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US News Archive for April 2007:
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Borders Spell Trouble for Arab-American
Arab-American organizations want Congressional oversight of the terrorist watch list system, citing cases of citizens who have been detained repeatedly without being given a reason...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Jets Trade Up to Draft Revis With 14th Pick
In selecting the Pittsburgh cornerback, the Jets addressed their most glaring deficiency and traded away three draft picks to the Carolina Panthers...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
For $82 a Day, Booking a Cell in a 5-Star Jail
For offenders with money, self-pay jails operate like secret velvet-roped nightclubs of the corrections world...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
For Colt and His Owner, a Long Ride to the Derby
Elizabeth Valando turned down a $17 million offer for her horse, Nobiz Like Shobiz, after he won his first race...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Chemotherapy Fog Is No Longer Ignored as Illusion
Research is leading to new attitudes about the cognitive side effects of life-saving treatment...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Consumed: Buzz Factor
A new product gets a lot of attention ? mostly from vehement critics...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
DataBank: The Dow Zips Past 13,000 (and Doesn?t Stop)
The Dow Jones industrial average broke through the 13,000 barrier for the first time on Wednesday and kept going. By the close of trading on Friday, it had reached 13,120.94, a new record...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Corrections: Federal Reserve Interest Rate Cuts
An article last Sunday about investing in bonds referred imprecisely to the Federal Reserve?s cutting of interest rates early in this decade. The Fed began cutting rates in early 2001 and finished in mid-2003; it did not start the cuts in early 2003...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
The Count: How to Depress Spenders, and How To Lift Them Up
Consumer confidence is all about perception, but it?s a perception that has a powerful effect on reality...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
A Disciplined Business
The creation of online pornography is becoming more acceptable, more rarefied and more challenging financially. That?s enough to turn on Peter Acworth...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
The Basics: Oh, for a Chance to Whitewash a Fence
Mark Twain?s 19th-century sprite is being name-checked a lot lately as a handy way to describe the Internet vogue du jour: exploiting free labor and content online...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Career Couch: Sizing Up Your Skills for a Return to Work
Be sure of your goals. And remember that your former employees may now want to hire you...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
The Boss: Family First, Then Task Forces
?I was a good student, but what I really liked to do was organize a group of people to do something,? said Lois Quam, president of public and senior markets groups for United HealthCare...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
National Perspectives: Trying for Balance in Rural Development
Rather than allowing development to overwhelm Jasper County, S.C., officials have collaborated on a plan to guide building and preserve natural beauty...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Everybody's Business: Enron, the Supreme Court and Shareholders on the Brink
In 1994, the Supreme Court basically said that there would be no liability for players who ?merely? aided and abetted securities fraud...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Suits: A Russian Oligarch Goes Shopping
Oleg V. Deripaska, the second-richest man in Russia, is making ever-bolder forays outside that country...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Home Front: At Whole Foods, a Welcome Sign for Immigrants Seeking Jobs
Immigrants and refugees can receive a leg up through a pre-interview training program supported by Whole Foods Market and a social services group...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Economic View: The Divisions That Tighten the Purse Strings
Studies suggest that America?s diversity goes a long way toward explaining why government spending on social welfare programs is much lower than in Europe...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Square Feet | Ventures: A Starring Role for ?Green? Construction
As concerns mount about global warming and oil prices, so, too, has interest in more sustainable construction...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Global Coolness: Carbon-Neutral Is Hip, but Is It Green?
The rush to go on a carbon diet, even if by proxy, is in overdrive...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Media Frenzy: One Crisis After Another, but Sony Shares Keep Surging
Despite a number of challenges, Sony has outperformed the Walt Disney Company, Time Warner and Comcast over the past two years...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: An Agitator Speaks Up, and It Pays Off
Since 2003, a Salt Lake City investment fund has successfully agitated for change at a half-dozen closed-end funds...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
The Goods: Absinthe: The American Remix
Americans seeking out the opaque green liqueur beloved by Oscar Wilde and his creative contemporaries now have a less dodgy option...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Spending: What?s 2 by 3, Plastic and Offers a Concierge Service?
Once a benefit offered primarily with credit and charge cards that have significant annual fees, concierge services have trickled down to a wider range of cardholders...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Strategies: Do Your Homework (or Buy an Index Fund)
If they?re not willing to switch funds often, fund investors should simply buy and hold an index fund for the long term, according to a new study...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Novelties: The Little Projectors That Pack a Punch
Lugging along a digital projector is less of a chore these days, with compact, portable models weighting less than a phone book...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Investing: When It Comes to Yield, How High Is Too High?
Strategists say that many signs, like erratic dividend histories or a high payout ratio, may indicate that a stock?s dividends are on shaky ground...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Market Week: Beware of Too Much Good News
As the Dow Jones industrial average passes 13,000, traders are anticipating slower job growth for the month of April...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Teed Up: Golf, K Street and Nigeria
The story of how a luxury golf resort came to a desperately poor nation is part of a larger tale in which American deal makers played leading roles...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood
A Silicon Valley startup hopes to turn America?s televisions into limitless multiplexes, changing the landscape of the home entertainment business...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Digital Domain: Technology to Dissect Every Dunk and Drive
The N.B.A.?s 450 players, arguably the most gifted group of athletes in any professional sport, are probably the most closely scrutinized employees in the world...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Turkey warned: Respect democracy
The European Union and the U.S. have urged the Turkish army to respect democracy after military chiefs voiced concerns that the current presidential election could undermine the country's secular system of government...
CNN - April 28, 2007
A Paper Trail in Wolfowitz Case
WASHINGTON, April 28 ? Arriving as president of the World Bank in the summer of 2005, Paul D. Wolfowitz told colleagues he was eager to tackle issues like poverty in Africa and corruption in aid to poor countries. But almost immediately he became consumed instead by frustrating negotiations with bank officials over the status of his companion, an employee at the bank, documents released this month show...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
12 Pakistanis Die in Attack on Official
A suicide attacker detonated a bomb as Pakistan?s interior minister finished speaking at a meeting in the country?s northwest...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Rebuilt Iraq Projects Found Crumbling
Inspectors found that in a sampling of eight projects declared successes by the U.S., seven were no longer operating as designed...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key
Prince Bandar bin Sultan may no longer be able to serve as an unerring beacon of Saudi intent, according to administration officials...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Democrats, Bush clash over Iraq
Democratic Party leaders in the U.S. Congress have begun talks with Republicans in an effort to gain their support for a new Iraq war spending bill that President George Bush won't veto -- unlike the one lawmakers will send him next week with a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops...
CNN - April 28, 2007
Federal Official Resigns in Escort Service Inquiry
An administration official said Randall L. Tobias?s name had come up in an investigation of a suspected Washington prostitution ring...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
With Return of Sea Lions, a Rebirth at Bronx Zoo
Three sea lions will return from an 18-month sojourn at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island to the Bronx Zoo Wildlife Conservation Park...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Peru leader gets emergency powers
Peru's President Alan Garcia is given emergency powers to deal with drug trafficking and organised crime...
BBC News - April 28, 2007
U.S. official resigns over 'Madam'
A top U.S. State Department official has resigned after revealing he had been a client of the alleged "D.C. madam's" escort service, CNN confirms. A State Department official confirmed to CNN the reason for Randall Tobias' departure as director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development...
CNN - April 28, 2007
Trooper believed killed by fellow officer
A New York state trooper who was thought have been shot and killed by an escaped convict this week was actually killed by friendly fire, New York State Police announced Friday. Trooper David C. Brinkerhoff was shot twice -- first in his protective armor by the convict and then by another state trooper, Superintendent Preston Felton said...
CNN - April 28, 2007
USAID chief resigns over 'madam'
Randall Tobias, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has resigned. He did so Friday after revealing he had been a client of the alleged "DC Madam's" escort service...
CNN - April 28, 2007
State Department official resigns over 'D.C. madam'
A top State Department official resigned Friday after revealing he had been a client of the alleged "D.C. madam's" escort service, CNN confirms. Randall Tobias was director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development...
CNN - April 28, 2007
Red Sox 11, Yankees 4: When Needed Most, Pettitte Can?t Steady Yankees
The Yankees gave a lead to Andy Pettitte in the middle innings on Friday, yet their best starter couldn?t hold the lead and yet another game slipped away...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Comrade?s Shot Killed New York State Trooper
The state police had believed that David C. Brinkerhoff was killed by a suspect he and other officers had cornered...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, Dissident Maestro, Dies
Mr. Rostropovich was renowned as a great musician and also as a champion of freedom in the Soviet Union...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Guilty Plea Widens Baseball?s Steroids Scandal
A former Mets clubhouse assistant pleaded guilty to distributing drugs to dozens of players...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Urban to Core, Storm Evacuees Give Farm a Try
A businessman bought former residents of New Orleans a $2.4 million farm as ?an environment of opportunity.?...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Jailed 7 Years for Contempt, Adviser Is Headed for Prison
Martin A. Armstrong, a financial adviser, will begin serving a five-year sentence for conspiracy to commit fraud...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
G.M. Chief?s Compensation Rises Despite Cut in Salary
Rick Wagoner?s compensation nearly doubled even though he voluntarily reduced his salary to aid the automaker?s restructuring effort...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Shares Stall as Investors Ponder Data
Investors tried to reconcile a weaker-than-expected estimate of first-quarter economic growth with fresh evidence that corporate profits remain robust...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Five Days: A Dow Breakthrough and a Housing Breakdown
Blue chip stocks surged all week as many big companies reported better-than-expected results, though mixed economic data might quiet the enthusiasm next week...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Ex-Hollinger Audit Panel Member Testifies
Prosecutors portrayed the former audit committee member as a talented economist who had been duped...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
What?s Offline: They?ll Keep the Smoking Sign On
Extended Stay Hotels recently announced it planned to keep its smokers welcome policies in place...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Blue Cross Agrees to Settle Doctors? Claims
The association will pay $128 million to settle lawsuits brought by doctors who said that they had been underpaid on insurance claims...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
What?s Online: The Pangs of Two Becoming One
Google?s $3.1 billion deal for the online advertising firm DoubleClick could put the company at odds with itself...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Saturday Interview: Rolling Homes Aren?t Just for the Rich
Bruce D. Hertzke, chairman and chief executive of Winnebago Industries, spoke about high gas prices and about how some people save the fancy trimmings for their R.V. instead of their house...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Market Values: With A.M.D., Riding Waves of Volatility
Any change in market conditions would vary the size of Intel?s profit, but for A.M.D., it can mean the difference between a big profit and a big loss...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Off the Charts: The Dow May Be at Its High, but Its Performance Is Still Lacking
Only half of the stocks in the Dow are higher than in 2000, while the number of rising stocks in the S.& P. is triple the number of losers...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
3 Banks Press ABN to Consider Rival Bid
The banks, led by Royal Bank of Scotland, said they would make a bid worth more than an earlier offer from Barclays for $87 billion...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Investigation of Seattle Pension Fund Manager Widens
Quellos Investments is being investigated over its design and sale of questionable tax shelters to wealthy investors...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Shortcuts: Making the Flight, Without the Stress
It is not money, nor sex that causes the bitterest disputes between couples, but how early you really need to get to the airport...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
AT&T Chief Who Weathered a Sea Change Is Retiring in June
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. will be succeeded by Randall L. Stephenson, the company?s chief operating officer...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Dell?s Founder Is Rethinking Direct Sales
Michael S. Dell is now thinking about changing the way the company markets its computers...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Your Money: The A-B-C?s of Calculating Financial Aid
It?s important to understand the financial aid award letter, the opening salvo of negotiations for student aid...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Citigroup Goes Global in Ad Effort
Citigroup will introduce a new message in the company?s first global brand campaign since the it was formed nearly a decade ago...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
The Energy Challenge: It?s Maple Syrup Time, So Why the Whiff of French Fries?
Some maple syrup producers are using used vegetable oil to boil their sap, instead of heating oil, a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
In Apparel, All Tariffs Aren?t Created Equal
The fees tacked onto clothing as it enters the U.S. may be the last legal form of sex discrimination in the country...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Economy at Its Slowest in 4 Years
The slowdown underscores how the persistent housing slump continues to drag on the American economy...
New York Times - April 28, 2007
Canada lowers climate goal
Canada unveils its strategy on climate change, but acknowledges it will not meet its Kyoto targets...
BBC News - April 28, 2007
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