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A fitting finish for Lions Winning close games is an art form -- a nebulous blend of luck, talent, timing, and intangibles. But Chelmsford has it down to a science. | 1 |
North Shore gets best of St. Mary's The MIAA raised the price of an adult playoff ticket to \$10 this season. Last night, after six lead changes, including a touchdown by each team in the last two minutes, no one leaving East Boston Stadium after North Shore's 26-20 victory over St. Mary's in the Division 3A playoffs can say they didn't get their money's worth. | 1 |
Feehan thwarts Bourne's speedsters Boasting a stingy defense and excellent special teams play, Bishop Feehan captured a Division 2A Super Bowl berth yesterday and the chance to win a fourth consecutive title. | 1 |
A-B snags No. 49 The football bounced high, hopping up and settling into the waiting arms of Acton-Boxboro's Doug Mahoney. | 1 |
Everett romps past Xaverian Fifty-eight seconds into the game, Xaverian looked golden. Thirty-nine minutes later, not so much. | 1 |
Brockton has its lines down pat Brockton reached the postseason by controlling the line of scrimmage and it wasn't about to change its game plan. | 1 |
Denehy boosts Walpole Danvers coach thought he had the perfect game plan against Walpole last night in the Division 2 playoffs at Endicott College. It was the same game plan that earned his team its first playoff berth in 63 years. | 1 |
Latecomer storm caps unusual season As if to taunt hurricane-weary forecasters, a system between the Azores and Bermuda became Tropical Storm Otto Tuesday afternoon, in the last hours of the hurricane season. | 2 |
PPR in talks to sell Rexel stake French retailer Pinault Printemps Redoute is in talks to sell its stake in Rexel, valuing the electrical equipment supplier at 3.7bn (2.57bn). | 2 |
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 |
Duff on the mark as Chelsea advance Chelsea continued their irresistible pre-Christmas march towards the business end of all four competitions with a 2-1 victory over Fulham in the Carling Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday night, Irish international Damien Duff scoring for the third time in | 1 |
Welsh: Barrera Morales Might Do IV! Just about now Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales are beginning to get the full impact of that magic moment they created in vying for the WBC super featherweight crown the other night in Las Vegas. | 1 |
Tuesday #39;s Top 25 Capsules BJ Elder scored 27 points, Will Bynum had 19 and Jarrett Jack added 16 for No. 4 Georgia Tech in a 99-68 victory over Michigan on Tuesday night in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. | 1 |
Flood-hit Philippines awaits typhoon A POWERFUL typhoon is bearing down on the eastern Philippines where rescuers were desperately trying to find survivors from floods and landslides that have left nearly 500 dead or missing. | 0 |
6 Americans Confirmed Dead in Afghan Crash KABUL, Afghanistan Dec 1, 2004 - Search teams have recovered the bodies of six Americans who died when their plane crashed high in Afghanistan #39;s snow-covered mountains, US military officials said Wednesday. | 0 |
Mozambique Votes to Elect Successor to Chissano (Reuters) Reuters - Mozambicans began voting on Wednesday in\presidential and parliamentary elections focusing on who will\succeed President Joaquim Chissano, stepping down after 18\years in office. | 0 |
Global Chip Gear Sales Seen Down 5.15 Pct in 2005 MAKUHARI, Japan (Reuters) - Global chip equipment sales are expected to fall 5.15 percent in 2005, an industry group said on Wednesday in a sharp reversal from its July forecast of growth of 23.98 percent. | 3 |
East-West standoff in Ukraine hardens, EU seeks to mediate (AFP) AFP - Foreign mediators are to join efforts to resolve Ukraine's deepening political crisis, sparked by a fiercely-disputed presidential vote which has polarised the former Soviet republic along pro-Western and pro-Russian lines. | 0 |
Bush: End of hurricane season time for reflection, celebration Gov. Jeb Bush called Tuesday #39;s official end of the 2004 hurricane season a time of quot;reflection and celebration quot; after Florida endured an unprecedented quartet | 2 |
Kissing The Sky It used to be that the only way to build a skyscraper was up. But now the tall building is being totally reimagined and taken in some very unusual directions. Look out below | 2 |
KPMG witness takes stand in Kazaa trial It is possible to trace users sharing unlicensed music files through their IP address, the Federal Court was told today by the major music labels #39; first witness in their civil case against peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks. | 3 |
UW MEN #39;S BASKETBALL: Tucker, Chambliss lift Badgers Coach Bo Ryan said the University of Wisconsin men #39;s basketball team would have to mature quickly if it wanted to compete with 12th-ranked Maryland Tuesday night. | 1 |
Philippine Flood-Hit Towns Marooned; Typhoon Nears MAUBAN, Philippines (Reuters) - Rescuers dug with their bare hands on Wednesday to find survivors from landslides and floods that killed up to 500 people in a part of the northern Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon over the next 48 hours. | 0 |
Mozambique Votes to Elect Successor to Chissano MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambicans began voting on Wednesday in presidential and parliamentary elections focusing on who will succeed President Joaquim Chissano, stepping down after 18 years in office. | 0 |
Bush to Hail Canadians for Response to Sept. 11 OTTAWA (Reuters) - President Bush, scorned by many in Canada for the Iraq war, will hark back on Wednesday to help given after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as an example of a close relationship between two neighbors that do not always see eye to eye. | 0 |
US keeps big tariffs on shrimp from Asia 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 |
State #39;s economy surges in October Massachusetts #39; recovery picked up speed in October as an improving job market and strong consumer spending propelled the state #39;s economy to one of its best performances | 2 |
Anthem merger a done deal Anthem Inc. #39;s stockholders are waking up this morning with a new corporate name on their shares. Employees will get a voice-mail message saying they #39;re now a part of a much bigger company -- the biggest by several measures. | 2 |
Men #39;s Top 25: Duke edges past Spartans DURHAM, NC - JJ Redick and Daniel Ewing each scored 29 points to lead the No. 10 Duke Blue Devils over the No. 11 Michigan State Spartans 81-74 Tuesday night in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. | 1 |
Fans split on Notre Dame coach #39;s firing VALPARAISO Chuck Coddington grew up in the Harbor. But his heart always leaned toward South Bend. quot;I #39;ve been to about 100 million games, quot; said Coddington, now living in DeMotte. | 1 |
UN calls for Suu Kyi #39;s release UN secretary-general Kofi Annan led international demands for the swift release of Burma #39;s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose house arrest has been extended for another year by the military regime. | 0 |
Italy Hit By Nationwide Strike Of Workers Rome, Dec. 1 (NNN) : Italy was on Tuesday virtually crippled as millions of workers staged a one-day walk-out against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. | 0 |
Mozambicans prepare to go to polls Mozambicans go to the polls this morning to vote in both presidential and parliamentary elections. The country #39;s electoral commission says half of the country #39;s estimated 18 million people have been registered | 0 |
US stocks close lower on mixed signals US stocks closed lower last night as investors grappled with a number of conflicting economic reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended its session down 47.88 points, at 10,428.02. | 2 |
Anthem seals WellPoint deal In an abrupt completion to a merger that was delayed for months, Anthem Inc. completed its \$20.8 billion purchase of WellPoint Health Networks on Tuesday and said the combined company is quot;off and running. | 2 |
Getting your report Consumers in Arizona and 12 other Western states can order free credit reports starting today. Residents in other states will be able to make similar requests at various times in 2005. | 2 |
Strike talk heats up as hearing on US Airways labor contracts <b>...</b> Talk of a strike against US Airways escalated yesterday as the troubled carrier continued negotiations with three unions over concessions in advance of tomorrow #39;s bankruptcy | 2 |
SuperGen Withdraws Drug Application NEW YORK (Reuters) - SuperGen Inc. on Monday said it has withdrawn an application to market its pancreatic cancer drug in the United States due to insufficient data, casting a cloud on the drug's future in the world's biggest market and sending the company's shares down as much as 16 percent. | 2 |
Santa really does encourage boys and girls to be nice not naughty (AFP) AFP - Adults who encourage children to believe in Father Christmas helping to foster their moral development, a British child psychiatrist says. | 0 |
Nats get DC #39;s nod If the Washington Nationals never win a pennant, they have no reason to ever doubt that DC loves them. Yesterday, the District City Council tentatively approved a tab for a publicly financed ballpark that could amount to as much as \$630 million. | 1 |
LSU routs N. Texas, now is 8-0 NO. 1 LSU 77, NORTH TEXAS 51: At Baton Rouge, La. - Seimone Augustus scored 22 points on 11-for-11 shooting, leading Louisiana State (8-0) over North Texas (2-2) on Tuesday. | 1 |
Surgery Performed Aboard 'Air Hospital' (AP) AP - Doctors on a turbulence-free flight performed surgery 19,000 feet above the jungles of Colombia on the inaugural outing of the military's "Air Hospital," the country's new effort to save the lives of troops wounded in its war against Marxist insurgents. | 0 |
Despite smiles, Bush #39;s visit to Canada chilly OTTAWA - On his first official visit to Canada, President Bush on Tuesday faced a frosty public critical of many of his policies, most notably the war in Iraq, and his meeting with Prime Minister Paul Martin yielded little progress on trade issues that | 0 |
Indonesian crash death toll rises to 33 The death toll from Tuesday #39;s airline crash in Java, Indonesia, climbed to 33 as rescue workers found the body of the pilot under the plane #39;s cockpit. | 0 |
Princess Aiko turns 3 Japan #39;s littlest princess turned three on Wednesday as authorities grappled with the issue of whether to make legal changes that would one day allow her ascend the Chrysanthemum Throne. | 0 |
11 children, 4 adults die in Honduras sugarcane fire while hunting <b>...</b> Two men who had been hospitalized with severe burns have died, raising to 15 the death toll from a blaze in a sugarcane field that engulfed a group waiting to pounce on rabbits fleeing the flames. | 0 |
Silent Night, Deadly Night On the night her world changed forever, Rashida Bee was 28 years old and had already been married for more than half her life. Her parents, traditional Muslims, had selected her husband for her when she was 13. | 0 |
US senator calls for Annan's resignation (AFP) AFP - A US senator heading a panel investigating the UN's scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program called for UN chief Kofi Annan's resignation in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. | 0 |
Ukraine's Parliament Opens Without Quorum KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament opened on Wednesday without a quorum, hurting opposition hopes of pushing through motions to open the way for new presidential elections. | 0 |
Ukraine's election talks fall apart KIEV -- Ukraine's political opposition dug in its heels in Kiev's frigid central square yesterday, rejecting an offer of the prime minister's job from the declared winner of the disputed presidential election and withdrawing from talks aimed at reaching a compromise. | 0 |
Lawyers file Abu Ghraib complaint BERLIN -- A group of American civil rights lawyers filed a criminal complaint in a German court yesterday against top US officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, for acts of torture committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. | 0 |
Panel offers strategies on fighting global threats UNITED NATIONS -- In a highly anticipated report prompted by the deep divide over the war in Iraq, an international panel made 101 recommendations yesterday on how to deal with global threats in the 21st century including the use of preemptive and preventive military strikes with approval from the UN Security Council. | 0 |
You can hedge bets with Cuban #39;s scheme Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, a billionaire who made his fortune by co-founding Broadcast.com and selling it to Yahoo! Inc., said he #39;s starting a hedge fund based on gambling. | 2 |
New Mexicans Urged To Check Free Credit Report SANTA FE, NM -- Attorney General Patricia Madrid is recommending New Mexicans order a free copy of their credit report once the opportunity becomes available Wednesday. | 2 |
Biodegradable cellphone fertilizes sunflowers LONDON - Flowers could someday sprout from biodegradable cellphones, say researchers who have found a way to embed a seed inside the plastic. | 3 |
Next-generation Russian spaceship unveiled Russian space officials on Tuesday unveiled a full-scale high-fidelity mockup of the spacecraft they hope will replace the veteran Soyuz space capsule. | 3 |
Notre Dame says bye to Ty Long regarded as valuing so much more than favorable scoreboards, Notre Dame joined the cold, hard college football 21st century yesterday by deciding it had lived under too many unfriendly scoreboards of late. | 1 |
Bolton want outright deal for Liverpool #39;s Diouf Bolton Wanderers want to sign El Hadji Diouf to a permanent deal from Liverpool in January. The Guardian says Bolton officials have been privately impressed by Diouf #39;s reaction to the misdemeanour and by his displays since joining on loan in August. | 1 |
UN plan would expand Security Council The United Nations proposed the most sweeping reforms in its history yesterday, recommending the overhaul of its key decision-making organ, the Security Council, and holding | 0 |
Rumsfeld, et. al. Charged with War Crimes in Germany Reuters in Germany is reporting that Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenant and eight other unnamed US officials will be charge with war crimes in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. | 0 |
Joy, fear in air as election nears As one of the thousands of food-ration agents who are entrusted with handing out voter registration forms in Iraq, Fadhil Muhsen Salom has a feel for the mood of his Shiite | 0 |
Cambodia 'must speed up reform' \The World Bank warns Cambodia that it needs to quicken reform to avoid severe economic problems. | 2 |
Gazprom decides to bid for Yukos key oil unit MOSCOW - Russia #39;s Gazprom said on Tuesday it will bid for embattled oil firm Yukos #39; main unit next month, as the Kremlin seeks to turn the world #39;s biggest gas producer into a major oil player. | 2 |
After busy Black Friday, shoppers downshift Shoppers spent their money on Friday and browsed the rest of the weekend, according to a retailers #39; trade group. The Retail Council of New York State reported an erratic | 2 |
US dollar hits new all-time low against euro NEW YORK, December 1 (newratings.com) - The US dollar depreciated to a new record low against the euro, which strengthened to \$1.3335 yesterday, despite the better-than-expected 3Q economic growth figures announced for the US. | 2 |
Bush Nominates Gutierrez to Head Commerce Description: President Bush nominates Carlos Gutierrez as Commerce secretary. The CEO and chairman of Kellogg #39;s is considered one of the country #39;s most prominent Hispanic executives. | 2 |
Australian economic growth slows Australia #39;s economic growth eased in the third quarter to its weakest pace since late 2000 as sluggish exports dragged on the economy, raising doubts about the need for tighter monetary policy. | 2 |
Greece faces court action over false deficit figures Greece is to face legal action after providing false budget deficit figures between 1997 and 2003, which disguised the country #39;s repeated breaches of European Union budget rules. | 2 |
Stocks lookin #39; up NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Lower oil prices and a dollar staying ahead of \$1.33 versus the euro could lift US stocks at Wednesday #39;s open. | 2 |
#39;Disclosure on steroids #39; NEW YORK - The barrage of internal controls and enhanced reporting requirements demanded by the US Securities and Exchange Commission has created a climate of quot;disclosure on steroids quot; that has many counsel uncertain and badly stressed about making a | 2 |
Despite recalls, too few vehicles being Timothy Michaud died last May after falling from the tailgate of a Chevrolet pickup and suffering severe head injuries. The 19-year-old from Maine never knew that General Motors Corp. | 2 |
Eurostocks Nudge Up on Ericsson European shares nosed up on Wednesday as Ericsson gained on news it had won part of \$4-billion Cingular deal and with Glaxo buoyed after Pfizer affirmed its outlook. | 2 |
Pension adviser takes on United Exiting bankruptcy court could cost United Airlines as much as \$1 billion more than expected if a judge approves a request filed Tuesday on behalf of 95,000 workers at the airline. | 2 |
Traffic concerns jam Cape project There are brick sidewalks, a parking lot, a waste-water treatment facility, and two new buildings. | 2 |
Stocks Seen Higher as Oil Slips Below #36;49 (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. stock futures pointed to a\higher market open on Wednesday, with oil dipping below #36;49 a\barrel and a batch of economic data on tap. | 2 |
Shrimpers hail tariffs on imports Federal trade officials Tuesday announced final tariffs on shrimp from China and Vietnam, affirming US shrimpers #39; claims that exporters in those countries have dumped their product in the United States at artificially low prices. | 2 |
Mortgage Applications Fell Last Week -MBA (Reuters) Reuters - Applications for U.S. home mortgages\fell last week, which was shortened by the Thanksgiving\holiday, as mortgage rates edged higher, an industry group said\on Wednesday. | 2 |
Euro soars as ECB chief defends rate THE dollar tumbled to new lows against the euro yesterday as markets brushed aside an upgrade to US growth and a fresh warning from the European Central Banks President | 2 |
Update 1: Greece Defends Deficit Revision The government on Wednesday defended its decision to radically revise the country #39;s deficit figures, ahead of a European Commission meeting to consider possible disciplinary action against Greece for submitting faulty figures. | 2 |
Losing the head to gain the market Eventually, the board of Telstra understood that the only way it could regain the market #39;s confidence was to let go its chief executive Ziggy Switkowski. | 2 |
Stores reconsider sales strategies after sluggish weekend (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - In spite of a burst of Friday spending, the holiday shopping season got off to a sluggish start, forcing retailers to reassess their strategies for luring buyers. Slow sales reported by three retail sales trackers on Tuesday were blamed on higher fuel costs and an overall lack of confidence in the economy. | 2 |
Anthem, WellPoint merger complete, share prices appreciate NEW YORK, December 1 (newratings.com) - Anthem Inc (ATH.NYS) has successfully completed its \$20 billion acquisition of WellPoint Health Networks (WLP) to form the biggest health insurance company in the US, with more than 28 million members. | 2 |
Numerous recalls point to vigilance, vehicle complexity Automakers have recalled more vehicles in the United States this year than ever before, but thats probably because of the increasing complexity of cars | 2 |
Cingular signs for 3G Cingular, the largest mobile operator in the US, has signed Ericsson, Lucent and Siemens to build a 3G network. Beginning next year the telco will build networks in quot;a number of major urban and suburban markets quot;. | 2 |
Outlook for chip gear dims TOKYO Global sales of semiconductor equipment will fall short of forecasts this year and shrink next year, according to a survey of manufacturers released Wednesday. | 2 |
Dollar Tumbles to Record Low Against Euro LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar tumbled to a record low against the euro and a 12-year trough versus sterling on Wednesday as the greenback ran into a fresh wave of selling after consolidation earlier this week. | 2 |
Mortgage Applications Fell Last Week -MBA NEW YORK (Reuters) - Applications for U.S. home mortgages fell last week, which was shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday, as mortgage rates edged higher, an industry group said on Wednesday. | 2 |
Kazaa makes plea for legal status M #39;LEARNED FIENDS for the file sharing outfit Sharman Networks told the Australian District Court that Kazza should be allowed in Australia because it is legal in the US. | 3 |
1 Nation briefing WASHINGTON -- Texas researchers will begin clinical trials of a candidate vaccine against the deadly toxin ricin, a biological agent that can only be tested in select labs. | 3 |
Sow Your Phone, Reap a Flower Researchers at the Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick, UK, along with PVAXX Research amp; Development, have devised a way to recycle discarded mobile telephones. | 3 |
Unprotected PCs can be hijacked in minutes and doing nothing else -xposes your PC to non-stop, automated break-in attempts by intruders looking to take control of your machine surreptitiously. | 3 |
Network Walkman NW-HD3 supports MP3s Sony is on a roll after the announcement that some of its digital audio players will now support MP3 files. Up to now, they only supported the company #39;s proprietary ATRAC3plus format, a technology used in its Mini Disc players. | 3 |
HP ditches datacentre service for automation module Hewlett-Packard will replace its HP/UX utility datacentre (UDC) service with a business automation module for OpenView, which it claims will let companies be more flexible. | 3 |
Future Uncertain for Rare Hawaiian Bird One of Earth #39;s rarest birds might have gone into extinction following the death of one of the last known po #39;ouli. The aging male po #39;ouli died in captivity | 3 |
November Same Store Sales Down NEW YORK (Reuters) - ShopKo Stores Inc., a specialty and discount retailer, on Wednesday said sales at stores open at least a year fell 4.8 percent in November but maintained its fourth-quarter earnings forecast. | 2 |
AOL new browser combines Firefox with Explorer a version of the open-source Firefox but with support for Microsoft Internet Explorer tied-in. Explorer remains the | 3 |
Microsoft sues resellers for piracy As part of its fight against software piracy, Microsoft has begun legal proceedings against eight resellers for allegedly buying and selling fake and used Certificate of Authenticity labels. | 3 |
Sybase partners with IBM Sybase has just announced a partnership with IBM to market the former #39;s database on the latter #39;s hardware. If that doesn #39;t make you sit up and take notice then nothing will. | 3 |
IDC: AMD captured 10 percent CPU share Market research firm IDC said on Tuesday that Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc. grabbed nearly 10 percent of the CPU market with its Athlon and Opteron range. | 3 |
Cabir added to payload of Symbian mobile Trojan Virus writers have packaged the Skulls mobile Trojan with Cabir to create a more potent threat against Symbian Series 60 smart phones. | 3 |
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