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US News Archive for April 2008:
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In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
Professional bloggers toil under physical and emotional stress created by the Internet?s around-the-clock demands...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
State House Journal: Fear, Paranoia and, Yes, Some Loathing in Alabama State House
An inquiry into corruption in Alabama?s two-year college system has state legislators on edge...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
The Caucus: Obama Supporter Calls McCain a ?Warmonger?
The comment was made by a liberal talk show host at an Obama fund raiser in North Dakota. The senator was not at the event...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Congressional Memo: Tricky Task of Offering Aid to Homeowners
Policy makers want any rescue effort to be flexible enough that if prices rebound, the government can recoup its costs...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Microsoft Sets Deadline for Yahoo to Make Deal
If a merger deal is not completed in the next three weeks, Microsoft warned, it will make its offer directly to Yahoo shareholders...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Iranian Blogosphere Tests Government?s Limits
Iran?s blogs mirror the erratic, fickle and often startling qualities of life in the Islamic republic itself...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
McCain Is Vocal on War, but Silent on Son?s Service
Senator John McCain has staked his candidacy on the promise that U.S. troops can stabilize Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Drug Makers Near an Old Goal: A Legal Shield
The Supreme Court appears to be on the verge of endorsing a doctrine that the F.D.A. should not be second-guessed by courts...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path
Single mothers in China are often marked as social outcasts in a country that still strictly controls population growth and limits the rights of their children...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Rival Resists Zimbabwe Runoff, Saying He Won
The opposition leader denied the need for a runoff and said the ruling party was readying a campaign of violence...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Castro foe's family awarded $253m
A Miami jury awards nearly $253m to the children of a friend-turned-foe of Fidel Castro, who died in 1977...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
Problems for Microfinancing in Mexico
As microlending becomes big business, a fractious debate is erupting in Mexico...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
80,000 Jobs Lost; Democrats Urge Aid Package
The speaker of the House said she would propose a second stimulus package amid job losses approaching those seen in 2001...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Displaced Kenyans Live in Limbo as Aid Lags After Election Strife
More than 300,000 Kenyans displaced by election strife are still waiting for help, with aid delayed and politicians occupied forming a government...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Bush Supports Expansion of NATO Across Europe
Addressing new NATO allies in Croatia, the president underscored his drive to recast the alliance?s mission...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Army Worried by Stress of Return Tours
Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent on multiple deployments to Iraq under current plans...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Opposition in Zimbabwe Fears Violence in Runoff
Zimbabwe?s opposition leader accused the president of preparing a ?war against the people? and said his party was reluctant to take part in a runoff election...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Tennis: Roddick out of Open
Nikolay Davydenko beats Andy Roddick and will meet Rafael Nadal in the Sony Ericsson Open final in Miami...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
Football: Ronaldinho season over
AC Milan will move for Barcelona and Brazil striker Ronaldinho, according to the Italian club's president Silvio Berlusconi...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
Pataki Slow to Release Documents to Archives
Former Gov. George E. Pataki has shipped 12 years of press releases to the State Archives ? while ignoring archivists? requests for other, perhaps more revealing, internal documents...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Armed Police Stop Zimbabwe Lawyers
Armed police prevented Zimbabwe opposition lawyers from entering the High Court to apply for an order forcing the release of presidential election results...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Food riots turn deadly in Haiti
At least four people are killed when demonstrations against rising food prices turn into riots in southern Haiti...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
Blackwater Iraq contract renewed
Security firm Blackwater gets its contract to protect US diplomats in Iraq extended amid a probe into the killing of 17 Iraqis...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
Fire guts historic Quebec armoury
A 19th Century armoury in Canada's Quebec City is destroyed by fire and an explosion...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
C.A. Restructures
CA, an information technology company, said Friday it would eliminate 2,800 jobs under a restructuring plan, instead of the 1,700 job cuts previously announced...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Vacant Shopping Centers
Vacancies at community and neighborhood shopping centers in the United States rose in the first quarter to the highest level in more than a decade...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Talking Business: Seeing the Sights of Industrial China: 2 Factories, 2 Futures
China is caught between the reality of low-cost, tight-margin industries and a desire to advance in the production of higher-profit goods...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Skybus Airlines Shuts Down
Low-cost carrier Skybus Airlines is shutting down Saturday and plans to file for bankruptcy protection next week...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Home Depot Job Cuts
Home Depot, the home improvement retailer, may cut as many as 1,000 jobs as it reduces human-resources departments in stores by half to shift more workers to the sales floor...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Indecency Appeal Rejected
The News Corporation?s appeal of $91,000 in indecency fines for a 2003 broadcast featuring strippers at bachelor and bachelorette parties has been rejected by the Federal Communications Commission on technical grounds...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Passat Recall
Volkswagen is recalling some 410,000 Passat sedans sold in the United States due to potential problems with heat shields and fuel line components...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
$22.8 Million for Mulally
Alan Mulally, the chief executive of Ford Motor Company, received compensation valued at $22.8 million in 2007, down nearly 42 percent from the prior year...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
A Ban on Allstate Upheld in Florida
An appeals court upheld a state regulator?s order suspending Allstate from writing new insurance policies in the state...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Morgan Board Loses Support
The California State Teachers? Retirement System has withheld votes for eight Morgan Stanley directors, including its chief executive, because of poor company performance...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Honeywell to Buy Safety-Gear Maker
Honeywell International said Friday that it would buy Norcross Safety Products for $1.2 billion to expand its line of personal protective gear...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Ban on I.B.M. Lifted
I.B.M. agreed to drop its protest of a government contract it lost last year in exchange for the government to lift its week-old ban that prevented the company from getting new federal contracts...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Higher Prices for Coal
Shares of Massey Energy soared more than 18 percent Friday after the coal mine operator announced that it expects to sell coal for far higher prices than it expected this year...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Off The Charts: Across the Globe, Hints of More Perils in Housing
The International Monetary Fund warned this week that home prices in other industrial countries were even more overvalued than in the U.S...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Best Week for Nasdaq Since ?06
The Nasdaq was helped by a 3.5 percent rise in Google as investors saw value in its shares after a 32 percent sell-off since the beginning of the year...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
The Cost of Living: 2 Incomes, at What Price?
When two people decide to exist solely or primarily on one partner?s income, negotiating the daily issues that arise from that choice can be treacherous...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
What?s Online: At Last, Buffett?s Key to Success
Warren Buffett, the super-investor and chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is patient and does his research, one of the keys to his success...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
What?s Offline: Trojan Horse on a Chip
An article warns of possible security perils that could be built into computer chips or flash memory, from identity theft to terrorism to spying...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Newspaper Chain Hires Adviser as It Weighs Restructuring
The Journal Register, owner of The New Haven Register, hired Lazard Freres as an adviser as it weighs a restructuring, according to executives briefed on the matter...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Saturday Interview: Making It to the Major League of Fantasy Sports
Christopher J. Russo founded Fantasy Sports Ventures Inc., a leader in the fantasy sports field...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Investigation of French Bank Expected to End by Summer
The trial of former Société Générale employee Jérôme Kerviel would likely begin in early 2009, lawyers said Friday...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Comedian, All Serious, Takes Stand
Chris Rock, the actor and comedian, described in court the circumstances in which he hired Anthony Pellicano, the private detective on trial for wiretapping and racketeering...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Executive Pursuits: Ping-Pong as Mind Game (Although a Good Topspin Helps)
Best known as the crossword puzzle master for The New York Times, Will Shortz is also a nationally ranked table tennis fanatic...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
In a Modern Gold Rush, Can Memories Beat $913 an Ounce?
As the price of gold rose sharply over the past year, thousands of Americans rushed to sell gold objects and heirlooms, some of which held deep emotional meaning...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Latest Hitch for Delphi, New Worry for G.M.
A private equity group backed out of a deal to invest $2.55 billion in the auto-parts maker, dealing a blow to General Motors which relies heavily on Delphi parts...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
your money: While Alluring, Foreign Currencies Can Be Elusive
While experts have different opinions about investing in foreign currencies, they all agree that such investments are not for the faint of heart...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Housing Bill to Get Vote in Senate
The Senate housing package is expected to be a first, modest step by Congress to address the growing onslaught of home foreclosures and unrest in the mortgage and housing markets...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
UBS Rejects Call to Split Off Ailing Investment Unit
The bank?s departing chairman said that dividing the bank?s investment arm from its booming wealth management business would be a mistake...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
After Success, Problems for Microfinancing in Mexico
A fractious debate in Mexico as microlending becomes big business...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Lines Drawn for Microsoft and Yahoo, and Neither Is Ceding Ground
Microsoft, which remains steadfast in its refusal to raise its bid for Yahoo, is growing increasingly frustrated with the company?s refusal to enter into negotiations...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Leaders of Ruling Party Say Mugabe Will Fight On
A decision that Zimbabwe?s president should participate in a possible run-off dampened speculation that he would step down...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Budget Practice Trips Quinn, a Backer of Openness
New York City Council speaker Christine C. Quinn has been embarrassed by the discovery of the disturbing system her office used for stashing away taxpayer dollars...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
U.S. Charges Contractor at Iraq Post in Stabbing
The charge was made under expanded authority that the United States Congress provided the military to crack down on contractor abuses...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Health Database Was Set Up to Ignore ?Abortion?
Popline, the world?s largest database on reproductive health, once again will accept the term ?abortion? after being programmed to ignore it since February...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
The Lede: Bush, Putin and What Russians Say
Russian bloggers talk about President Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin, perhaps meeting as world leaders for the last time this weekend...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Democrats Call for New Aid Package as 80,000 Jobs Are Cut
The speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said she would propose a second economic stimulus package amid job losses approaching those seen in 2001...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
In Massachusetts, Universal Coverage Strains Care
An influx of newly insured patients is widening a gap between the supply of primary care physicians and the demand for their services...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
After War, Love Can Be a Battlefield
The Army hosts a retreat to help soldiers heal emotional scars and work out problems with spouses...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
A Town Under Fire Becomes a Symbol for Israel
Sderot, which is being pounded by Palestinian rockets, is a must-see stop for those who support Israel or are urged to...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Soaring Gold Prices Lure New Breed of Diggers
As prospectors take to the West?s historically rich streams and hills, mining shops cannot keep equipment in stock...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Clintons Made $109 Million in Last 8 Years
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton released tax data showing a steep ascent in wealth since they left the White House...
New York Times - April 5, 2008
Three killed in Haiti food riots
At least three people are killed when demonstrations against rising food prices turn into riots in southern Haiti...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
Texas removes polygamy sect girls
Texan social services remove 52 girls from the ranch of Warren Jeffs's polygamy sect as part of a child abuse inquiry...
BBC News - April 5, 2008
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