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US News Archive for May 2008:
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Saving Horses One at a Time
Horse rehab farms resurrect a fraction of the roughly 100,000 horses that are expected to be shipped across the border and ultimately slaughtered for meat...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Zimbabwe?s Tsvangirai Delays Return
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will not return home on Saturday as expected to prepare for the second round of elections against Robert Mugabe...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Taliban Release Pakistani Envoy
Suspected Taliban militants have released Pakistan?s envoy to Afghanistan more than three months after he was kidnapped in Pakistan?s Khyber tribal region...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Obama Says Bush and McCain Are ?Fear Peddling?
Senator Barack Obama responded to attacks on his foreign policy and tried to turn the tables on his critics...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Diary: Edwards endorses
Matt Frei, presenter of BBC World News America, wonders if John Edwards's endorsement will help Obama win over blue-collar voters...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
The 'safe' fights hitting Jamaica
People in a once highly-violent area of Jamaica's capital Kingston are turning to organised street boxing to keep people out of trouble...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
TV's Ellen to wed actress partner
TV show host Ellen DeGeneres is to marry Portia de Rossi after California lifted its ban on same-sex ceremonies...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Lawsuits: Parmalat Had Little Cash Left, Executive Testifies
Parmalat, the Italian dairy, had 6.5 million euros ($10 million) in cash left six days after filing for bankruptcy in 2003, rather than the 4 billion euros it claimed to have...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Deals: Citigroup May Sell Its German Banking Business
Citigroup may sell Citibank Privatkunden, its consumer-banking unit in Germany, as part of a plan to replenish capital, the unit, based in Düsseldorf, said...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Talking Business: Passions Run High on Indexing
An academic debate on a financial product called fundamentally weighted indexes turned out to be quite the snake pit...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Lawsuits: Medical Company?s Investors Sue Over Acquisition
Shareholders of CryoCor, the maker of a device that freezes heart muscle to correct abnormal rhythms, sued the company to block its acquisition by Boston Scientific...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Executives: Time Warner?s Chief Hints at Departure
Richard D. Parsons, left, Time Warner?s chairman, said he was likely to step down in the next year, clearing the path for the chief executive, Jeffrey L. Bewkes, to assume the role...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Deals: G.E. Acknowledges Plan to Sell Appliance Unit
General Electric confirmed that it planned to sell or spin off the appliance business that for a century has put refrigerators, washing machines and dishwashers in American homes...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Executive Pursuits: A Classroom Where the Teacher Really Wants That Apple
The mission of the Horse Institute in Ancramdale, N.Y. is to give managers a chance to improve a variety of skills by observing and performing exercises with horses...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
What?s Offline: The Overpriced Bargain Bin
Between a $60,000 bed and a $30,000 night at a luxury hotel, the bargain is not necessarily what it seems...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
What's Online: Frustrating the Pirates
Some argue that beating media piracy hinges on media companies offering more convenience and quality...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Business Briefing | Markets: Chicago Mercantile Moves to a New Home
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange marked a milestone in its 110-year history as the last floor traders wrapped up business at the building that has served as the Merc?s home since 1983...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Lowest Reading Since 1980 for Consumer Confidence
This is bad news for the United States, where consumers fuel two-thirds of national economic activity through their purchases of goods and services...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Fannie Mae Will Reduce Down Payment Minimums
The new requirements of 3 percent or 5 percent will apply nationally to loans on single-family primary residences, the company said...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
American Airlines and F.A.A. Differ on Groundings
The F.A.A. maintains some of American Airlines? aircrafts displayed signs of chafing at some components, while the airlines maintains there were never any security problems...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Booz Allen to Sell Part of Its Government Unit to Carlyle
The sale is part of a broader split of Booz Allen Hamilton?s commercial and government consulting groups...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Networks Anticipate the Fall Cautiously
Aside from Fox, the changed pattern of how the networks presented their plans for September left fundamental questions unanswered...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Despite Unease, Big Gains for the Week
Wall Street pulled off its lows to finished narrowly mixed Friday as investors squared concerns about rising oil prices with a surprise jump in home construction...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Saturday Interview: Smoothing the Rides on Greyhound
With rising gas prices and a season of summer delays coming up, does it mean that the bus is ready for a comeback?...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
F. A. O. Schwarz Will Sell Toys in Macy?s Stores
The move is a bold one, given that the fiercely competitive toy market has previously plunged F. A. O. Schwarz into bankruptcy and forced Macy?s to largely stop carrying toys...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Cost of Living: Places to Go, but Dreading the Fill-Up
Gas prices have crossed the line between being an unconscious expense to having become a painfully conscious one...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Robert Mondavi, Napa Wine Champion, Dies at 94
Mr. Mondavi was the California vintner behind the rebirth of the Napa Valley wine industry who championed the idea that fine wine was an integral part of the good life...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Off the Charts: It?s Not Just Petroleum, All Imports Cost More
For all nonpetroleum imports, prices in April were up 6.2 percent from a year earlier, the fastest rate of gain in almost 20 years...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Congressional Pressure Prevails as U.S. Halts Filling of Oil Reserve
The move announced by the Energy Department that it would temporarily suspend a program to fill the nation?s strategic oil stocks failed to break the rally in oil prices, which hit another record Friday...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Your Money: Five Basics for Building a Solid Financial Future
A new Times columnist offers guidance for making financial decisions, when making good ones is more critical than ever...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Detainee?s Trial Delayed Until Justices Rule
A military judge said he wanted the opportunity to examine a much-awaited Supreme Court decision on the rights of the detainees before the trial proceeded...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
U.S. Plans Steps to Ease Congestion at Airports
The Bush administration proposed Friday to auction landing slots at two major airports, Kennedy and Newark, and to impose a limit on airline traffic at Newark...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers
Engineering skill made Japan an economic superpower, but its young people are now choosing other careers...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Mayoral Hopeful, an Earmark Critic, Has His Own
Despite criticizing Christine C. Quinn and the City Council for doling out money to favored groups, Anthony D. Weiner has sponsored earmark funds as a congressman...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
F.B.I. Gets Mixed Review in Interrogation Report
The F.B.I.?s agents were praised for not being complicit in abuses at Guantánamo Bay, but the agency was found to be slow to respond to complaints about the tactics...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Obama Says Bush and McCain Are ?Fear Mongering?
Senator Barack Obama responded sharply to attacks on his foreign policy and tried to turn the tables on his Republican critics...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Pen in One Hand, Cricket Bat in the Other
The author Joseph O?Neill is a member of the Staten Island Cricket Club, and has just written a novel about the sport...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Olympic Dream Stays Alive, on Synthetic Legs
A decision that a double-amputee sprinter was eligible for the Olympics was a watershed ruling for disabled athletes...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
In China, Skittish Pandas, Then Exploding Cliffs
Foreign tourists recounted a described escape from the searthquake made possible by panda keepers? heroism...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan
Officials are scaling back plans to shift prisoners into Afghan custody in a stark acknowledgment that the U.S. is likely to hold prisoners overseas for years...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa
Villagers say hundreds of Somalis are dying of hunger and thirst amid soaring global food prices, skimpy rainfall and rising violence...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
New Tack Offers Straying Parolees a Hand, Not Cuffs
Several states are altering their parole systems to focus on rehabilitating offenders instead of punishing them for parole violations...
New York Times - May 17, 2008
Dominican leader wins third term
President Leonel Fernandez wins re-election in the Dominican Republic as his main opponent concedes...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
Pioneering US winemaker dies
Robert Mondavi, who helped put Californian Cabernets and Chardonnays on the world map, dies at the age of 94...
BBC News - May 17, 2008
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