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Thinking local
BBC News - November 22, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer expecting baby No. 2
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for September 2005:
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Bush pledges immediate aid
President Bush promised survivors of Hurricane Katrina on Thursday that the federal government "is going to be with you for the long haul," and he called for a national day of prayer for the storm's victims. The House also passed a $51.8 billion emergency aid bill...
CNN - September 8, 2005
Bush Pledges to Expedite Aid to Gulf Region; Day of Prayer Is Set
President Bush said said that the $2,000 per family in aid that had already been announced would be sped up...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
New Orleans Begins Confiscating Firearms as Water Recedes
Local officials reported progress on several fronts in New Orleans, but several areas remained under 10 feet of water...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Internet Pioneer Leaving MCI to Join Google
Vinton G. Cerf will be leaving MCI to be Google's "chief internet evangelist," one of a dozen or so vice presidents...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Sears replaces chief as sales dip
US retailer Sears replaces its chief executive Alan Lacy as the company unveils another fall in sales...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Anger over Canada sharia move
Proposals to introduce elements of Muslim law in Canada's largest province spark nationwide protests...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Mexican aid convoy heads into US
Mexico sends military personnel to the disaster zone, the first deployment in the US since 1846...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Nursing home bodies removed
Authorities are removing the bodies of more than 30 people from a flooded nursing home in a suburban New Orleans community. The official death toll from Hurricane Katrina is 294, but that number is expected to rise dramatically...
CNN - September 8, 2005
House considering $51.8B in disaster relief
The House is considering a $51.8 billion disaster relief bill on Thursday, a day after the leaders of the House and Senate announced that a bipartisan joint congressional committee will review the response, at all levels of government, to Hurricane Katrina...
CNN - September 8, 2005
Bodies removed from nursing home
In a grim indicator of what may lie ahead, authorities were removing the remains of more than 30 people from a flooded nursing home in a suburban New Orleans parish...
CNN - September 8, 2005
Shelters for Pets Fill With Furry Survivors
The Houston S.P.C.A. has opened its doors to almost 900 animals in recent days, all belonging to hurricane survivors from Louisiana...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Cheney Arrives in Region as New Orleans Seeks to Pull Residents
Vice President Dick Cheney arrived today for his first visit since Hurricane Katrina struck more than a week ago...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Restarting Pumps Required Pluck and Luck
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7 - Late Monday night, with a whoosh and a thunderous rumble, the first pumps kicked in at Pumping Station 6, New Orleans's largest, and began draining water out of this sunken city and into Lake Pontchartrain...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
EBay Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Skype
EBay is in preliminary discussions to acquire Skype, an Internet telephone company, for $2 billion to $3 billion...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Gas Supply Falls to Lowest Point in 5 Years
The new figures quantify for the first time Hurricane Katrina's impact on the nation's energy supplies and production...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Thousands lose jobs after Katrina
Hurricane Katrina led to 10,000 Americans making new claims for jobless benefit this week, US government figures show...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
News Corp buys internet firm IGN
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp agrees to buy internet video-game firm IGN Entertainment for $650m...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Artists' fight to keep Beat alive
Spiralling land prices and redevelopment are forcing NY's artistic community to fight for their spiritual home in the East Village...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
NFL: Saints ready despite Katrina
New Orleans Saints get ready for the new NFL season despite the damage to their home city...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Baseball: Bonds in practice game
Giants star Barry Bonds could play in a practice game on Thursday as he steps up his rehabilitation from injury...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Chapel to mark 9/11 crash site
Those who wrestled with hijackers on 9/11's Flight 93 will be remembered at a site in Pennsylvania...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Colombia rebel released for talks
Colombia's government frees a senior left-wing rebel leader for three months in an attempt to start peace talks...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Peru poorest to receive subsidy
Peru's poorest 60,000 families are to receive monthly payments of $30 under a government scheme...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Cheney hails storm relief efforts
US Vice-President Dick Cheney arrives on the Gulf coast to tour the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Anger over Canada Sharia move
Women's rights activists are to march in Canada and Europe over plans to allow Sharia law tribunals in Ontario...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
30 found dead in nursing home
Receding floodwaters in a suburban New Orleans parish reveal what many fear could be the first of many such discoveries -- more than 30 bodies in a nursing home that was swamped in Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath...
CNN - September 8, 2005
Report deepens Arafat death mystery
French medical records show it is highly unlikely that poisoning or AIDS caused the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in a Paris hospital last year, The New York Times reports...
CNN - September 8, 2005
Fuel output drive after Katrina
US oil refineries are delaying maintenance to maximise production in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, firms say...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
US universities to help UK poor
The USA extends to the UK a programme to get disadvantaged overseas students to their universities...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Saving premature babies
The BBC's Richard Allen Greene talks to nurses who battled to rescue premature babies from New Orleans hospitals...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Golf: US anger at Davies claims
American Rosie Jones hits back at claims by Solheim Cup rival Laura Davies that Europe have a better team spirit...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Ecuador to revise oil deals
Ecuador's president pledges to revise deals with foreign oil firms to increase the state's share of the profits...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Rebuilding homes, lives
Residents of Terrytown, Louisiana, have begun returning to their close-knit, working class town. Allen Guthrie could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw his son's modest three-bedroom home in Jefferson Parish that was torn apart by Hurricane Katrina...
CNN - September 8, 2005
30 found dead in nursing home
Authorities are retrieving the bodies of more than 30 residents found drowned in a nursing home in an area near New Orleans, as police and troops tighten their grip on the city where as many as 15,000 people remain in squalid conditions a week after Hurricane Katrina hit...
CNN - September 8, 2005
Forced Evacuation of a Battered New Orleans Begins
Officials said that the hazards posed by fires and diseases had left the city with no choice but to use force on those who resisted...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Macabre Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street
It is remarkable that on a downtown street in a major U.S. city, a corpse can decompose for days, like carrion, and that is acceptable...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Democrats Step Up Criticism of White House Response
Democratic leaders said the wreckage in New Orleans raised doubts about the country's readiness to endure a terrorist attack...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Before Katrina, the Economy Was Doing Fine
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (AP) - Factories were chugging, cash registers were busy and jobs were growing in the late summer - fresh proof that the economy was in fine fettle before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, spreading death and destruction...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Liability Issue: Wind or Water?
A battle over what insurance companies will cover for losses caused by Hurricane Katrina centers on one question: How much of the damage was due to strong winds and how much due to flooding?...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
In Times of Stress, Can Religion Serve as Insurance?
Economists are increasingly interested in the role of religious affiliation as a kind of insurance during difficult times...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Take-Two Slips in 3rd Quarter
Take-Two Interactive Software, the video game maker, said that its loss widened after retailers pulled Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas because of hidden sex scenes...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Canada's Central Bank Raises Lending Rate a Quarter-Point
Despite growing uncertainty about Canada's economic direction, the Bank of Canada raised its main lending rate by one quarter of a percentage point...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Surviving the Worst of Times
A tale of two businesses in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina shows that having a contingency plan can be the best safeguard to disaster...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Ebbers Will Avoid Prison While Appeal Is Decided
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Three Automakers Plan Alliance to Develop a Hybrid Car
BMW will join General Motors and DaimlerChrysler to develop fuel-saving gasoline-electric power systems to try to catch up with the hybrid leader, Toyota...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Disney's Discover Magazine Soon to Have a New Owner
The Walt Disney Company is to announce on Thursday that it plans to sell Discover magazine to Bob Guccione Jr., the founder of Spin and Gear...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Albertsons Posts Profit
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Capital One Lowers Its Purchase Price for Bank Based in New Orleans
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Microsoft Sues to Keep Data Secret
Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the European Commission, challenging the commission's order that it divulge technical information...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Ford Said to Be Ready to Pursue a Hertz Sale
The Ford Motor Company is planning to recommend to its board today that it sell its Hertz rental car business to a group of investors led by the Carlyle Group for more than $10 billion, according to executives involved in the deal...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Northwest Suspends Tokyo-New York Nonstop, Citing High Fuel Cost
Northwest Airlines said yesterday that it would indefinitely suspend its daily flight from New York to Tokyo, blaming the high cost of jet fuel...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Prices Seen Stabilizing, but Only for Drivers
Gasoline prices appeared to stabilize yesterday as companies restored more oil production and refining capacity, and the government projected that prices would drop well below $3 a gallon by the end of the year...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Navistar's Profit Increases 28%
By Reuters...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Yahoo Role Documented in Chinese Trial
Yahoo provided information last year that helped authorities in China convict a Chinese journalist for leaking state secrets to a foreign Web site...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
How to Avoid the Heartless
Law enforcement agencies have identified numerous fraudulent schemes related to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath - many soliciting "relief funds" illegally or luring victims to fake Web sites in the guise of legitimate charities, where credit card information is stolen or viruses are installed on users' machines...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
After the Storm, the Swindlers
Even as millions rally to make donations to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Internet is brimming with swindles and come-ons related to the relief effort...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Ford Recall Involves Millions of Vehicles
Ford Motor recalled close to four million pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, saying that a leak-prone cruise control system could ignite fires...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Apple Unveils a New IPod and a Phone Music Player
Apple introduced a compact iPod called the nano and confirmed a widely reported digital music partnership with Motorola and Cingular...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
A Trial Run Finds Hong Kong Disneyland Much Too Popular for Its Modest Size
The new Hong Kong Disneyland, scheduled to open to the public on Monday, simply has too many guests...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
2 Airlines Race Against Bankruptcy
Delta and Northwest took steps on Wednesday aimed at gaining some breathing room in their attempts to avoid seeking bankruptcy protection...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
After 210 Years, Jim Beam Discovers the Power of TV
Jim Beam and its maker are finally clambering aboard the increasingly crowded bandwagon of liquor brands being advertised on television...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Glaxo to Acquire Canadian Vaccine Maker for $1.4 Billion
Hoping to become a major supplier of flu shots to the United States, GlaxoSmithKline said that it would pay $1.4 billion to acquire ID Biomedical...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Texas Instruments Will Offer a Video Technology Platform
Texas Instruments succeeded in transforming itself from the best-known maker of calculators to the largest seller of chips for mobile phones. Now it wants to repeat that success in the market for video chips...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Shares Post Modest Gains as Crude Oil Futures Decline
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Alarm Growing on Storm's Cost for Agriculture
The hurricane will cause an estimated $2 billion in damage to farmers nationwide, according to an early analysis...
New York Times - September 8, 2005
Tennis: Agassi wins epic battle
Andre Agassi wins a fifth-set tiebreak against James Blake to reach the semis of the US Open...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
Embattled Lula defiant on reform
President Lula of Brazil pledges to press ahead with market reforms despite a growing corruption scandal...
BBC News - September 8, 2005
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