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eBay to clean up racial slurs Madison City Councilwoman Cynthia McCollum played a key role in the National League of Cities #39; negotiations with eBay to limit the use of racially derogatory words on listings on eBay #39;s Web site. | 3 |
Crass interference or no flag? Whatever you do, don #39;t ask Colts coach Tony Dungy, #39; #39;Are you ready for some football? #39; #39;. Dungy lambasted ABC, the NFL and the Eagles for the cross-promotion of the network #39;s new hit show #39; #39;Desperate Housewives | 1 |
Woods on top at rain-soaked Dunlop Phoenix Tiger Woods fired a superb five-under-par 65 in torrential rain to take a three-stoke lead after the first round of the Dunlop Phoenix tournament on Thursday. | 1 |
FOOTBALL: FAB TAKES MICC TO DUMP FINNS A GOAL from Fiorentina striker Fabrizio Miccoli gave a rookie Italian side victory over Finland. Coach Marcello Lippi fielded only a handful of the players who have helped his side to the top of Scotland #39;s World Cup qualifying group. | 1 |
Bulls nearing wrong record OAKLAND, Calif. -- What little optimism there was before the start of the season has all but faded, and it appears the only record-setting performances by the Bulls this season will be of the dubious variety. | 1 |
Cubs not out of options for closer Cubs general manager Jim Hendry wasn #39;t down for long Wednesday after learning free-agent closer Troy Percival had signed with the Tigers. | 1 |
Australia play game of patience Paceman Michael Kasprowicz justified Australia #39;s decision to retain him in the team ahead of Brett Lee by taking 3-54 against New Zealand in Brisbane. | 1 |
Minorities remain rare in power The low number of minorities coaching in college football reflects a lack of diversity among college and conference leaders, according to a University of Central Florida study released Wednesday. | 1 |
UN Security Council meets in Kenya to discuss Sudan #39;s civil wars NAIROBI, Kenya Kofi Annan (AN #39;-nan) has called on the UN Security Council to give quot;the strongest warning quot; to forces fighting in Sudan to end its civil wars. | 0 |
Russia Says It Will Build Nukes That No One Else Has Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced plans to build new nuclear weapons, which he said other nuclear powers did not yet have and were unlikely to develop. | 0 |
Mercenaries to testify against Thatcher in coup case Several South African mercenaries have agreed to testify against the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Sir Mark Thatcher. | 0 |
Moratorium on Web Tax Advances (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Congress yesterday cleared the way to keep access to the Internet largely free from taxes for the next three years, breaking a year-long deadlock. | 3 |
Greens Paint Grim Picture of Future, Warmer World (Reuters) Reuters - Environmentalists forecast a grim\future for planet Earth Thursday, predicting that droughts,\heatwaves and hurricanes will become increasingly common and\more severe if global warming is allowed to continue unchecked. | 3 |
House GOP Alters Its Rules to Shield Combative DeLay (Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON #8212; House Republicans changed a party rule Wednesday to allow Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas to remain as majority leader even if indicted in an investigation of campaign finance violations in his home state. | 0 |
US dollar hits record low against euro; Snow rules out <b>...</b> NEW YORK, November 18 (newratings.com) - The US dollar declined to a new record low against the euro and dropped against the yen yesterday, following the news of the US Treasury Secretary, John W Snow, ruling out government intervention to stem the | 2 |
Euro continues surge against US dollar, hitting new high of <b>...</b> The dollar plunged to a new low against the euro Thursday, which hit \$1.3074 US in a rise that has been fuelled by nagging concerns about high oil prices and Washington #39;s trade and budget deficits. | 2 |
UC Regents fail quot;Multi-racial quot; action The University of California Board of Regents opted against Regent Ward Connerly #39;s proposal to adopt a multi-racial check box option on admissions applications at its Wednesday meeting at UCLA. | 3 |
Chirac in London for Entente Cordiale talks Tony Blair is set to hold Entente Cordiale talks with Jacques Chirac, the French president, in London today. The talks, to mark 100 years of the relationship, are likely to be tense with regards to relations with America and the war in Iraq. | 0 |
UN appeals for release of workers in Afghanistan The United Nations again appealed for the safe return of three of its workers held hostage in Afghanistan on Thursday, three weeks after they were snatched from their car on a busy street in central Kabul. | 0 |
Rebels Attack Governor's Office in Iraqi City (Reuters) Reuters - Rebels attacked the provincial\governor's office in Iraq's third city of Mosul on Thursday,\killing one of his bodyguards and wounding four more, the U.S.\military said. | 0 |
Nitties grabs one-stroke lead in Australian PGA Rookie professional James Nitties fired a two-under-par 70 on Saturday to snatch a one-stroke lead ahead of American Bob Estes after the third round of the Australian PGA Championship. | 1 |
Specter of inflation, led by gasoline, rising again WASHINGTON - Consumer prices in October posted their biggest increase in five months, pinching people #39;s pocketbooks at the gasoline pump and at the grocery store. | 2 |
Microsoft devotes entire department to filtering spam from Gates #39; <b>...</b> The Microsoft Corp. chairman receives four million e-mails a day, but practically an entire department at the company he founded is dedicated to ensuring that nothing unwanted gets into his inbox, the company #39;s chief executive said Thursday. | 3 |
Barracuda 7200.8 has 400GB capacity Seagate has launched the highest capacity PC hard disk to date. Pitched at desktop computers, the new Barracuda 7200.8 hard disk is a 7200rpm model that #39;s available with either a fast SATA or Ultra ATA interface | 3 |
Lippi Praises New Boys Italy coach Marcello Lippi was happy with the performances of the newcomers after the 1-0 friendly win over Finland. quot;This builds morale for the lads who gradually relaxed into their stride and their confidence grew as time went on, quot; he said. | 1 |
Sudan govt, southern rebels pledge peace accord Sudan #39;s government and southern rebels promised on Thursday to complete a peace accord as soon as possible to end a 21-year-old civil war and resolve reconciliation efforts dogged by innumerable delays. | 0 |
Vote due on new Europe Commission The European Parliament was expected to endorse the 24-member European Union executive Thursday after new European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso moved to solve the legislature #39;s objections to his lineup. | 0 |
Solanki innings a pure delight Only a demonstration which is violently dispersed and therefore provokes the abandonment of this tour, or rain, can prevent England wrapping up the one-day series 4-0 today. | 1 |
Microsoft Warns Asian Governments of Linux Lawsuits SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. warned Asian governments on Thursday they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software. | 3 |
Reuters Up on Report Instinet Up for Sale LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in global news and information provider Reuters Group Plc rose to their highest level since April after a report Thursday that the firm may sell its U.S. electronic trading subsidiary, dealers said. | 2 |
Soccer / English Premier League - No change as top four win Chelsea maintained its drive for the team #39;s first title in 50 years when it thrashed Newcastle United 4-0 at Stamford Bridge yesterday to stay five points ahead of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League. | 1 |
Sen. McCain calls on baseball to #39;restore the integrity #39; Sen. John McCain demands that Major League Baseball #39;s players and owners tighten the sport #39;s drug-testing policy to quot;restore the integrity quot; of the game. | 1 |
Ofcom delivers ultimatum to BT Ofcom has challenged BT to come up with proposals for opening up its networks to competitors to help speed the growth of telecoms services including broadband - or face a possible Competition Commission investigation. | 2 |
Update 7: Sagging Dollar Hits New Low Against Euro The sagging US dollar plunged to a new low Thursday against the euro, which hit US\$1.3074 in a surge that has been fueled by nagging concerns about high oil prices and the US trade and budget deficits. | 2 |
Royal Mail posts daily 1m profit The Royal Mail today said it was on course for recovery, revealing it was making 1m a day after having lost 1m a day two years ago. | 2 |
Crematory operator to get 12 years Ray Brent Marsh, who is to enter the plea Friday, had faced up to 8,000 years in a case that shocked the nation two years ago when investigators found hundreds of rotting corpses stacked in storage sheds and scattered in woods outside his rural northwest | 2 |
Dexia Says It #39;s in Talks With Italy #39;s Sanpaolo IMI (Update3) Dexia SA, Belgium #39;s second-largest financial-services company, is in discussions about a potential partnership with Sanpaolo IMI SpA, Italy #39;s No. | 2 |
Ads to pop up when TiVo users scan past commercials (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Beginning in March, a static pop-up ad, or "billboard," will spring up as TiVo users skip through an ad - perhaps a logo for an advertiser, plus a message encouraging viewers to check out a new car or enter a contest. | 3 |
Unlike apes, humans were born to run, study says There #39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago. | 3 |
Google for the scholarly community The Internet search giant Google Inc. on late Wednesday unveiled Google Scholar, its next service aimed at listing scholarly literature such as theses, books and technical reports that appears to be most relevant to a search request. | 3 |
Seagate ships 400Gb drive Hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technology is now shipping what it claims is the world #39;s largest capacity hard drive holding a whopping 400Gb. | 3 |
New Mexico gov. urges UC to bid on Los Alamos If University of California regents listen to a former energy secretary and top Democratic politician, they will fight hard to keep running the birthplace of the bomb -- and leave to others | 3 |
Microsoft issues warning about Linux lawsuits Microsoft has warned Asian governments they could face patent lawsuits for using the Linux operating system instead of its Windows software. | 3 |
UC regents vote down plan for #39;multiracial #39; category day shot down a proposal to create a quot;multiracial quot; box on freshman application forms -- a plan suggested by Regent Ward Connerly that quickly became a flashpoint in lingering debates over affirmative action. | 3 |
Cisco Pays \$16M To Acquire Network Management Firm RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - Cisco Systems is acquiring a California-based network management appliance developer for approximately \$16 million in cash. | 3 |
Kasprowicz shines as Aussies dominate first day At stumps on Day One of the first Test match at the Gabba in Brisbane, Australia are poised to bowl their Kiwi counterparts out for a mediocre score with New Zealand at 7/250. | 1 |
Brown returns to steer Pistons past Timberwolves There was an elevated chair in front of the Detroit Pistons bench for head coach Larry Brown and his still-on-the-mend left hip. It was there to provide him with added | 1 |
NHL Lockout May Not Be Ending Any Time Soon Chicago An NHL lockout that #39;s already nine weeks old won #39;t end anytime soon unless owners show some willingness to negotiate, agents said after a meeting with the players #39; union. | 1 |
Israel Army Mistakenly Kills Three Egyptian Soldiers Israeli troops killed three Egyptian soldiers along the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. Israel has apologized for what it says was an quot;operational mistake quot; and has begun an investigation into the incident. | 0 |
EU set to end limbo as lawmakers vote European Union (EU) lawmakers gathered Thursday for a vote widely expected to appove the bloc #39;s new executive arm, ending three weeks of institutional limbo for the expanding bloc. | 0 |
Westwood takes lead in South Africa Lee Westwood led the Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa Saturday with a score of 5-under-par 211 for three rounds. The British player shot a 1-under 71 for a one-shot lead over Retief Goosen of South Africa. | 1 |
Overseas executives flock to UK The number of overseas executives moving to the UK has more than doubled over the past 10 years, a survey says. | 2 |
Ministers promise annuity review The issue of compulsory annuities will be reviewed, the government pledges, after another defeat in the Lords over the rule. | 2 |
Karachi bomb 'mastermind' quizzed Pakistani police question the alleged mastermind of a deadly bomb attack on the US consulate in Karachi in 2002. | 0 |
SBC, Microsoft team up on TV over broadband (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - For SBC Communications, Wednesday's deal with Microsoft for software to deliver television programming to homes over high-speed lines is the latest broadside in the company's battle to compete with cable companies. | 3 |
Reuters Up on Report Instinet Up for Sale (Reuters) Reuters - Shares in global news and information\provider Reuters Group Plc rose to their highest level since\April after a report Thursday that the firm may sell its U.S.\electronic trading subsidiary, dealers said. | 2 |
SAP sets back medium-term profitability targets (AFP) AFP - SAP, the world's leading maker of business software, may need an extra year to achieve its medium-term profit target of an operating margin of 30 percent, its chief financial officer said. | 0 |
Israel Releases Senior Hamas Leader (AP) AP - Israel released the top Hamas leader in the West Bank from prison on Thursday after he finished a 28-month sentence for being a member of an outlawed organization. | 0 |
European Shares Flat as Euro Keeps Up Run LONDON (Reuters) - European stock markets held near 28-month highs Thursday as investors stayed confident in the ability of firms to continue boosting profits in the face of the euro's extended push past \$1.30 to all-time highs. | 2 |
UN warns of Afghan 'drug state' Afghanistan could become a "narco-state" after opium cultivation rose by two-thirds this year, the UN warns. | 0 |
Microsoft 'warns of Linux claims' Microsoft tells Asian leaders that they could face intellectual property rights claims if they use free Linux software, a report says. | 2 |
BT Group PLC Escapes Breakup Britain #39;s telecommunications regulator backed away from breaking up BT Group PLC on Thursday and instead ordered the industry giant to improve competitor access to its networks. | 2 |
Attention shoppers: Kmart to buy Sears Will Martha Stewart appear in Sears? Will Craftsman tools show up at Kmart? And will Sears move out of the malls and into the home of the flashing blue light? | 2 |
Bolingbrook call center to create hundreds of jobs US Cellular vows to create hundreds of jobs when it opens a new Bolingbrook call center next year in a facility vacated by a competitor. | 2 |
Microsoft #39;s Gates Is World #39;s Most #39;Spammed #39; Person E-mail users inundated with unsolicited quot;spam quot; messages have reason to hope Microsoft Corp. will develop better tools for tackling the problem: Bill Gates is suffering more than anyone. | 3 |
Linux keeper, SpikeSource CEO talk up open source Accommodating large patch sets in Linux is expected to mean forking off of the 2.7 version of the platform to accommodate these changes, according to Andrew Morton, lead maintainer of the Linux kernel for Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). | 3 |
Racist taunts at England-Spain Fans taunted black players on England #39;s team Wednesday night during Spain #39;s 1-0 victory in an exhibition game. Fans at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium made monkey sounds whenever Shaun Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole had the ball. | 1 |
Russia Working on New Generation Atomic Bomb Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that they are working on a new generation of atomic bomb, which no other country has or can get. | 0 |
Barroso Commission approved The European Parliament has approved Jose Manuel Barroso #39;s revamped executive European Commission by a wide margin, ending a three-week political standoff that boosted the assembly #39;s power. | 0 |
Karachi bomb #39;mastermind #39; quizzed The alleged mastermind of a deadly bomb attack outside the US consulate in Karachi two years ago has been arrested near the Pakistani city of Lahore. | 0 |
Afghan Kidnappers Set Final Deadline KABUL, 16 November 2004 - Afghan captors holding three UN workers hostage in Afghanistan extended a deadline yesterday for their demands to be met, blaming the US for disrupting negotiations aimed at securing the captives release. | 0 |
Israel Apologizes After Tank Kills 3 Egyptian Police JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli tank killed three Egyptian policemen on the Gaza-Egypt border Thursday, prompting an Israeli apology for what the army said was a tragic error when it mistook them for Palestinian militants. | 0 |
Lycos Europe removes anti-spam screensaver from website Lycos Europe, founders of the quot;Make Love Not Spam quot; initiative, has pulled their bandwidth-targeting screensaver from the site. | 3 |
MPAA files first suits against movie file-swappers The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced on Tuesday that it has begun filing lawsuits against people who use peer-to-peer (P2P) software to trade movie files without permission over the internet. | 3 |
#39;Appalled #39; Caborn to launch protest The sports minister Richard Caborn joined Sven-Goran Eriksson and the Football Association in condemning the racist chanting that marred the friendly between Spain and England last night. | 1 |
UN Security Council to Discuss Sudan UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Thursday to issue quot;the strongest warning quot; to the forces fighting in Sudan to bring an end to the civil wars there. | 0 |
Phishing Feeds Internet Black Markets (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - William Jackson never thought he would be grateful for going bankrupt. | 3 |
British retailers see subdued start to Christmas period (AFP) AFP - British retail sales fell in October for the first time for three months, official figures showed, raising worries about a subdued start to the crucial Christmas trading period. | 2 |
Right-Winger Fini Is New Italy Official (AP) AP - Gianfranco Fini, a right-wing leader who has turned his party from Neo-Fascist to mainstream conservative, was appointed Thursday as Italy's new foreign minister, a Cabinet minister said. | 0 |
Iraq Assessments: Insurgents Not Giving Up (AP) AP - The recapture of Fallujah has not broken the insurgents' will to fight and may not pay the big dividend U.S. planners had hoped #151; to improve security enough to hold national elections in Sunni Muslim areas of central Iraq, according to U.S. and Iraqi assessments. | 0 |
Limited Brands Posts Lower Earnings (Reuters) Reuters - Limited Brands Inc. on\Thursday posted lower third-quarter earnings, and left its\outlook for the fourth quarter and full year unchanged. | 2 |
NASA's Eyes in the Sky to Help Global Conservation (Reuters) Reuters - Space agency NASA, which first put man\on the moon, will now help to map the Earth in the name of\conservation, the agency announced on Thursday. | 3 |
800 cheque in post for every mail worker EVERY postal worker in the country is in line for a windfall of at least 800 after the Royal Mail announced today it was making profits of 1 million a day. | 2 |
IRS looks for Arkansans due checks The Internal Revenue Service is looking for more than 600 Arkansans whose federal income tax refund checks totaling almost \$424,000 were returned to the IRS as undeliverable by the Postal Service. | 2 |
One in four Californians consider moving A fourth of all Californians are thinking about moving - either out of state or just to another town - to bring down their housing costs, a new survey shows. | 2 |
Greek sprinters charged over missed drugs test Disgraced Greek sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou have been charged with obstructing a dope test on the eve of August #39;s Athens Olympics and providing authorities | 1 |
Israel Releases Top Hamas Member from Jail Israel freed Hamas #39;s top West Bank leader Thursday after two years in jail and he swiftly called on the Jewish state to release all Palestinian inmates as a condition for any truce. | 0 |
British minister slams #39;old-fashioned #39; Prince Charles over <b>...</b> Prince Charles is quot;old-fashioned quot; and out of touch with Britain #39;s education system, a cabinet minister said Thursday. | 0 |
Phishing Feeds Internet Black Markets Phishing is a growing form of online fraud that blends old-fashioned confidence scams with innovations in technological trickery. Today and Friday, washingtonpost.com explores the methods phishers use, how e-businesses are dealing with the problem and what phishing has done to its thousands of victims. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-washingtonpost.com</b></font> | 3 |
Incentives Attract Jobs to Northern Virginia More than two-thirds of 11,000 new technology jobs to be created in Virginia will be in the Washington suburbs, mostly in Fairfax County, Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) said yesterday. | 3 |
Running 'key to human evolution' US researchers say humans began endurance running about 2 million years ago to help hunt for prey. | 3 |
Kmart to buy Sears in \$11B deal The fate of two local retail stores may not be known for months in the wake of the announcement Wednesday of the \$11 billion merger of Kmart and Sears. | 2 |
Royal Mail meets some targets Royal Mail says it returned to profit at the underlying level during its first half and that it beat 7 of its 15 performance targets in the latest quarter. | 2 |
Sears, Kmart Want To Call Layoffs #39;Head Count Changes #39; NEW YORK -- Sears and K-mart say they will save \$500 million a year if their merger goes through. Some of that will be in job cuts, though the companies aren #39;t saying how many. | 2 |
Enron case focuses on Lay stock sale HOUSTON, Texas - Federal authorities are investigating whether former Enron Chairman Ken Lay #39;s wife acted improperly when she had their family foundation sell large quantities of Enron stock just days before the company #39;s bankruptcy. | 2 |
On the horizon About 2 million years ago, humans began to jog - perhaps to hunt animals or scavenge carcasses on the vast savannahs of Africa. And the ability to run long distances shaped our anatomy, allowing us to evolve | 3 |
Yahoo!, Microsoft extend deal Web portal signs extension to provide paid searches to Microsoft as it builds its own service. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo! Inc. said Thursday it agreed to provide paid search services to Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Remote control rifle range debuts A Texas company is considering letting web users use a remote-controlled rifle to shoot down deer, antelope and wild pigs. For a small fee users will take control of a camera and rifle that they can use to | 3 |
Federer waits out rain, beats Hewitt HOUSTON Top-seeded Roger Federer beat Lleyton Hewitt in straight sets in a rain-soaked second round of the ATP Masters Cup tennis championships in Houston. | 1 |
Bulls still lost on road Mike Montgomery didn #39;t know what city he was in or what day it was by the time the Warriors #39; five-game road trip ended in Cleveland. | 1 |
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