a growing number of states, children can now stay on their parents’ health insurance plans well into their 20’s...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Buzzwords: The Secret Life of Private Investigators
When you misrepresent yourself to establish a connection and achieve your real end, you are "pretexting."...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Suits: Just What They Need, More Ideas on Spying
As Hewlett-Packard struggled with the reaction to its hiring of private investigators, did anyone think to summon the help of “a modern-day James Bond”?...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Investing: A College Savings Plan With One Less Worry
Weighing the benefits of tax-free growth with the pain of locking in your money...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Spending: Tools of Running a Business, at Tag-Sale Prices
A professional office on an amateur's budget...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Fundamentally: The Increasing Charms of the Roth Approach
In today’s self-directed retirement system, it is important to keep tabs on details that can have a big impact on your retirement savings...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Everybody's Business: When Scarcity Leads to Madness
The great glory of America is that our economics has always been based on the idea that abundance is the natural order of things...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Fortune’s Fools: Why the Rich Go Broke
The trajectory of George Foreman’s finances once had him headed into a gilded pantheon of big buckaroos who have squandered often-unimaginable sums of money...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
The Rise of Baidu (That’s Chinese for Google)
Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Media Frenzy: A Video Business Model Ready to Move Beyond Beta
Untangling the Internet video free-for-all...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
U.S. Asks Finance Chiefs to Limit Iran’s Access to Banks
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said Iranian front companies were exploiting industrial nations’ banking systems...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
G7 calls for China yuan rethink
The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations urges China to be more flexible on its currency...
BBC News - September 16, 2006
Police: New mom has throat slashed, baby stolen
A woman slashed the throat of a new mother in a rural Missouri home Friday and fled with her 1-week-old daughter, the Franklin County Sheriff's Department said. The 21-year-old mother, who was in serious condition in a St. Louis hospital, told police she did not know the attacker who asked to use her phone...
CNN - September 16, 2006
Pope upset that Muslims offended
Pope Benedict XVI has said he is "very upset" that his speech on Islam offended Muslims and expressed his respect for their faith, according to the Vatican...
CNN - September 16, 2006
Police: Body lures soldiers to booby-trapped car
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed Saturday after they unwittingly approached a booby-trapped car in Baghdad to check on a body planted in the front seat, an emergency police official said...
CNN - September 16, 2006
How 3 G.O.P. Veterans Stalled Bush Detainee Bill
Senator John W. Warner of Virginia dealt a setback to the White House’s proposal to bring terrorism suspects to trial...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Issue One: What Would the Democrats Do?
For Democrats in Congress and those hoping to join them, the troublesome war in Iraq presents both a significant political opportunity and an exquisite dilemma...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Security Forces: Iraq Stumbling in Bid to Purge Its Rogue Police
The Interior Ministry lacks the political support to root out Shiite militiamen and criminals in its police forces, officials say...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Muslim fury grows at pope remarks
Outrage is mounting around the world over Pope Benedict's comments on Islam and jihad despite assurances from the Vatican that he only intended to point out the incompatibility between faith and war...
CNN - September 16, 2006
Bush defends plan for terror tribunals
Questioning of suspected terrorists "won't go forward" unless Congress clarifies a U.S. standard for the treatment and interrogation of detainees, President Bush warned on Friday...
CNN - September 16, 2006
In Case Against Politician, a Tale of Friendship, Ambition and Betrayal
Representative William J. Jefferson of Louisiana went from helping a company to trying to take it over for his family’s benefit...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Secrets and Lies Shroud Origins of Giant Swastika
The provenance of a man-made forest in the shape of a swastika near the edge of the Himalayas presents a complicated mystery...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Mexico celebrations moved
Fears of disruption force Mexico's president to hold an Independence Day party outside the capital...
BBC News - September 16, 2006
Pope's Islam comments condemned
Pope Benedict XVI has come under intense criticism from the Islamic world for comments he made regarding the Prophet Mohammed and the Muslim faith. A growing chorus of Muslim leaders have urged the pope to apologize for the remarks, made in a speech in Germany on Tuesday when he used the terms "jihad" and "holy war."...
CNN - September 16, 2006
Protesters beat ex-minister after toxic dumping
Protesters angry over toxic waste dumping blamed for six deaths set fire to a port official's home Friday, beat a former Ivory Coast transport minister and blockaded streets in Abidjan, the country's commercial center...
CNN - September 16, 2006
Immigration raids make a ghost town
Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at the stores. A community of about 1,000 people has become little more than a ghost town since September 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants...
CNN - September 16, 2006
A Kean on the Ballot? What Else Is New?
Thomas H. Kean Jr. has capitalized on sky-high name recognition in his run for U.S. Senate in New Jersey...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Lawmaker Admits He Took Illegal Gifts
Representative Bob Ney admitted in a plea agreement that he had effectively put his office up for sale to Washington lobbyists and a businessman...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Possible Source of Bad Spinach Is Named as Outbreak Widens
Natural Selection Foods of California recalled its brands as the cases of a virulent strain of E. coli grew to 94 in 20 states...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Paying Top Dollar for Punishment, 26 Miles’ Worth
Unable to gain entry into major marathons, some runners turn to prohibited means of entering the field...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
In Case Against Politician, Friendship, Ambition and Betrayal
Representative William J. Jefferson of Louisiana went from helping a small company to trying to take it over for his family’s benefit...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
The Lawyers: Military Lawyers Caught in Middle on Tribunals
A scuffle over the White House plan for dealing with terrorism suspects has stoked old tensions between Pentagon civilian leaders and military officers...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Saturday Interview With Azim H. Premji: Outsourcing: It’s Been Good to Him
The chairman of Wipro, India’s third-largest outsourcing firm, spoke about outsourcing, competition and education...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Short Cuts: No Longer Avoiding That Talk About the Inevitable
Talking about parents’ funeral plans can be uncomfortable but it can resolve important issues...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Dynegy in Deal to Raise Generating Capacity by 69%
Dynegy agreed to buy the LS Power Group’s electricity plants in a deal made four years after the company was pushed close to bankruptcy...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Dispute Over China’s Auto Tariffs
The U.S., European Union and Canada said they planned to ask the W.T.O. to investigate whether China has unfairly raised tariffs on imported auto parts...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Five Days: Paying the Price When Companies Stumble
Misdeeds and errors in judgment came back to haunt several big companies, leading to the departures of several senior officers...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Market Values: A Big Oil Find Doesn’t Assure Big Success
Analysts said there were too many unknowns in Chevron’s major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico to count it as money in the bank...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Wall St.’s Inconspicuous Rally Continues
Stocks have been buoyed by a decline in energy prices and a belief that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates again this year...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
For Kansas Farmers, Water Is a Vanishing Commodity
Soaring energy costs and one of the worst droughts to grip Kansas in a century have led farmers to work hard to conserve water...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
What’s Online: The Story Behind MySpace
A controversial new report into MySpace alleges that its founders came from companies involved with spam, spyware and adware...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
What’s Offline: How Many Coupons for the Yacht?
If you believe magazines are leading indicators of where the economy is heading, things are not looking good...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Off the Charts: In the Exporting Horse Race, It’s China by a Nose Over the U.S.
July was the first month ever that China reported higher exports than the United States...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Talk of Liberty Deal Leaves Some Puzzled
Talk of a swap between Liberty Media and the News Corporation were met with some skepticism by Liberty shareholders...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Financial Leaders Gather, a Bit Tensely
World financial officials gathered for the annual World Bank and the I.M.F. meeting in one of the most contentious sessions in years...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Daimler Looking Outside U.S. for Source of Subcompacts
DaimlerChrysler is in talks with companies in China and elsewhere for the export of subcompact cars to North America...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
[TS] Tired of Trolls, a Feisty Chief Fights Back
Believing that patent trolls were hurting small businesses, one chief executive decided that enough was enough...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Judge Blocks Strike at Northwest
The ruling against Northwest’s flight attendants could strengthen the hand of struggling airlines seeking to reduce labor costs...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Blackstone Alliance to Buy Chip Maker for $17.6 Billion
In a rare buyout battle, a Blackstone-led alliance said it won the bidding for chip maker Freescale Semiconductor...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Zeroing in on Sources H.P. Used
Prosecutors are said to be focusing on the Action Research Group, identified as one of the most prolific users of subterfuge for obtaining phone records...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Crop Rotation in the Grain Belt
Wheat is steadily being replaced by corn as the crop of choice for American farmers...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
A Milk War Over More Than Price
As Wal-Mart rolls out its own brand of organic milk, critics worry that consumers will be getting just a diluted form of organic milk...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Detroit Flails in Latest Effort to Reinvent Itself
The latest auto industry upheaval may indicate that Detroit’s basic strategy is irrevocably broken...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Price Index Moderated in August
Consumer prices rose only 0.2 percent in August, pushing annual inflation to 3.8 percent, the lowest since April...
New York Times - September 16, 2006
Hurricane Lane builds near Mexico
Hurricane Lane becomes a stronger Category 2 storm as it roars along Mexico's Pacific coast...
BBC News - September 16, 2006
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