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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 December 2007:
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Wheels Blog: Ethanol and the Energy Bill
So far much of the talk has centered around the higher fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks. But lost in the dialogue are measures to increase ethanol production by a huge amount...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
City Room: Are Rich People Generous Tippers?
Further musings on holiday tipping, in response to questions and comments from readers of this blog...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Bits : Object-Oriented Objects at N.Y.U.
Wool gizmos that show you around the city and sidewalks with sensors were among the 100 projects on display at N.Y.U.?s Interactive Telecommunications Program...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
The Lede Blog: Guards Shoot Dog at Baghdad Bureau
The State Department is looking into an incident in which one of its security contractors killed a dog at The New York Times's offices in Baghdad during a precautionary sweep of the compound for explosives...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Master of ?Rings? to Tackle ?Hobbit?
A settlement announced on Tuesday between Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema could bring ?The Hobbit? to movie theaters by December 2010...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
NASA Seeks Solutions for Technical Problems
Astronauts examined malfunctioning joints on the International Space Station as engineers tested fuel tank sensors aboard the shuttle Atlantis sitting on its launch pad...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Judge Orders Hearing on C.I.A. Tapes
A hearing will be held on Friday to determine if the destruction of interrogation tapes violated a 2005 court order to preserve evidence...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Zuma Is Chosen to Lead A.N.C.
The African National Congress voted to oust South Africa?s president, Thabo Mbeki, as head of the party and award the job to Jacob G. Zuma...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Golden Globes and Oscars Are Drawn Into Strike
The guild will not allow the Golden Globe show to use its writers, and is denying historical film clips to the Oscars...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Baseball Union Agrees to Drug Negotiations
The players? union has agreed to begin discussions on amending the collective bargaining agreement to include Mitchell report recommendations...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
The Caucus: Romney Makes South Carolina Swing
Mitt Romney was set to make five appearances in the state, where some polls show Mike Huckabee in the lead...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Darden Profit Down
The parent of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurant chains posted lower quarterly net earnings due in part to costs for its acquisition of RARE Hospitality...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Palm Swings to Fiscal Loss
The smart phone maker reported a loss in its fiscal second quarter as revenue declined and expenses rose...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Criminal Charges Brought in Refco Fraud Case
Joseph P. Collins, Refco?s former outside lawyer, was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and with filing false documents with regulators...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
G.M. to Offer New Round of Buyouts
G.M. said the buyouts will include a combination of early retirement incentives and other programs similar to the ones offered in 2006...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
House Passes Sweeping Energy Bill
The bill raises fuel economy standards for automobiles and sets higher goals for production of renewable fuels...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
E.C.B. Makes $500 Billion Infusion
The action by the European bank eases conditions in credit markets that are grappling with a lending squeeze linked to the U.S. housing downturn and traditional year-end demands for cash...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Stocks Get a Boost From European Bank Move
Stocks ended a jittery session higher as investors found solace in the E.C.B.?s $500 billion loan issuance and profit gains at Goldman Sachs and Best Buy...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Detroit Revival Vies With Industry?s Decline
Even as Detroit shows encouraging signs of life, the automobile industry, the city?s life force, faces further declines in the coming year...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
F.C.C. Eases Media Ownership Rule
A restriction preventing a company from owning both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city was loosened...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
US media ownership rules relaxed
Regulators ease restrictions stopping firms owning both TV channels and newspapers in the US's largest cities...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Bush set for tour of Middle East
US President George Bush will make a historic visit to Israel and the West Bank in January, the White House says...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Aruba ends missing US girl probe
Police in Aruba close their investigation into the 2005 disappearance of a US girl, without bringing any charges...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
US Congress passes energy bill
The US Congress passes a "historic" energy bill to improve fuel economy and reduce demand for oil...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Farc rebels 'to release hostages'
Colombian rebel group Farc is to free at least three hostages to Venezuelan head Hugo Chavez, reports say...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
City Room: The Sociology of Pastrami Egg Rolls
A table-setter into Jewish people's love for Chinese food, including the sociological implications. Don't fill up on so many appetizers that you won't have room for the main course...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Dot Earth Blog: Dot Earth: Antarctic Honeymoon, With Iceberg
An Antarctic honeymoon, an iceberg, and questions about climate change...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
San Francisco Opera, in Theaters Soon
The San Francisco Opera announced a plan to transmit operas to movie theaters using a system it says is superior to that of the Metropolitan Opera...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Judge Orders Hearing on C.I.A. Videos
The hearing on Friday will be to determine if the destruction of the tapes violated a 2005 court order...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Sprint Nextel Names New Chief Executive
Sprint named Dan Hesse, the chief executive of the wireline company Embarq, to the post, effective immediately. He will replace Gary Forsee, who was ousted in October...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Best Buy Profit Soars 52%
The company?s third-quarter profit beat expectations, lifted by an extra week of holiday shopping and sales of video game consoles and GPS devices...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Housing Starts Decline 3.7%
The housing market, in its deepest rut since the early 1990s, showed little sign of stabilization in November, and economists expect conditions to worsen in the near term...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Chief Executive of Eli Lilly to Retire
Sidney Taurel will retire on March 31, Lilly said. John C. Lechleiter, the company?s president and chief operating officer, will take over as chief executive on April 1...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Central Banks in Europe Offer Funds
The European Central Bank and Bank of England flooded money markets with funds on Tuesday...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Stocks Turn Lower After Central Bank Action
Wall Street gave back its gains as investors muted their reaction to the European Central Bank?s issuance of $500 billion in loans and profit gains at Goldman Sachs and Best Buy...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Fed Approves Plan to Curb Risky Lending
The new rules are intended to protect would-be home buyers from unscrupulous lenders and, in a sense, from themselves...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Goldman Beats Estimates Despite Turmoil
The investment bank rounded out another record year as net income for the fourth quarter edged up 2 percent...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
US housing starts hit 16-year low
The number of single-family homes homes being contructed in the US hits its lowest level since April 1991...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Sub-prime sidestep boosts Goldman
Goldman Sachs sees fourth quarter profits rise, after it correctly predicts mortgage bond values would fall...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
TierneyLab: How to Wash Your Hands
Donald Norman, author of "The Design of Everday Things," analyzes the automatic nature of the new Times building...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost
Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google?s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Upgrades help lift Adobe profits
US software firm Adobe sees fourth-quarter profit jump 21% on the back of strong sales...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Kaka wins Fifa world player crown
AC Milan and Brazil star Kaka beats Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to the title of Fifa world player of the year...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
US singer Fogelberg dies
American singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg dies, three years after being diagnosed with prostrate cancer...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
Rice visits Iraq's volatile north
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice makes an unannounced visit to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
US honours Burma's Suu Kyi
The US House of Representatives awards Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi its highest medal...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
A Big Gift for the Met: The Arbus Archives
The photographer?s estate has presented this intimate chronicle of Arbus?s life to the Met as a gift, along with hundreds of early and unique photographs...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Kerrey on Obama ?Muslim? Remarks
In a CNN interview, the former senator who endorsed Senator Clinton attempts to tout the experiences of her Democratic rival...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
With Regrets, New Orleans Is Left Behind
Thousands of former New Orleanians are breaking their ties with the damaged city for which they still yearn...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Sequoyah High?s Success Energizes Tribe
Sequoyah High, a small-town all-Indian school, opened the season ranked in the top 10 in Sports Illustrated?s national poll and is led by star guard Angel Goodrich...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
The Long Run: For Romney, a Course Set Long Ago
Mitt Romney said he felt as if his campaign to become the Republican presidential nominee was, in a sense, an extension of his father?s unsuccessful bid in 1968...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
After Legal Odyssey, Homecoming Show for Looted Antiquities
?Nostoi: Recovered Masterpieces? does not pull its punches in explaining how objects made their way abroad: They were looted from Italian archaeological sites...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Memo Pad
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AIR TRAVEL About the same number of people as last year, 47 million passengers, are expected to travel on domestic airlines during this Christmas holiday period, the Air Transport Association says. The four busiest air travel days in the period, which began last Thursday and continues through Jan 2, are expected to be, in decreasing order, Jan. 2, Dec. 21, Dec. 27, and Dec. 26. The least busy travel days are expected to be Christmas Day and Dec. 24, the airline trade group said...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
31 Accused in Florida of Falsifying Home Loans
Federal prosecutors said they uncovered a mortgage fraud scheme involving at least 28 properties in South Florida and fraudulent loans totaling more than $14.2 million...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Singing Her Way From Obscurity to Fame on the Internet
Ingrid Michaelson, a 28-year-old singer-songwriter whose self-produced album ?Girls and Boys? reached No. 2 on the iTunes pop chart, is enjoying an enchanted transformation as a recording artist...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Frequent Flier: The Hoops Star, the Movie Star and the Size 22 Feet
Having played professional basketball for 14 years in the National Basketball Association, I?ve spent a great deal of time on airplanes over the last three decades...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
On the Road: Airlines to Use Courts to Thwart a Movement
Domestic airlines are not happy that New York State law will require them to provide certain services to passengers who sit for three hours or more on airplanes stuck on the tarmac...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Holiday Specials
For anyone who has to travel for work during the holidays, there is a silver lining: hotels that cater to business travelers are charging deeply discounted rates...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Toolmaker for Oilfields Buys a Rival for $7 Billion
The oilfield services provider National Oilwell Varco said on Monday that it had agreed to buy the drilling-products maker Grant Prideco Inc., further consolidating the drilling sector...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Adobe Quarterly Profit Jumps 21 Percent
The desktop publishing software maker said its fiscal fourth-quarter profit and sales rose to beat Wall Street?s expectations, fueled by strong sales of Creative Suite 3 and Acrobat...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
New Leader for Brown Brothers Harriman
The nation?s oldest private commercial bank will announce Tuesday that it has appointed Douglas A. Donahue Jr. as its new managing partner, the equivalent of a chief executive...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Former Publisher Sentenced
F. David Radler, the No. 2 man in the once-powerful Hollinger International newspaper empire, was sentenced Monday to 29 months in prison...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
O. B. Goolsby Jr., Chief of Poultry Producer, Is Dead at 60
Mr. Goolsby Jr. was the chief executive who built Pilgrim?s Pride Corporation into the nation?s largest chicken producer...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Aon Sells 2 Underwriting Units to Bolster Buybacks
The insurance brokerage firm is selling two underwriting units for $2.75 billion in separate cash deals to focus on more profitable lines of business...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Appointment at Citi
Citigroup named Don Callahan chief administrative officer on Monday after he had served for several months in the same job at Citi?s investment bank and alternative investment group...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Universal Music Settles Copyright Suit With XM Satellite
The two companies said they had agreed to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit over a portable music player sold by XM that enables users to make digital copies of music...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Big Developer Gets $1.4 Billion in Investments
The Related Companies received equity and debt investments of nearly $1.4 billion from the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government and others on Monday...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Senior Executive of Fidelity to Lead Morgan Stanley Unit
Ellyn A. McColgan will take over from James P. Gorman, the former Merrill Lynch executive who currently heads the retail unit...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Ingersoll to Buy Climate Control Maker
The industrial conglomerate agreed on Monday to buy Trane, the air-conditioning company that is the successor to American Standard, for $10.1 billion...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Anxious Markets Continue to Slide
Wall Street extended last week?s losses Monday as investors remained concerned about flagging growth and rising prices...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
New Type of Coal Plant Moves Ahead, Haltingly
The nation?s leading effort to build a coal-fired electric plant that will capture and store its carbon emissions will take a shaky step forward on Tuesday...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Evidence in Hollywood Wiretapping Case Is Questioned
Lawyers for defendants in the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping case argued that evidence seized from the Hollywood private detective?s offices had been improperly obtained...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
India?s Automaker of Many Faces May Land Jaguar
The luxury brand Jaguar is poised to join Tata Motors, a widely diverse Indian auto company that makes tractor-trailers, full-size S.U.V.?s and the world?s cheapest car...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Advertising: Rayovac Batteries in a Partnership With the World of Disney Characters
Beware, Energizer bunny, wherever you are. Some familiar Disney characters are leading an assault by a rival brand on the battery market...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Overhaul Proposed in Accounting Standards Board
The body that decides who will set accounting rules in the United States plans on Tuesday to propose changes aimed at enabling the Financial Accounting Standards Board to act faster...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Home Prices in South Korea Stalling at a High Point
Over the past year, the once feverish housing market in South Korea has come to a near halt, as buyers and sellers have become scarce...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
W.T.O. to Look at U.S. Subsidies
The World Trade Organization opened an investigation Monday into whether the United States was violating international commerce rules that limited subsidies to American farmers...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Going Public Caps Dream for a Maker of Software
If all goes well, Evan Goldberg will have come a long way from the overcrowded Silicon Valley apartment that served as NetSuite?s first office nearly 10 years ago...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
World Food Supply Is Shrinking, U.N. Agency Warns
The United Nations? top food and agriculture official said Monday that the world food supply is dwindling and that food prices are soaring to historic levels...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
As Ethanol Takes Its First Steps, Congress Proposes a Giant Leap
Congress is on the verge of telling American business to create a huge new industry capable of converting agricultural wastes and other plant material into automotive fuel...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Former Russian Spies Are Now Prominent in Business
For big Western companies, the prevalence of former Federal Security Service agents in Russian business is raising questions of ethics and due diligence...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Democrats Delay a Vote on Immunity for Wiretaps
In a setback for the White House, the Senate will not vote this month on whether to give legal protection to the phone carriers that helped with the N.S.A. eavesdropping program...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Food and Fuel Compete for Land
For years, cheap food and feed were taken for granted in the United States. Now the price of some foods is rising sharply, and a blame alert is under way...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Fed Shrugged as Subprime Crisis Spread
As the mortgage crisis threatens to tip the economy into a recession, many are asking: Where was Washington?...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
Amid Strike, 2 NBC Hosts Will Return to the Air
NBC announced that Jay Leno and Conan O?Brien will return to the air, even if the writers are still on strike...
New York Times - December 18, 2007
'Bribe' in Argentine cash affair
A man who tried to fund an Argentine campaign was offered a bribe to hide the sources, a US court hears...
BBC News - December 18, 2007
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