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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Astronauts end spacewalk to repair gummed-up joint
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Dubai parties at hotel gala despite economic gloom
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Pakistan protests to US over deep missile strike
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Afghanistan markets its brand of pomegranates
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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China says 19,000 students died in May earthquake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Dems delay auto bailout vote, seek plan from Big 3
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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US News Archive for June 2007:
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Bush calls meeting pope a 'moving experience'
President George W. Bush said he discussed the fate of Iraqi Christians as well as AIDS and U.S. immigration with Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday. Bush said he found himself "in awe" of Benedict, whom he described as a "smart, loving man."...
CNN - June 9, 2007
Yankees 9, Pirates 3: Clemens Returns as Yankees Gain Momentum
The Yankees offense gave Roger Clemens plenty of run support as he pitched six solid innings to earn a victory in his first start of the season...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Grass Roots Roared and Immigration Plan Collapsed
The legislation sparked a furious rebellion among voters linked by the Web and encouraged by radio...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Hispanic Voters Gain New Clout With Democrats
The immigration battle and the new presidential primary schedule have amplified the influence of Hispanic voters...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Long-Term Rates Rise, and Stocks Fall
While the markets shifted to a happier note on Friday, the week was a troubling one for many investors, as stock and bond prices fell sharply and long-term interest rates soared...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Homefront: Their World?s a Stage, but Bills Must Be Paid
Actors, dancers, singers and musicians could find fulfilling supplementary jobs in fields like massage therapy, psychotherapy and fitness training...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
The Boss: The Music of Change
?When you move all your life,? said Mitch Bainwol, ?the most memorable moments are your last day in one place and your first day in another.?...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Les Schwab, Who Turned a Rundown Shop Into a Tire Chain, Dies at 89
From the rundown shop Mr. Schwab bought with borrowed money, he built a chain of 410 stores throughout the West...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Fresh Starts: Can Blogs Become a Big Source of Jobs?
While running a Web log is a skill that more and more employers seek in their employees, finding full-time work in that world is still unusual...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
The Count: Note to Inventors: Please Curb Your Enthusiasm
The American spirit of inventiveness is stronger than ever, if you look at the number of applications flooding into the United States Patent Office...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
National Perspectives: Get Your Red-Hot Foreclosures Here
An auction of foreclosed homes, many of them in fast-growing exurban and desert communities east of Los Angeles, brought out a crowd of potential buyers...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Suits: In the Same Breath as a Screen Classic
A federal judge in Minneapolis gave the go-ahead to a class-action lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group and its former chairman and chief executive...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Union for Grocery Workers Sets a Deadline
The union representing 65,000 Southern California grocery workers threatened to strike if a new contract with is not completed by June 21...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Investing: To Pick Winners, Start by Weeding Out the Losers
Investors who want to add a margin of safety when searching for hot growth stocks may want to consider a new grading system...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Square Feet | Checking In: New Kicks on Route 66 for Commercial Builders
Aficionados of the storied highway hope that the restoration of a famous stop for travelers will anchor a revival of motel culture and tourism...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Market Week: This Time, Sensitivity to Prices
Although the markets regained some lost ground recently, a full calendar of economic reports could mean treacherous going for traders...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Russian Airline to Buy 22 Planes From Boeing
The deal between the Boeing Company and Aeroflot, the Russian national airline, defied the souring political relations between the United States and Russia...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Economic View: Income Inequality, Writ Larger
The rising economic tide is lifting a bunch of yachts, but leaving those in simple boats just bobbing along...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Everybody's Business: Unprepared for the Rainiest of Days
Some sour day, the world will look at our deficits and at our dollar and say it doesn?t want to hold our greenbacks as reserve currency any more...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Strategies: Is It Just a Strong Market, or the Bubble, Part 2?
Current conditions certainly look different from those of March 2000. But several subsurface issues suggest that we shouldn?t be too sanguine...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Media Frenzy: What Murdoch?s Paper Chase Means for Business TV
Similarities between Google?s acquisition of YouTube and Rupert Murdoch?s bid for Dow Jones show why both deals make sense to them alone...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: Beware of Exploding Mortgages
A tsunami of interest rate increases on adjustable-rate mortgages is coming, meaning that the worst of the subprime lending fiasco is far from over...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
The Goods: Don?t Tread on Them
A doormat meant to frighten unwanted visitors ? and to appeal to video game aficionados ? features flashing images of the green aliens from Space Invaders...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Novelties: The Door Key That Can?t Be Misplaced
A manufacturer is reducing the need to fish for keys with a deadbolt lock that opens with the swipe of a finger...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Spending: As ?Continuing Care? Grows, So Do the Payment Options
The number and variety of payment plans at continuing care retirement communities has expanded rapidly, along with the number of new facilities...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Taking on Alzheimer?s
Virtually every large drug maker is working to develop Alzheimer?s drugs, seeking to improve treatment and possibly snare a big financial payoff...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Goldman Runs Risks, Reaps Rewards
Even though Goldman Sachs is the most imitated and envied investment bank around, its chief executive is still intent on proving his firm to the world...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Re:framing: Media Innovations, Leaping From Lab to Screen
Running a media or entertainment company in the 21st century is not for the faint of heart. The change is relentless and the learning curve sharp...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
A company the government once tried to break up has been repeatedly defended by the Bush administration against charges of anticompetitive conduct...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Bush feels 'awe' for 'loving' pope
George W. Bush says he felt "awe" in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI, who urged the U.S. president to seek "regional and negotiated" solution to Middle East conflicts like Iraq...
CNN - June 9, 2007
The Saturday Profile: A Castro Strives to Open Cuban?s Opinions on Sex
Mariela Castro Espín, daughter of Raúl Castro, the commander of Cuba?s armed forces, is the country?s premier sexologist...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
War Ends in Ivory Coast but Peace Is Still a Dream
For most Ivorians, little has improved since rebels signed a peace pact in March ending a five-year war...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Outside Manhattan, Many Oppose Congestion Plan
Everyone agrees that something needs to be done about Manhattan traffic, but nobody wants to have to pay for it...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Palestinians Clash With Israeli Soldiers
Palestinians gunmen using an armored vehicle and grenade launchers entered Israel from Gaza today...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Henin Makes Her French Open Reunion a Threepeat
Justine Henin took advantage of 19-year-old Ana Ivanovic?s shaky play today to win 6-1, 6-2...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Bush Meets Pope Benedict for the First Time
Pope Benedict XVI expressed concerns to President Bush about the Middle East, according to a church statement...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Quantifying the Role of School Ties in Investing
Mutual fund managers invest more money in companies that are run by people they knew in school, a study says...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Bush meets pope, defends record
U.S. President George W. Bush defends his humanitarian record around the world at his first audience with Pope Benedict XVI, telling the pontiff on Saturday about U.S. efforts to battle AIDS in Africa...
CNN - June 9, 2007
Lives: Adjusted Income
A little money is actually a lot, but a lot of money may not be much...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Questions for Doug Ellin: Fistful of Dollars
The TV producer and writer talks about why ??Entourage?? is realism not satire, why friends are just like family and why everything, including his next show, is all about easy money...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Freakonomics: Payback Time
A quiet exchange of funds lets a family buy a new house and helps the seller get a good price. So why is it illegal?...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Should We Globalize Labor Too?
These days, capital and goods cross borders with ease. Lant Pritchett says that if the developing world?s workers could do the same, everyone would benefit...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
The Way We Live Now: The Inequality Conundrum
How can you promote equality without killing off the genie of American prosperity?...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Encounter: Larry Summers?s Evolution
The former Treasury secretary is having second thoughts about how to make globalization work for the middle class...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
The Class-Consciousness Raiser
In the nation?s classrooms, middle class teachers increasingly encounter poor students, often with disastrous results. Ruby Payne says she has the secrets to help them cross the great divide...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Shop Stewards on Fantasy Island?
With nothing but the very rich and the people who serve them, Florida?s Fisher Island is a stark metaphor for income inequality in America ? and an irresistible target for labor activists...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
The Money Issue: The Poverty Platform
John Edwards says Americans should care more about economic injustice. Can he turn the plight of the poor into a winning campaign issue?...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
US 'Dr Death' defends euthanasia
Jack Kevorkian, the man who helped the terminally ill to die in the US, says he did "the right thing"...
BBC News - June 9, 2007
Peru's Fujimori under house arrest
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was placed under house arrest Friday after a Chilean prosecutor recommended he be extradited to Peru to face charges of human rights abuses and corruption...
CNN - June 9, 2007
Ruling Likely to Spur Convictions in Capital Cases
Experts said a Supreme Court decision will make juries in death penalty cases whiter and more conviction-prone...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Celebrity Justice Cuts Both Ways for Paris Hilton
In the socialite?s case, the national obsession with celebrity collided with the issue of the equal application of justice...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Indian Reservation Reeling in Wave of Youth Suicides and Attempts
American Indian and Alaska Native youth 15 to 24 years old are committing suicide at a rate more than three times the national average for their age group...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Chairman of Joint Chiefs Will Not Be Reappointed
The Bush administration?s decision makes Gen. Peter Pace the highest-ranking officer to be a political casualty of the issue of Iraq...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Kennedy Plea Was Last Gasp for Immigration Bill
Senator Edward M. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought more time to salvage a bill that had never been embraced by the leadership of either party...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
News Analysis: As Senate Deal Sinks, So Does Bush?s Power
The president?s ability to push his agenda has faded to the point where he can fairly be judged to have entered his lame duck period...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Today in Business
SALES INCREASE AT MCDONALD?S The McDonald?s Corporation posted its largest monthly sales increase in more than three years, helped by the popularity of its small sandwiches in France and a big green ogre called Shrek in the United States. The chain said sales rose 8.7 percent in May at restaurants open at least 13 months. Wall Street analysts had been expecting a rise of 5 percent, according to research notes...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
What?s Online: Lots of Froth but No Bubble
The inventor of the first commercially viable Web browser has begun his blog with a splash: by saying that there is no new Internet bubble forming...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
What?s Offline: In Corporations They Don?t Trust
There is a ?trust gap between consumers and global corporations,? The McKinsey Quarterly finds...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Five Days: Deal Making Heats Up as Does Food and Drug Scrutiny
Deal makers powered ahead, even as one pending merger faced a regulatory hurdle. Makers of diabetes drugs agreed to use the most severe warning on labels, and broadcasters won a favorable federal court ruling regarding obscenities...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
China Says Some U.S. Goods Didn?t Meet Safety Standards
Beijing had said that some health supplements and raisins from America had failed to meet China?s safety standards and had been returned or destroyed...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Saturday Interview: Tapping Global Talent in Software
Globalization and technical transitions have not always gone smoothly for SAP, a big German software company...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
MasterCard Wins Ruling Against Visa on Debit Fee
A service fee that Visa places on its largest debit card issuers is unlawful and must be repealed, a judge has ruled...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
F.T.C. Details Objections to a Food Merger
The purchase of Wild Oats Markets by Whole Foods Market would lead to increased prices, the Federal Trade Commission has said...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Canada Seeks W.T.O. Panel to Settle Dispute
Canada has requested that a dispute settlement panel be established in its challenge of American farm subsidies at the World Trade Organization...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Europeans Fail to Agree on Financing Big Satellite Project
European governments failed to agree Friday on how to salvage their troubled satellite navigation system, Galileo...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Philip Morris Tries Smokeless Tobacco Product
Philip Morris USA, the tobacco company, will test-market four flavors of a smokeless tobacco product known as snus under the Marlboro brand name...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Rancor Level Rises in Rift Over Danone China Venture
A dispute between Groupe Danone, the French dairy and beverage maker, and its Chinese partner, the beverage maker Wahaha, has become even stranger...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Shortcuts: Contractor Must-Have List: Hammer, Nails, License, Insurance ...
If people doing work in a house are uninsured and they get hurt, the owner is responsible...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Jeweler to Pay $400,000 in Online Auction Fraud Settlement
A Manhattan jewelry dealer who directed his employees to inflate the price of goods his company auctioned will settle a civil fraud complaint...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Running G.E., Comfortable in His Skin
Jeff Immelt is the prototype of the modern chief executive...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Market Values: Finding Profits When Times Are Tough
Corporate profit margins have been running at close to all-time highs, but they can improve only so much...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Off the Charts: A Rare Case of Confident Consumers Disapproving of a President
President Bush has endured low approval ratings longer than any president since Jimmy Carter, but consumer confidence has not plummeted...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Quantifying the Role of Old-School Ties in Investing
Mutual fund managers invest more money in companies that are run by people with whom they went to college or graduate school, a study says...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Caution: Lower Truck Sales Ahead
As with sport utilities, the popularity of pickups is in decline...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Ample Jobs, but Youths Are Choosy
For youths who want to work this summer, the job market is strong. The bigger question seems to be, Who is going to take them?...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
Trade Deficit Narrowed a Bit in April
Growth has slowed in the United States, but economies in Asia and Europe are surging and snatching up more and more American exports...
New York Times - June 9, 2007
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