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Altitude, apathy, overconfidence - Brazil groped for reasons Thursday to explain its stunning 1-0 loss to Ecuador in the World Cup qualifiers. | 1Sports |
The suits include the first filed by America Online against spammers who use instant messaging, a practice the online industry calls spimming. | 3Sci/Tech |
IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gateway, Inc. today announced that Lazane Smith, 52, has been appointed senior vice president, human resources. | 3Sci/Tech |
Focused on improving its requirements management arsenal for software development, Borland Software on Wednesday is announcing its acquisition of Estimate Professional, a software project planning and estimation tool. | 3Sci/Tech |
Just imagine what David Ortiz could do on a good night's rest. Ortiz spent the night before last with his baby boy, D'Angelo, who is barely 1 month old. He had planned on attending the Red Sox' Family Day at Fenway Park yesterday morning, but he had to sleep in. After all, Ortiz had a son at home, and he ... | 1Sports |
Sherri Shepherd will be added to âThe Viewâsâ roster of panelists. | 0World |
Chrysler, with a new owner and a new boss, is placing a big bet on a fledgling Chinese automaker. | 2Business |
If your identity is being used by someone else, then his overdose is not your business. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination. | 3Sci/Tech |
There were times last season when Stephen Carriere seemed to be living a figure skating version of "Big," one without the wish machine but with a reverse gear. After skating with the juniors all fall, he turned up as the youngest contender in the senior event at the US Championships in Spokane, Wash. | 1Sports |
AP - Ron Jirsa is out as Marshall's basketball coach after a 13-19 season. | 1Sports |
Top-seeded Serena Williams of the United States rallied in the final set Wednesday to beat Dinara Safina and reach the quarterfinals of the China Open. | 1Sports |
Is Social Security an important part of civilized society, or just another form of welfare? | 2Business |
No one can accuse the Townies of backing into the boys' state basketball tournament. Just over two weeks after an impressive road win over then-No. 1 East Boston, second-ranked Charlestown welcomed No. 6 Lawrence into its gym and took a hard-fought 71-68 win in nonleague action last night. | 1Sports |
A Google and Yahoo competitor in the Web personalization arena unveiled its Blizzard release today. | 3Sci/Tech |
Ukrainian voters start choosing a new president on Sunday, a tense contest to determine whether the ex-Soviet state intensifies traditional links with Moscow or begins looking toward the West. | 0World |
Server maker drops UltraSparc IIIi+ processor to focus on other, higher-priority chips. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - Faced with a strengthening economy
and scant signs of runaway prices, the Federal Reserve appeared
set to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday while keeping up
a verbal guard against potential inflation. | 2Business |
MANILA: An Italian aid worker walked free from the southern Philippines jungle on Wednesday, a day after he was abducted by local gunmen, officials said. | 0World |
ATHENS (Reuters) - Athanasia Tsoumeleka won Greece's first athletics gold of the Olympic Games Monday with an upset victory in the women's 20km walk. | 1Sports |
David Drummond agrees to pay nearly $700,000 in fines for overstating the revenue of an e-learning company while he was its CEO. | 3Sci/Tech |
Reuters - The pace of growth at U.S. factories
picked up in December, boosted by an increase in new orders and
despite a decline in employment, a report showed on Monday. | 2Business |
Lawmakers may vote on Internet tax ban, controversial copyright bills before the end of the year. | 3Sci/Tech |
Dodgers are on the verge of being swept again, and this time it's the bottom of the Cardinal order that does much of the damage. | 1Sports |
By Kevin G. DeMarrais, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Jan. 30--A Mahwah-based company and two of its executives have been sued by the Federal Trade Commission for making unsubstantiated claims about a dietary supplement that supposedly enhances male fertility. | 3Sci/Tech |
As a result of November's election, the next Senate will have a bigger, more conservative Republican majority and several new opponents of abortion. | 0World |
The Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions doesn't take effect for two months, but climate change negotiators are already fixated on what happens when it expires in 2012. | 0World |
AP - Czech's health care minister and an adviser to President Vaclav Klaus got into a fist fight in a confrontation captured by TV cameras. The fight happened Saturday in front of a group of dentists. | 0World |
Editors note: Sauk Valley Newspapers will run Tom Waddle's column on the Bears throughout the 2004 season. At first glance, it's hard to believe this is the same Bears organization that we've come to know over the last decade. | 1Sports |
Microsoft Corp. is fighting a rejection by US patent authorities of a patent for its FAT (file allocation table) file system, the company said Thursday. | 3Sci/Tech |
AP - Chelsea was already a big favorite to win the Premier League for a third year running. So what did coach Jose Mourinho do? He signed Michael Ballack and Andriy Shevchenko for good measure. | 1Sports |
Google has decided to become carbon-neutral by the end of the year, announces plans. | 3Sci/Tech |
Hewlett-Packard still hasn’t decided whether it will release the source code for its MPE operating system to third parties, leaving a group of users and consultants uncertain about their ability to provide support for the discontinued HP e3000 server line. | 3Sci/Tech |
Stevie Hicks and quarterback Bret Meyer each totaled more than 100 yards in a revived running game that carried Iowa State to a 17-13 victory Tuesday night over Miami of Ohio in the Independence Bowl. | 1Sports |
Consumer prices declined slightly in July, pulled down by an incongruous drop in gasoline prices and by lower prices in other less volatile areas. | 2Business |
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians in violent confrontations that erupted following the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in a French hospital on Thursday, Palestinians medics said. | 0World |
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Maurice Greene wants to turn back the clock and rediscover life among the world's elite sprinters this year, at the age of 32. | 1Sports |
Efforts to unseat the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, failed this weekend in a hotly contested recall vote that he appears to have won handily. | 2Business |
It's only a matter of time before Redskins fans clamor for backup quarterback Tim Hasselbeck. | 1Sports |
Chris McCray scores 17 points and pulls in nine rebounds to lead No. 15 Maryland to an easy 89-60 exhibition win over Carleton on Saturday. | 1Sports |
The No. 2 L.S.U. Tigers stole the final scene on the sportâs grandest stage, blowing out top-ranked Ohio State to win the programâs third national championship. | 1Sports |
AFP - Britain's food safety watchdog is investigating if meat infected with the avian flu virus entered the food chain following an outbreak of the disease on a farm run by Europe's largest poultry producer. | 0World |
This year's modern and contemporary auctions obliterated sales records. | 2Business |
Facebook, the popular social networking Web site that has mainly focused on college students, is preparing to open its membership to everyone. | 2Business |
December 08, 2004 - Memory-Tech Corp. and Toshiba have announced that they have developed a dual-layer disc that can store both standard DVD and HD-DVD formats, on different layers. | 3Sci/Tech |
Paul Hamm stated his case for the all-around gold medal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. Now the waiting begins. | 1Sports |
Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo's shady stock sales finally get some official scrutiny. | 2Business |
Sony is previewing a new camcorder that takes video in digital high-definition quality for consumers. The four pound (HDR-FX1) device is set to go one sale next month in Japan and around the world by the end of the year. | 3Sci/Tech |
Several news stories have noted that China's internet user base increased by more than 70 million in 2007 to a count 213 million at year's end. Little noted is that 23 percent of these users use the internet from mobile devices. | 3Sci/Tech |
There were a couple of near misses for Australia on the second night of track cycling competition, with a silver medal to Brad McGee in the 4000m individual pursuit and fourth place to the team sprint trio. | 1Sports |
The annual Technology, Entertainment and Design celebrity-brainiac confab kicks off Wednesday in Monterey, California. Get ready for some high-level memes and plenty of celebrity sightings. By Kim Zetter. | 3Sci/Tech |
Beijing, Nov 21 : At least 55 people, including 53 passengers and crew as well as two persons on the ground, were killed when a small commuter plane crashed into a frozen lake seconds after takeoff in Inner Mongolia in north China, local officials said. | 0World |
The Bangladesh government on Thursday announced a three-day national mourning in memory of Palestine President Yasser Arafat, who died this morning. | 0World |
Father Leo O'Donovan, a Walt Disney Co. director and Jesuit priest, testified that he believed CEO Michael Eisner had the "proper authority" to boot Michael Ovitz from the company. | 2Business |
A jury ruled that Merckâs painkiller contributed to an Idaho postal workerâs heart attack, and awarded him $20 million in damages. | 2Business |
The inability of large enterprises to control exploding data growth over the next few years will fuel rapidly increasing corporate use of hosted backup services. | 3Sci/Tech |
The most important step Federal Reserve officials took yesterday was not raising their target for the overnight lending rate by a quarter point. | 2Business |
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. rejected on Wednesday a A$10.9 billion ($8.6 billion) buyout offer from a group led by Macquarie Bank Ltd. and private equity firm Texas Pacific Group . | 2Business |
AP - Garth Snow settled into his new office early Wednesday morning and took a break only to attend a luncheon in his honor. Not bad for a guy who was the New York Islanders' backup goalie one day earlier. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt Delta Air Lines said on Wednesday its fourth-quarter net loss widened by 60 percent, hurt by a $2.5 billion charge for reorganization costs. | 2Business |
The brother of Iraq hostage Ken Bigley was investigating whether it might be possible to buy his sibling's life. Paul Bigley was looking into reports in a Kuwaiti newspaper that a new Iraqi militant group | 0World |
KABUL (Reuters) - A vehicle packed with rockets blew up outside police headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing five people and wounding two, the government said. | 0World |
By KATE GORHAM It was a tabloid editor's dream come true - a diaper-clad, wig- sporting space shuttle astronaut traveling 900 miles by car to confront her perceived rival in a juicy NASA love triangle. | 3Sci/Tech |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Monday as shares of energy companies like Exxon Mobil Corp. XOM.N and those of miners fell as crude oil prices extended a six-day sell-off and bullion prices fell. | 2Business |
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Sun Microsystems upgraded the Solaris 10 operating system today, most notably enabling its OS to run Linux and its applications on x86 systems.⊠| 3Sci/Tech |
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska caused her second big shock in as many days when she stunned Russian top seed Elena Dementieva 7-5 6-2 in the quarter-finals of the Luxembourg Championship on Friday. | 1Sports |
Blog: Rumors resurface about a 12-inch Apple MacBook Pro. | 3Sci/Tech |
Bachelor, Master and Post-Grad degrees online from accredited colleges and universities. Business, Education, IT, Healthcare, more. Browse by degree or program. Request info and get started today. | 2Business |
Entering a market where there are already several well established players Nokiaâs Preminet open service model solution is being heralded as the next generation of content delivery systems for wireless devices. | 3Sci/Tech |
A global economy was thought to be more stable â but not if everyone is speculating. | 2Business |
USATODAY.com - Not only does the filmmaker's Bush-bashing documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, arrive on DVD today (Columbia TriStar, $29), but two of his previous films, Bowlingfor Columbine and The Big One, are in stores Tuesday repackaged as the Michael Moore Limited Edition DVD Collector's Set . | 3Sci/Tech |
Exhausted and shriveled from nearly a day and a half in the water, Skip Storch completed a record swim by circling Manhattan three times in 32 hours 52 minutes 30 seconds. | 1Sports |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were higher on Tuesday after strong earnings were posted by several retailers, led by Home Depot Inc. HD.N , and after U.S. economic reports for July showed that inflationary pressure was held in check and housing starts rebounded sharply. | 2Business |
AP - Former Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso received a maximum two-year doping penalty Friday from the Italian cycling federation. | 1Sports |
Pixim, Incorporated, known for its award-winnin | 3Sci/Tech |
The Jacksonville Jaguars are unbeaten and off to their best start since 1998. Adding to coach Jack Del Rio's excitement level is his belief the offense is going to only get better. | 1Sports |
At least three students are injured after Chavez takes a television station off the air | 0World |
AP - Sales of existing homes fell more than expected in April while prices slid for a record ninth consecutive month, indicating further troubles ahead for the housing market. | 2Business |
Plus: Salesforce quarterly revenue rises...Write-downs widen DirecTV's loss...Time Warner net income slips...Cell phone unit shores up Verizon. | 3Sci/Tech |
Move's Realtor.com is growing again. | 2Business |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slipped against the euro on Thursday after European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet reiterated that recent moves in currency markets were unwelcome, but did not use strong enough rhetoric to deter the euro from strengthening, currency traders said. | 2Business |
Reuters - Dean Foods Co., the nation's largest
processor and distributor of milk and dairy products, cut its
profit forecast on Tuesday due to soaring costs for raw milk,
sending its shares down as much as 5.5 percent. | 2Business |
Would Joe Torre have written Jason Giambi's name on his lineup card last night if a playoff spot had been at stake? | 1Sports |
Foster Wheeler Ltd. (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced to | 3Sci/Tech |
Martha Stewart may be anxious to begin her prison term, but intricacies of the federal prison system may mean that the homemaking maven will just have a little more time to straighten up | 2Business |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC has a "realistic" business plan in place and "hopes to avoid" future buyouts or other downsizing due to U.S. economic woes, the company's president said on Tuesday. | 2Business |
The global climate debate needs to embrace a "new way of thinking", UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urges. | 3Sci/Tech |
It was long ago, but Steve Grogan, Pete Brock, and Steve Nelson can't help but see the spitting image of the 1985 Patriots in this season's New York Giants. | 1Sports |
The 29 residents of Bridgeville are sour on the idea of selling their town on eBay. | 3Sci/Tech |
Blog: How often do you find a pair of speakers for under $10? | 3Sci/Tech |
The Red Sox have company atop the wild-card standings. In Arlington, Texas, Laynce Nix homered and drove in three runs, including a tiebreaking sacrifice fly, and the Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 6-2, yesterday to sweep the three-game series. | 1Sports |
AP - Jamie Moyer pitched into the sixth inning for his first win in a month, and Seattle battered Toronto starter A.J. Burnett for six runs and 10 hits in the Mariners' 7-4 win over the Blue Jays on Wednesday night. | 1Sports |
More than 90 people in Brazil face possible charges after a two-year inquiry into money laundering. | 2Business |
An independent oversight agency said it could not complete an audit of a $1.2 billion contract to train Iraqi policemen because records kept by the State Department and by DynCorp International, the contractor, were inaccurate and in disarray. | 2Business |
NEW YORK, December 30 (newratings.com) - Continental Airlines (CAL.NYS) announced yesterday that it has placed an order for 10 of Boeingâs (BA) new 7E7 Dreamliners, with delivery expected to begin in 2009. | 2Business |
CBC SPORTS ONLINE - French tennis star Amelie Mauresmo is now the top-ranked women's tennis player in the world. Mauresmo earned the honour Monday when the new WTA rankings were released. | 1Sports |
Loopholes in state laws that regulate hazardous emissions pose a serious risk to the health of millions of Americans and need to be revised, according to a report published this week. | 3Sci/Tech |
Bromwich, England (Sports Network) - West Bromwich signed Japanese international Junichi Inamoto to a 2 1/2-year contract on Tuesday. | 1Sports |
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A mortar bomb struck a residential area of eastern Mogadishu on Thursday, wounding a young girl in the latest in a string of almost daily attacks in the chaotic seaside capital, residents said. | 0World |
Struggling to lift a Kalashnikov, a 12-year-old with the Mahdi army militia said he could do anything in battle except fly a helicopter. | 0World |
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