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Pro tours: The stops and the talk LPGA Event: John Q. Hammons Hotel Classic Site: Cedar Ridge Country Club (6,545 yards, par 71), Broken Arrow, Okla. Schedule: Tomorrow-Sunday. Purse: \$1 million. Winner's share: \$150,000. Television: The Golf Channel (tomorrow, 4:30-7 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 4:30-7 p.m.). Last year: Karrie Webb won her lone 2003 title, a nine-stroke victory on the Tulsa Country Club course. Last week: Cristie Kerr won ... | 1 |
Boston South capsules BRIGHTON Coach: James Philip (eighth year, 10-48-2). Last year's record: 1-8. Returning starters (5): Donald Jeffrey, RB-DE, 5-11, 190, Sr; Garvin Jean-Bon, DB-WR, 5-6, 145, Sr.; Marvin Charles, C-LB, 6-1, 200, Jr.; Jermaine Bell, RB-LB, 5-10, 185, Jr. Returning letterman: Marshaunt Bowden, DE/TE, 6-1, 155, Jr. Strength: Running game. Weakness: Inexperience. Outlook: The Brighton Bengals and seasoned coach Philip have ... | 1 |
The bus celebrates 70th The Globe's undefeated bus will celebrate its 70th anniversary this fall. The bus, originally penned by Gene Mack, made its debut in 1934. It will return on Mondays this fall. | 1 |
EMass playoff schedule The divisional playoff games for determining the Super Bowl participants will be played on Tuesday, Nov. 30. All games will be played on artifical turf. The exact matchups and sites will be announced the day after Thanksgiving. The EMass Super Bowls will be held on Dec. 3-4. | 1 |
Delta to cut 7,000 jobs Delta Air Lines said it would eliminate up to 7,000 jobs and US Airways said it would start charging passengers to make reservations by telephone or at an airport ticket counter. | 2 |
Year-by-year leaders J.J. Sullivan gives Tyngsboro its first Eastern Massachusetts scoring leader. Following are the year-by-year scoring leaders for EMass. Year Name School Points 2003 J.J. Sullivan Tyngsboro 208 2002 Gerard Festa St. Mary's 199 2001 Jeff Ross Lowell 166 2000 Stephen Grillo Savio Prep 310 1999 Chris Piscione Chelmsford 168 1998 Brian Fabrizio Norwell 269 1997 Sharif Hartgrove Madison Park 210 ... | 1 |
Bill to seek posting of results of drug trials Legislation to be introduced within days in the US House and Senate would require drug companies to publicly register clinical trials and post the results on a government-run website, congressional staff members who are drafting the proposals said yesterday. | 2 |
Playing it smart At Madison Park, coach Dennis Wilson's quot;MP Pride quot; chant isn't the only phrase that's sticking like peanut butter. There's a new slogan that's catching on at the school. | 1 |
The one that didn't get away Good-bye, Frank Quattrone. The investment banker who became famous in money circles as one of Silicon Valley's main pipelines to Wall Street cash during the 1990s boom heard the bad news yesterday. A federal judge in New York gave him 18 months in prison, a slightly tougher stretch than the sentencing guidelines suggested. Expect the normal cycle of appeals, but ... | 2 |
A snap response Cellphone users accustomed to using their phones to play computer games, listen to music, and take pictures now have something new to do with their wireless telephones: respond to magazine and outdoor advertisements. | 2 |
Artificial heart maker seeking OK to sell device After 22 years of experimentation, the maker of the nation's first self-contained artificial heart yesterday asked the federal government for permission to begin selling up to 4,000 of the devices each year as a last-chance treatment for people with irreversible heart failure. | 2 |
Cambridge lands major drug maker Dutch drug conglomerate Akzo Nobel NV is planning to set up a research laboratory in East Cambridge, joining a growing list of pharmaceutical firms that have established outposts to tap Greater Boston's biotechnology cluster. | 2 |
Fidelity bowing out of Jumper Classic The Fidelity Investments Jumper Classic, which runs through Sunday in Hamilton, will be known by a different name next year. Fidelity Investments has announced that this is the last year it will sponsor the annual equestrian event that is celebrating its 15th anniversary. | 1 |
Angels blanked by Jays Justin Miller allowed two hits over eight innings to outpitch Kelvim Escobar and lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 1-0 victory over the Angels last night in Anaheim, Calif. | 1 |
Umpire out of bounds Tournament officials apologized to two-time champion Serena Williams for the faulty ruling made by chair umpire Mariana Alves during her loss to Jennifer Capriati in Tuesday night's Open quarterfinals. quot;I told her she was a class act and how much we appreciated how she handled it, quot; Arlen Kantarian , the US Tennis Association's chief executive for professional ... | 1 |
Pension plan disclosures urged Senator Edward M. Kennedy yesterday said he would press US pension plans to disclose proxy votes on the stocks they hold -- as mutual funds must now do -- in response to a government report calling for greater transparency in pensions affecting 100 million workers and \$4 trillion of assets. | 2 |
Prices of oil slip on storm worries Oil prices fell yesterday after an early rally in jittery trading due to hurricane speculation and light volume. | 2 |
Women encouraged to become players in video game industry Jennifer Canada knew she was entering a boy's club when she enrolled in Southern Methodist University's Guildhall school of video-game making. | 2 |
Quattrone to serve 18 months Frank Quattrone, whose deal making made him an investment banking star during the Internet stock bubble and a multimillionaire, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for obstructing justice. The sentence makes Quattrone, 48, the most prominent Wall Street figure since junk-bond king Michael Milken to face time behind bars. | 2 |
Bain acquires SuperPages Canada Bain Capital, a Boston private-equity firm, has agreed to buy the Canadian phone-directory business of Verizon Communications Inc. for \$1.54 billion. SuperPages Canada is the nation's second-largest publisher of phone directories. The deal includes online directories. SuperPages Canada had \$293 million in revenue last year. (Beth Healy) | 2 |
Pounded by the competition, Frank #39;s Nursery set to close Before there was Home Depot for shovels and mulch, before there was JoAnn Fabrics for thread and ribbon, there was Frank #39;s Nursery. | 2 |
Storms, fuel costs to take toll on JetBlue JetBlue Airways Corp. , a low-fare carrier flying mainly on the East Coast, said third-quarter profit will be lower than it expected because of hurricanes that forced flight cancellations in Florida and high fuel costs. | 2 |
Teen charged over Sasser virus German prosecutors have laid charges of computer sabotage, data manipulation and disruption of public systems against student Sven Jaschan who has admitted writing the Windows worm. | 3 |
Sven backs media boycott England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson has come out in full support of his players #39; boycott of the media after the 2-1 victory over Poland. | 1 |
Confident Germany Hold Brazil in Friendly Draw The German contingent in the 74,000-strong crowd that packed out the new look Olympic Stadium in Berlin on Wednesday night were pleasantly surprised to see a positive, attacking Germany team draw 1-1 with Brazil. | 1 |
After 18 straight defeats, Mercury solves Sparks The Mercury took control early and pummeled Los Angeles 72-58 in front of 6,062 fans at America West Arena on Wednesday night. Phoenix (16-13) moved into a third-place tie in the WNBA #39;s Western Conference by knocking off the league #39;s best team (21-8). | 1 |
Roddick will play Davis Cup There was a time when winning the Davis Cup wasn #39;ta goal for the United States -- it was an expectation. After recording a 3-2 win over Russia in the 1995 finals, the US was well | 1 |
Pakistani Jets Attack Militant Hideouts Pakistani jets on Thursday pounded a suspected training facility for foreign militants in a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan, senior intelligence and military officials said. | 0 |
Military Headset Reaches Masses Sick of screaming to be heard over your cell phone in noisy places? A software firm claims its new headset, based on noise-reduction research it conducted for the U.S. military, will virtually eliminate background-noise disruptions. By Elisa Batista. | 2 |
IBM hails automation in database upgrade IBM on September 17 will ship the first major upgrade to its DB2 Universal Database data management platform in nearly two years, focusing on functional automation, advanced clustering and Web services deployment. | 3 |
Accord Reached on Overhauling U.S. Intelligence The agreement will allow passage of a bill to enact the major recommendations of the independent Sept. 11 commission. | 0 |
Clean Air Tech Has Ancient Roots A Georgia entrepreneur is working with a team of government scientists who believe that the solution to fossil-fuel pollution may be found in a nutrient-rich charcoal fertilizer discovered by South American natives centuries before Columbus set sail. By John Gartner. | 3 |
Bill Seeks Civil Liberties Board Legislation introduced in the Senate to implement 9/11 Commission recommendations would create an executive-level board to investigate and advise on civil liberties and privacy issues. President Bush recently created a similar board with fewer powers. By Ryan Singel. | 3 |
Wall Street Expected to Slip at Opening (Reuters) Reuters - Wall Street was expected to dip at\Thursday's opening, but shares of Texas Instruments Inc.\, may climb after it gave upbeat earnings guidance. | 2 |
Wall Street Expected to Slip at Opening LONDON (Reuters) - Wall Street was expected to dip at Thursday's opening, but shares of Texas Instruments Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=TXN.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">TXN.N</A>, may climb after it gave upbeat earnings guidance. | 2 |
At Least 50 Militants Killed in Pakistan Raids RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least 50 Islamic militants, most of them foreigners, were killed by Pakistani forces on Thursday in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border, a military spokesman said. | 0 |
'Few ready' for information act Public bodies are ill-prepared for the Freedom of Information Act, says a group of MPs. | 0 |
U.S. Jets Bomb Insurgent-Held Iraq Cities BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. jets on Thursday pounded the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah and a northern town astride a major smuggling route, killing dozens of people in the two attacks, officials and witnesses said... | 0 |
Car Bomb Near Embassy in Indonesia Kills 7 JAKARTA, Indonesia - A powerful car bomb exploded outside the gates of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, killing seven people and wounding nearly 100 in an attack police blamed on al-Qaida-linked terrorists. The blast flattened the embassy's gate, mangled cars on the busy commercial street and shattered the windows of nearby high-rise buildings... | 0 |
Has Ken Jennings' 'Jeopardy!' Run Ended? LOS ANGELES - Has Ken Jennings ended his "Jeopardy!" streak? A report posted Wednesday on TV Week's Web site said the brainy software engineer lost in a show taped Tuesday, walking away after his 75th straight game with about \$2.5 million overall in cash and prizes. The magazine cited unidentified sources and said the show would air later this fall... | 0 |
Delta clips its wings in Dallas The links between Delta Air Lines and Dallas reach all the way back to the carrier #39;s first passenger flight. On June 17, 1929, a six-seat Delta quot;Travelair quot; flew from Dallas to Jackson, Miss. | 2 |
Quattrone to serve 18 months Frank Quattrone, whose deal making made him an investment banking star during the Internet stock bubble and a multimillionaire, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for obstructing justice. | 2 |
Oil prices decline further, despite Caribbean hurricane NEW YORK, September 9 (New Ratings) - Oil prices declined further today, despite fears of a hurricane in the Caribbean disrupting supply from the US offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. | 2 |
WPP, Hellman each bid \$900/shr for Grey - reports LONDON (CBS.MW) -- UK advertising group WPP (WPPGY) (UK:WPP) offered \$1.25 billion for New York ad firm Grey Global (GREY) in a cash and share deal valued at more than \$900 a share, the Wall Street Journal reported. | 2 |
Foreclosure rate still high Although fewer Utahns are falling behind on their house payments, the rate at which families in the state are losing their homes to foreclosure was the 10th-highest in the nation in the | 2 |
Internet porn ban enacted for Phoenix libraries A legal battle could be brewing after the City Council enacted a new policy that bars adults from unrestricted Internet access to pornography on Phoenix library computers. | 3 |
IBM #39;s New Storage Play IBM plans to announce today that it is getting into a fast-growing segment of the data storage industry that #39;s currently dominated by Hewlett-Packard. | 3 |
Stem cells 'arrest brain damage' Newborn babies with brain damage could one day be treated by stem cell therapy using cells taken from their bone marrow, scientists say. | 3 |
The Census Bureau #39;s New Economic Indicator NEW YORK - The US Census Bureau publishes 12 economic indicators throughout the year. Four cover manufacturing, four deal with housing and construction, two measure retail sales and two concern trade. | 2 |
Windows service pack deadline extended Windows XP users have until early next year to update business systems and applications before the operating system #39;s Service Pack (SP) 2 is fully unleashed. | 3 |
DNA fingerprinting no longer foolproof #39; Sep 09 - The genetic profiles held by police for criminal investigations are not sophisticated enough to prevent false identifications, according to the father of DNA finger printing. | 3 |
Big blue Stinger challenges SMB rivals on price Next week will see the launch of the latest version of IBM Corp. #39;s DB2 database, codenamed Stinger, and focusing on autonomic computing and challenging rivals on price. | 3 |
Iginla no longer missing Iginla, the NHL #39;s top goal-scorer last season, scored his first two goals of the tournament and added an assist to lead Canada to a 5-0 win over Slovakia last night. | 1 |
Panis Takes Step Back Frenchman Olivier Panis has announced his retirement from racing in Formula One, although he will continue as a test driver with Toyota. | 1 |
Jakarta Embassy Blast Kills Eight, Wounds Scores A powerful car bomb exploded outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, killing at least eight people in the vicinity and wounding more than 130, witnesses and officials said. | 0 |
At Least 50 Militants Killed in Pakistan Raids At least 50 Islamic militants, most of them foreigners, were killed by Pakistani forces on Thursday in the South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border, a military spokesman said. | 0 |
17 killed in heavy clashes in northern Iraq Seventeen people were killed and some 50 others wounded in heavy clashes overnight between US-Iraqi forces and insurgents in Iraq #39;s northern town of Tall Afar, witnesses and medical sources said Thursday. | 0 |
Death toll from Chinese floods nears 200; more storms expected The death toll from flooding and landslides in mountainous southwestern China rose to 177 on Thursday, as authorities warned beleaguered residents to brace for fresh storms. | 0 |
Hamas militant killed by Israeli soldiers A member of Izel Dein al Qassam, armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), was killed by Israeli soldiers in northern Gaza Strip on Thursday. | 0 |
Bacteria Turn Toxins Into Plastic A team of Irish scientists develops a strain of bacteria that can convert a toxic byproduct of the Styrofoam manufacturing process into biodegradable plastic. By Rowan Hooper. | 3 |
Worldcon Is Gateway to Big Time Science fiction and fantasy fans gather to celebrate their favorite genre and hand out Hugo Awards, which some writers have been able to convert into wider exposure. Mark Baard reports from Boston. | 3 |
Law Fights to Keep Pace With Tech Federal and industry experts grapple with how to apply CALEA wiretap standards to something that lawmakers didn't anticipate 10 years ago -- voice over IP. Michael Grebb reports from Washington. | 3 |
NASA's Genesis Capsule Crashes A capsule carrying samples of solar wind was supposed to be plucked out of midair by a helicopter, but its chutes apparently malfunctioned. Amit Asaravala reports from Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. | 3 |
Facing the Copyright Rap Including snippets of another artist's song in your work -- a popular rapper technique known as 'sampling' -- may violate copyright law, an appeals court rules. | 3 |
New cabinet fails to squelch power-struggle talk (AFP) AFP - Prime Minister Tony Blair huddled with his cabinet after a reshuffle that reinforced his grip on the Labour Party, at least for the time being, ahead of an expected general election. | 0 |
Japan's central bank keeps stimulative policy to aid economic recovery (AFP) AFP - Japan's central bank left its stimulative monetary policy unchanged, as widely expected, in a bid to support the current economic recovery and turn around years of price drops. | 2 |
South Korea admits nuclear experiment in early 1980s (AFP) AFP - South Korea admitted that its scientists extracted a small amount of plutonium, a key ingredient for making nuclear bombs, in secret research in the early 1980s. | 0 |
Israel Army Kills 4, Including 9-Year-Old, in Gaza GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli forces thrust into the outskirts of a refugee camp on Thursday, killing four Palestinians including a 9-year-old boy, as the army tightened its grip on parts of the northern Gaza Strip. | 0 |
Darfur Rebels Say Peace Talks on Last Legs ABUJA (Reuters) - Darfur rebels said on Thursday that peace talks with the Sudan government had reached a stalemate and were on the verge of collapse. | 0 |
F1: Panis to quit racing Toyota's Olivier Panis will retire from Formula One at the end of the 2004 season. | 0 |
Johnson Said To Be in Talks for Heart Device Maker Johnson Johnson is in advanced negotiations to acquire Guidant, one of the nation's largest makers of devices to treat heart illnesses, for more than \$24 billion. | 2 |
Smart bandage to help diabetics A smart bandage studded with sensors could help people with diabetes maintain good health. | 0 |
Spacecraft Crashes With Solar Data Parachutes failed to open as NASA's Genesis space capsule plunged back to Earth on Wednesday, causing it to take a tumble from the heavens and bury itself in the desert sands of western Utah, perhaps seriously damaging precious cargo revealing the origins of the solar system. | 3 |
DirecTV goes for more HDTV No. 1 US satellite television provider DirecTV Inc. says it will launch four new satellites to expand programming capacity, particularly for high-definition channels and interactive services. | 2 |
New: Tellabs to lower Advanced Fibre price NAPERVILLE - Tellabs Inc. plans to lower its price for Advanced Fibre Communications Inc. to \$1.5 billion from the \$1.9 billion announced May 20. | 3 |
Mars satellite finds clues to once-deep ocean It wasn #39;t anywhere near as big as Noah #39;s worldwide flood -- but evidence is pouring in from a Mars-orbiting satellite that a vast plain on the Red Planet must once have held a deep ocean bigger than all the Great Lakes put together. | 3 |
US Open at a glance MEN #39;S MATCHES: Rain suspended the two men #39;s quarterfinal matches. Roger Federer (1) leads Andre Agassi (6), 6-3, 2-6, 7-5; and Tim Henman (5) leads Dominik Hrbaty (22), 6-1, 7-5, 4-5. | 1 |
Stay of execution or new lease on life? Going into the game in Poland, Eriksson was a man courting headlines for the wrong reasons. Indeed, following revelations about the his private life, and the subsequent capitulation of his team in Saturday #39;s | 1 |
NFL concert will be on delay In order to avoid a repeat of the crotch-grabbing, breast-baring halftime show from Houston, the league is tightly controlling the concert that will be broadcast before Thursday night #39;s season opener. | 1 |
Giants get 4 in 8th to win Denver -- Maybe the sidearm lefty missed his spot. Or maybe the Rockies found a clever way to bid Barry Bonds adieu for the season after he clobbered them with a . | 1 |
Crew edge shorthanded Earthquakes Two in a row was just too much for the Earthquakes, without the likes of forwards Brian Ching, Landon Donovan, Dwayne De Rosario and goalkeeper Pat Onstad. | 1 |
Indonesia On High Alert After Australian Embassy Blast Indonesia has stepped up security in the wake of Thursday #39;s bombing of the Australian embassy in the capital, Jakarta. Eleven people died, all Indonesians, after a massive bomb cratered the perimeter of the Australian embassy. | 0 |
Israel Talks Tough to Arafat Silvan Shalom calls the veteran Palestinian leader a terrorist who has no place in the region. Arafat has been confined to his battered headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah for more than two years. | 0 |
Twins' Johan Santana Wins 10th Straight (AP) AP - Johan Santana had an early lead and was well on his way to his 10th straight win when the rain started to fall. | 1 |
Dolphins' Bowens to Miss Opener Vs. Titans (AP) AP - Miami Dolphins defensive tackle Tim Bowens will miss Sunday's opener against Tennessee because of a back injury. | 1 |
SCH to sell 2.51 percent of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland (AFP) AFP - Banco Santander Central Hispano (SCH) said it had instructed Merrill Lynch to place, on its behalf, up to 2.51 percent of Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBoS) equity with institutional investors. | 0 |
TiVo, ReplayTV agree to limits (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - The makers of TiVo and ReplayTV digital video recorders have agreed to limit how long consumers can keep pay-for-view movies stored on future versions of the VCR-like devices. | 3 |
New twist for McAfee: CFO Richards is retiring (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Nobody could blame McAfee Chairman and Chief Executive George Samenuk if he didn't know exactly how to begin his speech to investors Wednesday in Boston. | 3 |
JoS A. Bank 2Q Income Rises 75 Percent (AP) AP - Men's apparel retailer JoS. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. reported Thursday that double-digit same-store sales gains, as well as continued strength in catalog and Internet sales, drove second-quarter earnings up 75 percent to beat Wall Street expectations. | 2 |
Indonesia's Gen. Andi Muhammad Jusuf Dies (AP) AP - Gen. Andi Muhammad Jusuf, a former Indonesian army chief who played a pivotal role in the rise to power of former dictator Suharto nearly four decades ago, has died. He was 76. | 0 |
Stocks Seen Lower After Greenspan NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks looked to open lower on Thursday, a day after comments from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan did little to inspire investors and after Texas Instruments Inc. gave a mixed business forecast. | 2 |
Yum Brand's August Sales Up NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=YUM.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">YUM.N</A> on Thursday said sales at U.S. restaurants open at least a year, or same-store sales, rose 5 percent in the four weeks ended Sept. 4, led by strength at its Taco Bell and Pizza Hut chains and a rebound at KFC. | 2 |
VW threatens to cut 30,000 jobs Volkswagen says it may need to slash 30,000 jobs if unions refuse to agree to pay freezes at next week's talks. | 2 |
Seeking Quick Loans, Soldiers Race Into High-Interest Traps As easy-money lenders increasingly make service members a target market, military people have become trapped in a spiral of borrowing that can ruin their finances. | 2 |
U.S. Pressure Risks Turmoil Across Sudan -Lawmakers NAIROBI (Reuters) - U.S. pressure on Sudan's Islamist rulers over Darfur will stir fresh separatist turmoil elsewhere in the vast country and could torpedo peace efforts in the south, a Sudanese parliamentary delegation said on Thursday. | 0 |
Federer and Agassi Return to Battle NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roger Federer and Andre Agassi return to battle at Flushing Meadows Thursday with their U.S. Open quarter-final balanced on a knife edge. | 1 |
Woosnam Disqualified After Closing Hole Debacle COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) - Ian Woosnam, who missed a chance to win the 2001 British Open because of the infamous '14th club incident', again fell foul of the rule book when he was disqualified from the German Masters Thursday. | 1 |
Panis to Retire as Formula One Driver MONZA, Italy (Reuters) - Formula One's oldest driver Olivier Panis announced Thursday he will quit racing at the end of the season to take up a test role with Toyota. | 1 |
Fed Chairman: US Economic Recovery Continues US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan Wednesday gave a generally upbeat economic assessment to a congressional committee, saying the US economy seems over the last two months to have withstood the trauma of sharply rising energy prices. | 2 |
OPEC official reports unity on higher price target JAKARTA The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is united on the need to raise its oil price target to an average of \$30 a barrel, a top Iranian oil official said on Thursday, but the cartel has yet to agree on when to move its price range higher | 2 |
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