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US News Archive for August 2007:
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Key suspect arrested in schoolyard killings
A "principal player" in the deadly schoolyard shootings in Newark, New Jersey, earlier this month was arrested overnight near Washington, D.C., law enforcement sources said. full story...
CNN - August 18, 2007
Army deployed to end quake looting
The Peruvian government sent the army to stop looting fueled by rising desperation in earthquake-shattered Peru, where tens of thousands were without fresh water and shivering families huddled in makeshift shelters at the center of the devastation. full story...
CNN - August 18, 2007
Michael Deaver, aide to Ronald Reagan, dies
Michael K. Deaver, one Ronald Reagan's closest advisers during in the White House and the director of the president's picturesque and symbolic public appearances, died Saturday. He was 69. full story...
CNN - August 18, 2007
Shuttle to Return Early Because of Storm
NASA moved up Endeavour?s departure from the international space station by one day out of fear that Hurricane Dean poses a threat to Houston...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Michael Deaver, Shaper of Reagan?s Image, Dies at 69
Mr. Deaver was celebrated and scorned as an expert at media manipulation for focusing on how President Ronald Reagan looked as much as what he said...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Two More Arrested in Newark Killings
After an intense manhunt spanning several states, a 24-year-old man and his teenage half brother were arrested yesterday in the Aug. 4 killings of three friends in Newark, said Garry F. McCarthy, Newark?s police director...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Fire at Building Damaged on Sept. 11
Two firefighters were critically injured while trying to reach a fire in the abandoned Deustche Bank tower at ground zero...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
To Keep Foot Clear of Mouth, Debaters Plot Each Tiny Step
With the proliferation of debates this political season, campaigns focus on minutiae as they seek an early edge among voters...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Concern Over Wider Spying Under New Law
In a frenetic scramble, Congress may have approved more surveillance powers than the Bush administration sought...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Economic View: A Chinese Century? Maybe It?s the Next One
China?s official analysts say that their nation will catch up with the United States long before the 22nd century arrives. Don?t believe it...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Square Feet | Ventures: The Paths to Enhancing Commercial Property
Commercial real estate owners are still enjoying healthy demand ? but this doesn?t mean that owners shouldn?t be looking for ways to enhance their property...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
The Goods: A Soap That Goes to the Mat
Guy Sako, who originally created Defense Soap for amateur wrestlers, keeps his sales consistent by marketing to practitioners of mixed martial arts...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
The Count: Google Wins the Most Hearts on the Web
In the 21st century, you should be ready to answer this question: What?s your favorite Internet brand?...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: Funds Stopped Playing Before the Game Got Ugly
Take-Two Interactive Software, the maker of Grand Theft Auto, was alerted to a possible enforcement action after announcing its new game would be delayed...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Fundamentally: No Stomach for Risk? Maybe It?s Time to Change Your Diet
While it?s impossible to know whether this will turn out to be just another short-term scare, investors would be wise to reassess their exposure to risk, financial planners say...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
In the Clear in Russia (if Out of Business)
The founder of allofmp3.com, the Russian digital music download site that was shut down in July, was cleared of criminal wrongdoing in Moscow...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Spending: Reservations for 38, With an Online Travel Planner
More group travelers ? including people planning family reunions ? are using the Web to arrange their plans...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
The Feed: How to Add Oomph to ?Organic?
Despite year after year of double-digit growth, organics receive a pittance in financing and staff attention at the Department of Agriculture...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Market Week: Seeking Equilibrium on Wall St.
It seems to have become a sure thing that before any trading session is over, some bank will have disclosed problems related to speculative debt...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Investing: Avoiding the Credit Storm, by Swimming in Midstream
As the subprime mortgage drama unfolds, some of the calmest investors hold mainstream bond portfolios, whose returns have been relatively unaffected...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Digital Domain: Pass the Popcorn. But Where?s the Movie?
Consumers, manufacturers and cable operators are all ready for video-on-demand, but the studios have balked...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Novelties: When a Television Is Suitable for Framing
For people who dislike the appearance of a blank TV screen, aesthetic ways to camouflage that huge L.C.D. or plasma panel are on the market...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
A Hotelier Is Breaking the Mold Once Again
With Marriott as a partner, Ian Schrager, the master of the ultrahip hotel, hopes to expand his vision...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Loan by Loan, the Making of a Credit Squeeze
About 1.7 million households will lose their homes to foreclosure this year and next, according to estimates ? nearly double the number of the previous two years...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Lifting Corporate Fingerprints From the Editing of Wikipedia
A Web site that traces the source of changes to Wikipedia reveals that many of the most obviously self-interested edits come from corporate networks...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
How Missed Signs Contributed to a Mortgage Meltdown
There were ample warning signs that a financial time bomb in the form of subprime mortgages was ticking quietly for months...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Missile dumped at US gun amnesty
A man responds to a gun amnesty in Florida by handing in a surface-to-air rocket launcher to stunned police...
BBC News - August 18, 2007
Dean's threat spreads across Caribbean
Hurricane Dean intensified Saturday as it muscled across the Caribbean and headed toward a dangerous rendezvous Sunday with Jamaica. With long-range computer models showing Dean turning north after striking Mexico, officials in Texas and Louisiana launched preparations for a possible midweek landfall. full story...
CNN - August 18, 2007
Looting disrupts quake rescue bid
President Alan Garcia called for the orderly distribution of emergency supplies as desperate victims of a magnitude-8 earthquake on Peru's southern coast looted markets and blocked arriving aid trucks. full story...
CNN - August 18, 2007
Shuttle May Return Early Because of Storm
NASA may shorten by a day the Endeavour mission because of Hurricane Dean?s possible threat to Houston...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
2 More Suspects Are Arrested in Newark Killings
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New York Times - August 18, 2007
News Analysis: Padilla Case Offers New Model of Terrorism Trial
The Justice Department?s use of a seldom-tested conspiracy law in the case cemented a new prosecutorial paradigm...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Michael K. Deaver, Adviser to Reagan, Dies at 69
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Michael K. Deaver, one Ronald Reagan's closest advisers during in the White House and the director of the president's picturesque and symbolic public appearances, died Saturday. He was 69...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Medicare Says It Won?t Cover Hospital Errors
The new policy raises the possibility of changes in medical practice as doctors hew more closely to clinical guidelines...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
The Outcast
In the wake of the most scandal-ridden Tour de France ever, Floyd Landis remains where he has been all along: in limbo waiting for redemption, which may never come...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Few Heard Ticking Credit Time Bomb
There were ample warning signs that a financial time-bomb in the form of subprime mortgages was ticking quietly for months...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Falluja Fears for Life After Marines
The improved security in Falluja, often touted as a success story, is fragile, according to American marines and Iraqi officials...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Hurricane churns up the Caribbean
Haiti and the Dominican Republic fear flooding as Hurricane Dean roars by after lashing islands to the east...
BBC News - August 18, 2007
Turkish jet hijack ends peacefully
Two men who hijacked a Turkish passenger jet bound for Istanbul have surrendered to authorities and been escorted from the plane after releasing the remaining passengers and crew they had been holding hostage. full story...
CNN - August 18, 2007
Brooke Astor Is Eulogized, With Only a Hint of a Rift
The family conflict over the care of the grande dame of New York society and philanthropy leading up to her death was only subtly evident at her funeral...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
What?s Online: Musical Mastery, Maybe
Guitar Hero is turning on a new generation to the guitar, risking damage to run normal cars on E85 and more...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Markets Quake, and a ?Neutral? Strategy Slips
In this month?s market turbulence, even quantitative investing systems, managed by computers, have faltered...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Dean up to Category 4, heads toward Jamaica
Dean strengthened to a Category 4 hurricane on Friday with dangerous 135 mph winds. While the latest forecast shows Dean on track toward Jamaica on Sunday, the storm could force NASA to cut short the space shuttle Endeavour's flight if Dean heads toward Mission Control in Houston. full story...
CNN - August 18, 2007
Utah Mine Rescuers Halt Search After 3 Deaths
A sense of doleful finality has settled over the quivering mountain that swallowed six miners 11 days ago...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Summer Rituals | Window Gazing: Raising Sash for a View of the City?s Daily Ballet
There are few summer sights more archetypically urban than the face in an open window gazing out at the street...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
A CBS Reality Show Draws a Claim of Possible Child Abuse
To at least one parent of a participant on ?Kid Nation,? who wrote a letter of complaint to New Mexico state officials after the show had completed production, the experience bordered on abuse and neglect...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
News Analysis: Padilla Case Offers a New Model of Terror Trial
The Justice Department?s use of a seldom-tested conspiracy law in the Jose Padilla case cemented a new prosecutorial paradigm...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
U.S. Proposes $2.78 Million Fine in Worker?s Death
The fine against the Cintas Corporation is more than four times the previous safety penalty leveled against a service-sector company...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Texas Trader Admits Guilt in Iraq Oil-for-Food Fraud
David B. Chalmers Jr., a Houston oil trader, admitted that he and two companies he ran made millions of dollars in kickbacks to the Iraqi government...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
New Field for Earmarks in U.S. Goals on Energy
The government is shoveling out billions of dollars to energy-related businesses working to reduce dependence on foreign oil and combat global warming...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Ex-Finance Chief Accused of Options Fraud
Federal regulators accused the former C.F.O. of Brocade Communications of misconducted in accounting for backdated stock options...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Cabinet Official Addresses Safety of Imports
Michael O. Leavitt, secretary of heath and human services, said Friday that it was impossible to check every import shipment that came into the U.S. but needs to be ready for three times more imports by 2015...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
American Airlines Sues Google Over Ads
The suit is the latest in a series of cases filed by businesses arguing that Google?s advertising system violates trademark laws...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Judge Blocks Sentinel Plan to Sell Assets
The Sentinel Management Group was blocked from selling assets after two customers claimed that investors? assets were being sold at below-market rates...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Latest Genealogy Tools Create a Need to Know
As genealogical societies and Web sites proliferate and DNA testing becomes more widely available, researching family roots has become a passion for many Americans...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Musical Mastery, Maybe
Guitar Hero is turning on a new generation to the guitar,...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
What?s Offline: No Applause, Please
The curse of the business press, cutting email overload, understanding the telecommuting promotion gap and what business leaders can learn from fairy tales...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Five Days: Moves to Protect Children, and Bottom Lines
CHILDREN?S health was on business minds amid toy recalls and changes to nutritional advertising standards, while retail sales, hedge funds and a big stock issue by a high-tech company got Wall Street?s attention...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Saturday Interview: Running Wrestling?s Empire
Linda E. McMahon, C.E.O. of World Wrestling Entertainment, talks about Chris Benoit, revenue growth, international expansion and more...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Market Values: Amgen Finds Growing Up Isn?t So Easy
After troubles with its anemia treatment Aranesp, which accounts for more than half of profits, Amgen seems to be suffering through a midlife crisis...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Off The Charts: In Automotive Trade Deficit, a Silver Lining for U.S.
A significant part of the improvement in the American trade deficit since last summer has come thanks to the American auto industry...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Nokia Asks for Ban on Qualcomm Chip Imports
As part of an ongoing dispute over patent royalties and license fees, Nokia has asked the International Trade Commission to bar U.S. imports of phones with Qualcomm chips that Nokia says infringe on its patents...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Shortcuts: It?s Time to Get Professional About Getting Organized
Professional home organizing specialists offer some tips on ways to keep a home running efficiently...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Being Right Is Bittersweet for a Critic of Lenders
For more than a decade, Edward M. Gramlich, a Federal Reserve Board governor, has been warning of dangers in the housing market. But now, he?s fighting for his life...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Toys ?R? Us Stops Selling Lead-Tainted Bibs
The giant toy chain said Friday that it would halt sales of vinyl baby bibs after tests it commissioned in recent days found two samples with lead exceeding its standards...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
What a Difference a Simple Rate Cut Makes
The Dow Jones industrial average surged 233 points Friday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates for loans to banks and an indicated further action if the economic outlook worsens...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
The Fed?s Sudden Action Eases a Logjam in Corporate Borrowing
Corporate short-term borrowing seized up this week as investors became nervous at the prospect that many of those notes were backed by subprime mortgages, but the Fed?s action on Friday helped ease concerns...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Fearing Slide in Economy, Fed Cuts Its Discount Rate
The rare move was seen as an admission by the Fed that its outlook on the credit crisis was flawed, and analysts suggested further cuts are likely...
New York Times - August 18, 2007
Amnesty ends abortion neutrality
Human rights group Amnesty confirms it will back women's rights to have an abortion under certain circumstances...
BBC News - August 18, 2007
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