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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 January 2008:
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Another Suicide Bomber Targets Shiite Mosque in Iraq
Witnesses said at least 11 people were killed in a blast outside a Shiite mosque in restive Diyala Province...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Bloomberg Warns of Spending Cuts on the Horizon
In his State of the City address, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg also called for DNA samples to be taken from every person arrested in New York City...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Judge Allows Nevada Caucuses to Proceed
A federal judge in Nevada turned down an effort to stop caucuses at casinos on the Las Vegas strip...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Washington Mutual Swings to Fourth-Quarter Loss
SEATTLE (AP) -- Washington Mutual Inc., the country's biggest savings and loan, said Thursday it swung to a $1.87 billion loss in the fourth quarter, hurt badly by the sinking value of its mortgage portfolio...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Sorting Out the New Housing Market
The shape of the new post housing-bubble market is one that favors young people who never owned a house and the banks that have access to cheap deposits...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
IBM Targets 2008 Profit Above Expectations
IBM forecast 2008 earnings well ahead of Wall Street expectations as strong growth abroad made up for weaker results in the U.S., sending its shares up 5 percent...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
BlackRock Profit Rises 90%
BlackRock Inc. posted a 90 percent jump in fourth-quarter profit, handily beating estimates, as it benefited from the credit market turmoil and acquisitions...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Coal Company Hit With E.P.A.?s Largest Civil Penalty
The fine was part of a $30 million settlement with the government over allegations that Massey Energy violated water pollution permit limits at its mines and plants...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
G.M. Eyes Labor Cost Cuts, Increased Revenue
G.M. said it plans to reduce its annual U.S. labor costs by about $5 billion by 2011, mainly through its recent labor agreement reached with the United Auto Workers union...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Directors Reach Accord With Hollywood Studios
Movie and TV directors tentatively agreed to a new contract with production companies, sending a message to striking screenwriters...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
A.M.D. Posts Loss, Writing Down Acquisition
Advanced Micro Devices reported its fifth consecutive quarterly loss as it struggled to absorb the huge cost of its purchase of ATI Technologies, a graphics chip maker...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
NYSE to Acquire American Stock Exchange
The $260 billion deal to buy the exchange would make NYSE Euronext the third-largest options marketplace in the country...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Lehman to Cut 1,300 Mortgage Jobs
In a move that will shed 1,300 jobs, Lehman Brothers said it would stop wholesale mortgage lending amid a continued slump in credit and housing...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Merrill Lynch Posts a $9.8 Billion Loss
The staggering losses, the worst in the firm?s history, were fueled by write-downs totaling $16.7 billion...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Dow Plunges More Than 300 Points on Grim Outlook
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 306.95 points Thursday as investors confronted new chapters of a well-worn story: the economy is in trouble...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Lehman to cut 1,300 mortgage jobs
US investment bank Lehman Brothers says it will cut 1,300 jobs as its scales back its US home loan business...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Election: Day at-a-glance
A day-by-day guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Chile-Peru spat over sea border
Chile summons its envoy to Peru for consultation, as tensions rise over a disputed maritime border...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Judge allows Vegas casino votes
A US judge rules that Nevada Democrats can hold presidential voting in Las Vegas casinos, dismissing a legal challenge...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Iran leader scorns US and Israel
Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses George W Bush of "sowing division" during his recent Middle East visit...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Recession fears unsettle markets
Weak manufacturing data and massive losses at Merrill Lynch send US shares tumbling sharply lower...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Film directors agree studio deal
Hollywood directors reach a contract deal with film and TV studios after five days of talks, their union says...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
National Portrait Gallery Adds Colbert
The mock pundit's mission to insinuate himself in places where he doesn?t belong continues apace...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
An Omnivore Defends Real Food
Writer Michael Pollan answers questions about nutrition, health and real food...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Crash Landing Temporarily Paralyzes Heathrow
A British Airways passenger jet crash-landed just short of a runway at London?s Heathrow airport; three people were slightly injured...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Democrats Take a California Detour
Senators Clinton and Obama made stops on the west coast before returning to Nevada for a final burst before Saturday?s caucuses...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Bloomberg Warns of Looming Spending Cuts
In his State of the City address, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg offered a range of plans but cautioned about difficult economic times ahead for New York City...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Protesters Clash With Police in Kenya for Second Day
The Kenyan police seemed to be ratcheting up the pressure against demonstrators, arresting several journalists and shooting tear gas...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
TD Ameritrade Quarterly Profit Rises to Record
NEW YORK (Reuters) - TD Ameritrade Holding Corp on Thursday posted a higher quarterly profit as client assets grew and trading activity rose, prompting the discount brokerage to boost its 2008 profit forecast...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Bank of NY Mellon Profit Falls in Fourth Quarter
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Bank of New York Mellon Corp.'s fourth-quarter profit tumbled 68 percent due to its exposure to assets backed by mortgages and a tough comparison to last year, when the bank sold its retail operations for about $1.4 billion...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Novartis Fourth Quarter Net Profit Falls 45 Percent
GENEVA (AP) -- Swiss pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG reported a 45 percent drop in fourth-quarter net profit on Thursday, citing restructuring costs and a weak performance in the U.S. market...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
China Says Its Seafood Is Safer
China?s Ministry of Agriculture said a recent nationwide crackdown on the use of illegal veterinary drugs improved the quality and safety of seafood production...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Antidepressant Studies Unpublished
The makers of some antidepressants never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, a new study suggests...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Stocks Move Lower After Bernanke Testimony
Stocks swung lower as Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, testified before Congress, even as he spoke of backing fiscal stimulus to help the economy avoid recession...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Google Offers a Map for Its Philanthropy
Google will spend up to $175 million in its first round of grants and investments over the next three years, officials said...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Housing Starts at 16-Year Low
The drop-off is likely to hurt businesses that serve the housing industry, which economists don?t expect to bottom out until the middle of the year...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Fed Chief Backs Quick Action to Aid Economy
Ben S. Bernanke endorsed quick passage of a stimulus package and aggressive action by the Fed, but said that a recession is probably not on the horizon...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Merrill Lynch Posts $9.8 Billion Loss
Merrill took a write-down of more than $14 billion as mortgage woes took another bite out of its balance sheet...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Qantas may seek Boeing payout
Qantas will discuss getting compensation from Boeing after the delivery of its Dreamliner is delayed again...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Housing slump hits US builders
The pace of US homebuilding fell to its slowest rate in more than 16 years during December, figures show...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Education Push Yields Little for India?s Poor
India?s schools have sunk to spectacularly low levels...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Urban Schools Aiming Higher Than Diploma
There?s a growing sense of urgency among educators that every student should be on a college track...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Boost for high-speed train maker
Shares in France's Alstom jump 6% on strong results and a high-speed train deal in Argentina...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Tennis: Shaky win for Venus
Eighth seed Venus Williams stumbles into the third round of the Australian Open, along with Svletlana Kuznetsova...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Election: Day at-a-glance
A day-by-day guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
Canada fires nuclear agency chief
Canada sacks the head of the country's nuclear watchdog over the closure of a reactor that produces medical isotopes...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
US, Mexico strengthen gun checks
The US promises Mexico access to a database to trace arms smuggled from the US to Mexican drug gangs...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
OJ Simpson freed on doubled bail
OJ Simpson is freed on double bail after a judge accuses him of "arrogance or ignorance" for breaking original bail terms...
BBC News - January 17, 2008
$300 to Learn Risk of Cancer of the Prostate
Researchers have reported that a simple DNA test can help predict a man?s risk of getting prostate cancer...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Push for Education Yields Little for India?s Poor
India faces the difficulty of educating its children in public schools that have sunk to spectacularly low levels...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Even at Home, Backers Worry About Giuliani
As Rudolph Giuliani plummets in some national polls, his rivals are encroaching on his own backyard...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Long Ago, a Rodent as Big as a Bull Lurked in South America
Uruguayan scientists have uncovered fossil evidence of the biggest species of rodent ever found, more than eight feet long and weighing between 1,700 and 3,000 pounds...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
McCain Parries a Reprise of ?00 Smear Tactics
John McCain is deploying a South Carolina Truth Squad to try to intercept attacks before there is major damage...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Sony Ericsson Fourth-Quarter Profit Falls
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said fourth-quarter profit fell almost 17 percent as higher costs more than offset the effect of a rise in shipments...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
AMR Reports a Smaller Loss Than Expected
AMR, the parent of American Airlines, posted a smaller-than-expected fourth-quarter loss on Wednesday, but the results showed the industry?s continuing vulnerability to high fuel costs...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
A Revival of 1992?s Glum Mood
The details of the economic slump have changed since the ?92 presidential race, but the main story line remains much the same...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Schwab Profit Off, Reflecting Sale of Unit
The Charles Schwab Corporation, the retail brokerage firm, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit fell 34 percent from the period a year ago, which included a tax gain and earnings from its U.S. Trust wealth management unit, which has since been sold...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
The Education of Ben Bernanke
Banks won?t lend money. Oil has reached $100 a barrel. Unemployment is up. What?s a Fed chief to do?...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Gizmos, Gadgets and Steve Jobs, Too
Apple holds its annual Macworld Expo and it?s chock-full of new high-tech goodies to be tried out...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Ex-Time Editor to Help Lead Book Publisher
Priscilla Painton, most recently the deputy managing editor of Time Magazine, has been named editor in chief of Simon & Schuster?s adult trade imprint...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Fraud by University Owner Is Found
The Apollo Group Inc., the company that owns the University of Phoenix, fraudulently misled investors in 2004 about student recruitment policies...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Asian Stocks Fall Sharply
Asian shares fell as subprime loan problems in the United States and soft economic data provoked international fear...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Head of Canadian Nuclear Regulator Fired
The president of Canada?s nuclear industry regulator, embroiled in a dispute with the government over the closing and later reopening of a reactor, was fired...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Federal-Mogul Names Icahn as Chairman
The Federal-Mogul Corporation, the auto parts supplier that emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month, named the billionaire investor and shareholder Carl C. Icahn as nonexecutive chairman on Wednesday...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
German Law Seeks to Maintain the State?s Role in Volkswagen
Under a draft of the law, Volkswagen could make major changes only with approval of shareholders representing one share more than 80 percent of its share capital...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Revising a Name, but Not a Familiar Slogan
The United Negro College Fund?s slogan remains a powerful ad message 35 years after its debut. The group?s name, however, has become a source of alienation...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Sun to Buy Swedish Software Firm for $1 Billion
Sun Microsystems, the large U.S. seller of open-source software, said it would buy MySQL, the world leader in open-source database software, for $1 billion...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Taped Calls Key in Trial of Former General Re Executives
Federal prosecutors plan to introduce into evidence at least 29 recorded phone calls in the trial of retired General Re executives...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Entrepreneurship Takes Off in Ireland
Ireland?s relatively new emphasis on entrepreneurs is the culmination of four decades of policies that have lifted the economy from centuries of poverty to modern prosperity...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
A Bond Insurer Ousts Its Chief After Taking a Big Write-Down
Michael A. Callen will succeed Robert J. Genader as chief executive of the Ambac Financial Group, after the bond insurer cut its dividend 67 percent...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Head of World Bank Fraud Unit Resigns
The resignation of Suzanne Rich Folsom is another blow to the already shaken organization, six months after its new president has taken office...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
European Antitrust Regulators Raid Large Drug Makers
European regulators raided some of the continent?s biggest drug makers in an inquiry over whether patent disputes and lawsuits are keeping generic products off the market...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
First Backdating Conviction Brings Prison Term and $15 Million Fine
Brocade Communications Systems? former chief executive received a 21-month prison sentence for designing a plan to tamper with the firm?s records of stock option grants...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
An Improved Offer by Oracle Captures BEA Systems
Oracle has finally won its prize, the rival BEA Systems, after sweetening the offer by 14 percent, just three months after BEA rejected its original bid...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
After Bumpy Ride, Shares Lose Ground
Wall Street staggered through another volatile session Wednesday, giving up gains of a modest rally in the last minutes of trading...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
In the Math of Mergers, Airlines Fail
Another lesson in two may not be greater than one...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Fed?s Survey Provides More Indications of Economic Slippage
Inflation crept up in December, but the rise in prices will likely do little to hold back another interest rate cut this month...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Quarterly Income Slips at JPMorgan, Ending Record Year but Hinting at Concerns
Mortgage troubles are spreading to credit cards and auto loans...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Snap-on Parts Didn?t Click Together for Boeing Jet
Plug and play ? a popular concept that allows buyers of computers and electronic games to avoid frustrating assembly ? is proving hard to pull off for Boeing...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Cholesterol as a Danger Has Skeptics
Following results of recent clinical trials on popular cholesterol drugs, cardiologists are questioning whether a patient?s cholesterol should be all that matters...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
When 3rd Place on the Rich List Just Isn?t Enough
Casino mogul Sheldon J. Adelson may well be the richest American that most people have never heard of...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
Bernanke Is Said to Support Stimulus Measures
The chairman of the Federal Reserve told members of Congress he would back tax cuts or spending measures, so long as they are temporary...
New York Times - January 17, 2008
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