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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for May 2008:
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Consumed: Shock Value
How a stun gun?s makeover balances the desire for sleek techno-gadgets and awesome ?takedown power.?...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Fair Game: What a Deal: Trash for Treasuries
Part of the Federal Reserve?s plan to keep Wall Street solvent ? letting banks trade hard-to-sell securities for cash ? could force the taxpayers to cover losses...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Mortgages: Lenders Raise the Bar
A survey of mortgage lenders found that standards were significantly tighter in April than they had been in January...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
The Language of Loss for the Jobless
Discussing a layoff can, for many, be an awkward or embarrassing moment...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Can a Dead Brand Live Again?
After a brand is discontinued, what?s left is a name and the memories in consumers? minds. To make money, maybe those memories ? real or imagined ? are all you need...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Phenomenon: Drilling for Defeat?
How a backlash against energy exploration could hurt the Republicans out West...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Off the Shelf: A Rock, a Hard Place and an Exit Strategy
A new book explores the causes of the economic disconnect one might feel, working harder to get ahead financially and yet seeming to remain in the same place, and other frustrations...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Career Couch: No Internship Yet? There?s Still Time
Small to midsize companies, especially, may still have summer openings...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
A Rock Star, Finally
Mr. Haraguchi is Chief executive of Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Who Needs to Travel When There?s Home?
Rising oil prices, a falling dollar and general economic insecurity make the summer vacation a ripe target for elimination...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Databank: Stock Gains Defy Reports of Weakness
The stock market gained ground last week, despite surging oil prices and sharp declines in consumer confidence and in the construction of single-family homes...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Spotlight: A New Stamp on a Vast Space
Investors who purchased the historic American Bank Note building in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx are working to convert the building into attractive and affordable office space...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Travel Bug: Past the Sound Barrier, on a Business Jet
As sales of business jets boom, it should be no surprise that the first business jet to fly faster than the speed of sound ? with a 2014 sales target ? has already attracted much interest...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Preoccupations: Typing (and Knowing) Every Last Word
Being a professional media transcriptionist, the latter term not being accepted by a spell checker, nevertheless remains a real job...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
In the Region | New Jersey: Next Stop: A Commuter Village
The first units of Xchange at Secaucus Junction, a rental housing ?village? planned for 60 acres beside the regional train transfer station, are due to go on sale...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Suits: When Shakira Calls, Even the Shy Appear
Though he doesn?t like public appearances, the Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim Helú apparently could not resist an invitation from the Colombian pop star Shakira...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Economic View: The Scars of Losing a Home
There are psychological effects of strict enforcement of a mortgage contract, and economists and people in business may need to be reminded of them...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Ping: A Brighter Side of High Prices
As costs of several agricultural commodities have surged, some entrepreneurs and analysts see an opportunity for creative solutions...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
How to Stop Inflation From Devouring a Portfolio
Weighting the pros and cons of inflation-protected bonds, commodities, and stocks as a way to protect or diminish the impact of inflation on a portfolio...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Strategies: An Alarm Is Blaring: Time to Buy
The triggers on the Recession Buy Indicator have been pulled, signaling that stock market gains could be only months away...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
An E-Commerce Empire, From Porn to Puppies
Rooted in the sexual entertainment industry, the empire of Richard J. Gordon, who played a significant role in the birth of electronic commerce, also reaches more far-flung places...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Digital Domain: The Computer Industry Comes With Built-In Term Limits
Since 1993, Microsoft has been struggling to maintain its leadership position while the Internet grew ubiquitous...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
The Feed: Yes, It?s a Cooperative. But for Whom?
The executives of the Dairy Farmers of America, the nation?s largest cooperative of its kind, have often seemed more concerned about pleasing industry executives than members...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Tentative Agreement May End Strike That Disrupted Production at 32 G.M. Plants
It was the auto industry?s longest strike in more than 40 years...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Mugabe Opponent Cancels Return to Zimbabwe
The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was to have returned to Zimbabwe on Saturday to begin campaigning in the June 27 presidential runoff...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Doctors Start to Say ?I?m Sorry? Long Before ?See You in Court?
Doctors have long been advised not to admit fault in medical errors, but some prominent medical centers are now offering apologies and compensation to try to dilute patients? anger...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Venezuelan Leader Seizes Greater Economic Power
President Hugo Chávez is intensifying state control of Venezuela?s economy through new takeovers of private companies...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
International Pressure on Myanmar Junta Is Building
Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain said a natural disaster ?is being made into a man-made catastrophe.?...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Truce Holds in Sadr City Amid Patrols by Iraqi Army
Iraqi Army troops moved a few blocks north of the fortified front line in Baghdad?s Sadr City district without incident on Saturday...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Senator Kennedy Is Hospitalized After a Seizure
A family friend said Senator Edward M. Kennedy?s condition was serious but not life-threatening...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Preakness Stakes: Big Brown Easily Claims Second Leg of Triple Crown
Big Brown did not disappoint his growing fan base, cruising to a five-and-a-quarter-length victory to win the 133rd Preakness Stakes on Saturday...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
The Food Chain: World?s Poor Pay Price as Crop Research Is Cut
Cuts in agricultural research continue even as the growth of the global food supply slows and the population increases...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Hezbollah?s Actions Ignite Sectarian Fuse in Lebanon
After almost a week of street battles, long-simmering Sunni-Shiite tensions have sharply worsened, in an ominous echo of the civil conflict in Iraq...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Chinese Flee Flood Threat From Quake
Thousands of earthquake survivors fled camps and villages after warnings that lakes and rivers were getting close to overflowing...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Big Brown wins Preakness Stakes
Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown wins the Preakness Stakes to keep alive his chances of becoming the first Triple Crown winner in 30 years...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Latin stars hold charity concerts
Buenos Aires and Mexico City host two charity concerts to help Latin American children living in poverty...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Offering Straying Parolees a Hand, Not Cuffs
Several states are focusing on rehabilitating offenders instead of punishing them for parole violations...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Militants in Pakistan Free Diplomat
Pakistan?s ambassador to Afghanistan, who was kidnapped three months ago by Taliban militants, was released Friday night, the government said...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Insurgents Held in Mosul Crackdown
The operation was aimed at crushing Sunni insurgents, who had regrouped in the area of Mosul...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Chinese Flee Flood Threat Due to Quake
Thousands of earthquake survivors fled camps and villages after warnings that several lakes and rivers were getting dangerously close to overflowing...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
The Long Run: Obama?s Story, Written by Obama
Barack Obama has packaged his life story into two hugely successful books that have made him a best-selling millionaire...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
The Caucus: Senator Kennedy Is Hospitalized
Senator Edward M. Kennedy was rushed to a hospital in Cape Cod, where he was treated for a serious – but unknown – illness...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
The Food Chain: Crop Research Is Neglected, and Third World Pays Price
The budgets of institutions that delivered the world from famine in the 1970s have stagnated or fallen, even as the problems they were trying to solve became harder...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Saving Horses One at a Time
Horse rehab farms resurrect a fraction of the roughly 100,000 horses that are expected to be shipped across the border and ultimately slaughtered for meat...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Zimbabwe?s Tsvangirai Delays Return
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not return home on Saturday as expected to prepare for the second round of elections against Robert Mugabe...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Taliban Release Pakistani Envoy
Suspected Taliban militants have released Pakistan?s envoy to Afghanistan more than three months after he was kidnapped in Pakistan?s Khyber tribal region...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Obama Says Bush and McCain Are ?Fear Peddling?
Senator Barack Obama responded to attacks on his foreign policy and tried to turn the tables on his critics...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Diary: Edwards endorses
Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, wonders if John Edwards's endorsement will help Obama win over blue-collar voters...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
The 'safe' fights hitting Jamaica
People in a once highly-violent area of Jamaica's capital Kingston are turning to organised street boxing to keep people out of trouble...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
TV's Ellen to wed actress partner
TV show host Ellen DeGeneres is to marry Portia de Rossi after California lifted its ban on same-sex ceremonies...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Lawsuits: Parmalat Had Little Cash Left, Executive Testifies
Parmalat, the Italian dairy, had 6.5 million euros ($10 million) in cash left six days after filing for bankruptcy in 2003, rather than the 4 billion euros it claimed to have...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Deals: Citigroup May Sell Its German Banking Business
Citigroup may sell Citibank Privatkunden, its consumer-banking unit in Germany, as part of a plan to replenish capital, the unit, based in Düsseldorf, said...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Talking Business: Passions Run High on Indexing
An academic debate on a financial product called fundamentally weighted indexes turned out to be quite the snake pit...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Lawsuits: Medical Company?s Investors Sue Over Acquisition
Shareholders of CryoCor, the maker of a device that freezes heart muscle to correct abnormal rhythms, sued the company to block its acquisition by Boston Scientific...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Executives: Time Warner?s Chief Hints at Departure
Richard D. Parsons, left, Time Warner?s chairman, said he was likely to step down in the next year, clearing the path for the chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, to assume the role...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Deals: G.E. Acknowledges Plan to Sell Appliance Unit
General Electric confirmed that it planned to sell or spin off the appliance business that for a century has put refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers in American homes...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Executive Pursuits: A Classroom Where the Teacher Really Wants That Apple
The mission of the Horse Institute in Ancramdale, N.Y. is to give managers a chance to improve a variety of skills by observing and performing exercises with horses...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
What?s Offline: The Overpriced Bargain Bin
Between a $60,000 bed and a $30,000 night at a luxury hotel, the bargain is not necessarily what it seems...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
What's Online: Frustrating the Pirates
Some argue that beating media piracy hinges on media companies offering more convenience and quality...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Markets: Chicago Mercantile Moves to a New Home
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange marked a milestone in its 110-year history as the last floor traders wrapped up business at the building that has served as the Merc?s home since 1983...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Lowest Reading Since 1980 for Consumer Confidence
This is bad news for the United States, where consumers fuel two-thirds of national economic activity through their purchases of goods and services...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Fannie Mae Will Reduce Down Payment Minimums
The new requirements of 3 percent or 5 percent will apply nationally to loans on single-family primary residences, the company said...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
American Airlines and F.A.A. Differ on Groundings
The F.A.A. maintains some of American Airlines? aircrafts displayed signs of chafing at some components, while the airlines maintains there were never any security problems...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Booz Allen to Sell Part of Its Government Unit to Carlyle
The sale is part of a broader split of Booz Allen Hamilton?s commercial and government consulting groups...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Networks Anticipate the Fall Cautiously
Aside from Fox, the changed pattern of how the networks presented their plans for September left fundamental questions unanswered...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Despite Unease, Big Gains for the Week
Wall Street pulled off its lows to finished narrowly mixed Friday as investors squared concerns about rising oil prices with a surprise jump in home construction...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Saturday Interview: Smoothing the Rides on Greyhound
With rising gas prices and a season of summer delays coming up, does it mean that the bus is ready for a comeback?...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
F. A. O. Schwarz Will Sell Toys in Macy?s Stores
The move is a bold one, given that the fiercely competitive toy market has previously plunged F. A. O. Schwarz into bankruptcy and forced Macy?s to largely stop carrying toys...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Cost of Living: Places to Go, but Dreading the Fill-Up
Gas prices have crossed the line between being an unconscious expense to having become a painfully conscious one...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Robert Mondavi, Napa Wine Champion, Dies at 94
Mr. Mondavi was the California vintner behind the rebirth of the Napa Valley wine industry who championed the idea that fine wine was an integral part of the good life...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Off the Charts: It?s Not Just Petroleum, All Imports Cost More
For all nonpetroleum imports, prices in April were up 6.2 percent from a year earlier, the fastest rate of gain in almost 20 years...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Congressional Pressure Prevails as U.S. Halts Filling of Oil Reserve
The move announced by the Energy Department that it would temporarily suspend a program to fill the nation?s strategic oil stocks failed to break the rally in oil prices, which hit another record Friday...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Your Money: Five Basics for Building a Solid Financial Future
A new Times columnist offers guidance for making financial decisions, when making good ones is more critical than ever...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Detainee?s Trial Delayed Until Justices Rule
A military judge said he wanted the opportunity to examine a much-awaited Supreme Court decision on the rights of the detainees before the trial proceeded...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
U.S. Plans Steps to Ease Congestion at Airports
The Bush administration proposed Friday to auction landing slots at two major airports, Kennedy and Newark, and to impose a limit on airline traffic at Newark...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers
Engineering skill made Japan an economic superpower, but its young people are now choosing other careers...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Mayoral Hopeful, an Earmark Critic, Has His Own
Despite criticizing Christine C. Quinn and the City Council for doling out money to favored groups, Anthony D. Weiner has sponsored earmark funds as a congressman...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
F.B.I. Gets Mixed Review in Interrogation Report
The F.B.I.?s agents were praised for not being complicit in abuses at Guantánamo Bay, but the agency was found to be slow to respond to complaints about the tactics...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Obama Says Bush and McCain Are ?Fear Mongering?
Senator Barack Obama responded sharply to attacks on his foreign policy and tried to turn the tables on his Republican critics...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Pen in One Hand, Cricket Bat in the Other
The author Joseph O?Neill is a member of the Staten Island Cricket Club, and has just written a novel about the sport...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Olympic Dream Stays Alive, on Synthetic Legs
A decision that a double-amputee sprinter was eligible for the Olympics was a watershed ruling for disabled athletes...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
In China, Skittish Pandas, Then Exploding Cliffs
Foreign tourists recounted a described escape from the searthquake made possible by panda keepers? heroism...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan
Officials are scaling back plans to shift prisoners into Afghan custody in a stark acknowledgment that the U.S. is likely to hold prisoners overseas for years...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa
Villagers say hundreds of Somalis are dying of hunger and thirst amid soaring global food prices, skimpy rainfall and rising violence...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
New Tack Offers Straying Parolees a Hand, Not Cuffs
Several states are altering their parole systems to focus on rehabilitating offenders instead of punishing them for parole violations...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Dominican leader wins third term
President Leonel Fernandez wins re-election in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent concedes...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Pioneering US winemaker dies
Robert Mondavi, who helped put Californian Cabernets and Chardonnays on the world map, dies at the age of 94...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
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