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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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Dubai parties at hotel gala despite economic gloom
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Pakistan protests to US over deep missile strike
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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Dems delay auto bailout vote, seek plan from Big 3
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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US News Archive for February 2006:
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White House readjusts its sights
For an entire week, the Bush administration has been tangled in the aftermath of the Dick Cheney hunting accident. That might not seem like a long time, but President Bush and Cheney have barely more than 1,000 days left and things they want to get done. Bush and Cheney have little hope of driving an agenda if they are not in control of it or if they are playing defense...
CNN - February 19, 2006
Congressman: Port deal lacks sufficient security
U.S. terms for approving an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American ports are insufficient to guard against terrorist infiltration, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday...
CNN - February 19, 2006
Argentina uncovers drug runways
Argentine police discover 12 secret runways used to import illegal drugs from Bolivia and Paraguay...
BBC News - February 19, 2006
Someone is $365M richer
A Powerball ticket sold in Nebraska has the winning numbers for the largest jackpot in the nation's history -- $365 million -- lottery officials said Sunday. "We don't know if the winner knows yet," Nebraska Lottery spokesman Brian Rockey said...
CNN - February 19, 2006
Arrests, tear gas halt Pakistan cartoon protests
Police arrest some 400 people and use tear gas to disperse several hundred others in an attempt to prevent protests in Islamabad against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, witnesses and police say...
CNN - February 19, 2006
A Star in Harlem Is Reborn, One Velour Seat at a Time
An entertainment lawyer has made progress on the $65 million renovation of the Apollo Theater, expected to be completed by the end of 2008...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
On tape, Hussein talks of WMDs
Now-deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein told his Cabinet in the mid-1990s that the U.S. would fall victim to terrorists with weapons of mass destruction but that Iraq would not be involved, newly released tapes reveal...
CNN - February 19, 2006
16 die in Nigeria cartoon protests
Sixteen people are killed and 11 churches burned in Nigeria as part of the continuing violence over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed...
CNN - February 19, 2006
The World: A Spectator's Role for China's Muslims
In the protests and seminal debates roiling the larger Islamic world, China's Muslims are almost invisible...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Lethal strain hits India, France
France and India say birds in their nations have caught the lethal H5N1 strain that is spreading around the world and has occasionally infected people...
CNN - February 19, 2006
Mudslide traps kids in school
Heavy rains are hampering rescue and recovery efforts in the Philippines after a mudslide wiped out a remote village on the island of Leyte. More than 900 people are officially listed as missing. Rosette Lerias, the provincial governor, said the top priority is 246 children and seven teachers trapped in a school building. "I believe they might still be alive," she said...
CNN - February 19, 2006
Storm leaves 250,000 without power
More than 250,000 homes and businesses still lacked power across the Northeast on Saturday as temperatures plummeted following a storm with hurricane-force wind gusts that was blamed for four deaths...
CNN - February 19, 2006
Tribal Underworld: Drug Traffickers Find Haven in Shadows of Indian Country
A wave of drug trafficking has swept through the nation's Indian reservations in recent years, as criminal organizations have found havens in isolated regions...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
The Celebrations: In Mardi Gras, a City Learns to Party Again
The first parade of the Mardi Gras season in New Orleans looked and felt different in the wake of Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Sorry, Superman, You'll Have to Change Someplace Else
The proliferation in recent years of cellular phones is doing nothing to get the pay phone off the endangered species list...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
[TS] A 'Holy Cow' Moment in Payland
Everybody knows that executive compensation at many companies has been obscene. What everybody does not know is how obscene obscene is now...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Spending: Another Way to Bring Out That Inner Rapunzel
Hair extensions, common among African-Americans for years, are quickly gaining momentum among other groups as more salons promote them...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Spending: Free to Be Yourself (by Hiring a Personal Assistant)
Wealthy families who need help keeping schedules and lives in order sometimes turn to personal assistants...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Market Week: Economists Worry About the Rent, Too
THE Greenspan Federal Reserve did the heavy lifting, never missing a chance in its last 14 interest-rate-setting meetings to execute a quarter-point upward nudge. With the new-model Fed under Ben S. Bernanke widely viewed as planning another tweak or two, one market strategist said he would be fine-tuning the way he views an important piece of economic data this week...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
The Count: Nation's Air Fares, Confusing as Ever, Are Heading Up
Nation's Air Fares,...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Checking In: Where All the Rooms Are Nonsmoking
BY the end of this month, all 77 Westin hotels in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean will have converted to an all smoke-free format, making Westin the first upscale hotel chain to ban indoor smoking...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Recruiting Hispanics for Kentucky Coal Mines Raises Debate
The president of a coal company wants the Kentucky mining board to relax an English-only policy in mines...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Nigerian Militants Assault Oil Industry, Abducting 9 Foreigners
Nigerian militants began a string of attacks on the nation's oil industry on Saturday, abducting nine foreign workers...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Career Couch: Can an Ex-Employee Return to the Fold?
How to admit that the new job didn’t work out and be invited back to the old cubicle...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Suits: He's Free to Talk if Someone Pays
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New York Times - February 19, 2006
The Goods: Presto! Dry Hands Vanish
PROFESSIONAL magicians, like first-chair violinists and bomb defusers, are afforded no mistakes, however minor. A lone dropped card can snap an audience out of its collective amazement and ruin an entire show...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
The Boss: Making the Suit Fit
Terri Lynn Kelly is the president and chief executive of W.L. Gore, maker of GoreTex...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Economic View: The Case for Fewer but Stronger Currencies
A new book argues that the globe's mélange of 200-plus currencies, backed only by the faith of investors, is inefficient and dangerous...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Investing: How States Are Aiming to Keep Dollars Out of Sudan
A handful of state legislatures in the U.S. have passed laws that bar their public pension funds from investing in companies with ties to Sudan...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Fundamentally: This Year, the First Round Goes to the Risk Takers
Many types of stocks that are considered risky have recently generally produced much bigger gains than less-volatile stocks...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Media Frenzy: Like Father, Like Son: Recipe for a Family Brawl
The antics of family media dynasties might lead you to believe that the era is under pressure, maybe even on the wane. But a closer look reveals that the opposite is true...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
In Japan, Day-Trading Like It's 1999
Having overcome the country's sluggishness in embracing cyberspace and deregulating discount brokerage firms, day-trading has taken off in Japan...
New York Times - February 19, 2006
Top stars picked in alien search
A US astronomer draws up a shortlist of the stars most likely to harbour intelligent extra-terrestrial life...
BBC News - February 19, 2006
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