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Saber-toothed cat fossils discovered in Venezuela
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Study Seismic has little effect on Gulf whales
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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At top of Greenland, new worrisome cracks in ice
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US, Iraq reach deal to pull US troops out by June
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for January 2008:
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In the South, Echoes of Jackson?s Run
There are echoes of Jesse Jackson?s candidacy as the battle for the Democratic nomination once again roars across the South, focused squarely on African Americans...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
No Jury Trial Sought in Sean Bell Case
Detectives Michael Oliver, Gescard F. Isnora and Marc Cooper, who are accused in the shooting of Sean Bell in November 2006, plan to present their case in a bench trial before a Queens judge...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Bloomberg Seeks Budget Cuts Across City Agencies
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed a $58.5 billion budget that cut into virtually every agency...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Indictment in Killing of Marine
A Camp Lejeune marine suspected of killing a colleague who was eight months pregnant was formally charged with first degree murder...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
10 Die in Mistaken Afghan Firefight
The victims, nine Afghan police officers and a civilian, were mistaken for Taliban and shot by American forces...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Scientists Take New Step Toward Man-Made Life
Researchers say they have created the entire genome of a bacterium by stitching together its chemical components...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Surprising Few, Italy?s Government Collapses
Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned after losing a confidence vote in the Senate, ending his 20 turbulent months in office...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Kucinich to End Presidential Bid
The Ohio Congressman plans to make an official announcement on Friday...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
U.S. to Insist Iraq Grant It Wide Mandate in Operations
With its authority in Iraq set to expire, the Bush administration will also seek to guarantee civilian contractors immunity from Iraqi law, according to administration and military officials...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
McGraw-Hill Profit Falls 31 Percent
The book and magazine publisher, and owner of Standard & Poor?s, said fourth-quarter profit was hurt as disruptions in global capital markets dampened demand for credit ratings...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Hershey Profit Down 65 Percent
The company also said profit fell 65 percent in the fourth quarter, hit by charges for the overhaul of its supply chain, impairment charges in its Brazil operations and flat sales...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Amgen Profit Edges Higher
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amgen Inc said on Thursday that fourth-quarter profit edged higher, helped by cost cutting, and relieved investors with stronger than expected sales of all its key products...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Familiarity Breeds Gloom Among Financial Experts
Pessimism is greatest among those closest to the financial system, so while some take a working financial system for granted, others see a system in crisis...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Ad Industry Group Set to Name First Female Chief
Nancy Hill, a longtime agency executive, has been nominated as the new president and chief executive at the American Association of Advertising Agencies in New York...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Live Nation Finds a Buyer for Its Theater Business
Live Nation has sold most of its North American theater business to Key Brand Entertainment, a company owned by a British producer and run by an American entertainment executive...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Murdoch Says WSJ.com Will Keep Fees
The new owner of Dow Jones & Co. indicated that charges for full access to the Wall Street Journal?s Web site may even go up...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Sun Quarterly Earnings Nearly Double
Sun Microsystems said that its fiscal 2008 second-quarter earnings nearly doubled as services revenue increased and its gross margin improved...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
E*Trade Takes $2.2 Billion Charge
The discount brokerage posted a larger-than-expected quarterly loss after a $2.2 billion charge related to the sale of its asset-backed securities portfolio...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
AT&T Downplays Damage From Economic Slowdown
AT&T reported strong fourth-quarter earnings, with net income rising 63 percent, due in large part to the growth in wireless communications...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Initial Bids Reach $2.4 Billion in Wireless Auction
Top bidders put up a total of more than $2.4 billion in the opening round of the Federal Communications Commission?s auction of coveted U.S. government-owned airwaves...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
F.D.A. Plans to Post Inspectors Overseas
The F.D.A. intends to post inspectors to embassies and consulates in the developing world in hopes of improving the quality of imported food and medicines...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Microsoft Delivers Strong Earnings and Outlook
Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profit gains that surpassed Wall Street?s expectations, and delivered an optimistic outlook...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Wall Street Extends Rally
The major American markets closed near their highs for the day as investors extended a global financial rally that began Wednesday...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Fraud Costs Bank $7.1 Billion
Société Générale, a French bank, said the fraud had been committed by a trader in charge of hedging on European index futures...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Tentative Deal Reached on Stimulus Plan
House leaders and the White House announced a tentative agreement that would pay $300 to $1,200 per family and provide tax incentives for businesses...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
PC sales lift Microsoft's profits
Microsoft's profits for the key Christmas trading quarter soar 79%, driven by strong computer sales...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
Recovery on Wall St continues
US shares close higher as investors welcome a deal in Washington for a $150m economic stimulus plan...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
Rice to show Colombia support
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is visiting ally Colombia to try to secure a free trade accord...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
Brazil vows to stem Amazon loss
Brazil agrees new measures to tackle Amazon deforestation at an emergency cabinet meeting...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
The Perfect Super Bowl Result?
On its face, Super Bowl XLII might seem non-competitive, with the Patriots a heavy favorite. But the game has generated one of the most fascinating choices ever regarding rooting interest: Would you rather see the historic perfection of the Pats going 19-0, or the historic upset that derails them one game from football immortality? Read more in [...]...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Percy?s New Orleans ? and Mine
Walker Percy wrote about the South better than anyone I've ever read. What I did not know until I moved to New Orleans, though, and bought a house in the Garden District, is how spot on a portrayal of the city and its residents "The Moviegoer" really is. I've always considered it a funny novel, but now I find [...]...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Perfume Review of Paestum Rose
The Moment's fragrance expert reviews a five-star masterpiece ...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Unseeded Frenchman Derails Nadal
Floating and stinging like you know who, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga withstood the pressure from Rafael Nadal to reach the final of the Australian Open...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Tough to Campaign, Bill Clinton Says
'Stop the bickering,' a woman tells Bill Clinton, as he starts another day of campaigning in South Carolina...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Storm Closes Interstate 5 in California
Authorities were trying to help hundreds of motorists stranded in the snow in the mountains north of Los Angeles...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Bloomberg Proposes Budget Cuts Across Agencies
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposed a $58.5 billion budget that cut into virtually every city agency...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Kenya Antagonists Meet, but Announce Little
For the first time since Kenya plunged into post-election chaos, the nation?s warring political leaders met briefly...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Attacks Imperil U.S.-Backed Militias in Iraq
Sunni militias allied with the U.S. are the targets of attacks, threatening a linchpin of the military?s strategy to pacify Iraq...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
More Gazans Flood Across Border
Tens of thousands more Palestinians flooded across the breached border, and Egyptian merchants greeted them with even more goods...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
US Air Posts Quarterly Loss
The low-cost airline reported a loss of $79 million, hurt by soaring fuel costs that have battered the industry...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Lennar Reports Wider Loss and Bleak Forecast
The home builder posted a net loss of $1.25 billion after home deliveries and new home orders halved, and it said it saw no signs of a recovery this year...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Xerox Profit Up 79 Percent
The office equipment maker cited cost controls and growth in equipment financing and services, though its outlook for the first quarter was partly below Wall Street expectations...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Lockheed Profit Up 10 Percent
the defense contractor said gains in its space, information technology and electronic systems units made up for a dip in sales of fighter jets...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Digital Music Sales Grow, but at Slower Rate
Digital music, distributed online or by mobile networks, accounted for $2.9 billion in sales worldwide, up from $2.1 billion a year earlier, the industry?s international trade group said...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Profit Rises at AT&T
AT&T posted a higher quarterly profit as strength in its wireless business offset weakness in traditional consumer services...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Ford Narrows Loss for 2007
The automaker said it lost $2.75 billion in the fourth quarter, a considerable improvement from the $12.6 billion that it lost in 2006...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Nokia Increases Profit and Market Share
Nokia said that it had extended its dominant share of the global mobile phone market to a record 40 percent in the fourth quarter as profit surged 44 percent on rising sales...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Stocks Flat in U.S. but Soar in Europe
U.S. stock markets were flat in early trading, but European markets recorded significant gains, extending a global stock rally that began Wednesday afternoon...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Home Prices Fell in ?07 for First Time in Decades
The median price of a single-family home declined 1.8 percent to $217,800, the first annual decline since reliable records began in 1968...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Fraud Costs French Bank $7.1 Billion
Société Générale said that the fraud had been committed by a trader in charge of hedging on European index futures...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Tentative Deal on Economic Stimulus Plan
House leaders and the White House reached a tentative deal on a package that would pay stipends of $300 to $1,200 per family and provide tax incentives for businesses...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Cutting costs trims Ford losses
Ford manages to half its latest losses, but still warns that it will most likely fail to make a profit in 2008...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
Castro thought illness 'was end'
Cuban President Fidel Castro says he "thought it was the end" when he fell gravely ill in July 2006...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
Recovery on Wall Street continues
Stocks on Wall Street rise in Thursday afternoon trading after strong gains in both Europe and Asia...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
Mosul Police Chief Killed at Bomb Site
A suicide bomber struck officials fleeing an ambush at the site of a blast in Mosul that killed at least 18 civilians and wounded nearly 150...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Voters Show Darker Mood Than in 2000
Candidates are confronting an electorate unsettled about the United States? ability to control its future...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Société Générale Reveals $7 Billion Fraud
The French bank Société Générale said that it had uncovered ?exceptional fraud? that would cost it about $7.1 billion...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Asian Share Markets Rise
Most major Asian share markets rose on Thursday, after the U.S. government outlined a plan to rescue battered bond insurers and stave off a fresh round of writedowns...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Last speaker of Alaskan tongue dies
A US woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in Alaska has died at the age of 89...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
Deal closer on US economic plan
US lawmakers are nearing a fast-track plan aimed at boosting the economy and avoiding a possible recession...
BBC News - January 24, 2008
How to Spend a Dollar at Starbucks
Improbably, a purveyor with a reputation for emptying pockets was coming to the rescue...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Pessimistic Bulls, or Optimistic Bears?
It was an aptly named dinner debate on this first day of gloom and doom at the World Economic Forum: "Recession," the title read in the forum's program folder in bold red letters as if to drive home the point. After a day of debates dedicated to (or inevitably turning to) the U.S. economy's sorry [...]...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Justice Nomination Seen as Snub to Democrats
The White House renominated the Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C.I.A. interrogation techniques...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Spitzer Is Said to Agree to a Raise for Legislators
Gov. Eliot Spitzer has agreed to a pay raise for legislators, even as his budget called for strict cuts elsewhere, the Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has told New York lawmakers...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Foreclosures Prompt Cities to Make Plea for Aid
Faced with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market that has pockmarked their cities with vacant houses, the nation?s mayors pleaded for a huge infusion of federal aid...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Canseco Is Said to Seek Favor to Omit Name
José Canseco, an admitted steroid user who exposed other baseball players in his 2005 book, offered to keep Detroit Tigers outfielder Magglio Ordóñez ?clear? in his next book in exchange for a financial investment...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Palestinians Topple Gaza Wall and Cross to Egypt
Thousands crossed into Egypt from the Gaza Strip to buy supplies that have been cut off during days of blockade by Israel...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
2 Big Dig Companies to Pay $407 Million
Officials said the companies, the Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation and Parsons Brinckerhoff, had acknowledged oversight failures of the city highway project...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Voters Showing a Darker Mood Than in 2000 Race
Candidates are confronting an electorate deeply unsettled about the United States? ability to control its own destiny...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Romney Leads in Ill Will Among G.O.P. Candidates
Within the small circle of Republican presidential contenders, Mitt Romney has become the most disliked...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Olympic Teams Vying to Defeat Beijing?s Smog
Randy Wilber, an exercise physiologist, is hard at work preparing the U.S. Olympic Team to face the air pollution expected at the Beijing Games...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Attacks Imperil Militiamen in Iraq Allied With U.S.
A recent spate of killings has targeted members of the Awakening Council, a predominantly Sunni group, that has offered valued help to American troops...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Berkshire to Take a Stake in Swiss Re
Swiss Re clinched a deal with Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway, bolstering its beaten-down shares, but raising concerns the reinsurer was giving a rival too much access to its core business...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
New Tools to Bolster Mac?s World
Macintosh sales rise and two new software programs fill big holes in the computer?s landscape...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Profit Falls 42% at Capital One
The Capital One Financial Corporation, the credit card issuer, said Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit fell 42 percent as more borrowers failed to repay their debts...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Settlement Over Toys
CHICAGO (AP) — The maker of Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toys has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a nationwide class-action lawsuit by thousands of families who bought lead-tainted products, a plaintiffs? lawyer said Wednesday...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Pfizer Profit Beats Forecasts
Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter profit fell 70 percent from results a year ago that included gains on the sale of its consumer health business...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Quarterly Profit Rises 37% at ConocoPhillips
HOUSTON (AP) — Record oil prices helped ConocoPhillips post a 37 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit even though it produced less crude oil and natural gas than a year earlier...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Bank of America to Sell $6 Billion in New Shares
The Bank of America Corporation announced on Wednesday that it planned to raise $6 billion by selling preferred shares, one day after reporting a 95 percent decline in quarterly profit...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Qualcomm Reports Higher Earnings
Qualcomm posted a profit of $767 million, or 46 cents a share, for the period that ended Dec. 30, compared with $648 million, or 38 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
General Dynamics? Profit Rose 42% in 4th Quarter
WASHINGTON (AP) — The General Dynamics Corporation, the military contractor, said Wednesday that higher sales of combat vehicles to the Army and of corporate jets pushed fourth-quarter earnings up 42 percent...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Netflix Gains in Members and Sales
The online DVD rental service said that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 6 percent as it gained subscribers and its operating expenses fell...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Earnings Rise 7% at Health Insurer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The quarterly profit at WellPoint, the largest United States health insurer, rose 7 percent, but an unexpected rise in the percentage of revenue used to cover medical costs helped push down its shares...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Fuel Prices Hurt Delta, but Hedge Lifts Southwest
ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines, the nation?s No. 3 carrier, said Wednesday that it was hampered by high fuel prices in the fourth quarter but was able to narrow its loss because of a solid increase in sales...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Sallie Mae Records Huge Loss on Bad Bets
The embattled student lending giant said that it lost $1.6 billion in its fourth quarter as it prepared for a jump in student loan defaults...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Ambition Knows No Season
Seasonal changes in the economy are not unique to Alaska. But winter in the state often tests the ingenuity of business owners...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Growing Online, BBC Is to Join With MySpace
The commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation on Thursday is expected to announce that it will make some of its content available on MySpace...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
CBS to Make Internet Music Unit More Like Radio
Last.fm will allow users to select any of 3.5 million songs to listen to on their computers, up to three times for free...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Without a Hit Razr Sequel, Profit Drops for Motorola
Motorola executives said demand for the company?s cellphones had slowed and the company was losing market share...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
In Global Race, G.M. Wins by a Day of Pickup Sales
It was effectively a tie, but General Motors emerged from last year?s hard-fought global sales race with Toyota feeling like the winner...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
One-Day Strike in Belgium Warns on Pollution and Jobs
Thousands of steel workers at ArcelorMittal factories in Belgium walked off the job this week to protest European Union policies to combat climate change...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Pinched by Price Controls, Power Plants in China Scale Back
The Chinese government is trying to address an electricity shortage that has led to rationing in more than a third of the country?s provinces in recent weeks...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Rogaine Seeks Place in the Morning Routine
A new marketing campaign for Rogaine is trying to reposition the hair growth product as an everyday bathroom essential ? like deodorant or toothpaste...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
European Central Banker Says Inflation Is Still Focus
The president of the European Central Bank quashed hopes that it might follow the United States Federal Reserve in cutting interest rates to contain an economic slowdown...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
EBay?s New Leader Moves Swiftly on a Revamping
In an effort to reinvigorate growth, John Donahoe, the new chief executive of Internet giant eBay, said he would shift the company?s emphasis from auctions to fixed priced listing...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Wal-Mart Chief Offers a Social Manifesto
As part of a campaign to upgrade its image by changing the way it does business, Wal-Mart has pledged to cut the energy used by many of its products by 25 percent...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
U.S. Policies Evoke Scorn at Davos
On the first day of the World Economic Forum, many expressed deep fears about the faltering American economy and blunt criticism of the Federal Reserve...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Wider Troubles Trickle Down to Oil Sector
As fears of an American recession ripple across the globe, analysts are wondering whether the great oil boom of the last five years is finally coming to an end...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Heart Group Backs Drug Made by Ally
The American Heart Association defended the drug Vytorin, an expensive drug combination for cholesterol, which was shown last week to work no better than Zocor, a cheaper alternative...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
F.D.A. Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials
Makers of drugs to treat obesity, depression and many other conditions are being asked for the first time to include suicide assessments in their clinical trials...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
A Day of Sharp Swings, and a Final Gain
Stocks plunged at the opening bell, spent much of the session in negative territory, then erased a 326-point deficit in the afternoon to post strong gains in the final hour...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Bush and Congress Nearing a Deal on Stimulus
A tax rebate is at the center of a plan to stimulate a flagging economy...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
Next on the Worry List: Shaky Insurers of Bonds
The notion that the failure of even one big bond insurer might touch off a chain reaction of losses across the financial world has unnerved Wall Street...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
A Fear That the Cure Could Be Poison
Even as the Federal Reserve grapples with the collapse of a speculative bubble in housing is it at risk of repeating recent mistakes?...
New York Times - January 24, 2008
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