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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Colbert on Colbert Its fun playing a jerk
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Dancing with the Stars contestant injured
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hopper stars in Starz series Crash
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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US News Archive for April 2008:
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Square Feet | Spotlight: Fashioning Skylines, Not a Personality Cult
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates does not have a celebrity architect at its helm, though it does have 16 globe-trotting principals...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Letters
Hidden From View...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Fair Game: Piling On: Borrowers Buried by Fees
A handful of public-minded bankruptcy court judges are exposing the questionable practices of the mortgage servicing business...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
The Nation: The Wage That Meant Middle Class
$20 an hour has a special place in labor history. And history is mostly what it is...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Strategies: The Odds for a Retirement Nest Egg, Recalculated
Though it may go against conventional wisdom, you can simply pick an allocation of stocks and bonds that you can live with for a long while and stick with it...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Tea and Sympathy
My dad?s incredible way with people is unforgettable. Once he managed to convince an armed robber that it was not in his interest to shoot him and sat him down for tea...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Career Couch: The Economy Changes, So Change With It
During a downturn, you may need to work harder and longer to find a job, and be more flexible and creative in assessing your options...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Preoccupations: An Ocean Apart, Bridged by Forklift
Our counterparts at our office in Korea never hold side conversations in meetings as we do here. They?re too polite. They?re terrific hosts as well...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Earnings Led Rally Despite Write-Downs
Wall Street banks took further multibillion-dollar write-downs last week...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Digital Domain: Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami
E-mail has become the bane of some people?s professional lives...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Off the Shelf: Some Mutual Fund Numbers Look Great, but for Whom?
The public stock markets are in the throes of one of the biggest and most egregious financial scandals in modern history, according to author Louis Lowenstein?s new book...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
At the End of a Winning Streak, a Painful Reckoning
When a company manages beat Wall Street?s earnings estimates regularly, it often attracts a following that counts on it for a spike in share price every three months...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Economic View: The Wealth Trajectory: Rewards for the Few
If there is one thing about the United States economy in recent years that is beyond dispute, it is this: It?s a great time to be rich...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Working Life (High and Low)
Jean Capobianco?s employer embraced a controversial strategy insisting that she and other staff were independent contractors, not employees...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Suits: As Crocs Departs, Quebec Turns Bitter
The harshest criticism Ron Snyder used to face as president of Crocs was that his company?s plastic clogs were an insult to traditional fashion sense...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
The Count: Can a Coupon Live Inside a Cellphone?
Is a coupon still a coupon if you can?t clip ?n? save it?...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Travel Bug: Lodgers Look to Walk the Eco-Talk
Hoteliers, customers and suppliers are talking energetically about how to achieve better environmental practices...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Ping: How Scientific Gains Abroad Pay Off in the U.S.
At a time of economic belt-tightening, might cheap science from low-wage countries help keep American innovators humming?...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
A Star at Toyota, a Believer at Ford
James D. Farley, Ford?s chief marketing officer, says he grasps that Ford is at a crossroads and that it has been on a tortured path for over the last decade...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Palestinian Suicide Bombers Attack Gaza Crossing
Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, claimed responsibility for the attack, which came on the eve of the weeklong Passover holiday...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
At St. Patrick?s Cathedral, Pope Calls for Unity
At the symbolic seat of U.S. Catholicism, Pope Benedict XVI called for a ?new spring? in a divided church...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
For Clintons, a Time to Find Truest Friends
The decisions by some Democrats to turn away have been wrenching for the Clintons, some of their close friends say...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Bush Still Waits for North Korean Nuclear Report
President Bush and South Korea?s new president, Lee Myung-bak, said that there was a chance for progress on eliminating North Korea?s nuclear arms program...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Message Machine: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon?s Hidden Hand
The Pentagon has cultivated ?military analysts? in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the Bush administration?s wartime performance...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Iraqi Army Seizes Basra From Militia as Cleric Threatens New Uprising
An operation to rout Moktada al-Sadr?s militia intensified, while Mr. Sadr threatened to declare ?war until liberation? if the crackdown did not cease...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
U.S. Commanders Seeking to Widen Pakistan Attacks
A widening of the conflict has been rebuffed over fears that attacking Pakistani radicals may anger the new government, which is negotiating with militants...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Palestinian Suicide Bombers Attack Crossing Into Gaza
Palestinian suicide bombers from Gaza drove three explosives-laden vehicles into the Kerem Shalom goods crossing on the border with Israel early, detonating two of them...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
At St. Patrick?s, Pope Makes a Call for Unity
Pope Benedict XVI called for a ?new spring? in a divided church during Mass at St. Patrick?s Cathedral, the symbolic seat of American Catholicism...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Pope Speaks Up for Immigrants, Touching a Nerve
The pope has calibrated his immigration stance with care, but his visit has already stirred the crosscurrents of the debate...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Iraqi Army Reports Headway in Basra
The operation to rout militia aligned with the cleric Moktada al- Sadr in Basra and a Shiite enclave of Baghdad intensified...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Chinese Urge Anti-West Boycott Over Tibet Stance
A popular backlash in China against Western support for Tibet has increasingly unnerved the ruling Communist Party...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
US town in immigration spotlight
The BBC's Emilio San Pedro visits Hazelton, Pennsylvania, which tried to get tough on illegal immigration...
BBC News - April 19, 2008
Today In Business: Sears Loses Credit Pact
Sears Holdings said on Friday that a credit agreement with Bank of America would come to an end after the bank would not agree to renew it under existing terms...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Today In Business: No Raise at Amazon.com
Despite a blockbuster year in which Amazon.com?s profit more than doubled, compensation for its chief executive officer, Jeffrey P. Bezos, was unchanged from the previous year...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Today In Business: Bid for Insurer Withdrawn
The American buyout group J. C. Flowers has formally withdrawn its £3.5 billion ($7 billion) pursuit of the British life insurer Friends Provident...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Today In Business: Wendy?s Rejects 2 Offers
Trian Partners, an investment company controlled by the billionaire Nelson Peltz, said in a regulatory filing Friday that Wendy?s International had rejected two offers to be purchased...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Today In Business: More Interest in Expro
The American oil field services company Halliburton said on Friday that it was considering a counterbid for the Expro International Group of Britain...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Today In Business: Schlumberger Misses Mark
Schlumberger, the world?s largest oil field services company, reported a nearly 14 percent rise in first-quarter income Friday, but results missed Wall Street forecasts and were seen as largely lackluster...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Today In Business: Profit Up at Honeywell
Honeywell International, the world?s largest maker of airplane controls, posted a 22 percent gain in first-quarter earnings on Friday...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Talking Business: China Needs Old Boys With M.B.A.?s
The shortage of managerial talent in China is huge, but so too is the desire to fill that gap...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Medicare Plans Affected by Rising Drug Costs
Driven in part by specialty drugs, the prices of medicines heavily used by the elderly have risen more than 24 percent since June 2006, two senior health economists at Harvard reported...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Most Popular: Most Popular Business News Articles on NYTimes.com
Most popular business news articles on NYTimes.com from April 12 through April 18...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
What?s Online: Trading on Testosterone
Movements in financial markets are correlated to the levels of hormones in the bodies of male traders, according to a study by two researchers from the University of Cambridge...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Executive Pursuits: Bartender, I?ll Have a Lesson in What You Do
At my station inside the New York Bartending School, I knew at once that this was my kind of classroom...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
What?s Offline: Don?t Stress Over Stress
Advice to deal with work pressure, and other items...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Stephen Weiss Dies at 72; Banker and Cornell Benefactor
Mr. Weiss made major gifts to Cornell, his alma mater, of both time and money, as chairman of the board of trustees from 1989 to 1997 and as a board member for 16 years before that...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Some See a Pause in the Fed?s Rate-Cutting
Federal Reserve policy makers, sensing renewed inflation dangers and an economic boost from government rebate checks, may be nearing a pause in interest-rate cuts after the fastest reductions in two decades...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Cost Of Living: Cheaper, Yes, but Only on the Price
The experience of buying life insurance through an online agency can leave one to wonder whether it is worth the savings...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Xerox Reports a Loss, but Matches Expectations
Xerox said Friday that a litigation charge left it with a loss of $244 million in the first quarter, but its results, excluding the one-time item, matched Wall Street expectations...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Off the Charts: Except at Gas Pump, Not Much Spending Going On
The strength in consumer sales, such as it was, was concentrated around Boston and New York, areas that, not coincidentally, attract many European tourists who enjoy strong currencies...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Caterpillar?s Profit Climbs on Strength of Foreign Sales
The heavy equipment maker posted a 13 percent jump in first-quarter profits...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Saturday Interview: When the Focus Is Expansion, Not Subprime Worries
Chief executive Thomas J. McInerney discussed industry mergers, ING?s promising acquisitions and how ING avoided the subprime mortgage pitfalls...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Frustrated Game Maker Extends Offer for a Rival
As the original $2 billion offer expires, Take-Two?s board recommended that shareholders reject the renewed offer because it asserts that the bid is too low, and ill-timed...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Managers Among 4,650 Losing AT&T Jobs
Most of the reductions apply to the local phone business, which lost 1.6 million residential lines last year as customers switched to cable and wireless phone service...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
South Korea Will Lift Its Ban on American Beef
The decision ended a ban begun in 2003 over concerns about mad cow disease and removed a major dispute between the allies...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Canada Takes Steps to Ban Most Plastic Baby Bottles
The move to ban polycarbonate infant bottles is the first action taken by any government against bisphenol-a, a chemical that has induced long-term changes in animals exposed to it...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
F.D.A. Plan on Medical Articles Takes More Heat
A report indicating that Merck used ghostwriters to produce articles in support of its drug Vioxx has galvanized opponents to a proposal that would relax some restrictions on drug promotion...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Scandal to Cost Ex-Fannie Mae Officers Millions
Franklin Raines and two other top Fannie Mae executives are paying a total of nearly $31.4 million in a settlement with the government over their roles in a 2004 accounting scandal...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Alliance Data Ends Deal for Its Takeover by Blackstone
Alliance Data Systems, the credit card processor, sued the Blackstone Group in New York State court late Friday, accusing the private equity firm of breaching its agreement to buy the company for $6.4 billion...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Your Money: Paying for College Without the Home Equity Option
The turmoil in real estate has meant that home equity ? often a fallback for college funds ? is difficult to tap, forcing many parents to reconsider high-priced colleges...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: Stocks Jump on Google and Citigroup Results
Wall Street bounded higher as results from Citigroup and Google helped ease investor anxiety about the health of corporate profits...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Citigroup Records a Loss and Plans 9,000 Layoffs
The results contained few surprises, and investors responded to the bank?s $5.1 billion loss by pushing markets sharply higher...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Europe Begins Testing In-Flight Use of Cellphones
While airlines in the United States have shunned the use of cellphones in flight, some European and Mideast carriers are preparing to offer the service as early as this summer...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
12 Are Said Killed in Sadr City Clashes
Twelve people died in clashes in Baghdad?s Sadr City district, officials said, while fighting continued in Basra...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
NBA: Coach dismissed by Knicks
The New York Knicks fire head coach Isiah Thomas after another season of underachievement...
BBC News - April 19, 2008
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
As a family trust moves into its second and third generations, it is almost inevitable that someone will be unhappy with a trustee. But removing him or her might not be worth the hassle...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
As Accounts Pile Up, Less Becomes More
Investors who cannot tally their financial accounts on two hands might want to consolidate, financial advisers say...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Protecting Children From Their Money
Here are some strategies for managing a custodial account, a low-cost route to savings that designates an adult to oversee money for a minor...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
The Family Office, Granting Every Wish
From trust planning to trip planning, it has become both easier and more difficult for the merely rich to buy services that only the superrich used to enjoy...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Jittery Market Calls for a Steady Hand
How can we position ourselves to survive ? and prosper from ? the recent upheavals in the market? The answer: Stay the course...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Tapping a Flow of Cash From the Credit Crisis
For the rich, the mortgage crisis and the housing slump have created opportunities to leverage their real estate holdings for other investments...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
You?ve Made Your Fortune. Now Jump in the Sandbox.
What is the fun of having a seven-figure portfolio if you can?t act like a millionaire? That may be the psychology pushing some investors to consider hedge funds...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Upstairs, Downstairs and Above the Garage
You?ve made a pile of money, but you?re missing something. You?re always busy, yet you?re far too unsatisfied. Maybe you need help. As in staff...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Umbrella Coverage for Preventing Your Ruin
For those with major assets, an extra insurance policy can take care of one?s liability for the nightmarishly unexpected...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Multiplying the Dollars Through Matching Gifts
Just as buying a home with a mortgage and investing money every month can grow an acorn into a mighty oak of wealth, charitable donations can also be leveraged...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Jumping for the Cause Without Being Asked
While plenty of schools teach fund-raising, there are no advanced degrees in how to be a philanthropist...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Breaking the Silence
The shifting nature of wealth and inheritance has families talking ? about values as well as money...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Bits: Consumers Switch to Smaller HDTVs
Consumers are shifting to smaller HDTV as the economy weakens. No surprise there. But its surprising how well the largest sized TVs continue to sell...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Wheels: Jeep to Give Liberty New Coat of Polish
Chrysler plans to revise the Liberty's steering and suspension for the 2009 model, due out later this year...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
President Is Rebuffed on Program for Children
The Government Accountability Office ruled that the Bush administration violated federal law last year by restricting states? ability to provide health insurance to children of middle-income families...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Thomas Won?t Coach, but He Stays With Knicks
Donnie Walsh removed Isiah Thomas as coach after two dismal seasons in which Thomas and the team were hit with a multi-million dollar sexual harassment verdict...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Rangers 5, Devils 3: Quick Start, Happy Ending: The Rangers Advance
The Rangers scored three goals in the first period and held off a furious comeback in the second on Friday to eliminate the Devils...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
With Guns and Fines, Brazil Takes On Loggers
A crackdown is intended to send a message that the government is serious about protecting the rain forest...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Bear Stearns?s New Hires Become Job Seekers
Some students had job offers rescinded, leaving them to confront one of the worst financial job markets in years...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Sect?s Children to Stay in State Custody for Now
A Texas judge ordered that children seized in the raid of a polygamist religious sect stay in protective custody...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Mahdi Army Lays Defenses Amid Effort at Calm
Moktada al-Sadr?s political bloc offered on Friday to negotiate with the Iraqi government to end fighting in the area while his Mahdi Army fighters planted homemade bombs...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Benefit Managers Profit by Specialty Drug Rights
A growing portion of some drug benefit managers? revenue comes from being exclusive or semi-exclusive distributors of expensive specialty drugs...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Zimbabwe Arms Shipped by China Spark an Uproar
Dock workers put newfound pressure on South Africa and China to reduce support for Zimbabwe?s government...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ?Al Qaeda?
Critics say Senator John McCain?s descriptions of the enemy in Iraq oversimplify its hydra-headed nature...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Airline Faults Shifting Rules About Safety
The Federal Aviation Administration deserves much of the blame for canceled flights, American Airlines says...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Vatican Hints at Changes in Church Laws on Abuse
A top official suggested that the Roman Catholic Church is considering changes related to the church?s statute of limitations on child sexual abuse...
New York Times - April 19, 2008
Election at-a-glance: 12-18 Apr
A weekly guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - April 19, 2008
Ex-Fannie Mae bosses fined
Three former bosses of mortgage lender Fannie Mae agree to pay $31.4m for their role in an accounting fraud...
BBC News - April 19, 2008
Eleven killed in Mexico air crash
A Mexican army helicopter crashes during anti-drug operations in the west of the country, killing 11 soldiers...
BBC News - April 19, 2008
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