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US News Archive for December 2007:
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Dot Earth Blog: The Hydrogen Car Is Here
Honda's new CFX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell sedan. In the Greentech column of this weekend's Autos section in The New York Times, Norman Mayersohn has a nice overview of Honda's new hydrogen-fueled FCX Clarity, a (very) limited-edition sedan powered by fuel cells that, Mayersohn writes, Honda will begin leasing to a handful of private customers next [...]...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
The Long Run: Clinton Talks of Scars While Keeping Her Guard Up
After years of public battles, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton must prove she is not too hardened to inspire...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Wheels: 35 M.P.G., Until You Read Fine Print
While the energy bill in Congress has earned nearly universal praise from environmentalists, there may be less than meets the eye about its 35 m.p.g. provision -- an ethanol loophole that is overly generous with mileage credits to automakers...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
China Link Suspected in Lab Hacking
A cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal government?s nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a memorandum...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Parole Case and ?90s AIDS View Trail Huckabee
Mike Huckabee is facing scrutiny over a rapist?s parole and past support for quarantining people with AIDS...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Episcopal Diocese Votes to Secede
It was the biggest leap so far by dissident Episcopalians hoping to form a rival church in the United States...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
The Caucus: Oprah and Obama in Des Moines
Oprah Winfrey opened a three-state tour in her quest to support the presidential bid of Barack Obama...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Stocks Climb on Optimism for Lenders
The stock market rose again last week on hopes that the Federal Reserve would cut short-term interest rates and that a government rescue plan would stabilize housing and bolster the earnings of lenders...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Correction: Lots of Little Screens: TV Is Changing Shape
The Re:framing column last Sunday, about growth in online video programming, included an outdated reference to the status of the new online series ?Quarterlife.? The series has been picked up by NBC; it has not merely been discussed as a possibility for network television...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Suits: This Time, Santa Has Been Too Naughty
Microsoft had to pull the plug on its online Santa after the animated elf responded to children?s queries with lewd remarks...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
The Count : A Tip Sheet to Help the Odds of Landing a Job
In addition to aiding job seekers, a new list from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a quick portrait of how society is changing...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Spending: When a Luxury Vacation Cultivates Philanthropy
A new kind of philanthropic travel lets wealthy vacationers do good works while still enjoying plush hotel suites and fine restaurants...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
The Boss: A Sporting Chance
?I?ve been a road warrior my entire working life.?...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Fresh Starts: A Field That Interprets the Language of Genes
Genetic counselors can bridge science and health care...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
College Loans by States Face Fresh Scrutiny
Officials accuse some state-affiliated student loan corporations of having forgotten their purpose...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Market Week: How Much of a Rate Cut?
A poll of economists forecasts a quarter of a percentage point, while prices of futures contracts tied to the benchmark rate show heavy betting on a half-point move...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
On Language: Cliché Crunch
Seized up in securitized subprime...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Investing: Teaching Teamwork, but With Real Money
It is important to explain how both stocks and bonds work and to teach the art of working together in a family setting...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Fair Game: Sharper Claws for Recovering Executive Pay
A standard when pay has been based on short-lived earnings...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Home Front: On the Crest of a Food Wave
It is a good time to be a barbecue expert in New York, when a master cook can go from selling pulled pork from a food cart to a salary approaching six figures in months...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Square Feet | Ventures: REITs Are Down, but for How Long?
THE enduring rally in real estate investment trusts finally ended this year as turbulence in the credit markets rattled the confidence of commercial investors and effectively halted the frenetic pace of REIT privatizations...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Fundamentally: The ?R? Word Doesn?t Have to Be So Scary
Rebalancing helps to keep a portfolio on track, even in a recession...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
The Feed: If It?s Fresh and Local, Is It Always Greener?
Opening a more nuanced debate on low-carbon diets...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Economic View: Reshaping the Debate on Raising Taxes
Because of our inability to talk sensibly about taxes, the United States has been sliding toward second-class status in the world economy...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Market Maker: So That?s Why They Drink Coke on TV
Advertisers are increasing the money they spend on so-called product integrations at double-digit rates, making it one of the faster growth areas for an otherwise stalled industry...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Novelties: What Did the Professor Say? Check Your iPod
STUDENTS staring at their iPod screens may be taking a break with a music video ? or they may be reviewing a tough chemistry lecture...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Slipstream: The Team That Put the Net in Orbit
A new kind of network grew out of a novel public-private collaboration...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
How to Solve a Subprime Mess? An Iowan Says, Let?s Caucus
Iowa?s attorney general is trying to stem a surge of foreclosures by cajoling mortgage servicing companies to modify loans before borrowers fall too far behind...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Everybody's Business: Lessons From the Pits of Travel and Investment
The benefits of wide-body planes and stock index funds...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Court Intrigue for the King of Torts
Richard Scruggs, the lawyer who helped win huge verdicts on behalf of smokers and victims of Hurricane Katrina, is fighting charges that he tried to bribe a judge...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
US Church splits over gay rights
A Californian diocese votes to break from the US Episcopal Church in protest at its stance on gays...
BBC News - December 8, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Obama?s Musical Draw
Mixing politics with rock at an reasonable price...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Omaha Mall Reopens After Shooting
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- With extra security on hand and holiday shoppers waiting at the doors, the Westroads Mall reopened Saturday morning, three days after a gunman killed eight people and himself at the mall's Von Maur store...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Cultural Destination | Berlin: Back to the Days of Bowie and Iggy
West Berlin?s glamour is slowly returning in the form of new galleries and revitalized Bowie-era restaurants and hotels...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Refugee Kurds, Pawns in an Iraqi Power Play
Some 2,200 squatters have turned the Kirkuk soccer stadium into a refugee city as they wait to vote on a referendum on Kurdish regional rule...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
China Orders Banks to Increase Reserve Ratio
Analysts said the move shows that Beijing is growing increasingly worried about growing inflationary pressure and the threat of a meltdown...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Hatton fired up for Vegas clash
Britain's Ricky Hatton insists he is ready to defy his underdog status and beat Floyd Mayweather in the fight of the decade...
BBC News - December 8, 2007
Flatley wins $11m over rape claim
Dancer Michael Flatley is awarded $11m (£5.4m) against a woman who claimed he raped her in 2002...
BBC News - December 8, 2007
DealBook: Citi Is Close to Picking New C.E.O.
Citigroup is scheduled to hold its year-end board meetings early next week and its directors could decide on a new chief executive, according to people briefed on the search process. The leading candidate is Vikram S. Pandit, a former Morgan Stanley investment banker who joined Citigroup in July and has seen his star rise in the [...]...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Bigger Bear Sterns Stake
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Special Payout at UAL
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Supreme Court Roundup: Americans Held in Iraq Draw Justices? Attention
The Supreme Court accepted two cases that test whether judges have the authority to prevent military officials from turning U.S. citizens over to the Iraqis for criminal prosecution or punishment...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Budget Makers Plan Tradeoff for War Funds
Congressional leaders plan to provide President Bush with unfettered money for the Iraq war in exchange for new spending on popular domestic programs...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
From ?Troubled? to ?Killer,? Despite Many Efforts
Robert A. Hawkins made a five-year journey through a maze of juvenile services programs before killing eight people and then himself in an Omaha mall...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Credit Card Settlement
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Plea In Inside-Trading Case
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Ventures In China
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Special Payout At UAL
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Analysts Cut Credit Firms
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Offer for Northern Rock
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Today In Business: Buyer to Close CompUSA
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New York Times - December 8, 2007
Amgen Shares Fall on Safety Concerns
Shares of Amgen had their biggest decline in seven months on Nasdaq Friday after the company reported it might revise the safety information on its biggest product...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Growing Big, Staying Fresh
The law of large numbers is frustrating for big companies. As a result, huge firms often end up paying for their success...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
The Markets: Jobs Report Chills Wall Street?s Big Rally
Wall Street paused from its big rally Friday, with shares closing narrowly mixed after the government?s November labor report showed tepid job growth as well as a pickup in inflation...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Short Cuts: Stocks, Sure, but Trading Places Can Be Enriching, Too
Last-minute listings on www.digsville.com is one of the many home-exchange Web sites where people offer to swap their houses to spend their winter vacation in the United States...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
What?s Online: Warming and the Right
Jim Manzi, a longtime software executive, says that economically speaking, carbon taxes could be worse than global warming itself...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Kazakh Leader Suggests Way to End Oil Standoff
Kazakhstan wants to raise its stake or receive compensation for cost overruns and delays in the gigantic Kashagan offshore field, the country?s president said on Friday...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Market Values: Maybe a Way to Get Rich Off the Rich
Tobias Levkovich, Citigroup?s chief United States equity strategist, has created an index of stocks of businesses that cater to affluent consumers - a group of people who tend to spend even in hard times...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Talking Business: The Pursuit of Justice, or Money?
In some cases, litigation can look more like an income- redistribution racket than a search for fairness...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Saturday Interview: Looking Back to Eddie Bauer to Rescue Eddie Bauer
McNeil S. Fiske Jr. is trying to work the same magic at Eddie Bauer that he did at Bath & Body Works...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Macrovision Agrees to Buy Gemstar-TV Guide for $2.8 Billion in Stock and Cash
The two companies said the deal will allow consumers to pull up a guide on their TV and receive personalized content and information...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Off The Charts: Like Subprime Mortgages, Some Construction Loans Are Delinquent
Banks across the United States have become dependent on construction lending just as that area of the economy is weakening and the number of bad loans is growing...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
In Russia, Ford Hurt by Strike and Rising Pay
A strike at a Ford Motor Company assembly line in St. Petersburg highlights the tightening labor market in Russia, a problem that would have seemed inconceivable a few years ago...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Your Money: Gold?s Quirk: It?s Volatile, but Holders Feel Secure
Gold has a long history of waxing and waning in allure. At the moment, it holds a particular attraction, given fears of inflation, the risks in the financial market and the falling value of the dollar...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Canadian Retailer Bans Some Plastic Bottles
A line of water bottles that had become a symbol of environmental responsibility has been removed from the shelves of Canada?s leading outdoor gear retailer over concerns about a chemical used in its manufacture...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Writers? Talks Collapse Amid Acrimony
After making marginal progress in renewed discussions, bargainers for writers and producers broke off without settling crucial issues and with no plan to resume...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Success Without Ads
Consumer Reports, a monthly magazine, continues to thrive with a subscription only model, even on the Web...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
The Roles Blur for the Mayor and the Mogul
The announcement that Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff is leaving public office for Bloomberg L.P. has raised questions about the mayor?s potential conflicts of interest...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
Slowing Job Growth Seen as Ominous Sign for Economy
The employment picture offered assurance that the economy was not plummeting, but the Federal Reserve may feel less pressure to aggressively ease interest rates...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
6 Arrested Over Plots to Pump Up Share Prices
What began with an undercover F.B.I. agent?s posing as a corrupt hedge fund manager led to the arrest of six people on charges of fraud in the shadowy world of penny stocks...
New York Times - December 8, 2007
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