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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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Diner's Journal Blog: The Restaurants the Chefs Visit
Chefs favorite restaurants...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
The Lede Blog: More Good News From Iraq?
Signs that Iraqis are returning in something less than a reverse exodus...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
City Room: World Toilet Czar Visits Times Square
The founder of the World Toilet Organization pays his respects to the free public restrooms in Times Square...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Weather and Careful Preparation Ease Thanksgiving Travel
Many travelers were pleasantly surprised today when the worst scenarios did not seem to play out...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Police Arrest Suspects in Holloway Disappearance
Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were re-arrested Wednesday, the Aruban public prosecutor?s office said, citing new evidence in the case.Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were re-arrested Wednesday, the Aruban public prosecutor?s office said, citing new evidence in the case...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Stocks Fall as Oil Flirts With $100 a Barrel
The Dow fell to its lowest level since April on a day when oil prices moved near the symbolic $100 level...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
New Hampshire Sets Jan. 8 Primary
The date is the earliest ever for the leadoff presidential primary, and five days after Iowa?s caucuses...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Gap Profit Rises 26%, but Sales Slow
Companywide revenue was flat, and same-store sales fell 5 percent. The company?s shares sank 6 percent in midday trading...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Abercrombie & Fitch Profit Up 15%
The retailer cited strength in its namesake chain and improved margins, and stuck by its profit outlook for the second half of the year, sending its shares higher...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Plant Approved, With Carbon Study
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved Duke Energy?s application yesterday to build a new coal-fired power plant, and ordered the company to submit a plan within six months on how to capture some of the carbon dioxide it would produce...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Deere Profit Climbs, Beating Forecast
The farm equipment maker said its fourth-quarter profit rose 52 percent as strong global sales more than offset declines in other sectors from the U.S. housing slump...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Hormel Reports Rise in Profit and Sales
The Hormel Foods Corporation said yesterday that quarterly profit rose a better-than-expected 12 percent, helped by higher sales across all product lines...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
How to Improve Your Prospects
If you are going to check bags this holiday season, here are a few suggestions...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Auto Workers Seek Information on G.M.?s Ties to Mortgage Risk
The president of the United Automobile Workers union said Tuesday he was concerned by General Motors? exposure to the mortgage lending arm of its former finance...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
A Faded Downtown Gets Luxury Housing, but Retailers Stay Away
To optimists, huge investments by major developers provide proof that New Rochelle, New York?s renaissance has begun. Yet there remain few signs of renewed economic vitality downtown...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Merrill Fires Executive in Asian Unit
Merrill Lynch ousted the co-head of its Asian fixed-income business amid a management shake-up after $8.4 billion of losses on subprime mortgage-related securities and bad loans...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Deal Will Let Some Borrowers Keep Low Rates
Mortgage lenders Countrywide, G.M.A.C., Litton and HomeEq have agreed to let many potentially distressed borrowers in California keep the initial low rates of their home loans...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Kohlberg Hires Deal Adviser to Be Top Lawyer
The private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has hired as general counsel the lawyer who worked on several of its biggest deals, an indication that it may be moving ahead with plans to go public...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Ericsson Lowers Outlook for Sales
The Swedish telecommunications equipment maker offered a downbeat outlook Tuesday for fourth-quarter sales, sending its shares tumbling...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
F.D.A. Investigates Quit-Smoking Drug
Government scientists are investigating whether a drug from Pfizer used to help smokers quit cigarettes also increases suicidal thoughts and violent behavior...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
After the Meal, the Credit Card Scanner Is Served
Portable credit card scanners are slowly making their way into restaurants in the United States...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
A Day of Big Swings Ends on the Upside
Jittery investors decided to interpret comments from the Federal Reserve as suggesting another interest rate cut...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Target Profit Declines 4%; Warm Autumn Is Blamed
In a rare miss for a company that more often surprises shareholders with positive news, the retailer Target reported a 4 percent drop in third-quarter profits yesterday...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Barnes & Noble Shows a Profit While Loss at Borders Widens
Barnes & Noble raised its earnings outlook yesterday, after swinging to a third-quarter profit on sales of new releases. Losses widened in the same period at its rival, the Borders Group, which was hurt by charges related to the sale of its subsidiaries in Britain and Ireland...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Irving Bluestone, 90, Top U.A.W. Negotiator, Dies
Mr. Bluestone was chief negotiator for more than 400,000 workers at General Motors in the 1970s and an advocate of worker participation in management...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
John D. Rock, Former G.M Executive, Is Dead at 71
John D. Rock was a blunt-talking General Motors executive who tried unsuccessfully to save the Oldsmobile division...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Loan Crisis Entangles Freddie Mac
Losses at the big mortgage finance company on Tuesday underscored the continuing turmoil in the housing industry...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Fed Expects Slowdown to Deepen
The Federal Reserve expects economic growth to slow sharply next year, and policy makers there are worried that even this forecast may prove too optimistic...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
In New Orleans, a Test of Mixed-Income Housing
Despite the havoc wrought by Hurricane Katrina around this city, one slice of the devastated housing market is showing resurgence...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Goldman Sachs Starts Drive to Build Philanthropy Fund
On the back of record profit so far this year, Goldman Sachs is starting a donor-driven philanthropy fund that aims to reach $1 billion over the next few years...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
China Wins Trade Ruling About Paper
In a setback for American producers, a federal trade panel ruled Tuesday against the American glossy paper industry?s request for tariffs on imported Chinese paper...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
IPhone Must Be Offered Without Contract Restrictions, German Court Rules
The court ruled that T-Mobile must offer the iPhone to everyone, even without the 24-month contract that it had required for buyers...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
BlackRock Is Likely to Lead Banks? Safety Net Fund
The big investment firm is expected to be the main asset manager for a $75 billion fund being created by three large banks to help shore up the market for asset-backed securities...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Instead of Fighting Ad Leaks, Some Retailers Embrace Them
An unlikely alliance between stores and Web sites that prematurely leak copies of discount-filled advertisements indicates how worried retailers are about the holiday shopping season. But it turns out that a big source of the leaks are the retailers themselves...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies
Pepperidge Farm is creating a Web site devoted to social networking and targeted at women who are looking to improve their social lives...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Hollywood and Strikers Watch Clock
Sixteen days into a work stoppage, screenwriters and their employers are scheduled to talk on Monday for the first time since Nov. 4...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Cardiologists Question Delay of Data on 2 Drugs
A delay in publishing the results of trials on cholesterol drugs is raising questions for the drug industry...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
New York Aids in Jewelry Recall
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling more than 500,000 pieces of children?s jewelry from stores like Michael?s and Big Lots because they contained hazardous levels of lead...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Data Leak in Britain Affects 25 Million
Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain apologized for a security breach that has raised the specter of fraud on a massive scale...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Travelers? Odds Decline on Airline Baggage
Despite increased efforts by the airlines, millions of travelers? bags still fail to reach the carousel...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Oil Hesitates on Drive to $100 a Barrel
Futures, which reached as high as $99.29 in electronic trading overnight, retreated today after the government reported that supplies at a key oil terminal rose for the first time in weeks...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Stocks Fall as Oil Flirts With $100 a Barrel
The Dow fell to its lowest level since April on a day when oil prices moved near the symbolic $100 level...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
New York hunger levels 'rising'
More than 1.3 million people in New York do not have enough food, anti-poverty campaigners claim...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
Well Blog: Well: To Improve Health, Consider the Pedometer
It really does pay to go the extra mile...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Oprah May Campaign for Obama
The Democratic candidate apparently hints again that the talk show host may make appearances for him, perhaps in Iowa first...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
The Lede Blog: Baghdad Correspondent Q & A
The Times?s Damien Cave assesses the progress in Iraq...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Justices to Decide on Right to Keep Handgun at Home
The Supreme Court is plunging into a debate over how to interpret the Second Amendment?s guarantee of the ?right of the people to keep and bear arms.?...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Deere Profit Climbs, Beating Forecast
The farm equipment maker said its fourth-quarter profit rose 52 percent as strong global sales more than offset declines in other sectors from the U.S. housing slump...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Cardiologists Question Delay of Data on 2 Drugs
A delay in publishing the results of trials on cholesterol drugs is raising questions for the drug industry...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
New York Aids in Jewelry Recall
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling more than 500,000 pieces of children?s jewelry from stores like Michael?s and Big Lots because they contained hazardous levels of lead...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Oil Hesitates on Drive to $100 a Barrel
Crude oil prices rose above a record $99 per barrel today amid worries about inadequate winter supplies in the Northern Hemisphere and news of refinery problems...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Stocks Slump as Oil Remains High
Stocks retreated the day before the Thanksgiving holiday as oil prices flirted with the symbolic $100-a-barrel level. Markets in Asia and Europe also dropped sharply...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Cost cuts help lift Gap's profits
Clothing chain Gap reports a 26% rise in profits, after cost-cutting and restructuring help offset falling sales...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
World shares weak on US woes
Share values tumble in Europe and the US, hurt by a weak dollar and fears of a slowdown in the US...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
Lost Amazon whale found dead
A whale that strayed into the Amazon rainforest, more than 1600km from the ocean, is found dead...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
Bail Denial Urged in Khmer Rouge Case
Prosecutors in Cambodia urged a U.N.-backed genocide tribunal to deny bail to the former head of the Khmer Rouge?s largest torture center...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
The Long Run: For Edwards, a Relationship That Never Quite Fit
John Kerry and John Edwards, running mates but never really friends, ended 2004 in recrimination and regrets...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Chirac Under Investigation in Embezzlement Case
France?s former president is under formal investigation in a case from his time as mayor of Paris, his lawyer said...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
News Analysis: New Method Equalizes Stem Cell Debate
An alternative method of developing embryonic stem cells will allow people on both sides of the issue to say they have fruitful research to pursue...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Hollywood and Strikers Watch Clock
Sixteen days into a work stoppage, screenwriters and their employers are scheduled to talk on Monday for the first time since Nov. 4...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Japan workers strike at US bases
Thousands of Japanese support workers at US military bases in Japan strike over a planned pay cut...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
Supreme Court to debate gun law
The US Supreme Court is to discuss Americans' right to bear arms for the first time in nearly 70 years...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
Brazil stops to mark black rights
Thousands of Brazilians gather in cities and towns to celebrate Black Consciousness day...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
The Caucus Blog: MoveOn Takes On Facebook
MoveOn.org is turning its organizing prowess on one of the very tools it uses for its efforts: Facebook...
New York Times - November 21, 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 21, 2007
Democrats Move to Block Bush Appointments
Democrats convened the Senate for the first of four microsessions to be held during the holiday break, fearing that President Bush would again use a Congressional recess to install appointees...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
200 Neglected Buildings Get 4 Months to Improve
Housing officials have identified 200 of New York City?s most poorly maintained apartment buildings and are renewing efforts to force their owners to repair hazards...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Wharton Letter Reopens a Mystery
A newly revealed letter sheds light on what exactly happens at the end of ?The House of Mirth.? Does Lily Bart, the novel?s heroine, kill herself or die of an accidental overdose?...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
In Shift, Fare for the Subway Will Stay at $2
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Tuesday that an unexpected increase in ridership and other revenues have made a plan to raise the base subway fare unnecessary...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
For Edwards, a Relationship That Never Quite Fit
The relationship between John Kerry and John Edwards ? Senate colleagues and running mates but never really friends ? ended in recrimination and regrets...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Brothers Are Tied to Home, No Matter Where They Run
What binds Thomas and Julius Jones, brothers and starting N.F.L. running backs, is their big, close family in a Virginia mining town of fewer than 6,000 residents...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Justices Will Decide if Handgun Kept at Home Is Individual Right
The case plunges the justices headlong into a debate over how to interpret the Second Amendment?s guarantee of the ?right of the people to keep and bear arms.?...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
News Analysis: Advance on Stem Cells Equalizes Debate
The alternative method of developing embryonic stem cells has put people on both sides of the stem cell divide on nearly equal footing...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Advertising: Making Social Connections and Selling Cookies
Pepperidge Farm is creating a Web site devoted to social networking and targeted at women who are looking to improve their social lives...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Plant Approved, With Carbon Study
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission approved Duke Energy?s application yesterday to build a new coal-fired power plant, and ordered the company to submit a plan within six months on how to capture some of the carbon dioxide it would produce...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
How to Improve Your Prospects
If you are going to check bags this holiday season, here are a few suggestions...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Hormel Reports Rise in Profit and Sales
The Hormel Foods Corporation said yesterday that quarterly profit rose a better-than-expected 12 percent, helped by higher sales across all product lines...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Square Feet: A Faded Downtown Gets Luxury Housing, but Retailers Stay Away
To optimists, huge investments by major developers provide proof that New Rochelle, New York?s renaissance has begun. Yet there remain few signs of renewed economic vitality downtown...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Auto Workers Seek Information on G.M.?s Ties to Mortgage Risk
The president of the United Automobile Workers union said Tuesday he was concerned by General Motors? exposure to the mortgage lending arm of its former finance...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Merrill Fires Executive in Asian Unit
Merrill Lynch ousted the co-head of its Asian fixed-income business amid a management shake-up after $8.4 billion of losses on subprime mortgage-related securities and bad loans...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Kohlberg Hires Deal Adviser to Be Top Lawyer
The private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has hired as general counsel the lawyer who worked on several of its biggest deals, an indication that it may be moving ahead with plans to go public...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Deal Will Let Some Borrowers Keep Low Rates
Mortgage lenders Countrywide, G.M.A.C., Litton and HomeEq have agreed to let many potentially distressed borrowers in California keep the initial low rates of their home loans...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
F.D.A. Investigates Quit-Smoking Drug
Government scientists are investigating whether a drug from Pfizer used to help smokers quit cigarettes also increases suicidal thoughts and violent behavior...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Ericsson Lowers Outlook for Sales
The Swedish telecommunications equipment maker offered a downbeat outlook Tuesday for fourth-quarter sales, sending its shares tumbling...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: A Day of Big Swings Ends on the Upside
Jittery investors decided to interpret comments from the Federal Reserve as suggesting another interest rate cut...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
After the Meal, the Credit Card Scanner Is Served
Portable credit card scanners are slowly making their way into restaurants in the United States...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Target Profit Declines 4%; Warm Autumn Is Blamed
In a rare miss for a company that more often surprises shareholders with positive news, the retailer Target reported a 4 percent drop in third-quarter profits yesterday...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Barnes & Noble Shows a Profit While Loss at Borders Widens
Barnes & Noble raised its earnings outlook yesterday, after swinging to a third-quarter profit on sales of new releases. Losses widened in the same period at its rival, the Borders Group, which was hurt by charges related to the sale of its subsidiaries in Britain and Ireland...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Irving Bluestone, 90, Top U.A.W. Negotiator, Dies
Mr. Bluestone was chief negotiator for more than 400,000 workers at General Motors in the 1970s and an advocate of worker participation in management...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
John D. Rock, Former G.M Executive, Dead at 71
John D. Rock was a blunt-talking General Motors executive who tried unsuccessfully to save the Oldsmobile division...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Square Feet: In New Orleans, a Test of Mixed-Income Housing
Despite the havoc wrought by Hurricane Katrina around this city, one slice of the devastated housing market is showing resurgence...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Goldman Sachs Starts Drive to Build Philanthropy Fund
On the back of record profit so far this year, Goldman Sachs is starting a donor-driven philanthropy fund that aims to reach $1 billion over the next few years...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
China Wins Trade Ruling About Paper
In a setback for American producers, a federal trade panel ruled Tuesday against the American glossy paper industry?s request for tariffs on imported Chinese paper...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
IPhone Must Be Offered Without Contract Restrictions, German Court Rules
The court ruled that T-Mobile must offer the iPhone to everyone, even without the 24-month contract that it had required for buyers...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
BlackRock Could Lead Banks? Fund
The big investment firm is expected to be the main asset manager for a $75 billion fund being created by three large banks to help shore up the market for asset-backed securities...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Instead of Fighting Ad Leaks, Some Retailers Embrace Them
An unlikely alliance between stores and Web sites that prematurely leak copies of discount-filled advertisements indicates how worried retailers are about the holiday shopping season. But it turns out that a big source of the leaks are the retailers themselves...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Hollywood and Strikers Watch Clock
Sixteen days into a work stoppage, screenwriters and their employers are scheduled to talk on Monday for the first time since Nov. 4...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Cardiologists Question Delay of Data on 2 Cholesterol Drugs
Merck and Schering-Plough said Tuesday they would publish only a portion of the results from a long-awaited trial of their cholesterol-lowering drugs Zetia and Vytorin...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Loan Crisis Entangles Freddie Mac
Losses at the big mortgage finance company on Tuesday underscored the continuing turmoil in the housing industry...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Travelers? Odds Decline on Airline Baggage
Despite increased efforts by the major airlines, by the end of the year, close to five million travelers will have been stuck scratching their heads at the luggage carousel...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Fed Expects Slowdown to Deepen
The Federal Reserve expects economic growth to slow sharply next year, and policy makers there are worried that even this forecast may prove too optimistic...
New York Times - November 21, 2007
Tennis: No change for Davis final
The United States and Russia name unchanged sides for the Davis Cup final later this month...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
Peru to name ex-terror prisoners
Peru's president is criticised over plans to publicise the names of people once in prison on terrorism charges...
BBC News - November 21, 2007
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