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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 March 2008:
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China Reports Suspected Terrorist Activity
Chinese security officials are very concerned that terrorism poses a serious risk as Beijing prepares to be the host for the Olympic Games in August...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Israel Approves West Bank Construction
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel announced plans Sunday to build hundreds of homes in the West Bank and disputed east Jerusalem, setting off another crisis in the embattled peace process ahead of the arrival of a key U.S. mediator...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Pakistan Rivals Join to Fight Musharraf
The leaders of the two major political parties agreed Sunday that they would reinstate judges fired by the president and would seek to strip him of crucial powers...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Socialists Win Spanish Election, Retaining Power
The victory gives Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero a second four-year mandate to pursue his agenda of sweeping social liberalization...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Pentagon insider attacks war plan
A book by an ex-Pentagon official attacks Colin Powell, the CIA and other US officials over the US-led Iraq war...
BBC News - March 9, 2008
China Says Terrorists Targeted Olympics
Chinese police killed alleged terrorists plotting to attack the Beijing Olympics, while a flight crew managed to prevent an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner in a separate case just last week, officials said Sunday...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Midwest Cleans Up After Record Snowfall
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Highway and utility crews worked overtime Sunday to recover from the huge storm that buried Ohio and other parts of the Midwest in snow and tore down power lines elsewhere...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Musharraf Opponents to Form Coalition
The deal by Pakistan?s election winners further clouds President Pervez Musharraf?s political future...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Spanish Voters Go to Polls in Fierce Rematch
Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on the left and Mariano Rajoy on the right will battle in Spain?s general election on Sunday...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Many dead in Argentina bus crash
At least 18 people die and 47 are injured after a train ploughs into a bus in eastern Argentina...
BBC News - March 9, 2008
A Glossy Rehab for Tattered Careers
A fashion shoot can be an audition but it doesn?t always sway Hollywood...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Letters
Who Profits Most...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 2008
Lives: The Broke Benefactor
Receiving a charitable contribution in order to attend a fund-raiser...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
The Feed: Fighting on a Battlefield the Size of a Milk Label
An advocacy group 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
Countrywide Said to Be Subject of Federal Criminal Inquiry
The large mortgage lender may have misrepresented its finances and the soundness of its loans, officials said...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
Scrutiny for Puerto Rico Over Animal Treatment
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 9, 2008
Serbia, Split on Kosovo, May Have Early Elections
Prime minister Vijislav Kostunica said he would ask the government to resign Monday because he could no longer rule in president Boris Tadic?s pro-Western coalition...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 2008
No. 1 North Carolina 76, No. 6 Duke 68: North Carolina Pulls Away From Duke
No. 1 North Carolina beat No. 6 Duke, 76-68, in a finish that will no doubt be added to the list of highlight-reel games that have marked this series...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Rift Over AIDS Treatment Lingers in South Africa
Despite data suggesting better AIDS treatment courses are available in South Africa, the government has been slow to implement them...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
Malaysia?s Governing Coalition Suffers a Setback
Despite significant gains by opposition parties, early results showed the governing coalition retained a parliamentary majority and would be able to form the next government...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Democrat Wins Seat Once Held by G.O.P. Speaker
Stunning many who considered the district west of Chicago reliably Republican territory, Bill Foster, a physicist and Democrat, won a special election...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Bush?s Veto of Bill on C.I.A. Tactics Affirms His Legacy
President Bush shut down a Congressional effort to limit harsh interrogation techniques, cementing a legacy of fighting for strong executive powers...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Downturn Tests the Fed?s Ability to Avert a Crisis
Lenders and businesses are becoming more cautious about whom they lend to and hire, slowing the economy further...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
The Long Run: Obama in Senate: Star Power, Minor Role
In Barack Obama?s time in the Senate, there are two competing elements: his celebrity and the realities of the job he was elected to do...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Palacios brother still hostage
The BBC learns that the brother of Wigan's Wilson Palacios is still being held hostage, despite the family paying a ransom...
BBC News - March 9, 2008
Man held over US family killings
Tennessee police charge a convicted killer with the murders of four adults and two children at a Memphis house...
BBC News - March 9, 2008
Heavy storms dump snow on Midwest
Storms sweep the US Midwest, dumping a record snowfall, and disrupting flights and other services...
BBC News - March 9, 2008
Chavez issues plea for Betancourt
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez makes a direct appeal to Colombia's Farc to free hostage Ingrid Betancourt...
BBC News - March 9, 2008
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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
A Glossy Rehab for Tattered Careers
A fashion shoot can be an audition but it doesn?t always sway Hollywood...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Letters
Who Profits Most...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
Lives: The Broke Benefactor
Receiving a charitable contribution in order to attend a fund-raiser...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
The Feed: Fighting on a Battlefield the Size of a Milk Label
An advocacy group 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 9, 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 9, 2008
U.S. Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of Countrywide
The large mortgage lender may have misrepresented its finances and the soundness of its loans, officials said...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
Serbia, Split on Kosovo, May Have Early Elections
Prime minister Vijislav Kostunica said he would ask the government to resign Monday because he could no longer rule in president Boris Tadic?s pro-Western coalition...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2008
Malaysia?s Governing Coalition Suffers a Setback
Despite significant gains by opposition parties, early results showed the governing coalition retained a parliamentary majority and would be able to form the next government...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 2008
Democrat Wins Seat Once Held by G.O.P. Speaker
Stunning many who considered the district west of Chicago reliably Republican territory, Bill Foster, a physicist and Democrat, won a special election...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Scrutiny for Puerto Rico Over Animal Treatment
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 9, 2008
Bush?s Veto of Bill on C.I.A. Tactics Affirms His Legacy
President Bush shut down a Congressional effort to limit harsh interrogation techniques, cementing a legacy of fighting for strong executive powers...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Downturn Tests the Fed?s Ability to Avert a Crisis
Lenders and businesses are becoming more cautious about whom they lend to and hire, slowing the economy more...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
The Long Run: Obama in Senate: Star Power, Minor Role
In Barack Obama?s time in the Senate, there are two competing elements: his celebrity and the realities of the job he was elected to do...
New York Times - March 9, 2008
Men's Basketball: North Carolina Pulls Away From Duke
No. 1 North Carolina beat No. 6 Duke, 76-68, in a finish that will no doubt be added to the list of highlight-reel games that have marked this series...
New York Times - March 9, 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 9, 2008
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