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US News Archive for December 2005:
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Parts of Southwest U.S. ablaze
"We have fires all over Texas right now," Traci Weaver of the Texas Forestry Service told CNN on Tuesday. Gusty winds are driving the grass fires inTexas and Oklahoma. One blaze near Oklahoma City was caused by children playing with fireworks in a shed, a fire official said...
CNN - December 27, 2005
Transit Union and M.T.A. Said to Be Near Final Deal
The transit workers' union is likely to present a final agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority when its executive board meets at 6 p.m. tonight...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Colombia rebels kill 24 soldiers
Suspected left-wing rebels ambush and kill 24 soldiers guarding coca destruction efforts in south Colombia...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
Senator criticises Saddam trial
A top US senator criticises the handling of Saddam Hussein's trial ahead of a meeting with its chief judge...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
German held over 'Chile torture'
A German doctor is in custody after allegedly admitting she tortured at a secretive religious colony in Chile...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
Guidant Gets Warning Letter From F.D.A.
The letter says that the company would need to take further action to satisfy the agency's concerns about Guidant's operations in St. Paul, Minn...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Twelve killed in Venezuela blast
An explosion at a weapons shop kills at least 12 people in Venezuela - 28 others are missing, media reports say...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
Escaped Miami rape suspect caught
Escaped serial rape suspect Reynaldo E. Rapalo was back in custody Tuesday, a week following his brazen jail escape, after a tipster recognized his face and called police...
CNN - December 27, 2005
Mass grave discovered in Iraq
Construction workers laying a water pipeline in the Iraqi city of Karbala Monday found a mass grave containing the remains of up to 20 people, Hilla police told CNN...
CNN - December 27, 2005
NFL: Patriots win, 'ABC era' ends
New England beat the New York Jets in the last "Monday Night Football" game on ABC before the iconic show moves to ESPN...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
Football: Di Stefano awaits op
Real Madrid great Alfredo di Stefano is to have heart bypass operation when he is stronger...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
Teenage girl shot dead in Toronto
A teenage girl is killed and six other people injured in a shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto, Canada...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
Honduras failing storm-hit areas
Honduras has failed to provide adequate help to families in areas battered by recent tropical storms, the UN says...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
Aceh rebels say army disbanded
Indonesia's Aceh rebels say they have formally disbanded their armed wing, apparently fulfilling the next step of a tsunami-inspired peace plan to end one of Asia's longest separatist conflicts. The announcement came after rebel representatives met Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Banda Aceh...
CNN - December 27, 2005
One Parish: With Coastline in Ruins, Cajuns Face Prospect of Uprooted Towns
Louisiana planners are proposing an idea that would have been unimaginable a few months ago: moving an entire string of seaside towns and villages...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
The 1080: Three Revolutions Have Equaled a Transformation in Snowboarding
The 1080 is the most powerful move in snowboarding, a 1,080-degree spin that separates Olympic contenders from Olympic wannabes...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Preventing Cancer: Slowly, Cancer Genes Tender Their Secrets
Scientists are now finding that untangling the genetics of cancer is not impossible and are basing new treatments on their findings...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Advertising: Even With No Gold Medal, Michelle Kwan Is Golden to Marketers
Michelle Kwan has never won an Olympic gold medal. But that has not stopped her from grabbing several endorsement deals that typically only go to those athletes who bring home the gold...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
A Chance to Meet the Author Online
Amazon.com is offering author blogs and extended personal profile pages as a way to increase the visibility of books in a crowded media marketplace...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Memo Pad
BRITISH AIR FIGHTS BACK Book a Club World business-class seat on British Airways between New York and London for, say, mid-March, and the round-trip fare is $8,824 - about the going rate for trans-Atlantic business-class travel on most airlines. Book the same seat on British Air from Kennedy International Airport and eight other East Coast airports by Jan. 2, for travel through the end of February, and the round-trip fare is $2,798. Round-trip fares from Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Dallas and Detroit are $3,198, and from Los Angeles, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco and Seattle, the fare is $3,798. Air travel specialists see the fare sales as an aggressive ploy by British Air to deflect competition from all-business-class upstarts like Eos and MAXJet, which undercut standard business-class fares. The airline is also seeking to compete against domestic carriers, who have been adding capacity on the lucrative trans-Atlantic routes, where fare sales are expected this winter...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Exporters and U.S. Report Help Asian Stocks Rise Again
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
After-Holiday Returns Continue to Decline
Like the Yule log, fruitcake and Christmas caroling, the holiday ritual of returning unwanted gifts continues to slip away...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
On the Road: Flying With Scissors and Other Airport Updates
Despite new rules and new technology, it's hard to predict what the airport security experience is going to be like in the coming year...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Kerry Packer, 68, Australia's Media Magnate, Is Dead
Kerry Packer became Australia's richest man by turning a magazine and television inheritance worth millions into a diverse business worth billions...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Some in U.A.W. Seek a Recount
DETROIT, Dec. 26 (AP) - Some United Automobile Workers members want a recount of a vote that narrowly approved an agreement between Ford Motor and the union that requires workers and retirees to pay more for their health care...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Mississippi Casino Reopens
The Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. said that it had reopened its land-based casino at the Isle of Capri Casino Resort in Biloxi, Miss., after Hurricane Katrina in August...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Frequent Flier: I'm With the C.I.A., but Not That One
And what do you do?" asked the passenger next to me on a recent flight to Asia. Ordinarily this would be an innocuous enough question, but this time it wasn't. She had been eyeing my laptop screen, which had "C.I.A." and "Confidential" written all over the document I was working on...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
A Crackdown on Cartels by European Regulators
Across Europe, formerly docile cartel authorities are cracking down on collusion in economically weighty sectors like telecommunications, construction and banking...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
New Jersey Sifts the Ways to Put Its Best Motto Forward
If the final five slogans in New Jersey's tagline contest are a Rorschach test, the state does not seem to have fully overcome its struggle with low self-esteem...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
The Cost of Gold | The Hidden Payroll: Below a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste
Freeport, one of the world's largest mining companies, has dumped tons of waste into one of the world's last untouched landscapes while digging for gold in Indonesia...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
The Business Traveler Braces
Based on rising travel costs, the airlines' unending woes and a continuing erosion of service, 2006 looks like another trying year...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Japan Retailer Could Become No. 1 in Asia
Seven & I Holdings Company, the Japanese retailer, said that it would take over Millennium Retailing, the Japanese department store group, in a deal worth as much as $2.15 billion...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Gazprom Becomes the Bear of Russia
Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly, is a corporation aspiring to join the ranks of energy majors like Exxon Mobil and BP...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Michigan's Job No. 1: Recovery
With G.M. and Ford cutting jobs and closing plants, Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm is looking to Toyota for a helping hand...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Contractors Are Warned: Cuts Coming for Weapons
As the Pentagon's budget faces tightening, it is redefining the strategic threats facing the U.S. and looking at weapons that are more high-tech, flexible and innovative...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
In Estonia, Former Soviet-Era Port Seeks More Bustle
A former Estonian prime minister wants to lure ships back to a port that was ordered destroyed in the 1960's by Soviet leaders...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Ferry Dispute Tests Ireland's Tolerance for Globalization
The thousands who took to the streets of Ireland to protest the hiring of cheap East European labor for Irish Ferries gave voice to old familiar fears about job security...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
The Day After Christmas, Shoppers Take a Holiday
Retailers hoping for a big finish to the holiday season instead found lighter-than-expected crowds over the long Christmas weekend...
New York Times - December 27, 2005
Hundreds seized at Brazilian jail
Inmates at a Brazilian jail take more than 200 visitors hostage, demanding the return of one of their leaders...
BBC News - December 27, 2005
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