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Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Official Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Philly school rekindles same-sex education debate
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Muslim separatist strike shuts down Indian Kashmir
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Troops, protesters clash in Indian Kashmir 1 dead
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Catholics assert themselves in Hanoi land dispute
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Myanmar says no sign of Suu Kyi hunger strike
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Landslides leave 27 dead or missing in Philippines
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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Returning lawmakers make Capitol a campaign stage
Southern Ledger - September 7, 2008
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US News Archive for February 2008:
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DealBook: Sex Changes, Another Goldman Perk
Goldman Sachs bankers and traders enjoy famously big bonuses and, this year, a little extra job security thanks to their firm?s ability to steer clear of the worst effects of the subprime mortgage debacle. Now, they can add something else to the list of reasons why life is great at Goldman: free sex-change surgery. Fortune.com reported Friday [...]...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Models for Organizing an Orchestra
Take 50 to 100 highly trained musicians, put instruments in their hands, place ?em on stage and charge admission. It?s called an orchestra. But how do you organize them? Pay them? Make use of their time? Keep them happy? Keep audiences happy? All sorts of models exist. I had a chat with Ivan Fischer, who leads [...]...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Smoke at Ansonia Prompts Lawsuit
First, roaches. Now, second-hand smoke. It's more litigation by residents at the Ansonia, the majestic Beaux-Arts building on the Upper West Side...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Radomski Sentenced to Probation in Steroid Case
Kirk Radomski, the former Mets clubhouse attendant and drug distributor, was sentenced on Friday to five years of probation in connection with his guilty plea to steroid distribution and money laundering...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Polaroid Abandons Instant Photography
The company finally gives up on the now-obsolete product that made it famous, and will shut its remaining film plants...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Annan Sees Small Gains in Peace Talks in Kenya
The former United Nations secretary general has spent the past week trying to nudge Kenya?s government and opposition leaders toward a compromise...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Gates Says Anger Over Iraq Hurts Afghan Effort
It was the first time the defense secretary had explicitly linked European antipathy to American policy in Iraq...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Bhutto?s Party Disputes Scotland Yard?s Findings
The party of Benazir Bhutto insisted Friday that she had been killed by gunfire and continued to demand a United Nations investigation...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Nebraska Supreme Court Outlaws Electric Chair
The ruling effectively suspended executions in the only state that made sole use of the once-dominant practice...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Six Dead in Georgia Refinery Blast
Six bodies were recovered in the ruins of a sugar refinery near Savannah, Ga., that was rocked by an explosion...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Few From Obama?s Youth Remember His Drug Use
Friends, classmates and mentors recalled Barack Obama as someone who seemed only to dabble with marijuana...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
A Tight Grip Can Choke Creativity
A small book publisher faces off against the titans in a Harry Potter copyright case...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Wall Street Gives Up Gains
Stocks fell as investors searched for bargains but sold any stocks that had shown recent gains...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Company Thrives Offering Hotel Services (and Day Care) for Pets
PetSmart has been growing by selling day care and hotel accommodations for pets, proving that being treated like a dog may not be a bad thing if pampering is part of the deal...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
German Bank Gets $7.2 Billion Bailout
WestLB, hit by losses tied to bad trades and the subprime mortgage market, will reduce its work force by 25 percent under a rescue plan forged with regulators...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Alcatel Posts Loss and Halts Dividend
The telecommunications giant finished its first full year as a merged company with a net loss of 3.52 billion euros, or $5.1 billion, mostly on charges, and it predicted a loss for the current quarter...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Japan?s Crisis of ?90s Offers Harsh Lessons for U.S.
A Japan-style quagmire, most economists say, is an outcome that can be avoided in the United States with sound economic policy...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Vocal Contest Gives McDonald?s Employees Something to Sing About
The ?American Idol? craze has spawned an elaborate knock-off at McDonald?s, which put out a casting call to its workers and was overwhelmed by 3,600 video auditions...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Singer Winehouse denied US visa
Amy Winehouse will perform via satellite at the Grammy Awards after a delay in granting her a US visa...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
US election at-a-glance: 8 Feb
A day-by-day guide to the 2008 US presidential election, in words and pictures...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Deal 'may end US writers' strike'
The US writers' strike could soon end with union leaders ready to put a deal to members, reports say...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Six dead, 62 injured in sugar refinery explosion
Six bodies have been found in the burned-out shell of a sugar refinery, site of an explosion Thursday night near Savannah that injured dozens of people, a Georgia official said. full story...
CNN - February 8, 2008
Scotland Yard: 'Blast killed Bhutto'
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto died from a severe injury when a bomb blast slammed her head into her vehicle, investigators with Scotland Yard say in a report. full story...
CNN - February 8, 2008
Questions for Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans (Sam Masinter) Ilan Stavans's books include "On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language" and "The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories." What are you working on? I?m working on a number of projects: * My book "César Chávez: An Organizer?s Tale" (Penguin), made of the labor organizer?s speeches, will be out in April. It will appear almost [...]...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
At 60, a French Classic Stays of Age
Citroën engineers designed the car in the 1930s under the code name TPV, for ?toute petite voiture? or ?very small car.? World War II delayed its introduction by 10 years, so when it arrived, it played a role in French reconstruction...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Turnaround at Harlem Project
Owners of the Pleasant East apartments in East Harlem are done with renovations. But, as Jake Mooney found for this week's Dispatches feature, residents there say they still have reasons to be nervous...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Woman Kills 2 at La. College
Baton Rouge police say a young woman killed two female students in a classroom at Louisiana Technical College, then killed herself...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
China?s Internet Housecleaning
What exactly does the government mean when it claims to have removed ?more than 200 million items of harmful online information??...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
F.D.A. Reviewing Safety of Botox
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators said on Friday they were reviewing the safety of Allergan Inc's Botox and a competing product, after reports of deaths and serious reactions in some patients...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Six Are Feared Dead in Georgia Refinery Blast
Officials held out little hope that six people missing in an explosion at a sugar refinery were still alive...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Bhutto Report Backs Pakistan Claim
The findings by Scotland Yard support the Pakistani government?s assertion that Benazir Bhutto was killed by the force of a suicide blast...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Missouri Shooter?s Motives Emerge
The shooter?s brother seemed to confirm that the ticketing of commercial vehicles motivated a rampage that killed 5...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Gates Says Anger Over Iraq Hurts Afghan Effort
It was an unusually candid acknowledgment from the defense secretary of the political costs of the war in Iraq...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Bush Urges Conservatives to Rally Behind 2008 Nominee
President Bush sought to unify the Republican Party, but did not explicitly mention John McCain, who has been viewed with suspicion by the right...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
After Hard-Won Lessons, Army Doctrine Revised
A new operations manual elevates the stabilization of war-torn nations to the same importance as the defeat of enemies on the battlefield...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Biofuels Deemed a Greenhouse Threat
The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those of producing of conventional fuels, scientists said...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Weyerhaeuser Swings to Loss on Housing
The paper and wood products company reported a fourth-quarter loss of $63 million and said its expects the downturn to continue through 2008...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Alcatel-Lucent Paints Gloomy Outlook After Loss
The company scrapped its dividend after posting a net loss of 3.5 billion euros ($5.12 billion) for the year, including a huge charge in the 4th quarter to reflect a drop in value of Lucent?s mobile assets...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Alliance Data Drops Merger Suit
The suit by the credit card processor had sought to compel the Blackstone Group to complete a $6.4 billion takeover...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Wall Street Wavers Amid Bargain Hunting
Wall Street wavered as investors sifted through a motley batch of corporate profit reports and outlooks...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
French Trader Ordered Jailed
A Paris court ordered that Jérôme Kerviel, the former trader who Société Générale says cost it more than $7 billion, be jailed during the investigation and any eventual trial...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
WTO backs US in banana trade war
A European Union import duty on bananas is declared illegal by the World Trade Organization (WTO)...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Iran to hold Iraq talks with US
Iran will hold talks with US officials on resolving the violence in Iraq, an Iranian minister announces...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Three dead in US college shooting
A woman kills two female students in a classroom in the US state of Louisiana before killing herself, police say...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Deadly blast at US sugar refinery
At least six people are killed and many hurt in a blast at a sugar refinery in the US state of Georgia, officials say...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Venezuela denies oil asset freeze
Venezuela's state-run oil firm denies that Exxon Mobil has won a court order to freeze up to $12bn of its assets...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
No Quasimodo, He Brings Music to Notre-Dame Bells
A 40-year-old chemist by training, Stéphane Urbain became the keeper of the bells of the Paris cathedral in 2005...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
2nd French Trader Held, Official Says
French police were questioning a second trader about whether he knew of trades that led to billions in losses at bank Société Générale, according to a newspaper report...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Facebook translated into Spanish
Facebook introduces a Spanish version of its popular social networking site, and promises German and French versions soon...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Draft law sparks protests in Peru
Thousands protest in Cuzco, Peru, against a law promoting development near ancient Inca monuments...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Canada seeks Paris troops pledge
Canada sends a high-level delegation to Paris to sound out a possible offer of military help in Afghanistan...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
Accused Gambino Leaders Indicted in Sweep
State and federal indictments represented a government move against the upper echelon of the Gambino family...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Head Injury Killed Bhutto, Report Said to Find
A Scotland Yard investigation supports the Pakistani government?s explanation of the death of Benazir Bhutto...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Georgia Refinery Blast Injures Dozens
An explosion shook a sugar refinery, starting a fire and hurting dozens of people, the authorities said...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
In Bronx School, Culture Shock, Then Revival
Despite warnings that he was a cultural mismatch for his school, a principal has outlasted his predecessors...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Gunman Kills 5 People at City Council Meeting
Five people were fatally shot and two others wounded after a man opened fire at a City Council meeting in Kirkwood, Mo., a generally placid suburb of St. Louis...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
New Weight in Army Manual on Stabilization
The new doctrine elevates the mission of stabilizing war-torn nations to the same importance as the defeat of adversaries on the battlefield...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Miscalculations Dogged Romney From the Start
Mitt Romney spent more than $35 million of his own money trying to get elected, but his campaign faced challenges from the start...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
McCain Emerges as G.O.P. Choice
Mitt Romney said that taking his campaign all the way to the Republican convention would delay a national campaign against a Democratic contender...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Corporate Auditors Focusing on Cash and Securities
Not so long ago, highly leveraged companies could get loans to bail themselves out. Now they can?t...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
MBIA Sells Stock to Aid Rating and Raises $1 Billion
The bond insurer MBIA raised $1 billion on Thursday by selling shares at $12.15 each in an effort to protect its AAA insurance rating...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
W.H.O. and Bloomberg Open Global Antismoking Project
Tobacco could kill up to a billion people during the 21st century, the World Health Organization said...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Discover Will Sell a Card Unit in Britain at a Big Loss
Barclays will acquire 1.7 million Goldfish and affinity card accounts with about $4 billion of receivables and take Goldfish?s brand, staff and facilities...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Overseas Snack Sales Help PepsiCo Meet Expectations
The company said it was able to raise prices and improve productivity, which helped offset soaring costs for commodities like grains and cooking oils...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Merck to Settle U.S. Claims for $671 Million
The drug company will settle claims it overcharged government health programs and improperly enticed doctors to prescribe its drugs...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Aetna Credits Cost Cuts for Rise in Profit
Profit for the managed care provider matched the expectations of analysts, though revenue came in below the $7.17 billion expected...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Net Is Down at International Paper
The wood products company said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit fell sharply from a year ago, when it posted a big gain from the sale of forest land...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Buffett Won?t Be Witness in Fraud Trial
HARTFORD (Bloomberg News) — Defense lawyers rested their case at the fraud trial of General Reinsurance executives accused of helping the American International Group mislead investors, without jurors hearing from the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Phone Company Posts Lower Profit
Embarq Corporation, the wireline spinoff from Sprint Nextel, posted a lower quarterly profit on Thursday as it lost phone line customers...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Glaxo Profit Off; Key Drug Falters
Glaxo expects that the impact of lower sales of its diabetes drug, Avandia, will help cause a drop of about 5 percent in earnings a share in 2008...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Profit Drops at Unilever; Currency and Special Items Cited
Net profit dropped at the consumer products maker to 721 million euros ($1.04 billion) in the last three months of 2007, from 2.03 billion euros a year earlier...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Three Natural Gas Traders Convicted in Texas
According to the indictment, the men conspired to send fictitious price and volume reports on trades to two newsletters that publish indexes widely used to price gas...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
E. Leroy Tolles, Law Firm Founder, Is Dead at 85
Mr. Tolles was a co-founder of the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, which grew from seven lawyers into a nationally prominent firm with about 200 lawyers...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Weak January Dashed Retailers? Gift-Card Hopes
High gasoline and food prices, the slumping housing market, tighter credit and tougher job prospects pushed some consumers to the edge...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
D.R. Horton Reports a Steep Loss
D. R. Horton posted a loss of $128.8 million, or 41 cents a share, for the first quarter ended Dec. 31, in contrast to a year-earlier profit of $109.7 million, or 35 cents a share...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Market Shakes Off 3-Day Losing Streak
Wall Street finished moderately higher in fitful trading Thursday as investors, still nervous about the economy, decided to buy back into the market...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Rate of Growth in Consumer Debt Slowed in December
The Federal Reserve reported Thursday that consumer borrowing rose at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in December, the weakest showing since April...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Judge to Decide if French Trader Remains Free
Jérôme Kerviel, the Société Générale trader accused of losing $7.1 billion in illegal trades, could spend months in a jail while an investigation runs its course...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Washington Post Names Publisher
The company named Katharine Weymouth, passing the title to the fourth generation of the family that has controlled the paper for 75 years...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Seattle Taps Its Inner Silicon Valley
Many communities dream of becoming the next Silicon Valley. But Seattle is actually doing it...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Gazprom Threatens to Halt Fuel for Ukraine
In this latest flare-up of a dispute over money and energy in Eastern Europe, Gazprom threatened to halt fuel supplies unless Ukraine settled a $1.5 billion debt...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Deutsche Bank Escapes Subprime Losses
The bank said it did not suffer any subprime-related losses in the fourth quarter of 2007, though the turbulent markets did affect overall profits...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
A New Venture for Jay-Z, on Madison Avenue
The rapper is joining forces with Steve Stoute to open an ad agency that will help marketers reach multicultural consumers...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
European Banks Confront Economic Slowdown
Abandoning recent threats to raise interest rates, the European Central Bank hinted Thursday that it would soon follow the Federal Reserve?s lead and cut them...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Committee Investigates Ad Tactics for Lipitor
A Congressional committee wants information about people who might have served as stunt doubles for Dr. Robert Jarvik in televised ads...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Court Bars Sale of Billions in Oil Assets by Venezuela
The oil giant won court orders freezing as much as $12 billion in petroleum assets controlled by Venezuela?s government...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Bond Raters in Effort to Repair Credibility
Standard & Poor?s and the Moody?s Corporation?s proposals to restore the credibility of their ratings have met with skepticism from some of their toughest critics...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Suit Tangles Issue of James Brown?s Estate
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by two court-appointed trustees of the estate of James Brown accuses the singer?s longtime business managers of looting millions of dollars...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Studies Deem Biofuels a Greenhouse Threat
The full emissions costs of producing biofuels are higher than those linked to the production of conventional fuels, scientists said...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Rescuers Script a Possible Ending for a Strike
Two crucial intermediaries and some diplomacy finally turned an icy standoff into the kind of hot-and-bothered bargaining in which Hollywood deals are forged...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Congress Votes for a Stimulus of $168 Billion
Lawmakers and President Bush hope that tax breaks for businesses and rebates for taxpayers will promote spending...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Creators of Credit Crisis Revel in Las Vegas
An American Securitization Forum conference celebrated the wizardry that turns risky loans into securities...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Is It Too Late for Yahoo?
Jerry Yang faces pressure as he decides whether to try to rescue the company from Microsoft, or accept its bid to purchase Yahoo...
New York Times - February 8, 2008
Scores injured in US sugar blast
Up to 100 people are hurt, more than 30 critically, in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the US state of Georgia...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
McCain plea as Romney withdraws
John McCain calls on conservatives to rally behind him as Mitt Romney suspends his US presidential campaign...
BBC News - February 8, 2008
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