We'll just admit it: We know nothing about the man. So, Yahoos, we'd be grateful for your input. Here's what we do know: Fixing Microsoft's Internet business is going to require one hell of a talent. Not because there aren't worthwhile assets there ...
4 Dec 2008
NEWKOWIN, Ore. -- A young woman from the Philippines who had just moved to Oregon to join her fiancé was swept away by a huge wave just one week before her wedding day. Scott Napper, 45, of Silverton, and his fiancé, Leafil Alforque, 22, were ...
4 Dec 2008
DETROIT (Dow Jones)--The declining market share of the Detroit auto makers is proving another hurdle in the companies' attempts to secure a federal bailout. In making the case that a $34 billion lifeline from the federal government will sustain the ...
4 Dec 2008
Recession-hit booksellers are hoping for a magical boost from a new book by "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling. "The Tales of Beedle the Bard," a collection of five fables mentioned in Rowling's saga about the boy wizard, is being published around ...
4 Dec 2008
Look, I don’t typically advocate violence ‘cuz I’m all pacifistic and stuff, but the above video shot by some slimy creatures at X17 really does highlight why celebrities get pissed when these people invade their privacy. I know we run a celeb ...
4 Dec 2008
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Kris Jenkins needed a few days to get his thoughts together. He was unhappy with his performance in the New York Jets' loss to Denver on Sunday, and wanted a break from speaking with the media. "I know for the past couple of ...
4 Dec 2008
The climber who died on Aoraki/Mt Cook had been alive just hours before rescuers reached him and his companion, who survived. Senior Constable Brent Swanson said guide Kiyoshi Ikenouchi, 49, had still been speaking as recently as 1am but succumbed to the cold soon after.
4 Dec 2008
Go on the Internet to make friends -- and world peace. That was the message Thursday from a New York conference on the potential power of Internet social networking tools like Facebook to counter terrorism and repressive governments.
4 Dec 2008
ANNVILLE — The Lebanon Valley College women’s basketball team did enough to win last night. Not a whole lot more than that, mind you, but enough just the same.
4 Dec 2008
Grove Upper Elementary School Library is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair just in time for Christmas Shopping. The Fair will run from Wednesday, December 3rd through Friday, December 12th and is open daily from 8-4.
4 Dec 2008
By Harvey Karten (AZR) - Scheduled to open just weeks after "Revolutionary Road," "Just Another Love Story" centers on a similar theme. In the former film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, a husband and wife tire of their suburban digs and dull neighbors, thinking that moving permanently to Paris might be just the right medicine. In Ole Bomedal's Danish film (with English subtitles), ...
4 Dec 2008
Rolf Warber, a driving force behind the Just Rates group in the uMngeni Municipality, died on Tuesday.
4 Dec 2008
The latest open-borders story line is that illegal immigration isn't a problem because people will just leave when the economy slows down. Well, there's no doubt that the pull to come here is less in bad economic times, but is it enough ...
4 Dec 2008
In short, the upward blip in our economic index is just a blip. Our leading index of economic indicators, which continued to fall in October, suggests as much. So too does the red ink in most of the other economic indicators for October ...
4 Dec 2008
This ain't just "weather". This is the scene this morning … the third snowfall so far this winter, and the worst early December snows in living memory. Of course, it's only happening in Yorkshire and the North, so it isn't really ...
4 Dec 2008
But $24 for 8.5 ounces of chocolate seems high. If they can bring their prices down just a bit more, I think they would have a lot of people buying it (I would!). Godiva sells a slightly larger amount of chocolate for $17. ...
3 Dec 2008
It depends, of course, on just who those replacements are. Generally, one of the big advantages that incumbents have -- even relatively unpopular ones -- is that they have an easy time raising funds; pretty much every incumbent senator ...
3 Dec 2008
There’s an interesting wall street love story developing here, between John Mack CEO of Morgan Stanley and Lloyd Blankfein CEO of Goldman Sachs.
3 Dec 2008