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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat
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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Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking aid
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Colbert on Colbert Its fun playing a jerk
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Dancing with the Stars contestant injured
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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Hopper stars in Starz series Crash
Southern Ledger - October 6, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Changing the Rules of the Games
How did a handful of activists manage to shake up Beijing with ?Genocide Olympics? T-shirts?...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Consumed: Style Decoder
How bar-code technology became a medium for creativity...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Fair Game: If You Can?t Sell, Good Luck
A market dries up, and the little guy is left holding the debt...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Home Front: Imaginary Hors d?Oeuvres, but Real Job Skills
Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow offers job training exercises to help the unemployed develop or improve career skills...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Letters
That Creature in the Markets...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Questions for Paul O'Neill: Market Leader
The former Treasury secretary talks about how the Bush administration mismanaged the crisis in financial markets, his relationship to Dick Cheney and what happened to Bear Stearns...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The Way We Live Now: Bleakonomics
On Wall Street, intervention should have happened long ago. It?s called oversight...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Russian Vodka With a Feminine Kick
As the economy continues its skyward race, marketers are taking note of Russian women and the discretionary income they represent...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Everybody's Business: Time to Go on a Liquid Diet
In volatile times like these, cash is your best friend, aside from your dogs and cats...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Square Feet | Spotlight: Before the Olympics, a Parade of Companies
By the time the Olympic torch arrives in Beijing in August, the city will have largely completed its transformation into a modern metropolis...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: A Middling Week, but a Good One for 2008
The broad market declined modestly, but the Nasdaq composite index, which is heavily laden with technology stocks, managed a slight gain...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Career Couch: The Adroit Speaker Doesn?t Wing It
Concentrate on the audience ? who they are and what will interest them ? and not on yourself...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The Boss: Multitasking, Then and Now
My family taught me that using time productively meant more than just speeding through school...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The Count: Does Recession Mean Doom for Restaurants?
When the economy is falling down all around you, it is only natural to want to protect yourself with some austerity measures...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Ping: Thinking Outside the Company?s Box
More businesses are learning how to buy the great ideas of others...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Novelties: Coming Soon, to Any Flat Surface Near You
Tired of hearing other people?s cellphone conversations? Soon you may have to watch their favorite television shows and YouTube videos, too...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Economic View: When the Long View Isn?t So Scenic
What do we see when we step away from the turmoil of today?s subprime mortgage crisis and try to look into the future?...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Fundamentally: Don?t Paint Nest Eggs in Company Colors
Bear Stearns employees learned a valuable and painful lesson about pouring savings into company stock...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The Foreclosure Machine
As the number of foreclosures grows, a small army of law firms and default servicing companies, who represent mortgage lenders, have been raking in mounting profits...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
An Oilman Entices, and Investors Cry Foul
With oil prices topping $100 a barrel, con artists are eager to lure investors into suspect deals. State regulators say their powers to shut these schemes down are limited...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Essay: How to Cast a Mortgage Lifeline?
Any approach taken to address the subprime meltdown must not be too generous in shielding people and businesses from the consequences of their own bad decisions...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Market Maker: What ?the Bear? Meant for the Street
Bear Stearns?s storied reputation on Wall Street, included a knack for hiring so-called P.S.D.s ? workers who were Poor, Smart and had a deep Desire to become rich...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Suits: A Google Friend Is Now Facebook?s
Google?s status as the coolest place to work may be waning, the company has lost another high-ranking employee to the social networking site Facebook...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Wheels: Tata Strikes a Deal. Now What?
The Jaguar and Land Rover employees I?ve talked to recently -- the few still on the payroll -- say that Ford cut off financial life support for the brands a while back. The U.S. headquarters building in Irvine, Calif., for Ford?s crumbling Premier Automotive Group, of which Jaguar and Land Rover were key components, is eerily empty...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Gambit: Chess and the City
Two Columbia journalism graduate students have put together an interactive Web site looking at the history of chess in New York City. It has interviews with a number of prominent city players, including Hikaru Nakamura, Maurice Ashley (the only African-American grandmaster) and Joshua Waitzkin, on whose life the book and movie ?Searching for Bobby Fischer? [...]...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
News Analysis: In Treasury Plan, a Reluctant Eye Over Wall Street
A plan for the biggest change in financial regulation since the 1930s was born in an effort to limit Washington?s role...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Plea to Save Homes Puts Lawmakers in a Bind
Some Republicans in Congress find themselves stuck between constituents demanding protection from foreclosure and party leaders urging restraint...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Files From Colombians Point to Venezuelan Bid to Arm Rebels
If verified, the files would offer rare insight into Latin America?s longest-running guerrilla conflict...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Diplomats Visit Tibet Amid Anxiety Over Unrest
The tour was China?s latest effort to quiet talk about the possibility of a boycott of this summer?s Olympic Games...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Proudly Proving Women Can Be Texas Aggies
If one wants to gauge how far women have come in collegiate sports since the passage of Title IX, there may not be a more striking example than Texas A&M...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Shiite Militias Cling to Swaths of Basra and Stage Raids
Militias openly controlled many areas of the city as Iraqi political leaders grew increasingly critical of the stalled assault...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Iraqi Offensive Revives Debate for Campaigns
The war?s return to the public consciousness poses new challenges and opportunities for the candidates, particularly Senator John McCain...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Zimbabweans Vote, Desperate for Change
Lines at polling stations were long, but Zimbabweans have little hope that President Robert Mugabe might be ousted...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Racing: US horse wins in Dubai
Odds-on favourite Curlin sweeps past the field to win the Dubai World Cup, the world's richest race...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Asking a Judge to Save the World, or More
Two men are pursuing a lawsuit to stop scientists from using a giant particle accelerator, saying it could create a black hole that might eat up the Earth...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Spitzer May Have Lied, Prosecutor Says
A former aide testified that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was involved in an effort to smear Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Talking Business: A System Overdue for Reform
A growing and diverse number of experts agree that the financial system needs an overhaul...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Tennis: Djokovic in Miami loss
Defending champion Novak Djokovic is beaten by South African qualifier Kevin Anderson at the Sony Ericsson Open...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Brazil teen 'killer' investigated
Police in southern Brazil investigate a 16-year-old boy's claims that he has murdered 12 people...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
US makes new Mid-East peace bid
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel seeking to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Saturday Interview: Warning: Ultraviolet Rays Are Around the Corner
Brent Saunders, president of the consumer health care division of Schering-Plough, the maker of Coppertone, is thinking about summer...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Japanese Court Rejects Defamation Lawsuit Against Nobel Laureate
The court agreed with Kenzaburo Oe?s assertion that the Japanese military was deeply involved in the mass suicides of civilians in Okinawa at the end of World War II...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Drop in U.A.W. Rolls Reflects Automakers? Problems
Membership in the United Auto Workers union fell below 500,000 for the first time since World War II, reflecting the restructuring undertaken by Detroit?s automakers...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Today in Business
S.E.C. NOMINEES President Bush will nominate two Democrats to join the all-Republican Securities and Exchange Commission, an administration official said Friday...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Text: Treasury?s Summary of Regulatory Proposal
Following is the executive summary of the Blueprint for Financial Regulatory Reform, a report from the Treasury Department on ways to improve oversight of the financial services sector...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Talking Business: A System in Need of Repair
A growing and diverse number of experts are in agreement that the American financial system needs an overhaul...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Northwest Looks to Delta to Revive Merger Talks
Northwest Airlines has asked Delta Air Lines if it would like to restart merger talks, despite the inability of the carriers? pilots to agree on how to merge their all-important seniority lists...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Chaos Reigns a Second Day at Heathrow
British Airways again canceled dozens of flights at Heathrow?s new Terminal Five as its staff struggled with new technology meant to hasten check-in procedures...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Doha Trade Deal Still Possible, Bush Says
The United States is willing to make agricultural concessions to reach a new world trade deal if other countries open their markets to more American exports, President Bush said Friday...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
To Protest Fuel Costs, Truckers Plan Idle Day
Truckers plan a nationwide shutdown on April 1 to protest gas prices they say are eating away at their businesses...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
3 Firms Are Asked for Data on Auction-Rate Shares
The three firms subpoenaed by the top securities regulator in Massachussets are Merrill Lynch, UBS Securities and Banc of America Investment Services...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
A Half-Century Old, the Whopper to Get a Younger Image
By the end of the year, Burger King will introduce open kitchens, circular chrome countertops and plasma televisions that play looped videos of open flames...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
What?s Online: Rethinking Real Estate
In more than 300 cities and counties across the United States, residential developers are asked ? or forced ? to include a certain amount of affordable housing in their projects...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
What's Offline: Typing Becomes a Travel Skill
Steps to avoid potential problems with booking travel online...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Shortcuts: Speaking Strictly Financially, Stick With the Hamster
Buying a pet is hardly the beginning: owners spent almost $2,000 a year on their dogs, $1,200 on their cats...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Market Values: Not Everyone Is Cheering Lower Rates
Lower interest rates do no favors for people who receive more interest income than they pay out, like those in, or close to, retirement...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Ruling Gives Heirs a Share of Superman Copyright
The co-creator of Superman had sold his rights to the character 70 years ago for $130...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Your Money: First, Self-Control. Then, Debt Control.
While the financial experts are urging people to pay down debt ? particularly expensive credit card debt ? that is easier said than done...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Corporate Sponsors Nervous as Tibet Protest Groups Shadow Olympic Torch?s Run
The disruption of a Chinese official?s address in Greece was just the beginning of a string of protests planned to coincide with the torch?s trip around the globe...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Off The Charts: For Stocks, It?s the Wild West, East ...
When the first quarter ends on Monday, share prices will have suffered their worst losses in more than five years. And American investors will have done better than most...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Penney?s Warning Adds to Retail Gloom
J. C. Penney sharply cut its earnings forecast for the first three months of the year, blaming the tough economy in yet another sign of distress in American retailing...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Trying to Get the Swiss to Talk
A tax-evasion scandal in Germany has sparked a debate in Switzerland about the country?s banking secrecy...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Stalemate in New Kenyan Government
Kenya?s president, Mwai Kibaki, and top opposition leader Raila Odinga remain deadlocked over the formation of a new government...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Report Sketches Crime Costing Billions: Theft From Charities
Surprising results showed that fraud cost nonprofits $40 billion in 2006, an amount that, if accurate, equals the combined giving by corporations and foundations that same year...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
As a Musical Winds Down, the Writing?s on the Wall
The walls of the Nederlander Theater, where ?Rent? is approaching its final act, are awash with a rich history of graffiti...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
US bats prey to mystery illness
Tens of thousands of bats are dying of an unexplained illness across the north-eastern US, reports the BBC's Matt Wells...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Latin star 'on road to recovery'
US folk star Emilio Navaira is showing signs of recovery after a tour bus crash, his surgeon says...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Rio accused of neglecting dengue
A Brazilian judge orders Rio de Janeiro to use private hospitals to cope with a surge in cases of dengue fever...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
Protecting Children From Their Money
Here are some strategies for managing a custodial account, a low-cost route to savings that designates an adult to oversee money for a minor...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
The Family Office, Granting Every Wish
From trust planning to trip planning, it has become both easier and more difficult for the merely rich to buy services that only the superrich used to enjoy...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
You?ve Made Your Fortune. Now Jump in the Sandbox.
What is the fun of having a seven-figure portfolio if you can?t act like a millionaire? That may be the psychology pushing some investors to consider hedge funds...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Upstairs, Downstairs and Above the Garage
You?ve made a pile of money, but you?re missing something. You?re always busy, yet you?re far too unsatisfied. Maybe you need help. As in staff...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
As a family trust moves into its second and third generations, it is almost inevitable that someone will be unhappy with a trustee. But removing him or her might not be worth the hassle...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
As Accounts Pile Up, Less Becomes More
Investors who cannot tally their financial accounts on two hands might want to consolidate, financial advisers say...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Multiplying the Dollars Through Matching Gifts
Just as buying a home with a mortgage and investing money every month can grow an acorn into a mighty oak of wealth, charitable donations can also be leveraged...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Jumping for the Cause Without Being Asked
While plenty of schools teach fund-raising, there are no advanced degrees in how to be a philanthropist...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Jittery Market Calls for a Steady Hand
How can we position ourselves to survive ? and prosper from ? the recent upheavals in the market? The answer: Stay the course...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Tapping a Flow of Cash From the Credit Crisis
For the rich, the mortgage crisis and the housing slump have created opportunities to leverage their real estate holdings for other investments...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Breaking the Silence
The shifting nature of wealth and inheritance has families talking ? about values as well as money...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Umbrella Coverage for Preventing Your Ruin
For those with major assets, an extra insurance policy can take care of one?s liability for the nightmarishly unexpected...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Somalia?s Government Teeters on Collapse
Many of the same elements that lined up in the 1990s to create a famine are lining up again ? war, drought, displacement and skyrocketing food prices...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Diller Wins as Court Allows His 5-Way Division of IAC
A Delaware court ruled in favor of IAC/InterActiveCorp?s Barry Diller in his dispute with Liberty Media?s chairman John Malone, paving the way for IAC to proceed with its planned spin-off of four units...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Midwest Region: Davidson Is Dazzling in Toppling Another Giant
Stephen Curry?s 33-point performance helped Davidson oust the third-seeded Wisconsin Badgers, 73-56. The 10th-seeded Wildcats are one victory from the Final Four...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Stars and Slime at Kids? Awards Show
On Saturday night more than six million children and their parents are expected to tune in to the 21st annual ?Kids? Choice Awards? on Nickelodeon...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest
The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world?s population, has almost doubled on international markets in the last three months...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a Whole Lot More
Two men are pursuing a lawsuit to stop scientists from using a giant particle accelerator, claiming it could create a black hole that may eat up the Earth...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Growing Gulf Divides China and Dalai Lama
A gap between Western and Chinese leaders on perceptions of the Dalai Lama is breeding pessimism that China will take a new approach to Tibet...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Treasury Dept. Plan Would Give Fed Wide New Power
A plan that would give the Federal Reserve broad authority to oversee financial market stability could expose Wall Street to new scrutiny, but it avoids a call for tighter regulation...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
U.S. Airstrikes Aid Iraqi Army in Basra Siege
Iraqi forces, which have no air support of their own, have so far failed to subdue Shiite militias in Basra and have asked the Americans and British for help...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Endorsement of Obama Points Up Clinton?s Obstacles
A surprise endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by a popular senator in a battleground state underlined the ferment in the Democratic race...
New York Times - March 29, 2008
Brazilians shun 'American Dream'
Many Brazilian migrants to the US are returning because of ever tougher conditions there, yet others are eager to try their luck...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
US Mid-East commander replaced
The Pentagon replaces a commander of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, who quit early amid controversy...
BBC News - March 29, 2008
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