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Reports: J amp;J, Guidant deal near Health care and consumer products maker Johnson amp; Johnson is close to finalizing its long-rumored \$24 billion cash and stock acquisition of medical-device maker Guidant Corp. | 2 |
Layoffs ahead for meat workers About 800 workers at the Swift amp; Co. meat packing plant will lose their jobs four days before Christmas. The layoffs will take effect Dec. 20, 11 days before a contract expires | 2 |
Opposition leads in Romania poll Partial results put opposition candidate Traian Basescu narrowly ahead in the race to be Romanian president. | 0 |
Wish you were here Want a wireless, hand-held game player that plays movies, music, and more? Meet the Sony PlayStation Portable known as PSP. What about a | 3 |
NASA administrator meeting with LSU committee WASHINGTON NASA administrator Sean O #39;Keefe will meet Thursday with a committee searching for Louisiana State University #39;s next chancellor. | 3 |
AMD, IBM Speed Up Chips With Strained Wafers Researchers at IBM and AMD have improved a chip-making technology called strained silicon. Their announcement, of a new and unique strained silicon transistor technology, is aimed at improving processor performance and power efficiency. | 3 |
Reefs set for rapid growth Sydney - Coral reefs around the world could grow by up to a third because of rising ocean temperatures, according to a new Australian study which turns on its head the long-held theory that global warming is killing the reefs. | 3 |
Mystery meteors slice sky tonight Scientists disagree on the origins of the annual Geminid shower but agree that conditions this year favor a spectacular show. Shooting stars of mysterious origin promise a spectacular sky-show tonight for | 3 |
Thomson Blurs Picture on High-Definition DVD Adding weight to the notion that two high-definition DVD formats may co-exist, leading manufacturer Thomson today announced that it would manufacture HD DVD-compatible discs as well as Blu-ray versions in its Technicolor division. | 3 |
Yahoo Plans Desktop Search Yahoo will release a desktop search tool in early 2005, joining other search engines looking to catalog a variety of information beyond Web pages, the company said Friday. | 3 |
ISS Crew Told To Ration Food The ISS astronauts consume an average of about 3,000 calories during any given day in space. Under the current plan, Chiao and Sharipov will reduce their daily intake to a maximum of 2,700 calories. | 3 |
Firefox e-mail program free and feature-packed Q:I am now happily using Mozilla Firefox for Web browsing instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer. Now I wonder whether I should also switch to Mozilla #39;s free e-mail program. | 3 |
Google offers a suggestion Google has launched a new feature that tries to guess what users are looking for as they type queries into its search box. Google Suggest was quietly launched this week in the company #39;s Labs site, which showcases | 3 |
Big Blue Takes On EMC With Storage Virtualization The new storage virtualization software is designed with expanded support to virtualize and manage the complete line of currently available EMC disk storage systems. | 3 |
The download on digital We will soon get more singles off the net than from the shops - and Apple #39;s iPod is leading the way. James Hall reports. It #39;s Wednesday lunchtime on London #39;s half-empty Regent Street and the sleek new store | 3 |
UC researchers discover deep tremors under San Andreas Fault BERKELEY - Mysterious tremors deep beneath the San Andreas Fault could portend future earthquakes, according to University of California, Berkeley scientists. | 3 |
MP3 Sunglasses OAKLEY THUMP is the world #39;s first digital music eyewear. Just high-performance optics forged with an integrated, state-of-the-art digital audio engine. | 3 |
China 'no longer needs food aid' \The head of the UN World Food Programme says China should start giving, rather than receiving, food aid. | 0 |
Crackdown urged on film piracy The UK Film Council wants changes in the law to tackle the growing problem of film piracy and illegal DVDs. | 3 |
Morrison benefits from Sorensen blunder Clinton Morrison was recalled to the Birmingham City line-up for Sundays derby against Aston Villa, and took just nine minutes to find the net at Villa Park as the Blues continued their exceptional record in clashes with their rivals since their top | 1 |
Kelly Receives Early Christmas Present Kelly Holmes is looking forward to a well-deserved break at home with her family over Christmas after adding the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award to her double Olympic gold. | 1 |
Files reveal 1953 Gibraltar row Churchill denied that any promises were made to give Gibraltar to Spain, prompting a row, archived documents show | 0 |
Dunfermline 0, Celtic 2 Celtic manager Martin O #39;Neill said last night he would be speaking to the agents of several players this week to get them to sign new contracts. | 1 |
Peyton might seek revenge He believes Sundays 37-14 dismantling of the New York Giants and rookie quarterback Eli Manning, in particular, might come back to haunt the Baltimore Ravens. | 1 |
Peru Rebel Says Will Surrender Monday LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - The leader of a 200-strong armed group that killed four policemen and seized a police station and part of a southern Peruvian town, to demand the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo, said it would hand over its weapons on Monday. | 0 |
Defeat extremists with reform, Powell tells Arab leaders ARAB leaders must introduce reforms to counter the growth of terrorism, Colin Powell, the outgoing American Secretary of State, told Islamic leaders yesterday. | 0 |
Shunned, India's untouchables gather tsunami dead (Reuters) Reuters - They are the "untouchables"; the lowest of the low in India's ancient caste system. No job is too dirty or too nasty, and they are the ones cleaning up the rotting corpses from last week's killer tsunami. | 0 |
Putin Critics, Supporters Demonstrate in Russian Capital Supporters and critics of Russia #39;s president are demonstrating in Moscow, with both groups calling attention to Kremlin plans to consolidate power. | 0 |
Cheers, and Concern, for New Climate Pact With the United States keeping to the sidelines, delegates from more than 190 countries have gathered here both to celebrate the enactment of the | 0 |
European Ministers to Discuss Discuss Irans Long-Term Uranium <b>...</b> Diplomats in Brussels say the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany will meet Iran #39;s top nuclear official Monday to discuss a long-term nuclear cooperation agreement. | 0 |
Man Charged in UK Tsunami Death Email Probe (Reuters) Reuters - British police said on Monday they had\charged a man with sending hoax emails to relatives of people\missing since the Asian tsunami, saying their loved ones had\been confirmed dead. | 3 |
Deal to save Somali peace process Somalia's new prime minister may by reappointed, and then put to a vote of confidence, officials say. | 0 |
Ravens Beat Dolphins but Miss Playoffs (AP) AP - The Baltimore Ravens did their part to get into the playoffs. It wasn't enough. After beating the Miami Dolphins 30-23 Sunday, the Ravens had to wait until the late afternoon games ended to learn their postseason fate. | 1 |
Croatian President Forced Into Runoff (AP) AP - Croatia's pro-Western president failed to win an outright majority for re-election on Sunday, forcing him to face a runoff vote against the conservative government's candidate in two weeks. | 0 |
Sony PSP goes on sale in Japan The company was able to ship 200,000 units throughout Japan and interestingly, the response from the consumership was phenomenal. Retailers carrying the unit opened their stores early in the morning and faced long lines outside their facilities. | 3 |
IBM, AMD speed chips by straining silicon wafers Researchers at IBM and Advanced Micro Devices have improved a chip-making technology called strained silicon, boosting semiconductor performance at a time when such | 3 |
BETAMAX-STYLE DEATH MATCH FOR DVD A high-tech DVD format battle for the hearts, minds and wallets of consumers is shaping up to be a 21st century version of the 1980s VHS/Betamax brawl. | 3 |
Koskie good fit for Jays TORONTO -- Some of his former teammates said he didn #39;t want to come. People close to the negotiations were doubtful he would come. | 1 |
Broncos Beat Colts, Earn Wild-Card Spot (AP) AP - The Denver Broncos took care of the Indianapolis 'B' team and earned the right to face Peyton Manning and the real Colts next week in the playoffs. Jake Plummer threw for 246 yards and two touchdowns Sunday to lift the Broncos to a 33-14 victory over the watered-down Colts and qualify for the AFC's final wild-card spot. | 1 |
Cassini set for Titan return pass The Cassini spacecraft makes one last flyby of Titan on Monday before it despatches the Huygens probe for a rendezvous with the Saturnian moon. | 0 |
5 Israelis killed in tunnel attack JERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants yesterday detonated an explosives-packed tunnel under an Israeli army base in the Gaza Strip and ambushed Israeli reinforcements, killing five soldiers and complicating efforts underway since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's death last month to halt more than four years of fighting. | 0 |
Violence, political feuds cloud Haiti's hopes PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Nine months after a bloody uprising unseated Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, hopes for a peaceful road back to democracy have all but vanished. | 0 |
New tax to be levied on some textile exports BEIJING -- China said today that it will slap a tax on some of its textile exports in a nod to trading partners who fear that less expensive Chinese goods will flood their markets when global quotas on textiles expire next month. China will impose an export duty on certain, unspecified textile products, the English-language China Daily newspaper said, citing ... | 0 |
Activists, politicians protest Putin policies MOSCOW -- Hundreds of Kremlin critics gathered yesterday on Constitution Day to denounce what they call a retreat from democracy as President Vladimir V. Putin signed a bill scrapping gubernatorial elections. | 0 |
In visit to Kuwait, Palestinian leader delivers apology KUWAIT CITY -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas apologized to Kuwaitis yesterday for Palestinian support of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein during the 1990-'91 Gulf War, his latest gesture to mend fences with Arab nations offended by the late Yasser Arafat over the years. | 0 |
Sketches From the Front: An Artist's Dispatches, Rendered in Ink and Paint A New York painter, Steve Mumford, has been embedded with military units in Iraq on and off since April 2003. | 0 |
7 Marines and a G.I. Are Killed in Separate Attacks in Iraq Marine officials reported that seven marines had been killed Sunday while conducting security operations in Anbar. | 0 |
Wish you were here TOKYO -- Want a wireless, hand-held game player that plays movies, music, and more? Meet the Sony PlayStation Portable known as PSP. | 2 |
In bid for more ads, America Online taking down walls DULLES, Va. -- The walls surrounding America Online Inc.'s well-manicured gardens are crumbling: AOL is abandoning its strategy of exclusivity and will free much of its music, sports, and other programming to nonsubscribers, in hopes of boosting ad sales. | 2 |
'House flipping' said to cheat minorities ALBANY, N.Y. -- A four-bedroom, 1-bath colonial for only a \$450 monthly mortgage payment? How can you go wrong? Lots of ways. Fair housing advocates say the first-time buyer of that \$85,000 Syracuse, N.Y., home lost out in one of the many forms of quot;house flipping, quot; or the fast resale of property at high profits. | 2 |
Keep playing while you're charging Popping a gadget into a cradle to recharge it used to mean downtime, but these days chargers are doing double duty, keeping your portable devices playing even when they're charging. | 2 |
Some fear it's a passport to identity theft It's December 2005 and you're all set for Christmas in Vienna. You have your most fashionable cold-weather gear, right down to the red maple leaves embroidered on your jacket and backpack, to conceal your American citizenship from hostile denizens of Europe. | 2 |
6 Court-Martialed After Taking Vehicles At a time when some U.S. troops in Iraq are complaining they have to scrounge for equipment, six Ohio-based reservists have been court-martialed for taking Army vehicles abandoned in Kuwait by other units so they could carry out their own mission to Iraq. | 0 |
Racist Taunts Rattle European Soccer Professional soccer teams, their national and international governing bodies and anti-racism groups have been grappling with a number of incidents around Europe over the last month. | 0 |
A qualified success FOXBOROUGH -- When a team is 12-1, clinching a playoff berth and the AFC East title (after the Jets lost to the Steelers) in spite of allowing almost 500 yards of offense, what else can one do but project this type of performance down the road to more meaningful games? | 1 |
Sox may find out today on Martinez ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Restless to resolve his status, Pedro Martinez has indicated he wants to decide by today whether to re-sign with the Red Sox or bolt to the Mets, a source familiar with his thinking said last night. | 1 |
These meetings are hardly meaty ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Put the executives of 30 major league teams, dozens of agents, and all of their assorted support staff -- we're talking sufficient manpower for three brigades -- and what do you get? | 1 |
Manning, Colts keep up the pace HOUSTON -- Peyton Manning broke one of Dan Marino's touchdown records, just not the one everybody has been talking about. | 1 |
Defense delivers late for San Diego SAN DIEGO -- LaDainian Tomlinson and Drew Brees aren't the only ones who can win games for the resurgent San Diego Chargers. Their defense is pretty good, too. | 1 |
Broncos slip by Dolphins DENVER -- The Denver Broncos found a new running back, then lost him just as quickly. They kept their postseason hopes alive, but looked nothing like a playoff-worthy team. | 1 |
Ugly victory saves Eagles LANDOVER, Md. -- The Philadelphia Eagles held off the Washington Redskins, 17-14, last night, winning their fifth straight and propelling Andy Reid past Joe Gibbs into first place in winning percentage among active coaches. | 1 |
Longwell gives Packers boost GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Ryan Longwell's 23-yard field goal gave Green Bay a 16-13 win over the Detroit Lions yesterday and lifted the Packers (8-5) into first place in the NFC North by a game over Minnesota. | 1 |
Crown fits for Falcons ATLANTA -- T.J. Duckett set a team record by rushing for four touchdowns and the Atlanta Falcons clinched just the third division title in franchise history, wrapping up the NFC South with a 35-10 rout of the Oakland Raiders yesterday. | 1 |
Jaguars get jump on Bears JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Byron Leftwich threw two touchdown passes and the Jacksonville defense constantly harassed Chad Hutchinson in the Jaguars' 22-3 victory over the injury-depleted Chicago Bears yesterday. | 1 |
Win was No. 1 priority Many teams would gladly settle for a tie when playing shorthanded in the final minute of overtime against an unbeaten opponent. No. 1 Minnesota isn't one of them. | 1 |
Hurricanes blow by UMass CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- After his team's dramatic victory over No. 7 Connecticut last week, Minuteman Anthony Anderson said, quot;We've been saying this is our year. quot; | 1 |
Woods answers challenge, gets his game back on target names Tiger Woods turned in his most complete round of a difficult year, missing only two fairways and one green in closing with a 5-under-par 66 to take a two-shot victory over Padraig Harrington yesterday in the Target World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club in Sherman Oaks, Calif. It was Woods's second straight stroke-play title after going without one on ... | 1 |
Celtics' defense is coming alive LOS ANGELES -- After 14-plus years in the NBA, Gary Payton is an unapologetic realist. He has no use for morale-boosting optimism. | 1 |
Making the playoffs a rush for Dillon FOXBOROUGH -- Before yesterday's kickoff, Corey Dillon spotted Marvin Lewis across the field, approached the Cincinnati coach, and gave him an embrace. As they brought their heads together, the Patriots running back told Lewis that his grudge against the Bengals finally would be gone. And the Cincinnati coach reciprocated, agreeing that after the game the hatchet would be buried forever. ... | 1 |
Palmer's loss stifles Bengals FOXBOROUGH -- The play did not look as bad as Rodney Harrison's hit that leveled Rudi Johnson in yesterday's 35-28 Patriots victory over Cincinnati at Gillette Stadium. | 1 |
Home-Brew IPod Ad Opens Eyes An animated ad for Apple's iPod made by a schoolteacher is thrilling buzz marketers. Forget word-of-mouth -- the future of advertising is in professional-looking ads that go viral. By Leander Kahney. | 2 |
Chinese retail sales hold firm Chinese consumers show little sign of reining in their spending, despite the first rise in core interest rates in nine years. | 2 |
London Exchange rejects German bid The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has rejected a proposed offer for the company from Deutsche Boerse valued at 530 pence per share in cash. | 2 |
Unocal Corp. tentatively settles human rights lawsuits LOS ANGELES A spokesman for Unocal Corp. says tonight the oil and gas giant has reached a tentative agreement to settle human rights lawsuits. | 2 |
MONDAY MORNING HSBC Bank planted its flag in Washington last week, opening its first branch in the District with hopes of becoming Riggs Bank #39;s replacement to the embassy community. | 2 |
Sony launches portable games pad Sony has launched its first handheld games console, the PlayStation Portable (PSP), which it hopes will challenge Nintendo in the portable games market. | 3 |
Spouse says quot;No iPod, quot; Getting rid of CDs, and Resurrecting a dead <b>...</b> Ask iPodlounge offers readers the opportunity to get answers to their iPod-related questions from a member of the iPodlounge editorial team. | 3 |
NASA telescopes spy planets under construction Planet-building is dusty work, and now two space telescopes have captured images of cosmic construction materials: disks of dust circling stars about the same size as our sun. | 3 |
PETROV WANTS BHOYS SIGNED UP Celtic star Stilian Petrov has urged the Parkhead board to hand a number of top players new contracts before they live to regret letting them go. | 1 |
SIX OF THE BEST FOR MILAN Reigning Italian champions AC Milan handed out a lesson in quality finishing at the San Siro to hit outclassed Fiorentina for six of the best on Sunday afternoon. | 1 |
ST Telemedia and Telekom Malaysia buy Idea stake Singapore Technologies Telemedia and Telekom Malaysia are paying US\$390m-equivalent to acquire a 48 per cent stake in Idea Cellular, India #39;s fifth-largest mobile operator, after conducting due | 2 |
Ericsson awarded GSM expansion contract by Guangdong Mobile Corp Ericsson has been awarded an \$805m contract by Guangdong Mobile Communication Corporation Limited (Guangdong Mobile, a whole-owned subsidiary of China Mobile HK Holdings, to expand its GSM network in Guangdong Province, China. | 2 |
US Dollar Falls Against the Yen The dollar fell against the yen and the euro in Asia on Monday for the first time in three sessions as US hedge funds and Japanese exporters resumed selling the greenback on concerns about US economic imbalances. | 2 |
Queues for PSP as Sony enter the fray (PSP) It seems there #39;s no end to Japan #39;s love of handheld gaming these days. With Nintendo selling big with its hugely successful Nintendo DS launch, Sony have begun the counter attack with queues of up to 1500 | 3 |
Free Music for Your iPod You #39;re probably already familiar with one of the most common questions we hear at iPodlounge: quot;how can I load my iPod up with free music? | 3 |
Apple iTunes in Grammy Award link-up The US music industry is strengthening its embrace of music download services, with a unique Grammy Award/iTunes tie-up. The organisers of the Grammy Awards have reached a deal with Apple to | 3 |
Blues held by Gunners Eidur Gudjohnsen #39;s equaliser gave Chelsea a 2-2 draw with champions Arsenal at Highbury and took the Blues four points clear at the top of the Premiership table. | 1 |
Knicks count on new math If you take Isiah Thomas at his word and believe he #39;s not trading Allan Houston before the February deadline, then the Knicks have to hope that Houston-Jamal Crawford-Stephon Marbury isn #39;t the second coming of Houston-Latrell Sprewell-Glen Rice. | 1 |
Suicide bomb blasts Green Zone A SUICIDE car bomb has ripped through a line of vehicles at a checkpoint outside the Green Zone today, killing 13 people as Iraq marked the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein #39;s capture. | 0 |
Online Groups Brag About Movie Piracy (AP) AP - In not-too-secret online forums, Wesley Snipes' latest movie, "Blade: Trinity," is the subject of intense discussion and evaluation. But unlike typical movie fan sites, the chatter from visitors to Web sites like VCDQuality.com doesn't key on the vampire film's plot, acting or bloody visual effects. Instead, computer users dish out praise or criticism on the caliber of video and sound achieved by online groups whose sole mission is to make available unauthorized copies of Hollywood films within a day or two of a movie's debut, if not before. | 3 |
Lamy Says France Proposed Him as WTO Chief (Reuters) Reuters - France has formally proposed former\European Union Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy as a candidate to\become the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Lamy\said Monday. EU governments backed Frenchman Lamy as Europe's\candidate last week for the post of WTO director-general, which\former Thai deputy premier Supachai Panitchpakdi is due to\leave at the end of August 2005. | 2 |
LSE rejects 1.35bn Deutsche bid The London Stock Exchange today said it had rejected a 1.35 billion takeover approach from German rival Deutsche Boerse. Shares in the LSE have risen 25 per cent in recent weeks as investors anticipated a possible takeover bid. | 2 |
IBM, AMD Speed Chips, Strain Wafers SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Researchers at IBM <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=IBM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">IBM.N</A> and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=AMD.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">AMD.N</A> have improved a chip-making technology called strained silicon, boosting semiconductor performance at a time when such gains are increasingly hard to come by, the companies said on Sunday. | 2 |
OPEC Head Sees Oil Demand Dropping JAKARTA (Reuters) - Demand for oil will decline by 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in the second quarter of 2005, the head of the OPEC producers' cartel said on Monday. | 2 |
GLOBAL MARKETS-Exporters Gain SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Exporters such as Honda Motor Co. led gains in Japanese shares Monday as a rebound in the U.S. dollar eased concerns over corporate profits, but stocks elsewhere in Asia slipped on rising oil prices. | 2 |
Blog Creation, Readership Rise in 2004 (AP) AP - Readership of online journals known as blogs grew significantly in 2004, driven by increased awareness of them during the presidential campaign and other major news events, according to a study released Sunday. | 3 |
Saddam #39;s lieutenants on #39;hunger strike #39; Some of Saddam Hussein #39;s top aides are refusing meals in their secret US detention centre, the US army acknowledged on Sunday after a detainee #39;s lawyer said Iraq #39;s ousted leaders were on hunger strike. | 0 |
Barghouti pulls out of election Marwan Barghouti withdrew from the race to replace Palestinian President Yasser Arafat late last night. His withdrawal means there will be a smooth transition in the election on 9 January, with interim leader Mahmoud Abbas the clear favourite. | 0 |
Central Banks Short-Circuit U.S. Savings? WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Have Asia's central banks lulled Americans into a false sense of security? | 2 |
Nikkei Ends Up as Yen Helps Car Firms TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average closed higher for the first time in three sessions Monday, as a weaker yen against the dollar helped auto exporters such as Honda Motor Co. Ltd. | 2 |
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