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Big Issue Energy crisis hitting home
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Sony, Microsoft virtual communities to start
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Scientists Virginia sharks pup a virgin birth
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Sony seeks to harmonize music, electronics
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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NASA presses ahead for Mars rover launch in 2009
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Bodies, perhaps of migrants, wash ashore in Yemen
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Oil, soy, copper all go bust in Latin America
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Swedish couple hacked to death in Tobago 1 arrest
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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Carter, peacemakers see Cyprus peace deal near
Southern Ledger - October 10, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Condé Nast Names 2 for European Ventures
Both the editor and the publisher who ran Interview magazine for almost two decades will join Condé Nast to help guide one of its fastest-growing businesses, the European editions of Vanity Fair...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Siemens Cuts Earnings Outlook Sharply
The German engineering giant gave investors a rude shock Monday, disclosing that delays and canceled orders would cut its quarterly earnings by 900 million euros, or $1.4 billion...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Dealbook blog: Could Bear Stearns Do Better?
It?s not surprising that Bear Stearns?s stock plummeted after JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy it for just $2 per share. The surprising part is that it didn?t plummet more...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
New Trial Ordered for Ex-Qwest Chief
A federal appeals court threw out all guilty verdicts against Joseph Nacchio, ordering a new trial in an insider trading case seen as a test of government attempts to squash corporate fraud...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Advertising: Online Games by the Hundreds, With Tie-Ins
By entering the online-game sector, media companies can attract advertising, including from food companies which have agreed to limit the nature and volume of television ads aimed at children...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
City Room: M.T.A. Wins Web Award ? Seriously
Trip Planner, an online tool begun in December 2006, was recognized by a company that gives advice on information technology to state and local governments...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
The Caucus: Obama to Give Speech on Race
The candidate plans to deal with the controversy of his former pastor in Chicago, too...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
The Lede: Space, Also a Frontier for Corny Jokes
NASA sends messages to the shuttle about Optimus Prime, Gigantor and Robbie the Robot...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Florida Democrats Scrap Mail-In Vote
The dispute over Florida?s delegates will not be settled by a new round of voting, but by the national party...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Kosovar Serbs Clash With the Police
Serbs in the northern Kosovo city of Mitrovica fired weapons and threw grenades at international peacekeepers, wounding dozens of police officers and NATO troops...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Seventh Body Recovered at Crane Site
Rescue workers recovered the last three bodies from the two-block swath of wreckage on the East Side of Manhattan where a crane collapsed...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Justices to Hear F.C.C. Indecency Case
The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from the F.C.C., which suffered a defeat at the appeals-court level on the use of vulgar words on the airwaves...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Bush Sends Putin Missile Defense Offer
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said he had received ?a very serious document? from President Bush that proposed an agenda for reaching agreements on a range of issues...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Dow Ends Flat After a Day of Gyrations
A day that loomed darkly on Wall Street ended with only a modest decline in the overall market and the Dow up 21 points, but shares of financial firms plummeted...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Bush, Praising Fed?s Intervention, Faces Criticism
Critics accused the administration of bailing out a prestigious bank while ignoring the hardships of Americans facing foreclosures on their homes...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Paterson Is Sworn In
David A. Paterson became the 55th governor of New York a week after revelations emerged that his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, had patronized a prostitute...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Suicide Blast in Iraq Eclipses Cheney?s Visit
A female bomber killed at least 42 people near a mosque in Karbala on the day the vice president made a visit...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Brazil girl held for days in cell
Human rights groups criticise police in Brazil for holding a 12-year-old girl in a police cell for six days...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
Final bodies found in NY rubble
Rescuers retrieve three bodies after the collapse of a crane in New York, bringing the number of dead to seven...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
'Positive' Russia-US meeting held
Senior political figures from Russia and the US, meeting in Moscow, say they are hopeful relations can be improved...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
Ross Buying Option One for $1.1 Billion
The billionaire investor Wilbur Ross will pay $1.1 billion for H&R Block?s troubled mortgage servicing business, which has been rocked by the nationwide mortgage crisis...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
CME in $9.48 Billion Deal for Nymex
CME, which runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, will acquire the parent of the New York Mercantile Exchange in a cash and stock deal...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Justices Turn Down Microsoft Appeal
The Supreme Court handed Microsoft a defeat on Monday by refusing to rule on the software giant?s request to halt an antitrust suit against it...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
International Paper to Buy Weyerhaeuser Unit
The paper and wood products company will acquire Weyerhaeuser?s containerboard packaging and recycling unit for $6 billion in cash...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Citi Names New Chief of Investment Banking
Shaking up its leadership for the third time in six months, Citigroup has named John Havens as the new head of its investment banking and alternative investments group...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Sale Price Reflects the Depth of Bear?s Problems
JPMorgan Chase will pay just $2 a share for Bear Stearns ? less than one-tenth the firm?s market price on Friday...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Factory Data Adds to Economic Gloom
A New York manufacturing gauge fell to a new low in March after national industrial output slumped in February...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
$48.6 Million McCartney Divorce Deal
LONDON (AP) -- Paul McCartney was ordered Monday to pay Heather Mills $48.6 million to settle their divorce...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Times Co. to Give Seats to Hedge Funds
The New York Times Company has struck a deal with a pair of hedge funds that want to shake up the company, giving the funds two seats on the board in order to avoid a proxy fight...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
The Lede: Web vs. Repression, Again
A familiar pattern that raises questions about the power of the Internet in undermining repression...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Well: Dennis Quaid?s Tale of a Medical Mistake
Hospital errors are a leading cause of death...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets
The Fed approved a $30 billion loan for the takeover of Bear Stearns and announced a new lending tool for investment firms...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
City Room: Paterson Is Sworn In as New York?s 55th Governor
Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson was sworn in as New York State's 55th governor...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Fifth Body Recovered at Crane Site
Rescue workers on Monday recovered another body from the two-block swath of wreckage where a crane collapsed on Saturday...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
China Defends Response in Tibet
China said security forces had avoided using lethal force in the violent anti-Chinese protests in Tibet last week...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
U.S. Markets Volatile After Fed Actions
While U.S. markets largely steered clear of a painful sell-off, foreign markets, financial stocks and the dollar slumped as central bankers struggled to restore confidence...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Microsoft move 'threatens net'
Any deal between Yahoo and Microsoft could be "bad for the internet" says the head of Google...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
Golf: Woods wins seven in a row
Tiger Woods holes a 24-foot putt to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill and continue his six-month winning streak...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
US court to rule on TV expletives
The US Supreme Court is to consider a legal wrangle over what constitutes indecency on the airwaves...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
Obama church reacts in 9/11 row
Barack Obama's church has dismissed criticism of its senior pastor over his comments about the 9/11 attacks...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
Paterson Is Calling the Shots on Swearing-In
If the swearing-in of David A. Paterson on Monday looks carefully choreographed, that is no accident...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Asia Stocks Plunge; European Markets Open Lower
Concerns about the global banking network and the fallout from the bargain-basement sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase drove Asian and Europe stocks lower...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Fans flock to border peace show
Thousands attend a concert on the Colombian-Venezuelan border after the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years...
BBC News - March 17, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills Tuesday...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Looking Ahead: This Week?s Planned Economic Reports
RATE CUT EXPECTED The Federal Reserve meets on Tuesday, when it will decide how deeply to cut interest rates. A cut of a half point to three-quarters of a point is expected...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Books of The Times: The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers? Dirty Tactics
Melody Petersen has written an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
The Media Equation: Sound Bite That Has Some Teeth
A Barack Obama supporter quizzed on the street has drawn a million views on YouTube...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Media Talk: Rush Limbaugh Resorts to His Bully Pulpit to Get His Mac Fixed
One month after the conservative radio talk show host publicly appealed for computer help to Steven P. Jobs, his e-mails are now saving properly...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Telemundo Is Said to Have Struck Deal in Mexico
Executives involved in the deal said that Televisa had agreed to include multiple hours of Telemundo programs on one of its Mexico-based broadcast television stations...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
How a Station Tries to Calm Mideast?s Rage
An ad campaign for a radio station that broadcasts from Jerusalem and Ramallah suggests a new way to address the divide: speak, or even sing, to both sides at once...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Drilling Down: Dos and Don?ts of Gentle Prodding
In many hotel bathrooms, there hang hook-shaped plastic cards urging guests to forgo the laundering of their towels. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines how often people follow the requests of such cards, and why...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
HBO Is to Replace a Top Executive
After suffering its longest drought without a new hit series, HBO is moving the president of HBO Entertainment, Carolyn Strauss, to a new position...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Media Talk: If You Don?t Have Anything Nice to Post ...
Some critics say a Facebook application called Honesty Box has become another weapon in the cyberbully?s arsenal...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Bearer of Bad News Decides to Advertise It
After more than 70 years, Consumer Reports has decided that a review isn?t enough for a bad product ? it deserves a provocative ad campaign, too...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Advertising: ?Sex and the City? and Its Lasting Female Appeal
When it comes to products helping to promote the coming film based on the popular TV series ?Sex and the City,? it seems the sky is the limit...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
UBS Is Said to Consider 8,000 Layoffs
The Swiss bank is also weighing a possible split of its wealth management and investment banking business, a Swiss newspaper reported...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Media Talk: Just the Fashion at Public Apology
Gov. Eliot Spitzer seemed to don the uniform for the modern public apology when announcing his resignation following allegations that he patronized a prostitute...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Dusting Off the Archive for the Web
For magazines and newspapers with long histories, old material can be reborn on the Web as an inexpensive way to attract readers, advertisers and money...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
With Order to Name Sources, Judge Is Casting a Wide Net
A judge has ordered a USA Today reporter to pay fines of up to $5,000 a day if she continues to withhold names of sources she used for a story on the 2001 anthrax attacks...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
China Blocks YouTube After Videos of Tibet Protests Are Posted
Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the Web site...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
E-Commerce Report: Even if You?re Ill, You Can Still Stay Connected
Hospitals have begun installing Internet systems with dedicated shopping channels, to help patients pick up goods they will need for their recuperation...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Worst: Voting for the Worst on ?American Idol? Makes Money for an Entrepreneur
A Web site that started out as an Internet lark is now attracting advertisers...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Fears That Bear Stearns?s Downfall May Spread
Investors are bracing for another volatile week in the markets as bankers and policy makers deal with the fallout from their bid to rescue Bear Stearns...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Alitalia Takes Offer for Buyout
Alitalia, the money-losing Italian airline, accepted a 747 million-euro takeover offer from Air France-KLM on Sunday, seizing an 11th-hour financial lifeline...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World
A shoestring operation stunned by its own success faces growing pains...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Does This Latte Have a Funny Mainstream Taste to You?
Critics say Starbucks has squandered its musical tastemaking cachet by offering more mainstream selections in its coffee shops...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Iraqis See a Candidate?s Agenda in McCain?s Visit
Senator John McCain?s trip bolstered the belief of some Iraqi politicians that if he wins the presidency, the military would have a presence in Iraq for a long time...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
As Campaign Drags On, Aides Put Lives on Hold
The long race for the Democratic presidential nomination has taken its toll on the Obama and Clinton staffs and journalists...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Chinook Salmon Vanish Without a Trace
The Chinook salmon that swim upstream the Sacramento River to spawn in the fall have disappeared, threatening the regional fishing industry...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Supreme Court Memo: Gun Case Causes Bush Administration Rift
White House officials are sniping at their own solicitor general, Paul D. Clement, as the Supreme Court prepares to review a gun law...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Floyd Norris: Case of the Vanishing Bear
Santa Fe, N.M. A few figures on Bear Stearns: Number of years in which annual loss was reported: 0 Book value per share at end of fiscal 2007 (Nov. 30): $84.09 Price at which company agreed to be acquired by J.P. Morgan. $2 per share Days Bear survived after announcement of bailout by Federal Reserve and J.P. Morgan: [...]...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
World Banker and His Cash Return Home
Dilip Ratha, who has gone from a small village in India to the World Bank, has firsthand knowledge of his area of interest ? the economics of migration...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Five Years In: Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate
The decision by L. Paul Bremer III to dissolve Iraq?s Army was a reversal from a plan the White House had approved...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Curbs on Protest in Tibet Lashed by Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama accused China of waging ?cultural genocide? against his followers in Tibet...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
As the Economy Falters, So Do State Budgets
State officials are being forced to make difficult financial decisions, with few programs being spared from cuts...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Looming Above New York With a New Aura of Fear
Saturday?s disaster exposed the often-uneasy relationship cranes have with the New Yorkers who walk below them...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets
The Fed approved a $30 billion loan for the takeover of Bear Stearns and announced a new lending tool for investment firms...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
JP Morgan Pays $2 a Share for Bear Stearns
The $270 million deal was about one-tenth the firm?s market price on Friday...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
Major Stock Markets in Asia Tumble
Stocks in Japan and Hong Kong were down more than 4 percent in early trading on Monday, as pessimism continued to spread...
New York Times - March 17, 2008
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