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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 March 2007:
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Storm Brings New Woes to Travelers at Kennedy
Officials said the storm, which pounded the runways and the planes with a relentless blend of ice and freezing rain, put unusual pressure on the airport?s de-icing operations...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
At Housing Project, Both Fear and Renewal
Although much of the notorious Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago has been torn down, some people still live in hellish conditions in the remaining buildings...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Protesters Mark Fourth Anniversary of Iraq War
Thousands of people demanding an end to the war in Iraq marched to the Pentagon today...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Palestinian Government Is Approved
RAMALLAH, West Bank, March 17 ? The Palestinian legislature ratified a new national unity government on Saturday by a show of hands, but the cracks were already apparent in the celebratory speeches given by the president and the prime minister...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Playing SimCity for Real
Tejon Ranch, just 60 miles north of Los Angeles, is over 270,000 acres of open space attached to an equally vast question: How do you build a city from scratch?...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
G.O.P. Anger in Swing State Eased Attorney?s Exit
More than seven other dismissed prosecutors, David C. Iglesias was the target of fierce criticism...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Sunni Militants Disrupt Plan to Calm Baghdad
Shiite militias had been seen as the main worry in bringing security to the Iraqi capital, but American military officials now say raids are required in Sunni areas on the city?s outskirts...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Facing Life With a Lethal Gene
Katharine Moser decided to use a DNA test to find out whether she would develop Huntington?s disease. She is still learning what it is like to live with the knowledge...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
The Boss: A Twisting Ride to the Web
?My life is like a quilt rather than a blanket. I need to collect experiences.?...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Career Couch: Your Manager Is a Bully (but You Aren?t Helpless)
Meet one on one to discuss your concerns, but be careful not to take on an accusatory tone...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Home Front: The Helper?s Helper: Where Nonprofits Turn
The Support Center for Nonprofit Management is part of a growing auxiliary to nonprofits that are defined as benefiting, or speaking for, the public interest...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
DataBank: New Inflation Fears Cap a Rocky Week
It was another rough week on Wall Street and it ended with a thud...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Strategies: Beyond the Bubble, With Small-Cap Stocks
If investors focused only on the broad stock market averages, they might conclude that the entire market is undervalued...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Suits: Nanny, $44,880; Redskins Owner, 0
A Maryland court ordered Daniel M. Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, to compensate a former nanny for overtime hours she had worked...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Market Week: Will the Fed Take Away the Chill?
Investors are worried about economic conditions, and Federal Reserve policy makers may use their meeting this week to convey the same concern...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Ideas & Trends: In Aisle Three, Couch Potatoes Trying the MP3s
After years of discounts, stores offer something new: an experience...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
In a Sneaker, Better to Look Good Than to Play Well
Sales of eye-catching ?low performance? athletic shoes rose 4.4 percent in 2006...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Nonprofit Show, but Money?s Riding On It
As money has become increasingly scarce, the enhancement system, in which a commercial producer pays money to a nonprofit theater to help subsidize a production, is all but essential...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
The Goods: A Wheel for Shoes, Not Hamsters
The Rakku, a rotating shoe rack that resembles a hamster wheel, can hold 30 pairs of shoes...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Economic View: Why Wage Insurance Is Dividing Democrats
A safety net for lost pay, or a ticket to poor jobs?...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Off The Shelf: The Ubiquitous Suze Orman
At times, Ms. Orman sounds more like a Lawrence H. Summers than a Gloria Steinem in her latest book, ?Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.?...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Fair Game: When Regulators Knock Twice
Even dead cats bounce, as the idiom goes, and the stocks of subprime lenders did just that last week...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Investing: Buying Into the Company, Not the Commodity
There is an easy way to get a shot at commodity-like returns, without investing directly in commodities or their indexes...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Square Feet | Checking In: A Room for the Night (Not 40 to Life)
A growing number of abandoned jails are being converted to hotels...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
National Perspectives: A Texas-Size Hunger for Gulf Coast Condos
Houston residents, eager for a second home and flush with cash from the oil boom, have made Galveston Island an emerging Lone Star equivalent of the Hamptons...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Giving: Write a Check? The New Philanthropist Goes Further
Many donors are trying to get greater meaning from their money...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Novelties: How to Soften the Edges of Technology
Some companies will now encase both a computer and its peripherals in a back-to-the-future covering of a different sort: warm, glowing wood...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Ping: Is the Key to Creativity in Your Pillbox, or in Your PC?
The gap between what the Internet promises and what it delivers is part of the reason that people continue to turn to enhancers from caffeine to maca to virtual reality...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Media Frenzy: For a Press Baron, a Showdown in a City He Barely Knew
It is worth reflecting that had Conrad M. Black not coveted the profile that The Sun-Times was intended to help give him, he would not be in the pickle he is in...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
The Barefoot Impresario
Ina Garten has created a culinary empire that has been slow to spread roots but quick to grow in recent years...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Airlines Learn to Fly on a Wing and an Apology
Rather than rely entirely on weary front-line workers, many airlines are institutionalizing the apology...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Do You Know Where That Art Has Been?
The new wariness of collectors to buy or exhibit works that do not have the most rigorously documented history jeopardizes the business of even the most established dealers...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Tennis: Nadal sails past Roddick
Rafael Nadal beats Andy Roddick to reach the final at the Indian Wells Master Series...
BBC News - March 17, 2007
US accused over environment
Germany says the United States has blocked progress on two key issues to protect the global environment...
BBC News - March 17, 2007
CNN's King doing well after op
Veteran CNN talk show host Larry King plans an immediate return to work following arterial surgery on Friday...
BBC News - March 17, 2007
Florida Girls Lift Weights, and Gold Medals
Girls? weightlifting, a high school sport sanctioned only in one state, is embraced by girls of all shapes, sizes and athletic abilities...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Different Paths From Vietnam to War in Iraq
Despite their shared past fighting in the Vietnam War, Senators Chuck Hagel and John McCain disagree profoundly on Iraq policy...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Mortgage Trouble Clouds Homeownership Dream
Hundreds of thousands of families who bought houses in the last two years are being expelled into rental housing...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
China?s Central Bank Raises Rate
The People?s Bank of China hopes the increase will control a surge in bank lending and investment and prevent consumer prices from rising...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
3 Detectives Are Indicted in 50-Shot Killing in Queens
Two of the detectives were charged with second-degree manslaughter and a third with a lesser charge in the killing of an unarmed man on the eve of his wedding...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
$4.4bn debt relief for L America
Five of the poorest nations in Latin America and the Caribbean are to have their $4.4bn (£2.3bn) debt cancelled...
BBC News - March 17, 2007
?Purely Political Motives? in Outing, Ex-Agent Says
Valerie Wilson, a former C.I.A. agent, finally spoke after almost four years at the silent center of a political scandal...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Pining for Irish Soil? You Can Buy It by the Bag
Part of being Irish in America is a nostalgia for the old sod. And now you can buy it for a few dollars per pound...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
The Critical Years: For Teachers, Middle School Is Test of Wills
Middle school teachers often lack expertise in both subject matter and the mysteries of the adolescent mind...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
A Search for Self in Obama?s Hawaii Childhood
The presidential candidate?s racial consciousness and political curiosity appear to have begun far from Illinois...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
50-Shot Barrage Leads to Charges for 3 Detectives
Two of the detectives were charged with second-degree manslaughter and a third with the lesser charge of reckless endangerment...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Court Says Health Coverage May Bar Birth-Control Pills
A federal appellate panel ruled that the Union Pacific Railroad Company did not discriminate against its female employees because its insurance did not cover contraception used by men either...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Mortgage Shares Rise Again as a Subprime Lender Gets a Line of Credit
The Fremont General Corporation said that Credit Suisse had increased a line of credit to the company to $1 billion...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Judge Says Tobacco Companies Can?t Use ?Light? Label Overseas
Tobacco companies will be prohibited from marketing cigarettes overseas as ?low tar? and ?light,? a move applauded by antismoking activists...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Caremark Approves Sale to CVS
Caremark shareholders approved a $26.5 billion acquisition by CVS, creating one of the largest competitors in the prescription drug industry...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
What?s Offline: Airport Insecurity
Barbara S. Peterson, Condé Nast Traveler?s aviation expert, worked for two months undercover as a screener...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Five Days: Fickle Investors Bobbing in Sea of Subprime Loans
Investors this week showed that while they are still ready to sell at a moment?s notice, they remain unpredictable...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
What?s Online: Popularity Might Not Be Enough
If you wanted to build an ad-supported online media business that took in $50 million a year, how many users would you have to attract to get there?...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Off the Charts: Maybe a House Is Now Out of Reach, but There?s Always Furniture
Evidence suggests that retail spending has weakened, but not by nearly as much as it did in the most recent recession, in 2001...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Saturday Interview: Out to Make 6:31 A.M. Fashionable
Melissa Payner, the chief executive of Bluefly.com, spoke about the perils of Web retailing, and of what she called the misperceptions about her own company...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Black?s Ex-Partner Pays $29 Million to Settle Civil Case
The former business partner of Conrad M. Black settled a case over funds that regulators say were fraudulently diverted from Hollinger International...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Disney Inquiry on Pixar Grants Finds No Misconduct by Jobs
Disney concluded an internal investigation and cleared Steven P. Jobs of any misconduct in issuing backdated stock options at Pixar...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Market Values: The Bad Boys of Investing Grow Up
Emerging markets have avoided much greater falls than Western markets have had, a display of maturity that would have been unimaginable a decade ago...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Nissan Chief to Step Away From North America Unit
Carlos Ghosn will give up North American operations and focus on the revamping under way at Nissan and Renault...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Inflation Data Discourages Investors
Another reading on inflation deflated hopes that the Federal Reserve would start moving toward an interest rate cut when it meets next week...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Shortcuts: Picking Stocks That Don?t Sin
Socially responsible investing can mean pursuing psychic as well as financial rewards...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Awaiting a Compromise on YouTube
The problem for both Google and Viacom is that copyright law is filled with compromises and ambiguity...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Your Money: Some More Numbers to Juggle in Figuring Out Retirement
A debate grows about the percentage of income to set aside for a retirement that includes drinks with umbrellas...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Consumer Prices Rose 0.4% in February
A rebound in energy prices pushed inflation higher in February, suggesting that a weakening economy has not yet taken much pressure off rising prices...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
A Titan of Private Equity May Go Public
The Blackstone Group is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the firm at more than $30 billion...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Lawmakers Aim to Curb Loan Abuses
Democrats fear that the rising number of homeowners who cannot repay their mortgages could cause broader economic problems...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
These Boots Were Made for 22 M.P.H.
The gas-powered shoe is a symbol of Russia?s deep scientific traditions and the country?s inability to convert that talent into useful merchandise...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Rising Trouble With Mortgages Clouds Dream of Owning Home
Thousands of families who bought houses in the last two years are being expelled back into rental housing...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
Wal-Mart Abandons Bank Plans
Wal-Mart abruptly withdrew its application to obtain a special banking charter after a firestorm of criticism...
New York Times - March 17, 2007
First gay unions in Mexico City
The first civil partnerships among same-sex couples are celebrated in Mexico City under new legislation...
BBC News - March 17, 2007
US soldier guilty in Iraq killing
A US soldier is found guilty of negligent homicide in the deaths of three detainees in Iraq...
BBC News - March 17, 2007
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