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Honda Moves To Prevent Engine Fires Honda Motor Co. has acknowledged a problem with oil filters on CR-V sport-utility vehicles and is taking steps to prevent engine fires caused by oil leaks. | 2 |
Safeway to Open on Christmas Safeway Inc. yesterday said that for the first time, it will open many of its supermarkets on Christmas Day, a move that triggered an angry protest from the union representing the grocer's Washington area employees. | 2 |
Foundation Coal Raises \$519 Million Foundation Coal Holdings Inc. went public yesterday, raising \$519 million, most of which went to the owners of the company. | 2 |
Bogus E-Mail Worries Cell Phone Users The e-mails, often forwarded by friends, vary in wording, but the underlying message is always ominous: Soon, all cell phone numbers will be made public to telemarketing firms.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 3 |
Ciena's Loss Tempered By Rise in Revenue Ciena officials stressed that the revenue growth was the result of a two-year effort to diversify Ciena's products and customer base to include cable operators, government entities and telecommunications companies.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 3 |
Yahoo to Release Desktop Search Tool The competition between two leading Internet search engines is heating up anew as Yahoo Inc. plans to announce today that it soon will offer a free, high-speed way to search for information on personal computers, challenging rival Google Inc., which released a similar product earlier this fall. | 3 |
Compound Shows Promise Against TB A chemical compound shelved as a failed treatment for inflammation has unexpectedly become the most promising new tuberculosis medicine to emerge in 40 years. | 3 |
Oil prices edge higher OIL prices edged higher in Asian trading today as the market waited for a decision by OPEC ministers on whether to cut the cartel #39;s production when they meet in Egypt later today. | 2 |
Yahoo to Release Desktop Search Tool The competition between two leading Internet search engines is heating up anew as Yahoo Inc. plans to announce today that it soon will offer a free, high-speed way to search for information | 3 |
Fans can throw financial punches Just when you start to think pro athletes have nothing in common anymore with the customers, along comes the brawl in Auburn Hills, Mich. | 1 |
No. 7 Notre Dame Drubs Dayton 65-39 Notre Dame guard Charel Allen, left, looks for a shot in front Dayton guard Ashley Armstrong, right, during the second half Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004 in Dayton, Ohio. | 1 |
UNDATED: 14 points. Tiffany Porter-Talbert scored 24 points, and Western Kentucky rallied from an 8-point halftime deficit. The Lady Toppers (3-3) made 16 of 28 shots in the second half after trailing 44-36 at the break. | 1 |
Gaza plan wins party vote Israel #39;s plan to pull out of Gaza next year passed a crucial test on Thursday when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon easily won party approval to ask the more moderate Labor party to join his coalition. | 0 |
33 Dead in Chinese Mine A gas explosion at a coal mine in the northern Shanxi Province killed 28 miners and 5 rescuers, the government said on Friday. In the latest in a series of such | 0 |
Rescuers search for more survivors as Philippine storm death toll <b>...</b> REAL, Philippines : Philippine rescuers are digging through the rubble of a collapsed building for more survivors, as the number of dead and missing from two storms which lashed the country rose to nearly 1,600. | 0 |
Walmart.com follows Amazon with outages Company provides few details on outage, which came two days after online retail giant Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site faced significant performance problems. | 3 |
T-Mobile USA sees high-speed network 2 years off That would likely put the company well behind its bigger rivals in delivering services such as mobile Internet to mobile phones at speeds similar to connections many consumers have on their home computers. | 3 |
New GNOME version is available for Linux users Improvements include new file manager, ability to recognize removable storage devices and an integrated e-mail and groupwware client. | 3 |
Crude Futures Climb Amid OPEC Worries Crude futures rose Friday amid market jitters over possible production cuts by OPEC at their meeting in Egypt, as well as fears that winter weather will put pressure on supplies. | 2 |
Dollar in Broad Rally at Start of 2005 SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The euro and Swiss franc both fell about 1 percent and the Japanese yen shed half a percent in Asia Monday as the dollar rallied broadly in thin trade. Holidays in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and London kept volume low, exaggerating moves, and dealers said there was nothing particular behind the dollar's rise. "It seems to be position-squaring across the board in somewhat thin markets. There is no major news or intervention or anything like that," said David Simmonds, markets strategist with the Royal Bank of Scotland. | 2 |
Food Short on Space Station NASA officials said yesterday that the international space station is running so low on food that its two crewmen have had to cut back on their eating and may have to abandon the orbiting | 3 |
Ernie hunted down by own protg There was a little-known, long-hitting Zimbabwean at the top of the Dunhill Championship leaderboard at Leopard Creek on Thursday evening - a leaderboard that also bore that rather familiar name of Ernie Els. | 1 |
Joy at Silverstone deal SIR Frank Williams led the celebrations after the British Grand Prix was rescued by a last-ditch agreement yesterday. The British Racing Drivers #39; Club, which owns the Silverstone racetrack, had until the close | 1 |
Lewis leads Sonics past Mavs Dallas, TX (Sports Network) - Rashard Lewis scored 25 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead the Seattle SuperSonics to a 107-102 win over the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center. | 1 |
UPDATE 1-Rugby-Australia pick Perth to host fourth Super 14 team The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) on Friday selected the Western Australia capital of Perth to be the venue for their fourth team in the expanded Super 14 provincial competition in 2006. | 1 |
Dale Earnhardt: In the presence of a legend By Wayne Pearson, host of ESPN #39;s quot;Ultimate Outdoors quot;. It #39;s been my experience that the term quot;legend, quot; when describing an individual, has been tossed around all too freely. | 1 |
Sale nearly set for NBAs Cavaliers Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. CLEVELAND, Ohio, United States of America -- Cleveland Cavaliers owner Gordon Gund is involved in contract talks | 1 |
DreamWorks Shifts #39;Shrek 3 #39; To May 2007 DreamWorks has pushed back the release date of Shrek 3 from a November 2006 release to May 2007. The date shift comes after a similar move by Walt Disney/Pixar Animation to push the date of Cars from a November 2005 release to May 2006. | 2 |
Telekom up 20 sen after winning Excelcomindo stake Share price of Telekom Malaysia Bhd rose more than 1.7 or 20 sen to RM11.80 on Dec 10 after winning the bid for Indonesia #39;s third-largest mobile phone operator PT Excelcomindo Pratama. | 2 |
Foundation Coal cools; OccuLogix, Symmetry gain NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Foundation Coal failed to fire up Wall Street Thursday, as investors sold off shares in the energy company after early interest boosted the initial public offering #39;s price. | 2 |
Hollywood sues over home theatre A FILM industry group has sued a high-end consumer electronics company, claiming its home theatre jukebox system makes illegal copies of movie DVDs. | 3 |
The Waning Loyalists (IsraelNN.com) The Likud loyalist faction, which numbered close to twenty at its prime, has diminished to a mere nine Likud faction members voting against giving Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a mandate to bring the Labor Party into the government. | 0 |
Latest China Mine Blast Kills 33 A gas explosion at a coal mine in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi killed 28 miners and five rescuers, the government said on Friday, in the latest in a grim series of similar disasters. | 0 |
Venezuela Signs South American Integration Caracas, December 9, 2004Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez and heads of state and representatives from 11 other South American nations gathered in Cuzco, Peru yesterday and today, to formally inaugurate the South American Community of Nations (CSN). | 0 |
GM management, unions reach agreement RUESSELSHEIM - General Motors, the world #39;s biggest car maker, said on Thursday that after months of negotiations it had finally reached a framework agreement with unions on a deep restructuring programme for its loss-making German unit Opel. | 2 |
Hyatt to buy AmeriSuites in plan to develop hotel brand CHICAGO (AFP) - US hotel group Hyatt said it was buying the lodging chain AmeriSuites from the Blackstone investor group as part of its plan to expand the Hyatt brand name. | 2 |
Ghana's President Wins Four More Years in Office (Reuters) Reuters - Ghana's President John Kufuor won a\second and final four-year mandate in the world's number two\cocoa grower on Thursday after taking more than half the votes\in the first round of a presidential poll. | 0 |
OPEC Warns Oil Supply Cuts Needed for 2005 (Reuters) Reuters - OPEC oil producers said Thursday that\Friday's ministerial meeting would rein in oversupply to\bolster falling prices and that the cartel would have to reduce\output quotas early next year. | 0 |
Yahoo to test desktop search com December 9, 2004, 9:00 PM PT. In a step to keep pace with chief rival Google, Yahoo plans to start testing a downloadable desktop search application in early January. | 3 |
Deep Tremors Detected Along San Andreas Fault These tremors may signal an increased likelihood of earthquakes on the San Andreas fault. Scientists have long expected California #39;s next big earthquakeof magnitude 8 or higherto occur on the San Andreas fault. | 3 |
No. 2 Kansas Hosts Horned Frogs LAWRENCE, Kan. (Ticker) -- Second-ranked Kansas looks to post its 12th straight win at Allen Fieldhouse when its host Texas Christian on Thursday. | 1 |
Reinventing the Wheel (and the Tire, Too) Michelin engineers envision a future in which vehicles would ride on what they call the Tweel, a combined tire and wheel that could never go flat because it contains no air. | 2 |
Players speak their minds to union leaders Don Fehr is always quick to say what #39;s said in baseball union meetings is confidential. That edict didn #39;t change this week when the executive board held what turns out to be a historic session on steroids. | 1 |
74 American Kids Found in Mexico Schools (AP) AP - Mexican authorities took custody of 74 American youths who were attending two irregularly operated boarding schools and returned them to the United States on Thursday. | 0 |
From Simple to Complex, Hedge Funds Gain Ground Hedge funds are gaining in popularity as they pursue a host of investment strategies. | 2 |
Militant leader hurt in attack RAFAH: The wanted leader of a Palestinian militant group and two of his lieutenants survived an Israeli assassination bid yesterday after an air strike targeted their vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Globally, Stocks Are Poised to Advance Further Despite the strongest global economic growth since the 1970's and outsized gains in corporate profits, 2004 was a decidedly ho-hum year for international stock markets. | 2 |
Mugabe Says No to Western Election Observers Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe vowed today not to allow Western observers to monitor next years parliamentary elections, saying only fair-minded countries would be asked to monitor the key vote. | 0 |
Players Offer to Slash Salaries to Save NHL Season TORONTO (Reuters) - Hopes for an NHL season were left hanging by a thread Thursday as players presented a proposal that included a massive 24 percent rollback in salaries but did not address owners' main demand for cost certainty. | 1 |
Paris cuts stake in Air France-KLM PARIS: France shed almost half of its 44 per cent stake in Air France-KLM yesterday, kicking off a wider deal that could see its remaining stake cut to below 20pc and give staff shares in return for pay cuts. | 2 |
Dollar Inches Up, Market Focus on Fed TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar climbed on Friday as investors took advantage of the currency's recent weakness to take profits and as the market took on more neutral positions in the final stretch before the year-end. | 2 |
Chinese Inflation Falls Sharply in Nov. BEIJING (Reuters) - China's annual inflation rate dropped sharply in November, heartening policy makers who have been striving to cool the economy and reducing chances of a further rise in interest rates in the near term. | 2 |
Federal safety agency asks for recall of Durango, Dakota Federal safety regulators have asked DaimlerChrysler AG to recall 600,000 Dodge Durango and Dakota trucks because their wheels could fall off, a Chrysler spokesman confirmed Thursday. | 2 |
Yahoo Adds Tool to Search Hard Drives (AP) AP - Yahoo Inc. is adding a tool to search computer hard drives as it scrambles to catch up with Google Inc. and stay a step ahead of Microsoft Corp. in the battle to help users sort through gobs of information on the Internet and the desktop. | 3 |
Yahoo to Begin Testing Desktop Search in January Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday it will begin testing a free desktop search service in early January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly profitable search-related advertising. | 3 |
Winning Isn #39;t Everything Two recent events have me thinking that maybe we put too much importance on winning in sports. First, there were reports that baseball superstars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi took steroids, drugs that can help make players stronger. | 1 |
NCAA Game Summary - TCU at Kansas Kansas shot 37-of-66 for 56 percent...TCU turned the ball over 23 times and had only 11 assists...Chinweze exited the game with 10 points. | 1 |
Yahoo to Begin Testing Desktop Search in January (Reuters) Reuters - Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday it\will begin testing a free desktop search service in early\January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly\profitable search-related advertising. | 3 |
Rockets Edge Spurs 81-80 (AP) AP - Tracy McGrady scooped up a loose ball and hit a running 3-pointer with 1.7 seconds left, helping the Houston Rockets complete a rally from a 10-point deficit in the final minute for an 81-80 win over San Antonio on Thursday night. | 1 |
Bogus E-Mail Worries Users Of Cell Phones (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - The e-mails, often forwarded by friends, vary in wording, but the underlying message is always ominous: Soon, all cell phone numbers will be made public to telemarketing firms. That means, according to one version, that "your cell phone may start ringing off the hook with telemarketers" and your precious, limited cell phone minutes will be eaten up with calls you don't want. | 3 |
First India-Pakistan joint film promotes peace process (AFP) AFP - With the competitive Bollywood movie industry making hundreds of films a year, new releases need a selling point -- and the people behind India and Pakistan's first co-production hope they're onto a winner. | 0 |
W. Kentucky Upsets No. 14 Vanderbilt 85-77 (AP) AP - Tiffany Porter-Talbert scored 24 points, and Western Kentucky rallied to upset No. 14 Vanderbilt 85-77 Thursday night. | 1 |
Pygmy Chimpanzees on Brink of Extinction -- WWF (Reuters) Reuters - Pygmy chimpanzees, one of\humanity's closest living relatives, have been pushed to the\brink of extinction in the war-battered Democratic Republic of\Congo, conservation group WWF International said on Thursday. | 3 |
Md. Hepatitis C May Be From Medical Tests (AP) AP - A company that makes substances used in some common medical tests has suspended operations at a nuclear pharmacy in Maryland as state and federal health officials investigate several cases of hepatitis C in the Baltimore area, authorities said Thursday. | 3 |
OPEC Warns Oil Supply Cuts Needed for 2005 CAIRO (Reuters) - OPEC oil producers said Thursday that Friday's ministerial meeting would rein in oversupply to bolster falling prices and that the cartel would have to reduce output quotas early next year. | 0 |
Latest China Mine Blast Kills 33 BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion at a coal mine in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi killed 28 miners and five rescuers, the government said on Friday, in the latest in a grim series of similar disasters. | 0 |
1st US-Vietnam Flight in 30yrs Symbol of Closer Ties WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first U.S. passenger flight to Vietnam since 1975 shows bilateral ties are "right on track" between old battlefield foes who still spar over human rights and trade, a Vietnamese spokeswoman said on Thursday. | 0 |
Australia Terror Suspect Offered Prostitute -Papers CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian terror suspect was offered the services of a prostitute by the U.S. military if he agreed to spy on other detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba, according to court documents. In an affidavit unsealed by a U.S. District Court and seen by Reuters on Friday, David Hicks, a 29-year-old convert to Islam, said he was also beaten while blindfolded and handcuffed, threatened with weapons and had his head rammed into asphalt. | 0 |
Howard Still Perfect The Lady Bison, off to their best start in 21 years, improve to 5-0 with a 59-53 victory over visiting Loyola on Thursday night. | 1 |
SynXis to Be Bought for \$40 Million In buying the McLean firm, Sabre would get 6,000 small and medium-size hotels as customers, as well as the technology they use to track inventory, book guests online and connect to Internet reservation services, including Sabre's Travelocity.<FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 3 |
Lilly forecasting strong 2005 Eli Lilly and Co. said its strategy of staying independent and plowing money into research should pay off in 2005, with profits expected to jump 8 percent to 12 percent over 2004 and nine new drugs in advanced human testing. | 2 |
Yahoo Adds Tool to Search Hard Drives SAN FRANCISCO Dec 10, 2004 - Yahoo Inc. is adding a tool to search computer hard drives as it scrambles to catch up with Google Inc. | 3 |
Cisco Buys BCN Systems Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) announced late Thursday that it is buying routing software startup BCN Systems Inc. | 3 |
Kazaa secret command unlocked by court A secret command that showed the number of connected users of the Kazaa file-sharing software was demonstrated to Federal Court on Thursday. | 3 |
Williams seeking to cap Rocky rise to world title On Saturday, the 31-year-old can claim a piece of the world heavyweight crown with a win over Vitali Klitschko, capping a Rocky-like rise to the top. | 1 |
India #39;aiming for wins not records #39; DHAKA: India will focus on results and not records in the first Test against Bangladesh starting today, even though two of their players are on the verge of personal milestones, captain Saurav Ganguly said. | 1 |
Weis attended ND but never played The New England Patriots offensive coordinator could be interviewed by the Irish as early as Friday, The Boston Globe reported on its Web site Thursday night. | 1 |
Perth to host Super 14 franchise The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) announced on Friday that Perth will host the fourth Australian team in a Super 14 competition to begin in the 2006 season. | 1 |
Shanahan says he intends to honour his deal with Broncos Trying to defuse rumours he might be leaving soon, Denver Broncos coach Mike Shanahan said Thursday night he intends to honour the final four years of his contract. | 1 |
Baseball can #39;t hold out any longer on steroid issue We now know what it takes to break through the institutional indifference of Major League Baseball to the drug abuse among its players, including its biggest stars. | 1 |
No. 1 Illinois takes control with 10-0 run late in first half It took a while for the top-ranked Illini basketball team to find a little traction Thursday night. But when the Fighting Illini dug in -t one point going | 1 |
Kiwi opener retires New Zealand opening batsman Mark Richardson on Friday announced his retirement from cricket after returning home from his fruitless tour to Australia. | 1 |
IRA links destruction of weapons to demand The Irish Republican Army declared yesterday that it is willing to get rid of all its weapons this month - but only if Protestants drop their demands for photographic proof. | 0 |
Jangled jingle bells As traditional as fruitcake, and less palatable, are the perennial holiday season snowball fights over displays, music, school programs and other expressions of angst that disrupt what we long to remember as quot;the most wonderful time of the year. | 2 |
SunTrust shakes up management SunTrust Banks, the seventh-largest US bank, yesterday overhauled its management weeks after it restated earnings and fired three executives because of accounting errors. | 2 |
Japan Eases Arms Export Ban for New Missile Shield (Reuters) Reuters - Japan eased a blanket ban on arms exports\on Friday to open the way for joint production of a new missile\shield with the United States, but said it would still refrain\from most other weapons exports. | 0 |
White, Leinart split top honors If Thursday was supposed to sort out a favorite for the Heisman Trophy, Jason White and Matt Leinart both can take heart. Each won separate national player of the year honors, two highlights | 1 |
Notre Dame must make right choice It seems you are having a problem finding a new coach for the legendary Notre Dame football team. After firing Tyrone Willingham you had your sights set on Utah coach Urban Meyer. | 1 |
Iraqi troops beheaded Baghdad - Extremists killed 25 members of the Iraqi security forces, with several of the victims being beheaded, reports said on Thursday. | 0 |
No. 13 Texas Tech Tops Oral Roberts 79-46 (AP) AP - Cisti Greenwalt had 18 points, 14 rebounds and blocked seven shots to lead No. 13 Texas Tech to a 79-46 victory over Oral Roberts on Thursday night. | 1 |
20 injured in fight at Malaysian detention camp for terror suspects (AFP) AFP - Twelve inmates and eight warders have been injured in a fight at a Malaysian detention camp for terror suspects during a search which turned up a cache of home-made weapons. | 0 |
Japan Eases Arms Export Ban for New Missile Shield TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan eased a blanket ban on arms exports on Friday to open the way for joint production of a new missile shield with the United States, but said it would still refrain from most other weapons exports. | 0 |
U.S. Marine Killed in Western Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents have killed a U.S. Marine in western Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday. | 0 |
Tokyo's Nikkei Average Edges Down TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo's Nikkei average edged down by the close on Friday with the market only slowly recovering from disappointment over machinery orders data a day earlier. | 2 |
OPEC Warns Oil Supply Cuts Needed for '05 CAIRO (Reuters) - OPEC oil producers said Thursday that Friday's ministerial meeting would rein in oversupply to bolster falling prices and that the cartel would have to reduce output quotas early next year. | 2 |
#39;Shrek 3 #39; release date delayed Dreamworks Studios said on Thursday it had delayed the release of its highly anticipated animated movie #39;Shrek 3 #39; by six months as Hollywood frantically reshuffles its cartoon debuts. | 2 |
Wall St. Journal says companies are in discussions SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Shares of wireless carriers Nextel and Sprint rose Thursday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the companies are discussing a merger. | 2 |
Amazon launching DVD rentals The UK website of Amazon.com is launching a DVD rental service, the online retailer #39;s first foray into a market pioneered by US- based Netflix. | 2 |
Huawei pushes into Europe with 3G deal China #39;s largest telecoms equipment maker, Huawei Technologies, clinched its first European contract for a third-generation mobile network yesterday, underlining its threat to bigger international rivals. | 3 |
Cyber Securitys Cassandra Syndrome A proposal to create a senior-level cyber security position at the Department of Homeland Security is killed at the eleventh hour. | 3 |
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