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US News Archive for November 2007:
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The Lede Blog: Checking In on Radiohead?s Experiment
Fill in the blanks on Radiohead’s Web site. “Way to go Radiohead!” was the first of many excited comments on news last month that Radiohead was letting its customers set the price of its new album. Industry observers were just as excited, heralding a game-changing moment. But what happened afterwards? Setting the tone early was a [...]...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
City Room: Lighthouse Is Named for Cardinal
The Staten Island lighthouse is part of Mount Loretto, once a sprawling orphanage for homeless and disabled children. The Catholic archdiocese ended city-financed foster care there in 1995...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Spending Is Focus of Nation?s Ballot Measures
Nuts-and-bolts concerns surrounding health care funding, road projects and land use regulations fill local and state tickets this year...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Well Blog: Curing Insomnia Without the Pills
Behavioral strategies for better sleep are deceptively simple and can make a real difference...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Bush Offers Turkish Leader Help Against Rebels
President Bush declined to answer how he would react if the Turks launched a major attack into Iraqi Kurdistan but said both sides agreed that some action was necessary...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Giuliani Praises Disgraced Ex-Police Commissioner
Rudolph W. Giuliani said today that Bernard B. Kerik?s achievements in New York City outweigh his mistakes...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Rosie O?Donnell in Talks to Join MSNBC
Under one scenario under discussion, Ms. O?Donnell would be given the 9 p.m. slot each weeknight on MSNBC...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
50 New York Schools Fail Under New Rating System
The failing city schools could be closed by the end of the year based on the results of a blunt new A to F system...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
PepsiCo Reorganizes Into 3 Units
NEW YORK (Reuters) - PepsiCo announced a restructuring on Monday that will split the food and beverage company into three units -- one for food in the United States, one for U.S. drinks and one for food and drinks abroad...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Dell to Acquire Storage Company for $1.4 Billion
The deal comes as the company is attempting to stage a corporate turnaround and reclaim ground lost to more nimble competitors...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Sun Reports Profit as Turnaround Continues
The computer server maker delivered strong quarterly results as it continued to benefit from its corporate restructuring and stronger sales of high-end computers...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Competitively Priced Electricity Costs More, Studies Show
Retail electricity prices rose more in states adopting competitive pricing than in states where government set rates, raising questions about who benefits from competition...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Newspaper Circulation Falls 3%, Audit Bureau Says
The circulation declines of U.S. newspapers continued to accelerate over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Bayer Withdraws Heart Surgery Drug
Bayer agreed to withdraw its controversial heart surgery drug Trasylol after a Canadian study found that it may increase the risk of death...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Stocks Decline on Citigroup News
Stock markets finished lower as investors reacted to the shake-up at Citigroup, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping 51.70 points by the close of trading...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Parsons to Step Down as Time Warner Chief
Jeffrey L. Bewkes will succeed Richard D. Parsons as the chief executive on Jan. 1, the company announced today, confirming a widely expected transition of power...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
DealBook Blog: Barry Diller?s IAC to Split Itself Into 5 Companies
The plan, one of most elaborate corporate breakups in recent years, seems to signal a retreat for Mr. Diller...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Screenwriters Take to Picket Lines as Strike Begins
Talks between the writers? unions and producers failed to avert a strike over payments for new media, among other issues...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
U.A.W. Local Chiefs Back Ford Deal
The unanimous approval by union leaders clears the way for a vote by 54,000 Ford workers in the United States...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Google Enters the Wireless World
Google announced that it is leading an industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful computers...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Car union looks to seal Ford deal
The United Auto Workers Union hopes to wrap up a proposed four year deal with Ford within a week...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
US payout awarded over pesticide
A US jury awards $3.3m to workers who say they were left sterile by a pesticide used at a banana plantation in Nicaragua...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Flooded Mexico gets foreign help
International pledges of money and supplies are reaching Mexico's flood-hit southern state of Tabasco...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
TierneyLab: Money, Fats and Science
During the trans-fat debate here, readers criticized me for quoting the American Council on Science and Health, arguing that it wasn’t a credible source and that I should have pointed out it receives donations from corporations. Some accused it of not doing peer-reviewed research and getting most of its money from corporations, and said they’d [...]...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
City Room: City Room: Newsweek on Bloomberg
Mayor Bloomberg gave extensive cooperation for a cover article in the latest Newsweek magazine that assesses his chances should he decide to run for the White House in 2008...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Italy Arrests Top Mafia Suspect
The Italian police today arrested Salvatore Lo Piccolo, said by police to be one of the most powerful bosses in the Sicilian Mafia...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Bayer Withdraws Heart Surgery Drug
Bayer agreed to withdraw its controversial heart surgery drug Trasylol after a Canadian study found that it may increase the risk of death...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
50 Public Schools Fail Under New Rating System
The failing New York City schools could close by the end of the year based on the results of the new rating system...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Dell to Buy Data Storage Network Firm
Dell said it will buy the data storage network company EqualLogic for $1.4 billion, its largest acquisition ever, as it seeks to boost its fastest-growing business segment...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Tracking of Web Use by Marketers Gains Favor
Two large social networking sites are showcasing new ways to use information about their members to deliver specialized advertisements...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Despite Setback, Hunt for Cholesterol Drug Not Over
Drugs to raise so-called good cholesterol may still have a future despite the failure last year of an experimental treatment from Pfizer, researchers said...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
PetroChina Shares Triple in Debut
Super-heated markets in China drove the value of the state oil and gas company above $1 trillion, giving it the highest market capitalization in corporate history...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Stocks Pull Back Amid Credit Concerns
Stocks fell but regained some ground today as a stronger-than-expected reading on the service economy mitigated concerns about more Citigroup write-downs...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
DealBook Blog: Barry Diller?s Big Breakup
IAC/InterActiveCorp, the media-and-Internet conglomerate cobbled together by Barry Diller, said today that it plans to carve itself up into five companies...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Screenwriters Picket as Strike Begins
Last-minute negotiations between the writers? unions and producers failed to avert a strike over payments from producers for so-called new media, among other issues...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Fixing Citigroup Will Test Rubin
Robert E. Rubin, named chairman of Citigroup, will seek to revive the troubled bank, which said it would take an additional $8 billion to $11 billion write-down...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Google Makes Its Entry Into the Wireless World
Google announced today that it is leading an industry alliance to transform mobile phones into powerful computers...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Ford to cut jobs to make a profit
The success of a labour deal between Ford and the main US auto workers union now rests with the car firm's staff...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Tesco opens its first store in US
Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, opens its first US store in the small city of Hemet, near Los Angeles...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Argentine prisoners die in fire
A fire apparently started by inmates trying to escape from a maximum security jail in Argentina kills at least 31...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Turkey PM in 'decisive' US talks
Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to meet George Bush for talks on tackling Kurdish rebels in Iraq...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
US starts disabling Korea reactor
US nuclear experts in North Korea begin disabling the country's key nuclear facility, the state department says...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Oprah takes action on abuse case
US chat-show host Oprah Winfrey spells out the action taken after abuse charges at her South African academy...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Paul Krugman: Rudy Plays the Race Card
A central theme of The Conscience of a Liberal is that movement conservatives have won elections despite their economic message, not because of it, and that the most important factor in the movement?s electoral success is the exploitation of racial hostility. Well, it ain?t over. From Tom Edsall, who was one of the first to see [...]...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Think Again : Suffering and the Existence of God
Two authors approach the topic of God, from different -- and changed -- perspectives...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
PetroChina Shares Triple in Debut
PetroChina, the state oil and gas giant, became the world?s first company to pass $1 trillion in market capitalization when it debuted on the Shanghai Stock Exchange today...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
A Winning Soccer Coach Faces a Ruthless Foe
As he coaches one of the highest-ranked high school soccer teams in the country, Martin Jacobson also battles hepatitis C, a disease he contracted in an earlier life as a drug addict...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
U.S. Is Likely to Continue Aid to Pakistan
Officials argued that it would be counterproductive to let Pakistan?s political turmoil interfere with their best hope of ousting Al Qaeda?s central leadership...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Writers Begin Strike as Talks Break Off
A strike by Hollywood writers began in New York just after midnight Monday, the first industry-wide strike since writers walked out in 1988...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Hollywood's writers go on strike
Hollywood screenwriters begin striking after talks with studios fail to resolve a dispute over royalties...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Plan for Nuclear Storage Is Slow to Form
The Energy Department has fallen behind on its plans to consolidate storage of nuclear bomb fuel and other high-risk materials, according to a government report...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Missteps on Both Sides Led to Health Bill Veto
A bill to expand insurance for poor children symbolizes the inability of President Bush and Congress to work together...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Political Memo: Different Rules When a Rival Is a Woman?
The question of gender has burst into the foreground of the campaign in the aftermath of a contentious debate...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
A History of Neglect: Foster Children at Risk, and an Opportunity Lost
New York City?s efforts to improve foster care for blacks and Latinos are as much a story of trouble as of triumph...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Looking Ahead
A look at the week to come...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Drilling Down: Radio Holding Off on Holidays, a Little
The trend toward radio stations switching to Christmas music ever earlier in the year seems to have abated somewhat, but the first station to make the switch did so this week...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Protesting Demeaning Images in Media
Civil rights leaders, cultural critics and others are debating how to represent the diversity of black life while minimizing offensive words and images...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
In Portland, Cultivating a Culture of Two Wheels
Cyclists, who have long revered Portland for its bicycle-friendly ways, are helping the city build a cycling economy based on a growing number of smaller businesses...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Shifting Careers: Never Too Young to Give, or Take, Advice
Eschewing the aimlessness of the ?odyssey years,? some superfocused 20-somethings offer advice on coping with those years of experimentation...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Advertising: Movies, TVs and Magazines Work Together in Web Campaign
As major marketers shift more of their advertising spending to the Web, media companies like Hearst Magazines are scrambling to keep up...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
At NBC, the Brand Becomes a Slogan
A companywide program to reduce greenhouse gases will turn NBC Universal?s logos green this week...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Publishers See a Way to Track Their Content Across the Net
A new company offers publishers a way to hunt down any place across the Web where a significant chunk of thier work has been copied, with or without permission...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Hollywood Reporter Starts an Edition for New York
The Hollywood Reporter introduced a New York-based edition last Friday ? nine years after its rival, Daily Variety, made the same move...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
A Weekly in New Brunswick Prevails Against Local Family
An upstart weekly newspaper has won a court battle against a publishing and industry giant in the Canadian province of New Brunswick...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
When Playing With Food Becomes Serious Business
Problems finding a winner to accept a prize complicated a food sculpting contest, revealing a common pitfall for companies that solicit content from their customers...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Things Turn Ugly in the ?Hacks vs. Flacks? War
A magazine editor, tired of public relations e-mail spam, strikes back...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Louis Vuitton Ad Shows Gorbachev Accompanied by Subversive Text
A recent Louis Vuitton ad featuring Mikhail S. Gorbachev showed the former Soviet leader toting a publication discussing the murder of Alexander V. Litvinenko...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
So-Called Show Runners Pick Sides in Looming Strike
Writer-producers would be required to continue performing their managerial duties in the event of a writers strike. Would some of them continue to write?...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Writers on the Picket Line Would Feel a Varying Pinch
As the Writers Guild begins picketing, it must deal with complications created by the economic disparity among its members...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Market Place: Bankers? Lesson From Mortgage Mess: Sell, Don?t Hold
Top executives at two of the world?s largest banks have come under scrutiny for ignoring one of the fundamental principles of the banking business...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
The Media Equation: New Media, New Value, Old Troubles
If the Hollywood screenwriters go on strike, the typical American household will not run out of content any time soon. But will the audience return after a lengthy strike?...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
PetroChina May Become Top Company
Soon after PetroChina makes its debut Monday on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, some expect the firm to surpass Exxon Mobil as the world?s largest company by market capitalization...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Next Hurdle for Ford and U.A.W. Will Be Selling Contract Proposal
Ford seeks to assure Wall Street that it is not backtracking on its revamping while the U.A.W. will try to win support for the deal with a layoff-weary membership...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
E-Commerce Report: $7,900 Valentino Gowns, a Click Away
Retailers are increasingly relying on the Internet to market $3,000 skirts and $5,000 suits to consumers who think nothing of spending that much on clothing...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
A Folksy Guy, in Recovery, Is About to Land Millions
The conservative radio talk show host Glenn Beck, has secured a contract extension valued at $50 million over five years...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
The Latest in Job Cuts: Automated Poker Without Dealers
PokerPro mixes the speed and efficiency of Internet poker with the stare-them-down, in-your-face quality of playing live...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Crashes and Traffic Jams in Military Test of Robotic Vehicles
A Pentagon-sponsored robot race at a former Air Force base revealed that computer-controlled vehicles, at least to date, have failings that are all too human...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Big Executive of the Tiny Screen
Cyriac Roeding, executive vice president of CBS Mobile, is an unapologetic entrepreneur who isn?t afraid to take a trial-and-error approach to fielding fresh talent...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
As Citigroup Chief Totters, CNBC Reporter Is Having a Great Year
After enduring accusations in the media of questionable interactions with Citigroup, CNBC?s Maria Bartiromo is now in the midst of a turnaround year...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Writers Begin Strike as Talks Go On
A strike by Hollywood writers began in New York just after midnight Monday, even as negotiators continued talks toward a new contract under the eye of a federal mediator...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Fixing Citigroup Will Test Rubin
Robert E. Rubin, named chairman of Citigroup, will seek to revive the troubled bank, which said it would take an additional $8 billion to $11 billion write-down...
New York Times - November 5, 2007
Many homeless in Mexico floods
As many as half a million homes have been damaged or destroyed by floods in southern Mexico, officials say...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
Fire at Argentina jail kills 29
A fire apparently started by inmates trying to escape from a maximum security jail in Argentina kills at least 29...
BBC News - November 5, 2007
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