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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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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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UN expects new peacekeepers in Congo in weeks
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
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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US News Archive for November 2007:
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The Pour Blog: Pairing the Wine, When Dinner Is Solo
A Spanish white with a pork roast...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
City Room: Is the Rockefeller Tree Really Green?
Tishman Speyer, which manages Rockefeller Center, says its Christmas tree this year is the environmentally friendliest ever...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
The Lede Blog: Baghdad Correspondent on the Surge
Damien Cave of the Baghdad Bureau is back assessing another rush of good news in Iraq...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Rollins Is N.L. Most Valuable Player
Jimmy Rollins, the spry shortstop who helped the Phillies rumble past the Mets and reach the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, edged Matt Holliday for M.V.P...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Ian Douglas Smith, Ex-Leader of Rhodesia, Dies
Ian Douglas Smith rose to power and then slipped from it again, committed all the while to an unshakable belief that Africa without whites would not work...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Sect Leader Is Sentenced in Utah
The polygamous leader of a fundamentalist Mormon sect was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison for forcing a 14-year-old girl to submit to sexual relations against her will...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Spitzer Calls for M.T.A. to Keep Base Fare at $2
Gov. Eliot Spitzer today called on the transit authority to throw out a plan to raise subway and bus fares...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Fed Report Trims Economic Outlook
Policy makers expect the economy to keep expanding over the next year, but they have lowered their forecasts...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Gun Control Case
Justices will rule on the District of Columbia?s handgun ban, a case that bears directly on the Second Amendment right to ?keep and bear arms.?...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Office Depot Profit And Outlook Disappoint
Office Depot said quarterly profit fell to $117.5 million as U.S. same-store sales fell and promotions pressured margins...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Barnes & Noble Swings to Profit
The bookseller raised its earnings outlook as it recorded strong third-quarter profits on sales of new releases...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Saks Earnings Triple on Sales Growth
The department store earned $21.6 million for the third quarter, helped by strong sales growth and cost controls...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Brazil: U.S. Steel Maker Is Sold
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Japan: Olympus Plans to Expand
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Spain: Agricole Buys Bank Stake
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
The Netherlands: Bid for Grolsch
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Switzerland: Insurer to Sell Units
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Icahn Acquires More Shares of Blockbuster, Nudging His Stake to 16%
Carl C. Icahn holds 13.2 million shares of Blockbuster Class A shares, according to a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Hedge Fund Buys Another
BOSTON, Nov. 19 (Reuters) ? The hedge fund company Eton Park Capital Management said Monday that it would take over R6 Capital Management in January, in one of the first prominent acquisitions in the $2 trillion hedge fund industry...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Equity Firm Is Sued Over Withdrawal From Deal
United Rentals, the rental equipment provider, sued the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management Monday over its cancellation of a $4 billion buyout of the company...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Home Slump Hurts Lowe?s as Earnings Decline 10%
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 19 (AP) — The Lowe?s Companies, the nation?s second-largest home improvement chain, said Monday that its third-quarter profit fell 10.2 percent, citing a weak sales environment amid a continuing slump in the housing sector...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Medtronic Profit Tops Estimates, Despite Recall
The company said second-quarter earnings fell 2 percent from a year ago as the recall of a component used with its implantable devices to treat abnormal heart rhythms hurt revenue...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Nordstrom?s Profit Increases 22%
SEATTLE, Nov. 19 (AP) — The luxury retailer Nordstrom said on Monday that third-quarter earnings rose 22 percent, helped by an extra week of sales the company counted in the quarter compared with a year ago...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Memo Pad
The overall number of Americans traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday season will rise by a slight 1.5 percent this year...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Campbell Says Higher Costs Hurt Earnings
The Campbell Soup Company posted a 7 percent decline in first-quarter profit yesterday, hurt by higher costs and lower soup sales in the United States, but stood by its full-year earnings forecast...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Even a Trump Can Trigger an Alarm
When I travel, I have learned to cope with airline security, check-ins and some inevitable questions. The first: ?Is that your real name??...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Suit on Apple Options Is Dismissed
Apple won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming that company directors and managers, including the chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, lied to shareholders about the backdating of option awards...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
On the Job, Everywhere
Hotels and airports are gradually catching on to the fact that mobile workers need more help getting their jobs done on the road...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
A Dividend at Xerox
NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 19 (AP) — Xerox announced its first quarterly cash dividend in six years on Monday and predicted double-digit earnings growth in the coming years, citing new products and a stronger balance sheet...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Pioneer Lodging Chain Aims to Get Its Consistency Back
In recent years, Holiday Inn, now owned by InterContinental Hotels Group of London, has recovered from its decline and is expanding aggressively...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Asian Stocks Fall Amid Credit Concerns
Asian stocks fell on Tuesday as investors dumped bank shares amid worries that the financial sector will be hit by further credit losses...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Surge in Wages on Wall Street in First Quarter Helps Borough
The average weekly pretax pay for people who worked at investment banks and brokerage houses in Manhattan was $16,918 in the first three months of this year...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
U.S. Withdraws Approval for Tyson?s Antibiotic-Free Label
Agriculture officials said they changed their mind when they realized that the company?s feeding plan lists animal medications called ionophores, which the department has long considered to be antibiotics...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Swiss Re Takes $1 Billion Write-Down
The company?s stock dropped the most since March 2003 after the announcement, which came two weeks after the company said its exposure to U.S. subprime mortgage woes would be limited...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Employees at CBS News Vote to Authorize a Strike
The vote enables the guild to call a strike at any time, although a walkout is not imminent. A strike could affect CBS television and radio newscasts, both nationally and in four local markets...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
As U.S. Cools, World Demand Helps H.P. Outpace Rivals
Buoyed by its presence abroad, Hewlett-Packard appears to have sidestepped the softening demand from corporations inside the United States for new technology...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
On Broadway, Growing Gloom About the Holidays
New York city?s comptroller estimated that the city is losing about $2 million a day because of the strike...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Options Narrowing as Britain Tries to Stabilize Bank
Northern Rock said on Monday that it had received a number of disappointing takeover proposals, increasing the pressure on the British government to either find a solution or consider nationalizing the bank...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
New Bribery Allegation Roils Samsung
Samsung sustained another blow to its image on Monday when a former legal adviser to South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun said the company had once offered him a cash bribe...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Amazon Reading Device Doesn?t Need Computer
Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, is hoping that Kindle, an ambitious $399 electronic book device, will avoid the fate of other e-books...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Imitation Hits the Marketing Business. Again.
A skein of look-alike, sound-alike, seem-alike advertising campaigns is raising eyebrows along Madison Avenue...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
A New Science, at First Blush
Scientists are working feverishly to develop new technologies to test cosmetics before a European Union ban on animal testing begins in March 2009...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Amway Adds Entertainment to Product Line
Amway, the door-to-door peddler of vitamins and soap, is pouring millions of dollars into a new online store called Fanista, which will initially sell DVDs and CDs...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Companies Bolster Sales Abroad to Offset Weakness at Home
The success of American firms overseas may help prevent the economy from slipping into a recession...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Target Earnings Fall 4%, Missing Forecasts
Weak sales in high-margin categories held down profit at the discount retailer despite overall revenue growth...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Oil Resumes Rise, Closing Above $98 a Barrel
Oil prices resumed their march toward $100 today as futures drew strength from a declining dollar and news of refinery problems...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Stocks Rebound After Fed Report
Wall Street turned higher in late trading as investors tried to interpret the Federal Reserve?s mixed message about its willingness to lower interest rates...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Freddie Mac Posts a $2 Billion Loss
Turmoil in housing continued to reverberate today, with the homebuilder D.R. Horton also reporting a loss...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Fed Report Trims Economic Outlook
Policy makers expect the economy to keep expanding over the next year, but they have lowered their forecasts...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
US polygamy sect leader jailed
A US polygamist sect leader is sentenced to five years to life in jail for forcing a 14-year-old girl into marriage...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Lede: How Iraq Is Like ?The Sopranos?
A U.S. general channels the HBO crime drama...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
TV Decoder Blog: TV Decoder: Strike-Impacted Schedule Update
On Monday, the broadcast networks offered three more hints of what their strike-impacted schedules would look like: — ABC announced that a tournament-style trivia show called "Duel" will be shown for six straight nights beginning Monday, Dec. 17. The game show goes into production after Thanksgiving, according to Reality TV Magazine. If the launch is [...]...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
City Room: Racial Gap Found in Police Searches
A study commissioned by the Police Department found that blacks and Hispanics were more likely to be stopped by the police, but it did not accuse the department of profiling...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Dot Earth Blog: Dot Earth: Building Confidence in Carbon Credits
A new voluntary carbon standard is intended to make sure that carbon credits really are what they say they are...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Well Blog: The Romantic Toll of Diabetes
Putting the love back in diabetes...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Spitzer Calls for M.T.A. to Keep Base Transit Fare at $2
Gov. Eliot Spitzer today called on the transportation authority to throw out a controversial plan to raise subway and bus fares...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
New Stem Cell Method Could Ease Ethical Concerns
Scientists said today that they created what appear to be embryonic stem cells without having to make or destroy an embryo...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Office Depot Profit Falls
Office Depot said quarterly profit fell to $117.5 million as U.S. same-store sales fell and promotions pressured margins...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Barnes & Noble Swings to Profit
The bookseller raised its earnings outlook as it recorded strong third-quarter profits on sales of new releases...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Saks Earnings Triple on Sales Growth
The department store earned $21.6 million for the third quarter, helped by strong sales growth and cost controls...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Asian Stocks Fall Amid Credit Concerns
Asian stocks fell on Tuesday as investors dumped bank shares amid worries that the financial sector will be hit by further credit losses...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Target Earnings Fall 4%, Missing Forecasts
Weak sales in high-margin categories held down profit at the discount retailer despite overall revenue growth...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Wall Street Lifts Ahead of Fed Minutes
Wall Street recovered from steep losses a day earlier as investors hunted for bargains ahead of minutes from the Federal Reserve?s last meeting...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Freddie Mac Posts a $2 Billion Loss
Turmoil in housing continued to reverberate today, with the homebuilder D.R. Horton also reporting a loss...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Researchers in stem cell breakthrough
Scientists make human skin cells mimic embryonic stem cells - promising a revolution in medical research...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
TierneyLab: Solar-Twin Naming Contest Flares Up
The grand prize — your very own copy of "Bullfinch's Mythology" — is still up for grabs, but we've had some promising names and myths nominated for the newly discovered twin of the Sun. (You can read about the contest and see some nominations here.) Now Ivan Ramirez, one of the two Peruvian astronomers who [...]...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Brazil: U.S. Steel Maker Is Sold
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Japan: Olympus Plans to Expand
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Switzerland: Insurer to Sell Units
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Spain: Agricole Buys Bank Stake
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
The Netherlands: Bid for Grolsch
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Baseball: Lowell in Red Sox deal
Mike Lowell, named Most Valuable Player in Boston's World Series victory, agrees a new deal with the Red Sox...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
Pound agrees to meet Balco boss
World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound tells BBC Sport he is ready to listen to Balco founder Victor Conte's advice on tackling drugs in sport...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
FBI details US hate crimes rise
Incidents of hate crime in the US rose by more than 7% last year, annual figures from the FBI show...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
US fills Iraq diplomat shortage
The US says it will no longer need to force diplomats to serve in Iraq as enough volunteers have come forward...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
Dollar declines to fresh euro low
The dollar falls to a fresh all-time low against the euro, hit by further fears over the state of the US economy...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
City Room: Fired Principal of Arabic School Sues
Debbie Almontaser asserted in a federal lawsuit that the city violated her right to free speech and "conspired to deny her the opportunity to regain her position as principal" of the Khalil Gibran International Academy...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Diner's Journal Blog: Chefs Hanging Out With Chefs
Who chefs hang out with...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Decline of the Tenure Track Raises Concerns
A nationwide trend for universities to use adjunct professors instead of a tenured faculty has become so extreme that some schools are pulling back...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment
At some of Giants Stadium?s pedestrian ramps, obscenity-laced chants and demands that women expose their breasts have become a staple during halftime at Jets home games...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Architecture Review: Pride and Nostalgia Mix in the Times?s New Home
The new building delivers on Modernism?s promise to drag us ? in this case, The Times ? out of the Dark Ages...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Hedge Fund Buys Another
BOSTON, Nov. 19 (Reuters) ? The hedge fund company Eton Park Capital Management said Monday that it would take over R6 Capital Management in January, in one of the first prominent acquisitions in the $2 trillion hedge fund industry...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Icahn Acquires More Shares of Blockbuster, Nudging His Stake to 16%
Carl C. Icahn holds 13.2 million shares of Blockbuster Class A shares, according to a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Equity Firm Is Sued Over Withdrawal From Deal
United Rentals, the rental equipment provider, sued the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management yesterday over its cancellation of a $4 billion buyout of the company...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Home Slump Hurts Lowe?s as Earnings Decline 10%
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 19 (AP) ? The Lowe?s Companies, the nation?s second-largest home improvement chain, said Monday that its third-quarter profit fell 10.2 percent, citing a weak sales environment amid a continuing slump in the housing sector...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Medtronic Profit Tops Estimates, Despite Recall
The company said second-quarter earnings fell 2 percent from a year ago as the recall of a component used with its implantable devices to treat abnormal heart rhythms hurt revenue...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Nordstrom?s Profit Increases 22%
SEATTLE, Nov. 19 (AP) ? The luxury retailer Nordstrom said on Monday that third-quarter earnings rose 22 percent, helped by an extra week of sales the company counted in the quarter compared with a year ago...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Campbell Says Higher Costs Hurt Earnings
The Campbell Soup Company posted a 7 percent decline in first-quarter profit yesterday, hurt by higher costs and lower soup sales in the United States, but stood by its full-year earnings forecast...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Frequent Flier: Even a Trump Can Trigger an Alarm
When I travel, I have learned to cope with airline security, check-ins and some inevitable questions. The first: ?Is that your real name??...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Memo Pad
The overall number of Americans traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday season will rise by a slight 1.5 percent this year...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
A Dividend at Xerox
NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 19 (AP) ? Xerox announced its first quarterly cash dividend in six years on Monday and predicted double-digit earnings growth in the coming years, citing new products and a stronger balance sheet...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Suit on Apple Options Is Dismissed
Apple won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming that company directors and managers, including the chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, lied to shareholders about the backdating of option awards...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Pioneer Lodging Chain Aims to Get Its Consistency Back
In recent years, Holiday Inn, now owned by InterContinental Hotels Group of London, has recovered from its decline and is expanding aggressively...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
On the Job, Everywhere
Hotels and airports are gradually catching on to the fact that mobile workers need more help getting their jobs done on the road...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
U.S. Withdraws Approval for Tyson?s Antibiotic-Free Label
Agriculture officials said they changed their mind when they realized that the company?s feeding plan lists animal medications called ionophores, which the department has long considered to be antibiotics...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Surge in Wages On Wall Street In First Quarter Helps Borough
The average weekly pretax pay for people who worked at investment banks and brokerage houses in Manhattan was $16,918 in the first three months of this year...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Credit Fears Spook Asian Markets
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New York Times - November 20, 2007
Employees at CBS News Vote to Authorize a Strike
The vote enables the guild to call a strike at any time, although a walkout is not imminent. A strike could affect CBS television and radio newscasts, both nationally and in four local markets...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Options Narrowing as Britain Tries to Stabilize Bank
Northern Rock said on Monday that it had received a number of disappointing takeover proposals, increasing the pressure on the British government to either find a solution or consider nationalizing the bank...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Advertising: Imitation Hits the Marketing Business. Again.
A skein of look-alike, sound-alike, seem-alike advertising campaigns is raising eyebrows along Madison Avenue...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Amazon Reading Device Doesn?t Need Computer
Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, is hoping that Kindle, an ambitious $399 electronic book device, will avoid the fate of other e-books...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Amway Adds Entertainment to Product Line
Amway, the door-to-door peddler of vitamins and soap, is pouring millions of dollars into a new online store called Fanista, which will initially sell DVDs and CDs...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
A New Science, at First Blush
Scientists are working feverishly to develop new technologies to test cosmetics before a European Union ban on animal testing begins in March 2009...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Stocks And Bonds: New Worries About Credit Drive Down Stock Markets
An analyst?s downgrading of Citigroup to ?sell? hit a raw nerve among investors and sent the Dow tumbling more than 218 points...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
On Broadway, Growing Gloom About the Holidays
The New York city comptroller estimated that the city is losing about $2 million a day because of the strike...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
As U.S. Cools, World Demand Helps H.P. Outpace Rivals
Buoyed by its presence abroad, Hewlett-Packard appears to have sidestepped the softening demand from corporations inside the United States for new technology...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Companies Bolster Sales Abroad to Offset Weakness
The success of American firms overseas may help prevent the economy from slipping into a recession...
New York Times - November 20, 2007
Chavez given Farc talk deadline
Colombia tells Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to reach a prisoner deal with left-wing rebels by the end of the year...
BBC News - November 20, 2007
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