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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 April 2008:
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O?Reilly, the Auto Parts Chain, Buys a Rival
O?Reilly Automotive said it would buy CSK Auto Corporation for $528 million, adding a West Coast presence for the parts retailer...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
tool kit: For Entrepreneurs, It?s All About Time
Becoming more productive without having 25 hours in a day...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
To See a Stock Market Bubble Bursting, Look at Shanghai
After two years of soaring share prices, the Shanghai composite index has plunged 45 percent from its high, reached last October...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
National Standards to Rank Physicians Planned
The agreement represents a truce between doctors and health insurers in their long-standing dispute over how health plans rank physicians? efforts in taking care of patients...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Microsoft Open Format Standard Said to Get Global Approval
Microsoft won an international standards designation for its open document format, apparently ending a year-long battle with some of its software rivals before a global standards-setting organization...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Market Place: Study Is Setback for Some RNA-Based Drugs
A study published by the journal Nature is raising doubts about one of the hottest fields in biotechnology, RNA interference...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
March Sales Decline for Top 4 Automakers
Executives said they are bracing for the industry?s slump to continue for at least several more months...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Reynolds Ads Oppose Move to Regulate Tobacco
Reynolds, whose brands include Camel cigarettes, is attacking the F.D.A. as weak and overextended amid a congressional effort to empower the agency to regulate the tobacco industry...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Britain Delays Cutting Troops in Iraq
Plans to withdraw about 1,500 soldiers were frozen amid doubts about Iraq?s ability to maintain security...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
CBS Moves Ahead With Layoffs in News
News operations at several local CBS stations started a series of job cuts this week as the network itself, CBS News, moved ahead with plans to lay off about 1 percent of its nearly 1,200 employees...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Bats: More Rain at Yankee Stadium
The Yankees and the Blue Jays will again attempt to play their season opener at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night. It is drizzling here so batting practice was moved indoors. The tarpaulin is covering the field. After yesterday's rainout, this is beginning to feel like Groundhog?s Day. While the rain is falling lightly, several members of [...]...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
City Room: New York Aquarium Shark Dies
Bertha, one of the oldest sharks in any aquarium in the world, died on Saturday after a brief illness. She arrived at the aquarium in the 1960s...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Senate Readies Bipartisan Bill to Deal With Housing Slump
The 94-to-1 Senate vote was a clear sign of a growing consensus that further government intervention is needed to stem the crisis...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
City Room: Testimony From Bell?s Friend Who Was Shot
Joseph Guzman, the man shot 16 times in the gunfire that killed his friend, Sean Bell, told a packed courtroom in Queens about hearing his friend?s last words...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Mugabe?s Control of Zimbabwe Weakens
Analysts and opposition members contended that negotiations were under way for President Robert G. Mugabe to step down after trailing in the the country?s presidential election...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Clinton will fight 'like Rocky'
Hillary Clinton vows to fight on like film character Rocky in the race to be the Democrats' presidential nominee...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Lehman Raises $4 Billion to Quell Critics
The sale met with strong demand even after rumors of looming write-downs at Lehman have cratered the company?s stock for weeks...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
tool kit: For Entrepreneurs, It?s All About Time
Becoming more productive without having 25 hours in a day...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Doubts Greet Treasury Plan on Regulation
Lawmakers and lobbyists from industries opposed to the plan predicted that most of it would be dead on arrival...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
North Korea Attacks South?s President
North Korea unleashed a propaganda tirade against South Korea?s new president, Lee Myung-bak, calling him a ?traitor? and ?U.S. sycophant.?...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Baghdad Bureau: For Young Iraqis, Opportunity Lost
Students returned to Baghdad University months after the invasion. (Photo: Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times) Mudhafer al-Husaini is an Iraqi employee of The New York Times. Everything was all right after the American invasion in April 9, 2003. I was a student in the final year of high school, reading literature. Just two months later we had [...]...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
The Lede: Melting Down Copper Pipes and Pennies
The housing slump and the weak dollar are creating opportunities for a bit of do-it-yourself arbitrage in the pre-owned copper business...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Goal: Don?t Bring a Knife to a Soccer Match
Fears of violence shadow the anticipation of the Champions League quarterfinal between Manchester United and AS Roma...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
The Moment: Final Episode of the ?T Takes? Series
T online's exclusive film series concludes with today's episode starring Athena Currey...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Obama Is Moving to Down-to-Earth Oratory
Senator Barack Obama is grounding his rhetoric in the more prosaic language of white-working-class discontent...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Few Lives Saved by Home Heart-Starting Devices
Researchers found no evidence that the devices produced significant life-saving benefits in their first major study...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Insider Trading Cited in EADS Case
The French financial market regulator filed a formal complaint against the parent company of Airbus and more than a dozen current and former executives...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Negotiations May Lead to Mugabe?s Exit in Zimbabwe
The opposition leader is in talks with President Robert G. Mugabe?s advisers amid signs that people close to Mr. Mugabe may encourage him to resign, a diplomat and a political analyst said...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Shares Surge on Bank Write-Downs
Investors hoped that mortgage-related write-offs at UBS and Deutsche Bank could signal the last of Wall Street?s subprime woes...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
UBS to Write Down Another $19 Billion
The Swiss bank, which also announced the resignation of its chairman, said the write-down would result in a $12 billion quarterly loss...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
US factory activity falls again
US factory activity falls for a second consecutive month but it still better than had been expected...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Jamaica poor 'at mercy of gangs'
Jamaica fails to protect poor inner-city communities left at the mercy criminal gangs, Amnesty International says...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
'Vampire' convict dies in Bolivia
An American who took the name of a fictional vampire dies in Bolivia where he was jailed for fatal bombings...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Complaint Filed Against Airbus Parent Company
The French financial market regulator filed a complaint against European Aeronautic, Defense & Space in connection with an inquiry into allegations of market abuses...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Books of The Times: The Family That Spawned 9/11
Steve Coll?s book reveals the crucial role that Osama bin Laden?s relatives and their relationship with the royal house of Saud played in shaping him...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Jules Dassin, Filmmaker on Blacklist, Dies at 96
Mr. Dassin is most widely remembered for films he made after he fled Hollywood in the 1950s, including ?Never on Sunday,? ?Topkapi,? and the 1954 French thriller ?Rififi.?...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Bush Supports Ukraine?s Bid to Join NATO
President Bush expressed strong support for Ukraine?s ambitions of joining the NATO alliance on the eve of a meeting of NATO leaders in Romania...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Hamas?s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace Effort
While the Palestinian Authority has made efforts to end incitement against Jews, Hamas feels no such restraint...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
UBS to Write Down $19 Billion; Chair Will Depart
The largest Swiss bank said that the write-down was related to ?U.S. real estate and related structured credit positions.?...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
National Grid makes New York sale
UK utility National Grid says it has sold its Ravenswood generating station in New York city for $2.9bn...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Life for Mexico's Old Lady Killer
One of Mexico's most prolific serial killers, Juana Barraza, gets several life sentences for killing 11 women...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Brazil army aids Rio dengue fight
Brazil's military opens three new field hospitals in Rio de Janeiro as the number dying from dengue fever passes 60...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Visa Application Period Opens for Highly Skilled Workers
Technology companies have urged Congress to raise the annual limit of 65,000, saying they face damaging shortages of engineers and software technicians...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Citigroup to Reorganize, Creating Regional Banking Units
The move is part of a broader reorganization to cut costs and simplify the institution?s structure, the company said...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Dimon?s Compensation Rose 5% at JPMorgan
The bank?s chief executive Jamie Dimon was awarded $28.86 million in compensation in 2007, a 5 percent increase over the previous year...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Memo Pad: Memo Pad
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New York Times - April 1, 2008
On the Road: Airplane Maintenance: Maybe Not a Place to Skimp
Misgivings about maintenance are growing, especially because of the widespread airline outsourcing of maintenance that used to be done in-house...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
How I Achieved Inner Peace (Despite the Concussion)
After traveling so much, I understand that I only influence, but don?t control, my destiny. But it took a lot of hard work to achieve this Zen state...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Vital Signs: Regimens: Drug Samples Found to Affect Spending
Having doctors distribute free samples of medicines may do encourage patients to spend more money on drugs...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Business Off in Several U.S. Regions, Indexes Show
A regional manufacturing report showed improvement on the jobs front but also the persistence of entrenched inflation amid recessionary conditions...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Supreme Court Rules for Delaware in River Dispute
The Supreme Court voted that Delaware has the right to veto New Jersey?s project creating a huge liquefied natural gas processing plant on its Delaware River shore...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Dell Weighs Alternatives to Its Link With CIT
For 11 years, Dell has contracted with the CIT Group to provide its customers with loans to finance their Dell product purchases, about a tenth of Dell?s sales last year...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Woody Allen Sues Clothing Maker
Woody Allen has sued a clothing maker and retailer, American Apparel, for $10 million, saying it used his image without permission on billboards...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
New Competition and Cancellations at Heathrow Vex British Airways
Disruptions at London?s Heathrow airport could not come at a worse time for British Airways, only a day after an agreement removed trans-Atlantic flight competition restrictions...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Banks Seek to Dismiss Clear Channel Claims
Two private equity firms are suing a group of six banks to force completion of the pending $20 billion buyout of Clear Channel...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Stocks Bonds: With Small Gain, Market Ends Tough Three Months
The Standard & Poor?s 500-stock index, the benchmark for many widely held investments like mutual funds, suffered a loss for the quarter of nearly 10 percent...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Inflation Accelerates in Nations Using Euro
Euro-zone inflation accelerated to 3.5 percent in March, the fastest pace since 1992 and a level that may heighten inflationary concerns at the European Central Bank...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Award Plans Earn Cash for Airlines
What began 27 years ago as a way to win the loyalty of travelers has turned into a lucrative business for the airlines...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Colorado Proposes Tough Law on Executive Accountability
If adopted, the measure, which would make business executives criminally responsible if their companies run afoul of the law, would be the nation?s toughest corporate fraud law...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Gore Group Plans Ad Blitz on Global Warming
The three-year campaign would involve a $300 million advertising blitz to recruit 10 million advocates to seek laws and policies that can cut greenhouse gases...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Advertising: An Online Game So Mysterious Its Famous Sponsor Is Hidden
McDonald?s is the sponsor of an enigmatic Olympic-themed online game called The Lost Ring...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Parts Maker Talks of Strikebreakers and Labor Abroad
American Axle and Manufacturing is feeling the pressure from its largest customer, General Motors, to end the monthlong strike...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Lehman Tries to Quash Talk by Raising $3 Billion
The bank raised the money by selling new convertible preferred shares, an effort to quiet talk on Wall Street that it might be the next investment bank to run into trouble...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
On Paper, Wall Street Gets Its Way
Wall Street for years demanded an overhaul of the system overseeing the American financial system, and may have gotten its wish with the new Treasury plan to do so...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Seeking Alternatives to Animal-Derived Drugs
Concern about the possibility of animal viruses has led to a renewed search for synthetic replacements for certain crucial medicines that are still derived from animal parts...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Food Prices Rise, Farmers Respond
Farmers say they intend on significantly cutting corn acreage this year in favor of soybeans, which may help alleviate global shortages that have hit poor countries hard...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Books of The Times: The Bricklayer?s Sons: The Family That Spawned 9/11
Steve Coll?s riveting new book reveals the crucial role that Osama bin Laden?s relatives and their relationship with the royal house of Saud played in shaping his thinking, his ambitions, his technological expertise and his tactics...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Bits: Clinton?s Songsmith Is Back
Gene Wang, a three-time Silicon Valley chief executive and musically inclined Hillary Clinton supporter, has penned another pro-Clinton ditty...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
The Moment: Animal Prints | Vogue Uproar
The photograph that has the blogosphere and fashioistas debating the topic of racist stereotypes ...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Mets 7, Marlins 2: Mets Defeat the Marlins in Their Season Opener
There is much to look forward to in 2008 if Johan Santana pitches as he did Monday in a win fueled by David Wright?s bases-clearing double in the fourth inning...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Zimbabwe Opposition Insists Mugabe Lost
The main opposition party pressed its claim that it had won a landslide victory to unseat President Robert G. Mugabe, but there was no official announcement...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Accusations of Delays in Releasing Drug Results
A doctor who led a key trial of two heart drugs accused their makers, Merck and Schering-Plough, last July of hiding the negative results...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Official?s Journey Ends in a Swirl of Accusations
Housing Secretary Alphonso R. Jackson, who had dismissed accusations of cronyism, did not address continuing investigations in his resignation announcement...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Passenger in Sean Bell?s Car Recounts Shooting
Trent Benefield, who was in the back seat during the fatal shooting, told the court he saw a man standing in front of the car, pointing a pistol at Mr. Bell...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Doubts Greet Treasury Plan Regulation
Senior lawmakers and lobbyists from industries opposed to the plan to overhaul the regulatory apparatus predicted that most of it would be dead on arrival...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
In Gaza, Hamas?s Fiery Insults to Jews Complicate Peace Effort
While the Palestinian Authority under Fatah has made significant, if imperfect, efforts to end incitement against Jews, Hamas feels no such restraint...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Olympians Torn on Protesting China's Policies
Socially conscious athletes are struggling to figure out how to honor their beliefs while also respecting the purpose of the Olympic Games...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Big Plans Are Slow to Bear Fruit in New Orleans
A year after city officials unveiled their plan to redevelop New Orleans and move out of the post-Hurricane Katrina morass, there are no signs of that transformation...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
City Council Approves Fee to Drive Below 60th
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Speaker Christine C. Quinn won approval of the controversial proposal from the City Council by an unusually slim margin...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Insurers Faulted as Overloading Social Security
Insurers are forcing many people who file disability claims with them to also apply to Social Security ? even people who clearly do not qualify for the government program...
New York Times - April 1, 2008
Film director Jules Dassin dies
US film director Jules Dassin, maker of Never on Sunday, dies aged 96 in his adopted homeland of Greece...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
Argentine farmers continue strike
Farmers in Argentina promise to continue a crippling strike over taxes after rejecting government concessions...
BBC News - April 1, 2008
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