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Keep It in the Family The IRS is gunning for your inherited IRA. Follow these steps to avoid costly penalties. | 2 |
The Next Giant Leap Rendezvous quot; for the docking techniques he developed while at MIT earning his PhD in astronautics. Lessig: Technology over ideology! | 3 |
Pakistan's Musharraf calls for unity against global terrorism (AFP) AFP - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf kicked off a three-day visit to Italy by calling on the world community to stand united in the fight against global terrorism. | 0 |
Iraqi Interim Government Declares Martial Law BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's interim government declared a state of emergency for 60 days on Sunday to quell violence gripping the country ahead of January elections. | 0 |
Four held in anti-terror raids Three of the men were seized in a quot;pre-planned quot; operation by officers from the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch at a hotel in Brent Cross, north London. | 0 |
Thailand Shows No Easy War Against Wildlife Crime (Reuters) Reuters - With an AK-47 assault rifle slung over\his shoulder, Sompong Prajobjan roamed one of Thailand's lush\national parks for more than a decade. | 3 |
Obesity Raises Risk for 9 Different Types of Cancer By LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON (AP) -- Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, too. And with the obesity epidemic showing no signs of waning, specialists say they need to better understand how fat cells fuels cancer growth so they might fight back... | 3 |
Williams Rejects Deal, Says He Won #39;t Return in 2005 Miami Dolphins tailback Ricky Williams has no immediate plans to resume his NFL career and, at least for now, intends to stay in retirement, according to his attorney. | 1 |
Pedro Waits to Learn of Yankees' Interest (AP) AP - With an offer in hand from the New York Mets, Pedro Martinez will wait to see what the New York Yankees do before deciding where he'll play next year. | 1 |
Arafat Meets With Gaza Critic A former Palestinian security minister who could be key to keeping order among rival factions in Gaza after an Israeli pullout held a fence-mending meeting Monday with President Yasser Arafat, officials said. | 0 |
Court rules against state Web-blocking law A Pennsylvania law requiring Internet service providers to block Web sites deemed by the state's prosecuting attorneys to be child pornography has been reversed by a U.S. federal court on free-speech grounds. | 3 |
Hubris, Caution in Boston as Red Sox Eye Victory (Reuters) Reuters - Giddiness. Paranoia. Arrogance. Caution.\All were on display on Wednesday in Boston as the supposedly\cursed Red Sox moved within one victory of a baseball\championship that has eluded them for 86 years. | 1 |
Son Is Gone but Fervor Remains After Fallujah After his son's life was ended by an American bullet, an Iraqi insurgent undertook a harrowing escape to a lonely exile in Baghdad, where he waits to fight another day. | 0 |
Thai inquiry over Muslim deaths The Thai prime minister pledges to set up an independent inquiry into the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in police custody. | 0 |
Braves 6, Padres 5 Andruw Jones hit a two-run homer off Trevor Hoffman in the ninth inning and the Atlanta Braves threw out the potential tying run at the plate for the final out Wednesday night, preserving a 6-5 come-from-behind win over the San Diego Padres. | 1 |
Steeler subs doing their jobs When the New England Patriots rolled into town Sunday afternoon to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers, the final outcome of the football game might have been secondary to some vital information needed by the black and gold as far as the rest of the season is | 1 |
Instant messaging worm exploits JPEG flaw (InfoWorld) InfoWorld - Security experts have spotted the first attempts to create an Internet worm that propagates using instant messages and exploits a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft software. | 3 |
Czech Republic Crushes Sweden 6-1 (AP) AP - Milan Hejduk scored two goals as the Czech Republic routed Sweden 6-1 Tuesday night in the quarterfinals of the World Cup of Hockey. | 1 |
Oil Edges Down, Microsoft Boosts Techs NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices touched 2-month lows near \$45 a barrel on Monday before taking back most of their losses, but the downward trend knocked energy company stocks lower and U.S. stock indexes ended little changed. A rise in Microsoft shares helped boost the technology sector. | 2 |
Arafat was not poisoned Paris - Doctors who treated Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat believe he died of a blood condition called disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and have ruled out poisoning, Le Monde newspaper reported on Wednesday. | 0 |
Microsoft to make foray into online music (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Microsoft makes its long-anticipated entry into the online music market today, marking the first serious challenge to Apple Computer's popular iTunes service. | 3 |
Sales, Sun surge ahead The Connecticut Sun had an off game last Saturday, when they dropped the opener of their WNBA Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Washington Mystics. | 1 |
DaimlerChrysler, GM to team up on hybrid engines General Motors and DaimlerChrysler say they #39;re teaming up to develop hybrid technology for use in their vehicles. The two giant automakers say they have signed a memorandum of understanding. | 2 |
Google Shares, Once Devalued, Just May Be Winners After All Wall Street, which forced Google, the Internet search engine, to sharply lower the price of its shares in its initial public offering in August, has decided that the company is worth a lot more today than it was then. | 2 |
FA Plan New United-Arsenal Talks The Football Association are set to wait until after the conclusion of any disciplinary action against Arsene Wenger before trying to broker a peace summit between Arsenal and Manchester United. | 1 |
Stocks Seen Flat with Oil Above \$52 US stocks looked to open flat on Thursday under pressure from the surge in oil prices and lackluster September sales reports from US retailers. | 2 |
Hundreds mourn loss of student killed by police during Red Sox <b>...</b> As hundreds of mourners paid their final respects Tuesday to Victoria Snelgrove, her pastor denounced the raucous fans who prompted police to fire the pepper-spray pellet that killed the college student. | 1 |
German teenager indicted over Sasser worm Prosecutors in Verden, Germany, indicted an 18-year-old student on Wednesday for allegedly creating the Sasser worm that crashed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide after spreading at lighting speed over the Internet. | 3 |
Communist Party seeks to win back people #39;s support THE Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has read the writing on the wall and is out to shore up its moral right to keep ruling the country. | 0 |
Hurricane Worries Boost Oil Prices Worries that Hurricane Ivan will hurt oil production in the Gulf of Mexico boosted oil prices Tuesday. In mid-morning New York trading, oil for future delivery hit \$44. | 2 |
Space O2 Generator Fails Again Repairs to the oxygen generator onboard the International Space Station seemed to work, but then failed the following day. Astronauts are again limited to backup oxygen supplies. By Amit Asaravala. | 3 |
Half.com to continue at full speed This fourth priority #39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. Online auction giant eBay won #39;t be closing down its Half. | 3 |
Icahn Takes The High River NEW YORK - Why has Carl Icahn set his sights on the relatively insignificant Mylan Laboratories, a generic drug company with just \$1.5 billion in sales and a \$4.3 billion market cap? | 2 |
League of Development Major League Soccer plans to start a new league to develop young players, part of its 10-year sponsorship deal with Adidas. | 1 |
Iraq Blames US-Led Forces for Army Massacre BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on Tuesday that "major neglect" by its American-led allies led to a massacre of 49 army recruits at the weekend. | 0 |
Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian Gunman in Gaza -Army (Reuters) Reuters - Israeli soldiers shot and killed a\Palestinian gunman on Monday as he approached a military\outpost near a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip, a\military source said. | 0 |
Ooh la la, Apple unveils new iMac (SiliconValley.com) SiliconValley.com - Attempting to capitalize on iPod mania, Apple Computer Tuesday unveiled a fast new version of the iMac that it all but touted as a smart accessory for the sexy music players. | 3 |
Gap, Wild Planet Get Together on Radio Sweatshirt NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wild Planet, a toy maker known for its spy gear and adventure gadgets, said on Wednesday it was teaming up with clothing retailer Gap Inc <A HREF="http://www.reuters.co.uk/financeQuoteLookup.jhtml?ticker=GPS.N qtype=sym infotype=info qcat=news">GPS.N</A> to sell sweatshirts with FM radios built in at GapKids stores. | 3 |
Vonage Calls on Linksys for VoIP Linksys will provide broadband-to-phone adapters and, eventually, Wi-Fi equipment. | 3 |
Boston archbishop reveals anguish of closings BOSTON Boston #39;s Archbishop is telling catholics that the church #39;s financial footing is quot;much worse than people realize. | 1 |
U.S. Plane Attacks Najaf Rebels as Tanks Near Shrine NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked Shi'ite militia positions in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf early on Monday after tanks reinforced the siege of a shrine at the center of a nearly three-week insurgency. | 0 |
Florida Election Supervisors Back Reforms (AP) AP - Florida's 67 county elections supervisors proposed dramatic reforms, including replacing Election Day with 11 days of voting and doing away with voting precincts. | 0 |
Rocky Legends; Tony Hawk's Underground 2; Nisus Writer Express 2.0; Surfsaver 6 This is the second Rocky video game in two years -- even though it's been 14 years since the last "Rocky" flick. | 3 |
Megawati kicks off 36th ASEAN economic meeting JAKARTA (Agencies): President Megawati Soekarnoputri opened high-level economic talks between members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday with a warning to ASEAN leaders that they must stay the course on their agreed | 2 |
Desert turns into Parks place Annika Sorenstam may be the reigning queen of the LPGA Tour, but its Grace Park who seems to be royalty in the desert these days. | 1 |
Germany, France support Turkish invitation to EU membership talks (AFP) AFP - Germany and France both support inviting to European Union membership talks at a summit in December in Brussels, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said. | 0 |
New Pakistan cabinet may be sworn in today Islamabad, :A new Cabinet in Pakistan is likely to be sworn in on Monday, two days after Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz was made the country #39;s 23rd Prime Minister. | 0 |
Home Depot Likes High Oil Rising fuel prices, a bugbear for most of the retail sector, are helping Home Depot (HD:NYSE - news - research), the remodeling giant that reported a surge in second-quarter earnings Tuesday and guided the rest of the year higher. | 2 |
Barrichello Wins Chinese Grand Prix SHANGHAI, China - Rubens Barrichello won the inaugural Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday, taking advantage of Formula One champion Michael Schumacher #39;s disastrous weekend and outlasting runner-up Jenson Button by just over a second. | 1 |
Software revenue pushes up Oracle #39;s Q2 earnings Oracle Corp. reported second-quarter 2005 earnings that beat analyst expectations on Monday, thanks to new software revenue and continued gains from license updates and product support. | 2 |
PC Screen Price-Fall to Slow in Fourth Quarter (Reuters) Reuters - Prices of computer screens are expected\to fall by less than 5 percent in the fourth quarter as the\market stabilizes on hopes of a pick-up in demand during the\Christmas season, a U.S.-based research firm said on Tuesday. | 3 |
AOL Plans Revamp, Shake Up Management - Reports The America Online unit of Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is reorganizing itself into four operational units to improve decision making, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. | 2 |
PM Hails Successful Launch Of Agni II NEW DELHI, AUG 29: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday congratulated the scientists and engineers for the successful launch of the Agni II missile. | 0 |
Analysis: US heating oil guides NYMEX The price of oil futures jumped sharply Wednesday when a disappointing decline in the US heating-oil supply trumped growth in the crude stockpile. | 2 |
Opportunity Rings (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - This past summer 25,000 consumers, aged 18 to 24, received short text messages on their cell phones alerting them to numbers on 225 million bottle caps of Snapple iced tea, pink lemonade and the like. People holding a winning number, announced by text message and traditional media, landed overseas trips and walk-on parts on TV shows. | 3 |
Pac-10 Teams Seek to Revive Reputation (AP) AP - As it looks ahead to another basketball season, the Pac-10 can take some comfort in one thing: There's a lot of room for improvement after a miserable 2003-04. And with traditional power Arizona leading the way, the conference should indeed be much better. | 1 |
Wells Fargo Profit Rises 12 Percent NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo Co. <A HREF="http://www.investor.reuters.com/FullQuote.aspx?ticker=WFC.N target=/stocks/quickinfo/fullquote">WFC.N</A>, the No. 4 U.S. bank, on Tuesday said third-quarter profit rose a lower-than-expected 12 percent after a downturn in home mortgage lending. | 2 |
Bonds #39; contract reworked; will stage assault on Aaron #39;s record as <b>...</b> Now that Barry Bonds is assured of staying with the San Francisco Giants for two more seasons, he already is looking beyond. His children won #39;t let him think about retirement just yet. | 1 |
US edge out Brazil for gold The United States beat Brazil 2-1 in extra time to win the women's Olympic football tournament. | 0 |
Owen fitness holds the key Michael Owen will have one last chance to prove his fitness - and possibly determine which formation England will employ against Wales on Saturday. | 1 |
Federer to meet Hewitt in Masters Cup final Houston, TX (Sports Network) - World No. 1 Roger Federer of Switzerland and third-seeded Lleyton Hewitt each posted straight-set wins and advanced to Sunday #39;s final at the lucrative 2004 Tennis Masters Cup. | 1 |
INDUSTRY REPORT: Gambling -- Casinos to be sold Harrah #39;s Entertainment Inc. and Caesars Entertainment Inc. agreed to sell four casino hotels to an affiliate of Colony Capital LLC for about \$1. | 2 |
Beer and drugs hit manufacturing output Factory output fell unexpectedly in July for the second month in a row -- the first back-to-back decline in nearly two years -- as the production of beer and pharmaceuticals plummeted. | 2 |
Top Seed Federer Struggles Through in Thai Opener BANGKOK (Reuters) - Top seed Roger Federer toiled to beat battling Frenchman Nicolas Thomann and reach the second round of the Thailand Open on Tuesday. | 1 |
Sun and Kodak settle out of court As we reported previously, Kodak filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems claiming that the company had infringed on its patents by implementing quot;ask for help quot; functionality in its Java programming language, which gave a huge boost to the company #39;s yearly | 3 |
Britain awaits results of N.Korea blast fact-finding trip (AFP) AFP - Britain is awaiting the findings from a technical analysis of what a group of diplomats saw at the site of a huge explosion in North Korea last week, Britain's minister for East Asia said. | 0 |
Haas and Cink Selected for Ryder Cup Team Jay Haas joined Stewart Cink as the two captain's picks for a U.S. team that will try to regain the cup from Europe next month. | 1 |
Space Capsule Heading Back to Earth A space capsule holding atoms collected from solar wind was en route to a tricky rendezvous with Earth, offering scientists the first material NASA has brought back from space in nearly three decades. | 3 |
Osaka school killer of 8, yakuza boss executed TOKYO - Mamoru Takuma, convicted for murdering eight children at an Osaka elementary school in 2001, has been executed, informed sources said Tuesday. | 0 |
American Woman, Afghan Girl Die After Kabul Blast An American woman, believed to be a civilian, and a young Afghan girl died from their wounds after a suicide bomb attack in a busy shopping street in the Afghan capital. | 0 |
Moves toward moderation in Mideast One month after Yasser Arafat #39;s death, realignments on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli divide are raising fragile hopes for a mutual retreat from four years of fighting. | 0 |
Need for carbon sink technologies Climate scientists tell a conference that greater efforts should be made to pull CO2 from the atmosphere. | 3 |
Microsoft Storms India Microsoft is making big news in India this week by expanding its Hyderabad campus and signing two lucrative deals in Asias fourth largest economy. | 2 |
Wiretaps may mute Nextel rivals Fed up with technical excuses, FBI wants carriers to support eavesdropping capabilities for push-to-talk technology now. | 3 |
S amp;P 500 Rises for 4th Day; Material, Energy Shares Lead Advance The Standard amp; Poor #39;s 500 Index rose for a fourth day as investors looked past a disappointing third- quarter economic growth report to better-than-expected readings on Chicago-area business and consumer confidence. | 2 |
Sven refuses to criticise Becks Quell surprise: Sven has refused to criticise David Beckham despite the England captain #39;s latest demonstration of his infamous petulance against Wales. | 1 |
England held up in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe held up England #39;s charge as they battled to avert a series whitewash in the fourth one-day international in Bulawayo today. | 1 |
European probe arrives to orbit moon PARIS - Europe #39;s dishwasher-sized spacecraft has entered a lunar orbit. The unmanned mission is the continent #39;s first voyage to the moon. | 3 |
Locals lift Irish squad in Europe tourney Tim Brett and Matt Shinney are lacrosse aficionados and fervent players. Brett, 27, who is a manager at a hotel in Charlestown, and Shinney, 23, a student at Bridgewater State College, are self-described lacrosse quot;weekend warriors. quot; | 1 |
Bookies take bets on new Band Aid Bookies take bets on a new Band Aid single being Christmas No 1, expected to be confirmed by Midge Ure. | 0 |
Stunt pilots to snag a falling NASA craft NASA #39;s three-year effort to bring some genuine star dust back to Earth is set for a dramatic finale Sept. 8 when Hollywood helicopter pilots will attempt a midair retrieval | 3 |
Gartner: Q2 server shipments rise on Sun, Dell strength Server shipments and revenue increased in the second quarter, with low-cost servers based on Linux or the Windows operating system growing faster than their Unix counterparts, according to research firm Gartner Inc. | 3 |
S.Africa Cancels Thatcher Meeting with Eq. Guinea South Africa has canceled a meeting with prosecutors from Equatorial Guinea who had hoped to interview Mark Thatcher on his suspected links to a coup plot in the oil-rich country, officials said on Sunday. | 0 |
U.S. Jet Fires at House in Fallujah (AP) AP - An American jet fired a missile at a house where about 10 members of an al-Qaida-linked group were believed to be meeting in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Friday, police and the U.S. military said. At least three people were killed. | 0 |
Report: CARE Hostage Faces Transfer To Al-Qaida BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The kidnappers of aid worker Margaret Hassan threatened to turn her over to an al-Qaida affiliated group within 48 hours if the British government refuses to pull its troops from Iraq, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. | 0 |
Cavaliers Defeat Nets 103-97 (AP) AP - LeBron James scored 27 points and assisted on Lucious Harris' clinching 3-pointer with 6 seconds left as the first-place Cleveland Cavaliers won their eighth straight at home, 103-97 over the New Jersey Nets on Tuesday night. | 1 |
Lawyers In the Limelight By all appearances, Steven Woghin was a lawyer at the top of his game. After years in government service, the former Justice Department attorney had worked his way up to a comfortable six-figure salary and the chief legal job at software maker Computer Associates International Inc. | 2 |
Powell to discuss NKorea on visit Japan, China, SKorea next week (AFP) AFP - US Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit Japan, China and South Korea beginning next week for talks on the stalled effort to end the impasse over North Korea's nuclear program, Iraq, terrorism and other matters, the State Department said. | 0 |
Martian Weather Blamed for Loss of Beagle 2 Description: An investigation into the loss of Britain #39;s Beagle 2 spacecraft last December suggests the cause may have been unusual Martian weather. | 3 |
England seek first one-day title against surprise package Windies LONDON: England have never won a major international limited-overs title while West Indies World Cup glory days date back to 1975 and 1979. | 1 |
UK to assess Iraq troop move A reconnaissance team is to visit the area around Baghdad where UK forces could be sent to provide US back-up. | 0 |
Iraq: 26 killed on horrific day of violence Suicide bombers killed at least 22 members of Iraq #39;s fledgling security forces yesterday amid a spate of insurgent attacks across the country that also | 0 |
Utah Hires Whittingham to Replace Meyer (AP) AP - Utah defensive coordinator Kyle Whittingham was hired as the school's football coach to replace Urban Meyer. | 1 |
Browns coach Davis resigns; Robiskie named interim coach BEREA, Ohio (Ticker) - One day after admitting that his shaky job status was a quot;distraction quot; to his players, Butch Davis resigned as coach of the Cleveland Browns on Tuesday. | 1 |
Jaguars 27 Colts 24 INDIANAPOLIS Byron Leftwich was flawless on a 30-yard drive in the final four minutes, and rookie kicker Josh Scobee made a season-long 53-yard field goal to help the Jacksonville Jaguars pull off a 27-to-24 win over Indianapolis. | 1 |
House Passes Corporate Tax Bill The House, by a vote of 280 to 141, gave final approval last night to a far-reaching tax bill that provides a rich array of breaks to manufacturing companies, energy producers and small businesses and underwrites a \$10 billion buyout of American tobacco | 2 |
Late fumble dooms Purdue WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Scott Starks returned a fumble by Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton 40 yards for a touchdown in the closing minutes to lift 10th-ranked Wisconsin to a 20-17 win over No. 5 Purdue yesterday. | 1 |
Sparkle starts shipping GeForce 6600 GT AGP <a href="http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1755/">GeForce 6600GT AGP, as good as it gets?</a> <font size=-1 color=#6f6f6f><nobr>Hardware Analysis</nobr> | 3 |
Summary Box: Breast Cancer Surgery Refined (AP) AP - NEW APPROACH: A study says that removing just one to three key lymph nodes can spare women lifelong arm problems and reliably indicate whether breast cancer has spread. | 3 |
Fire Pit Dated to Be Over 50,000 Years Old (AP) AP - In the growing debate about when people first appeared on this continent, a leading archaeologist said Wednesday he has discovered what could be sooty evidence of human occupation in North America tens of thousands of years earlier than is commonly believed. | 3 |
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