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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 September 2007:
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South Koreans freed by Taliban arrive home
Nineteen South Koreans who were held hostage by the Taliban for six weeks arrived early Sunday at Incheon International Airport, outside Seoul. full story...
CNN - September 1, 2007
Guantánamo Legal Battle Is Resuming
As the Supreme Court prepares to examine the issue, the arguments have again turned to the federal courts? role...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
For Poor Tribe, Even a Windfall Has a Dark Side
Receiving $92.6 million worth of mining proceeds has split the Yurok people into two camps: those who prefer long-term community projects and those who want the money now...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Senator Quits as Republicans Try to Regroup
Ending a stunning week, Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho announced his resignation, closing his Senate career...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
As 9/11 Nears, How Much Tribute Is Enough?
Each year, murmuring about Sept. 11 fatigue arises, but now, many feel that the commemorations are excessive...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
In Book, Bush Peeks Ahead to His Legacy
President Bush, who rarely talks publicly about his inner life, gave a revealing interview to an author last year...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Its Mill Days Gone (and Not Coming Back), a Small Town Tries Plans B and C
Berlin, N.H., is trying to offset the loss of its economic base, paper mills, with a new federal prison and New England?s first all-terrain vehicle park...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
The Goods: Wine, Neither Shaken Nor Stirred
Tucked beneath the sides of a wine-bottle pyramid, a pair of curvy rubber strips prevent any unwanted rolling, taking the place of a wine rack...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Economic View: Welcome, Stranger. Here?s a Speeding Ticket.
Do towns that need money take out their frustrations on visitors?...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Square Feet | Checking In: Party Central, for a Richer Crowd
The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is expected to emerge from a $750 million renovation with its party image intact but with a more upscale clientele...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: Hedge Funds and the Little People
A court ruling expected in a Manhattan bankruptcy court could have significant implications for hedge funds domiciled in faraway places...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Career Couch: The Care and Feeding of References
How can you ensure that your references help your chances of getting the job instead of hurting them?...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Home Front: Revivals That Embrace Comforts of the Kitchen
A shelter means a roof, but sometimes much more...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
The Boss: The Optimist Wins
?Watching my dad, I learned the importance of not disappointing a customer.?...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Suits: He Probably Makes a Mean Skim Latte
Last week, Starbucks announced its first partnership with a big-name celebrity chef...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
The Count: More Days Off? Better Move to Colombia
Many countries are more generous than the United States in the number of public holidays...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Fundamentally: Count the Days, Not the Years, of Market Pullbacks
Even a severe correction in stocks doesn?t have to be destructive...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Market Week: Awaiting Subprime?s Fallout
If forecasts for this week?s economic data prove accurate, the economy would seem to be getting off lightly...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Off The Shelf: Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy
Robert B. Reich argues that the United States has morphed into a nation of consumers and investors, rather than citizens...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Novelties: Do the Mash (Even if You Don?t Know All the Steps)
Several companies are creating online systems to let ordinary people create useful computer applications by combining different information sources...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Prototype: A Tool to Organize Our Many Organizers
A company based in Pakistan offers a challenge to a market dominated by Microsoft, Google and Yahoo...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Spending: Catching the Bouquet, in a Dress You Bought Online
The Internet is helping to drive the shift to fashionable bridal attendant wear, as Web sites offer a broad choice of styles and fabrics and ease of purchase...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Investing: When Risk Is Home-Grown, Is It Time to Look Abroad?
The latest round of global financial problems started in the United States, underscoring the importance of international investing...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Can the Mortgage Crisis Swallow a Town?
At current rates, analysts expect foreclosure filings to hit a rate approaching heights not seen since the Great Depression...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Reeling in the College-Bound
One in five student borrowers passes up a less expensive federal student loan in favor of private lenders, according to a recent study...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Scene Stealer: For Studio Chiefs, the End of the Revolving Door?
In the once notoriously deadly business culture of Hollywood, studio chiefs are a lot safer than they used to be...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
The Testing Lab: Safety Agency Faces Scrutiny Amid Changes
Facing a flood of imports, Bush appointees at the Consumer Product Safety Commission have voiced few objections as their staff was pared to the bone...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Bhutto announces Pakistan return
Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return even without a deal. full story...
CNN - September 1, 2007
Craig resigns
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig said Saturday he will resign, succumbing to rapidly intensifying pressure from within his own Republican Party. full story...
CNN - September 1, 2007
TierneyLab: More Bad News in the War on Drugs
I recommend a couple of articles chronicling the unintended consequences of the war on drugs. One, by Ethan Nadelmann, is a global look at the damage done by prohibitionist policies. The other, by Radley Balko, is a look at a doctor convicted for prescribing opioids ? and this case is in some ways more troubling [...]...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
City Room: The Week in Pictures
Slide show: Photographs taken in the New York region by Times photographers in the past week...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Bhutto to Return to Pakistan ?Soon?
LONDON (AP) -- Pakistan's exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said Saturday that power-sharing talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf had stalled but she planned to return even without a deal...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Search for 6 Utah Miners Suspended
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- For nearly four weeks a mining community in central Utah held out hope that six men trapped in a coal mine cave-in would be found alive. That hope is gone now that federal mine officials have suspended the search for the men...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
US Open: Leave Your Backpack, Bring Your Wallet
Not every spectator is an Open veteran, the kind who plan their vacation around the Grand Slam calendar. In fact, many of the 700,000 spectators who pass through the turnstiles of the National Tennis Center over the two weeks are first-timers. While the U.S.T.A. Web site does a good job of telling you the [...]...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Fire Commissioner Faces Challenge in Fatal Blaze
After a deadly fire, Nicholas Scoppetta finds himself under harsh scrutiny from without and within his agency...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Idaho Senator to Step Down Over Sex Sting
Concluding that his political career is over, Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho said today that he would step aside Sept. 30...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Pay at Investment Banks Eclipses All Private Jobs
Investment banking paid an average weekly wage of $8,367, compared with $841 for all private sector jobs...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Tennis: Calleri ends Hewitt hopes
Argentina's Agustin Calleri beats former champion Lleyton Hewitt in round two of the US Open...
BBC News - September 1, 2007
Academy in bid to stop Oscar sale
A court case is filed in the US trying to stop the sale of two Academy Awards given to late film star Mary Pickford...
BBC News - September 1, 2007
Four tickets hit $330 million jackpot
Four winning tickets were sold -- one in each of four states -- for a Mega Millions jackpot worth an estimated $330 million, lottery officials said early Saturday. full story...
CNN - September 1, 2007
Generic Anemia Drug Allowed
Novartis has become the first company to win approval for a copy of Johnson & Johnson?s Eprex anemia treatment, allowing it to offer cheaper versions to Europeans...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Google Settles Trademark Suit
Google settled a lawsuit with American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, which had claimed advertisements on Google Web pages infringed trademarks...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Hey, Who?s He? With Gwyneth? The Google Guy
One Google engineer has had his picture taken with more than 100 luminaries who have visited the company...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Summer Rituals | Turning the Page: On the Outdoor Book Tour, the Word Is Spreading
In warm weather, all New York is a reading room, from Brooklyn stoops to the Sheep?s Meadow at high noon...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Strahan to Return to Giants for 15th Season
Michael Strahan expects to play in the team?s regular-season opener Sunday, Sept. 9, against the Cowboys in Dallas...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Oliver Sacks Joins Columbia Faculty
Attracted by his breadth of interests, Columbia University has appointed Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and writer, as its first Columbia artist, a newly created designation...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Virginia Senator Will Retire in 2008
The decision by Senator John W. Warner, a five-term Republican, immediately put his seat up for grabs...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Republicans Say Senator Will Resign Over Sex Sting
Senator Larry E. Craig will resign under pressure in the aftermath of an undercover sex sting, according to Republican Party officials...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
News Analysis: To Strike or Not? Hollywood?s Next Drama
Labor issues are at the fore in Los Angeles because the master contract between film and television producers and two powerful writers unions is scheduled to expire in just two months...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Agreeing to Block Some Videos, YouTube Returns to Thailand
Thai censors lifted their ban on YouTube after five months of blocking it because it had carried material seen as insulting to the country?s king...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
S.E.C. Queries Companies on Executive Pay
The S.E.C. has sent 300 letters to companies asking for details on executive salaries, hoping to help shareholders compare pay practices at publicly traded companies...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Young Fliers See the Film, Be It PG or R
Critics say airlines have relaxed their rules for in-flight movies, exposing children to violence and sexual content...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Lender Rejects Suitor Plan to Lower Price of Deal
Accredited Home Lenders Holding rebuffed a private equity firm?s effort to pay less for the company, saying Friday that it would continue a lawsuit aimed at closing the deal at the price previously agreed...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Toyota Says It?ll Be No. 1 in 2009
Toyota plans to sell 10.4 million vehicles globally in 2009, another sign of the Japanese automaker?s momentum toward displacing the industry kingpin, General Motors...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
What?s Offline: The Cost of Living With Debt
Though hardly groundbreaking, spending less and paying off debt sooner is sound advice...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Firm Is Issued Subpoena in Inquiry on Student Loans
The New York attorney general Andrew M. Cuomo has subpoenaed the First Marblehead Corporation as part of his investigation of the student-loan industry in the United States...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Soothing Words and a Big Gain
Wall Street closed out another erratic week with a big gain yesterday after reassuring words from President Bush and the Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Google Shift on Handling of News
Google will now host articles from four news agencies, setting the stage for the company to generate advertising revenue from Google News...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
What's Online: No Shortage of Worries
Demand for biofuels could push up food prices, while Sony is accused of again undermining the security of customers? PCs with rootkit software...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Market Values: No Rush to Snap Up Lenders
While it might be tempting to go bargain hunting in the mortgage industry, investment advisers don?t think that prices yet fully reflect the troubles the industry is likely to see in the coming months...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Mired Talks on Trade to Resume
Talks on agricultural trade are set resume Monday in the latest session of the Doha round of world trade negotiations...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Citigroup Buys Parts of a Troubled Mortgage Lender
Citigroup is buying the assets of the subprime lender ACC Capital Holdings, which said on Friday that it would close...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Barclays Helps to Save a Debt Fund in England
Cairn Capital will restructure a debt fund that ran into trouble borrowing cash through commercial paper...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Saturday Interview: Overseas, a Rosier Picture for Magazines
George Green, C.E.O. of Hearst Magazines International, discusses why magazines can still thrive outside the United States...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
No New NBC Shows to Be Sold by Apple
Apple announced Friday that it would not add any new episodes of NBC television shows to the online store?s inventory, as the companies? dispute over pricing continued...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Once Ravaged by War, Now Vacation Spots
Hoping to replace images of violence with those of hospitality, countries once torn by war are seeking to boost tourism...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Pay at Investment Banks Eclipses All Private Jobs by a Factor of 10
Investment banking paid an average weekly wage of $8,367, compared with $841 for all private sector jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a report issued Thursday...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Tourists Returning, Greek Officials Say
The barrage of brutal wildfires in Greece hit hardest in a popular tourist destination, but with fires starting to come under control, tourists are trickling back in...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Shortcuts: Save, Save. Don?t Splurge on a Piggy Bank, a Tin Can Will Do.
Saving money may not be the sexiest financial move, but it?s probably the most important...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Off The Charts: When Bulls and Bears Act Unruly on a Seesaw
In the past, wild swings in share prices, like those seen last month, have sometimes indicated that markets were turning in a different direction...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
On Mortgages, Bush Plans a Limited Intervention
President Bush announced several steps to help Americans who have credit problems meet the rising cost of their housing loans...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Who?s With Gwyneth? The Google Guy
Tan Chade-Meng, a Google engineer with a big smile, has had his picture taken with more than 100 luminaries who have visited the company in Mountain View, Calif...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
Chief Says Fed Is Ready to Act on Credit Pinch
Ben S. Bernanke said that the central bank ?stands ready to take additional actions as needed? to limit the effect of the financial market disorder on the economy...
New York Times - September 1, 2007
UK general criticises US policy
The head of the British army during the Iraq invasion says US post-war policy was "intellectually bankrupt"...
BBC News - September 1, 2007
Chile priest charged over deaths
Twelve people including a priest are charged in Chile over death-squad killings during the Pinochet regime...
BBC News - September 1, 2007
US court allows navy to use sonar
The US Navy can use sonar equipment during training despite a possible threat to whales, a court rules...
BBC News - September 1, 2007
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