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Big Jake makes his mark he #39;s the tallest, most solidly-built player in international cricket at the moment. The next thing that gets your attention | 1 |
Legacy key element of bid paper A massive injection of cash for grassroots sport and a new national stadium for athletics are included in a multi-million pound legacy promised by London #39;s bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. | 1 |
NBA Game Summary - Cleveland At Charlotte Charlotte, NC -- LeBron James poured in a game-high 19 points and Jeff McInnis scored 18 as the Cleveland Cavaliers routed the Charlotte Bobcats, 106-89, at the Charlotte Coliseum. | 1 |
Cordiale Welcome for Chirac French president Jacques Chirac enjoyed a day of lavish hospitality as he visited Britain to celebrate the centenary of the Entente Cordiale. | 0 |
Russia Formally Commits to Climate Pact Russia is expected to formally agree to the Kyoto Protocol on global warming today, following its signing into law by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month. | 0 |
Thousands to be freed from Myanmar jails The military leaders in Myanmar have decided to release about 4,000 prisoners the leaders admit were wrongly imprisoned. The media in the repressive state, formerly called | 0 |
GOP Governors Cheer Election Wins (AP) AP - Buoyed by President Bush's re-election and a political map with coast-to-coast Republican leaders, GOP governors gathered Thursday to cheer their electoral fortunes and discuss solving familiar fiscal problems at home. | 0 |
House Ethics Panel Rebukes DeLay Accuser (AP) AP - The House ethics committee Thursday night turned the tables on Majority Leader Tom DeLay's accuser, rebuking Rep. Chris Bell for exaggerating misconduct allegations against the GOP leader. | 0 |
F.D.A. Failing in Drug Safety, Official Asserts Federal drug regulators are "virtually incapable of protecting America" from unsafe drugs, a federal drug safety reviewer told a Congressional panel. | 2 |
Former Viacom Chief Named to Lead Sirius Mel Karmazin, who quit as president of Viacom after a power struggle with his boss, has resurfaced as the new chief executive of Sirius Satellite Radio. | 2 |
IRS Audits More of the Wealthy and Fewer Small Companies The Internal Revenue Service, in the midst of a crackdown on aggressive tax shelters, is auditing significantly more wealthy individuals and large companies, but is increasingly shying away from scrutinizing smaller businesses. | 2 |
ExpressJet Pilots Ratify Labor Agreement HOUSTON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. today announced that its pilots represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) ratified a new labor agreement. | 2 |
U2 sees iPod TV spots as synergy, not sellout Uno, dos, tres, CATORCE! The TV quakes as a euphoric punk holler, stabbing guitar and muscle-bound rhythms roar over convulsive images of rock stars in silhouette. | 3 |
Federer beats Moya in Masters Top-seeded Roger Federer overcame a second-set lapse and remained unbeaten in the ATP Masters Cup Championships with a victory Thursday night over Carlos Moya. | 1 |
US downs Spain to face Australia in quarterfinals of women #39;s U-19 <b>...</b> The United States beat European champion Spain 1-0 on Thursday to set up to a quarterfinal showdown against Australia at the Women #39;s Under-19 World Championship. | 1 |
Favre's Mother Falls Ill on Book Tour (AP) AP - Brett Favre's mother was hospitalized Thursday with stomach pains, interrupting her book tour. | 1 |
Venus Williams Beats Serena in Exhibition (AP) AP - Venus Williams defeated injured sister Serena 6-4, 7-5 in an exhibition match Thursday night. | 1 |
Colonial Tensions Reemerge in Ivory Coast Young Ivorians embrace anti-French sentiment and struggle to break ties with the colonial master. | 0 |
Pavano Meets With Red Sox, and Schilling Makes a Pitch The free agent right-hander Carl Pavano, who will meet with the Yankees soon, spent two hours at Curt Schilling's home in Medfield, Mass., on Thursday. | 1 |
Holtz Is Retiring, and Spurrier Will Take Over Job South Carolina Coach Lou Holtz will retire at the end of the football season, opening the way for Steve Spurrier, the former Florida coach, to take the job. | 1 |
Lehigh and Lafayette Are Still Playing After All Those Years Lehigh and Lafayette on Saturday will meet for the 140th time, but for the first time with an automatic postseason bid on the line. | 1 |
APEC Nations Work on Stronger Security Resolutions <p></p><p> By Fiona Ortiz</p><p> SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Pacific Rim trading nationsagreed they should work harder to control the production andtrade of shoulder-launched missiles to keep them out of thewrong hands, foreign and trade ministers meeting in Chile saidin a resolution on Thursday.</p> | 0 |
Japan, China Leaders Agree to Meeting The leaders of Japan and China agreed to a one-on-one meeting on the sidelines of a summit, overcoming a diplomatic impasse between the Asian powers that have been increasingly at odds. The breakthrough came as ministers for 21 Pacific Rim economics pledged Thursday work hard for the passage of a global trade treaty. | 0 |
Henman Crushes Coria to Keep Masters Hopes Alive <p></p><p> By Steve Keating</p><p> HOUSTON (Reuters) - Britain's Tim Henman pounded ArgentineGuillermo Coria 6-2, 6-2 Thursday to keep alive his hopes ofreaching the Masters Cup semi-finals.</p> | 0 |
Brown Steps Forwrad Kwame Brown completes his first full practice since having foot surgery and gets rave reviews from coach Eddie Jordan. Brown is still expected out until December. | 1 |
FDA Prompts Pfizer To Yank Viagra Ads The FDA thinks those quot;wild thing quot; ads for Viagra need to be domesticated. The ads feature a balding middle-age man with a beautiful blond woman and a voice-over asking, quot;Remember that guy who used to be called #39;Wild Thing #39;? | 3 |
Parreira plays down Brazil #39;s defeat Brazilian head coach Carlos Alberto Parreira played down sentiment about the world champion #39;s 1-0 defeat by minnow Ecuador in the South American zone World Cup qualifier. | 1 |
Wall Street Set to Open Firmer (Reuters) Reuters - Wall Street was set to start higher on\Tuesday to recoup some of the prior session's losses, though\high-profile retailer Amazon.com may come under\pressure after a broker downgrade. | 2 |
#39;Next Sunday #39; keeps Parcells motivated By lunchtime Thursday, Bill Parcells already had five voice mails from friends, all with pretty much the same message. quot;They #39;re saying, Hang in there. | 1 |
Sharon Sets Peace #39;Test #39; for Palestinians Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, setting a test for a new Palestinian leadership, said it could show its desire for peace by ending incitement against Israel even before any crackdown on militants. | 0 |
Cavs Dunk Bobcats LeBron James slams down a windmill dunk late in the second quarter and Cleveland never looks back in a 106-89 victory over Charlotte on Thursday night. | 1 |
Founder of Nike to Hand Off Job to a New Chief Philip H. Knight, the brash founder of Nike who became as synonymous with the sneaker brand as its swoosh logo, resigned yesterday as chief executive after more than 32 years at the helm. | 2 |
Former Viacom Chief Named to Lead Sirius Mel Karmazin, who abruptly quit as president and chief operating officer of Viacom earlier this year after a lengthy power struggle with his boss, resurfaced yesterday as the new chief executive of Sirius Satellite Radio. | 2 |
Age of green cars arrives as Canadians cut emissions Cars that are environmentally friendly may be coming to drivers in North America faster than anyone expected after the Canadian government pledged this week to a dramatic 25 per | 3 |
Roddick earns Masters semifinal berth HOUSTON (Ticker) - Andy Roddick #39;s superior play in tiebreakers earned him a semifinal berth at the year-end \$3.7 million Tennis Masters Cup. | 1 |
Athletics: Greek pair charged over drug tests The Greek sprinters Kostadinos Kederis and Ekaterina Thanou face possible jail sentences after being charged with avoiding a drug test on the eve of this summer #39;s Olympics and faking a motorcycle accident several hours later. | 1 |
Slain aid worker mourned The suspected murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan in Iraq was widely condemned here as a wave of unrest across Sunni Muslim hotspots killed more than 20 people, many of them women and children. | 0 |
Clarke criticises princes views on education CHARLES Clarke, the education secretary, broke with government protocol yesterday to condemn the Prince of Wales for claiming that modern education wrongly encouraged people to think they could rise above their station. | 0 |
U.S. May Have Found Fallujah Militant Base (AP) AP - U.S. troops sweeping through Fallujah on Thursday found what appeared to be a command center used by followers of Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and a U.S. general expressed confidence the battle for the city has "broken the back of the insurgency." | 0 |
No. 10 Arizona Outguns Wright St. 83-66 (AP) AP - Salim Stoudamire scored 24 points, including 6-of-9 3-pointers, and 10th-ranked Arizona beat Wright State 83-66 Thursday night in the second round of the Preseason NIT. | 1 |
Global Fund to Fight Deadly Diseases (AP) AP - A fund set up to help combat three of the world's most widespread diseases will support another round of projects, organizers said Thursday, after the United States dropped its objections to financing provisions. | 0 |
Fossil May Show Ape-Man Ancestor Scientists have discovered the remains of a tree-climbing creature that lived 13 million years ago in what is now northeastern Spain and may be the last common ancestor of modern great apes | 3 |
APEC leaders pledge to boost free trade SANTIAGO, Chile - Economic leaders present at the 16th Ministerial Meeting of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on Thursday (Friday in Manila) agreed to strengthen efforts in trade liberalization and free trade. | 0 |
Hokies Blast Terps Virginia Tech scores 24 points off four first-half turnovers in a 55-6 wipeout of Maryland on Thursday to remain alone atop the ACC. | 1 |
Spurs Hold Off Sixers Tim Duncan scores a season-high 34 points and grabs 13 rebounds to lead the Spurs to their fifth straight victory, 88-80, over the 76ers. | 1 |
Merck #39;s Vioxx Withdrawal Illustrates Power of Regulation by Trial <b>...</b> Merck amp; Co. withdrew the popular drug Vioxx from the market in September, after data from a clinical trial supported claims the medication was associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. | 2 |
Eisner Continues Defense of Hiring, Firing When Walt Disney Co. chief executive Michael D. Eisner and Disney President Michael S. Ovitz appeared on quot;Larry King Live quot; on Sept. | 2 |
Stocks lack direction NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Stocks seesawed in afternoon trade Thursday, with blue chips struggling to maintain their gains while techs edged lower following warnings from Google. | 2 |
Father of Nike, Marketing Guru Gives Up Post Philip H. Knight resigned yesterday as head of the Oregon sneaker company that he built into Nike Inc., a global sportswear powerhouse that made everyone want to soar in Air Jordans, Wear | 2 |
American Fare Cuts Presage Price War American Airlines slashed its fares to Miami yesterday by as much as 85 percent from several cities including Washington #39;s Reagan National Airport, possibly setting off a winter fare war on routes to Florida. | 2 |
Oracle #39;s PeopleSoft Bid Deadline Nears Oracle Corp. #39;s \$24-a-share hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. heated up anew yesterday as tonight #39;s deadline for stockholders to offer their shares for sale approached. | 2 |
IRS Chief Pleads for Bigger Budget Internal Revenue Commissioner Mark W. Everson called on Congress yesterday to boost the agency #39;s funding by the full \$500 million requested by President Bush, calling it a way to help shave the record federal budget deficit. | 2 |
South Korea Says It May Not Meet 5 GDP Growth Target (Update3) South Korea #39;s economy may miss its 5 percent growth target for 2004 after expanding at its slowest pace in a year in the third quarter, the finance minister said. | 2 |
PRA Raises \$68.4 Million In Its IPO PRA International Inc., a McLean company that manages clinical trials for drug companies worldwide, said it raised \$68.4 million yesterday in its initial public offering. | 2 |
Oracle moves to quarterly patch release schedule NOVEMBER 18, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Oracle Corp. today announced that it is moving to a quarterly patch release schedule in response to user demands for a more predictable process for applying needed security fixes to the company #39;s software. | 3 |
Syracuse Tops Mississippi St. 71-58 (AP) AP - Syracuse and Mississippi State both struggled in the first half. Hakim Warrick made sure Syracuse had a much better final 20 minutes. Warrick scored 17 of his 21 points in the second half and the fifth-ranked Orange beat No. 12 Mississippi State 71-58 Thursday night in the semifinals of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. | 1 |
No. 15 Va. Tech Demolishes Maryland 55-6 Bryan Randall Throws Two TD Passes, Runs for Third As No. 15 Virginia Tech Crushes Maryland 55-6. Virginia Tech quarterback Bryan Randall (3) twarts the tackle of Maryland #39;s Dominique Foxworth (6) during first | 1 |
No. 2 Wake Forest 81, Virginia Commonwealth 67 For the second straight game, Wake Forest had to fight off its own inconsistency and an opponent that refused to quit. Chris Paul scored 16 points despite taking just three shots from the field Thursday night to help the No. | 1 |
Motorola to Build Cell Phones Into Ski Jackets CHICAGO (Reuters) - Motorola Inc. <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=MOT.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">MOT.N</A> said it will unveil plans this week for a line of outerwear that uses interactive cell phone and portable music technology in snowboarding jackets, in a bid to win over twentysomethings. | 3 |
UN: Sudan parties pledge peace Parties in conflict-torn Sudan made pledges for peace before the UN Security Council, which held extraordinary sessions in Nairobi, Kenya. | 0 |
My views coming back into fashion - Prince THE Prince of Wales has defended his quot;old-fashioned views quot; after Education Secretary Charles Clarke angrily accused the heir to the throne of being out of touch. | 0 |
Pakistan plays down Indian comments on Kashmir solution ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan says it would not accept the existing military line dividing Kashmir as an international border, and is playing down concern that India is irreconcilibly opposed to adjusting that frontier. | 0 |
Unbeaten Federer Marches Into Masters Semi-Finals HOUSTON (Reuters) - World number one Roger Federer downed Carlos Moya, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, Thursday to complete a dazzling unbeaten run through the round-robin stages into the semi-finals of the Masters Cup. | 1 |
Cap Gemini Said to Weigh Selling Unit in America Cap Gemini, the Paris-based technology consulting and outsourcing giant, is considering a sale of its struggling business in North America. | 2 |
Year-end target for Darfur troops The African Union mission chief to Sudan says he hopes all troops will be deployed by the end of the year. | 0 |
Ape adds new limb to tree of human evolution The latest probable common ancestor to humans and great apes had a body like an ape, fingers like a chimp and the upright posture of humans, according to researchers who unearthed a fossil of the animal in Spain. | 3 |
Oracle moves to quarterly security patch cycle Software maker Oracle will soon start issuing security patches quarterly. This new patch schedule comes only months after the company said it would issue such security updates every month. | 3 |
Sun-isms Debunked Newman writes quot;We #39;re all aware of the hole-ridden arguments that Sun executives Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz use to attack Linux. | 3 |
Greek Sprinters Indicted on 8 Counts Greek sprinters Kostas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou face misdemeanor charges for allegedly skipping drug tests on the eve of the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, faking a motorcycle accident to cover up their absences and lying to investigators, the public | 1 |
Report: Holtz to quit; Spurrier to take over Stephen Orr Spurrier may become the new ball coach at South Carolina, a Southeastern Conference rival that immediately would leapfrog the Seminoles and Bulldogs as the opponent to bookmark on future schedules. | 1 |
Matured Busch a title favorite, not fan favorite NASCAR #39;s new playoff-style championship format has delivered nearly everything its proponents promised: more intense racing, higher television ratings and a tight title race heading into Sunday #39;s season finale. | 1 |
In the Second Half, an Orange Burst and Victory After a miserable offensive first half during which two of Syracuse #39;s best players seemed to be missing in action, an explosion seemed inevitable. | 1 |
REVIEW: Nintendo DS a Sleek Powerhouse (AP) AP - The last time Nintendo Co. tried two screens, the result was a head-splitting virtual reality goggle called Virtual Boy that quickly flopped in the mid-1990s. | 3 |
French leader touts cooperation French Leader Emphasizes <b>...</b> French President Jacques Chirac toned down his criticism of Britain #39;s role in the Iraq war as he arrived yesterday on a two-day visit celebrating the Entente | 0 |
Leaders overlook Palestinian sentiment American policymakers and statesmen believe the Middle East is better off without Yasser Arafat. Madeline Albright said Arafat quot;was viewed as an obstacle to peace, both by the Israelis and | 0 |
REVIEW: Windows Cell Phone Sleek, Stacked (AP) AP - With all the grumbling over Windows and its many shortcomings, why would anyone want Microsoft's computer operating system to run their cell phone? | 3 |
SBC, Yahoo! Extend Pact to Offer Service (AP) AP - SBC Communications Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. are expanding their partnership in high-speed Internet access to make news, entertainment and other services available not just on computers but also on cell phones, televisions and other devices. | 3 |
Taipei to Cloak City in World's Largest Wi-Fi Grid (Reuters) Reuters - Dennis Tseng is an avid Web surfer who\loves to hang out in Taipei's upmarket Hsinyi district, where\wireless Internet access is freely available to all. | 3 |
Radio Veteran To Head Sirius (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Mel Karmazin, the hard-charging broadcasting executive who left Viacom Inc. after clashing with chairman and chief executive Sumner M. Redstone, is taking command at Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., which will reunite him with longtime ally Howard Stern. | 3 |
After False Starts, 3G Mobile Service Set for Take-Off (Reuters) Reuters - With most technical issues resolved\and giants like Vodafone Plc signing up customers, 2005 could\be the year when third-generation (3G) mobile services finally\gain a global audience. | 3 |
Novell Posts Profit (Reuters) Reuters - Novell Inc. on Thursday posted\a quarterly net profit, compared with a year-earlier loss, on\stronger sales of Linux operating software and a boost to\earnings from a weaker dollar. | 3 |
Sybari offers security for IM, SharePoint (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Sybari Software today added Antigen 8.0 for Microsoft SharePoint and Antigen 8.0 for Instant Messaging, two antivirus, antispam, and content-filtering security software products for enterprise environments. | 3 |
Oracle's PeopleSoft Bid Deadline Nears (washingtonpost.com) washingtonpost.com - Oracle Corp.'s #36;24-a-share hostile takeover bid for PeopleSoft Inc. heated up anew yesterday as tonight's deadline for stockholders to offer their shares for sale approached. | 3 |
Disney Toys with Jobs' Baby (The Motley Fool) The Motley Fool - The head of Steve Jobs probably did a 360 -- a la Regan in The Exorcist -- when he heard the news, reported in a recent issue of Hollywood Reporter, that Disney (NYSE: DIS - News) will make Toy Story 3. | 3 |
China, 15 Other Countries Consider NASA Exploration (Reuters) Reuters - China and 15 other countries joined | 3 |
San Francisco Mulls Ban of Beloved Zoo Elephants (Reuters) Reuters - San Francisco officials pondered\on Thursday whether to stop keeping elephants in the city's zoo\as activists pushed for a ban amid concerns about their\conditions in captivity. | 3 |
As Ice Thaws, Arctic Peoples at Loss for Words (Reuters) Reuters - What are the words used by indigenous\peoples in the Arctic for "hornet," "robin," "elk," "barn owl"\or "salmon?" | 3 |
UN Short-Circuits U.S.-Led Drive to Ban Cloning (Reuters) Reuters - U.S. efforts to secure a global\treaty banning the cloning of human embryos, including for stem\cell research, were dealt a major setback on Thursday when U.N.\diplomats agreed to work for a political declaration on the\issue instead. | 3 |
Electronic Eye Devised to Help Blind Cross Roads (Reuters) Reuters - An "electronic eye" that can be fitted\to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more\safely, scientists said on Friday. | 3 |
Ground 'Moves' as Cane Toads Invade Australia Park (Reuters) Reuters - Hundreds of thousands of poisonous baby\cane toads invaded an Australian national park on Friday,\hopping around in such numbers that the ground seemed to move,\an ecologist said. | 3 |
Ancient Animal Could Be Human-Ape Ancestor (AP) AP - A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes, a research team says in Friday's issue of Science magazine. | 3 |
U.N. Abandons Idea of Anti-Cloning Treaty (AP) AP - In a victory for advocates of stem cell research, U.N. diplomats on Thursday gave up trying to craft a treaty to outlaw human cloning, and will probably settle for a less powerful document that won't seek a worldwide ban, officials said. | 3 |
Scientists in 17 Nations to Study Fish (AP) AP - Scientists in 17 countries will scout waterways to locate and study the world's largest freshwater fish species, many of which are declining in numbers, hoping to learn how to better protect them, researchers announced Thursday. | 3 |
Study: Learning to Run Propelled Evolution (AP) AP - New research suggests that developing the ability to run #151; long thought to be a byproduct of walking for early man #151; was actually an instrumental step in the evolution of people from ape-like creatures into what we know today as humans. | 3 |
N.Korea Says Kim Portrait Reports a 'U.S. Plot' (Reuters) Reuters - Reports that portraits of North Korean\leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a U.S. plot to\overthrow the government and a "groundless fabrication," Xinhua\news agency quoted a North Korean official on Friday as saying. | 0 |
Prosecutor Feared Dead in Venezuela Blast (AP) AP - A bomb exploded early Friday in a pickup truck owned by a prosecutor who is pressing charges against supporters of the failed 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez, and a charred body inside appears to be that of the prosecutor, the government said. | 0 |
N.Korea Says Kim Portrait Reports a 'U.S. Plot' BEIJING (Reuters) - Reports that portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been removed were a U.S. plot to overthrow the government and a "groundless fabrication," Xinhua news agency quoted a North Korean official on Friday as saying. | 0 |
Suicide Bombers Kill 14 in Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A double suicide car bomb attack devastated a police station just outside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone on Saturday, killing seven people and wounding 57 in the latest strike against Iraq's beleaguered security forces. | 0 |
Johnson boss to fill big shoes at Nike William Perez, president and chief executive officer of Racine-based SC Johnson amp; Son Inc., is taking the reins of Nike Inc., the world #39;s dominant marketer of athletic shoes. | 2 |
Boeing ex-officer pleads guilty in Air Force hiring case: World News: Washington, Nov 17 : A Former Boeing Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has pleaded guilty to illegally negotiating an executive job for an Air Force #39;s acquistion official while she still had authority over billions of dollars in Boeing contract | 2 |
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