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US News Archive for May 2006:
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Sago families seek truth, solutions
Relatives of coal miners killed in January's Sago Mine disaster spoke of heroes and heartbreak Tuesday as they asked an investigative panel to look for ways to ensure others don't endure similar pain...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Two German hostages freed in Iraq
Two German engineers, nabbed by kidnappers in Iraq more than three months ago, have been freed, a German foreign ministry spokeswoman tells CNN. Rene Braunlich and Thomas Nitzschke are expected to return to their home country on Wednesday, she says...
CNN - May 2, 2006
3 Found Guilty of Stealing Munch Paintings
Prosecutors hope a penalty of $121 million will pressure the men to reveal the whereabouts of the paintings...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Nonhormonal Drugs Said to Ease Hot Flashes
Certain antidepressants and other medicines may help ease menopausal hot flashes, but they have side effects, researchers say...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran
Russia and China are resisting the draft of a resolution requiring Iran to stop key nuclear activities, officials said...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Publisher Drops Book Deal With 'Opal' Author
A Harvard student's novel has been withdrawn and her two-book deal canceled, the publisher said today...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Congress Set to Drop Fuel Price Rebate Plan
A proposal to provide a $100 rebate to compensate for higher fuel prices appeared all but dead today...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Sago Mine Hearing Opens With Questions
The families of the 12 miners who were killed pressed for answers about safety equipment and delayed rescue efforts...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Cause of Brooklyn Blaze Is Under Investigation
Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said that the nine-alarm warehouse fire had been deemed suspicious in nature...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
As Gas Prices Rise, Detroit Sales Decline
The high cost of gasoline already appeared to impact vehicle sales last month, automakers said...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
WTO moving closer to trade deal
The World Trade Organization can still strike a global trade deal, but officials say greater flexibility and more concessions are needed...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Golf: Wie takes shot at Open
Michelle Wie's name is among a total of 8,584 entries for the 2006 US Open at Winged Foot, New York...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Uruguay urges a better Mercosur
Uruguay's president criticises South America's trading bloc but says his country wants to improve not leave it...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Senate retries immigration reform
The US Senate will try again within weeks to break the deadlock on immigration reform, its leader says...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
New Orleans gets new disaster plan
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin unveils a new disaster strategy ahead of the approaching hurricane season...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Enron's Lay leaves witness stand
Enron founder Kenneth Lay ends his time in the witness box reiterating that he loved the energy firm and was not to blame for its bankruptcy...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
U.S. confident of Iran sanctions
Nicholas Burns, the U.S. diplomat heading crucial talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions has predicted full European support for a U.N Security Council resolution that would allow sanctions or even force. The six-nation meeting in Paris came as Tehran attacked the U.S. for making "impudent threats."...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Bolivia: Gas grab 'just the start'
Bolivian President Evo Morales (center), who ordered the seizure of the nation's gas industry Monday, has threatened to nationalize other sectors of the economy...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Sago families want answers
A two-day public hearing about the Sago Mine disaster that killed 12 men opened Tuesday with victims' relatives seeking answers. "We must do something to prevent any more miners dying and having to endure this awful pain," said Peggy Cohen, whose father, Fred Ware, was killed...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Senate GOP backs off $100 gas rebate proposal
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, under pressure from business leaders, retreated Monday from a plan that would have used a tax increase on oil companies and other businesses to pay for a $100 gasoline rebate for millions of motorists...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Must Looted Relics Be Ignored?
As scholars grapple with the reality that a growing number of important works lack a clear provenance, ethics policies are the focus of heated debate...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Firefighters Battle Brooklyn Warehouse Blaze
The fire chief said it was the largest fire in the city in more than a decade, excluding 9/11...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Senators Question F.B.I. Director
The matters included slow progress in intelligence sharing to the searching of a late columnist's files...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
How Bad Is Inflation in Zimbabwe?
Prices have increased 900%, with toilet paper costing $417 per sheet at one supermarket...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Woman commander leaves Nasa
US astronaut Eileen Collins, the first female space shuttle commander, is leaving the US space agency...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Golf: Daly admits gambling losses
Former Open champion John Daly says he has lost as much as £33m because of heavy gambling...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Uruguay weighs leaving Mercosur
Uruguay's president says his country is considering pulling out of South America's trading bloc, Mercosur...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Mexico ex-leader brother cleared
A brother of ex-Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari is acquitted in France on money-laundering charges...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Iran defiant as U.N. body meets
As Tehran attacked the U.S. for "impudent threats," members of the U.N. Security Council were meeting in Paris to discuss their response to a nuclear watchdog report that said Iran was violating demands to halt uranium enrichment...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Hearing may clear up Sago questions
Four months after 12 men died in the Sago mine disaster, dozens of people were set to testify at a public hearing set for Tuesday at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Victims' family members, Gov. Joe Manchin, lawmakers and mine safety regulators could help answer difficult questions such as: Were the workers properly trained? Did a lightning strike cause the blast? How did the false news spread that 12 men were alive?...
CNN - May 2, 2006
'Day Without Immigrants'
Immigrants and their supporters in cities across the U.S. took to the streets Monday to show legal and illegal immigrant labor is key to the economy. In Chicago, about 300,000 people joined one of the largest demonstrations. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the protests were "very positive."...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Bolivia nationalizes gas industry
President Evo Morales has decreed he is nationalizing Bolivia's vast natural gas industry, sending soldiers to occupy gas fields and threatening to evict foreign companies unless they give the Andean nation control over the entire chain of production...
CNN - May 2, 2006
Red Sox 7, Yankees 3: Unfriendly Fenway: Damon Returns, Ortiz Delivers
Back at Fenway Park, Johnny Damon went hitless in four at-bats, and Aaron Small lost his first game of the season...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Fuel Prices Weigh on Sysco’s Profit
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New York Times - May 2, 2006
UnitedHealth Halts Executive Options
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New York Times - May 2, 2006
Tyson Foods Posts $127 Million Loss
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New York Times - May 2, 2006
Humana Profit Falls on Medicare Drug Plan Costs
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New York Times - May 2, 2006
NHL: Top seeds Detroit ousted
Edmonton upset number one seeds Detroit by winning their best-of-seven NHL play-offs first round series 4-2...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
NBA: Mavs & Clippers progress
Dallas sweep Memphis and the LA Clippers beat Denver 4-1 to reach the NBA Western Conference semi-finals...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
US use of secret warrants rises
The number of court-approved warrants allowing secret surveillance inside the US rose 18% last year, figures show...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Canada launches Air India inquiry
The Canadian government launches an inquiry into the bombing of an Air India passenger jet in 1985...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
Sudan tops 'failed states index'
Sudan is the world's most vulnerable and least viable state, followed by DR Congo and Ivory Coast, a new study says...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
In Senate Race, Pork Is Portrayed as Bad Politics
In Nebraska and other states, challengers are trying to portray incumbents' pet projects as waste...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
A Second Ripple in Plagiarism Scandal
Fresh passages in the novel by a Harvard sophomore appear to be copied from a second author...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Red Sox 7, Yankees 3: Mixed Reviews for Damon and a Loss for the Yanks
In his return to Fenway Park, Johnny Damon went hitless in four at-bats, and Aaron Small lost his first appearance of the season...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Immigrants Take to U.S. Streets in Show of Strength
Originally billed as an economic boycott, the day evolved into a round of protests intended to influence Congress...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Republicans Drop a Tax Plan After Businesses Protest
Lawmakers have been struggling to come up with an acceptable political and legislative answer to high gasoline prices...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Resort Bid Is Increased
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Entropia Universe Players Can Cash Their Online Earnings at the A.T.M.
The makers of Entropia Universe plan to introduce a real-world A.T.M. card that will allow players to withdraw hard cash automatically converted from their virtual game treasury...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Quattrone Case Reassigned
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Greenhill Plans a Secondary Share Offering
Greenhill, like other investment banks, has prospered amid the recent surge in mergers and takeovers...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Frequent Traveler: In-Air Insomniac Takes the Cure With Trepidation
I CAN'T sleep on a plane. No matter how comfortable an airline seat is supposed to be, even on a lie-flat bed in first class, I never used to be able to rest...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Boeing Will Buy Parts Maker
CHICAGO, May 1 (AP) — Boeing announced its biggest acquisition in nearly a decade on Monday, agreeing to buy Aviall, an aviation parts and services company, for $1.7 billion in cash, a deal aimed at increasing its already large stakes in the commercial and military aviation markets...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Times Promotes Advertising Executive
Alexis Buryk, group vice president for advertising at The New York Times, has been promoted to senior vice president...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Another Robot Vehicle Contest Is Planned
he Pentagon said Monday that a third Grand Challenge competition would be held to foster research and development into advanced robot vehicles...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Comverse Officials Resign
The chief executive and two other top executives of Comverse Technology Inc. resigned yesterday, about six weeks after the company said it was reviewing its stock options grants...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Judge Lets Charges Stand in KPMG Case
By Reuters...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
On the Road: Avoiding Tan Suits and Other Travel Gaffes
The growing scope of face-to-face multicultural transactions steadily increases the odds of making a faux pas that could be costly — and could be avoided by doing some homework...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Memo
MAXJET CUTS FARES AGAIN Aggressively pursuing the small discount niche in lucrative trans-Atlantic travel, the start-up airline MAXjet has announced a fare sale on its New York-to-London route at $1,000 round trip, taxes and fees included, $500 less than its lowest regular fare on that route. The fares must be booked and the travel completed by June 3. MAXjet operates Boeing 767's configured with only 102 business-class seats between New York and Stansted Airport in London, as well as between Washington and Stansted...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
With Eye on Interest Rates, Investors Erase Early Gains
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Again (This Time Legally) Napster Offers Free Music
Napster users can now listen to songs up to five times on the free site before having to pay...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Level 3 To Acquire TelCove
The network operator Level 3 Communications agreed to acquire the privately held TelCove for about $1.08 billion...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Restaurant Associates to Go Private
Restaurant Associates, the owner of well-known restaurants like Brasserie in Manhattan and Patina of Los Angeles, is stepping out on its own...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Let's Meet in the Lobby
The tendency to use hotel lobbies for informal meetings has accelerated recently as business travel has rebounded and hotels have invested heavily in their public spaces...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Another Patent Case Is Filed Against Maker of BlackBerry
A wireless e-mail software company partly owned by NTP has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Research In Motion seeking a shutdown of its popular BlackBerry service...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Aramark Gets a Takeover Offer
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Wall St. Calls Drug Safety Expert
Dr. Alastair J. J. Wood, a prominent drug safety expert at Vanderbilt University, will leave the school to become a managing director of a biotechnology investment fund...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Prosecutor Zeroes In on Ex-Enron Chief's Finances
Having $100 million in personal debt did not stop Kenneth L. Lay from spending $200,000 on a birthday cruise for his wife and holding onto some $30 million in real estate...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Self-Heating Latte Cans Bring Out Lawyers
An effort to sell self-heating latte under the Wolfgang Puck name is generating another kind of heat, in a dispute that seems headed for court...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Germans, Already Mad, Try to Get Even Over Gas Prices
As the European Commission pushes to open energy markets to more players, the reaction in Germany highlights the pitfalls facing countries if they misstep...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access
The company plans to announce a design for a sub-$400 educational laptop and a program to train teachers and to extend wireless digital Internet access worldwide...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Taiwan Maker of Cellphones for Others Is Venturing Out on Its Own
BenQ formed an intercontinental venture with Siemens so it could sell its own branded phones beyond Taiwan and China, placing it in competition with some of its former clients...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Turmoil in Asia Doesn't Dent Investors' Enthusiasm for Its Markets
A glut of global savings is resulting in an avalanche of global investments with little concern for the risks normally connected to accident-prone economies...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Advertising: Nowadays, It's All Yours, Mine or Ours
Madison Avenue has become obsessed with using the word "my" in advertising slogans, as well as in the names of brands, products and even a new television network...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Spending Pushes Up Inflation
Robust spending on homes, cars and other consumer goods kept the economy moving at a brisk pace and sent a critical measure of inflation higher in March...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race
With the future of competition in computing and the way people use information technology, The rivalry between the companies is growing more combative...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Not WB Nor UPN
The new CW network is making programming decisions that will be crucial to attracting its prime audience of teenagers and young adults...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Pensions in Peril Over Church Exemptions
Under a little-known aspect of pension law, churches can opt out of the costly rules that apply to secular employers...
New York Times - May 2, 2006
Google seeks top programmers
Google launches a competition to find the best computer programmers in Europe, with jobs at the firm up for grabs...
BBC News - May 2, 2006
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