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US News Archive for December 2006:
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Radiation found on dead spy's wife
The wife of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has tested positive for traces of polonium-210, a family source says. Earlier, Britain's Health Protection Agency said a "significant quantity" of the deadly substance ingested by Litvinenko before his death has been found in a person who had "very close contact" with him. Italian Sen. Paolo Guzzanti confirmed that it was Italian security expert Mario Scaramella...
CNN - December 1, 2006
Wicked wintry weather wreaks havoc
The first major snowstorm of the season blew across the Plains and Midwest, grounding hundreds of flights, closing schools and glazing highways. This driver spun out on the slick roads Friday in Skokie, Illinois...
CNN - December 1, 2006
Typhoon in Philippines Causes Deadly Landslides
Strong winds and heavy rains from Typhoon Durian touched off landslides in a northern Philippine province, killing about 200 people, with hundreds more missing...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Radiation Poison Reportedly Found in 2nd Man
One of three men who last met the former K.G.B. officer Alexander V. Litvinenko before he fell fatally ill with radiation poisoning was himself admitted to a London hospital on Friday...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Germany — Grudgingly — to Join the Smoking Ban
A compromise proposal would ban smoking in public buildings — but not in pubs, bars or under beer tents...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Snowstorm Moves Through Midwest
The storm snarled air travel, made roads treacherous and cut power to tens of thousands of homes...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
The Real B.C.S. Battle Is Getting In
It is Bowl Championship Series time — not for the games themselves, but for the competition of who gets in...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Pelosi Picks Reyes to Head Panel on Intelligence
Nancy Pelosi passed over the panel’s top Democrat, Jane Harman, for Silvestre Reyes, who has a much lower profile...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Ford’s Sales Fall; G.M. and Chrysler Post Gains
Ford fell behind Toyota for the second time in five months while Detroit’s two other automakers posted gains...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Campaigns end in Venezuela poll
Campaigning for Sunday's presidential election in Venezuela ends, with calls for the result to be respected...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Colombian rebels kill 17 soldiers
Left-wing Farc rebels in Colombia have killed 17 soldiers in the north-east of the country, the army says...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Sales slide adds to Ford pressure
Ford's US sales fall 10%, adding to the pressure on the carmaker but rival General Motors enjoys a rise in sales...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Dead spy's contact 'has radiation'
A further person -- reportedly Italian academic Mario Scaramella (pictured) who met Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he was allegedly fatally poisoned -- has tested positive for radiation, British health officials say. The Health Protection Agency says the risk to the general public of having been exposed to radioactive toxin polonium-210 remains low...
CNN - December 1, 2006
Pelosi taps Reyes as intelligence chair
House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has chosen a Border-Patrol-agent-turned-congressman to take over the House intelligence committee, according to congressional aides...
CNN - December 1, 2006
Snow and Ice Storm Moves Through Midwest
The storm snarled air travel, made roads treacherous and cut power to tens of thousands of homes...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Calderon Is Sworn In as Mexico’s President
Felipe Calderón managed to take the oath of office while the losing leftist candidate staged a huge protest march...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
US manufacturing activity weakens
US manufacturing activity falls to its lowest level since 2003, fanning concerns of a sharper economic slowdown...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Tennis: Nalbandian beats Safin
Argentina's David Nalbandian beats Russian Marat Safin to square the Davis Cup final at 1-1...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Guide: Key facts
Venezuela guide: Key facts...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Q&A: Venezuela votes
Venezuelans go to the polls on Sunday to elect president - here are some key facts about the election...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Crowds gather in Beirut for rally
Thousands of Lebanese pour into Beirut for a Hezbollah-led protest aimed at toppling the Western-backed government, which has vowed to resist the pressure. Security was tight in the city with armored vehicles and troops in evidence nearby...
CNN - December 1, 2006
Travelers get terror scores
Without notifying the public, federal agents have assigned millions of international travelers, including Americans, computer-generated scores rating the risk they pose of being terrorists or criminals. The travelers are not allowed to see or directly challenge these risk assessments. The government intends to keep the scores on file for 40 years...
CNN - December 1, 2006
AIDS Day: Renewed calls for strategies
As World AIDS Day is marked Friday, some public health experts are saying the current focus on universal access to lifesaving antiretroviral drugs has had an unintended effect: sidelining prevention. Without a vaccine, preventing HIV infections is key to controlling the pandemic...
CNN - December 1, 2006
West Virginia: Violation for Mining Company
West Virginia regulators have cited a mining company for allowing workers in September to carry damaged emergency equipment into the Sago Mine, where an explosion in January killed 12 men. The heat indicators on six miners? emergency air packs showed the packs had been exposed to excessive heat, the citation said. The violation notice was issued Sept. 7 to a subsidiary of International Coal Group Inc. A copy was obtained by The Associated Press. A company spokesman, Ira Gamm, said the company was contesting the citation...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Free Massages Blend Hype and Healing in Marketing to Hispanics
A brand of massaging mattresses has attracted a following among Hispanic customers through its marketing tactics of word-of-mouth advertising and church-style testifying...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Rose Mattus, 90, Co-Creator of Häagen-Dazs Ice Cream, Dies
Rose Mattus, with her husband, Reuben, turned a family-owned ice cream business in the Bronx into a national brand with the invented name Häagen-Dazs...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Sports Business: Merely Talking to Japan’s Best Is Big Business
Since 1998, major league baseball teams have had to pay posting fees for the right to negotiate with Japanese players who are still under contract...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
A.M.D. Receives Federal Subpoena
Advanced Micro Devices said it had received a subpoena regarding an investigation into possible antitrust violations in the graphics processor and card business...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Grasso Wins Delay
Richard A. Grasso, the former New York Stock Exchange chairman, won a delay in obeying a judge’s order to return part of his $190 million pay being challenged in a lawsuit by the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Survey Shows Tilt Toward Asia Among Big Companies
Big Asian companies are increasingly interested in investing in China, India and Vietnam while their appetite for investments in the U.S. is starting to fade...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Bankruptcy Judge Approves Delphi Settlement
A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the settlement of accounting fraud charges against the Delphi Corporation and six people...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Tokyo Financier Pleads Not Guilty to Insider Trading
The case has focused attention on the tension between parts of Japan’s corporate establishment and a recent tilt toward American-style capitalism...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Attacks Possible on Stock Market and Bank Web Sites
The government issued the alert Thursday, but said the threat by a radical Muslim group was unconfirmed and seemed to pose no immediate danger...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Talks Go on; Strike Averted at 2 Dailies
Management and unionized newsroom workers at Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers agreed to resume their talks Friday morning...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Chinese Court Rejects Appeal by Researcher for The Times
A Beijing appeals court upheld a fraud conviction against a Chinese researcher for The New York Times...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
NFL: Bengals stun Baltimore
Cincinnati record a surprise victory over play-off hunting Baltimore...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Boxing: Nino fails drugs test
WBC light flyweight champion Omar Nino tests positive for methamphetamine, according to the Nevada Athletic Commission...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
China NY Times man loses appeal
A Chinese researcher for the New York Times loses his appeal in a Beijing court against a three-year jail term for fraud...
BBC News - December 1, 2006
Lebanese PM: 'Enough tragedies'
Attempting to blunt the impact of a rally planned by Hezbollah for Friday, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora vows that there will be no coup in Lebanon...
CNN - December 1, 2006
Owners to Sell Starrett City in Brooklyn
Starrett City, built 30 years ago as an enclave for working-class New Yorkers, is on the auction block...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
[TS] NYC: Plain Clothes, Perilous Choices
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, some attention turned this week to cops who lost life, not cops who took life...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Dance: Alvin Ailey Company Flexes New Muscle
The company has transcended the trauma of its founder’s death and has forged into the future with a strong roster of dancers and a steady touring schedule...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
McCain Courts Crucial Support of Governors
With an eye on 2008, Senator John McCain attended the annual meeting of Republican governors...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
News Analysis: The Only Consensus on Iraq: Nobody’s Leaving Right Now
Despite the Democrats’ victory, the idea of a rapid American troop withdrawal is fast receding as a viable option...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Sales Pitch for a Treatment
For the company that helps urologists set up radiation technology called I.M.R.T., making money is a highly desired side effect of prostate cancer treatment...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
The Churn
People...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Sharply Divided Reactions to Report on U.S. Markets
The report proposed strengthening shareholder rights, imposing caps on litigation against accounting firms and refining Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Power Station in South London Is Sold to Redeveloper From Dublin
Hong Kong developers sold a London architectural landmark, the Battersea Power Station, on Thursday, ending a 13-year struggle to develop the site...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Intuit to Buy Producer of Banking Software
Intuit plans to buy the Digital Insight Corporation for $1.35 billion, a move that will expand it into online banking software and services...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Drug Wholesaler Plans to Sell Unit
CHICAGO, Nov. 30 (Reuters) — Cardinal Health said Thursday that it planned to divest itself of its ailing drug manufacturing business, sending its shares up more than 5 percent...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Investors Sue H.P. For Insider Sales
The lawsuit accuses H.P.’s executives and board members of selling $38.9 million in company stock before news of a spying operation was publicly revealed...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Options Blocked
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the former chief executive of the UnitedHealth Group from exercising his stock options...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Stocks & Bonds: Sign of Slowdown in Midwest Tempers Investor Enthusiasm
Stocks ended little changed yesterday as recent signs of healthy economic growth drove fund managers to bet that stocks would keep rallying into December, but a report on slower Midwestern business activity tempered that enthusiasm...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Pfizer Likely to Seek Approval of New Heart Drug in 2007
Pfizer plans to ask or approval of torcetrapib, a heart drug crucial to the company’s future, despite evidence that the drug increases blood pressure...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Home Prices Barely Rose in Quarter
Home prices rose in the third quarter at their slowest pace since 1998, and were essentially flat when adjusted for inflation...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Early Holiday Sales Are Strong at Department Stores
Consumers flocked to department stores but largely shopped right past specialty clothing retailers...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Former Deputy at Justice Dept. Would Limit Legal Disclosure
The official who drafted guidelines used after the Enron collapse to combat corporate wrongdoing said prosecutors should only rarely ask companies to disclose legal communications...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Microsoft Software Updates Go on Sale to Businesses
Microsoft made new versions of Windows and Office available to business customers on Thursday...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Medicaid Plan Prods Patients Toward Health
West Virginia plans to reward “responsible” Medicaid patients with significant extra benefits...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Clinton Helps Broker Deal for Medicine to Treat AIDS
Former President Bill Clinton announced that his foundation had negotiated deeply reduced prices for 19 AIDS drugs to treat children...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
10,000 Get Grant Letters on Rebuilding in Louisiana
The spate of “award calculations,” as the rebuilding program calls them, represents a big increase from early last month, when fewer than 2,000 families had been told how much they were eligible to receive...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Senator Has Questions for NASD
Charles E. Grassley has asked NASD, the largest securities industry regulator, to describe how it identifies and tracks possible insider trading among its members...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Spending and Income Data Confirms Fed Economic Outlook
A report found that consumer spending in October chugged along while wages rose and inflation stayed at a level that the Fed chairman called “uncomfortably high.”...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Ripples Keep Spreading in a Chinese Bribery Case
I.B.M., NCR and Hitachi of Japan were named in a court verdict this month in the case of a bank chief convicted of accepting more than $500,000 in bribes...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Asia Finding Rich Partners in Mideast
Financial ties between the Middle East and Asia are strengthening by the day, threatening the flow of investment dollars to Europe and the U.S...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Insider: Some Hedge Funds Decide That Relying on Banks Is Just Too Risky
Hedge funds, at least a handful of them, are giving up some of their coveted privacy in exchange for more stable capital...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Advertising: Takes a Licking and Keeps on Floating
Product demonstrations have long been a mainstay of advertising, and Web sites are increasingly offering sponsored demonstrations of products’ longevity, strength and power...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
[TS] High & Low Finance: Winds Blow for Rollback of Regulation
Businesses are hoping that at least some post-Enron regulations can be rolled back in the name of making the U.S. more competitive...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
History for Sale; Needs Work
France is selling dozens of historic properties, using the proceeds to move government bureaucrats into less expensive properties and to help pay off the national debt...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Kerkorian Again Cuts His Holdings in G.M.
For the second time in about a week the investor sold shares, this time at a loss, cutting his stake in half...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Sony Shifts Duties of the Leader of the PlayStation Unit
Ken Kutaragi, the father of the PlayStation game console, will no longer run the day-to-day affairs of Sony’s video game unit...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
Side Effects: Profit and Questions on Prostate Cancer Therapy
Some fear that doctors will steer patients to I.M.R.T. radiation therapy because it has higher profit potential...
New York Times - December 1, 2006
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