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Special to ESPN.com After a big win over Florida State a strong case could be made that the Miami Hurricanes have an outstanding chance to reach the BCS championship in the Orange Bowl, and when you look at their schedule there is no reason to believe they will fail to make | 1 |
A little tweaking could do great things for the US Open Cup I was among the handful of media and announced crowd of 8,819 at Arrowhead Stadium on Wednesday night for the Championship Match of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. | 1 |
Rutgers player suspended after pleading guilty in attack on <b>...</b> Rutgers basketball player Shalicia Hurns was suspended from the team after pleading guilty to punching and tying up her roommate during a dispute over painkilling drugs. | 1 |
Danger of Image-Borne Viruses Looms (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Hackers are close to finding a way to spread harmful computer viruses just by getting people to open an e-mail message or visiting an infected Web site, computer security experts warned yesterday. | 3 |
Turkey has no more obstacles for EU entry talks: official Turkey has no more obstacles on its path toward the European Union (EU) entry talks, said a senior EU official here Thursday. Speaking after talks with Turkish Prime Minister | 0 |
NATO Reaches Agreement on Iraq The agreement was reached in Brussels on Wednesday after days of negotiations on the size and scope of the mission. In particular, France had refused to agree to the expanded NATO role in Iraq | 0 |
Dangerous Exploit Targets JPEG Flaw (PC World) PC World - A software patch to protect your system is available from Microsoft. | 3 |
Folded Ice Discovered Beneath Antarctica (AP) AP - Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought. | 3 |
Don #39;t write us off against Australia NEW DELHI: India #39;s cricket captain Sourav Ganguly said on Thursday that he was confident the switch from limited-day cricket to traditional five-day tests will change his team #39;s fortunes in next month #39;s home series against Australia. | 1 |
Danger of Image-Borne Viruses Looms Hackers are close to finding a way to spread harmful computer viruses just by getting people to open an e-mail message or visiting an infected Web site, computer security experts warned yesterday. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Cyber criminals step up the pace The last 12 months have seen a huge rise in the number of so-called phishing attacks, say security experts. | 3 |
GE Settles with SEC Over Welch's Perks (Reuters) Reuters - General Electric and\the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled the\industrial giant's failure to disclose former CEO Jack Welch's\lavish retirement package with a cease-and-desist order on\Thursday. | 2 |
Bush Set to Open Oil Reserve Spigot WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With oil prices close to \$50 a barrel, the Bush administration is set to allow oil refineries to borrow crude from the government's emergency petroleum stockpile to make up for supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, a congressional source briefed on the pending decision told Reuters on Thursday. | 2 |
Blue Chips Drop, Oil Reaches \$49 a Barrel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks fell on Thursday and crude oil prices touched \$49 a barrel as traders saw a possible oil loan from U.S. government reserves as too small to make up for supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Ivan. | 2 |
Treasuries Down After Upbeat Fed Minutes CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury prices fell on Thursday as an upbeat ring to the Federal Open Market Committee's August minutes offset support from rising energy prices, which could act a drag on economic growth. | 2 |
Ex-CA CEO Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Computer Associates International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CA.N</A> Chief Executive Sanjay Kumar pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice after a two-year investigation into accounting fraud at the company. | 2 |
Anti-spam screensaver scrapped A controversial campaign by Lycos Europe to attack websites run by spammers has been shut down. | 3 |
Halliburton Says It May Separate KBR Unit Halliburton Co. said Thursday it would restructure its KBR unit and may shed the\business if the company's stock performance continues to lag behind peers. | 2 |
SEC Says GE Violated Law Over Welch Perks General Electric Co. violated the law by failing to fully disclose to investors substantial perks paid to its retired chief executive Jack Welch, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday. | 2 |
Heavy cost of Hurricane Frances Insurance payouts for Hurricane Frances look set to reach \$4.4bn, making it the fourth most expensive storm in US history. | 2 |
Hubble Approaches the Final Frontier: The Dawn of Galaxies Hubble Space Telescope -- Hubble Space Telescope -- Detailed analyses of mankind's deepest optical view of the universe, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), by several expert teams have at last identified what may turn out to be some of the earliest star-forming galaxies. Astronomers are now debating whether the hottest stars in these early galaxies may have provided enough radiation to "lift a curtain" of cold, primordial hydrogen that cooled after the big bang... | 3 |
Weather's Fine at Dress Barn Dress Barn turns in good, not great, results and still blames the weather. | 2 |
AT T's VoIP Venture After hanging up on long distance, the carrier dials for profits through Net telephony. | 2 |
Microsoft tweaks volume-licensing program Among other changes, the software giant has established a Web site designed to make it easier to understand what the program's rules are. | 3 |
Briefly: Microsoft updates home PC package roundup Plus: LookSmart buys Furl.net...Pentagon expands access to voting site...Ad campaign touts multimedia cards...T-Mobile sells Sidekick II. | 3 |
Mandrake in contract to boost Linux security Linux seller gets piece of \$8.6 million French contract after exiting bankruptcy protection. | 3 |
Microsoft updates home PC package The new version of Works Suite includes Word 2002 plus updated editions of several other tools. | 3 |
Dangerous Exploit Targets JPEG Flaw A software patch to protect your system is available from Microsoft. | 3 |
Crude oil regains strength, thanks to Ivan CALGARY - Oil prices rose to their second-highest closing price on record yesterday, a final gift from Hurricane Ivan, which ravaged the US Gulf Coast last week, cutting oil imports south of the border and destroying key production facilities. | 2 |
Hostage Crises Rivet Britain And Italy, But No Solutions In Sight Britain is ruling out negotiations with the captors of Kenneth Bigley, the only surviving member of the trio of American and British contractors taken hostage in Iraq last week. | 0 |
UN Nuclear Watchdog Battles Brazil on Checks at Resende Plant The UN nuclear watchdog agency says it is still negotiating with Brazil concerning inspections at a uranium enrichment plant. An International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, spokesman says a team of experts will | 0 |
Halliburton may shed KBR Unit, a big operator in Iraq, will be separated if it doesn #39;t perform after restructuring. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. | 2 |
Cognos tops forecasts; Midnight Oil merger New York (CBS.MW) - Canadian stocks put in a mixed performance by midday, with the major indexes little changed on the session. Free! | 2 |
Monty still smiling at Woburn A birdie-eagle finish had Colin Montgomerie smiling yet again when he returned to the European Tour after his Ryder Cup heroics. Montgomerie was seven shots adrift of the first-round leaders in The Heritage | 1 |
Contact Centers Await Next-Generation Speech (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - IBM's (NYSE: IBM) donation of some US #36;10 million worth of software to the open-source community to help developers build speech applications was, of course, not completely altruistic. | 3 |
Microsoft Issues First Patch for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has issued its first patch for Service Pack 2, which has been on the market for just a month and a half. The patch fixes a flaw in the VPN, or virtual private \network. | 3 |
Groups Challenge Rules on Pesticides (AP) AP - Environmental groups went to court Thursday against Bush administration rules that allow the use of new pesticides with fewer checks on how they affect endangered species. | 3 |
Ryder Cup stars return with a bump (AFP) AFP - Colin Montgomerie, who sank the winning Ryder Cup putt last weekend, returned to the European Tour with a bump with only a late flourish keeping him in contention on the first day of The Heritage tournament. | 0 |
Iraq Beheadings: Medium Becomes Message (AP) AP - For centuries, it has been one of humanity's most graphic, gruesome ways to end a life: sever the head, home to thoughts, dreams and that most personal of features #151; the face. Decapitation by hand, with sword or knife, smacks of ugly yesterdays #151; things the West prefers to think it has left behind. | 0 |
US warns N. Korea against missile tests, urges return to nuclear talks (AFP) AFP - US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned North Korea against carrying out any new missile tests, saying Washington would not be intimidated into changing its policy towards the Stalinist state. | 0 |
'A Massive Experiment' In Voting On Nov. 2, some 6 million Washington-area voters will use touch-screen machines, a key test of a new technology that will play a major role in deciding what promises to be a very close presidential election. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2"\ color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT> | 3 |
Graham defends U.S. missile plan, but won't say for sure if Canada's joining (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's possible entry into the U.S. missile-defence program still hinges on talks with the Americans, says Defence Minister Bill Graham. | 0 |
Bush Shrugs Off Bad Polls on Iraq Outlook (AP) AP - President Bush on Thursday shrugged off polls that suggest most Iraqis see Americans as occupiers not liberators. "I saw a poll that said the right track-wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America," he told reporters. | 0 |
Pentagon Restores Voting Web Site Access (AP) AP - The Pentagon has restored access to a Web site that assists soldiers and other Americans living overseas in voting, after receiving complaints that its security measures were preventing legitimate voters from using it. | 0 |
House Blocks Court on Pledge Case Rulings WASHINGTON - The House passed legislation Thursday that would prevent the Supreme Court from ruling on whether the words "under God" should be stricken from the Pledge of Allegiance. In a politically and emotionally charged debate, Democrats said majority Republicans in the chamber were debasing the Constitution in order to force a vote that could hurt Democrats in the election... | 0 |
Bush: Terrorists May Plan More Attacks WASHINGTON - Standing beside Iraq's interim leader, President Bush contended Thursday that insurgents could "plot and plan attacks elsewhere, in America and other free nations," if the United States pulled out. He said his top commander there has not asked for more troops but if he did, "I'd listen to him." After meeting with interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Bush said he expects violence in Iraq to escalate as the country moves toward elections scheduled for January... | 0 |
Stevens Returns to U.K. After Detention LONDON - Puzzled and angry at being barred from the United States, Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, returned to London on Thursday vowing to find out why. Surrounded by a throng of reporters at Heathrow Airport, Islam said it was ludicrous that he's on Washington's no-fly list, suspected of ties to terrorists, and said he would challenge the decision to block him from entering the country... | 0 |
Hamilton Will Keep Cycling Gold Medal GENEVA - Tyler Hamilton will keep his Olympic cycling gold medal because a backup drug test was inconclusive, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday. Hamilton tested positive for signs of blood doping in the initial sample Aug... | 0 |
Mo. Man Legally Changes His Name to 'They' BRANSON, Mo. - A Branson man has put a face to the anonymous references people often make to "they" by changing his name to just that: "They." The former Andrew Wilson, a 43-year-old self-employed inventor, was granted legal permission last week by a circuit judge to change his name... | 0 |
Stocks Mixed on Slow Economy, Oil Prices NEW YORK - A slowdown in economic growth and oil prices climbing to near record highs renewed Wall Street's fears of disappointing third-quarter earnings Thursday and pushed stocks mostly lower. Only the Nasdaq composite index managed a minimal gain... | 0 |
Briefly: Jail time for California swappers? roundup Plus: Microsoft updates home PC package...LookSmart buys Furl.net...Microsoft tweaks volume-licensing program...Pentagon expands access to voting site. | 3 |
Orange Unveils 3G Phones in Long-Delayed Launch LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Orange unveiled its third-generation (3G) mobile phones in a long-delayed commercial launch, with seven new handset models aimed at its key French market and at least four at Britain in time for Christmas. | 3 |
Update 2: Judge OKs Interstate Bakeries #39; Financing A federal bankruptcy judge approved a \$50 million loan to Interstate Bakeries Corp. on Thursday so the maker of Wonder Bread and Hostess Twinkies can continue operating for another month. | 2 |
TV deal sends Martha Stewart Living shares soaring NEW YORK - Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia jumped to a two-year high Thursday on word that she has signed a TV deal with the producer of Survivor. | 2 |
Update 1: Proposed Bailout of Trump Casinos Shelved Donald J. Trump may have a new project for his apprentices - helping him try to figure out how to take his troubled casino company private after a proposed bailout fell through. | 2 |
Stocks mixed, tech sector gets minor boost as oil prices near <b>...</b> TORONTO (CP) - Stock markets were mainly lower Thursday afternoon as oil prices inched toward record levels and investors dealt with lacklustre economic data. | 2 |
Rodriguez Wins His Fourth Stage in Spain (AP) AP - Spain's Javier Pascual Rodriguez edged Colombia's Ivan Parra at the finish Thursday to win the 18th stage of the Spanish Vuelta, his fourth win of the race. | 1 |
Mystics Make Surprising Run to Playoffs (AP) AP - Throughout the WNBA, the question this week has been: How on earth did the Washington Mystics make the playoffs without Chamique Holdsclaw? | 1 |
Roddick to open US Davis Cup bid against Belarus US world number two Andy Roddick will face Belarus #39; Vladimir Voltchkov in the opening singles tie of their Davis Cup semi-final on Friday. | 1 |
UPDATE 2-Ryder Cup quartet trail McDowell, O #39;Hern, Lara Briton Graeme McDowell, Australian Nick O #39;Hern and Spain #39;s Jose Manuel Lara shared the Heritage first round lead on Thursday as four members of Europe #39;s victorious Ryder Cup team returned to action. | 1 |
Waters rewarded with two-year extension PISCATAWAY, NJ -- After winning 20 games in a season for the first time in 21 years and reaching the NIT championship game, Rutgers rewarded men #39;s basketball coach Gary Waters with a two-year extension. | 1 |
Bears' Secondary Forced to Play Hurt (AP) AP - Bears cornerback Todd McMillon just laughed when asked if he could guess what the Minnesota Vikings were thinking about the injuries that have devastated Chicago's secondary. | 1 |
UK hostage mother appeals captors to show mercy The 86-year-old mother of British hostage Kenneth Bigley held in Iraq joined on Thursday appeals made by his family for his safe release, as the British government made clear that it would not deal with the kidnappers. | 0 |
Part 1 of 2: The evolution of Indonesian democracy Although it is yet to be officially announced, it now seems certain that Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) will become Indonesia #39;s next president. | 0 |
Terror cell arrests rise to 12 SECURITY forces had arrested two more people, bringing to 12 the number of suspects held after authorities broke up an al-Qaeda cell plotting to blow up Italian and Ukrainian embassies and kill Western diplomats, a judicial official said today. | 0 |
Court Denies New Trial for Hockey Death (AP) AP - The state appeals court Thursday declined to allow a new trial for a father convicted of beating a man to death at their sons' hockey practice. | 1 |
Rutgers Player Suspended on Guilty Plea (AP) AP - Rutgers basketball player Shalicia Hurns was suspended from the team after pleading guilty to punching and tying up her roommate during a dispute over painkilling drugs. | 1 |
Robby Gordon Put on Probation for Rest of Year Welcome, N.C. (Sports Network) - Robby Gordon was placed on probation Thursday for the rest of the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series season by Richard Childress Racing. | 1 |
Roddick to Open U.S. Davis Cup Bid Against Belarus CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - U.S. world number two Andy Roddick will face Belarus' Vladimir Voltchkov in the opening singles tie of their Davis Cup semi-final Friday. | 1 |
Ryder Cup Quartet Trail McDowell, O'Hern, Lara WOBURN, England (Reuters) - Briton Graeme McDowell, Australian Nick O'Hern and Spain's Jose Manuel Lara shared the Heritage first round lead Thursday as four members of Europe's victorious Ryder Cup team returned to action. | 1 |
New, dangerous Microsoft JPEG exploit released New computer code that exploits a recently disclosed hole in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer Web browser is circulating on the Internet and could allow remote attackers to take full control of vulnerable Windows machines, according to warnings from antivirus companies and Internet security experts. | 3 |
WiMax wings into the wild world of wireless Tired of new wireless technologies? Then stop reading. Because here's a story about a new wireless system that could someday eclipse the Wi-Fi service you've just begun to understand. | 3 |
Oil Prices Rise as Supply Concerns Linger NEW YORK (Reuters) - World oil prices rose on Thursday as concerns over a supply shortage after Hurricane Ivan persisted despite news the U.S. will loan some oil from its reserves to refineries to make up for lost production. | 2 |
Scientists Reverse Paralysis in Dogs (AP) AP - Dogs with paralyzed hind legs regained the ability to walk after getting a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze that helped repair nerve cells in their damaged spinal cords, scientists reported. | 3 |
Blue Chips Drop, Oil Reaches \$49 a Barrel NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks fell on Thursday and crude oil prices touched \$49 a barrel as traders saw a possible oil loan from U.S. government reserves as too small to make up for supply disruptions caused by Hurricane Ivan. | 2 |
Pre-Dinosaur Reptile Discovered -- Long-Necked Hunter The ancient reptile had short and broad limbs with relatively few bones in the wrist and ankle joints, an indication that it was more adapted to an aquatic lifestyle than other protorosaurs. | 3 |
PeopleSoft Offers Incentives In a move to retain and attract new customers, PeopleSoft has announced a new promotion that includes a free technical upgrade to all users, and a free first quarter of application management services following go-live from PeopleSoft Global Services. | 3 |
Montgomerie enjoys another grandstand finish Another grandstand finish earned Europe #39;s Ryder Cup talisman Colin Montgomerie a standing ovation from the 18th green gallery, this time at the Duke #39;s Course in The Heritage tournament on Thursday. | 1 |
Wild Thing, I Think I Love You Last season, when the Boston Red Sox clinched the wild-card spot in the baseball postseason, the players staged a frenzied celebration on the field at Fenway Park. | 1 |
Haiti Storm Death Toll Could Reach 2,000 Hungry, thirsty and increasingly desperate residents attacked each other in a panic to get scarce food and water Thursday as workers struggled to bury hundreds of corpses six days after the city was struck by Tropical Storm Jeanne. | 0 |
3 Palestinians Shot Dead After Killing 3 Israeli Soldiers Relying on a dense fog for cover, three Palestinian gunmen reached an Israeli Army outpost in the Gaza Strip early today and shot dead three soldiers before the attackers were themselves killed. | 0 |
Scientists Test Organic Waste Technology (AP) AP - Lycoming County officials and scientists are testing technology they hope will turn organic waste into profitable byproducts. | 3 |
Scientists Seek Limit on Shark Killings (AP) AP - An international decision that it's illegal to cut the fins off of a shark and then dump the carcass is a great first step, but more is needed to protect sharks, experts say. | 3 |
Brokers Dip As AG Edwards Misses Brokerage stocks fell for the second straight day Thursday after regional firm AG Edwards Inc. blamed sluggish equity markets as the main reason it missed Wall Street expectations for its fiscal second-quarter earnings. | 2 |
Putnam to Disclose More About Fees Mutual-fund firm Putnam Investments announced it will provide more information about its fees, brokerage commissions and executive pay as part of an effort to regain footing in the wake of the mutual-fund trading scandals. | 2 |
Human Stem Cells Show Potential for Eye Repair Corporate researchers working outside controversial federal restraints said on Thursday they had engineered human stem cells that they believe could be used to repair eyes. | 2 |
Study: Government data limited on offshoring A new report from Congress #39; research arm about quot;offshoring quot; sheds little light about the controversial practice of sending services work abroad. | 2 |
Ireland Cracks Down on Internet Fraud (AP) AP - Ireland has become the first country on earth to cut off direct-dialed calls to entire nations in a bid to crack down on Internet-based fraud. | 3 |
Ancient Sea Reptile Explains Long Neck The fossil of a sea reptile with a neck twice as long as its body is solving the mystery of how some ancient reptiles used their long appendages. | 3 |
Ireland Cracks Down on Internet Fraud Ireland has become the first country on earth to cut off direct-dialed calls to entire nations in a bid to crack down on Internet-based fraud. | 3 |
Montgomerie has strong finish at The Heritage Ryder Cup star Colin Montgomerie had a birdie and eagle on the last two holes Thursday, shooting a 1-under-par 71 Thursday that left him four strokes behind the leaders after the first round of The Heritage. | 1 |
North vs. South baseball wars, California style With apologies to the Mamas and Papas, California isn #39;t just dreamin #39; about the baseball playoffs as the regular seasons winds down. | 1 |
Braves try to clinch 13th straight division title Bobby Cox has guided the Braves to a record 12 consecutive division crowns. On Thursday, Atlanta can extend that streak to 13 with a win coupled with a loss by the Florida Marlins. | 1 |
Calif. Panel Weighs Greenhouse Gas Plan for Cars (Reuters) Reuters - A plan to require automakers to\cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks by about 30\percent is expected to be approved on Thursday by the\California Air Resources Board, backers and opponents said. | 3 |
New Way to Help Find Quake Survivors -Sniffer Rats (Reuters) Reuters - Sniffer rescue dogs trained to find\explosives or earthquake survivors buried in rubble may soon\have some competition -- rats. | 3 |
Bush Set to Open Oil Reserve Spigot WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With oil near \$50 a barrel, the Bush administration is set to allow oil refineries to borrow from the government's emergency petroleum stockpile to make up for supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, a congressional source briefed on the pending decision told Reuters on Thursday. | 2 |
Blue Chips End Lower After Oil Hits \$49 NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue-chip stocks declined to the lowest level in more than a month on Thursday as crude oil prices touched \$49 a barrel and renewed concerns that high fuel costs will erode corporate profits. | 2 |
Ex-CA Chief Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Computer Associates International Inc. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=CA.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">CA.N</A> Chief Executive Sanjay Kumar pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice after a two-year investigation into the company's accounting practices. | 2 |
Tyler Hamilton Cleared to Keep Olympic Gold - IOC LONDON (Reuters) - Olympic time trial champion Tyler Hamilton has been cleared of any doping offence at the Athens Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday. | 1 |
Grey-Thompson Takes 10th Paralympic Gold ATHENS (Reuters) - Britain's Tanni Grey-Thompson bounced back from a disappointing show in the 800 meters to take gold in the T53 100 meters Thursday. | 1 |
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