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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Review Just say I dont to Bride Wars
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Intel will miss its already-lowered 4Q targets
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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LG shows off Dick Tracy wristwatch phone
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Audiovox to expand availability of TV on the road
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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How big Jurassic flying reptiles got off ground
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Israeli strikes, Hamas rockets resume after pause
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US supports Egyptian-French initiative on Gaza
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Gaza fighting rages despite cease-fire proposal
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US News Archive for Octomber 2005:
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25 killed in Iraqi mosque blast
A bomb blast inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Hilla, south of Baghdad, kills at least 25 people and wounds 87 others, Iraqi police officials say. The explosion came during funeral services for a Shiite Muslim who was killed in a separate suicide attack, police say...
CNN - October 5, 2005
Deadly 1918 Epidemic Linked to Bird Flu, Scientists Say
The 1918 influenza virus was a bird flu that jumped directly to humans, two teams of scientists announced today...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Justices Hear Arguments on Oregon's Assisted-Suicide Law
As the question reached the court once again, the issues of professional ethics and personal autonomy remained outside...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Bush's Court Choice Meets With Key Conservative Senators
Harriet E. Miers gained the support of at least one Republican on the Senate Judiciary panel. But another remained uncommitted...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
C.I.A. Chief Refuses to Seek Discipline for 9/11 Officials
The C.I.A. will not pursue disciplinary action against George J. Tenet, a former director, or anyone else among current or former officials singled out by an inspector general for poor performance on counterterrorism before Sept. 11, 2001, the agency said today...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Rising Diesel and Jet Fuel Prices Starting to Weigh on Economy
The painfully slow recovery of refineries along the Gulf Coast is starting to be felt across the economy...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Euthanasia test for Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court is hearing its first case under new leadership on the issue of assisted suicide...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Investigators conduct boat test
Officials investigating the deadly capsizing of a Adirondack tour boat are conducting a "very scientific road test" of a twin vessel to see whether suddenly shifting weight may have caused the tragedy...
CNN - October 5, 2005
Conservatives unconvinced
Some of President Bush's conservative supporters are unconvinced by his defense of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, creating dissension in a Republican Party that until now has reverently approved Bush's judicial candidates...
CNN - October 5, 2005
Firefighters Practice Escape With New Rope
At the Fire Academy on Randalls Island, 60 city firefighters practiced using a new rope system intended as a last resort during terrible fires...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
New York's Falling Crime Rate Is a Potent Weapon for the Mayor
Public safety has emerged as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's not-so-secret weapon as he goes about pressing his case for re-election...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Fast-food boost lifts KFC owner
Yum Brands, the US company behind the KFC and Pizza Hut chains, reports a 16% jump in quarterly profits...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Fixing New Orleans' thin grey line
The US army engineers repairing New Orleans' levees say they are on target to complete their work by June next year...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
US service sector growth slowing
Growth in the US service sector, the main driver of the world's biggest economy, slows in September...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Weight probe in US boat tragedy
Investigators into the sinking of a tour boat that killed 20 people say excess weight may have been a factor...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Abandoned Bolivian girl to see family
A Bolivian girl left on a New York street after her mother was allegedly killed is to meet her grandmother...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Weight may be factor in boat tragedy
Just days before a tour boat capsized in the Adirondack Mountains, killing 20 elderly people, the Coast Guard began rethinking its passenger-weight calculations to take into account Americans' expanding waistlines...
CNN - October 5, 2005
Bush army bird flu role slammed
A call by U.S. President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as being akin to introducing martial law...
CNN - October 5, 2005
Iraq reverses vote rule change
Iraq's National Assembly votes to reverse last-minute changes it had made to rules for next week's referendum on a new constitution. The United Nations had criticized the change as unfair to Iraq's Sunni Arab minority, which had threatened to boycott the vote...
CNN - October 5, 2005
But Bygones Can't Be Bygones if the Pain Is Raw
Algeria's president has decided that the best antidote to his country's violent past is to largely ignore it, but the years of killing have left many people angry...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Ford shakes-up car discount plan
Ford replaces its employee pricing discount scheme for customers with more traditional rebates and loans...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Baseball: Red Sox's heavy defeat
Boston are thrashed by Chicago on day one of the play-offs while the Cards and the Yankees start with wins...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Colombia to help conflict victims
The Colombian government creates a commission to compensate victims of armed groups...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Israeli in Uruguay jail breakout
An Israeli wanted by the US over allegations of drug-trafficking escapes from a Uruguayan prison...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Lohan injured in second car crash
Teen actress Lindsay Lohan is treated for minor injuries after her sports car collides with a van in Los Angeles...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Tennis: Puerta denies drugs claim
French Open finalist Mariano Puerta denies reports that he tested positive for a stimulant at Roland Garros...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Police seek five over Bali attacks
Indonesian police are searching for five men from the far western Javanese province of Banten over suspected involvement in Saturday's deadly bombings on the holiday island of Bali...
CNN - October 5, 2005
Working Together, Wherever They Are
Networked computing is allowing workers to more efficiently nurture new ideas, new products and new ways to digitally automate all sorts of tasks...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Bush defends nominee
President Bush said Tuesday he has never discussed abortion with White House counsel Harriet Miers, his nominee to fill the Supreme Court seat of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
CNN - October 5, 2005
In Midcareer, a Turn to Faith to Fill a Void
Harriet E. Miers's decision to become an evangelical Christian coincided with a move toward the Republican Party...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Serving Life, With No Chance of Redemption
The lawyers who work to exonerate death row inmates are not interested in the cases of people merely serving life terms...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Weeks Later, Most Storm Victims Lie Unnamed
In a country that cherishes the names of the dead, it is odd that Hurricane Katrina's victims remain largely anonymous...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Bankruptcy Rule Is Waived After Storm
The Justice Department yesterday waived a requirement of a new bankruptcy law set to take effect this month to exempt people whose personal finances have been hurt by Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
A Lawyer Who Fought Tobacco Sues Insurer Over Flooding
A Mississippi lawyer filed a lawsuit aimed at forcing insurance companies to pay for damage to tens of thousands of homes caused by surging water by Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Yukos Loses an Appeal of Tax Case
Yukos, the Russian oil company entangled in a tax dispute with the Kremlin, lost an appellate court ruling that opens the door to the possible seizure of assets...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Safety Becomes an Issue for Japan Airlines
Japan Airlines, which has long boasted about its impressive safety record, has recently had a string of nonlethal accidents...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
A Revival for Immunity
Big drug makers are putting money into research on human proteins that fool the body into thinking it has been infected without exposing it to real pathogens...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Concern Over Profits and Interest Rates Depresses Shares
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Ford Returns to Rebates for '06 Models
DETROIT, Oct. 4 (Reuters) - Ford said Tuesday that it had replaced its employee-pricing discount program with traditional cash rebates and cheap loans in a widely expected move after the discounts lost their allure with prospective buyers...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
BP Details Its Damages From Hurricanes
LONDON, Oct. 4 - BP became the first oil company to detail the economic costs of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Tuesday, saying the storms would strip $700 million from its third-quarter profit and cause it to miss year-end production goals...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Clorox Expects to Raise Prices
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Plan on Nasdaq Status
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
With Some Risk to Its Image, Altoids Is Moving to the U.S.
The "curiously strong" mints are about to lose their tangential tie to Great Britain. For the skittish branding industry, such moves are fraught with peril...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
U.S. News & World Report Lays Off 9 Workers
The layoffs were part of a "strategic repositioning" to the newsweekly's Web site from its print edition...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Factory Orders Are Up 2.5% Despite the Rise in Energy Costs
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (AP) - Orders to American factories posted the largest increase in three months in August as manufacturing industries showed strength in the face of surging energy prices...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
The Un-Mall on Bleecker Street
Do not call it a bazaar or a flea market. Nor is it really a mall or a department store. The best description might be...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Paper Maker to Cut Jobs
ATLANTA, Oct. 4 (AP) - The Georgia-Pacific Corporation, maker of Brawny paper towels and a variety of other paper and lumber products, said Tuesday it was cutting more than 1,000 jobs in a broad revamping intended to save $100 million a year...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Brazil Near Deal With Abbott for Price Cut on AIDS Drug
Brazil said that it was close to completing an agreement with Abbott Laboratories that would almost halve the price it pays for Kaletra, a drug used to treat AIDS patients...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Parmalat Sues First Boston
Parmalat has sued Credit Suisse First Boston for $8.45 billion, saying the bank contributed to Parmalat's collapse two years ago...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Text Hackers Could Jam Cellphones, a Paper Says
Hackers could take down cellular networks by inundating their popular text-messaging services with the equivalent of spam, computer security researchers said...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Bush Keeps Open Mind on Choice to Run Fed
With less than four months before Alan Greenspan's retirement, President Bush is saying that he wants someone independent from politics as his successor...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Delphi Ready to Seek Bankruptcy
Delphi is prepared to file for bankruptcy as early as this week, in what would be the domestic auto industry's largest filing in recent times...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Eminent Domain Revisited: A Minnesota Case
The building of Best Buy's headquarters could be used to illustrate why eminent domain is sometimes a crucial tool in combating urban decay and sprawl...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
At the Very Top, a Surge in Income in '03
After falling for two years, the share of income going to the richest slice of Americans - the top tenth of 1 percent - grew significantly in 2003 while the share going to 99 percent of Americans fell, tax data released yesterday showed...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Lexmark Halves Estimate and Shares Plunge
Lexmark International signaled that it was losing the price war in inkjet printers when it announced that its earnings for the third quarter would be half of what it had predicted...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Aegis, London Marketing Firm, Seen as Focus of a Bidding War
The Aegis Group, which Publicis Groupe of France has considered making an offer for, said that it had met with more than one potential bidder...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Google and Sun Announce a Joint Agreement
Google and Sun Microsystems announced a broad but vague agreement to develop and distribute each other's technology in a bid to expand their markets...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Since Hurricane Katrina Rolled In, the Cash Has Rolled Out
Liberty Bank and Trust of New Orleans is struggling to run a bank where the customer base has scattered and the money seems only to flow out...
New York Times - October 5, 2005
Ballerina hid Peru rebel leader
A court in Peru sentences a ballet dancer who hid the leader of the Shining Path guerrillas to 20 years in jail...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
Asylum for Ecuador ex-president
Ecuador's ousted President, Lucio Gutierrez, is granted asylum in Colombia, six months after being ousted...
BBC News - October 5, 2005
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