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Scientists reconstruct ancestral genetic code Researchers have reconstructed a long string of genetic code for what they believe is the common ancestor of placental mammals - a shrewlike creature that lived in Asia more than 75 million years ago. | 3 |
Hamilton fired by Phonak Olympic gold medalist Tyler Hamilton #39;s professional cycling team has fired him after he failed doping tests. Phonak was refused a racing license by the UCI, prohibiting them from competing in the Tour de France and other elite events. | 1 |
Telstra Chief Switkowski Quits, to Leave in 2005 (Update2) Ziggy Switkowski quit as chief executive of Telstra Corp., Australia #39;s largest phone company, ending a five-year tenure where he presided over a 42 percent slide in the share price and | 2 |
Canada Quarantines One Farm in Mad Cow Search OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian veterinary officials have quarantined one Alberta farm in their search for cattle connected to the country's second case of mad cow disease, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said Monday. | 0 |
HP to launch #39;virus-throttling #39; software SAN FRANCISCO--Hewlett-Packard plans to give customers a new weapon against viruses: Software that crimps their spread. Early next year, the computer maker will begin selling software designed to slow the | 3 |
Armies of Exigo marches into stores EA #39;s latest RTS features combat on two levels; gamers can battle with elves, trolls, and beasts for \$39.99. Electronic Arts today shipped its latest real-time strategy game, Armies of Exigo, to retail stores. | 3 |
Irish #39;s lack of fight, Meyer #39;s availability ultimately cost <b>...</b> In the hours after Ty Willingham was fired by Notre Dame, ESPN News analsyst Trevor Matich (who looks, by the way, as if he could bench-press the entire College GameDay cast) implied something was askew about Willingham #39;s firing. | 1 |
Kofi Annan Must Go Over the past seven months, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which I chair, has conducted an exhaustive, bipartisan investigation into the scandal surrounding the UN Oil-for-Food program. | 0 |
Terrorism Act 2000 see British police search properties for naught (AFP) AFP - British police have raided three properties in the area of the northern city of Manchester under Britain's main anti-terrorism law. | 0 |
Wendy #39;s Expects Fourth Quarter Loss DUBLIN, Ohio - Wendy #39;s International Inc. said Tuesday it expects a fourth-quarter loss because of a writedown of up to \$195 million and a charge related to the closing of as many as 18 of its Baja Fresh Mexican Grill restaurants. | 2 |
Continental Airlines Elects Jeff Smisek to Its Board of Directors HOUSTON, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continental Airlines (NYSE:CAL) today announced the election of Jeff Smisek, executive vice president and president-elect of Continental Airlines, Inc. | 2 |
Spammers hack Lycos #39; anti-spam Web site Spammers are suspected of hacking into and downing Lycoss anti-spam Web site just hours after it went live. The Web site is currently inaccessible and could also be the victim of a DDoS attack. | 3 |
Appeals for help as hundreds dead, thousands of families stranded <b>...</b> Nearly 300 people are dead and thousands of families stranded in three coastal municipalities in Quezon province (Real, General Nakar and Infanta) in the aftermath of tropical depression Winnie, according to the most recent reports from the Department of | 0 |
UN panel proposes criteria for legitimate military action With countries still bitterly divided over the war in Iraq, a high-level panel appointed by the United Nations has recommended a five-step guideline to determine when to use military action. | 0 |
Kendall thinks he #39;s a great fit for Oakland When Pittsburgh came to Oakland for an interleague series last summer, Billy Beane couldn #39;t believe Jason Kendall was the lone catcher on the Pirates #39; roster. | 1 |
U.S. Stocks, Dollar and Bonds Fall NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks and bonds fell on Tuesday as the dollar hit a record low against the euro. | 2 |
Dollar Down But Seen in Ranges TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar fell against the euro and the yen on Wednesday in the wake of comments from the European Central Bank president suggesting the ECB was unlikely to intervene to stem the euro's rise. | 2 |
Dollar Weak, Asia Stocks Down (Reuters) Reuters - Asian shares retreated on Wednesday,\tracking losses in U.S. stocks, and pressured by a weak dollar\which sat close to a record low struck against the euro late on\Tuesday. | 2 |
Dollar Down But Seen in Ranges (Reuters) Reuters - The dollar fell against the euro and the\yen on Wednesday in the wake of comments from the European\Central Bank president suggesting the ECB was unlikely to\intervene to stem the euro's rise. | 2 |
Fashion House Selling Electrical Supplier Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, the tempest-tossed owner of fashion brands like Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, said on Tuesday that it planned to sell its stake in the equipment | 2 |
Smaller Companies Given 45-Day Delay on Audit Certification although not large ones - were given a reprieve yesterday from requirements imposed in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals that they certify their financial controls. | 2 |
AIG and US Complete Big Settlement Agreement American International Group and federal regulators have completed a settlement that calls for the company to pay \$126 million in penalties and restitution and to | 2 |
Removal of Vioxx Shifts Drug Landscape The Pfizer painkillers Celebrex and Bextra experienced a jump in sales immediately after rival Merck #39;s Vioxx was pulled from the market in late September, but the gains appear to be short | 2 |
Rentokil catches cold with 12 fall Rentokil Initial served up more gloom yesterday with a 12 fall in pre-tax profits to 293.9m for the first 10 months of this year and a warning that 2005 would be even worse. | 2 |
Upwardly mobile UK Within the next 18 months more than 20 million mobile telephone users in Britain, Germany and Ireland will finally gain access to a high-speed internet service which has revolutionised mobile communications for tens of millions of Japanese since its | 3 |
Russia, NASA OK Space Station #39;s Next Crew MOSCOW - Russia #39;s Federal Space Agency and NASA (news - web sites) have approved the crew of the next mission to the international space station, a Russian agency spokesman said Tuesday. | 3 |
Flaw opens crack in Windows servers A flaw in popular Windows server software could allow remote attacks to be launched against systems, Microsoft has confirmed. The vulnerability is in Windows Internet Name Service, or WINS, a network infrastructure | 3 |
Crucial step made in hydrogen fuel research US scientists announced they had made a breakthrough in the research of low-cost hydrogen fuel. Researchers from the US government #39;s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental | 3 |
ND #39;s move raises host of questions This is what passes now for perspective in college football. Where the fire-the-coach Web sites pop up by his third game, and the boosters circle like sharks. | 1 |
Pinsent pulls in his oars Matthew Pinsent hinted yesterday that he may return to duty with the International Olympic Committee on announcing his retirement from international rowing. | 1 |
Smith to restore the Stein dynasty THE imminent appointment of Walter Smith as the national manager will restore to influence the dynasty which stretches all the way back to Jock Stein. | 1 |
Mayor #39;s Presence Rewarded DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams postponed an out-of-town trip, cleared his schedule and sat through nearly four hours of fractious debate yesterday over his plan to bring baseball back to the nation #39;s capital. | 1 |
No. 7 Connecticut 99, Fla. International 48 Rashad Anderson scored 17 points and Hilton Armstrong had a career-high five blocked shots as No. 7 Connecticut cruised to a 99-48 victory over Florida International on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Bush tries to patch up rift with Canada President George W Bush launched his first fence-mending mission since his re-election yesterday, flying to Canada to improve a distinctly prickly relationship with one of America #39;s oldest and most natural allies. | 0 |
Iran Says It Will Suspend but Not End Its Uranium Program Iran #39;s chief nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that Iran would suspend its uranium enrichment activities for only a few months while negotiations with Europe for a longer-term | 0 |
Cuba Releases Dissident Writer Imprisoned in 2003 Crackdown The Cuban authorities on Tuesday freed the dissident writer Ral Rivero, the best known of a dozen political prisoners released during the past few days in a | 0 |
Storm, landslides kill nearly 340 MARAGUNDON, Philippines - A powerful rainstorm triggered landslides and flash floods that killed nearly 340 people in the eastern Philippines, officials said yesterday. | 0 |
MOFA slams China-ASEAN pact China intends to marginalize Taiwan, and that is why it signed a trade pact with ASEAN states at the regional summit meeting in Laos on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday. | 0 |
Car bomb kills seven in Iraq BAGHDAD: A US soldier and seven Iraqi civilians died in a spate of attacks yesterday. Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, meanwhile, travelled to Jordan to try to win support from exiled opposition leaders for the January 30 elections. | 0 |
Japanese government hopes to allow woman on throne within years <b>...</b> TOKYO : The Japanese government hopes to make changes to the constitution that will allow a woman to ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne within quot;several years, quot; a news report said. | 0 |
Envoys seek Ukraine breakthrough International mediators are to try to break the deadlock caused by Ukraine's disputed presidential elections. | 0 |
Liverpool clip Canaries' wings (AFP) AFP - Liverpool went fifth in the Premier League with a 2-1 win away to relegation-threatened Norwich. | 0 |
Scientists plan Jurassic archive Researchers say a new programme could help create a DNA database of all life on Earth, ever. | 0 |
Citing a Lack of Progress, Notre Dame Fires Willingham Tyrone Willingham, who was the first African-American head coach at Notre Dame in any sport, compiled a record of 21-15 in three seasons. | 1 |
Prosecutor Not Rushing Into Charging Pacers The Oakland County prosecutor, David Gorcyca, said Tuesday that no charges were imminent for Indiana players involved in the Nov. 19 brawl with Detroit Pistons fans. | 1 |
With Ban Pending, Hamilton Loses Ride Olympic champion Tyler Hamilton was fired by Phonak, his Swiss cycling team, two months after testing positive for illegal blood transfusions. | 1 |
White House Proposes Cuts in Salmon Areas (AP) AP - The Bush administration Tuesday proposed large cuts in federally designated areas in the Northwest and California meant to aid the recovery of threatened or endangered salmon. Protection would focus instead on rivers where the fish now thrive. | 0 |
Thwarted U.S. May Seek Lone Push on Iran Sanctions (Reuters) Reuters - Iran escaped U.N. censure over its\nuclear program but Washington, which accuses it of seeking an\atomic bomb, said on Monday it reserved the right to take the\case to the Security Council on its own. | 0 |
International Mediators Try to End Ukraine Crisis KIEV (Reuters) - International mediators will step up efforts on Wednesday to resolve Ukraine's 10-day-old crisis over a disputed presidential election after the collapse of talks between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions. | 0 |
U.S. Rules Out Dam Removal to Aid Salmon The Bush administration will not remove federal dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers to protect 11 endangered species of salmon and steelhead, even as a last resort. | 0 |
AIDS Near 'Tipping Point' In India, China, Russia The head of the United Nations' AIDS program warned that the three countries could turn their small, localized epidemics into gigantic ones capable of disrupting the world's response to the disease. | 0 |
Teams Scour Indonesia Plane Crash Site for Survivors SOLO, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescue teams searched areas around an airfield in central Indonesia on Wednesday for survivors from a plane crash that police said killed at least 31 people and left 47 unaccounted for. | 0 |
Colombian Congress Approves Uribe's Re-Election Bid BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's Congress on Tuesday approved a bill allowing Alvaro Uribe, one of few conservative South American presidents with strong ties to Washington, to run for an unprecedented second term. | 0 |
Pension Fund of New York Files Suit Against Merck The main pension fund of New York State filed a lawsuit against Merck Company, accusing it of misleading shareholders about the safety of its pain drug Vioxx. | 2 |
California Pension Activist Expects to Be Ousted Sean Harrigan, a figure in the corporate governance movement, said that he expected to be ousted as president of the board of California's large public pension fund. | 2 |
Signs That Japan's Economic Recovery Is Fading A string of disappointing economic reports released Tuesday heightened concerns that Japan's recovery may be fading fast. | 2 |
Skiers Up to Speed After getting shut out in the 2002 Games, U.S. Skiing is predicting a substantial medal haul for the women's Alpine skiing team in Turin. | 1 |
Mets, Martinez Talk New York Mets general manager Omar Minaya appears intent on making a splash by pursuing free agent pitcher Pedro Martinez. | 1 |
Global Forecasts for 2005 Growth Are Reduced Prospects for the global economy next year are growing dimmer as oil prices hurt consumption and the rise in the U.S. trade deficit depresses the dollar. | 2 |
Yellow Jackets Roll The fourth-ranked Yellow Jackets use a 20-0 first-half run to bury Michigan early and cruise to a 99-68 triumph on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Friars Collapse in Upset Providence scores just five second-half field goals on 19 percent shooting to allow Winthrop to rally and defeat the Friars, 60-54, on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Take this to the bank: The Yanks could tank (The Sporting News) The Sporting News - Don't fret, Yankees haters. Read on, and you'll see plenty of potential obstacles that could keep the restocked and heavily favored Bronx Billionaires from winning the World Series -- and I didn't have to reach too far to find them. Not all of them, anyway. | 1 |
Skidding Browns finally see the light, purge Butch In the end, Cleveland #39;s Butch Davis was right where he wanted to be, which was ironic because it was that position that made him such a convenient target for dismissal. | 1 |
NCAA Game Summary - Florida International at Connecticut The Huskies set a school record with 19 blocks in the game (Hilton Armstrong had five and Boone had four)...This was the first-ever meeting between these teams...FIU, which shot 28 percent from the field, had a two-game winning streak halted...UConn ended | 1 |
Nets 99 Bobcats 86 EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ Richard Jefferson scored 23 points and the New Jersey Nets ended a nine-game losing streak by downing the expansion Charlotte Bobcats 99-to-86. | 1 |
Online holiday shopping rose 25 percent in 2004: survey (AFP) AFP - Online holiday shopping rose 25 percent in 2004 to 23.2 billion dollars, a survey showed. | 3 |
At least 300 die in floods as Typhoon Winnie hits Philippines MORE than 300 people died and at least 150 remained missing after flash floods and landslides devastated three coastal towns and left swathes of the northern Philippines under water yesterday. | 0 |
Arms smuggling to Gaza on agenda of talks with Egyptian foreign <b>...</b> Israel is expected to ask Egypt Wednesday to deploy troops deep in the Sinai to combat arms smuggling, and not to suffice with enhancing its patrols along its border with the Gaza Strip. | 0 |
AMD Big Gainer in 3rd-Quarter Microchip Sales-IDC SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=AMD.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">AMD.N</A> captured nearly 10 percent of computer microchip market revenue in the third quarter, the highest level in nearly three years, market research firm IDC said on Tuesday. | 3 |
Global Chip Gear Sales Seen Down 5.15 Percent in 2005 MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - Global sales of equipment used to make and test semiconductors are expected to fall 5.15 percent from a year earlier to \$33.49 billion in 2005, an industry group said on Wednesday. | 3 |
Storms leave at least 350 dead in Philippines The death toll from landslides and flash floods in the eastern Philippines jumped to nearly 350 with 150 others missing yesterday, most of them from a region still reeling from last week #39;s deadly typhoon. | 0 |
Thai prime minister urges Myanmar generals to move toward <b>...</b> Thailand yesterday told military-ruled Myanmar that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year, but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi #39;s house arrest has been extended. | 0 |
New US tariffs on shrimp from China, Vietnam may help US shrimpers Some Chinese shrimp exporters will have to pay discouragingly hefty tariffs of more than 100 percent if they want their products to appear on American dinner tables, the Commerce Department ruled Tuesday. | 2 |
Tropical Storm Otto forms on last day of hurricane season A low pressure system over the Central Atlantic has formed Tropical Storm Otto on the last day of hurricane season. At 4 pm, the center of Tropical Storm Otto was located near latituded 31.8 north, longitude 51 west or about 810 miles east of Bermuda. | 2 |
New life for Philly WiFi Verizon's agreement with Philadelphia brings new life to the city's WiFi plans. | 3 |
Lampard strikes again Chelsea #39;s assault on an unprecedented quadruple gained momentum at Craven Cottage when Frank Lampard #39;s 88th-minute goal sealed their place in the semi-finals of the Carling Cup. | 1 |
Australians close in on victory Five wickets stand between the Australians and victory on the final day against New Zealand to complete a 2-0 win in the series. Set a prohibitive 464 to win in Adelaide, New | 1 |
Raptors 94, Heat 92 Jalen Rose scored 24 points, including the decisive free throws with 15.6 seconds left, to help the Toronto Raptors snap a six-game road losing streak with a 94-92 victory over the Miami Heat on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Hospital Care by Video Camera Intensive-care doctors monitor patients from miles away. Also: Vioxx might be responsible for more deaths than thought.... New network in southern India gives government a big boost.... and more. | 2 |
Hurricane Season #39;Officially #39; Over, But That Doesn #39;t Stop Otto Tuesday may mark the last day of the hurricane season, but it #39;s not going away quietly. Tropical Storm quot;Otto quot; has formed far out in the Atlantic Ocean, about 810 miles east of Bermuda. | 2 |
Athletes still using Bextra com) and Ben Goessling (bgoesslingmndaily.com). Amid speculation that the painkiller Bextra will join Vioxx as drugs recalled from the market, University athletes are still using | 2 |
Knicks Nip Hawks 110-109 in Overtime (AP) AP - Jamal Crawford's 3-pointer with 3.4 seconds left in overtime lifted the New York Knicks to a 110-109 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Kings Defeat Slumping Grizzlies 98-93 (AP) AP - Peja Stojakovic had 29 points, and Chris Webber added 22 points and 11 rebounds Tuesday night to lead the Sacramento Kings to a 98-93 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies. | 1 |
No. 4 Georgia Tech Drills Michigan 99-68 (AP) AP - Georgia Tech raised its Final Four banner before the game, then played like a team that could win it all. The fourth-ranked Yellow Jackets took control with a 20-0 run, led by 27 points at halftime and went on to rout Michigan 99-68 Tuesday night in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. | 1 |
No. 8 Kentucky Trounces Tennessee Tech (AP) AP - Kelenna Azubuike emerged from a season-long shooting slump, scoring 21 points and No. 8 Kentucky beat Tennessee Tech 92-63 on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Bucs Release Schroeder and Gramatica (Reuters) Reuters - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers on\Tuesday released wide receiver Bill Schroeder and kicker Martin\Gramatica, and activated offensive guard Matt O'Dwyer from the\physically unable to perform list. | 1 |
Cook Leads Lakers Past Bucks 95-90 (AP) AP - Brian Cook came off the bench to score a career-high 25 points, including five 3-pointers, and Kobe Bryant added 20 points despite being held without a field goal for three quarters to lead the Los Angeles Lakers past the Milwaukee Bucks 95-90 Tuesday night. | 1 |
1914 Baseball Card Set Sells for #36;800,000 (AP) AP - A complete set of 1914 Cracker Jack baseball cards featuring "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb has been sold for a record #36;800,000. | 1 |
Houston Upsets No. 14 Purdue 63-60 (AP) AP - Daphne Andre scored 21 points, including two free throws that sealed the win following a key steal, leading Houston to a 63-60 upset of No. 14 Purdue on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Nets 99, Bobcats 86 Richard Jefferson scored 23 points and Eric Williams had a season-high 22 to help the New Jersey Nets end a nine-game losing streak with a 99-86 victory over the Charlotte Bobcats on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Routs not fooling Smith, Cats It seems to be a basketball paradox. Kentucky dominates its early-season opposition. Coach Tubby Smith finds no difficulty in convincing his players of their shortcomings. | 1 |
Rwandan troop incursion prompts Congo to respond Thousands of Rwandan troops have crossed into the remote forested hills of east Congo, a Western diplomat said Monday, in an account supported by park rangers and local chiefs near the border of the two neighbors and wartime enemies. | 0 |
Microsoft, BT team on software as services LONDON - Microsoftis ramping up its efforts to sell software as a service by teaming with U.K. telecommunications giant BT Group PLC to provide a platform for the delivery of its business applications. | 3 |
Microsoft finds new front in software piracy battle As part of its fight against software piracy, Microsofton Tuesday said it filed lawsuits against eight resellers for allegedly buying and selling fake and used Certificate of Authenticity labels. | 3 |
HP fine-tunes security management Hewlett-Packard bolstered its security portfolio Tuesday, announcing availability of an identity management product for enterprises and a security management initiative for small and midsize businesses. | 3 |
Sun: 1.9 million downloads of Java fix Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said there have been 1.9 million downloads of an upgraded version of J2SE to correct a possible security vulnerability in the JVM, although there have been no attacks reported based on the problem. | 3 |
Universities Struggling with SSL-Busting Spyware Experts call Marketscore software a privacy threat. | 3 |
Top-Ranked Australia Rallies to Avoid US Rugby League Upset World rugby league champion Australia beat the USA Tomahawks 36-24 in Philadelphia, rallying from an 18- point halftime deficit to avoid one of the biggest upsets in the sport #39;s history. | 1 |
New Netscape Browser Supports Internet Explorer Preview version seeks best of both worlds, is based on Firefox. | 3 |
Dollar Rebounds But Data May Cap Gains NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar rebounded on Monday after a heavy selloff last week, but analysts were uncertain if the rally could hold as the drumbeat of expectation began for to the December U.S. jobs report due Friday. | 2 |
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