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US News Archive for September 2005:
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Rescuers go roof-to-roof
U.S. Coast Guard and Army helicopters circle over New Orleans to drop supplies and rescue people still trapped after six days. Meanwhile, police shoot and kill at least five people after gunmen open fire on contractors crossing a bridge to make levee repairs, The Associated Press reports...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Rescuers go roof-to-roof
Helicopters circled over New Orleans on Sunday to drop supplies and rescue people trapped for a sixth day in the nearly deserted city. The Coast Guard asked anyone still stranded in New Orleans "to hang brightly colored or white sheets, towels or anything else" to help rescuers locate them...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Evacuations Move Tens of Thousands From New Orleans
U.S. official says residents who stayed behind will be ordered to leave ravaged city...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Bush Faces Rising Complaints About Handling of Disaster
President Bush faced increasingly bitter complaints from local and state officials along the battered Gulf Coast as he struggled to exert control over the disaster...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Football: Brazil clinch finals spot
Adriano scores a hat-trick in a 5-0 win over Chile to clinch Brazil's place in Germany next year...
BBC News - September 4, 2005
Death toll 'could be in thousands'
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt tells CNN the death toll from Hurricane Katrina could be in the thousands. He was speaking as more than 42,000 people were finally evacuated from New Orleans...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Death toll 'could be in thousands'
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt tells CNN the death toll from Hurricane Katrina could be in the thousands. He was speaking as more than 42,000 people were finally evacuated from New Orleans...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Feds: Katrina killed thousands
Thousands of people who had huddled for days in squalor at the New Orleans convention center and at the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina have been evacuated, authorities said Sunday. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt told CNN the death toll from the storm would be in the thousands...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Microsoft-Google battle heats up
Microsoft's chief executive threatened to "kill Google", according to papers filed by Google in a legal row between the two firms...
BBC News - September 4, 2005
Evacuees wait as aid efforts build
Action on the ground in New Orleans picks up as authorities evacuate 42,000 people from the city, including all of those who were gathered in the Superdome. But military officials say it could take days to fully evacuate the city's convention center, where thousands of people have been stranded amid trash and human waste...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Relief effort grinds ahead
Action on the ground in New Orleans picks up as authorities evacuate 42,000 people from the city, including all of those gathered in the Superdome. But military officials say it will take days to clear the crowds at the convention center...
CNN - September 4, 2005
'The People's Tycoon': Driven
Steven Watts portrays Henry Ford — convincingly — as not just a business genius but a cultural pioneer...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Social Lubricant
How a marketing campaign became the catalyst for a societal debate...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Giving Them What They Want
Leslie Moonves programs his network for mass tastes — and he has made CBS No. 1. So much for the Age of Niche?...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
NBA: Abdul-Jabbar joins Lakers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar re-joins the Los Angeles Lakers as an assistant coach...
BBC News - September 4, 2005
'You always prepare for the worst'
Emergency workers who rode out Katrina in Mississippi made sure they could be identified in case they died in the storm...
BBC News - September 4, 2005
U.S. Chief Justice Rehnquist dies
U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who helped shift the U.S. Supreme Court toward a more conservative ideology and strongly supported states' rights during his three decades on the bench, has died. Rehnquist, 80, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2004, not long after the 2004-2005 court session began, and received outpatient radiation and chemotherapy treatments...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Chief Justice Rehnquist has died
Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who helped shift the U.S. Supreme Court toward a more conservative ideology and strongly supported states' rights during his three decades on the bench, has died...
CNN - September 4, 2005
Bush Pledges More Troops as Evacuation Grows
The deployment of the troops and the speeded evacuation of tens of thousands of people from refugee centers brought glimmers of hope to ravaged New Orleans...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Sometimes, It's Not the Tuition. It's the Textbooks.
Soaring tuition isn't the only financial matter on college students' minds. Many are also trying relentlessly to get a break on the rapidly climbing cost of textbooks...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
'The People's Tycoon': Driven
Steven Watts portrays Henry Ford — convincingly — as not just a business genius but a cultural pioneer...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Social Lubricant
How a marketing campaign became the catalyst for a societal debate...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Giving Them What They Want
Leslie Moonves programs his network for mass tastes — and he has made CBS No. 1. So much for the Age of Niche?...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
The Art of the Two-Liter Pour
The Liter Lifter is intended to simplify the act of pouring a glass of a soft drink...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
'He's Being a Bully,' Little Wal-Mart Cries
Wal-Mart makes no apologies about dominating the American retail landscape and resists fiercely whenever anyone tries to put pesky things like zoning or labor laws in the way of its expansion...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Boss to Workers: A Dollar for You, And $431 for Me
Boss to Workers:...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
An Olfactory Education
Alain Ducasse is a chef and the founder of Groupe Alain Ducasse...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Quitting? What to Know Before You Go
If it's time to move on, first find out what benefits, if any, will follow you out the door...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
If You Can Make It Here ...
The United States may not be the industrial dynamo it was a half-century ago, but reports of the death of American manufacturing are greatly exaggerated...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Connect The Dots. Find the Fees.
The collapse of the Bayou Group should be a clarion call for caution for investors who have been throwing money at hedge funds...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Why the Internet Isn't the Death of the Post Office
Even in this age of technology many Americans still look forward to discovering what each day's mail might hold...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
When Corporate Relatives Play Hardball
A longtime relationship between Nextel Partners and Nextel is at loggerheads, and Wall Street is stoking the fire...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Is a Hedge Fund Shakeout Coming Soon? This Insider Thinks So
Andrew W. Lo, a finance professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says hedge funds are in trouble -- and he has powerful data to back it up...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Can't Find a Sure Bet? It May Be Time to Spread the Risk
A number of professional investors are having a tough time finding stocks that they feel comfortable loading up on...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
As Rates Climb, the Short-Term C.D. Is Standing Taller
As the Federal Reserve has continued to raise short-term interest rates, returns on money market funds and short-term C.D.'s have been climbing back to respectability...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Of Chimps and Marshmallows
That long-running battle of sociology - nature versus nurture - moves to the business bookshelf this month...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
More Hotels for a Comeback City
Flush with capital from investors who don't like the stock market's returns and who see Providence as an underserved market with a growing future, developers are racing to build new hotels in the city...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Katrina's Shock to the System
Hurricane Katrina not only killed at least hundreds of people and caused billions of dollars in damage, it also set off the first oil shock of the 21st century...
New York Times - September 4, 2005
Priorities for the rescue effort
The US administration and relief workers set out priorities to help victims of Hurricane Katrina...
BBC News - September 4, 2005
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