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Phillies Closer Ejected in Win Over Mets (AP) AP - Philadelphia closer Billy Wagner was furious after he was ejected in the ninth inning of Saturday's game 11-9, 13-inning win over the New York Mets for throwing two high-and-tight pitches to Cliff Floyd. | 1 |
No. 9 Ohio St. Edges Marshall 24-21 on FG (AP) AP - Ohio State still has that last-minute magic. Mike Nugent's 55-yard field goal as time expired gave the ninth-ranked Buckeyes a 24-21 victory over Marshall on Saturday. | 1 |
The Battle for Middle-earth Ships December 06, 2004 - Today game and film fans alike are picking sides to decide the fate of Middle-earth as Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) announces the release of the eagerly-awaited PC game, The Lord of the Rings(tm), The Battle for Middle-earth(tm). | 3 |
Weir on Verge of Ending 50-Year Canadian Wait OAKVILLE, Ontario (Reuters) - Mike Weir, seeking to become the first home winner of the Canadian Open for 50 years, hit a one-under-par 70 to take a three-shot lead after the third round of the 100th version of the event on Saturday. | 1 |
Federer's Power to Meet Hewitt's Precision in U.S. Open Final When the men's champion is decided Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium, the season's two hottest players, Roger Federer and Lleyton Hewitt, will be doing the swinging. | 1 |
Hernndez Continues to Pitch Like the Ace of Pinstripes A home run by Rafael Palmeiro was the only blemish on Orlando Hernndez's seven innings. He gave up four other hits, two walks and struck out four. | 1 |
After a Sloppy Start, the Irish Upset Michigan Freshman Darius Walker ran for 115 yards and scored two touchdowns, helping revive an Irish offense that had managed just one touchdown in the season's first six quarters. | 1 |
From cell phone to sunflower Scientists said on Monday they have come up with a cell phone cover that will grow into a sunflower when thrown away. Materials company Pvaxx Research amp; Development, at | 3 |
HBOS calls in KPMG integrators to make 10bn Abbey bid add up James Crosby, chief executive of HBOS, has hired a team of 30 integration experts from KPMG #39;s transaction services arm to try to make the numbers work for a potential 10bn bid for Abbey National. | 2 |
Browns EU victories will help him on home turf ACCORDING to those commentators who peddle their political analysis in big, brash, primary colours, theres absolutely no question who lost out big time in Tony Blairs latest ministerial reshuffle. | 2 |
At Least 50 Deaths Blamed on Hurricane Ivan UPDATE, SAT 4PM: The number of dead across the Caribbean from Hurricane Ivan is now at least 50. Grenada alone is reporting 34 deaths, with eight more bodies found today. | 0 |
Palestinians shell Israeli settlement BEIT LAHIYA (Gaza Strip) - Palestinians lobbed mortar shells at an Israeli settlement in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, hours after Israeli troops ended a raid of the area meant to stop such attacks. | 0 |
Brown claims victory in fight to curb EU budget Gordon Brown has struck a deal to derail Brussels plans for a rapid expansion in the EU #39;s budget, wresting back control for the finance ministers of member states. | 2 |
Itanium not meeting Intel #39;s goals com September 8, 2004, 5:28 AM PT. With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority. | 3 |
Racing: Rule Of Law applies the finishing touch One of the factors that the decriers of the St Leger often forget is that an integral part of this sport is the spectacle that it provides. | 1 |
Notre Dame Upsets No. 8 Michigan SOUTH BEND, Indiana (Sports Network) - True freshman Darius Walker ran for 115 yards and a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns, leading Notre Dame to a 28-20 victory over eighth-ranked Michigan at Notre Dame Stadium. | 1 |
Matthew Zemek / CollegeFootballNews.com Posted: 2 minutes ago One has to wonder: with 1:37 left in regulation and Miami getting its hands on the ball one last time, did the Orange Bowl crowd - let alone America - think the Hurricanes were still going to beat Florida State again? | 1 |
US Air Pilots Agree to New Talks (Reuters) Reuters - US Airways and its pilots union said\on Saturday that they were willing to resume talks over a #36;295\million package of concessions, as time ran short for the\company to strike giveback deals with its labor groups and\avert another trip into bankruptcy. | 2 |
AL Wrap: Crosby, Swisher Connect to End A's Losing Streak (Reuters) Reuters - Rookies Bobby Crosby and Nick Swisher\belted back-to-back homers in the eighth inning to rally the\Oakland Athletics to a 5-4 win over the Cleveland Indians in\the American League Saturday. | 1 |
Syria Urged to Pull Troops From Lebanon (AP) AP - A senior U.S. diplomat urged Syria's president Saturday to withdraw his country's troops from Lebanon and stop interfering in internal Lebanese affairs, a message delivered at a time when Syrian-American relations have been particularly strained. | 0 |
Hong Kong Holding Legislative Elections (AP) AP - After a campaign marred by scandal and alleged intimidation, the people of Hong Kong voted Sunday under gray skies in legislative elections that could give pro-democracy figures more clout than they have held since China reclaimed Hong Kong in July 1997. | 0 |
Why are there so many hurricanes? Just about. The only time on record that anything like this happened before was in 1947, when two hurricanes and one tropical storm hit Florida within five weeks. | 3 |
Can Mr. Chips Transform Intel? PAUL S. OTELLINI was 41 and a rising star at Intel when, in 1992, his boss informed him that the company would choose him as its new chief of sales and marketing. | 3 |
Enter your e-mail: Panasonic put another nail in the VCR #39;s coffin this week when it announced a digital video recorder that can store 700 hours (nearly an entire month) of programming on its 400GB hard drive. | 3 |
After a Sloppy Start, the Irish Upset Michigan With a burst of speed, Darius Walker sprinted around right end and ran untouched into the south end zone for a 6-yard touchdown Saturday. | 1 |
SI.com OAKLAND, California (Ticker) -- Nick Swisher and Bobby Crosby kept the Oakland Athletics alone in first place for at least another day. | 1 |
PM: Do not associate Malaysia with car-bombing in Jakarta PENANG: Malaysia has nothing to do with the car-bombing incident in Jakarta that killed nine people and injured 173 others, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. | 0 |
Unusual Search Engines Unusual Search Engines \\Unless you've been living under a rock, you know of the major search engines like Google or Yahoo. But did you know that there are many other smaller or niche search engines out there that can offer you unique help? Let's take a look at some of ... | 3 |
Google Stock Gobbled by Fidelity Investments Google Stock Gobbled by Fidelity Investments\\Fidelity Investments, the world's largest mutual fund manager, bought \$549 million of stock in search engine Google's IPO, about 23 percent of the shares offered during the initial public offering. Fidelity reported in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it now ... | 3 |
Can Mr. Chips Transform Intel? Paul S. Otellini, the probable new chief of Intel, may have to lead the chip manufacturer in an industry where the race may be for creativity, not speed. | 3 |
EU Ministers Nix Punishment Proposal (AP) AP - European Union finance ministers gave a cold shoulder Saturday to France's contentious proposal to cut off development funds for EU newcomers unless they agree to stop luring Western companies #151; and jobs #151; with low tax rates. | 0 |
NL Wrap: Cubs Rally to Beat Marlins (Reuters) Reuters - Derrek Lee whacked a three-run double\against his former team to help the Chicago Cubs defeat the\Florida Marlins 5-2 to retain their National League (NL)\wildcard lead Saturday. | 1 |
Purported al-Zarqawi tape boasts of humiliating U.S.-led forces in Iraq (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An audiotape purportedly from key terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi boasts that Islamic holy warriors have humiliated the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. | 0 |
Hong Kong Votes in Close Poll, Focus on More Democracy HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong residents voted on Sunday in a legislative election that could bring big gains for the democracy camp, which has angered Beijing by demanding universal suffrage in the former British colony. | 0 |
Clashes as Chile remembers coup A ceremony to honour those who died in Chile's military coup ends in violence between protesters and police. | 0 |
Do Newspapers Make Good News Look Bad? Two economists argue that reporters commit the same archetypal sin: slant the news unequivocally in favor of the Democrats. | 2 |
If the Revenue Column Says Zero, Avoid the I.P.O. Initial offerings of commercially successful companies regularly beat benchmarks of similar stocks over the long term, according to a new study. | 2 |
Federer #39;s Power to Meet Hewitt #39;s Precision in US Open Final he Americans bowed out relatively early. Controversy clouded the elimination of one of the game #39;s biggest names, Serena Williams, and rain and wind each had a day to ravage the tournament. | 1 |
Kiwis cruise to easy win over Americans LONDON: New Zealand crushed a plucky United States team by 210 runs as the ICC Champions Trophy cricket tournament got off to an explosive and predictably wet start on Friday. | 1 |
Jamaican capital spared as hurricane blasts island The Caribbean nation of Jamaica became the second major victim of Hurricane Ivan yesterday as waves the height of two-storey houses and 155mph winds smashed into the island. | 0 |
US Markets Shrug Off Iraq, Terrorism News (Reuters) Reuters - As recently as early summer, the shock\waves from a roadside bomb or mortar attack against American\forces in Iraq would ripple through U.S. markets. | 2 |
Sporting World Remembers Sept. 11 Attacks (AP) AP - On the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the victims were remembered and honored in sporting events around the country and the world. | 1 |
Europe Sets Deadline for Iran on Weapons (AP) AP - Europe's major powers have agreed to set a November deadline on Iran to meet demands meant to resolve concerns that it is secretly trying to make nuclear weapons, in a confidential document made available Saturday to The Associated Press. | 0 |
Blasts Hit Baghdad Apartment Buildings (AP) AP - Large explosions shook the center of Iraq's capital late Saturday, only hours after a bomb detonated near a U.S. consular office in southern Iraq, killing one person and wounding another. | 0 |
With 56 Dead, Ivan Intensifies Off Jamaica (AP) AP - Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a rare Category 5 storm capable of catastrophic damage, leaving Jamaica and aiming for the Cayman Islands with winds reaching 165 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said Saturday. Ivan has killed 56 people across the Caribbean so far this week, including 34 in Grenada and 11 in Jamaica. | 0 |
PeopleSoft in a Corner After Decision (AP) AP - After defiantly warding off rival Oracle Corp.'s #36;7.7 billion hostile takeover for 15 months, business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. finds itself backed into a corner, with its best chances for escape tied to forces beyond its control. | 3 |
Arabs: Terror War Has Spread Instability (AP) AP - Victims of the Sept. 11 attacks were mourned worldwide Saturday, but in the Middle East, amid sympathy for the dead, Arabs said Washington's support for Israel and the war on terror launched in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse have only fueled anger and violence. | 0 |
A Door Swings Open, and the World Rambles In Like a latter-day Ellis Island, the National Tennis Center bristled with overseas energy, overseas hopes, overseas dreams. | 1 |
Instant Analysis: Michigan at Notre Dame There are dozens of other games going on as this story is filed at 7:28 Eastern time on a crazy Saturday, but Notre Dame #39;s win over Michigan might be the craziest in the bunch. | 1 |
NL Wrap: Cubs Rally to Beat Marlins Derrek Lee whacked a three-run double against his former team to help the Chicago Cubs defeat the Florida Marlins 5-2 to retain their National League (NL) wildcard lead Saturday. | 1 |
Two killed in Afghan protest Two people were reported killed in a protest over Afghan President Karzai #39;s decision to replace a powerful provincial governor. | 0 |
Egypt wants permanent seat on UN Security Council CAIRO - Egypt #39;s regional and international clout qualify it for a permanent seat on an expanded UN Security Council, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Saturday. | 0 |
Kuznetsova Tops Dementieva for Open Title (AP) AP - Pounding ferocious forehands and covering the baseline with the muscular legs of a Tour de France rider, Svetlana Kuznetsova overwhelmed Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5 Saturday night in the U.S. Open's first all-Russian final. | 1 |
Georgia Rallies Past S. Carolina, 20-16 (AP) AP - David Greene struggled early but finished with 213 yards passing and two touchdown passes, to lead No. 3 Georgia to a 20-16 victory over South Carolina on Saturday. | 1 |
Dunn Hits Grand Slam, Reds Rout Brewers (AP) AP - Adam Dunn hit a grand slam in a seven-run third inning, leading the Cincinnati Reds over the Milwaukee Brewers 9-0 Saturday night. | 1 |
No. 12 Calif. Beats N. Mexico St 41-14 (AP) AP - J.J. Arrington ran for 177 yards and three touchdowns, and Aaron Rodgers completed 19 of 26 passes for 260 yards and two scores in No. 12 California's 41-14 victory over New Mexico State on Saturday. | 1 |
Rays Beat Royals 12-6 After 12 Losses (AP) AP - The Tampa Bay Devil Rays stopped the second-longest losing streak in team history at 12 games, rallying past the Kansas City Royals 8-6 Saturday night behind Julio Lugo. | 1 |
Yahoo Makes A Deal With The Donald (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Fans who can't get enough of NBC's "The Apprentice" can visit a new companion Web site produced by Yahoo and watch an extra 40 minutes of video each week that will not be shown on Thursday's reality TV show. | 3 |
Microsoft Sings a New Tune With Windows Media Player 10 (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - It's amazing to see what an entrenched monopolist will do when it finally meets real competition. | 3 |
Web Data Transfer to Handsets Made Easier (AP) AP - Have you ever gone online to get driving directions, only to leave the printout behind? Have you made movie plans, but forgot to jot down the show times? Or do you simply need an easy way to feed phone numbers to your cell phone? A trio of entrepreneurs believe they have a solution. | 3 |
Scientists Recover Critical Genesis Parts (AP) AP - NASA scientists said they have recovered some critical pieces of the Genesis space capsule intact and are optimistic the wreckage will yield valuable information about the origins of the solar system. | 3 |
Space Station Oxygen Generator Analyzed (AP) AP - The astronauts aboard the international space station got their broken oxygen generator running after three tries Friday, but the machine shut down again after barely an hour of operation. | 3 |
Anxiety over terror still a drag on market Just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened, stock market historian Yale Hirsch called the event quot;a modern Pearl Harbor by a band of terrorists with more than twice the dead that will change our lives forever. | 2 |
WTO finds unfair practices in sugar, cotton industries Developing countries were last night celebrating victory over the world #39;s two largest economic blocs after the WTO ruled against the European Union #39;s sugar regime and the support given by the US to its cotton farmers. | 2 |
Lost Dreams May Show Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (Reuters) Reuters - A stroke that robbed a woman of her\dreams may help pinpoint where and how dreams are born in the\brain, scientists said on Friday. | 3 |
Yahoo Makes A Deal With The Donald Fans who can #39;t get enough of NBC #39;s quot;The Apprentice quot; can visit a new companion Web site produced by Yahoo and watch an extra 40 minutes of video each week that will not be shown on Thursday #39;s reality TV show. | 3 |
SP2 Fights Worms, Has Bugs After a rough couple of years of embarrassing and serious hacker attacks hitting the Windows-using world, Microsoft Corp. struck back in August with the security-minded upgrade it dubbed Service Pack 2. | 3 |
Overlaying to boost Internet performance World leading microchip developer Intel says the Internet needs a radical overhaul to make itself more powerful. Intel #39;s chief technology officer, Pat Gelsinger, notes that | 3 |
WiMax accepts Digiweb as first Irish wireless ISP Broadand services provider Digiweb has been accepted as a member of the international wireless industry body, the WiMax Forum, which was established to promote and certify compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products and platforms. | 3 |
Arsenal stretches unbeaten league string to record 45 Arsenal stretched its record unbeaten string in the Premier League to 45 games, Freddie Ljungberg #39;s two second-half goals - and another from Jose Antonio Reyes - making the difference in Saturday #39;s 3-0 victory at Fulham. | 1 |
California Golden Bears BERKELEY, California (Ticker) -- Behind the running by JJ Arrington and the arm of quarterback Aaron Rodgers, No. 13 California recorded another convincing victory. | 1 |
Lecavalier #39;s OT goal sends Canada to World Cup final Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Vincent Lecavalier scored from a sharp angle on a second-chance opportunity 3:45 into overtime, lifting Canada to a 4-3 semifinal victory over the Czech Republic and sending the host country to the World Cup final. | 1 |
Indonesia steps up clamp on militants JAKARTA: Indonesian police said yesterday they had redoubled efforts to track militants blamed for a suicide car bomb attack on the Australian embassy, and released video recordings of the powerful blast. | 0 |
Putin #39;s War If Putin Refuses to Change Course Russia #39;s Future is <b>...</b> The bloody end to the hostage crisis in Russia leaves unfathomable human suffering. More than three hundred children, parents and teachers died in the gruesome 52-hour siege that began | 0 |
GREEK PATRIARCH KILLED IN CHOPPER CRASH One of the leading figures in the Greek Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of Alexandria Peter VII, has been killed in a helicopter crash in the Aegean Sea. | 0 |
Explosion reported outside Saudi bank JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Al-Arabiya TV on Saturday reported that an explosion took place outside the Saudi-American Bank in Red Sea city of Jiddah. | 0 |
Two killed in pre-election unrest in Afghanistan Two people have been killed in clashes between troops and stone-throwing protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing a regional governor. | 0 |
Col. John F. Bolt Dies; Fighter Pilot, Double Ace Lt. Col. John F. quot;Jack quot; Bolt, a Marine fighter pilot who was the last surviving American double ace, having shot down at least five enemy airplanes in both World War II and the Korean War, died Sept. | 2 |
Lobbyists Line Up on Overtime Pay Both business and labor lobbyists plan to keep up fight over Bush administration's eligibility rules for overtime pay, despite doubt that legislation can pass this year. | 2 |
Devastation linked to global warming Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year. | 3 |
Jarvis facing collapse as debts mount CRISIS-rocked rail and road contracting firm Jarvis sent its shares crashing again yesterday when it gave warning it faced collapse within weeks if it could not reschedule debt-repayments with its banks. | 2 |
Putin #39;s Strong Hand Fails Russia The mass murderers who seized the school in Beslan, Russia, this month committed one of the most heinous acts of terrorism in world history. | 0 |
Three Palestinians die in Gaza clashes GAZA CITY: Three Palestinians, one a local Hamas leader, were killed yesterday as Israel pressed a major offensive in the Gaza Strip and imposed a watertight closure on the Palestinian territories ahead of the Jewish New Year. | 0 |
Bombers target embassy BASRA: A car bomb exploded near the US embassy office in the southern Iraqi city of Basra yesterday, killing two people and wounding three, but no Americans were injured. | 0 |
The Scalability of Full Content Feeds \\There has been a lot of talk recently about the problem of RSS feeds which\include full content on high bandwidth sites such as MSDN blogs.\\When RSS is used for a site with both a great amount of users, and with frequent\updates, the bandwidth required to deliver realtime events can be problematic.\\Its a real problem. The RSS model requires clients to download the ENTIRE feed\if even ONE item has been modified/added. This means that if you have 55k\subscribers, with 15 RSS items in your feed, and you want to publish one more\post, all 14 additional posts need to be re-downloaded by the client.\\There are a lot of potential solutions. HTTP deltas are one solution but too\difficult to imp ...\\ | 3 |
Mike Weir plods along and hangs onto lead at Bell Canadian Open OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) - If Mike Weir #39;s putter was any better on Saturday, his final round at the Bell Canadian Open would be more of a coronation than a competition. | 1 |
Beckham on target for Real MADRID: A stunning first-half free kick from David Beckham gave Real Madrid a 1-0 win over newly promoted Numancia at the Bernabeu last night. | 1 |
Microsoft's Media Player 10 Sings a New Tune It's amazing to see what an entrenched monopolist will do when it finally meets real competition.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-Rob Pegoraro</b></font> | 3 |
Cards' McCown to Start Cardinals head coach Dennis Green returns the starting quarterback job to his first choice, Josh McCown, for Sunday's game against San Francisco. | 1 |
Yahoo Makes a Deal With The Donald Fans who can't get enough of "The Apprentice" can visit a new companion Web site each week and watch an extra 40 minutes of video not broadcast on the Thursday show.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-Leslie Walker</b></font> | 3 |
SP2 Fights Worms, Has Bugs Microsoft's Web site lists about 40 software programs that may be hampered when its Service Pack 2 is installed and 50 that don't seem to be compatible at all -- these aren't obscure titles, either.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font> | 3 |
No. 9 Ohio State Edges Marshall on Last-Second FG COLUMBUS, Ohio (Sports Network) - Mike Nugent's 55-yard field goal as time expired lifted the ninth-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes to a dramatic 24-21 win over the pesky Marshall Thundering Herd in the first-ever meeting between the teams. | 1 |
Overtime Goal Puts Canada in World Cup Hockey Final TORONTO (Reuters) - Vincent Lecavalier's goal 3:45 into overtime earned Canada a nail-biting 4-3 victory over the Czech Republic on Saturday and a place in the final of the World Cup of Hockey. | 1 |
Report: Illinois Hires Zook Illinois is expected to announce the hiring of former Florida head coach Ron Zook on Tuesday. | 1 |
Russians Rule Again Svetlana Kuznetsova overwhelms Elena Dementieva 6-3, 7-5, on Saturday night in the U.S. Open final, becoming the third Russian woman to win a major this season. | 1 |
'Err' Nebraska Loses Southern Miss converted four of the Cornhuskers' five turnovers into points, beating Nebraska 21-17 Saturday to become the first nonconference opponent to win in Lincoln since 1991. | 1 |
A's Drop Indians The Athletics end their five-game losing skid in dramatic fashion on Saturday, rallying from a 4-0 deficit to beat the Indians 5-4. | 1 |
Hoyas Fall Short Georgetown's offense sputters in a 17-6 loss to Lafayette on Saturday. The defeat drops the Hoyas to 1-1 and keeps them from their first 2-0 start since 1999. | 1 |
Loss Hard to Defend Ravens Coach Brian Billick said the team needs to improve in all areas after a 27-26 loss to Cincinnati, in which they blew a 17-point. | 1 |
Bush Remembers 9/11 With Quiet Observance (AP) AP - President Bush marked the "terrible events" of the Sept. 11 attacks with quiet observances of the third anniversary Saturday and a new call to arms against terrorists who might seek to harm the nation. | 0 |
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