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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 August 2005:
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Arrests after Jordan rocket attack
Jordanian authorities have arrested several people they think might lead to the attackers who fired rockets at U.S. warships at the port of Aqaba, a Jordanian official said Saturday...
CNN - August 20, 2005
Palestinian leader sets poll date
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas confirmed Saturday that Palestinian legislative elections will be held January 25. The elections were initially set for July, but Abbas postponed them, wanting to have them after Israel evacuated all Gaza settlements and four settlements in the West Bank...
CNN - August 20, 2005
The Family Business, 163 Years Under the Big Top
The Zoppé Family Circus evokes something from a picture book: the clown, the trapeze, the dancing dogs, the ring and the tent...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Roberts's Harvard Roots: A Movement Was Stirring
A striking number among the small cluster of conservatives at Harvard in John G. Roberts's era went on to become important figures in the conservative resurgence...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
For Merck, the Vioxx Paper Trail Won't Go Away
Jurors said they had concluded from the testimony and documents presented by Mrs. Ernst's lawyers that Merck was long aware of Vioxx's potential heart risks but hid those risks from patients...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Northwest Keeps Flying as Mechanics Strike
Northwest Airlines kept flying on Saturday despite a strike by its mechanics over the airline's demand for extensive wage and job cuts...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Jordan finds launcher for attacks
Authorities in Jordan say they have found the launcher that fired Katyusha rockets that targeted but missed two U.S. military ships in the Red Sea port of Aqaba...
CNN - August 20, 2005
Woman's remains found
Police have recovered the remains of a missing 24-year-old pregnant woman and arrested the father of the unborn child on murder charges, authorities announced Saturday. Philadelphia police recovered her remains early Saturday in nearby Chester, located about 13 miles southwest of Philadelphia...
CNN - August 20, 2005
Debtors in Rush to Bankruptcy as Change Nears
Rushing to beat an October deadline when the biggest overhaul of the bankruptcy law in a quarter century goes into effect, rising numbers of Americans have filed for protection...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive
The Discovery Institute is the ideological and strategic backbone behind the eruption of skirmishes over science in school districts and state capitals across the country...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Iraqi Talks Are Still Stalled Over Oil and Role of Islam
The leadership of the country's Kurdish minority said Saturday that it might drop its demand for the right to secede, but talks over the country's new constitution remained stalled...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
At Peregrine, Finding the Way Again
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New York Times - August 20, 2005
Strike Is Called by Mechanics for Northwest
Northwest said it would replace any worker who participated in the strike, and vowed to keep flying a full schedule of flights...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Theodore F. Shaker, Ex-Chief of Arbitron, Dies at 83
Theodore F. Shaker worked for two decades in network television before becoming chief executive of Arbitron, a television and radio ratings company, in 1971...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Gonzo journalist takes final shot
The ashes of cult writer Hunter S Thompson are to be fired from a cannon in "a grand celebration"...
BBC News - August 20, 2005
'Bin Laden assassination debated'
Newly declassified U.S. State Department documents reveal secret meetings were held in 1998 between Washington and top Taliban officials, which discussed the possibility of assassinating Osama bin Laden...
CNN - August 20, 2005
Sheehan to return soon
The California woman who has camped outside President Bush's ranch for nearly two weeks to protest the war in Iraq said Friday she plans to return "very soon" after leaving to tend to her ill mother...
CNN - August 20, 2005
Once Woeful, Alabama Is Model in Child Welfare
Alabama has more than quadrupled its spending on child welfare since 1990 as part of a sweeping transformation of its system...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Sick and Scared, and Waiting, Waiting, Waiting
Waiting has long been part of medicine, but health care researchers say the problem has only gotten worse...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Judge Crater Abruptly Appears, at Least in Public Consciousness
Notes left by a woman in Queens to be read upon her death prompted the police to reinvestigate the 75-year-old disappearance of a State Supreme Court justice, as a murder...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Snowed? This May Help When Deciding What to Buy
If you want a really inexpensive television and you are not concerned about picture quality - in other words, the TV is going into the children's room or the basement - buy an off-brand now...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Theodore F. Shaker, 83, Ex-Chief of Arbitron, the TV Rating Service, Dies
Theodore F. Shaker, a former chairman and chief executive of the Arbitron Ratings Company, died on Wednesday...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
A Little-Known Reprieve From Providing Care
A little-known step between senior centers and nursing homes, adult day programs are thought to help about 150,000 Americans...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Working Through a Decision Cut in Shades of Deep Gray
ANGLETON, Tex., Aug. 19 - Jurors who awarded $253 million to Carol Ernst on Friday, said that although the award might seem large to outsiders, they believed in the end that the evidence justified the outcome...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Jury Calls Merck Liable in Death of Man on Vioxx
A Texas jury said the widow of a man who died in 2001 after taking the pain drug Vioxx should be awarded $253.5 million...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Merck Tumbles in Trading, and Further Trouble Awaits
Shares of Merck plunged nearly 8 percent in heavy trading yesterday after a Texas jury found the company negligent in the first civil trial concerning Vioxx, the company's withdrawn painkiller...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Gasoline Prices Have a Domino Effect on Wall Street
The gasoline pump was a drag on the stock market this week...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Key Considerations: Finding an Adult Day Center
How to find an adult day center:...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Economic Clouds and No Shortage of Those Who See Silver Linings
ENERGY prices have started to drag on the economy. Or they haven't yet. The housing market is a bubble that is really poised to pop. Or it's not. As with many questions about the economy, it depends on who is being asked...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
A Language Barrier to Sales
The vast majority of retail Web sites are English only, costing merchants tens of billions of dollars in sales a year, according to Forrester Magazine...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Picking the Media's Digital Lock
A new book looks at the clueless ways big entertainment companies try to control content or subvert emerging technologies, and how people work around those efforts...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Battered but Unbowed: Can Painkillers Recover?
The verdict against Merck's Vioxx dealt another punch to cox-2 drugs, but some drug companies are still betting on them...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
At Peregrine, Finding the Way Again
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New York Times - August 20, 2005
Falling Costs of Big-Screen TV's to Keep Falling
The cost of big-screen televisions, which have been steadily dropping by about 25 percent a year, are now expected to fall even more sharply this autumn...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
At Dow Jones, It's All About Family
Contrary to some reports, the family that controls Dow Jones does not want to sell it, even though a buyer could be found in a nanosecond...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Regulators Propose Rules for Stronger Vehicle Roofs
The new rules address concerns over the rising number of deaths in vehicle rollovers, but they are far less than what many safety advocates had hoped for...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
At Peregrine, Finding the Way Again
John Mutch, president of Peregrine Systems, recently spoke about the company's problems with accounting fraud and his plans to relist the company on the Nasdaq...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
This Bear Is Running (To the Bank)
THE stock market is supposed to climb a wall of worry, and there is no shortage of unsettling developments today to nip irrational exuberance in the bud. The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates every chance it gets, job growth seems either too fast or too slow, the growth of the current-account deficit is just too fast, and don't forget $66 oil...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
It's Not Your Mother's List of School Supplies
THESE days, students, especially in middle and high schools, are beginning to resemble airline passengers with their backpacks on wheels stuffed to the brim with books, gadgets and who knows what else...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Record Label Hopes to Sell Phone Service to Music Fans
The Universal Music Group said on Friday that it had entered into a strategic alliance to sell a music-oriented cellphone service...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Bond Insurer Says It May Face Suit From S.E.C.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has notified MBIA, a financial services company that guarantees billions of dollars in bonds, that it may bring a civil suit accusing the company of securities law violations. The accusations center on an insurance deal MBIA struck in 1998 to minimize losses from the failure of a hospital group whose bonds it had backed...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Weakened British Unions Step Up Fight Against Airlines and Their Suppliers
The labor battle that crippled British Airways last week is shaping up as one of the nastiest scrapes of the summer as cost-cutting airlines face unrest from unions...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Mechanics on Strike at Northwest Airlines
Mechanics and the airline failed to agree on the company's demand for $176 million in wage and benefit cuts...
New York Times - August 20, 2005
Ecuador's army tackles protesters
Ecuador's army steps up efforts to quell protests that have left dozens injured and slashed oil production...
BBC News - August 20, 2005
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