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US News Archive for November 2007:
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Million Pounds of Ground Beef Recalled
Cargill Inc. said it is recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Clinton Rebuts Accusations of Secrecy
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s campaign struck back against accusations that she and her husband were being overly secretive about their White House years...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Space Station Is Repaired in Spacewalk
The repair to a solar array on the International Space Station was very delicate because of mechanical issues...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Union and Ford Reach Tentative Deal
The deal is similar to new contracts at General Motors and Chrysler, only this time there was no strike...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal
A gadget that jams cellular signals has gained popularity as the use of cellphones has invaded more public places...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Capital Cases Stalling as Costs Grow Daunting
States unwilling to pay the huge costs of defending people charged in capital cases may be unable to hold executions...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Even Cut 50 Percent, Earmarks Clog a Military Bill
House lawmakers inserted about $1 billion in financing for pet projects into the military appropriations bill...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
A Ray of Pension Sunshine
Increased scrutiny on the costly effects that middlemen can have on pensions will surely help investors and pension beneficiaries...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Insurer Sues Over Mississippi Inquiry
State Farm is suing Mississippi?s attorney general, accusing him of violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer?s handling of claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Russia Temporarily Rescinds Ban on Lufthansa Overflights
In an effort to defuse an escalating diplomatic dispute with Germany, Russian authorities agreed on Friday to allow Lufthansa to temporarily resume cargo flights over Russia...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Imbibers Add It All Up, and Gulp
Some people are surprised to find that the money they spend on alcohol can add up to tens of thousands in lost retirement savings...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Auto Sector?s Role Dwindles, and Spending Suffers
The automobile industry?s share of the American economy has fallen to a historic low ? 3.1 percent of the total gross domestic product...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Crude Oil Futures Trade Above $96 Again
The prospect of a stronger economy and word of possible new United Nations sanctions against Iran sent crude oil futures back above $96 a barrel on Friday...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Peace of Mind When They Ask to Borrow the Car
Some parents are adopting new technology, like G.P.S. monitors, to track their teenage drivers...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Bringing Musical Mercy to the Vocally Challenged
Is it possible for someone born without the natural talent of a Broadway star to learn how to sing?...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Senate Democrats Facing a ?Pay as You Go? Problem
Senate Democrats need to find a way to raise at least $50 billion in new taxes, or undermine their most important rule for enforcing budget discipline...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday
Hollywood?s movie and television writers plan to embark on an industrywide strike for the first time since 1988...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
The Dings and Dents of Toyota
Toyota has had a run of bad news this year as concerns linger that management has not kept up with a rapid growth rate...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Despite Gain in Jobs Data, Wall Street Is Skeptical
The economy added 166,000 jobs in October, the fastest pace in five months, but investors seem to think the outlook for the fourth quarter remains cloudy...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Maker of Lipitor Digs In to Fight Generic Rival
Many patients on the cholesterol drug are switching to a cheaper alternative, but Pfizer is not letting its flagship product go down without a fight...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Citigroup Chief Is Set to Exit Amid Losses
Charles O. Prince III has told directors that he would resign in the wake of a $5.9 billion write-down...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
TV Show Over? Obsess About It on the Web
The broadcast networks are using TV show Web sites to offer clips, outtakes, interviews, games, message boards and blogs ? not to mention entire episodes...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
It?s Not a Popemobile but It Comes in Handy
A tractor given to the pope by Fiat will be used by the Vatican to move a 17-ton stage from which the pope addresses the faithful in St. Peter?s Square...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Productivity May Explain the Market
If you have been baffled by stocks? ability to race higher, even as the price of just about every commodity soars, some clarity may arrive this week...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
How Smaller College Endowments Still Reap Big Returns
Some colleges and universities with modest financial assets have managed to earn returns higher than their deep-pocketed rivals...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
The Law of Unintended Consequences?
A new study has found that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act may have made Wall Street analysts less able to forecast corporate earnings...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
A Rate Cut, a Rally and a Plunge
The Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates last week, but the broad stock market fell anyway...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Witness to Wackiness on the Night Shift
?The human body can adjust to any type of work schedule.?...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
A Small-Town Feel in an Urban Locale
Young and old alike are finding affordable real estate in Portland, Ore...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Economic Growth, Clad in Military Garb
Ayesha Siddiqa analyzes why militaries become key players in some country?s power politics in ?Military Inc.?...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
College Towns Escape the Pain
As the inner cities, along with much of Florida and the interior of California, face the prospect of a foreclosure meltdown, American college towns appear to be islands of stability...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
What?s Behind the Race Gap?
There is probably no single explanation for the concentration of high-cost subprime mortgages in minority neighborhoods, though the history of banks? avoiding these places is a good place to start...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Does E-Mail Distract? Not if You Take Charge
Learn which messages to zap, and when the best response is no response...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Venting, Yes. Profiting, No.
Gregg Rottler?s burgeoning Web sites collect tales of restaurants, flights and cruises gone horribly wrong...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Wireless Workplaces, Touching the Sky
The Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan is one of the more technologically advanced office buildings in the country...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Why Google Turned Into a Social Butterfly
A new alliance will help friends on networking sites roam freely...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
The Very Expensive Reality of Chasing Reality TV
Would-be contestants can drop big money auditioning for reality television shows and contests...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Rethinking How to Teach the New Teachers
An innovative program designed by teachers has the potential to transform those first stressful years in the classroom...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Beyond Those Health Care Numbers
The most dangerous claims in the health care debate are those that are true but don?t mean what people think they mean...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
I, Robot: The Man Behind the Google Phone
With battle lines being drawn for dominance in the smartphone market, Google is placing its mobile bets in the hands of Andy Rubin...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Too Much Meddling When C.E.O.?s Go a-Courtin??
Corporate boards are looking over the chief executive?s shoulder...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Where Did the Buck Stop at Merrill?
Analysts are asking to what extent accountability for oversight of financial strategies reached beyond the chief executive?s suite and into the boardroom...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Union and Ford Reach Tentative Deal
The deal is similar to new contracts at General Motors and Chrysler, only this time there was no strike...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
For Soldiers? Families, Battles Are Not Far Off
Soldiers in the 10th Mountain Division returned to Fort Drum, N.Y., after 15 months in Iraq...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
New Life for Initiative to Apportion Electoral Vote
A proposed ballot initiative that would alter the way electoral votes are apportioned in California to benefit Republican candidates is being revived...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
In Risky Spacewalk, Astronaut Repairs Damage
An astronaut today repaired a damaged solar array on the International Space Station...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
U.A.W. and Ford Reach Tentative Agreement
The deal after a 41-hour bargaining session completed a series of new contracts with the American automakers...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
28-Year-Old Marathoner Dies in Olympic Trials
A triumphant U.S. Olympic trials marathon turned tragic today when Ryan Shay collapsed 5.5 miles into the race in Central Park and died at a hospital...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
U.A.W. and Ford Reach Tentative Agreement
United Automobile Workers reached a tentative agreement with the Ford Motor Company after a 41-hour bargaining session...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
In pictures: Riots in Venezuela
Pictures of riot police breaking up the student protest against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's proposed constitutional reforms...
BBC News - November 3, 2007
A voice for the youth vote
As a daily online political news site is launched by US students, where does the wider youth vote stand ahead of the 2008 elections?...
BBC News - November 3, 2007
US TV show pulled after race row
A bounty hunter's US TV series is taken off-air after he is heard using a racist term in a phone call to his son...
BBC News - November 3, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Obama Speaks on Civil Rights
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Barack Obama spent the day giving formal speeches about the civil rights struggle and said that civil rights pioneers had overcome fears to achieve big dreams — and he asked his listeners to overcome their own fears and support him for president. The Caucus caught up with him here, where he spoke to [...]...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Cavs 110, Knicks 106: James Ensures Knicks Open With a Loss
LeBron James scored 45 points and Daniel Gibson made four 3-pointers in just over two minutes in the fourth quarter to down the Knicks...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Training Through Pregnancy to Be Marathon?s Fastest Mom
Paula Radcliffe, a record holder who ran regularly while pregnant last year, will compete in New York on Sunday...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
The Long Run: Loyal to Kerik, Giuliani Missed Warning Signs
New evidence suggests Rudolph W. Giuliani overlooked disturbing information as he supported Bernard B. Kerik...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Pittsburgh Episcopal Diocese Votes to Leave the Church
Members of the diocese voted Friday in favor of separating from the national church because of a rift that began with the consecration of an openly gay bishop...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Justice Nominee Gets 2 Key Votes From Democrats
The confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general appeared to be all but certain after Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles E. Schumer gave him their support...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Plaintiffs Awarded Share of Curlin?s Sale
A state judge in Kentucky has given the more than 400 plaintiffs in a diet-drug lawsuit the right to 20 percent of the proceeds from the future sale of the Preakness Stakes and the Breeders? Cup Classic champion...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
For Teenage Drivers, Ever-Present Parents
A list of some of the companies that sell driver tracking devices...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
What?s Offline: Leaving Corporate Life at 60
Should chief executives step down once they turn 60? That and other questions from business and finance magazines...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
What?s Online: Let Us Pray for Wealth
Globally, the wealthier you are, the less likely you are to be religious; Disneyland?s water ride It?s a Small World will be refurbished next year and more...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Credit Ratings Cut to Junk for Top 3 Home Builders
Standard & Poor?s cut the credit ratings of the three largest American home builders ? Lennar, Pulte Homes and D. R. Horton ? to junk yesterday as demand for new homes deteriorated...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
F.C.C. Case Is Appealed to Justices
The F.C.C. has asked the Supreme Court to review a federal appellate court decision that rejected an effort by the commission to enforce indecency standards...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Electronic Arts Soothes Investors
Shares of Electronic Arts rose almost 3 percent Friday, a day after it outlined a promising product lineup and said it expected to see a ?great? holiday season...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Yahoo Executive Apologizes to a Congressional Panel
A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for failing to give American lawmakers additional information about its role in the imprisonment of a Chinese dissident...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Filing Is Seen as Signal of Buyout Plan for A.I.G.
The former chief executive of the A.I.G., said Firday that he was considering ways to increase the value of his remaining shares in the company, the world?s largest insurer...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Insurer Sues Over Mississippi Inquiry
State Farm is suing Mississippi?s attorney general, accusing him of violating an agreement to end a criminal investigation of the insurer?s handling of claims on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Chevron Profit Plummets 26% as Gas Margins Decline
Chevron said Friday that its third-quarter earnings fell 26 percent, missing analysts? estimates, on sharply lower profits from gasoline production...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Russia Temporarily Rescinds Ban on Lufthansa Overflights
In an effort to defuse an escalating diplomatic dispute with Germany, Russian authorities agreed on Friday to allow Lufthansa to temporarily resume cargo flights over Russia...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Profit Rises 64% at Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway, the company controlled by Warren E. Buffett, said Friday that its third-quarter profit rose 64 percent, helped by investment gains, including the sale of a stake in PetroChina...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Saturday Interview: A Spotlight on the Green Side of Bottled Water
Kim E. Jeffery, chief executive of Nestlé Waters, maintains that bottled water will continue to sell briskly no matter how much criticism came its way...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Basic Instincts: Imbibers Add It All Up, and Gulp
Some people are surprised to find that the money they spend on alcohol can add up to tens of thousands in lost retirement savings...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Off The Charts: Auto Sector?s Role Dwindles, and Spending Suffers
The automobile industry?s share of the American economy has fallen to a historic low ? 3.1 percent of the total gross domestic product...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Crude Oil Futures Trade Above $96 Again
The prospect of a stronger economy and word of possible new United Nations sanctions against Iran sent crude oil futures back above $96 a barrel on Friday...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Your Money: Peace of Mind When They Ask to Borrow the Car
Some parents are adopting new technology, like G.P.S. monitors, to track their teenage drivers...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Big Drop in Merrill Stock on Hint of New Troubles
Merrill Lynch saw its shares fall 8 percent on Friday on the possibility that it might have to write down more of its high-risk credit exposure...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Executive Pursuits: Bringing Musical Mercy to the Vocally Challenged
Is it possible for someone born without the natural talent of a Broadway star to learn how to sing?...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Senate Democrats Facing a ?Pay as You Go? Problem
Senate Democrats need to find a way to raise at least $50 billion in new taxes, or undermine their most important rule for enforcing budget discipline...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
With Resolution Unlikely, Writers Guild Sets Strike for Monday
Hollywood?s movie and television writers plan to embark on an industrywide strike for the first time since 1988...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
The Dings and Dents of Toyota
Toyota has had a run of bad news this year as concerns linger that management has not kept up with a rapid growth rate...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Despite Gain in Jobs Data, Wall Street Is Skeptical
The economy added 166,000 jobs in October, the fastest pace in five months, but investors seem to think the outlook for fourth quarter remains cloudy...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Maker of Lipitor Digs In to Fight Generic Rival
Each month, thousands of patients on the cholesterol drug are switching to simvastatin, a cheaper alternative, but Pfizer is not letting its flagship drug go down without a fight...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Citigroup Chief Is Set to Exit Amid Losses
Charles O. Prince III, the bank?s chairman and chief executive, has told directors that he would resign as the possibility of another write-off looms, people briefed on the matter said...
New York Times - November 3, 2007
Spacewalk aims to fix solar panel
Astronaut Scott Parazynski is set for a tricky repair on a damaged solar panel at the International Space Station...
BBC News - November 3, 2007
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