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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 April 2008:
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State of the Art: Fighting to Be World?s Smallest (and Full) Camcorder
Panasonic, Sony and Sanyo all say they have introduced the world?s smallest full high-definition camcorder...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Dot Earth: Money for India?s ?Ultra Mega? Coal Plants Approved
India?s Tata Power group just gained financial backing from the International Finance Corporation, a branch of the World Bank, for its ?Ultra Mega? power plant...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
in the hunt: Love Your Idea (Don?t Want to Finance It)
Potential investors think Patrick Brooks has a great idea for selling luxury men?s apparel; they just don?t want to put money into it...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Stocks Fall as Oil Jumps
Wall Street extended its losses Wednesday as a rise in oil prices and a profit warning from UPS stirred unease about the well-being of the economy...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Small Businesses Fight To Scuttle Tax Proposals
Advocates for small businesses are fighting changes in tax laws that the Bush administration says are aimed at cracking down on cheating, particularly by the self-employed...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
For a Time, Crude Oil Tops $112 a Barrel
Gasoline set yet another record at the pump and crude oil topped $112 a barrel for the first time in the futures market...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
White House Offers New Housing Plan
The proposal would loosen eligibility criteria for new mortgages insured by the federal government...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
New Entertainment President at HBO
Sue Naegle, a Hollywood talent agent, faces the task of finding the network?s next ?Sopranos.?...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Yahoo, Trying to Fend Off Microsoft, Plans Google Test
Amid the bitter battle between Yahoo and Microsoft, Yahoo said it planned a limited test of Google?s search ad technology as part of an effort to remain independent...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Floyd Norris: Recession Is On, Former Treasury Secretary Says
The recession is on, and the government will need to pass a further economic stimulus package. ?From the perspective of Main Street and the real economy, there is a very large amount of pain left to be felt.? But the worst may be over for financial markets because some debt market instruments may have [...]...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
City Room: Study Finds Third of City?s Income on the Top Rung
The top 1 percent of New York City tax filers now receive more than a third of the city's adjusted gross income, according to an analysis released today that looked in part at tax returns...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Amid Protests, Torch Run Takes Detour
The Olympic torch relay in San Francisco was run under stifling and sometimes bizarre circumstances...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
In Shift to Digital, More Repeat Mammograms
As doctors learn to interpret digital mammograms, they are more likely to request second tests, an experience that can be frightening...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
New York Legislature Passes New Budget
The new budget comes as the state faces one of the most uncertain economic outlooks in recent years...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
American Cancels 1,000 Flights in New Sign of Trouble
American Airlines is expected to cancel 900 more flights on Thursday to make sure wiring on its fleet of 300 MD-80 jetliners was secured correctly...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
White House and Democrats Clash Over Trade Pact
House Democrats said that they would defy President Bush?s demand for quick action on the Colombia free trade agreement...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Venezuela nationalises steel firm
Venezuela continues the nationalisation of its industries, taking over its largest steel maker...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Iraq reporter 'should be freed'
Iraqi judges order the release of news photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by the US military for two years...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Haiti leader demands end to riots
Haiti's President Rene Preval orders impoverished Haitians rioting over soaring food costs to stop...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Texan sect girls 'in abuse cycle'
A polygamist sect by Texan authorities was the site of pervasive sexual abuse of children, court documents say...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Ecuador's military chiefs resign
Ecuador's top four military commanders resign after the president accuses the military of aiding Colombia...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Economy Has Become a Drag on Silicon Valley
The gloom pervading the financial markets and the business climate has reached the land of innovation...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Circuit City Swings to Profit
The struggling electronics retailer posted a fourth-quarter profit of $4.85 million, as cost cutting offset lower sales for a period that included the bulk of the crucial holiday season...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
The Food Chain: As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation Program
Farmers are taking their fields out of a government conservation program that pays them not to cultivate...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Tight Inventories Send Oil Prices Higher
The prospect of tighter supplies sent light, sweet crude up $2.72 to $111.22 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, within striking distance of a record of $111.80 set last month...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Stocks Decline Following UPS Warning
Shares fluctuated after UPS lowered its first-quarter profit forecast, adding to concerns about the health of corporate earnings...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Wholesale Inventories Jumped in February
Inventories rose 1.1 percent in February, more than twice what analysts had expected, while sales fell 0.8 percent in the biggest drop in a year, the government reported...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Japan Approves New Bank Chief
The vote by Japan?s Parliament ended a long political standoff that had left the bank leaderless at a time of global financial turmoil...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Former AT&T Chief Named Chairman of Motorola
David Dorman will become Motorola?s non-executive chairman next month as the struggling cell phone maker tries to fix its slumping fortunes and split itself into two companies...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Asian Carrier Shuts Down, Stranding Thousands
Oasis Hong Kong Airlines suddenly went into liquidation on Wednesday and canceled all flights, the fourth budget carrier worldwide to halt operations in the last week and a half...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Boeing Delays 787 Again
The new delivery date puts the plane, known as the Dreamliner, more than a year behind its original schedule...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Pfizer Warns of Inhaled Insulin Lung Cancer Risk
Pfizer and Nektar Therapeutics said clinical trials of the inhaled insulin Exubera found increased cases of lung cancer, leading Nektar to abandon the troubled product...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Baghdad Bureau: Green Zone Checkpoints
Andy Arkell is a security adviser for The New York Times in Iraq. In the Green Zone, if the mortars don?t get you, the checkpoints might, and it will be a slower death. Much of the time is spent ferrying reporters around. We try to find the safest way of getting from A to B. Only [...]...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
DealBook Professor: Four Buyouts That Survived
There are four left: BCE, Clear Channel Communications, Huntsman and Penn National Gaming. These are the four big private equity deals, struck before the credit mess began last summer, that have not closed or imploded. As these buyouts have trudged through the fall and winter, waiting for regulatory approval and the credit markets to reopen, the [...]...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
TierneyLab: Monty Hall?s Other Problems
Now that so many Lab readers have brilliantly mastered the Monty Hall Problem discussed in my Findings column, I've got several new problems for you. (If you're not yet clear on the original one, you can still play the Monty Hall game.) Now, for extra credit, here are three new related challenges: 1. Mister Smith has [...]...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
City Room: Tenants and N.Y.U. Battle Over Paint
Contractors stripped lead-based paint from the front and rear exterior walls of a row of brick buildings on East 8th Street, believing that the paint did not contain lead. N.Y.U., which owns the apartments, has promised to clean them...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Pelosi to Block Vote on Colombia Trade
Defying the White House, Nancy Pelosi said the House will change its rules to avoid a required vote this year on a hotly disputed free-trade agreement with Colombia...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
At Least 8 Killed on Eve of Nepal Vote
Violence marred the eve of a historic election designed to bolster peace in Nepal, as officials on Wednesday confirmed the killings of at least eight people in three separate incidents...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
7 Killed During Rioting in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) -- Clashes between government supporters and opponents set off rioting in Pakistan's biggest city Wednesday, leaving seven people dead in the worst outburst of political violence since a new government took office...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Regional Leaders to Meet on Zimbabwe
With the threat of violence looming in Zimbabwe, the president of Zambia called for an ?extraordinary? meeting of regional nations...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Suspect in ?05 London Bombings Dies
A senior Al Qaeda planner considered to be a key suspect in the 2005 London bombings and a foiled 2006 plot to blow up commercial airliners is believed to have died, a U.S. official said...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
American Cancels 1,000 More Flights
Passengers faced confusion and long delays after the airline canceled more flights in an effort to inspected and repair wiring on its fleet of MD-80s...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
More Skepticism Voiced at House Hearing on Iraq
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker offered little new information on when troop levels could be reduced...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Cover Story: Chris Matthews, Seriously. (O.K., Not That Seriously.)
He?s one of the most recognizable ? and controversial ? personalities in political news. But the ?Hardball? host is also increasingly out of step with cable TV?s wry, cynical tone. Is this his last election in the spotlight?...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Monks Disrupt Media Tour in China
In a public relations setback for China, Buddhist monks waved a Tibetan flag during a government-led tour...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Bush Administration Offers New Housing Plan
The administration proposed loosening eligibility criteria for new mortgages insured by the federal government...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Argentina's beef with its farmers
The revolt by Argentina's farmers has reopened old divisions in Argentina, says
Daniel Schweimler...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Golf: Woods eyes Grans Slam
Tiger Woods says he can become the first player in history to win all four major tournaments in one season...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Progress in N Korea-US talks
Progress has been made on what North Korea will receive from the US in exchange for disclosing its nuclear activities...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Bush 'may back Iraq pullout halt'
The White House signals that President Bush is likely to back a call for a freeze in US troop withdrawals from Iraq...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Fresh Boeing Dreamliner delays
US plane maker Boeing announces another major delay to its 787 Dreamliner aircraft...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Ecuador defence minister resigns
Ecuador's defence minister resigns unexpectedly amid a row with neighbouring Colombia over a cross-border raid...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Fed?s Concerns Contribute to Market Dip
Stocks slipped on Tuesday after disappointing first-quarter earnings reports, then fell further after minutes from the Fed?s March 18 meeting were released...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet
The United States, a new report says, isn?t falling behind the rest of the developed world in Internet infrastructure after all...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Monks Storm Media Tour in China
Fifteen Tibetan Buddhist monks interrupted a state-sponsored media tour of a restive region of western China, yelling that they had no human rights...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Former Nymex boss in trade fraud
A former director of the New York Mercantile Exchange faces jail after admitting fraud linked to commodities trading...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
American Airlines cancels flights
American Airlines cancels hundreds of flights after grounding its MD-80 aircraft to inspect the wiring...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
'Six-way' kidney transplant first
US doctors have carried out what is believed to be the world's first simultaneous six-way kidney transplant...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Mexico unveils oil reform plans
Mexico's president sends an energy reform bill to Congress that he says will boost faltering state oil giant Pemex...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
Document Details Insider Trading Claims at Airbus
A report by the French stock market watchdog that was leaked to a French news service provided details of the insider trading claims against executives at Airbus and EADS...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Big Investment Made in Lender
Washington Mutual, hit hard by delinquencies and defaults on mortgages, said it would receive $7 billion in new capital from an investment group led by TPG Capital...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Economic Scene: For Many, a Boom That Wasn?t
The now-finished boom was, for most Americans, nothing of the sort. For the first time ever, the middle class failed to grow with the economy...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
An Architect of the CVS Deal Will Start a Turnaround Firm
The former chief of Caremark Rx who orchestrated its $26.5 billion sale last year to the drugstore chain CVS is getting into the deal business full time...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
7 Are Charged in Illegal Trading Inquiry at Nymex
A former board member of the New York Mercantile Exchange was among seven charged in an investigation of illegal trading at the exchange, authorities said...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Philips to Stop Manufacturing TVs for the U.S. Market
The sets will be made under license by Funai Electric, while the company focuses its U.S. business on health care devices, lighting and other electronic products...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Iomega Accepts Takeover Offer
The Iomega Corporation said that it had accepted an increased cash takeover offer of $213 million from the EMC Corporation...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
William D. Eberle, Trade Representative for Nixon, Is Dead at 84
Mr. Eberle pushed Europe and Japan to lower trade barriers as President Richard M. Nixon?s chief trade negotiator in the 1970s...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
American Canceling More Flights for Inspection
Following Federal Aviation Administration audits, American Airlines said it was canceling as many as 500 flights to inspect wire bundles on its MD-80 planes...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
U.S. Says It Will Increase Efforts Against ?Tax Defiers?
If you think paying taxes is unfair, illegal or unconstitutional, then watch out ? the Justice Department is after you...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
For French Bank Chief, Questions From Lawmakers
French legislators will question Société Générale?s leader about the state of banking regulation, and, most likely, about his bank?s recent trading scandal...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Advertising: Marketers Find a Sound That Draws a Crowd
Bleeps covering expletives are the updated version of tried and true tactics like loud sound effects or laugh tracks to draw the attention of a bored or distracted audience...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Morgan Stanley Chairman Wins Re-election
John J. Mack, facing down an investor campaign to unseat him as the chairman of Morgan Stanley, was re-elected by an overwhelming margin on Tuesday...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
A Silicon Valley Slowdown
The broad economic downturn is starting to take a toll on the land of innovation...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
At Age 17, Ski Resort Has a Troubled Past (and Present)
Behind the sunset-colored facade of the Peaks Resort, the largest hotel in the tony ski enclave of Telluride, Colo., is a tangled tale of a hotel that couldn?t shoot straight...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Rising Rents Force Older Businesses to New Sites
Brokers say that many locally owned stores, squeezed between big national chains and foreign retailers, are finding that the only way to stay afloat in Manhattan is at a new site...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Russia Close to Privatizing Huge Electricity Producer
A plan to privatize the world?s largest electricity company is entering the home stretch, successfully it seems, in spite of its complexity and the hostility toward privatization in today?s Russia...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Chances of Homeowner Relief Losing Momentum in Senate
A bipartisan effort in the Senate to stabilize the housing market and offer aid to struggling homeowners began to crumble Tuesday, as the White House threatened a veto...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Ex-Fed Chairman Chides Current One
Former Fed chief Paul A. Volcker criticized the Bear Stearns bailout at a meeting where Fed officials acknowledged the downturn may be ?prolonged and severe.?...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
2 Oil Firms Plan Alaska Gas Pipeline
BP and ConocoPhillips joined forces to try to develop Alaska?s vast reserves of natural gas, saying they would spend billions to build a North Slope pipeline...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Citi Is Said to Be Near Deal to Sell $12.5 Billion of Loans
Betting that the long-frozen credit markets are starting to thaw, Apollo Management, TPG Capital and the Blackstone Group have agreed in principle to buy about $12.5 billion of loans from Citigroup...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Looming Deficit Impedes Federal Housing Agency
The Bush administration and Congressional leaders are counting on the F.H.A. to rescue thousands of struggling homeowners, but the agency has financial woes of its own...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Death Looms for a Flood-Control Project
A debate is taking place over the lower Mississippi Delta?s transformation from wetlands to dry fields...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Former Corporate Executive to Run Red Cross
Gail J. McGovern, formerly of AT&T and Fidelity Investments, will take over the battered organization...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Summitt and Tennessee Roll to Another Title
Lead by the fierce elegance of Candace Parker, the Tennessee women played with toughness and determination reflective of their coach, Pat Summitt...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Iran Says It?s Installing New Centrifuges
Iran announced on Tuesday a significant expansion of its plans to enrich uranium in defiance of the United Nations Security Council...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Unrest in Kenya as Peace Plan Falters
Riots erupted as opposition leaders announced that they were suspending talks with the government over a power sharing deal...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Torch Runs for Cover as It Reaches San Francisco
San Francisco is bracing for the Olympic torch?s only appearance in the United States on an increasingly tense international tour en route to Beijing...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Equestrians? Deaths Spread Unease in Sport
Controversy grows over a grueling multi-part equestrian competition that has claimed the lives of 12 riders over the past year and a half...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
A Noisy Train, a Fed-Up Rider and a Day in Court
A self-appointed arbiter of decorum on the Long Island Rail Road who says he was only defending his right to a peaceful ride was in court facing charges of harassment and assault...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Election, and Maoists, Could Transform Nepal
Nepal on Thursday will hold elections to choose a special assembly to rewrite the Constitution, a possible opportunity to install a fully elected government...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
In Justice Shift, Corporate Deals Replace Trials
The Justice Department, once known for taking down giant corporations, has put off prosecuting more than 50 companies suspected of wrongdoing over the last three years...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Petraeus Urges Halt in Weighing New Cut in Force
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior U.S. commander in Iraq, warned Congress that progress there was ?fragile and reversible.?...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
The Food Chain: As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation
Farmers are spurning guaranteed annual payments from a conservation program for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
The Pour: Allure of Cachaça Spreads to U.S. From Brazil
At a farm outside Rio de Janeiro, wood-aged cachaça ? fermented and distilled sugar cane juice ? is being made to meet a growing demand in the United States...
New York Times - April 9, 2008
Peru convicts death squad members
Peru convicts four members of a death squad of a 1992 massacre of 10 people at a university in Lima...
BBC News - April 9, 2008
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