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Frozen yogurt war de-thaws, tart new brands hit US
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Some eBay sellers frustrated with rule changes
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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25 bodies identified from plane crash in Spain
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Displaced Georgians look to US for hope, aid
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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26 dead as Philippine troops flush out rebels
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Indian Kashmir protests called off for 3 days
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines Peace deal to be renegotiated
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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Philippines peace in tatters after rebel attack
Southern Ledger - August 21, 2008
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US News Archive for March 2008:
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Questions for Larry Brilliant: Corporate Giver
The epidemiologist and head of Google?s charitable arm talks about why corporations can be socially responsible, what he was doing in India in the ?60s and his friend Jerry Garcia...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Idea Lab: Watching the Rich Give
If you had $20 million, how much would you donate? And other questions for the very wealthy...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
The Money Issue: How Many Billionaires Does It Take to Fix a School System?
Five experts debate the new education philanthropy...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Letters
Who Profits Most...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Strategies: Can You Beat the Market? It?s a $100 Billion Question
The huge price tag helps explain why beating a buy-and-hold strategy is so difficult...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Everybody?s Business: What McCain Could Do About Taxes
Dear John McCain: May I offer you some thoughts on a big part of economics, namely tax policy, bearing in mind that no one knows much about it?...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Economic View: Income and Happiness: An Imperfect Link
Does money buy happiness? The debate is not just of philosophical interest; it also has important policy implications...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Travel Bug: Just a Little Business Trip to a War Zone
These days, companies dispatching employees to distant places are increasingly being held to account for the workers? safety and well-being...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Lives: The Broke Benefactor
Receiving a charitable contribution in order to attend a fund-raiser...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Square Feet | Blueprints: A Welcoming Place to Build Wealth
GenSpring Family Offices has a bright, sleek interior that feels more like a spa than headquarters for a company that manages $15 billion in assets for 600 families...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
The Count: When Movers and Shakers Take a Break
Senior executives tend to have plenty of money and very little time ? which makes them an attractive, and very elusive, target for marketers...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Homey New Uses for Old Utilities
Developers have taken an interest in reusing large-scale industrial relics, even if converting them may require cleaning soil, adding floors and removing smokestacks...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Fresh Starts: The Faculty Is Remote, but Not Detached
Technology like Web streaming has made online learning more like a real classroom experience...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
The Boss: Out of the Raspberry Patch
The challenge of the toy business is that you have huge players like Wal-Mart and Toys ?R? Us. F.A.O. Schwarz focuses on higher-end, higher-quality toys...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
The Feed: Fighting on a Battlefield the Size of a Milk Label
An advocacy has started a counteroffensive to stop the proliferation of milk that comes from cows that aren?t treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Slipstream: Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine
Last year, Nintendo Wii and the Apple iPhone began to break down the logjam in technological innovation for the way humans interact with computers...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Suits: Out of the Boardroom for a Bollywood Turn
To promote the start of Virgin Mobile?s new cellphone service in India, Richard Branson acted in a 20-minute Bollywood movie...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Job Losses Add to Another Rough Week
It was another difficult week for the stock market, especially after the Labor Department reported that the economy had lost 63,000 jobs in February...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Preoccupations: The Office Phone Call Was Music to the Ears
The waning of the office phone call is one of those cultural declines that few people are likely to lament...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Book Lovers Ask, What?s Seattle?s Secret?
Though the big publishing houses are still in New York, the Seattle area is home to Amazon, Starbucks and Costco, companies that increasingly influence what America reads...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)
Children increasingly rely on personal technological devices to create social circles apart from their families, changing the way they communicate with their parents...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Fair Game: As Good as Cash, Until It?s Not
Investors across the nation are finding themselves in Wall Street?s version of the Hotel California: they have checked into an investment they can never leave...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Digital Domain: They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.
One year after the birth of Windows Vista, why do so many Windows XP users still decline to ?upgrade??...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Puerto Rico Faces Suit Over Roundup of Animals
Families claim that city employees and contractors flung dozens of animals from a 50-foot-tall highway bridge into a ravine and left them to die...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Police Claim Break in Slain Student Leader?s Case
The police have released three surveillance photographs of a possible suspect in the killing of 22-year-old Eve Carson...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
F.B.I. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Countrywide
The large mortgage lender may have misrepresented its finances and the soundness of its loans, officials said...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
The Food Chain: A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can?t Fill
When much of the country is contemplating recession, farmers are flourishing because of runaway demand...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Obama Wins Wyoming Caucuses
Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by a wide margin, continuing his string of victories in caucus states...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Math Suggests College Frenzy Will Soon Ease
The number of high school graduates is projected to start declining, which could make it easier to get into college...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Lawyers Demand Release of Judges in Pakistan
A rally on Saturday was part of a series of marketplace demonstrations to show support for the former chief justice, who remains under house arrest...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Senate Committee Seeks Audit of Iraq Oil Money
Two senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have requested a full accounting of how Iraq is spending its soaring oil revenues...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Chavez makes surprise Cuba visit
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visits Cuba for the first time since Fidel Castro stepped down as leader...
BBC News - March 8, 2008
Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Economic Picture
The worst fears of investors and officials were confirmed as paralysis on Wall Street collided with new evidence of a likely recession...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Prime Minister Dissolves Serbia?s Government
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has dissolved the government and called for new elections...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Lawyers Rally Against Musharaff Government
The lawyers are planning a week of anti-Musharraf demonstrations, called Black Flag Week after the protesters? flags and armbands...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Suspect Charged in Student Death
Auburn Assistant Chief Thomas Dawson Courtney Lockhart was charged in the Tuesday night killing of 18-year-old Lauren Burk...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Paper Cuts: What?s Your Favorite Literary Line?
Samuel Johnson once cautioned against the practice of "recommending" Shakespeare through the greatest-hits approach of quoting selected passages. Remarkable as the chosen passages might be, Johnson warned, the critic who relied simply on quotation was like the man "who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen." This [...]...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
A Global Need for Grain That Farms Can?t Fill
At a moment when much of the country is contemplating recession, farmers are flourishing because of runaway demand worldwide...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Clinton Works Wyoming to End Caucus Streak
With the exception of Nevada, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost to Senator Barack Obama in every state that has held Democratic caucuses instead of primaries...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Bush Uses Veto on C.I.A. Tactics to Affirm Legacy
President Bush on Saturday used his veto to shut down a Congressional effort to limit the agency?s latitude to subject terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation techniques...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Downturn Tests the Fed?s Ability to Avert a Crisis
As lenders and businesses become more cautious about who they lend to and hire, they are slowing an already weakened economy...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
US oil man jailed for Iraq bribes
A US oil executive is jailed for two years for paying millions of dollars in bribes to Saddam Hussein's government...
BBC News - March 8, 2008
Dot Earth: A Climate Fix in Mirrors and Dust?
A growing number of scientists have pushed for intensified study of ways to artificially nudge the planet?s thermostat downward as a global warming ?Plan C.?...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Fort Drum Prints Photos After Arrests for D.W.I.
The commanding general said the goal was not so much to humiliate those arrested, but to deter future incidents...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Colleges Reduce Out-of-State Tuition to Lure Students
Flagship public universities have long sought a national student body, and now more state universities appear to be reducing tuition to out-of-state students to do so...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
US rivals vie for Wyoming votes
Rivals for the Democratic ticket for US president seek backing in the Wyoming caucuses...
BBC News - March 8, 2008
Breach of MTV Computer Files
MTV said that the security breach, which affected files on about 5,000 employees, occurred after an Internet connection in an employee?s computer was compromised...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Talking Business: A Case of Abuse, Heightened
A condemning video is delayed, then leaked to the media, and an animal rights activist makes the most of the spotlight...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Saturday Interview: Retooling for a Changing Telecom Landscape
British Telecom?s chief executive, Ben Verwayeen, discussed the firm?s strategies for replacing revenue lost as customers have dropped traditional fixed-line service...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
American Axle Strike Idles More G.M. Plants
G.M. will stop production at nine more plants next week because of a strike at a parts supplier, American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
NBC May Be Considering Kathie Lee Gifford for ?Today?
Should it materialize, the hiring of Ms. Gifford would add immediate star power to the final hour of ?Today,? which NBC introduced in the fall...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
MBIA, the Bond Insurer, Asks Fitch to Quit Rating Some Units
MBIA raised $3 billion in capital, eliminated its dividend and shut its asset-backed insurance business for six months to overcome losses on subprime mortgages...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Ford Chief Is Granted Stock and Options
Alan R. Mulally was awarded restricted stock worth $4.1 million and 3.56 million stock options after a year in which the automaker lost $2.7 billion...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Hefty Raises at Goldman Sachs
The investment bank announced its two co-presidents would receive $67.5 million each, a 27 percent pay increase...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Your Money: Banks Springing Up to Serve the Underserved
For consumers and small businesses, niche banks offer products, services and expertise that are often unavailable elsewhere...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Basic Instincts: Last Things Can?t Wait Till Last
The unpleasant perspective of considering one?s mortality should not derail us from pulling together a ?what if? plan...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
What?s Online: Manage Money Like a Star
A Web site uses celebrity news to lead into lessons of personal finance, with sometimes hilarious results...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
What?s Offline: Avoiding a Problem C.E.O.
A dozen warning signs that boards should be looking for in executives, before they name them C.E.O.?s...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Lilly Ends Effort to Develop an Inhaled Insulin Product
The company?s decision is the third setback in recent months for such insulin formulations, once deemed potential blockbuster products because of their greater convenience...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Legg Mason Secures Financing to Prop Up Ailing Money Funds
The asset manager said the money, a loan from Citibank, would help ensure that investors escape fallout from losses on the housing securities that backed the funds...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Lilly Waited Too Long to Warn About Schizophrenia Drug, Doctor Testifies
Lilly hid Zyprexa?s risks, such as the possibility of causing severe weight gains and blood sugar changes, from doctors to protect the drug?s sales, an expert witness told jurors on Friday...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Stocks & Bonds: Market Storm Clouds Show No Sign of Lifting
The problem, investors said on Friday, is that the credit market remains gravely ill, no matter what type of medicine is thrown at it...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Off The Charts: A Construction Sector, Once Robust, Now Falters
Some nonresidential construction sectors, whose share of construction had risen to a 15-year high, appear increasingly hesitant to spend and overall construction spending has begun to fall...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Nominee Chosen for Chief?s Post at Bank of Japan
Toshiro Muto, a deputy governor of the country?s central bank, was picked to succeed the current governor, whose five-year term ends on March 19...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Executive Pursuits: Rolling and Unraveling Through Thick and Thin and Smoking the Result
Having smoked cigars for over 30 years, I held the art of cigar rolling in high esteem. I did not want to desecrate it simply for the sake of a whimsical executive pursuit...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Chiefs? Pay Under Fire at Capitol
Three prominent executives defended the multimillion-dollar pay they received even as their firms struggled through the spreading credit crisis...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Tight Credit, Tough Times for Buyout Lords
The Ides of March has arrived early for the buyout lords of Wall Street, as the intensifying credit crisis humbles some of the industry?s once-celebrated deal makers...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for Children
Driven in part by a lack of knowledge over the long-term health effects of mobile phone use, parent groups in Europe have called for a ban on marketing to children...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Crisis Over Colombian Raid Ends in Handshakes
The resolution of the dispute was spelled out in a document criticizing Colombia?s foray into Ecuador while recognizing the need to combat illegal armed groups in the region...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
The Lede: Pairs of Links on a Variety of Topics
Interesting stories we found in our Web travels this week...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
On the Runway: Paris, Back to Black
Left, a black dress from the Balenciaga fall collection; center, Lanvin; right, Louis Vuitton. (Photos: Jean-Luce Huré for The New York Times) During the Paris shows I kept noting the number of variations on the chic black dress. It wasn?t hard. There were those three killer examples from Balenciaga, the ribbon dresses at Lanvin, and [...]...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Obama Camp Sees Fine Line in Hitting Back
The resignation of an adviser to Barack Obama sparked new debates about how far he should go in responding to attacks from Hillary Rodham Clinton...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom
West Virginia, which will allow hunting classes in schools, is one of many states trying to bolster a sport in decline...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Got a Mint, Comrade? Chinese Ban Liquid Lunch
A Communist Party campaign in Xinyang, China, seeks to catch civil servants partaking of alcohol-soaked meals...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Mixed Economic Picture in Next Big State to Vote
As the candidates shift their attention to Pennsylvania, they are likely to find a more positive economic landscape than one would expect...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Deal in an Autism Case Fuels Debate on Vaccine
Despite studies? failure to show any link between vaccines and autism, skeptics say a settlement in the case of 9-year-old Hannah Poling shows that they have been right along...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Picture of U.S. Economy
The worst fears of consumers, investors and officials were confirmed as paralysis on Wall Street collided with new evidence of a likely recession...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
News Analysis: End to the Good Times (Such as They Were)
If history is a reliable guide, a dismal jobs report suggests that the recession of 2008 is now unavoidable...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Big Names in Retail Fashion Are Trading Teams
Several major clothing designers plan to shift to different stores, creating transitions that could confuse consumers...
New York Times - March 8, 2008
Rights still an issue as FBI turns 100
As the FBI prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary, a new BBC Radio 4 series tracks its history, from battling communism to cracking down on cyber-terror...
BBC News - March 8, 2008
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