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US News Archive for January 2007:
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New Evidence of Liquid Methane on Saturn?s Moon
As scientists predicted, the surface of Titan appears to be dotted with an abundance of lakes of liquid methane...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Trying to Regain Initiative, Bush Looks Ahead
President Bush today pledged to work with the incoming Democratic Congress but held fast to his own goals...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Spitzer Seeks Sweeping Changes in Albany
In his first annual address to the Legislature, Gov. Eliot Spitzer today outlined an ambitious agenda for New York...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
In Meetings With Allies, Clinton Hones ?08 Strategy
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was described as leaving little doubt that she plans to run for president, without saying so directly...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Chrysler Is Only U.S. Carmaker to See Sales Gains
The December report closed out a tough year for the Detroit auto companies, and 2007 may not be any easier...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Sprint Nextel Puts Its Big Ad Account in Review
Sprint Nextel spends an estimated $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion each year on advertising...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Fed hints at future rate increase
The US Fed hinted more rate rises may be needed to control inflation, notes from its latest meeting show...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Gerald Ford buried in home town
Former US President Gerald Ford is buried in his home town in Michigan after a final funeral service in a local church...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Rio seeks troops to curb violence
The Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro requests a deployment of federal troops to curb soaring gang violence...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Pinochet family fraud case ended
Fraud charges are dropped against the widow of Chile's Gen Pinochet, his daughter and daughter-in-law...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Quick-thinking commuter saves man in subway
Commuter Wesley Autrey saved a young man who fell on the subway tracks by pushing him down into a trough between the rails, allowing an approaching train to pass over them, police said...
CNN - January 3, 2007
Hussein video: 'More arrests soon'
At least two more arrests are expected in connection with cell phone video of the moments before Saddam Hussein was hanged, Iraq's national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie told CNN Wednesday...
CNN - January 3, 2007
With power shift imminent, Bush pushes agenda
President Bush on Wednesday asked the Democratic-controlled Congress to give the White House line-item veto power to control spending. As he prepares to deal with an opposition Congress for the first time, Bush is also asking lawmakers to extend tax cuts...
CNN - January 3, 2007
Controversy Rules Oscar Contenders
Gritty filmmaking and controversial subjects are the dominant qualities among the documentaries vying for Oscar nominations this year...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Saban Leaving the Dolphins for Alabama
After repeatedly saying in recent weeks that he would not take the Alabama coaching job, Nick Saban reversed course Wednesday to announce his departure from the Miami Dolphins for the Crimson Tide...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Spitzer Speech Will Urge Fiscal Restraint
Gov. Eliot Spitzer?s speech will focus more on the economy than the inaugural speech, according to excerpts...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Bush Urges Democrats on ?Earmarks?
President Bush asked Democrats today to make good on campaign promises by shining light on the previously clandestine expenditures...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Hussein Guard Is Arrested, Officials Say
The arrest was in connection with the unofficial cellphone video that showed Saddam Hussein being taunted just before his death...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Embattled Chief Executive Resigns at Home Depot
Robert L. Nardelli was criticized for his pay package and failure to lift the chain?s stagnant stock price...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
US manufacturing stages recovery
US manufacturing stages a surprise recovery in November, buoyed by rising orders and production...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Merkel: 'Boost EU-US trade ties'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to see "ever-closer economic co-operation" between the EU and the US...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Shooting kills one at US school
A high school student is killed when a gunman thought to be a fellow student opens fire in Washington state...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Iraq probes Hussein execution
Iraq launches an investigation into who recorded and distributed images of the execution of Saddam Hussein, as well as the taunting of the former leader just prior to his death, according to a government spokesman...
CNN - January 3, 2007
Agency Lifts Restrictions on Caviar
Countries along the Caspian Sea may resume exporting sevruga and osetra caviar. But coveted beluga is still banned...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Google Answer to Filling Jobs Is an Algorithm
Google, in typical eccentric fashion, has created an automated way to search for well-rounded candidates...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Ford's body back home for burial
Former US President Gerald Ford is due to be buried in his home town in Michigan where his body is now lying in state...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Gaza police search for Peruvian
Palestinian police continue searching for a Peruvian photographer, two days after his abduction in Gaza...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Canada WWI veterans reject honour
Canada's last surviving World War I veterans reject government plans to hold a state funeral for the last to one to die...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
FBI workers saw Guantanamo abuse
Several FBI agents say they saw abusive practices during the interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
Iraq probes Hussein execution
Iraq launches an investigation into who recorded and distributed images of the execution of Saddam Hussein, as well as the taunting of the former leader just prior to his death, according to a government spokesman...
CNN - January 3, 2007
New U.N. chief takes over, plans trip to Africa
Starting his first day of work, new Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon vowed Tuesday to end mistrust of the United Nations and called for action to tackle "daunting" problems from crises in the Middle East and Darfur to reducing extreme poverty by half by 2015...
CNN - January 3, 2007
Ford back home for burial
Former President Gerald Ford was honored today as a man who helped restore a nation's faith while remaining true to himself and his "Main Street values." Delivering a eulogy at the funeral for the nation's 38th president, President Bush called Ford "a man whose name was a synonym for integrity."...
CNN - January 3, 2007
Ford's final homecoming
Former President Gerald Ford's body was brought back to Michigan Tuesday for burial. Earlier, President Bush described Ford as "a man whose name was a synonym for integrity."...
CNN - January 3, 2007
A Man Down, and a Stranger Makes a Choice
A 50-year-old construction worker jumped on the subway tracks to save a man as a train approached...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
A Final Farewell to President Ford
Gerald R. Ford was remembered as bringing the virtues of decency, integrity and humility to government...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
The Critical Years: Trying to Find Solutions in Chaotic Middle Schools
Driven by slumps in learning and by high dropout rates, educators are struggling to rethink middle school...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
The New Age: A Surprising Secret to a Long Life: Stay in School
The one factor that researchers agree is consistently linked to longer lives in every country is education...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Panel Seeks End to Death Penalty for New Jersey
The recommendation would make New Jersey the first state in over 35 years to abolish the death penalty...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: China: Venture to Build Vans
DaimlerChrysler said a joint venture with the China Motor Corporation to make vans won state approval, allowing the company to add capacity in China. DaimlerChrysler, China Motor and the Fujian Motor Industry Group received permission from the Ministry of Commerce in China for a 200 million euro ($264 million) venture to build as many as 40,000 Mercedes-Benz vans a year, said Trevor Hale, the Beijing-based spokesman for DaimlerChrysler...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: Singapore: Growth Spurt in Quarter
Singapore?s economic growth unexpectedly accelerated in the fourth quarter to the fastest pace in a year as a record number of tourists and an all-time high stock market spurred service industries and helped offset lower electronics exports. Its economy grew an annualized 7.6 percent in the final three months of 2006, after expanding a revised 5.6 percent in the third quarter, the trade ministry said. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in his New Year?s message that the pace of expansion may ease in 2007 because of an economic slowdown in the United States and weaker global demand for electronics, which account for about half the $118 billion economy?s exports. The economy may expand between 4 percent and 6 percent this year, Mr. Lee said...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
World Business Briefing | Global Trade: U.S. and Brazil to Talk About Talks
The top trade negotiators for the United States and Brazil will meet in New York to discuss global trade talks that collapsed last year, Brazil?s Foreign Ministry said. The foreign minister, Celso Amorim, and the United States trade representative, Susan C. Schwab, will talk today about how to reopen the negotiations and overcome obstacles that have prevented a World Trade Organization deal aimed at strengthening the global economy. A round of talks began in 2001 in Doha, Qatar, but they collapsed last year over disagreements on farm subsidies and tariffs...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
World Business Briefing | Global Trade: U.N. Panel Eases Caviar Ban
A United Nations panel has lifted a ban on international trade in several types of caviar from the Caspian Sea, but still has not decided whether to permit exports of the highly prized beluga variety, an official said. The move by a United Nations-sponsored conservation organization means that Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan can legally sell limited amounts of caviar on the world market in 2007. Global trade in most Caspian caviar, the processed eggs of the sturgeon, was banned last year to help protect the endangered fish. ?This is very good news,? said Armen Petrossian, above, whose family business in Paris has been selling caviar for more than a century. ?It?s very important that there is a legal trade in order to support the restocking efforts.?...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: France: Utility Remains in Play
Shares of Suez, the French water and power group, rose after the billionaire businessman François Pinault?s holding group, Artemis, said it was keeping its options open for a possible bid for the company. Artemis?s statement came after weeks of speculation about an imminent bid for Suez, which is struggling to complete a proposed merger of its own with Gaz de France, the French government-owned gas company. Artemis said no decision had been made regarding a possible bid for Suez shares ?and that all options remain open.? Suez said that it was not satisfied with Artemis?s statement and that it planned to ask the French financial market authority, AMF, for another, stronger clarification about the group?s intentions...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Germany: Daimler in Deal Over Suit
DaimlerChrysler reached an agreement with insurers over their contribution to a $300 million settlement of an investor lawsuit over the 1998 merger that created the company, a spokesman said. The spokesman, Thomas Fröhlich, said DaimlerChrysler and the insurance companies, led by ACE, reached an agreement before the new year. Mr. Fröhlich declined to discuss details. But The Financial Times Deutschland newspaper said the insurers would contribute 168 million euros ($222 million) out of an outstanding 175 million euros stemming from the 2003 settlement of the lawsuit over the merger of Daimler-Benz and the Chrysler Corporation. The head of ACE in Germany, Lothar Riedle, also confirmed an agreement but declined to elaborate...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Square Feet: Daylight in Boeing?s Shadow
Renton, Wash., home to Boeing?s commercial jet factory, is shedding its factory town past to embrace new commercial development...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Shifts in Stock Indexes
Ensco International Inc., a United States oil and natural gas driller, will join the Standard & Poor?s 500-stock index, replacing BellSouth, S.& P. said yesterday in a statement posted on its Web site...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Lennar, Citing Weak Housing Market, Expects a Quarterly Loss
MIAMI, Jan. 2 (AP) ? The Lennar Corporation, one of the nation?s largest home builders, said on Tuesday that it expected a fourth-quarter loss as the company re-evaluated how much its inventory was worth in a slowing industry...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Ford Will Quit Minivan Market
Ford will discontinue its Freestar model and instead seek to bolster output of two new so-called crossover vehicles...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
EGL Gets Buyout Bid From Its Chief
EGL, a manager of freight services for customers, said yesterday that its chief executive, James R. Crane, and a private equity firm had offered to buy the company for $1.2 billion...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Lawsuit Claims Bid-Rigging in Tribe?s Purchase of Hard Rock
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 2 (AP) ? A rejected suitor for the Hard Rock chain of cafes and casinos claims in a lawsuit that the Seminole Tribe of Florida was the successful buyer because of improper collusion and bid-rigging...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Starbucks Cuts Use of Trans Fats
Stand-alone Starbucks stores in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and other cities will have no trans fats in their food as of Wednesday...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Global Rally on First Day of Trading in New Year
Stock markets worldwide rallied on the first trading day of 2007 on speculation that profit growth and takeovers would support global equities for a fifth year...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Square Feet: SoHo Bounces Back as a Fashion Center
Many retailers left their stores after the attack on the World Trade Center, but now fashion is venturing back ? though perhaps in somewhat less high-end forms...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
A Princeton Maverick Succumbs to a Cultural Shift
Independent bookstores have been under siege for decades. Now the battle is reaching some of the last redoubts, like Micawber Books, a 26-year-old independent bookstore...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Nucor Agrees to Buy Harris Steel of Canada for $1.07 Billion
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 2 (AP) ? The Nucor Corporation, the maker of steel products, said Tuesday that it had agreed to acquire the Harris Steel Group of Canada for $1.07 billion...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
A Time of Temptation for the Thrifty of Ireland
A government effort to cool Ireland?s roaring economy by encouraging people to save is threatening to backfire...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Qualcomm Under Scrutiny by Korean Antitrust Agency
A task force will investigate the licensing and business practices of the wireless technology company, the latest in a string of legal battles...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Amgen Acquires Option for a Heart Failure Drug
Amgen has formed an alliance with Cytokinetics, a smaller company developing an experimental drug to treat heart failure...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Euro-Wary Slovenians Already Miss Their Tolar
Skepticism about the euro is spreading across the E.U.?s newest member states, even though many of them once viewed adopting the currency as a badge of honor...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Copyright Lawsuit Names Leading Technology Firms
The latest patent dispute pits Apple, Google and Napster against a company that closed five years ago...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Economix: It?s the Year to Keep an Eye on Paychecks
The single biggest economic question of 2007 will probably be this: Will the surge in the paychecks of ordinary Americans continue?...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Advertising: Sensing Opportunity in Dormitory Air
Younger customers are at the forefront of a boom in air fresheners as companies pour money into advertisements making the products seem cool...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Google?s Answer to Filling Jobs: New Algorithm
Google is starting to look for well-rounded candidates, like those who have published books or started their own clubs...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Dollar?s Skid Puts a Glow on the Euro
Countries with large dollar holdings are showing a new willingness to dump the dollar in favor of the rising euro...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Layoffs Imminent at Philadelphia Inquirer
The paper is expected to announce that it will lay off 68 to 71 employees, or about 17 percent of the newsroom staff...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Fighting Over Gold in the Land of Dracula
A small-time Romanian farmer counts powerful names among his backers in a land battle with a Canadian gold mining company...
New York Times - January 3, 2007
Venezuela-US trade examined
Behind the vitriol and the diplomatic rhetoric which mark the relationship between Venezuela and the US is a thriving trading relationship...
BBC News - January 3, 2007
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