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Mylan Laboratories Rejects Icahn #39;s \$4.9 Billion Buyout Bid The board of Mylan Laboratories rebuffed the financier Carl C. Icahn #39;s bid to buy the company yesterday, saying it remained committed to acquiring the brand-name drug maker King Pharmaceuticals. | 2 |
Many Women Say Airport Pat-Downs Are a Humiliation Ata security checkpoint recently at the Fort Lauderdale airport, Patti LuPone, the singer and actress, recalled, she was instructed to remove articles of clothing. | 2 |
Nintendo's innards Wondering what your shiny new Nintendo DS looks like on the inside? Lik Sang saves you the trouble--and voided warranty--with a new online... | 3 |
Surf's up Sick of all the analogies of surfing the Web to actual surfing? Well, here's a literal one for... | 3 |
Dania Beach woman #39;s holy sandwich sells for \$28,000 The grilled cheese sandwich that launched a thousand or more eBay hits was sold to the highest bidder Monday for \$28,000. The sandwich, said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary, was first offered up for sale | 3 |
Broadcom LAN Boosts Wi-Fi Range Broadcom has rolled out a line of local area network (LAN) chipsets it says can boost the range of existing Wi-Fi networks by as much as 50 percent. | 3 |
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Ships The focus of this action-packed game shifts from that of 007 himself to the corrupt underworld and its criminal masterminds. Players wreak havoc as they make their unrelenting rise through the ranks of villainy. | 3 |
Unleash the Warrior November 22, 2004 - By now, you should already know that Prince of Persia: Warrior Within is going to reveal a more serious, a more aggressive main character that kicks 50 more ass than he did in the previous game. | 3 |
Baseball adopts Nationals name The Expos were rechristened the Washington Nationals yesterday with a few glitches and a tussle - but just in time for the Christmas shopping season. | 1 |
Dillon, Patriots too much for Chiefs CBC SPORTS ONLINE - Corey Dillon rushed for a pair of touchdowns as the visiting New England Patriots clipped the Kansas City Chiefs 27-19 before a crowd of 78,431 at Arrowhead Stadium on Monday. | 1 |
NBA Wrap: Garnett Leads Timberwolves #39; Rally Kevin Garnett just missed out on a triple-double with 21 points, 17 rebounds and nine assists to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a gritty 83-82 road win over the Dallas Mavericks on Monday. | 1 |
Hoyas Report Temple junior guard Mardy Collins, a preseason All-Atlantic 10 selection, clearly was the best player on the floor. Whenever Georgetown attempted to challenge the Owls #39; lead, Collins silenced the Hoyas #39; run with a shot from the outside. | 1 |
Davis #39; days could be numbered with Browns One more loss with the Browns and Butch Davis could be going back to college. Cleveland #39;s embattled coach might be running out of time to keep his NFL job, which has been slipping away with every defeat. | 1 |
Unlocking the chip's inner Hemingway Can computers get along fine without writers? Word is they just might. In an essay in the New York Times... | 3 |
Arafat kin blames Israel Armed with Yasser Arafat #39;s weighty medical dossier, his nephew blamed Israel for the Palestinian leader #39;s death and refused yesterday to squelch rumors of poisoning -ven though | 0 |
Fighting Erupts in West Sudan Despite Accord Less than two weeks after the Sudanese government and rebels reached a partial agreement aimed at ending the conflict in Darfur, two clashes in that western Sudan | 0 |
Cities versus cities The traditional competition for U.S. offshore outsourcing business was between nations. That's about to change, according to a new study. | 3 |
The next evolution of offshore outsourcing New venture in India raises questions about the evolution of offshore outsourcing. | 3 |
Dillon, Brady Lead Patriots to 24th Win in 25 Games (Reuters) Reuters - Corey Dillon ran for a pair of\touchdowns and Tom Brady threw for 315 yards as the New England\Patriots registered a 27-19 win over the Chiefs in the Monday\night game in Kansas City. | 1 |
Dillon, Brady Lead Patriots to 24th Win in 25 Games NEW YORK (Reuters) - Corey Dillon ran for a pair of touchdowns and Tom Brady threw for 315 yards as the New England Patriots registered a 27-19 win over the Chiefs in the Monday night game in Kansas City. | 1 |
Three U.N. Hostages Freed in Afghanistan KABUL (Reuters) - Three foreign U.N. workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul, the United Nations said. | 0 |
Second Sunni Cleric Gunned Down in Iraq BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric in the city of Miqdadiya Tuesday, the second such killing in Iraq in as many days, witnesses and hospital officials said. | 0 |
HK probes Falun Gong 'hacking' Hong Kong investigates after TV programmes beamed into China are allegedly hacked into by Falun Gong. | 0 |
Q A: Worthington Industries CIO Jonathan Dove on ERP upgrade Worthington Industries CIO Jonathan Dove tells Computerworld that he sees the role of the CIO changing. | 3 |
Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting How forthcoming are search engines in disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion policies? They're better than they were a couple of years ago, but there's still room for improvement, according to a prominent watchdog group. | 3 |
Xstrata to go hostile in 3bn bid for Australian rival WMC XSTRATA saw its shares fall 1.4 per cent yesterday after the London-listed miner said it was taking its A\$7.4 billion (3.12bn) offer for Australias WMC Resources hostile, following a rebuff from the WMC board last month. | 2 |
You #39;re bankrupt! NEWARK, NJ - Patrons of Donald Trump #39;s gambling halls probably won #39;t notice, but his casino empire is now in bankruptcy after months of negotiations with bondholders over a crushing \$1.8 billion debt. | 2 |
IBM exec to be CA chief: report TROUBLED business software company Computer Associates has reportedly selected long-time IBM executive John Swainson as its new chief executive. | 2 |
CNN Hires New President for Its US News Group CNN News Group on Monday said it has tapped an online media CEO and news veteran as its new president overseeing US news, just a little over a year after hiring a former local TV newsman to run its domestic operations. | 2 |
Buckle up for holidays A traveler bound for a Thanksgiving feast at Aunt Louise #39;s house upstate can go online for directions or receive one-on-one attention, and a highlighted map, from Kristin Johnson and Liz Singleton. | 2 |
Citigroup unit sold for \$4.4B Citigroup said Monday it agreed to sell its truck-financing business to GE Commercial Finance for \$4.4 billion, concluding a recent spate of divestitures in its leasing operations. | 2 |
Infotech and the Law: Druyun fallout will be felt long and hard The federal government has long imposed unique ethical responsibilities on its contractors. Following the defense procurement scandals of the 1980s such as Operation Ill Wind, Congress considerably increased | 2 |
Game on JFKs Killing Blasted For Insensitivity People find weird ways of raising controversies. And most of the time it is aimed to get cheap and free publicity from the media. Same concept has been used by the Scotland-based Traffic Games, which developed a game on John F Kennedy named JFK Reloaded. | 3 |
Clark: Weekend fights prove need for division of sports fans <b>...</b> For some reason, noon just comes way too early, and making it to campus is a struggle. I thought one of my professors was going to be a stickler about it and dock me some points, but I had a talk with him to calm him down. | 1 |
DC #39;s Team Will Be the Nationals Major League Baseball #39;s Washington, DC franchise finally got a name Monday, nearly two months after the team relocated from Montreal. | 1 |
Trotter, defense step up Jeremiah Trotter got his revenge Sunday, leading an Eagles defense that pounded the Redskins - the team that released Trotter this summer. | 1 |
Three UN workers taken hostage in Kabul are freed They were released a while back this morning, said a government official, who did not want to be identified, adding that he had no more details. | 0 |
Gold Hits 16-Year High; Asian Shares Gain SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold hit its highest level in more than 16 years Tuesday as a steadier dollar failed to cool worries over the currency's outlook, while Asian stocks gained after a solid performance on Wall Street. | 2 |
Hartford tackles image as nation #39;s seventh-most dangerous city Hartford officials are pointing to steadily decreasing crime statistics and an overhauled police department in an attempt to discredit a national survey ranking Hartford the country #39;s seventh-dangerous city. | 2 |
AIRLINES GIVE TIPS FOR TRAVEL SEASON Tyler airlines are gearing up for the beginning of holiday travel, as officials offer tips to help travelers secure tickets and pass through checkpoints with ease. | 2 |
N.Korea Criticism Reports Don't Mean Kim Weaker Yet (Reuters) Reuters - Anecdotal evidence of public criticism of | 0 |
NBA Game Summary - New Orleans at Utah Salt Lake City, UT (Sports Network) - Lee Nailon finished with 16 points, hitting a pair of free throws to put the Hornets ahead with 1:42 remaining, lifting New Orleans to its first win of the season, 76-75, over the Utah Jazz at the Delta Center. | 1 |
No deal with govt: Zardari Islamabad: Asif Ali Zardari, husband of former Premier Benazir Bhutto, has said that his release from jail after eight years was not part of any deal with the government, even as he vowed to continue his struggle against the quot;undemocratic set-up quot; in the | 0 |
Bush wants more US aid for Colombia drug fight President Bush said Monday he will lobby Congress next year to renew US anti-narcotics funding for this South American country amid concern in Washington about the federal budget deficit. | 0 |
Three UN Hostages Freed in Afghanistan Three foreign UN workers held hostage in Afghanistan were freed unharmed Tuesday, almost four weeks after they were abducted at gunpoint on the streets of the capital Kabul, the United Nations said. | 0 |
Melee in Chile seen as #39;big deal #39; White House officials were still shaking their heads in disbelief yesterday that President Bush personally had to rescue a US Secret Service agent from angry Chilean security officials Saturday night. | 0 |
Pakistan to Sell Islamic Bonds by January, Aziz Says (Update2) Pakistan plans to sell its first Islamic bonds by January as it seeks to tap rising demand for securities that conform to Muslim law, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said in an interview. | 0 |
Timberwolves Edge Mavericks 83-82 (AP) AP - Kevin Garnett made two free throws with 5.9 seconds left then Trenton Hassell blocked Jerry Stackhouse's long jumper at the buzzer, giving the Minnesota Timberwolves an 83-82 victory over Dallas on Monday night in the Mavericks' first of several games without Dirk Nowitzki. | 1 |
INTERVIEW: New Star To Expand To Taiwan,Singapore In #39;05 HONG KONG (Dow Jones)--Hong Kong-based New Star International Investment Products (Asia) Ltd. is all set to expand its operations to Taiwan and Singapore next | 2 |
Other Voices: Detroit exposes fragile NBA If the global marketing miracle known as the NBA has finally come to face the fragile rapport it has with its core audience at home in the United States, let it be said that the Palace of | 1 |
Federer crushes Hewitt and sets new record FULLSTRETCH: Roger Federer of Switzerland returns a shot in the first set against Lleyton Hewitt in their Tennis Masters Cup finals match on Sunday. | 1 |
GAMBHIR MISSES OUT India crawled to 235 for one at lunch as the first Test against South Africa in Kanpur headed towards a draw on the fourth day today. | 1 |
Three Hostages Freed In Kabul Afghan officials say three United Nations workers kidnapped on Oct. 28th in Kabul were freed late Monday in Kabul. The hostages were released late Monday and are in good condition, three Afghan officials | 0 |
London #39;terror plots #39; thwarted PLANS by al-Qaeda terrorists to crash aircraft into Canary Wharf and at Heathrow have been thwarted by the security services, it was claimed last night. | 0 |
Report: SEC, Time Warner Near Settlement WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. is close to a deal with U.S. regulators in which the world's largest media group would pay about \$750 million to settle allegations of accounting irregularities at its America Online division, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. | 2 |
Dollar Gets a Rest on BOJ Worry, Holidays SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rallied against the euro, Japanese yen and most other currencies on Tuesday, although traders suggested the rise was a brief let-up in a longer-term decline in the value of the currency. | 2 |
New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain. | 3 |
Oracle at Impasse With PeopleSoft Oracle said that it was at an impasse with PeopleSoft Inc., signaling that the two software makers will wage a proxy battle. | 3 |
McDonald #39;s CEO leaves to fight cancer The chief executive of McDonald #39;s, Charlie Bell, has stepped down to focus on battling cancer just seven months after assuming the top post at the world #39;s largest fast food company. | 2 |
CNN/US names new president In a move that appears aimed at energizing CNN #39;s prime-time lineup, the cable news outlet announced yesterday that Jonathan Klein, a former executive vice | 2 |
American cuts back Boeing orders American Airlines has delayed the deliveries of 54 Boeing Co. planes to save \$2.7 billion over the next six years. The agreement with Boeing lets AMR, which has lost \$6.9 billion since the end of 2000, delay | 2 |
Quarter earnings drop 79 CHARLOTTE, NC - Shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. #39;s fell sharply Monday as a 79 percent plunge in third-quarter earnings and an intensifying accounting investigation overshadowed the pastrymaker #39;s statement that the low-carb craze might be easing. | 2 |
Virgin Blue Asks Australia to Review Costs Cut-price carrier Virgin Blue said Tuesday the cost of using Australian airports is spiraling upward and asked the government to review the deregulated system of charges. | 2 |
Pentagon: any new tanker deal would be opened to competitive <b>...</b> Any new plan to replace Air Force tankers will include re-opening bids to companies besides Boeing, according to US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. | 2 |
Second Sunni Cleric Gunned Down in Iraq (Reuters) Reuters - Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim\cleric in the city of Miqdadiya Tuesday, the second such\killing in Iraq in as many days, witnesses and hospital\officials said. | 0 |
Largest UK Electronics Seller Cuts VHS The death of the VHS video recorder came a step closer yesterday when the UK #39;s largest electronics chain said it would stop selling them. | 3 |
Editorial: Basketbrawl Friday night #39;s basketbrawl in Detroit was a shameful chapter in sports history but also a conflagration of many of modern society #39;s common ailments -- hair-trigger tempers, misplaced hostility, me-firstism, emotional immaturity, incivility, lack of self | 1 |
Sehwag century lifts India towards safety Opener Virender Sehwag hit his eighth test century with an unbeaten 108 to guide India to 235 for one in their first innings at lunch on day four of the first test against South Africa on Tuesday. | 1 |
Europe ; New EU commission takes office after delay with ambitious <b>...</b> A French amnesty law forbids media from reporting the details of the legal procedure that Barrot faced. Barrots resignation was also demanded by Britains anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), which provoked | 0 |
Prince denies leaked note #39;s elitist doctrine LONDON -- Prince Charles tried to put the record straight yesterday about his views on education in a speech that only a handful of Church of England bishops were allowed to hear. | 0 |
Three foreign UN hostages released in Afghanistan (AFP) AFP - Three United Nations hostages have been freed after almost four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan, with kidnappers claiming that Taliban prisoners were due to be released in exchange. | 0 |
Report: Foreign-Born Population Tops 34M (AP) AP - More than 34 million U.S. residents were born outside the United States, with arrivals from Mexico driving much of the growth in the foreign-born population since 2000, a private research group says. | 0 |
McDonald #39;s Skinner Replaces Bell as CEO, Faces Test in Europe McDonald #39;s Corp. new Chief Executive James Skinner, the company #39;s third leader in seven months, will continue the strategy of trying to boost sales in Europe after yesterday replacing Charles Bell, who is suffering from cancer. | 2 |
CA reportedly set to name new chief LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- Computer Associates, the beleaguered maker of corporate software, will tap a longtime IBM executive as its new chief, according to a published report Monday. | 2 |
KRISPY KREME HAS GONE OUT OF KONTROL Carb-conscious Americans continued to flatten Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, as the onetime Wall Street darling yesterday posted a loss of \$3 million in the third quarter. | 2 |
Two Harvard fund managers earn more than \$25 mln Two top portfolio managers at Harvard Management Company each earned more than \$25 million in fiscal 2004 for having delivered one of the best returns among all university endowments in the country. | 2 |
NASA moves ahead on Bush #39;s plan to return to moon, Mars With a green light from Congress, NASA is moving swiftly to carry out President Bush #39;s ambitious plan to return robots and humans to the moon and eventually to Mars. | 3 |
Broadcom #39;s 54g Chipsets Boost Wi-Fi Coverage Wi-Fi users can now enjoy high-speed wireless connections at distances up to 50 greater than existing solutions, thanks to two new 54g wireless LAN chipsets, introduced by Broadcom Corporation. | 3 |
Next generation of DVDs on track to replace today #39;s version Discs offering high-definition images using blue lasers likely will rule the market starting in 2005. By Jonathan Sidener. A pessimist might say that right about the time the last person on the planet buys | 3 |
BRADY AND PATS DOWN CHIEFS Tom Brady threw for 315 yards and a touchdown pass as the New England Patriots defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 27-19. Brady did not turn the ball over all night and frustrated the Chiefs on third down. | 1 |
NBA: Minnesota 83, Dallas 82 Kevin Garnett made two free throws with five seconds remaining Monday to give the Minnesota Timberwolves an 83-82 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. | 1 |
Mideast Summit Switches Focus to Iraq World leaders meeting in Egypt focused on Israel, the Palestinians and what is seen as a chance to jump start the stalled peace process today, with plans to shift the focus to another Mideast hotspot - Iraq -ater in the day. | 0 |
GOP squandering power Flush from their victories in this month #39;s elections, President Bush and Republicans in Congress must now show that they #39;re capable of governing. | 0 |
Dollar Gets a Rest on BOJ Worry, Holidays (Reuters) Reuters - The U.S. dollar rallied against the\euro, Japanese yen and most other currencies on Tuesday,\although traders suggested the rise was a brief let-up in a\longer-term decline in the value of the currency. | 2 |
Border closures disrupt Palestinian economy: World Bank (AFP) AFP - The Palestinian economy remained mired in deep recession in the four years since the Intifada began in September 2000, in part because of frequent closures at the Israeli border, a new World Bank report said. | 2 |
Bleidt investors tell of promises, shock On April 18, 1983, Bradford C. Bleidt knelt down inside a meeting hall in the Masonic lodge in Lynn, placed his hands on a Bible, and took a solemn oath not to ''cheat, wrong, nor defraud quot; fellow Masons, as he was inducted into the fraternal organization. | 2 |
Battling biotechs Why can't they just get along? David Platt, the scientist and controversy-magnet who runs Pro Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Newton, doesn't see eye to eye with his old employer, GlycoGenesys Inc. of Boston, on just about any subject. Certainly not chemistry or patents. | 2 |
Looking for Mr. Goodwrench Rob Chermesino's college-educated friends went into finance and sales. His fiance is a meeting planner. Chermesino picked up a wrench. | 2 |
Harvard pays 2 top money managers \$25m Harvard University's endowment paid its two top investment managers about \$25 million each last year, less than the pair earned a year ago, but still enough to irritate critics who consider the compensation excessive. | 2 |
Menino plans to add job training programs The City of Boston said yesterday that it will rely on \$1 million in linkage funds to finance more job training programs for low- and middle-income men, and weekend training for workers -- men and women -- seeking to escape low-wage, dead-end jobs. | 2 |
Short-term T-bill rates rise Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities rose in yesterday's auction. The Treasury Department sold \$19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 2.155 percent, up from 2.075 percent last week. An additional \$17 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 2.365 percent, up from 2.280 percent. | 2 |
Reports raise new questions on FDA oversight of drug safety New reports accuse another drug company of being too slow to pull a dangerous medication from the market and question the ability of the federal Food and Drug Administration to protect the public from such risks. | 2 |
Once-high-profile planner ordered to undergo psychiatric exam Bradford C. Bleidt, looking unwashed and haggard and wearing a neck brace, shuffled into a courtroom yesterday with his eyes downcast to face criminal charges of mail fraud in an alleged scheme that investigators said may have defrauded investors of \$45 million. | 2 |
Investors bolster takeover by Oracle Bolstered by investors, Oracle Corp. appears destined to complete its long-sought takeover of PeopleSoft Inc. unless its rival becomes more profitable and proves it is worth more than the \$9.2 billion bid currently on the table. | 2 |
Quattrone barred from securities work Frank Quattrone, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for urging employees to destroy documents during a probe of Credit Suisse First Boston, was permanently prohibited by the NASD from working in the securities industry. | 2 |
Revamp aimed at getting Barbie's groove back Barbie's going through a midlife crisis. After splitting with longtime boyfriend Ken this year, she has sought refuge in shopping, surfing, and partying with a crew of trendy pals in Jamaica. At 45, she made a bid for the White House. | 2 |
Affiliated Managers to acquire AQR stake Affiliated Managers Group Inc. , a US company that owns stakes in 18 money management firms, acquired an equity interest in AQR Capital Management, its fifth transaction this year. AQR, based in Greenwich, Conn., is a quantitative manager and hedge fund company that manages about \$12 billion, Beverly-based AMG said in a statement. AQR's management will hold the remaining equity ... | 2 |
Oil prices fall after steep run-up Crude oil futures prices fell around the globe yesterday following a steep run-up on Friday that was prompted by persistent concerns about winter fuel supplies. | 2 |
SEC eyes best-price rule for exchanges The Securities and Exchange Commission may require brokers to obtain the best prices for their clients' stock trades, a practice now followed only by the New York Stock Exchange, people familiar with the matter said yesterday. | 2 |
Cherkasky says Marsh may settle Spitzer's lawsuit within a month Marsh amp; McLennan Cos. , the world's largest insurance broker, may settle New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's claims of rigged bids and kickbacks within a month, chief executive Michael Cherkasky said. | 2 |
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