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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 May 2007:
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Wolfowitz resigns World Bank post
Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will leave office June 30 amid a controversy over his handling of a pay package for his girlfriend, a bank employee, the institution's board of directors announced...
CNN - May 17, 2007
Hey whales, they're playing your song
The recorded siren songs of humpback whales played from a Coast Guard cutter Thursday in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta as biologists tried to lure an injured whale and her calf out back toward the Pacific Ocean, 90 miles away...
CNN - May 17, 2007
Soldiers rake 'Triangle of Death' for comrades
Exhausted soldiers tread carefully through the dirt looking and hoping for signs of their missing comrades being alive...
CNN - May 17, 2007
Immigration breakthrough
After three months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators said Thursday they have crafted an immigration bill that would give the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship...
CNN - May 17, 2007
Mets 6 Cubs 5: Mets? Understudies Mount Dramatic Comeback
Fielding a lineup with few regular starters, the Mets staged a dramatic, four-run comeback in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat the Cubs...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
White Sox 4 Yankees 1: Yankees Down Heading Into Subway Series
The Yankees hitting woes continued against the White Sox Thursday. On Friday the team will take on its more offensively potent rival, the Mets...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Democrats Seek No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales
Senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein said the attorney general is too weak to run the department...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Deal Is Reached in Senate on Immigration
The immigration-reform legislation would provide an opportunity ?right away? for millions of illegal aliens to correct their status, said Senator Edward M. Kennedy...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Wolfowitz crunch talks continue
The World Bank's board continues discussions over the fate of its embattled president, Paul Wolfowitz...
BBC News - May 17, 2007
New charges over US bones theft
Seven more people are charged in a high-profile US case involving alleged theft of body parts from corpses...
BBC News - May 17, 2007
Gonzales to face confidence vote
Leading US Democrat senators plan a no-confidence vote in US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales...
BBC News - May 17, 2007
Korean Train Crossing Seen as Sign of Progress
Trains crossed the border between North and South Korea today for the first time in 56 years...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Israel Strikes at Hamas Compound
The airstrike today was a retaliation for rocket attacks on Israel fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Blackstone to Buy Alliance Data Systems
Alliance, a provider of transaction, credit and marketing services, will be sold for $7.8 billion...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
WPP Group to Buy 24/7 Real Media, an Online Ad Company
The purchase, valued at $649 million, is an effort to catch up with Google in Internet advertising...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Fed Chairman Sees Mortgage Damage as Limited
Ben S. Bernanke said problems in the subprime market were unlikely to have a major effect on the economy...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
India and US may clash on visas
A diplomatic row is brewing between the US and India over how firms issue staff temporary working visas...
BBC News - May 17, 2007
New ranges lift JC Penney profits
US department store JC Penney says first quarter sales rise thanks to new fashions, reversing earlier falls...
BBC News - May 17, 2007
Koreas make tracks towards peace
In the latest sign of reconciliation between the two Koreas, a pair of passenger trains crossed in opposite directions between North and South on Thursday -- the first to make the journey through the heavily militarized frontier in more than half a century...
CNN - May 17, 2007
A Vigorous Art Sale Makes Auction History
Buyers at Christie?s last night made it the most successful sale of postwar and contemporary art ever...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Senate Rejects Iraq Troop Withdrawal
The 67-to-29 vote demonstrated that a significant majority of senators remained unwilling to demand a withdrawal of forces...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Myer Shark, Lawyer Who Fought Utility, Is Dead at 94
Mr. Shark sought to recover $300 million of taxes that electric customers paid but that the government never received...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Lord Black bonus 'fairly earned'
Defence lawyers in the trial of media baron Lord Black try to show that alleged illegal payments were fairly earned...
BBC News - May 17, 2007
Trains bridge the Korean divide
Two trains from North and South Korea crossed the heavily armed border on Thursday, restoring for the first time an artery severed in the 1950-1953 fratricidal war and fanning dreams of unification...
CNN - May 17, 2007
GOP's Hagel joins calls for Gonzales' resignation
Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska joined calls for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign, while Democrats questioned whether Gonzales had misled a Senate committee about the administration's no-warrant eavesdropping program...
CNN - May 17, 2007
Nets 83, Cavaliers 72: Nets Hold On to Force Game 6
Jason Kidd led the Nets with 20 points and 6 assists as Cleveland failed to close out the series despite the Nets? horrid fourth quarter...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Gas May Have Harmed Troops, Scientists Say
More than 100,000 American troops in the Persian Gulf war of 1991 were exposed to low levels of sarin nerve gas...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
For ?08 Résumés, Don?t Ask Them to Fill in Blanks
The current crop of presidential candidates has taken to eliminating whole chapters of their histories...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Loyal to Bush but Big Thorn in G.O.P. Side
James B. Comey, who testified about domestic spying, has made a great amount of trouble for the White House...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Iraqis Admit Ambush Roles as U.S. Searches for 3 G.I.?s
Military officials detained several local residents and recovered equipment that might have belonged to the missing American soldiers...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Myer Shark, Lawyer Who Fought Utility, Dead at 94
Shark sought to recover $300 million of taxes that electric customers paid but that the government never received...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
G.M. May Sell a Unit
General Motors may sell its midsize truck business as it focuses on making profits from cars and light trucks...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Flu Vaccine Effective for Children Under 5
The Food and Drug Administration said the vaccine helped prevent influenza in 1- to 5-year-olds without a history of wheezing...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Walgreen to Buy Operator of In-Store Health Clinics
Walgreen said it planned to buy Take Care Health Systems. The terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Injunction Ended Against Google
A federal appeals court ended a preliminary injunction against Google?s display of thumbnail-size photos from a sexually explicit site...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Federated Swings to a Profit, but Lowers Its Forecast
Shares of Federated fell 29 cents, to $39.65, in trading on the New York Stock Exchange...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Asks for Delay of Blackstone Group?s Stock Offering
The labor federation asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to delay approval of a $4 billion public stock offering from the private equity firm...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Strong Demand Overseas Helps Deere
Nonetheless, the company?s fiscal second-quarter profit fell 16% from the like period a year ago...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Data Company Gets Buyout Bid
The Acxiom Corporation s being acquired by two investment firms and will be taken private...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Factory Output Rises, but Housing Permits Sag
The data offered a mixed picture of the economy?s health, but most economists are still expecting tepid growth...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Two Senior Executives at Merrill Promoted After a Third Leaves
Merrill Lynch named two senior executives, adding them to the list of potential successors to the chief executive, E. Stanley O?Neal...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Mixed News About Housing Only Briefly Slows the Rally
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 103 points to another record...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Biggest Building Site in Manhattan Up for Auction
The Bloomberg administration envisions the equivalent of five Empire State Buildings rising on the Far West Side...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Entrepreneurial Edge: Financial Angels Band Together
Tech Coast Angels, an entrepreneurship group, has seen its numbers and level of importance grow over the past year...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Executive Pay Proposals Rejected at AMR
The Allied Pilots Association had sponsored a resolution to give stockholders an advisory vote on executive compensation each year...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Sales Practices at Dell Draw New York Suit
New York attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, said the suit came after more than 700 complaints by Dell customers...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Dubai Investment Unit Acquires a 2.2% Stake in Deutsche Bank
Omar bin Sulaiman, governor of the Dubai financial center, is trying to establish a financial hub in the Middle East...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Daimler and Cerberus to Invest $1.2 Billion in Pension Fund at Chrysler
The figure shed further light on the extent to which Daimler seems willing to go to sell its American unit...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Google?s One-Stop Search to Yield Text and Images
In a new approach, citations from news reports, images and video will be combined in results of a single query...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Advertising: Watching a Show Live, With 72 Hours to Do It
Revising the traditional system of measuring TV ratings, is gaining urgency, as billions of dollars of commercial time are at stake...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Bausch & Lomb Accepts $4.5 Billion Takeover Bid
Yet the structure of the deal suggested that Bausch believes competing bidders could emerge...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
The Energy Challenge: Energy Standards Needed, Report Says
The McKinsey Global Institute said markets alone are unlikely to ensure the best product choices...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Parallel Paths Diverging Sharply
As Conrad Black tries to avoid prison, Marie-Josée Kravis, his longtime ally, floats atop New York society...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Amazon to Sell Music Without Copy Protection
The online store, to be introduced later this year, will allow people to play music on almost any personal device...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Design Helps H.P. Profit More on PCs
Hewlett-Packard?s effort to transform its personal computers into more stylish devices has started to pay off...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Chrysler Sale Unavoidable, Zetsche Says
The chief executive of DaimlerChrysler argued that Cerberus offers the ?best possible future setup? for his company...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
In Bid for Better Care, Surgery With a Warranty
A hospital group is trying a radically new way to encourage hospitals and doctors to avoid costly mistakes...
New York Times - May 17, 2007
Nationalisation sweeps Venezuela
Radical president Hugo Chavez has stepped up his campaign to take key private sector companies into state ownership...
BBC News - May 17, 2007
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