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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 May 2008:
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Stocks Trade Mixed After Economic Data
Wall Street was mixed after a new report suggested to investors that the economy, while sluggish, is likely still growing...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Former AOL Executives Sued in Ad-Revenue Case
The S.E.C. said that it had sued eight former AOL executives over a fraudulent accounting procedure that caused the company to overstate its advertising revenue by more than $1 billion...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Google Makes Health Service Publicly Available
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web search leader announced the public launch of Google Health, which lets users import records from a variety of care providers and pharmacies...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Owner of Bill Blass Faces Cash Shortage After Acquisition
The fast-growing buyout firm that owns Bill Blass, Athlete?s Foot and Maggie Moo?s appeared to be on the verge of financial collapse on Monday...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Buffett?s Shopping Trip to Europe Draws a Crowd
Undaunted by the dramatic decline of the dollar against the euro, Warren Buffett began a four-country tour of Europe, with a view toward buying family-owned companies...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Court Upholds Tax Exemptions for Municipal Bonds
A longstanding practice by many states to tax the interest on out-of-state municipal bonds, but not the interest on their own, is not a case of unfair protectionism, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
On the Campaign: A Series of Unfortunate Events
A look at some of the factors and developments that undercut Hillary Rodham?s Clinton?s candidacy, some self-inflicted, others inflicted upon her...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
The Lede: Bounties Working at Home, Not Abroad
The ineffective bounties on Al Qaeda figures...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Wheels: Further Intelligence From a Smart Owner
It's been a month since I bought my Smart car, and I am having a great time with it. As I mentioned in a brief piece last week, the car is a hoot, but not an unalloyed hoot. My wife is not happy with the ride, though it may grow on her...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Dot Earth: Uncertainty on Warming and Storms
Scientists say the link from warming to storms is still murky, but the need for a response is clear...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
City Room: Ask About New York?s Hidden Places
Taking Questions: Michelle Haimoff, the author of "Secret New York: Exploring the City's Hidden Neighborhoods," a guided walking tour of the five boroughs, will be answering readers' questions about walking tours and lesser-known places in city neighborhoods...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Panel to Review 45 Tennis Matches
An independent panel has cited 45 professional tennis matches from the past five years for review because of suspicious betting patterns...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
DealBook: In Yahoo Pursuit, What Does Microsoft Want?
Microsoft?s latest overture to Yahoo has prompted a lot of speculation over what an alternative deal might look like...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Huntington Hartford II, A. & P. Heir, Dies at 97
Huntington Hartford II inherited a fortune from the A. & P. grocery business and lost most of it chasing his dreams as an entrepreneur and arts patron...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Leading Senators Agree on Housing Crisis Aid
Party leaders said they had reached an agreement on proposed legislation, but details were sketchy...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Times Are Tough, Except in the Repo Business
The recreational boating industry has faltered amid the housing slump and one of the largest boat repo operations in the country is repossessing nearly a boat a day...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
As Time Runs Short, Clinton Claims Lead in Popular Vote
The argument is of a piece with Mrs. Clinton?s increasingly populist image, but it is also a debatable claim...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Supreme Court Upholds Law Aimed at Child Pornography
The 7-2 ruling scathingly rejected contentions that a 2003 federal pornography law was so broadly written as to violate First Amendment rights...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Aftershock Alert Spreads Panic in Chinese City
Thousands of people tried to evacuate the Sichuan provincial capital after a televised warning of a possible severe aftershock...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Campbell Profit Up on Godiva Sale
Declining soup sales and higher prices for ingredients contributed to a difficult quarter for Campbell Soup, though a gain on the sale of its Godiva Chocolatier brand sweetened its bottom line...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Leading Indicators Show Economy Remains Sluggish
A private business group said its index of leading economic indicators edged higher in April, a sign the economy remains sluggish...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Stocks Up After Data on Economic Activity
The stock market rose moderately after a new report suggested to Wall Street that the economy, while sluggish, is likely still growing...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Oil Pushes Past $127 After OPEC Remarks
Oil rose back above $127 a barrel after OPEC?s president said the producer group will not call an early meeting and was unlikely to raise supply as the world had enough oil...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Lowe?s Posts Lower Profit and Cuts Forecast
The home improvement retailer reported a 17.9 percent drop in first-quarter earnings and lowered its guidance for the year as the slumping housing market and softer economy hurt sales...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Supreme Court Upholds Tax Exemptions for Municipal Bonds
n a 7-to-2 ruling, the Supreme Court permitted states to exempt interest on their own bonds from taxation while taxing residents for interest on bonds issued by other states...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Pursuing Yahoo, Microsoft Shows Need for Web Franchise
Fighting Google, Microsoft has approached Yahoo with a narrower aim: a collaboration on Internet advertising...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
The Lede: Turkey Tries Out Smoking Ban
The smoking ban juggernaut faces its toughest challenge yet...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
TierneyLab: The Green Revolution and Hunger
Farmers and consumers in poor countries are now paying the price now for decisions made by well-fed Westerners, as reported by my colleagues Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin in their front-page article on cutbacks in financing for agricultural research. They explain how the Green Revolution faltered after Western governments and agencies slashed funds for agricultural [...]...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Bush Won?t Back Bill That Bails Out Lenders
Acknowledging the economic ?tough times? for many Americans, the president said on Monday that he remains opposed to any homeowner rescue legislation that would be a bailout for lenders...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
France Admits Contacts With Hamas
The foreign minister emphasized that there were no negotiations with Hamas, labeled a terrorist group by both the United States and the European Union...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Bits: Google or Microsoft? Yahoo Should Pick Both.
Yahoo wants Google?s cash now and Microsoft?s share of the search business for the long run. It might be well served to do deals with both of them...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
DealBook: What Does Microsoft Want?
Microsoft's latest overture to Yahoo has raised a lot of questions about what exactly it wants from the new round of negotiations. What we do know for sure from the statement it issued Sunday is that Microsoft isn't currently pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo. That leaves all kinds of other possibilities, including joint [...]...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Myanmar Agrees to Allow Aid Efforts by Neighbors
Bending to international pressure, Myanmar will let its neighbors in Southeast Asia help coordinate relief...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Panic in Sichuan After Aftershock Warning
Provincial television issued a warning of the possibility of a severe aftershock of as much as 6.7 magnitude...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
City Room: Developer in Deal for West Side Yards
Stephen M. Ross has signed a $1 billion deal to develop the M.T.A. railyards on the West Side of Manhattan...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Anti-Immigrant Violence Continues in South Africa
The violence continued to rage on Monday, as police fired rubber bullets and made arrests to try to quell the violence in and around Johannesburg...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Justices Uphold Law on Pornography
The 7-2 ruling by the Supreme Court scathingly rejected contentions that a 2003 federal law aimed at child pornography was too broadly written...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Threast to US audiobooks
Blind people in the US may lose access to free audiobooks because of a budget shortfall at the Library of Congress...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Custody battle in Texas sect case
Hearings begin in custody cases involving parents of 463 children taken from a polygamist sect in Texas...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
Horse for Ages or Simply Best of Bunch?
Why wouldn?t Rick Dutrow declare Big Brown one of the best horses that has ever lived?...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Bits: Apple Looking for More Mobile Music
Apple is seeking new deals from the music labels to add ringtones and other offerings to the iPhone. The negotiations are active now because Apple appears to want to introduce new features in June...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Myanmar Is Said to Allow Aid Efforts by Neighbors
After resisting help, Myanmar was reported to have agreed to permit Asian neighbors to coordinate aid efforts...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
China Mourns Quake Victims
China observed a moment of silence to mourn the deaths of more than 30,000 people in the earthquake...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Battle for fryer company heats up
Manitowoc increases its offer for UK kitchen equipment firm Enodis, which supplies machines to McDonald's...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
The Media Equation: Geeks Crash a House of Fashion
Condé Nast Publications, like other big media companies, is making acquisitions, but with a different strategy: to find impresarios, remain patient and build vital brands...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Looking Ahead: This Week?s Major Economic Reports
Highlights of the week?s reports include the Conference Board?s leading economic indicators, the Producer Price Index for April and existing home sales for April...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The week ahead in bond auctions...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Media Talk: Urban Baby?s Lesson: Don?t Mess With Mom?s Chat
The site?s devoted fan base sent in a flurry of complaints about its new color scheme, message board system, and new default settings, but the fans are still logging on...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Media Talk: Web Game With a Message Debunks H.I.V. Myths
Following the model of the Hot or Not Web site, Pos or Not uses a lighthearted tactic to serve a serious purpose...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Lehrer Says ?News Hour? Money Woes Are Worst Ever
The financial squeeze was precipitated last summer when Archer Daniels Midland ended its 14-year sponsorship of the program...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Drilling Down: IPhone?s Hold on Users Not Exclusive
Nearly half of iPhone users changed carriers in order to use the device, according to a survey...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Advertising: U.S. Television Taps More Imported Series
One broadcasting trend being noticed by executives at media agencies is a growing reliance on series concepts from abroad...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Another Beltway Institution Seeks New Leader
Not only does the White House expect a new leader by next year, but so does The Washington Post...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
After Forays With ABC and HBO, a Video Blogger Returns to Video Blogging
Feeling a little burned by big media, Amanda Congdon, the former host of ?Rocketboom,? has returned to online blogging, hosting and producing on ?Sometimes Daily.?...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
For This Year, Emmy Drama Is Over Money
Studios spark a tussle over spending on so-called screeners of Emmy nominee submissions by providing material on password-protected Web sites...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Does ?Do the Right Drugs? Give Readers the Wrong Idea?
The magazine?s ?12 Ways to Super-Charge Your Brain? lays out the pros and cons of eight drug ? some legal, some not...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
The True Story of a Script, Big Dreams and Vanishing Private Equity
A would-be filmmaker is left in the lurch by nervous lenders, and his tale is becoming a common one as private money has become harder to obtain in Hollywood...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Online Search Ads Faring Better Than Expensive Displays
While search advertising remains strong, there are signs that the growth in online advertising ? particularly in more elaborate display ads ? is slowing...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Guessing the Online Customer?s Next Want
Retailers are turning to data mining software to find links between customers? interests and their online buying behavior...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
At Sci Fi Channel, the Universe Is Expanding and the Future Is Now
To expand its audience, the channel is stretching the definition of science fiction to include superheroes, Indiana Jones and even the baseball film ?Field of Dreams.?...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Anti-Immigrant Violence in Johannesburg
The police said the mayhem left at least 12 people dead ? beaten by mobs, shot, stabbed or burned alive...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Burmese Leader Pays First Visit to Refugees
State television showed video of the leader of the ruling junta, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, touring a refugee camp, two weeks after the storm killed at least 78,000 people...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Kennedy Stays in Hospital After Seizure
A doctor for Senator Edward M. Kennedy said that he did not suffer a stroke and was not in any immediate danger...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Dancing the Night Away, With a Higher Purpose
At the Purity Ball, fathers and daughters unite to make public pledges of sexual abstinence until marriage...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Mets 11, Yankees 2: Weekend in Bronx Revives Mets
The Mets came to Yankee Stadium this weekend with a manager under pressure and dissension in the clubhouse. They left just a game out of first place in their division...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
$1 Billion Later, Subway Elevators Still Fail
Two-thirds of New York City?s subway elevators had at least one breakdown last year that trapped people inside...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Pursuit of Yahoo Shows Microsoft Needs a Franchise
Microsoft said Sunday that it approached Yahoo with a narrow aim: a collaboration on Internet advertising...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
For an All-Organic Formula, Baby, That?s Sweet
A popular organic infant formula is sweetened with cane sugar, which babies may prefer but pediatricians do not...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Banks? Terms Imperil Deal to Buy Out Bell Canada
The $51.8 billion takeover of Bell Canada, the largest leveraged buyout ever proposed, is the latest buyout to run into trouble since the credit market began tightening...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
McCain to Rely on Party Money
John McCain, who suffered a blow as a key fund-raiser resigned, is leaning on the Republican Party as Barack Obama turns again to his fund-raising juggernaut...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Gender Issue Lives On as Clinton?s Hopes Dim
The senator?s waning bid brings with it a reckoning about what it represents: an incomplete triumph or a sad reminder of why few women run for high office...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
In Rubble, Couple Clung to Each Other, and to Life
A tale of survival in the rubble from last Monday?s earthquake in China is also a tale of a rekindled love for two people who might have died had they been trapped alone...
New York Times - May 19, 2008
Police chief steps down in Mexico
The police chief of the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez quits after a wave of violence involving drug gangs...
BBC News - May 19, 2008
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