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It #39;s official: Giants name Warner starter for opening day NEW YORK - Eli Manning is undeniably the Giants #39; quarterback of the future. But the future is going to have wait. After a summer of speculation, Giants coach Tom Coughlin finally made it official on Sunday | 1 |
Tokyo Stocks Dip, Focus on Data TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese stocks edged lower by midday on Monday with confidence in the domestic economic outlook failing to offset profit-taking that hit recent gainers such as insurers and telecom stocks including KDDI Corp. | 2 |
Europe's Ryder Team Is Set Colin Montgomerie, who has had a tough year, took a turn for the better Sunday, when he was chosen to play in his seventh Ryder Cup by the European team's captain, Bernhard Langer. | 1 |
Schumacher Clinches Season Title Michael Schumacher finished second at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, scoring enough points to clinch an unprecedented seventh Formula One drivers' title. | 1 |
World Wide Web Turns 35, But is Still a Work in Progress Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way for exchanging data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress. | 3 |
Bumper profits, but debt blows out By staff writers and wires. AUSTRALIAN company profits jumped 10.3 per cent in the June quarter thanks to robust consumer and business spending that will boost economic growth outcomes and the electoral prospects of the Howard Government. | 2 |
Labor #39;s task: to get welfare back on track One of Labor #39;s challenges is to come up with an electorally acceptable proposal for reform in an inefficient, badly targeted family welfare system. | 2 |
Closing Ceremony music to his ears It ain #39;t over until the crazy drunk former priest attacks the frightened Brazilian marathon runner. Although the 35-year-old Athens marathon record was broken tonight by Italy #39;s | 1 |
Davies fires winner as Trotters sink Reds Bolton has leapt to third on the English Premier League table with an impressive 1-0 win over Liverpool at the Reebok Stadium. A goal to Kevin Davies in the 38th minute, when he got on the end of a cross from | 1 |
Iraqi delegation arrives in Iran The Iraqi deputy prime minister arrived Sunday in the Tehran, Iran, a day later than planned, the BBC reported. Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh was part of a high-level political | 0 |
Asian Stocks Mostly Flat to Lower SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian shares were mostly flat to lower on Monday as investors kept a wary eye on stabilizing oil prices and looked past signs Japanese consumers were beginning to spend more freely. | 2 |
Bush Twins Host Pre-Convention Party (AP) AP - Barbara and Jenna Bush, the president's 22-year-old twin daughters, arrived like rock 'n' roll stars at a Republican convention party Sunday, complete with red carpet, cameras and paparazzi shouting for a smile. | 0 |
Wall Street Plays Party Host The Republican National Convention, which opens Monday at Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan, is being bankrolled and feted to an extraordinary degree by the financial services behemoths that are concentrated at the island #39;s southern tip. | 2 |
US firm target of deadly bomb blast in Kabul Afghanistan was rocked by two separate attacks, including a violent explosion in the capital, Kabul, and at a school in the southeastern part of the country. | 0 |
Wife of N.Korean Leader Kim Jong-Il Dead -Report (Reuters) Reuters - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's wife\died of a heart attack earlier this month, South Korea's Yonhap\news agency said on Monday, quoting sources in Beijing. | 0 |
Elliss, Anderson Injuries Raise Concern (AP) AP - Denver Broncos defensive end Luther Elliss is expected to miss up to two weeks because of a torn pectoral muscle. Elliss missed the first nine weeks of last season with a similar injury. | 1 |
Australian PM seen kicking off election on shaky ground (AFP) AFP - Prime Minister John Howard has kicked off his bid for a fourth term in office on shaky ground, forced to call elections sooner than he would have liked by a robust attack on his credibility from the opposition, editorialists said. | 0 |
Colombia wins drug lord's house The Colombian state finally wins control of the estate of the late Medellin drugs baron, Pablo Escobar. | 0 |
Install Moveable Type? \\The PeerFear blog is built on top of a custom CMS that I wrote about two years\ago. It doesn't support Atom, trackbacks, and some people report problems when\posting from IE.\\I installed Moveable Type but to be honest I am less than thrilled. It doesn't\support category RSS feeds and I can't associate images for categories like I'm\currently doing.\\So it appears I'm stuck... \\Anyone have any feedback? Maybe I should install one of the OSS blogging tools.\\ | 3 |
Torrent Joshua Kinberg being Arrested \\Great .torrent link of Joshua Kinberg being arrested. \\This is of course being documented over on this MSNBC HardBlogger blog \(which btw is news in of itself).\\ | 3 |
Israel, Iran Trade Threats As FBI Investigates Spying Israel and Iran traded significantly escalated threats of military attacks in recent months as the FBI investigated allegations that a Pentagon official passed secret U.S. policy information about Iran to Israeli authorities. | 0 |
Divers Keep Smelly Sewers Flowing Carlos Barrios Orta squeezed himself into his rubber diving suit, pulled on an 18-pound helmet that made him look like an astronaut, then lowered himself into the sewer. He disappeared into the filthy water, which looked like some cauldron of rancid beef stew, until the only sign of him was air bubbles breaking the surface. | 0 |
Latham lying on payroll tax: PM OPPOSITION Leader Mark Latham had told his first big lie of the election campaign by saying Labor had no plans to introduce a national payroll tax, Prime Minister John Howard said today. | 2 |
Indonesia Names 10 Prospective Bidders For Bk Permata JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--The Indonesian government said Monday it has identified 10 prospective bidders for the sale of a 51 stake in PT Bank Permata (BNLI. | 2 |
Royal body opposes anti-cloning bid Britain #39;s leading academic institution is backing an international campaign to stop the US securing an international ban on all forms of human cloning. | 3 |
Boston Leaves Yanks With White Knuckles Tim Wakefield allowed three hits in eight innings and the Boston Red Sox won their sixth straight game with a 6-1 victory over the visiting Detroit Tigers yesterday. | 1 |
Nextel's Next Connection By using methodical strategies, Nextel Communications Inc. is the scrawny kid from Reston, Va., who grew up to become a scrappy fighter by. <br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT> | 3 |
VeriSign Loses Icann Antitrust Case A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust complaint against an Internet oversight group brought by a company that controls directories for Internet users worldwide. | 3 |
Can Microsoft Stomp iTunes With a Store of Its Own? Microsoft is now aiming at a market that Apple Computer pioneered more than a year ago with its iTunes online music store. | 3 |
Higher Technology for Drier Courts to Prevent a Rain-Soaked Repeat After heavy rainfall forced numerous delays last year, the United States Tennis Association will rely on new machines to dry the courts faster. | 3 |
A PC That Packs Real Power, and All Just for Me A new computer should deliver about 10 times the performance of a desktop personal computer. | 3 |
Crying Out When a Child Cannot A man has invented a car alarm system that he thinks could save some of the children who die after being shut inside cars on warm days. | 3 |
Economy hurdle looms large for Latham PRIME Minister John Howard has called an election he cannot confidently predict he will win. But he is a political veteran and has calculated that the six-week campaign is more likely to serve | 2 |
Govt to propose new plan to fight global warming Japan will propose the development and introduction of technology to save energy and help control global warming at the 10th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to be held in December in Argentina. | 3 |
Still no fix for US space shuttle One year after a highly critical report urged NASA to develop the means to fix a broken space shuttle in orbit, the US space agency still could not repair | 3 |
It wasn #39;t exactly terrorism, but ... I was just going to say how happy I was that I was wrong with my dire warnings that there was going to be some sort of incident at the Athens Games ... when something happened toward the end of the men #39;s marathon on Sunday. | 1 |
Hong Kong-PRC pact seen affecting Taiwan companies Taiwan companies will have to deal with greater competition from next year because of the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement signed by mainland China with Hong Kong and Macau, an analyst said yesterday. | 0 |
Bethesda Magazine Aims to Market 'The Good Life' The success of a start-up magazine rests on many factors, not the least of which is a catchy name. | 2 |
Wal-Mart's Withdrawal Triggers Mixed Reactions Zack Diarra, the owner of Timbuktu Fashions, had been "scared to death" of Wal-Mart, worried the nation's biggest retailer would undercut his clothing prices and wipe out his eight-month-old business. | 2 |
Krispy Kreme's Failings Tough To Glaze Over Investors are finally figuring out that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts' shares are just like its doughnuts: Get 'em while they're hot because they can go stale in a hurry. | 2 |
U.S. and Russia Still Dominate Arms Market, but World Total Falls The value of all weapons deals worldwide was more than \$25.6 billion in 2003, the third consecutive year of decline. | 2 |
Ads, Not Just Athletes, Were in Olympics Spotlight During the 1,210 hours of Olympics coverage across the NBC Universal networks, audiences were exposed to 13,000 to 14,000 commercials. | 2 |
Clear Channel Plays Rough in Motorcycling Battle Supercross is shaping up to be the latest battleground in the fight over media consolidation. | 2 |
Intel keeps Moore #39;s law on track Contradicting fears that the semiconductor industry #39;s pace of development is slowing, Intel Corporation has announced it has achieved a milestone in shrinking the size of transistors that will power its next-generation chips. | 2 |
ISPA warn of 32 price hike and threat to ISPs Written by Net 4 Nowt The Internet Services Providers Association (ISPA UK) is highlighting significant fears for its smaller members and broadband Britain following price rises introduced by BT to their IPStream products in order to comply with an | 3 |
Ward KOs 8-year drought It #39;s been eight years since a US boxer stood on an Olympic .podium to receive a gold medal. It #39;s been six years since Andre Ward lost a fight. | 1 |
Al-Qaeda follows Taliban to claim Kabul blast: Website A statement purported to be from Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Monday for a truck bomb which killed seven people, including two US citizens, in Kabul, and which was earlier claimed by the Taliban militia. | 0 |
Lessons of Najaf Iraq #39;s interim government did well to avoid a bloody fight to the finish with Moktada al-Sadr over the Imam Ali Mosque, the country #39;s most sacred Shiite site. | 0 |
Officials deny barring pro-democracy lawmaker A top Chinese official yesterday defended his government #39;s decision to bar a Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker from entering the mainland, saying customs authorities acted legally. | 0 |
Lee rules out assassination in shooting investigation US-based forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee who was investigating the March 19 shooting of President Chen Shui-bian () has concluded that the incident was not an assassination attempt. | 0 |
Bonds and Giants Cow Braves, 9-5 (AP) AP - Barry Bonds hit a pair of mammoth two-run homers #151; giving him 696 in his career #151; and went 4-for-5 with six RBIs Sunday night, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 9-5 win over the Atlanta Braves. | 1 |
Billions rolling in as Macau is transformed into Asia's Vegas (AFP) AFP - A huge cheer breaks through the cacophony at Sands Macau Casino as the four million pataca (518,000 US dollar) blackjack jackpot is won. | 0 |
Europe's Ryder Team Is Set Colin Montgomerie, who has had a tough year, took a turn for the better Sunday, when he was chosen to play in his seventh Ryder Cup. | 1 |
Credit Suisse to Move to One Brand Name ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse will eventually use one brand name only and drop the First Boston moniker from its Credit Suisse First Boston investment banking arm, the bank's head said on Tuesday. | 2 |
Upstaging Before the Show The Republican convention's calculated claims to patriotism met elaborately planned and heavily Democratic street protests. | 0 |
Scorecard on the president: A mixed bag President Bush #39;s performance evaluation is underway now, and his scores will be determined by the voters who are weighing whether he has met the goals he set for himself four years ago. | 2 |
Park blazes away to course record in LPGA Classic event Grace Park was as hot as the weather when she fired 5-under par over her final five holes to set a course record and grab the third round lead from Jill McGill in the US\$1 million LPGA Classic on Saturday. | 1 |
Chirac postpones his visit to Russia over hostage crisis A threat by a militant Islamic group in Iraq to kill two French men unless a law banning Muslim headscarves in schools is abandoned was being treated as a national crisis by the French government last night. | 0 |
Intel to throttle power by enhancing silicon Intel will try to further cut power consumption in its next generation of chips by using improved strained silicon, along with transistors that block power to other circuits, and other added features. | 2 |
Surcharge Raises Ire When Northwest Airlines Corp. said last week it will charge extra fees for tickets not bought on its Web site, it caused a chain reaction in an industry still grappling with the impact of the Internet. | 2 |
NL Wrap: Pujols Boosts Cards, Giants Delight for Bonds (Reuters) Reuters - Albert Pujols cracked his 40th home\run of the season and reached 100 RBI for the fourth straight\year to help the St Louis Cardinals blank the host Pittsburgh\Pirates 4-0 in the National League Sunday. | 1 |
NL Wrap: Pujols Boosts Cards, Giants Delight for Bonds NEW YORK (Reuters) - Albert Pujols cracked his 40th home run of the season and reached 100 RBI for the fourth straight year to help the St Louis Cardinals blank the host Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 in the National League Sunday. | 1 |
Feds Target Scofflaws And Spammers As part of its recent crackdown on cybercrime, the Justice Department last week detailed major enforcement actions against copyright scofflaws and spammers. | 3 |
Marathon has weird intrusion Italy #39;s Stefano Baldini surged ahead with two miles to go and won the Olympic marathon Sunday while American Meb Keflezighi finished a surprising second in a | 1 |
Peaceful Olympics closes with 102 US medals ATHENS, Greece - Under a well-timed full moon to conclude a near-cloudless three weeks, the 2004 Summer Olympics came to an end Sunday night with music, dancing and the last of nearly 1,000 medals. | 1 |
Numbers Game for Schumacher Ferrari and Michael Schumacher were savouring yet another world championship today after a milestone weekend for both team and driver. | 1 |
MLB: San Francisco 9, Atlanta 5 Barry Bonds went 4-for-5 with two home runs and six RBI Sunday night to power the San Francisco Giants to a 9-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves. | 1 |
India tests Agni II missile NEW DELHI, Aug 29: India tested its Agni II surface to surface missile on Sunday in overcast conditions, PTI said quoting defence sources. | 0 |
Iran, Iraq want to bury the past TEHRAN, Aug 29: Iran and Iraq want to bury the past and start a new era of neighbourly relations, visiting Iraqi interim Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih said here on Sunday. | 0 |
Schumacher Wins Title Michael Schumacher clinches an unprecedented seventh Formula One title at the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps Sunday despite losing his second race of the season. | 1 |
Blue Jays Snap Streak Toronto ends its five-game losing streak with a 6-4 win over the Yankees after a power outage delays the start for an hour Sunday. | 1 |
Stadler Rallies to Win Craig Stadler makes up a four-shot deficit and birdies the final four holes Sunday to win the Tradition by one shot at 13-under-par in Aloha, Ore. | 1 |
Giambi Back Batting Yankees slugger Jason Giambi takes batting practice for the first time Sunday since having a benign tumor diagnosed last month. | 1 |
Video Music Awards Sizzling but Shock Free MIAMI - Holding its festivities for the first time in the city of skin, Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards was sizzling, energetic and colorful - yet tame, by MTV standards. There were no wardrobe malfunctions (sorry TiVo)... | 0 |
Intel to throttle power by enhancing silicon Power consumption continues to climb, so Intel will reach into the bag of tricks to keep Moore's Law going. | 3 |
A renaissance for the workstation? A California start-up thinks so. Its 96-processor unit is aimed at the film industry and life sciences researchers, among others. | 3 |
Federal-Mogul may sell T amp;N assets after pension offer snub Federal-Mogul, the engineering company whose bankruptcy in the US is threatening the pensions of thousands of workers at its subsidiary Turner amp; Newall, is sizing up a sale of its UK businesses. | 2 |
INTERVIEW: Gwalia Has Been Approached By Gold Ops Buyers PERTH (Dow Jones)--Financially distressed Australian mining company Sons of Gwalia Ltd. (SGW.AU) said Monday that it has been approached by several parties interested in buying its gold business. | 2 |
Bonds, Giants snap Braves #39; win streak ATLANTA - The Atlanta Braves may still have the last word this afternoon, but Barry Bonds did all the talking with his bat Sunday night. | 1 |
France in crisis as Iraqis threaten to kill hostages over <b>...</b> A threat by a militant Islamic group in Iraq to murder two French hostages unless Paris abandons a law banning muslim headscarves in schools was being treated as a national crisis by the French government last night. | 0 |
Iran: Isolation or Engagement? Iran claims that it can produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear weapon within a year. According to Undersecretary of State John Bolton, quot;We cannot let Iran, a leading sponsor | 0 |
Australia's Labor renews pledge to bring troops home from Iraq (AFP) AFP - The opposition Labor Party renewed its pledge to withdraw Australian troops from Iraq if it wins October 9 elections, setting relations with ally Washington at the center of the election campaign. | 0 |
Nikkei Share Average Falls Nearly 1 Pct (Reuters) Reuters - Japan's Nikkei share average fell nearly\one percent on Tuesday after the dollar's retreat below 103 yen\put pressure on exporters such as Sony Corp. | 2 |
Ticket fee feud The fury about Northwest Airlines #39; new ticket fees is the latest battle in a bigger war between the financially struggling airline industry and dominant players in the business of travel reservations. | 2 |
Windows XP SP2 -- test your applications Learn about the plethora of security enhancements included in Windows XP Service Pack 2, as well as how these security features could impair the functionality of some applications. | 3 |
Back-to-school fears cloud Intel report SAN FRANCISCO: Intel upcoming mid-quarter report will be closely watched for signs of weak back-to-school computer sales, though recent market share gains in memory chips could help offset any softness in computer microprocessor demand. | 3 |
Apple fans abuzz over new iMac With Apple Computer #39;s next iMac expected to be unveiled as soon as next week, Mac fan sites are buzzing with speculation over the design. | 3 |
Doping and debts aside, it was all worth it What doping scandals? What debts? Drunk with pride for successfully pulling off a great homecoming Olympics, most Greeks said they would happily do it all over again. | 1 |
Olympic torch heads off to Beijing While celebrating unprecedented success at the Athens Olympics, China has its sights firmly set on the Beijing Games in four years when they hope to present the country #39;s new face to the world. | 1 |
Right time for new A #39;s hero McMillon #39;s homer in ninth breaks tie <b>...</b> He was thinking about that, the little-used outfielder admitted, when he came up with two on and one out in the bottom of the ninth, the game tied 6-6. | 1 |
Spilled Oil, Gas Ignite in Iraq #39;s South Rumaila Field Oil and gas spilled during recent sabotage attacks on Iraq #39;s southern oil pipelines ignited Sunday and firefighters battled to douse the flames. | 0 |
UBS to Buy Schwab Units - WSJ NEW YORK (Reuters) - UBS AG is expected to buy Charles Schwab Corp.'s institutional research and trading unit for \$265 million, the Wall Street Journal said Monday, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. | 2 |
Red Sox within 4 1/2 games of Yankees after sweeping Tigers Boston, MA (Sports Network) - Tim Wakefield pitched eight strong innings to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 6-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers and a sweep of the four-game series at Fenway Park. | 1 |
Ireland, Britain resume negotiations for peace talks Britain and Ireland resume their joint efforts this week to revive deadlocked peace talks in Northern Ireland, aiming to forge common ground between deeply opposed sectarian groups. | 0 |
Scientists call for UN compromise on cloning Britain #39;s leading scientists today urge the United Nations to ban cloning of babies but leave open the door for cloning of embryo stem cells as treatments for so-far incurable illnesses. | 3 |
A Greek revival Athens defied skepticism by staging #39;dream Games #39; Athens -- The venues didn #39;t fall down. The terrorists were kept at bay. The US Olympians waved the flag anyway, and nobody got hurt. | 1 |
Russians win all WTA events, Horna in ATP final Elena Bovina added her name to the list of Russians to watch at next week #39;s US Open when she beat Nathalie Dechy to win the New Haven Open on Saturday. | 1 |
Arms dealer says Thatcher wanted to buy two military helicopters An arms dealer, who is the key state witness in the attempted coup in an oil-rich African state, said that he had talks with Sir Mark Thatcher who wanted to buy two military helicopters, it was revealed yesterday. | 0 |
Bangladesh government offers reward to catch grenade attackers (AFP) AFP - The Bangladeshi government has announced a 160,000-dollar reward in a bid to catch the assailants who killed 20 people and injured hundreds in a grenade attack on an opposition rally last weekend. | 0 |
And the Unexpected Olympics Winner Is...Athens ATHENS (Reuters) - The greatest race of the Olympics produced the most unlikely winner. | 1 |
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