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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hungary 4 dead, 26 injured in train collision
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Iraqi lawmaker urges resolution of minority issue
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Curfew in Indian Kashmir to prevent protest rally
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Kashmir police threaten to shoot curfew violators
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Supreme Court to open new term with heavy workload
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Congress hears Lehman sought millions for execs
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Designers play it safe as economy sours
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Jimmy Kimmel returns as American Music Awards host
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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US News Archive for December 2007:
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Bits Blog: Building Your Own High-Tech ?Bug?
Bug Labs, a company that wants users to build their own high-tech gadgets, prepares for a January rollout...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Pogue?s Posts: A 5th Grader on Wii Table Tennis
Video game critics didn?t cotton to Wii Table Tennis by Rockstar. But a fresh look from a new game critic says there is more to this game...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
City Room: Highs and Lows of the Year That Was
Graceful breakup announcements, photogenic small animals, outrageous slurs: a look back at 2007...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Zuma Corruption Charges Revived
The charges against the new leader of South Africa?s dominant party could precipitate a political crisis...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Letterman Makes Deal With Striking Writers
The deal will allow David Letterman to resume his show next Wednesday with his team of writers on board...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Grim November for New-Home Sales
Sales of new homes hit a 12-year low in November, falling short of even the most skeptical Wall Street estimates...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Bush to Veto Pentagon Funds Over Iraq Provision
The White House said it had concerns that Iraqi assets in American banks could be vulnerable to claims from victims of Saddam Hussein...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
The Lede Blog: Q&A: Pakistan After Bhutto
Teresita Schaffer, an expert on South Asia, is answering readers? questions...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Huckabee Sees Pakistan as Reason for Border Fence
Mike Huckabee found himself trying to explain a series of remarks about Pakistanis and their nation...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Stocks End Mixed After Housing Data
Stocks finished an erratic week narrowly mixed after the government new-home sales report stirred concerns that weakness in housing will continue to dog the economy...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Letterman Makes Deal With Striking Writers
The deal will allow David Letterman to resume his show next Wednesday with his team of writers on board...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Grim November for New-Home Sales
Sales of new homes hit a 12-year low in November, falling short of even the most skeptical Wall Street estimates...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Bush 'to veto' troop funding bill
US President Bush will veto a package of funding for troops amid Iraq lawsuit fears, the White House says...
BBC News - December 28, 2007
TV Decoder Blog: TV Decoder: Networks Lack Pakistan Staff
Of the U.S. television networks, only ABC and CNN had full-time personnel in Pakistan when the former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on Thursday. NBC, MSNBC and Fox News Channel relied on phone reports from free-lance producers immediately after the assassination. The free-lancers are commonly called stringers, and they are routinely employed for [...]...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Wheels: Greatest Car Styling Blunders
Concept cars aside, what were the auto industry's all-time ugly all-stars? I?m talking about real production vehicles that real manufacturers tried to pawn off on real people. What were the ugliest of those?...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Diner's Journal Blog: Diner?s Journal: A Banquet of Food Books in 2007
The ever-growing number of information-hungry gastronomes in this country, which the writer David Kamp rather cunningly named ?The United States of Arugula? in a 2006 book, is evident in the detailed descriptions of dishes on restaurant menus, in the popularity of food-oriented shows on television. But it?s also reflected in the proliferation of books like Mr. [...]...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
City Room: City Room: The Lights on the Brooklyn Bridge
The lights that form a "pearl necklace" on the Brooklyn Bridge are purely ornamental, but have been closely associated with the span over the decades...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
High & Low Finance: Credit Crisis? Just Wait for a Replay
How different was subprime lending from other lending in the days of easy money that prevailed until this summer?...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Berkshire to Buy ING Unit for $441 Million
In its second acquisition this week, Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway agreed to buy the NRG reinsurance unit of ING, the Dutch financial services company...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Wal-Mart Abandons Online Movie Downloads
The retreat for Wal-Mart follows the company?s 2005 decision to abandon efforts to build an online DVD rental service...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
A Grim November for New-Home Sales
The unexpectedly weak report suggested that home prices would fall further next year as the housing market struggles to break out of its deepest slump since the early 1990s...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Stocks Pare Gains After Housing Data
Stocks erased an early rally after the government new-home sales report stirred investor concerns that consumers worried about falling home prices could derail already weakening growth...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Crikcet: West Indies pegged back
South Africa restrict the West Indies to 146-8 in their second innings, but still trail by 359 runs...
BBC News - December 28, 2007
US home sales at 12-year low
November sales of new US homes fall more than analysts expected, raising concerns about the economy...
BBC News - December 28, 2007
Venezuela set for hostage flights
Venezuela says it is set to start sending aircraft to Colombia to collect three hostages from rebels...
BBC News - December 28, 2007
Tiger man 'tried to save friend'
California police now say the man killed by a tiger on Tuesday may have been trying to save his friend...
BBC News - December 28, 2007
Entertainer and Fighter Is Clemens?s Lead Lawyer
Rusty Hardin, the lawyer hired by Roger Clemens to defend him from charges he used performance-enhancing drugs, has vowed to play hardball...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Credit Crisis? Just Wait for a Replay
Just how different was subprime lending from other lending in the days of easy money that prevailed until this summer?...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Steven T. Florio, Executive Who Expanded Condé Nast, Dies at 58
Mr. Florio led Condé Nast during a period of great change in the magazine industry, with many companies downsizing because of the growth of the Internet...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
People in the News
Comings and goings in the financial industry...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Fed Increases Lending to Banks
U.S. banks on average borrowed $4.83 billion a day directly from the Federal Reserve in the week ended Dec. 26, up from $4.62 billion a day the previous week...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Sallie Mae Sells Securities to Try to Pay Off Derivatives
Sallie Mae said it sold $2 billion of common stock and $1 billion of convertible securities Thursday in a deal that would help pay off bad derivatives bets...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Equity Group Seeks to Redo Deal for Auto Glass Business
Platinum Equity said that it wanted to renegotiate its planned $500 million purchase of the automotive glass division of PPG Industries, alleging PPG had misrepresented the health of the business...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
General Re Subpoenas Supported
Berkshire Hathaway and its General Reinsurance unit must comply with subpoenas from the subsidiary?s former chief executive, Ronald E. Ferguson, whose fraud trial begins Jan. 7 in federal court, a judge has ruled...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Sony Discontinues Rear-Projection TV
Sony said that it was dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on flat-panel technologies...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Another Big Order for Boeing?s Dreamliners
Boeing said that it had sealed a deal with British Airways, raising the number of orders for its long-awaited 787 Dreamliner plane to 790 during the last three years...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Europe Charges Airlines With Price Fixing
The air cargo haulers All Nippon Airways, Air New Zealand and the Malaysian Airline System were charged Thursday with violating European competition rules...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Durable Goods Orders Rise, but Disappoint
Orders for manufactured goods at American factories rose only slightly in November, falling short of expectations...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Discover Tries Nurturing Parents
The Discover credit card has a new marketing partnership with Parents magazine, the nation?s most popular glossy about the world?s most demanding job...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Apple Making Deals for Web Video Rentals
Apple?s sputtering efforts to be a major purveyor of video downloads may get a boost in 2008 from an agreement with 20th Century Fox for digital movie rentals...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Amazon to Sell Warner Music Minus Copy Protection
The Warner Music Group?s announcement is the recording industry?s latest move away from its reliance on digital locks to reduce piracy...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Essence Editor Is Leaving Magazine
Susan L. Taylor, the longtime editor and driving force behind Essence, the magazine aimed at black women, is leaving the publication after 37 years...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Holiday Online Receipts Are Strong, but Reflect a Decline in Rate of Growth
Holiday e-commerce sales were robust, but, with sales growth of 19 percent, showed their slowest-ever growth, industry analysts projected...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
China Moves to Improve Quality of Its Seafood
China said this week that it would introduce an array of production standards to improve safety and guard against the use of illegal veterinary drugs in its seafood...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Aetna to End Payment for a Drug in Colonoscopies
Aetna is the latest insurer to clamp down on the use of a powerful anesthetic during an increasingly common form of colon cancer screening...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Broadcast of Golden Globes Is in Doubt
Hollywood?s glamour machine is stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next month?s Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000 picketing writers will chase them away...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
A Post-Google Fraternity of Investors
A growing number of Google millionaires are hoping to parlay their newfound wealth into even greater riches by bankrolling technology start-ups...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Stocks End Day in a Slide
Weak economic data and concerns about fallout from the assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, pushed shares lower on Thursday...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
China Finds American Allies for Security
For the Olympics, some American companies are helping to design one of the most high-tech surveillance systems...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Couple 'admits' US family murders
A US couple admits to killing six members of the same family near the city of Seattle, police say...
BBC News - December 28, 2007
On the Runway Blog: Here in Tokyo
A creation by Japanese designer Jun Takahashi for Under Cover during the Autumn/Winter 2007/2008 ready-to-wear collection show in Paris. (Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images) Although the purpose of my trip is to see Rei Kawakubo, as well Junya Watanabe and Tao Kurihara, for a piece in the Times Magazine, I paid a visit yesterday to Jun Takahashi [...]...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
For Bozeman, Road to Redemption Winds Slowly
A second chance has finally come for Todd Bozeman, the former California basketball coach who was embroiled in a recruitment scandal in the mid-?90s...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
TV Decoder Blog: TV Decoder: ?TMZ? on TV Finds Its Footing
Jim Paratore and Harvey Levin, shown in September, are the executive producers of "TMZ." (AP) The three-month-old television version of ?TMZ,? which is based on the popular Web site about the foibles of Britney, J. Lo and the like, continues to rank as the top-rated new show in syndication. Harvey Levin, the managing editor of TMZ.com and [...]...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Iowa Saturated by Political Ads
Campaigns are spending more on ads in Iowa in hopes of swaying undecided voters...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
The DNA Age: Searching for Similar Diagnosis Through DNA
Parents of children with distinct genetic mutations are seeking out others to form support networks...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
The Long Run: Under Attack, Drug Maker Turned to Giuliani for Help
The work that Rudolph W. Giuliani?s consulting firm did for the maker of the painkiller OxyContin provides a window into how he used his standing to aid a controversial client and build a business fortune...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Entertainer and Fighter Is Clemens?s Lead Lawyer
Rusty Hardin, the lawyer hired by Roger Clemens to defend him from charges he used performance-enhancing drugs, has vowed to play hardball...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
The Churn: People in the News
Comings and goings in the financial industry...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Steven T. Florio, Executive Who Expanded Condé Nast, Dies at 58
Mr. Florio led Condé Nast during a period of great change in the magazine industry, with many companies downsizing because of the growth of the Internet...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Sallie Mae Sells Securities to Try to Pay Off Derivatives
Sallie Mae said it sold $2 billion of common stock and $1 billion of convertible securities Thursday in a deal that would help pay off bad derivatives bets...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Equity Group Seeks to Redo Deal for Auto Glass Business
Platinum Equity said that it wanted to renegotiate its planned $500 million purchase of the automotive glass division of PPG Industries, alleging PPG had misrepresented the health of the business...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
General Re Subpoenas Supported
Berkshire Hathaway and its General Reinsurance unit must comply with subpoenas from the subsidiary?s former chief executive, Ronald E. Ferguson, whose fraud trial begins Jan. 7 in federal court, a judge has ruled...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Europe Charges Airlines With Price Fixing
The air cargo haulers All Nippon Airways, Air New Zealand and the Malaysian Airline System were charged Thursday with violating European competition rules...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Sony Discontinues Rear-Projection TV
Sony said that it was dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on flat-panel technologies...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Another Big Order for Boeing?s Dreamliners
Boeing said that it had sealed a deal with British Airways, raising the number of orders for its long-awaited 787 Dreamliner plane to 790 during the last three years...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Apple Making Deals for Web Video Rentals
Apple?s sputtering efforts to be a major purveyor of video downloads may get a boost in 2008 from an agreement with 20th Century Fox for digital movie rentals...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Advertising: Discover Tries Nurturing Parents
The Discover credit card has a new marketing partnership with Parents magazine, the nation?s most popular glossy about the world?s most demanding job...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Essence Editor Is Leaving Magazine
Susan L. Taylor, the longtime editor and driving force behind Essence, the magazine aimed at black women, is leaving the publication after 37 years...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Amazon to Sell Warner Music Minus Copy Protection
The Warner Music Group?s announcement is the recording industry?s latest move away from its reliance on digital locks to reduce piracy...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Aetna to End Payment for a Drug in Colonoscopies
Aetna is the latest insurer to clamp down on the use of a powerful anesthetic during an increasingly common form of colon cancer screening...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Holiday Online Receipts Are Strong, but Reflect a Decline in Rate of Growth
Holiday e-commerce sales were robust, but, with sales growth of 19 percent, showed their slowest-ever growth, industry analysts projected...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
V.C. Nation: A Post-Google Fraternity of Investors
A growing number of Google millionaires are hoping to parlay their newfound wealth into even greater riches by bankrolling technology start-ups...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
China Moves to Improve Quality of Its Seafood
China said this week that it would introduce an array of production standards to improve safety and guard against the use of illegal veterinary drugs in its seafood...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Broadcast of Golden Globes Is in Doubt
Hollywood?s glamour machine is stuck between a promise that the stars will still show up at next month?s Golden Globes and a threat that 3,000 picketing writers will chase them away...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Stocks End Day in a Slide
Weak economic data and concerns about fallout from the assassination of the Pakistani opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto, pushed shares lower on Thursday...
New York Times - December 28, 2007
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