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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 January 2008:
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Fierce Spending in Early Stages Saps Campaigns
The top candidates in both parties find their bank accounts depleted just as the most expensive phase of the race is about to begin...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Japan?s Best Sellers Go Cellular
In Japan, cellphone novels have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Linking the ?Bagel King? and Tankleff
Questions have been renewed over the role of a businessman who some have considered a likely suspect in the murders of a Long Island couple...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
A Veteran?s Descent, and a Prosecutor?s Choice
Walter R. Smith?s identity as a psychologically injured veteran shaped the way his murder of the mother of his children was handled...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Romney Easily Wins G.O.P. Race
Mitt Romney made a last-minute push in Nevada while the rest of the Republican field focused on South Carolina...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Live Blogging the South Carolina Primary
In exit polls, voters said they were more concerned about the nation?s economy and illegal immigration than about the war in Iraq or terrorism...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Clinton Defeats Obama in Nevada Vote
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton captured strong support from women voters and obtained a fresh boost of momentum...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Unscrambling the Alphabet of Fund Fees
Mutual fund investors are right to wonder and worry about the costs they are paying to own their shares -- $37 billion went into funds with loads in 2006...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Thinking Twice About That $400 Handbag
Losing the luxury to pretend we?re rich, one handbag at a time...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Dr. Jekyll Meets Mr. Hybrid
High-performance gas guzzlers competed with alternative-fuel vehicles at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Number of Rooms Can?t Meet Surging Demand
As if the sagging dollar and soaring oil costs weren?t enough to dent travel budgets, hotel room rates are expected to surge in the coming year...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
No Room at the Lot and Late at the Gate
With more travelers taking to the skies, it?s becoming harder to find a parking spot at the airport...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Letters
Of Mortgages and Realities...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
C.I.A. Officers Turn to Legal Insurer
Every whiff of investigation or litigation drives nervous federal workers to Wright & Company?s door...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
The Onward March of the Jumbo Colonials
New Milford, Conn., is taking a proactive approach to slow residential development and preserve large tracts of agricultural land...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
A City That Needs More Places to Sleep
Hotel owners, developers, brokers and consultants are almost uniformly shrugging off any doom-and-gloom ideas about the year ahead...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
A Helping Hand in Technical Training
A program is helping assess the value of academic and counseling support services for low-income people who show potential to work in high-growth jobs...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
It?s All About Focus
During times of self-doubt, it?s about focus, tunnel vision, and learning as much as you can...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
The Dow Toll: Down 507 Points in 5 Days
Despite statements from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and President Bush, it was a withering week on Wall Street...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
When Retirement Collides With Reality
Finding a sense of purpose or new endeavors can ease the transition from work life...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
This Time, Rate Cuts May Not Be a Panacea
The recent bleak returns on Wall Street have prompted many investment advisers to prescribe the same bromide: switch to defensive stocks and cut back on bonds...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Who Needs a 401(k)? I?d Rather Have a Castle
Daniel McGinn?s ?House Lust: America?s Obsession With Our Homes,? raises several provocative questions that strike at the covetous soul of America?s culture...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Is the New Supply Side Better Than the Old?
The presidential campaign has brought back to the fore the vexing question of how much to tax high-income Americans...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
A Recession?s Impact Is All in the Timing
Does the timing of a recession really matter? If you?re an equity investor, it does...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
For Disc Jockeys as Well as Desk Jockeys
If you?ve always longed to be a disc jockey ? or at least to play one on Saturday nights ? some new, highly portable D.J. gear could bring that dream much closer...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Child?s Play, From Clicks to Downloads
Technological skills, like maneuvering a mouse, are becoming part of child?s developmental milestones...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
The Risk of Innovation: Will Anyone Embrace It?
Whether humans will embrace or resist an innovation is the billion-dollar question facing designers of novel products and services...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Some Offstage Help for Apollo Theater
Richard D. Parsons, chairman of Time Warner and a Brooklyn native, has been a patron of the Apollo Theater in Harlem since his high school days. The first act he saw there was the Jackson Five...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Burned but Bullish at Citigroup
Despite, the market?s recent plunges, Tobias Levkovich, the chief United States equity strategist at Citigroup, remains optimistic for gains in 2008...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
The Construction Site Called Saudi Arabia
In a massive city of steel at the edge of the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia is trying to move beyond oil to become an industrial power...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
The Legal Trail in a Delta Drama
One of the nation?s best-known plaintiff?s lawyers, Richard Scruggs, is ensnared in legal drama involving federal conspiracy and bribery charges...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
From Texas to Iraq, and Center of Blackwater Case
The New York Times has identified the gunner in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in September as a 28-year-old former infantry soldier from Texas...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Israeli Strike Kills 2 Hamas Members
An Israeli airstrike killed two members of the Hamas military wing in the northern Gaza Strip ...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Spain Arrests 15 in Suspected Plot
The police arrested 14 suspected Islamists of Pakistani and Indian origin who they believe were plotting an attack on Barcelona...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Campaigns Face Common Foe in Nevada: Confusion
This year?s caucuses are expected to draw new voters thoroughly unfamiliar with the process...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Between Pulpit and Podium, Huckabee Straddles Fine Line
Mike Huckabee is trying to fire up fellow evangelical Christians without unnerving other voters...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Foreigners Buy Stakes in the U.S. at a Record Pace
Foreign investors are buying aggressively, taking advantage of American duress and a weak dollar to snap up relative bargains...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Economists Debate the Quickest Cure
Recession-fighting measures will help if they come quickly, experts say, but there is disagreement over which policies would have the greatest impact...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Fischer vs. the World: A Chess Giant?s Endgame
As Bobby Fischer?s death might remind us, abstract gifts can exact a terrible price...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Ancient Vase Comes Home to a Hero?s Welcome
The Euphronios krater, at the heart of a three-decade tug of war between the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Italian government, received a hero?s welcome in Rome...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Economists Debate Efficacy of Stimulus Measures
Recession-fighting measures will help if President Bush and Congress can deliver them quickly, experts say, but there is disagreement over which policies would have the greatest impact...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
U.S. Sees Stalling by North Korea on Nuclear Pact
The White House is split on how long to exercise patience without jeopardizing the fulfillment of an agreement...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Ex-N.F.L. Player Pleads Guilty in Balco Case
Dana Stubblefield pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements on his use of performance-enhancing drugs...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Bobby Fischer, Troubled Genius of Chess, Dies at 64
Mr. Fischer, one of the greatest chess players the world has ever seen, later lived under self-imposed exile...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Huckabee Walks Fine Line Amid Pulpit and Podium
Mike Huckabee is trying to fire up his fellow evangelical Christians without unnerving secular-minded voters...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Work Is Afoot to Take the Free Out of Freeway
New tolls, a particularly controversial part of Pennsylvania?s plans to meet its growing transportation needs, are an unpopular idea among users of Interstate 80...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Lawyer Reveals Secret, Toppling Death Sentence
A lawyer who believed that prosecutors had committed misconduct stayed silent for 10 years due to ethics rules...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Oil Demand, the Climate and the Energy Ladder
Jeroen van der Veer, 60, Royal Dutch Shell?s chief executive, offers his views on the energy challenge facing the world and the challenge posed by global warming...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
SAG Show Is New Star of Awards Telecasts
For most of their first 13 years, the Screen Actors Guild Awards played little more than the role of a seat-filler. This year they might be the biggest star in town...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Internet Puts a Sugarcoat on Scalping
The Internet has taught major league sports teams that scalping was never really the problem. The problem has been the ridiculous amount of effort expended trying to stamp it out...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
An Unexpected Uptick in Confidence
The mood of consumers brightened a bit in January, even amid the constant drumbeat of talk about a possible recession, weak jobs market and falling stock prices...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
For Champions of Haggling, No Price Tag Is Sacred
My husband and I hate haggling, but I have friends who always seem able to strike a great deal in unexpected areas...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
UBS, After a Write-Down, Closes Finance Unit in U.S.
Europe?s biggest bank said it would close an American unit as it scales back risk-taking after writing down the value of subprime mortgage investments by $14.7 billion last year...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Equity Firms Acquiring Food Supplier
The Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management agreed Friday to acquire the Performance Food Group for $1.2 billion...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Leader of Insider Trading Scheme Free After 2 Years
David Pajcin, who helped lead a $6.7 million insider-trading conspiracy, was released Friday afternoon after serving about two years in prison...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Bond Insurers? Distress Rattles Wall Street
If it was a terrible week for Wall Street, and it was a devastating one for companies that promise to protect investors against bond losses...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Anthony Solomon, Finance Policy Maker, Is Dead at 88
Mr. Solomon was a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an influential behind-the-scenes financial policy maker in three presidential administrations and at the World Bank...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Bottom Line on Doing Good
Is there a link between profitability and social responsibility? Yes, according an article in The Harvard Business Review, but ?not a strong one.?...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
TV Networks? Schedule Competition Is Starting to Resemble a Quilting Bee
With the traditional first half of the television season completed, network schedulers have had to improvise as never before...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Gold?s Rise: It?s Not Just Armageddon
The price of gold has always been a way to keep score of economic, financial and political instability, but the game may be changing...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Seeking Tools to Calm a Market
A week of gut-wrenching losses in the stock market ended on Friday with the Dow Jones industrial average falling 59.91 points, to 12,099.30...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Herald Tribune Publisher Departs
Michael Golden, publisher of The International Herald Tribune, said he was leaving the position to focus on his position as vice chairman of The New York Times Company...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
What?s Behind Those Offers to Raise Credit Scores
Borrowers should be wary of programs that play off their fears of losing their homes when mortgage rates reset to significantly higher levels...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Relying on Fiscal Tonics Used in Slumps Before
The White House and Congress have turned to familiar tools that experts say have worked in the past to jolt the economy. But there is also a lively debate about which measures will best accomplish the goal...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
New York Panel Rethinks Securities Oversight
A commission assembled revise New York State?s financial regulations recommended having one regulator oversee the securities industry, instead of the current four...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
S-q-u-a-b-b-l-e
Third-party applications are supposedly the secret to Facebook?s success. So far, though, the applications fall mainly into two categories: the silly and the annoying...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Justices to Hear Cases on Product Liability
The Supreme Court added new cases to their docket on drug and cigarette labeling requirements on Friday...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
G.E. Profit Rises, Aided by Overseas Sales
General Electric said its fourth-quarter profit rose 4 percent as surging overseas sales more than offset the fallout from domestic woes...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Pipeline Cements Russia?s Hold on Europe?s Gas Supply
Bulgaria signed the deal for the $15 billion South Stream pipeline with Russia, undermining the European Union?s attempts to diversify its energy sources...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Sprint?s Customer Erosion Prompts Cutbacks
Shares of Sprint dropped 25 percent after the company said that it planned to lay off 4,000 workers and close stores to trim costs as its customer base shrinks...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Back to Roots, G.M. and Toyota Trade Places Again
A shift in focus over the last year by the world?s two largest automakers reveals how each is working on their own version of a turnaround...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Job Data Passes Threshold Where Recessions Dwell
When the number of Americans out of work starts to rise sharply, a recession occurs. By that token, the latest figure for unemployed workers is, at the least, a danger sign...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Writers? Strike Tests the Mettle of 2 Outsiders
The president of the Writers Guild of America West and his chief lieutenant are deliberating a question that may bode ill for both: Is their rebellion over?...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories
Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
Bush Proposes $145 Billion Plan to Spur Economy
Congressional Democrats, in a rare show of bipartisanship, pledged to work with the president to enact a plan quickly...
New York Times - January 19, 2008
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