Amrozi accused his brother, whom he called "the witness", of deliberately distorting his evidence.

Yucaipa owned Dominick's before selling the chain to Safeway in 1998 for $2.5 billion.

They had published an advertisement on the Internet on June 10, offering the cargo for sale, he added.

Around 0335 GMT, Tab shares were up 19 cents, or 4.4%, at A$4.56, having earlier set a record high of A$4.57.

The stock rose $2.11, or about 11 percent, to close Friday at $21.51 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Revenue in the first quarter of the year dropped 15 percent from the same period a year earlier.

The Nasdaq had a weekly gain of 17.27, or 1.2 percent, closing at 1,520.15 on Friday.

That compared with $35.18 million, or 24 cents per share, in the year-ago period.

He said the foodservice pie business doesn't fit the company's long-term growth strategy.

Shares of Genentech, a much larger company with several products on the market, rose more than 2 percent.

Legislation making it harder for consumers to erase their debts in bankruptcy court won overwhelming House approval in March.

The Nasdaq composite index increased 10.73, or 0.7 percent, to 1,514.77.

But he added group performance would improve in the second half of the year and beyond.

He told The Sun newspaper that Mr. Hussein's daughters had British schools and hospitals in mind when they decided to ask for asylum.

Gyorgy Heizler, head of the local disaster unit, said the coach was carrying 38 passengers.

Rudder was most recently senior vice president for the Developer & Platform Evangelism Business.

As well as the dolphin scheme, the chaos has allowed foreign companies to engage in damaging logging and fishing operations without proper monitoring or export controls.

Magnarelli said Racicot hated the Iraqi regime and looked forward to using his long years of training in the war.

Sheena Young of Child, the national infertility support network, hoped the guidelines would lead to a more "fair and equitable" service for infertility sufferers.

"I think you'll see a lot of job growth in the next two years," he said, adding the growth could replace jobs lost.

The new Finder puts a user's folders, hard drive, network servers, iDisk and removable media in one location, providing one-click access.

But tropical storm warnings and watches were posted today for Haiti, western portions of the Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas and the Turk and Caicos islands.

A federal magistrate in Fort Lauderdale ordered him held without bail.

A BMI of 25 or above is considered overweight; 30 or above is considered obese.

The dollar was at 116.92 yen against the yen , flat on the session, and at 1.2891 against the Swiss franc , also flat.

Six months ago, the IMF and Argentina struck a bare-minimum $6.8-billion debt rollover deal that expires in August.

Inhibited children tend to be timid with new people, objects, and situations, while uninhibited children spontaneously approach them.

I wanted to bring the most beautiful people into the most beautiful building, he said Sunday inside the Grand Central concourse.

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 <.SPX> fell 10.75 points, or 1.02 percent, to 1,039.32.

Duque will return to Earth Oct. 27 with the station's current crew, U.S. astronaut Ed Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

Singapore is already the United States' 12th-largest trading partner, with two-way trade totaling more than $34 billion.

The AFL-CIO is waiting until October to decide if it will endorse a candidate.

The largest gains were seen in prices, new orders, inventories and exports.

Trading in Loral was halted yesterday; the shares closed on Monday at $3.01.

Earnings per share from recurring operations will be 13 cents to 14 cents.

He plans to have dinner with troops at Kosovo's U.S. military headquarters, Camp Bondsteel.

Retailers J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (JCP) and Walgreen Co. (WAG) kick things off on Monday.

Prosecutors filed a motion informing Lee they intend to seek the death penalty.

Last year the court upheld Cleveland's school voucher program, ruling 5-4 that vouchers are constitutional if they provide parents a choice of religious and secular schools.

He beat testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.

Sorkin, who faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and lying to a grand jury, was to have been tried separately.

Graves reported from Albuquerque, Villafranca from Austin and Ratcliffe from Laredo.

The US chip market is expected to decline 2.1 percent this year, then grow 15.7 percent in 2004.

The group will be headed by State Department official John S. Wolf, who has served in Australia, Vietnam, Greece and Pakistan.

The commission must work out the plan's details, but the average residential customer paying $840 a year would get a savings of about $30 annually.

The company has said it plans to restate its earnings for 2000 through 2002.

Results from No. 2 U.S. soft drink maker PepsiCo Inc. PEP.N were likely to be in the spotlight.

"The result is an overall package that will provide significant economic growth for our employees over the next four years."

Wal-Mart said it would check all of its million-plus domestic workers to ensure they were legally employed.

The songs are on offer for 99 cents each, or $9.99 for an album.

However, the talk was downplayed by PBL which said it would focus only on smaller purchases that were immediately earnings and cash flow accretive.

Comcast Class A shares were up 8 cents at $30.50 in morning trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

While dioxin levels in the environment were up last year, they have dropped by 75 percent since the 1970s, said Caswell.

This integrates with Rational PurifyPlus and allows developers to work in supported versions of Java, Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET.

The Washington Post said Airlite would shut down its first shift and parts of the second shift Monday to accommodate the president’s appearance.

A former teammate, Carlton Dotson, has been charged with the murder.

Several of the questions asked by the audience in the fast-paced forum were new to the candidates.

Meanwhile, the global death toll approached 770 with more than 8,300 people sickened since the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus first appeared in southern China in November.

The battles marked day four of a U.S. sweep to hunt down supporters of Saddam Hussein's fallen regime.

The women then had follow-up examinations after five, 12 and 24 years.

The Embraer jets are scheduled to be delivered by September 2006.

Contrary to what PeopleSoft management would have you believe, Oracle intends to fully support PeopleSoft customers and products for many years to come."

Application Intelligence will be included as part of the company's SmartDefense application, which is included with Firewall-1.

American Masters: Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin (Wed.

The downtime, to take place in May and June, is expected to cut production by 60 million to 70 million board feet.

On July 3, Troy is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The University of Michigan released a new undergraduate admission process Thursday, dropping a point system the U.S. Supreme Court found unconstitutional in June.

The processors were announced in San Jose at the Intel Developer Forum.

The Justice Department filed suit Thursday against the state of Mississippi for failing to end what federal officials call "disturbing" abuse of juveniles and "unconscionable" conditions at two state-run facilities.

It said the damage to the wing provided a pathway for hot gasses to penetrate the ship's thermal armor during Columbia's ill-fated reentry.

Also demonstrating box-office strength _ and getting seven Tony nominations _ was a potent revival of Eugene O'Neill's family drama, "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

The top rate will go to 4.45 percent for all residents with taxable incomes above $500,000.

But Secretary of State Colin Powell brushed off this possibility Wednesday.

Thomas and Tauzin say, as do many doctors, that the Bush administration has the power to correct some of those flaws.

Based on experience elsewhere, it could take up to two years before regular elections are held, he added.

The results appear in the January issue of Cancer, an American Cancer Society journal, being published online today.

The first biotechnology treatment for asthma, the constriction of the airways that affects millions around the world, received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration yesterday.

The delegates said raising and distributing funds has been complicated by the U.S. crackdown on jihadi charitable foundations, bank accounts of terror-related organizations and money transfers.

FBI agents arrested a former partner of Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young ERNY.UL on criminal charges of obstructing federal investigations, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Kelly will begin meetings with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov in Washington on Monday.

The latest shooting linked to the spree was a November 11 shooting at Hamilton Central Elementary School in Obetz, about 3km from the freeway.

"Sanitation is poor... there could be typhoid and cholera," he said.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 128 points, or 1.4%, at 9073, while the Nasdaq fell 34 points, or 2.1%, to 1610.

PDC will also almost certainly fan the flames of speculation about Longhorn's release.

Sales - a figure watched closely as a barometer of its health - rose 5 percent instead of falling as many industry experts had predicted.

NEC is pitching its wireless gear and management software to a variety of industries, including health care and hospitality.

Elena Slough, considered to be the nation's oldest person and the third oldest person in the world, died early Sunday morning.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> added 1.92 points, or 0.12 percent, at 1,647.94.

The dollar was at 117.85 yen against the Japanese currency, up 0.1 percent.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gave up 11.91 points, or 1.19 percent, at 986.60.

El Watan, an Algerian newspaper, reported that the kidnappers fiercely resisted the army assault this morning, firing Kalashnikov rifles.

But Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial (JP:8306: news, chart, profile) declined 3,000 yen, or 0.65 percent, to 456,000 yen.

"We're just dealing with bragging rights here, who wins and who loses."

Shares of Hartford rose $2.88 to $46.50 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

This Palm OS smart phone is the last product the company will release before it becomes a part of palmOne.

And they think the protein probably is involved in the spread of other forms of cancer.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., Asia's largest power company, won approval to restart the first of 17 nuclear reactors it shut down after it admitted falsifying inspection reports.

Tuition at four-year private colleges averaged $19,710 this year, up 6 percent from 2002.

Security lights have also been installed and police have swept the grounds for booby traps.

The only announced Republican to replace Davis is Rep. Darrell Issa of Vista, who has spent $1.71 million of his own money to force a recall.

He said that with the U.S.-backed peace plan, or road map, “in a coma,” the attack could easily widen conflict through the region.

A successful attack could be launched within any type of document that supports VBA, including Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Officials at Brandeis said this was an "extremely heartrending" time for the campus.

"If that ain't a Democrat, I must be at the wrong meeting," he said.

Fewer than a dozen FBI agents were dispatched to secure and analyze evidence.

Tonight a spokesman for Russia's foreign ministry said the ministry may issue a statement on Thursday clarifying Russia's position on cooperation with Iran's nuclear-energy efforts.

A day earlier, a committee appointed by reformist President Mohammad Khatami called for an independent judicial inquiry into Kazemi's death.

The suite comes complete with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software and other components, while continuing its tradition of utilizing an XML-based file format.

Downstream at Mount Vernon, the Skagit River was expected to crest at 36 feet -- 8 feet above flood stage -- tonight, Burke said.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average eased 44 points, or 0.47 percent, to 9,543, after scoring five consecutive up sessions.

The Nasdaq composite index inched up 1.28, or 0.1 percent, to 1,766.60, following a weekly win of 3.7 percent.

Physicians who violate the ban would be subject to fines and up to two years in prison.

Standard & Poor's 500 stock index futures declined 4.40 points to 983.50, while Nasdaq futures fell 6.5 points to 1,206.50.

For example, Anhalt said, children typically treat a 20-ounce soda bottle as one serving, although it actually contains 2 ½ 8-ounce servings.

The yield on the 3 percent note maturing in 2008 fell 22 basis points to 2.61 percent.

Kline's opinion dealt specifically with abortion providers, but it also would apply to doctors providing other services, such as prenatal care, to a pregnant child under 16.

The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency asked for information on the allegation after the dossier was published, but Britain did not provide any, U.N. officials said.

Sixteen days later, as superheated air from the shuttle's reentry rushed into the damaged wing, "there was no possibility for crew survival," the board said.

"The free world and those who love freedom and peace must deal harshly with Hamas and the killers," he told reporters as he emerged from a church service.

The pressure will intensify today, with national coverage of the final round planned by ESPN and words that are even more difficult.

Powell fired back: "He's accusing the president of a ludicrous act," he said.

The decision to issue new guidance has been prompted by intelligence passed to Britain by the FBI in a secret briefing in late July.

The memo on protecting sales of Windows and other desktop software mentioned Linux, a still small but emerging software competitor that is not owned by any specific company.

Unable to find a home for him, a judge told mental health authorities they needed to find supervised housing and treatment for DeVries somewhere in California.

Also Tuesday, the United States also released more Iraqi prisoners of war, and officials announced that all would soon be let go.

The decision came a year after Whipple ended federal oversight of the district's racial balance, facilities, budget, and busing.

The resulting lists led toa CBS special, AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Heroes & Villains, hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Police warned residents on Friday not to travel alone and to avoid convenience stores and service stations stores at night.

"We had nothing to do with @Stake's internal personnel decision," Microsoft spokesman Sean Sundwell said.

Prosecutors said there is no question Waagner was behind the letters, which were sent at the same time of the anthrax attacks.

His plan would cost more than $200 billion annually, which Gephardt would pay for by repealing Bush's tax cuts.

There had been fears that the 35 year-old wouldn't be able to conceive after suffering two ectopic pregnancies and cancer of the uterus.

On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of silicone breast implants with conditions.

Prosecutors said Paracha, if convicted, could face at least 17 years in prison.

More than half of the songs were purchased as albums, Apple said.

The ECB has cut interest rates six times over that period, from 4.75 percent in October 2000 to 2.5 percent.

"This deal makes sense for both companies," Halla said in a prepared statement.

Smugglers in a van chased down a pickup and SUV carrying other smugglers and illegal immigrants, said Pinal County Sheriff Roger Vanderpool.

Tyco later said the loan had not been forgiven, and Swartz repaid it in full, with interest, according to his lawyer, Charles Stillman.

In midafternoon trading, the Nasdaq composite index was up 8.34, or 0.5 percent, to 1,790.47.

While Bolton apparently fell and was immobilized, Selenski used the mattress to scale a 10-foot, razor-wire fence, Fischi said.

The loonie, meanwhile, continued to slip in early trading Friday.

Ms. Haque, meanwhile, was on her turquoise cellphone with the smiley faces organizing the prom.

But he added that the New York-based actor and producer is "a private person and doesn't care to have his treatment out for public consumption."

While a month's supply of aspirin can cost less than $10, the equivalent amount of ticlopidine can run significantly more than $100.

She estimated it would take three months and would require cancellation of a sub-audit of the Department of Environmental Quality.

Arison said Mann may have been one of the pioneers of the world music movement and he had a deep love of Brazilian music.

The virus kills roughly 36,000 people in an average year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In two new schemes, people posing as IRS representatives target families of armed forces members and e-mail users.

Wim Wenders directed a widely praised film of the same name, based on the sessions.

Miss Novikova said while there is no standard weight for ballerinas, Miss Volochkova is 'bigger than others'.

Both have aired videotapes of ex-president Saddam Hussein encouraging Iraqis to fight the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

Under the program, U.S. officials work with foreign port authorities to identify, target and search high-risk cargo.

And if we don't do this, innocent people on the ground are going to die, too."

"It's probably not the easiest time to take over the shuttle program," he added, "but I look forward to the challenge.

As a result, Nelson now faces up to 10 years' jail instead of life.

With all precincts reporting, Fletcher — a three-term congressman from Lexington — had an overwhelming 57 percent of the vote.

"His progress is steady, he's stable, he's comfortable," Jack said Tuesday afternoon.

Shadrin said Khodorkovsky's aircraft was approached by officers identifying themselves as members of the FSB intelligence service, the domestic successor to the Soviet KGB.

She claimed all the babies were born full-term and died within hours, he said.

French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin was scheduled to arrive Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday.

They believe the same is true in humans, giving a 30 per cent higher risk of the disease.

Total sales for the period declined 8.0 percent to $1.99 billion from a year earlier.

U.S. law enforcement officials are sneering at Dar Heatherington's version of the events which thrust her into the public spotlight.

The Saudi newspaper Okaz reported Monday that suspects who escaped Saturday's raid fled in a car that broke down on the outskirts of Mecca Sunday afternoon.

Michael Mitchell, the chief public defender in Baton Rouge who is representing Lee, did not answer his phone Wednesday afternoon.

In Canada, the booming dollar will be in focus again as it tries to stay above the 75 cent (U.S.) mark.

They are tired of paying the high cost of CDs and DVDs and prefer more flexible forms of on-demand media delivery."

"The bolt catcher is not as robust as it is supposed to be," the board's chairman, retired Adm. Hal Gehman, said.

Morgan Stanley raised its rating on the beverage maker to "overweight" from "equal-weight" saying in part that pricing power with its bottlers should improve in 2004.

The Interior Minister, Al Mustapha Sahel, said the investigation "points to a group that has been arrested recently", an apparent reference to Djihad Salafist.

The pound also made progress against the dollar, reached fresh three-year highs at $1.6789.

The report was found Oct. 23, tucked inside an old three-ring binder not related to the investigation.

Among Fox viewers, 41 percent describe themselves as Republicans, 24 percent as Democrats and 30 percent as Independents.

Muslim immigrants have used the networks - which rely on wire transfers, couriers and overnight mail - to send cash to their families overseas.

Also arrested Friday was Claudia Carrizales de Villa, 34, a Mexican citizen who lives in Harlingen.

"We condemn the Governing Council headed by the United States," Muqtada al Sadr said in a sermon at a mosque.

Mrs Boncyk's husband, Wayne, had taken the family car to work, so his wife and children had to ride with neighbours.

Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma today cut short a visit to Latin America as a bitter border wrangle between Ukraine and Russia deteriorates further.

For the weekend, the top 12 movies grossed $157.1 million, up 52 percent from the same weekend a year earlier.

Platinum prices soared to 23-year highs earlier this year after President Bush (news - web sites) proposed investing $1.2 billion for research on fuel cell-powered vehicles.

"Nobody really knows what happened except me and that guard," Kaye said, "and I can assure you that what he said happened didn't happen."

At the time federal investigators were looking into how CFSB allocated shares of initial public stock offerings.

Qanbar said the council members would possibly elect a chairman later Sunday.

October heating oil futures settled .85 cent lower at 69.89 cents a gallon.

By 2007, antivirus solutions will carry a worldwide price tag of $4.4 billion--double that of five years earlier.

The Securities and Exchange Commission brought a related civil case on Thursday.

ConAgra stock closed Monday on the New York Stock Exchange at $21.63 a share, down 11 cents.

One of the features is the ability to delete data on a handheld device or lock down the device should a user lose it.

Last month Intel raised its revenue guidance for the quarter to between $7.6 billion and $7.8 billion.

Georgia cannot afford to not get funding," said Dr. Melinda Rowe, Chatham County's health director.

Handspring shareholders will get 0.09 shares of the parent company, Palm, Inc., for each share of Handspring common stock they currently own.

Shares of Microsoft rose 50 cents Friday to close at $28.34 a share on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Based on having at least one of the symptoms, most students had been hung over between three and 11 times in the previous year.

Tibco has used the Rendezvous name since 1994 for several of its technology products, according to the Palo Alto, California company.

A few thousand troops, most from the division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Benning in Columbus, began returning last week, with flights continuing through Friday.

In a televised interview on Wednesday, ECB President Wim Duisenberg said it was too soon to discuss further interest rate cuts in the 12-nation euro zone.

Teenagers at high schools where condoms were available were no more likely to have sex than other teens, a study published Wednesday finds.

Later in the day, however, a former Intel executive turned the tables in a speech where he blasted wireless as being too complicated and too difficult to install.

He is charged in three bombings in Atlanta _ including a blast at the 1996 Olympics _ along with the bombing in Alabama.

They were found in a stolen van, said James Flateau, a spokesman for the state Department of Correctional Services.

On Thursday, a Post article argued that a 50 basis point cut from the Fed was more likely.

Sun was the lone major vendor to see its shipments decline, falling 2.9 percent to 59,692 units.

He is one of two Democrats on the five-member FCC, and he is a strong advocate of harsher penalties against radio and television stations that violate indecency laws.

The city index outperformed the Dow Jones industrial average, which fell 0.9 percent for the week.

State media said there were at least 770 dead and over 5,600 injured.

The March downturn was the only break in what has been broad growth in services for the past 15 months.

In the first three months of 2003 alone, weekly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 1.5% -- the biggest drop in more than a decade," Lieberman said.

The statistical analysis was published Tuesday in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association (news - web sites).

President George W. Bush and top administration officials cited the threat from Iraq's banned weapons programs as the main justification for going to war.

The epidemic began in November in the mainland's Guangdong province, but the People's Republic of China refused to report truthfully about its spread for four months.

"This man gambled with our lives and we, the passengers, lost," said Andres Rivera Jr., who was also on the bus.

IG Farben's 500 properties were valued at around 38-million euros (about R300-million) and the firm had debts totalling about 28-million.

The company's operating loss rose 59 percent to $73 million, from $46 million a year earlier.

The agent, Bassem Youssef, filed the lawsuit on Friday in Federal District Court for the District of Columbia.

The driver, Eugene Rogers, helped to remove children from the bus, Wood said.

"Smallpox is not the only threat to the public's health, and vaccination is not the only tool for smallpox preparedness," Strom said.

Mr Abbas said: "Every day without an agreement is an opportunity that was lost.

We remain hopeful that the city will agree to work with us and engage in good-faith discussions on this issue."

Later in the day, a standoff developed between French soldiers and a Hema battlewagon that attempted to pass the UN compound.

"By its actions, the Bush administration threatens to give a bad name to a just war," Lieberman said.

Gillette shares rose $1.45, or 4.5 percent, to $33.95 in afternoon New York Stock Exchange trading.

Even without call center requests, companies using the handset option must have 95 percent of their customers using the technology by the end of 2005.

ONG KONG, July 9 Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered tonight before the legislature building here to call for free elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's leader.

About 120 potential jurors were being asked to complete a lengthy questionnaire.

Microsoft fell 5 percent before the open to $27.45 from Thursday's close of $28.91.

U.S. Airways ordered 85 Bombardier jets with 50 seats and 75 seats and 85 Embraer jets with 70 seats, it said in a release.

The acquisition has been approved by both companies' board of directors and is expected to close in the third quarter this year.

The 39-year-old Luster initially gave police a false name, but later revealed his true identity.

In a statement distributed Friday, 28 Chechen non-governmental organizations said they would boycott the vote.

If the companies won't, their drugs could be prescribed to Medicaid patients only with the state's say-so.

Saddam loyalists have been blamed for sabotaging the nation's infrastructure, as well as frequent attacks on U.S. soldiers.

"It's a huge black eye," said New York Times Company chairman Arthur Sulzberger.

Singer Brandy and her husband, Robert Smith, have called it quits.

She told Murray, "We ... we have ... the fresh air is going down fast!"

"The president's campaign in 2000 set a standard for disclosure in political fund raising, and the campaign will again in 2004," Bush campaign spokesman Dan Ronayne said.

On April 11, Mayor Bart Peterson said it was "inconceivable" that the airline would resume operations at the base that had employed 1,500 workers, including 1,100 mechanics.

Dotson was arrested Monday in his native Maryland and charged with murder.

Its closest living relatives are a family frogs called sooglossidae that are found only in the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

Another was in serious condition at Northwest Medical Center in Springdale.

With the exception of dancing, physical activity did not decrease the risk.

The 1 5/8 percent note maturing in April 2005 gained 1/16 to 100 13/32, lowering its yield 1 basis points to 1.41 percent.

Mr. Bush had sought to store his papers in his father's presidential library, where they would have stayed secret for a half-century.

Williams was White, and four of his victims were Black; the fifth was White.

A hearing on the matter was held Thursday morning in Fulton County Superior Court, marking one of the early steps in deciding the case of Matthew Whitley.

Arts helped coach the youth on an eighth-grade football team at Lombardi Middle School in Green Bay.

Atlantic Coast will continue its operations as a Delta Connections carrier.

"It's amazing to be part of an industry that rewards its young," said Hernandez, who is a recent graduate of Parsons School of Design.

The flamboyant entrepreneur flagged the plan after a meeting in London with Australian Tourism Minister Joe Hockey.

Ryan Harvey, an outfielder from Dunedin High School in Florida, was selected with the sixth pick by the Chicago Cubs.

At 8 a.m. Friday, San Joaquin County Sheriff's deputies found the body of Adan Avalos, 37.

Technology stocks make up 42 percent of the Nasdaq, which fell 49.95 points, or 2.9 percent, to 1,698.02.

Thomas was joined in full by Rehnquist, and in parts by O'Connor and Scalia.

The bulk of the funds, some $65 billion, will go for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The new capabilities will provide IBM customers a way to create, publish, manage and archive Web-based content within a corporate intranet, extranet and Internet environment.

When you crossed the line, you violated the constitutional right," said Charles Weisselberg, a UC Berkeley law professor.

A $500 million natural-gas-fired power plant, for example, could replace up to $100 million in boilers yearly without adding new smog controls.

On Sunday, the experts will perform the first simultaneous release of five whales from a single stranding incident in the United States.

Shares of AstraZeneca AZN.N , Europe's second biggest drugmaker, rose 3.71 percent to close at $43.05 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Gov. Rick Perry has said that while he opposes gambling expansion, he would be reluctant to veto continuation of the Lottery Commission.

"This blackout was largely preventable," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said.

Typhoon Maemi later moved out over the Sea of Japan, where it weakened considerably, the meteorology department said.

Along with chip.m.aker Intel, the companies include Sony Corp., Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., International Business Machines Corp., Gateway Inc., Nokia Corp. and others.

Officials developed plans to burn about 2,000 acres of dense forest near the park's southwest border by dropping incendiary devices, hoping to burn off fuel from the wildfire's path.

At last nights protest, demonstratorschanted "tapping our phones, reading our mail, the LEIU should go to jail."

"It still remains to be seen whether the revenue recovery will be short-lived or long-lived," Mr. Sprayregen said.

Some 14,000 customers were without power in the area, Oklahoma Gas and Electric said.

"The SIA forecast reflects the new realities of the semiconductor industry of an 8-10 percent" growth rate, George Scalise, the trade association's president, said in a statement.

Eighty-six seriously wounded U.N. workers were airlifted out for medical care.

Burns believed that confessing a crime he did not commit was the only way out, Richardson said.

Phone calls to Spitzer's office, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs were not immediately returned.

Instead, the high court said that drug makers did not adequately show why the plan should be prevented from taking effect.

Medical experts said the condition was mildly worrying but easily-manageable.

Joan B. Kroc, the billionaire widow of McDonald's Corp. founder Ray Kroc, died Sunday after a brief bout with brain cancer.

The company has expanded into providing other services for buyers, including payment services.

A Lamar mother arrested Saturday in Colorado Springs is accused of drowning her two children in a bathtub before slitting her wrists.

She was surrounded by about 50 women who regret having abortions.

Cooley said he expects Muhammad will similarly be called as a witness at a pretrial hearing for Malvo.

Revelations of the expenditures shocked some employees at Delta, an airline that is cutting jobs as it struggles with increased security costs and fewer passengers.

The search was concentrated in northeast Pennsylvania, but State Police Trooper Tom Kelly acknowledged that Selenski could have traveled hundreds of miles by now.

The calculation shows that the number of deaths from pneumonia and influenza have exceeded the usual number for recent weeks.

Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute reanalyzed data from more than 2,000 infants who had been treated with radiation for a benign birthmark condition between 1930 and 1959.

Outside the court, Sriyanto, who faces up to 25 years' jail, denied he had done anything wrong.

The state, which previously conducted two triple executions and two double executions, says the policy is designed to reduce stress on its prison staff.

The little girl, the daughter of a teller, was taken to the bank after a doctor's appointment.

At least 23 U.S. troops have been killed by hostile fire since Bush declared major combat in Iraq to be over on May 1.

"Apple is working with Oxford Semiconductor and affected drive manufacturers to resolve this issue, which resides in the Oxford 922 chipset," the company said in a statement.

Even later in life, he was still cashing in: lately, he earned money by calling fans on the telephone with the service www.HollywoodIsCalling.com.

The transaction will expand Callebaut's sales revenues from its consumer products business to 45 percent from 23 percent.

A sign outside the Peachtree Restaurant reads: "Pray for Eric Rudolph."

In a statement, the company said both bids would allow Vivendi to "maintain a substantial minority interest in a U.S. media corporation with excellent growth potential."

In Vienna, the IAEA said ElBaradei would accept the invitation, although no date had yet been set.

Strikingly, the poll saw little difference between women and men in their feelings towards Mrs Clinton.

A 25 percent increase would raise undergraduate tuition to about $5,247 annually, including miscellaneous, campus-based fees.

From July 1, 2002, to June 30, 2003, the organization said it spent $114.3 million but took in only $39.5 million.

Hundreds of reporters and photographers swamped the courthouse grounds before the hearing, which was carried live on national cable networks.

The 20 master computers are located in the United States, Canada and Korea, Mr. Kuo said.

They said: “We believe that the time has come for legislation to make public places smoke-free.

Milwaukee prosecutors charged a church minister with physical abuse in the death of an 8-year-old autistic boy who died during a healing service.

Niels told an interviewer in 1999 he thought the Old Man would outlive him by many years.

The new effort, Taxpayers Against the Recall, will be formally launched Wednesday outside a Sacramento fire station.

Furthermore, chest tightness after exercise and prevalence of asthma were both linked to the amount of time spent at the pool.

British police arrested 21 people early Tuesday in connection with the suspected ritual murder of an African boy whose torso was found in the Thames River.

Winners will be announced in a June 8 ceremony broadcast on CBS from Radio City Music Hall.

A lawsuit has been filed in an attempt to block the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from the building.

"I'm quite positive about it except I wouldn't want it to cut across anything now occurring and she accepts that," he said.

"Instead of pursuing the most imminent and real threats - international terrorists," Graham said, "this Bush administration chose to settle old scores."

"I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean, what are you saying, why did you lie to me?'"

Marisa Baldeo stated, however, the authority's official uniform policy says "they are not supposed to wear anything on their heads but a NYC transit depot logo cap.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI jumped 2.09 percent, while the Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX leapt 2.23 percent.

Between 50 and 100 persons die annually from these allergies, and thousands more suffer severe reactions such as constricted breathing and dramatic swelling.

Sean Harrigan of Calpers, the California fund, said: "Today we are trying to pull the pig from the trough.

That truck was spotted in the Campbells Creek area, fitting that description, Morris said.

Initial autopsy reports show they died of dehydration, hyperthermia and suffocation.

Most of those on board were Lebanese but some were from Benin, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

A pamphlet will be issued to the public through major hardware chains, local libraries and on the EPA Web site: www.epa.gov.

The captain, Michael J. Gansas, was notified yesterday by the city's Department of Transportation that an agency hearing officer recommended that he be fired.

Since then, police divers have searched nearby parts of Long Island Sound looking for the remaining three.

He said they lied on a sworn affidavit that requires them to list prior marriages.

Mr. Yandarbiyev resides in Doha, Qatar, and Russian authorities have unsuccessfully tried to have him extradited for nearly two years.

In December, he anticipated growth of 5.3 percent to nearly $154 billion.

Clearly Roman creams of any type do not normally survive in the archaeological record.

"I'm taking his office, and we're gonna keep on building,'' he vowed. "

The association said 28.2 million DVDs were rented in the week that ended June 15, compared with 27.3 million VHS cassettes.

SARS has killed 296 people on China's mainland and infected more than 5,200.

"Third . . . we are not allowed to kill women, except those who join the war [against Islam]."

With these assets, Funny Cide has a solid chance to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.

The company will launch 800 hot spots, or "Wi-Fi Zones," later this summer, and plans to have more than 2,100 by the end of the year.

The virus spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in emails that contain familiar headings like "Thank You!" and "Re: Details".

From California, Bush flies to Japan on Thursday, followed by visits to the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia before returning home on Oct. 24.

The transfers would reduce P&G's worldwide work force to slightly less than 100,000.

Two Iraqis and two Saudis grabbed shortly after the blast gave information leading to the arrest of the others, said the official.

In court papers filed Tuesday, Lee asked for an injunction against Viacom's use of the name, saying he had never given his consent for it to be used.

The church was already grieving the death of Chief Warrant Officer 3 Kyran Kennedy, a congregation member who was killed in another helicopter crash in Iraq on Nov. 7.

Glover said the killer used a "peculiar slipknot" on the ligature he used to strangle some of the victims.

They weighed an average 220 pounds (100 kg) and needed to lose between 30 and 80 pounds.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D. "I don't see much broken."

Her putt for birdie was three feet short but she saved par without difficulty.

The test was conducted by the University of California at Los Angeles and Riverside and was paid $450,000 from the ARB.

Against the Swiss franc CHF= , the dollar was at 1.3172 francs, down 0.60 percent.

Instead, Weida decided that Meester's case on charges of rape, sodomy, indecent assault and providing alcohol to minors should proceed to a court-martial.

The name for the robot, due to be launched at 2:05 p.m., was selected from among 10,000 names submitted by U.S. school children.

Doris Brasher, who owns a grocery store near the police station, said many in the close-knit town knew the men who were killed.

"Craxi begged me to intervene because he believed the operation damaged the state," Mr Berlusconi said.

Mills affected by Thursdays announcement are sawmills in Grande Cache, Alta., Carrot River, Sask., Chapleau, Ont., and Aberdeen, Wash.

Intel was disappointed and assessing its "options in the event Mr. Hamidi resumes his spamming activity against Intel," spokesman Chuck Mulloy said.

It was the biggest protest since hundreds of thousands marched in outrage over the massacre of democracy activists occupying Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989.

The company is highlighting the addition of .NET and J2EE support to its Enterprise Application Environment (EAE) with the new mainframe.

Gov. Linda Lingle and members of her staff were at the Navy base and watched the launch.

That information was first reported in today's editions of the New York Times.

Mr Annan also warned the US should not use the war on terror as an excuse to suppress "long-cherished freedoms".

The euro tagged another record high against the dollar on Tuesday as demand for higher-yielding euro-based assets overshadowed solid U.S. economic data.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.33 points, or 1.07 percent, to 1,640.13.

"It's going to happen," said Jim Santangelo, president of the Teamsters Joint Council 42 in El Monte.

The seizure occurred at 4am on March 18, just hours before the first American air assault.

Bloomberg said on Wednesday that all 16 crew members survived and would be tested for drugs and alcohol.

The moment of reckoning has arrived for this West African country founded by freed American slaves in the 19th century.

However, commercial use of the 2.6.0 kernel is still months off for most customers.

The Hulk weekend take surpasses the previous June record of $54.9-million for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

The time was about 4 a.m. on March 18, just hours before the first pinpoint missiles rained down on the capital.

Its attackers had to fire their rockets from hundreds of yards away, with a makeshift launcher hidden in a portable electric generator.

He made a point of saying during Tuesdays debate that the Confederate flag was a racist symbol.

In early U.S. trade, the euro was down 1.06 percent at $1.1607 <EUR=>.

"Deviant cannibalistic tendencies" were the primary motivation for the murders, and Brown's body was mutilated, authorities said.

Bush wanted "to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said yesterday.

On Monday the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, will report to the Palestinian parliament on his Government's achievements in its first 100 days in office.

Also Tuesday, a soldier drowned in an aqueduct in northern Iraq.

The civilian unemployment rate improved marginally last month -- slipping to 6.1 percent -- even as companies slashed payrolls by 93,000.

Hunt's attorneys filed a motion late Monday in Forsyth Superior Court to have Hunt's murder conviction thrown out.

Other data showed that buyers snapped up new and existing homes at a brisk pace in April, spurred by low mortgage rates.

But Close wondered whether the package would be worth the cost of licensing the third-party software, along with Salesforce.com's rental price.

Still others cite the difficulty of assembling a group of subjects whose depression is of comparable severity, increasing the chances that the effectiveness of the medication will be diffused.

"I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life," Mr. Limbaugh told his audience, which numbers 22 million listeners a week.

That's the highest third-quarter growth rate we've seen in over 25 years," said Andy Bryant, Intel's chief financial officer.

Seattle Deputy Police Chief Clark Kimerer said the exercise here went well, with some aspects, including the communication system linking various agencies, working better than expected.

Telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies is being investigated by two federal agencies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia.

"This sale is part of our efforts to simplify our Foodservice Products business and improve its cost structure," Multifoods chairman and chief executive officer Gary Costley said.

Three-year-old Jaryd Atadero vanished on Oct. 2, 1999 while on a hiking trip with a church group.

A DOD team is working to determine how hackers gained access to the system and what needs to be done to fix the breach.

Parrado's aunt believes her nephew, who has served a prison sentence in Cuba, will be persecuted if he is repatriated.

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday said companies trading on the biggest U.S. markets must win shareholder approval before granting stock options and other stock-based compensation plans to corporate executives.

Per-user pricing is $29 for Workplace Messaging, $89 for Team Collaboration and $35 for Collaborative Learning.

"Instead of pursuing the most imminent and real threats – international terrorism – this Bush administration chose to settle old scores," Mr. Graham said.

Microsoft is preparing to alter its Internet Explorer browser, following a patent verdict that went against the company, Microsoft said Friday.

"It's routine for IBM to challenge its internal IT teams to rigorously test new platforms and technologies inside IBM," she said.

SARS has killed about 800 people and affected more than 8400 since being detected in China in November.

Nearly 6,000 MTA drivers and train operators joined the mechanics in the picket line.

The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC shed 23.45 points, or 1.44 percent, to end at 1,603.97, based on the latest data.

The Infineon case began in August 2000, when Rambus accused Infineon of patent infringement and Infineon counter-sued Rambus for breach of contract and fraud.

Low-income earners would pay a 5 percent tax on both types of investment income.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was off 5.53 points, or 0.33 percent, at 1,662.91.

"The Princess' marriage was not set up by force," said Vasile Ionescu, of the Roma Centre for public policies.

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and companion Fran Walsh arrive at the 74th Annual Academy Awards.

Hynix CEO E.J. Woo condemned the decision calling the ruling an "outrageous act aimed at a hidden agenda."

Authorities had no evidence to suggest the two incidents were connected.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's original application in December 2001, saying the trial had been sloppily conducted.

Gen. Sattler heads a Combined Joint Task Force based on ship in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.

Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly said he was satisfied with the reimbursement.

AutoAdvice is available as a one-year subscription at $400 per CPU, scaling from one to 50,000 CPUs.

CAPPS II will not use bank records, records indicating creditworthiness or medical records."

"Fewer than 10" FBI offices have conducted investigations involving visits to mosques, the Justice Department said.

Moore of Alabama says he will appeal his case to the nation's highest court.

"We're confident that the new leadership will take responsibility for the past actions of the Archdiocese of Boston," Lincoln said.

One question was whether France, which infuriated Washington by leading the charge against U.N. authorization for the war, would vote "Yes" or abstain.

"Jeremy's a good guy," Barber said, adding: "Jeremy is living the dream life of the New York athlete.

Ratliff's daughters, Margaret and Martha Ratliff, were adopted by Peterson after their mother's death.

Money from Iraqi oil sales will go into that fund which will be controlled by the United States and Britain and used to rebuild the country.

Car volume fell 8 per cent, while light truck sales -- which include vans, pickups and SUVs -- rose 2.7 per cent.

He said he had made it "very plain" to the US that Australia did not support the death penalty.

Special police detained Khodorkovsky early on Saturday in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, where his plane had made a refuelling stop.

Robert Stewart, a spokesman for Park Place, the parent company of Caesars Palace, said he was surprised by the court's decision.

He has also served on the president's Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Altria shares fell 2.2 percent or 96 cents to $42.72 and were the Dow's biggest percentage loser.

"And if there is a leak out of my administration," he added, "I want to know who it is.

After losing as much as 84.56 earlier, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up 22.81, or 0.2 percent, at 9,340.45.

Representatives for Puretunes could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.

A key to that effort was the company's introduction of a 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty, meant to reassure buyers that they could trust the Korean company.

ECUSA is the U.S. branch of the 70 million-member Anglican Communion.

The companies said "it was not our intention to target or offend any group or persons or to incite hatred or violence."

Another brother, Ali Imron, was sentenced to life in prison after cooperating with investigators and showing remorse.

Most times, wholesalers sold the questionable drugs to one of three huge national distributors that supply virtually all drugs in the country.

Rumsfeld, who has been feuding for two years with Army leadership, passed over nine active-duty four-star generals.

He said it was not possible to rule out that the chemical was a cancer risk to humans.

Attorney John Barnett, who represents Morse, showed photos of a scratch on Morse's neck and the officer's bloody ear.

The letter stated that a premature stillborn baby was placed on the bed in a blanket.

Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk said his office received the recordings this week.

"This is a wide-ranging and continuing investigation which is likely to result in numerous other charges," Mr Spitzer said.

In early afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 7.58, or 0.1 percent, at 9,381.79.

Kyi, a U.N. envoy says, as Japan adds to growing international pressure by saying it will halt its hefty economic aid unless Suu Kyi is freed.

Currently, the state's congressional delegation is made up of 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans.

In the first stage of the attack, the Lovsan worm began fouling computers around the world.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, who announced Tuesdays ban, also said Washington would send a technical team to Canada to help.

Only 29 families of frogs are known and most were identified and described in the mid-1800s and the last in 1926.

The survey that found it covered only a narrow slice of the sky.

However, the standards body warns that changes to Internet Explorer may affect a "large number" of existing Web sites.

Both Blair and Bush have faced accusations that they manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to make the case for military action.

"I think 70 percent of the work is already done," Tauzin told reporters in the Capitol.

"We must defend those whom we dislike or even despise," said Neal R. Sonnett, a Miami lawyer who led an association panel on enemy combatants.

Likewise, the 30-year bond US30YT=RR slid 23/32 for a yield of 4.34 percent, up from 4.30 percent.

China has threatened to execute or jail for life anyone who breaks their quarantine and intentionally spreads the killer SARS virus.

Earlier, they had defied a police order and cried "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) as Bashir walked to his seat in the tightly guarded courtroom.

The announcement comes one day after Microsoft’s global security chief, Scott Charney, reiterated Microsoft’s promises to simplify the way it distributes patches to users.

The fighting around Bunia began after neighboring Uganda completed the withdrawal of its more than 6,000 soldiers from the town.

An officer in the People's Liberation Army selected from a pool of 14, Lt-Col Yang is the son of a teacher and an official at an agricultural firm.

The Yankees, however, had big trouble handling Victor Zambrano (4-4) for the second straight time.

A former candidate for governor of New York, he styled himself an advocate of better corporate governance.

Yeager said the suspect in the Target attack showed tendencies of being a prior offender.

Tenet has been under scrutiny since November, when former Chief Executive Jeffrey Barbakow said the company used aggressive pricing to trigger higher payments for the sickest Medicare patients.

His decision means that the case against Gary Lee Sampson, including the capital charges against him, will be tried in September.

Meanwhile, rival contender, General Electric's NBC, submitted a letter of interest, a source familiar with the matter said.

Freeman's civil hearing may be, on the surface, about a driver's license.

"This deal makes sense for both companies," Brian Halla, National's chief executive, said in a statement.

Consumers who said jobs are difficult to find jumped from 29.4 to 32.6, while those claiming work was plentiful slipped from 13 to 12.6.

He has no immediate plans for television advertising, believing it is unnecessary this early.

The priest, the Rev. John F. Johnston, 64, of 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights, was charged with aggravated harassment and criminal possession of a weapon.

"Qualcomm has enjoyed many years of selling...against little or no competition," Hubach said in the statement.

That state will not emerge until the interim government decides on a process for writing a new constitution and for holding the first democratic elections.

"I think it happened very quickly," Houston Police Department homicide investigator Phil Yochum said of the crime.

Sendmail said the system can even be set up to permit business-only usage.

The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a separate hearing Thursday.

The telephone survey had a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

United issued a statement saying it will "work professionally and cooperatively with all its unions."

Tonight, 21-year-old Morgan and as many as 1,200 fellow students at Wheaton College will gather in the gym for the first real dance in the school's 143-year history.

The bodies of former Invercargill man Warren Campbell, 32, and climbing companion Jonathan Smith, 47, were recovered from below Mt D'Archiac late yesterday morning.

In 2001, President Bush named Kathy Gregg to the Student Loan Marketing Association board of directors.

Beckham will receive a yearly salary of $10 million plus bonuses, earning him about $220,000 a game.

Deaths in rollover crashes accounted for 82 percent of the number of traffic deaths in 2002, the agency says.

This week's tour will take Bush to Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria, and is aimed at softening his warrior image at home and abroad.

Executive recruiters say that finding a seasoned chief merchandising officer will perhaps be the trickiest of all hires because there is such a dearth of good ones.

"We have sent a message to the nation that this is a new Louisiana," she told a victory party in New Orleans.

Five more human cases of West Nile virus, were reported by the Mesa County Health Department on Wednesday.

It said the operation, which began on Monday, was part of "the continued effort to eradicate Baath Party loyalists, paramilitary groups and other subversive elements."

NBC probably will end the season as the second most popular network behind CBS, although it's first among the key 18-to- 49-year-old demographic.

In Europe, France's CAC-40 rose 0.6 percent, Britain's FTSE 100 slipped 0.02 percent and Germany's DAX index advanced 0.8 percent.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners about 8 to 5 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Some 660 prisoners from 42 countries, including Canada, are held, many captured during the war against in Afghanistan the al-Qaida network.

"Beginning; early stages; not life-threatening; treatable," he said at a news conference at the Capitol.

Oracle's offer "undervalues the company and is not in the best interest of stockholders," PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway said.

Bryant surrendered to authorities on Friday and posted a $25,000 bond.

Roberson was bitten on the back and scratched on the leg, according to her mother, Shamika Woumnm of Dorchester.

He says information released about a tarot card left at one shooting scene may have prolonged the spree by cutting off fragile communications with the sniper.

Chief financial officer Andy Bryant has said that hike had a greater affect volume than officials expected.

It was the 23-9 Yankees' third straight defeat - their longest skid of the season.

Solomon 5.5 is available initially in the United States and Canada, for a starting price of about $12,700.

The report released Monday simply says, This report does not attempt to address the complexities of this issue.

The SEC said on Thursday its staff was preparing to draw up rules to combat trading abuses.

History will remember the University of Washington's Dr. Belding Scribner as the man who has saved more than a million lives by making long-term kidney dialysis possible.

But he will meet the French President, Jacques Chirac, privately.

He is temporarily serving as Chechnya's acting president while his boss, Akhmad Kadyrov, is on the campaign trail.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index dipped 0.08 of a point to 1,646.

The hearing came one day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer, Dallager, for failing to address the scandal.

Robert Liscouski, the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection, will oversee NCSD.

Chechen officials working for the Moscow-backed government are a frequent target for rebels and tension is running high ahead of next Sunday's presidential election in war-torn Chechnya.

Columbia was destroyed during re-entry Feb. 1, killing its seven astronauts.

Feral's group was behind a successful tourism boycott about a decade ago that resulted in then-Gov. Walter J. Hickel imposing a moratorium on wolf control in 1992.

She concludes that what her husband did was morally wrong but not a betrayal of the public.

Sen. Bob Graham, Florida Democrat, raised $2 million after getting a late start.

The exam contains four sections and tests a students knowledge of algebra and geometry as well as probability and statistics.

Top U.S. executives are feeling increasingly sunny about business conditions and corporate profits, according to a survey released Monday.

Massachusetts is one of 12 states that does not have the death penalty, having abolished capital punishment in 1984.

Taylor's aides warn an abrupt departure could trigger more chaos, a view shared by many in Liberia and, in private, even by mediators.

HP's shipments increased 48 percent year-over-year, compared to an increase of 31 percent for Dell.

Recall advocates say they have turned in 1.6 million signatures to counties.

Mr. Gettelfinger said at that news conference that "we are going to continue to hammer away at the negotiations process until we reach an agreement," with Ford and G.M.

Country-music station KKCS has suspended two disc jockeys for playing songs by the Dixie Chicks in violation of a ban imposed after one group member criticized President George Bush.

Their difference was over whether the court should pay attention to legal opinions of other world courts, such as the European Court of Human Rights.

It's also a strategic win for Overture, given that Knight Ridder had the option of signing on Google's services.

BOSTON The Catholic archdiocese in Boston has offered $55 million to settle more than 500 clergy sex abuse lawsuits, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

Lewis said that the third-quarter results were driven by deposit and loan growth, strong investment banking and trading results, and improved mortgage and card revenues.

Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people) scrambled up $2.19, or almost 12 percent, to $20.59.

They were not supplied or given to us but unearthed by our reporter, David Blair, in the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad."

Congress twice before passed similar restrictions, but President Bill Clinton vetoed them.

Brian Brabazon said his son would get upset but then turn around and befriend his taunters.

At his sentencing, Avants had tubes in his nose and a portable oxygen tank beside him.

McKnight's lawyers say there is no proof her cocaine use caused the child's death.

The number of extremely obese American adults - those who are at least 100 pounds overweight - has quadrupled since the 1980s to about 4 million.

The verbal flareup with Keating stemmed from Cardinal Mahony's initial refusal to participate in that survey unless procedures were changed.

An animal rights group waited Friday to find out if it has succeeded in putting a stop to a state-sponsored program allowing hunters to shoot wolves from airplanes in Alaska.

The CFTC has been investigating several energy companies, including at least three Colorado companies, for manipulating energy markets by reporting false natural-gas trading prices to industry publications.

"In relation to the second paper, one part of that should have been sourced to a reference work.

The court then stayed that injunction, pending an appeal by the Canadian company.

He was eventually taken to London's Hammersmith hospital, where doctors regulated Blair's heart beat via electric shock.

Under the legislation, a physician who performs the procedure could face up to two years in prison.

Chirac, who can pardon a law-breaker, refused Humbert's request last year but kept in close touch with the family.

Dotson was taken to Chester River Hospital Center where he stayed overnight.

When police removed the four from the home, they weighed 136 pounds combined.

The charges allege that he was part of the conspiracy to kill and kidnap persons in a foreign country.

The second company, temporarily dubbed ``InternationalCo.'', includes 19 international power and pipeline holdings.

He was convicted by a Ventura County Superior Court jury and sentenced in absentia to 124 years in prison.

The draft of the report was forthright: "Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment."

Civilian reservists also could be sent overseas for jobs such as the reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the 2002 study, the margin of error ranged from 1.8 to 4.4 percentage points.

Westfield, which owns Galleria in Morley, also will continue discussions about the other co-owned centres such as Knox City in Melbourne, half-owned by Deutsche Bank.

Last year Bloomberg boycotted the parade because he wanted to march with two actors from "The Sopranos."

Federal agents said Friday they are investigating the theft of 1,100 pounds of an explosive chemical from construction companies in Colorado and California in the past week.

Mr. Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, said that the White House wasn't informed of the FBI activities.

Like-for-like sales for the 17 weeks to 27 December were flat, while the gross margin fell by 2 percentage points, the company said.

Investigators were searching his home in Muenster in the presence of his wife when news of his death came, prosecutor Wolfgang Schweer told The Associated Press.

"What this allows us to do is have a crossover that is much more fuel efficient and aimed at young families."

The teen was in surgery at Sacred Heart Medical Center, and the extent of his injuries was not available, Bragdon said.

The goal will be to reduce congestion by upgrading road, building tollways, facilitating public transit or any other means to improve mobility.

"This decision is clearly incorrect," FTC Chairman Timothy Muris said in a written statement.

The conservancy helped in the purchase of the land from the Estate of Samuel Mills Damon for $22 million.

Sir Paul already has three children fashion designer Stella, 31, Mary, 33, and James, 25 by his wife Linda, who died from breast cancer in 1998.

In recent years, Mr. Hampton continued to run into trouble, facing charges of fare-beating and credit-card theft.

SCO has also alleged that the generic Linux kernel contains code which is from its Unix property.

But Amrozi did not reveal and was not asked the company's or his boss's name.

General Jeffery announced he would give his substantial military pension accumulated over 40 years to charity during his stay at Government House.

The rest said they belonged to another party or had no affiliation.

Blair himself took the reins of the Labour Party after its leader John Smith died of a heart attack in 1994.

In 2002, for example, the Dow dropped more than 1,500 points, or 15.6 percent, between May and October, due largely to terrorism fears driven by headlines.

The House and Senate are expected to vote on the omnibus bill in the next two months.

She said six were from Douglas County, the southwestern Oregon county that includes Roseburg, and two were from the Portland area.

Prosecutors allege that Nichols and co-conspirator Timothy McVeigh worked together to prepare a bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

A rival distributor, Mike Selwyn from United International Pictures, says that unlike The Matrix Revolutions, he cannot detect any advance scepticism, even within the business.

"The law has several weaknesses which terrorists could exploit, undermining our defenses," Ashcroft said.

"Canada is a small country, and it needs companies like this, deals like this."

Revenue rose to $616.5 million from $610.6 million a year earlier.

The winner of the Williams-Mauresmo match will play the winner of Justine Henin-Hardenne vs. Chanda Rubin.

"By its actions, the Bush administration threatens to give a bad name to a just war," the Connecticut Democrat told a Capitol Hill news conference.

I urge Congress to quickly resolve any differences and send me the final bill as soon as possible so that I can sign it into law."

Reuters reported Braun ended June with $22,126 in the bank, according to her FEC report, and the Rev. Al Sharpton reported $12,061 in the bank.

After learning she would no longer get an experimental drug that treated her severe peanut allergy, Allison Smith reacted with panic.

Darren Dopp, a Spitzer spokesman, declined to comment late Thursday.

Using bookmarks and back and forth buttons - we had about eighteen different things we had in mind for the browser," he told an industry audience in London yesterday.

Terri Schiavo, 39, is expected to die sometime in the next two weeks in the Tampa-area hospice where she has spent the past several years.

Against the dollar, the euro rose as high as $1.1535 -- a fresh four-year high -- in morning trade before standing at $1.1518/23 at 0215 GMT.

Three American warships are off the Liberian coast carrying a total of 2,300 marines.

Those involved were allegedly told to never speak of the incident again, according to the letter.

Shares of Berkeley, California-based Xoma dropped $1.49 or 27 percent, to $4 in Instinet trading.

"Removing the waiver means nothing when Oracle still has pending litigation in Delaware that opposes the PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards transaction," PeopleSoft responded.

At best, Davydenko's supporters were naively ignorant of tennis etiquette; at worst, they cheated - yet went without penality from umpire Lars Graf.

The Pentagon says it's a technique that's been successful in predicting elections, even box-office receipts.

Treatment guidelines, many written by medical-specialty organizations, recommend approaches to many ailments, such as painkillers and exercise for arthritis.

After three months, Atkins dieters had lost an average of 14.7 pounds compared with 5.8 pounds in the conventional group.

Secretary of State Colin Powell designated the Chechen leader believed responsible for last year's hostage standoff in a Moscow theater as a threat to U.S. security Friday.

"It's probably not the easiest time to come in and take over the shuttle program, but I look forward to the challenge," Parsons told reporters at NASA headquarters.

None of Deans opponents picked him as someone to party with, nor was Dean asked that question.

Mr. Kozlowski contends that the event included business and that some of those attending were Tyco employees.

"Today, we are trying to convey this problem to Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George W Bush."

The Mariners torched Randy Choate and Juan Acevedo in the eighth for four runs and a 12-5 bulge.

In a statement, the Redmond, Wash., company said that it was acquiring the "intellectual property and technology assets" of GeCAD.

That would be a potential setback to Chief Executive Phil Condit's strategy of bolstering defense-related sales during a slump in jetliner deliveries.

The horrific nature of the attacks is often fueled by a mix of tribal hatreds and a desire to spread terror in the region.

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, of which Mr O Muireagáin was a member, welcomed his release.

A spokeswoman for Interscope Geffen A&M declined to confirm how many employees were affected.

In that same time, the S&P and the Nasdaq have gained about 3.5 percent.

On Monday, U.S. Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch was awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

He urged member states that contribute police and soldiers to U.N. peacekeeping operations to provide more women.

Other changes in the plan refine his original vision, Libeskind said.

PeopleSoft also said its board had officially rejected Oracle's offer.

The new contract extends the guarantee that his annual pay and bonus will be at least $2.4 million a year.

A rebel who was captured said more than 2,000 insurgents were involved in the attack.

Under Kansas law, it is illegal for children under the age of 16 to have sexual relations.

The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day down 10.89 at 9,837.94, after advancing 111.04 Wednesday.

Aside from meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the sidelines of the Forum, Mr Goh also met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Tajikistan President Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov.

Cortisol levels in the saliva of day care children were highest and rose most steeply in those judged by day care center personnel to be the shyest.

Fires in Spain's Extremadura region, which borders Portugal, have forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.

"The idea that Tony Abbott is in some way a one-dimensional political head-kicker couldn't be more wrong," Mr Howard said.

On a planet that takes nearly 165 years to orbit the sun, spring can last more than 40 years.

SSE CEO Marchant said he would sell on Midlands' power generation assets in Turkey and Pakistan to fellow British utility International Power Plc IPR.L for 21 million pounds.

"Biotech products, if anything, may be safer than conventional products because of all the testing," Fraley said, adding that 18 countries have adopted biotechnology.

Crossing Jordan will be back in January after star Jill Hennessy gives birth.

Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said the university was prepared to keep the campus running with temporary workers and managers doing extra work.

A member of the chart-topping collective So Solid Crew dumped a loaded pistol in an alleyway as he fled from police, a court heard yesterday.

They passed through the Lemelson Medical, Educational and Research Foundation Limited Partnership in 2001 to Syndia.

Shares of USA Interactive rose $2.28, or 7 percent, to $34.96 on Friday in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading and have gained 53 percent this year.

We believe them to be without merit, and will defend ourselves vigorously.

The Russell 2000 index, which tracks smaller company stocks, was up 1.02, or 0.21 percent, at 496.83.

The law does not regulate how much individuals can contribute to their own campaigns, a decided advantage for millionaires like Mr. Schwarzenegger and Mr. Ueberroth, both Republican candidates.

Dixon put his style on display Sunday afternoon in winning the Honda Indy 225 at Pikes Peak International Raceway.

In a statement later, he said it appeared his side may have fallen a bit short.

Among the most recent additions to the list, which to date includes more than 360 groups and individuals, is Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, the former president of Chechnya.

As of Tuesday, almost 250 health-care workers were in quarantine.

About 1,000 people attended the ceremony, kicking off two days of observances tied to the March on Washington.

Second quarter sales came in at $645 million, up from $600 million the year before, AMD said.

The other 18 people inside the building - two visitors and 16 employees, including Harrison's ex-girlfriend - escaped without injury, Aaron said.

Southwest exercised nine 2004 options and six 2005 options, which were accelerated for delivery next year.

Professor Hermon-Taylor adds, An unexpected finding of the research showed that patients suffering with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) were also infected with the MAP bug.

Preliminary reports were that the men were not seen together at the airport, sources said.

Details of the research appear in the Nov. 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Six countries have advised their citizens not to travel to Taiwan for any reason, the ministry said.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> tacked on 5.91 points, or 0.29 percent, to 2,053.27.

United Airlines plans to become the first domestic airline to offer e-mail on all its domestic flights by the end of the year, the company announced yesterday.

Volodymyr Gorbanovsky, deputy general director of the plane's owners, Mediterranean Airlines, said it appeared to have veered from its flight path because of the fog.

Meteorologists predicted the storm would become a Category 1 hurricane before landfall.

I called the number and the lady told me she was talking on the phone to Toby Studabaker,'' Sherry Studabaker told BBC television.

Sweeney said he would formally announce the formation of the new union on Wednesday in Detroit.

The rate of skin cancer has tripled since the 1950s in Norway and Sweden, according to the study.

Shares in Safeway rose 1-1/4p to 290-1/2p while Morrison shares rose 1-3/4p to 222-3/4p in early morning trade.

Emeryville-based Ask Jeeves agreed to sell a business software division to a Sunnyvale-based rival, Kanisa, for $4.25 million.

"I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex."

A positive PSA test has to be followed up with a biopsy or other procedures before cancer can be confirmed.

But Mr. Peterson added, "I don't know anybody in the conference committee who's fighting to keep it out completely."

The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index gained 25.75 points, or 1.5 percent, to 1,746.46, its highest close in about 15 months.

In 1998 Intel invested $500 million in Micron, but later sold the equity it had bought, Mulloy said.

So far, however, only four companies have licensed the protocols, according to the report to the judge yesterday.

The speaker issued a one-paragraph statement, saying, "I am advised that certain allegations of criminal conduct have been interposed against my counsel, J. Michael Boxley.

We acted because we saw the existing evidence in a new light, through the prism of our experience on 11 September," Rumsfeld said.

In the second quarter, Anadarko now expects volume of 46 million BOE, down from 48 million BOE.

The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index dipped to 53.7 from 54.7 in August.

It got up on his personal radar screen this past week, I've given him my pitch and he was quite supportive," he said.

"It's just too important to keeping crime down," he said of Operation Impact, which began Jan. 3.

The couple was granted an annulment in September 2001 and Joanie Harper was given sole custody of Marques and Lyndsey, court records show.

Trans fat makes up only 1 percent to 3 percent of the total fat Americans consume, compared with 14 percent for saturated fat.

However, a recent slide in prices and OPEC's expectations of a surge in oil inventories have compounded its fears about a further softening of the market.

Iraq's economy was ravaged during years of U.N. sanctions over ex-president Saddam Hussein's 1990 occupation of Kuwait and by the U.S.-led war to oust him which ended in April.

Nationwide, severe acute respiratory syndrome has infected more than 5,300 people, about two-thirds of world's total, and killed 343 of them.

Under the settlement, Solutia will pay $50 million in equal installments over a period of 10 years.

Smith found the cigarette tax falls on the tobacco consumer, not the tribe, meaning the tribe is simply an agent for collecting a tax.

Hoffa, 62, vanished on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a Bloomfield Township parking lot in Oakland County, about 25 miles north of Detroit.

After Mao's death in 1976, Madame Mao was sentenced to life imprisonment for her role in the oppressive Cultural Revolution.

Six vehicles, including one belonging to the army, were damaged in the powerful explosion.

If convicted, they face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of the 11 counts.

There will be no vote on the issue but those opposed to Robinson's appointment are thought to outnumber those who accept it by around 20 to 17.

Peterson, 31, is now charged with murder in the deaths of his 27-year-old wife and their unborn son.

"Writing safe programs that demonstrate an infection vector is adequate [to demonstrate a vulnerability] without building in the reproductive sequences.

In other words, Cablevision is obligated to pay for YES Network's lawsuit against Time Warner Cable.

Germany's Foreign Ministry said it believed the passengers were from the northern states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, but had no further details.

A gunman who had ``a beef with the Postal Service'' stormed into a suburban post office and took two employees hostage Wednesday, authorities said.

The agency will "consider as timely any tax returns or payments due" Aug. 15 if they are submitted by Aug. 22.

Appleton said police continue to hold out the possibility that more than one person was involved in the poisonings.

"My judgment is 95 percent of that information should be declassified, become uncensored, so the American people would know."

Shares of Microsoft fell 1 cent to close at $25.65 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

His other films include "Malcolm X," "Summer of Sam" and "Jungle Fever."

She was arraigned in New York state on three counts of murder and ordered held without bail.

He acted as an international executive producer on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and The Weakest Link.

Carlson on Tuesday said he would not recuse himself from the case.

After 9/11, Connolly said, agents spent thousands of hours investigating al-Bayoumi.

The program will grow to include ports in Dubai, Turkey and Malaysia, among others.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 98.30, or 1.1 percent, while bond values fell, too.

Proving that the Millville son's sacrifice would not go unsung, Mayor James Quinn ordered all city flags flown at half-mast for the next 30 days.

With an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion, Mrs. Kroc ranked No. 121 on Forbes magazine's latest list of the nation's wealthiest people.

The biggest threat to order seemed to be looting and crime, including robberies by some of the prisoners freed by Saddam before the war.

Pratt &Whitney had said that 75 per cent of the engine equipment would be outsourced to Europe, with final assembly in Germany.

The woman was exposed to the SARS virus while in the hospital but was not a health care worker, said Dr. Colin D’Cunha, Ontario’s commissioner of public health.

"People who are high in positive emotions sleep better, they have better diets, they exercise more, they have lower levels of these stress hormones," Cohen said.

Robin Saunders, head of the bank's London-based principal finance unit, is also expected to quit.

But the new study, from the Women's Health Initiative, said the opposite.

It wants to force him to return his allegedly ill-gotten gains, with interest, and pay penalties.

He added that those "are not solely American principles, nor are they exclusively Western."

Mahmud was seized near Tikrit, the area from which he and Hussein hail, about 90 miles north of Baghdad, U.S. military officials said Wednesday night.

"If we don't march into Tehran, I think we will be in pretty good shape," he said.

They remain 40 percent below the levels prior to February's initial overstatement news.

The arrests revealed new details about the four-month investigation at Selenski's Mount Olivet Road home.

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> lost 6 points, or 0.71 percent, to 927.

Bond voiced disappointment that neither President Bush nor his brother attended the 2002 conference in Texas or the 2003 meeting in Florida.

Now, Blanca's American husband, 63-year-old Roger Lawrence Strunk, faces a murder indictment issued in February by the Philippine government, which says he's the leading suspect.

A key question was whether France, which infuriated Washington by leading the charge against U.N. authorization for the war, would vote "Yes" or abstain.

"Certainly what we know suggests that we should take what they're saying very seriously," he added.

On Wall Street, trading resumed with some glitches from the blackout that continued to affect parts of New York City.

Tony Blair has taken a hardline stance arguing nothing should be done to lessen the pressure on Mugabe at the gathering in the capital Abuja.

Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winners James Brolin and Judy Davis star as Ronald and Nancy Reagan in The Reagans.

The Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a civil fraud complaint against Dinh, of Phoenixville.

A month ago a military C-17 transporter returned to Baghdad when an engine exploded.

The Swiss franc rose nearly a third of a centime against the dollar and was last at 1.2998 <CHF=> to the greenback.

Associated Press Writers Michelle Morgante in San Diego and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this article.

On Saturday, a 149mph serve against Agassi equalled Rusedski's world record.

The purchase is the largest conservation transaction in Hawaii's history, the agencies said.

The FCC said existing televisions, VCRs, DVD players and related equipment would remain fully functional under the new broadcast flag system.

Motorola had scheduled its earnings report to be released today after the close of trading.

For the third time in the past four years, wildfires are the problem.

Most of those killed were labourers from Jharkhand and Nepal who were working at Rohtang tunnel.

Axcan's shares closed down 63 Canadian cents, or 4 percent, at C$16.93 in Toronto on Tuesday.

It forecast 445 billion yen in loan-loss charges for the year ending next March.

Iraqi doctors who treated former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch dismissed on Friday claims made in her biography that she was raped by her Iraqi captors.

On Thursday, Lee won a preliminary injunction in New York preventing Viacom from using the name "Spike TV."

A grief-stricken old woman, disconsolate with grief, smeared her face with dirt, uttering: "My child, my child."

In 1999 a California legislator proposed a law requiring driving tests for those over the age of 75 who sought to renew their licenses.

More than 400 people have been killed since August, including Afghan and foreign aid workers, U.S. and Afghan soldiers, officials and police, and many guerrillas.

Chad Kolton, emergency management spokesman with the Department of Homeland Security, said the government is open to new technologies and methods to communicate more quickly and efficiently.

The results will be published the July 10 issue of the journal Nature.

The Opposition Leader, Simon Crean, said John Howard had been forced to make changes by the incompetence of his ministers.

In fact, 10 million shares of the sale went to an unidentified charitable trust - which promptly sold them.

The airline says only Robert Milton is taking a 15-per-cent reduction in pay.

The WHIMS study found that combination hormone therapy doubled the risk for probable dementia in women 65 and older and did not prevent mild cognitive impairment.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 16.02 points, or 1.62 percent, at 1,004.63.

Researchers found that people 65 and older who had fish once a week had a 60% lower risk of Alzheimer's than those who never or rarely ate fish.

The product also features an updated release of the Apache Web server, as well as Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis.

"APEC leaders are painfully aware that security and prosperity are inseparable," Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told business leaders.

Clayton's shares were also suspended from trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

The cleanup, including new carpeting, electrical wiring and bathrooms, cost about $130 million.

Three such vigilante-style attacks forced the hacker organiser, who identified himself only as "Eleonora67]," to extend the contest until 8am (AEST) today.

They said many had been beaten, and police officers also stormed private wards at the hospital and harassed patients.

US authorities blame Al Qaeda for the attacks, which killed 231 people, including 12 Americans.

Standing with reporters and photographers about 150 yards from the prison gates was Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

Bremer said one initiative is to launch a US$70 million nationwide program in the next two weeks to clean up neighborhoods and build community projects.

Earlier this year, the company announced a restatement of its 2002, 2001 and 2000 financial results.

U.S. same-store sales last months at Tim Hortons rose 8.8 per cent.

World economic leaders hailed signs of a global revival on Tuesday but agreed it had to be handled with care to prevent any setback.

Sterling was down 0.8 percent against the dollar at $1.5875 GBP= .

Police said they believe Cruz knew of the girl through one of her former schoolmates - though neither the girl nor her family knew him.

Peck died peacefully at his Los Angeles home early Thursday with his wife of 48 years, Veronique, by his side.

Holden toured Northmoor, a small town in Platte County, Mo., where between 25 and 30 homes were either damaged or destroyed.

But in the end, all the worm did was visit a pornography site, said Vincent Weafer, a security director with Symantec Security Response in California.

While it was being called mandatory, Dupont said authorities were not forcing people from their homes.

Shares in Juniper Networks jumped more than 10 per cent on Monday after the networking equipment maker inked a sales and marketing deal with Lucent Technologies.

The legislation came after U.S. District Judge Lee R. West in Oklahoma City ruled last week that the FTC lacked authority to run the registry.

The report said the Corpus Christi-based agent twice called Escobar while the legislator was with the other protesting Democrats in Ardmore, Okla.

Yesterday, shares closed up 29 cents, or 0.54 percent, at $54.32.

North American futures pointed to a sub-par start to trading on Tuesday, with investors ready to get their first taste of quarterly earnings.

President Bush and top officials in his administration cited the threat from Iraq's alleged chemical and biological weapons and nuclear weapons program as the main justification for going to war.

Officials with Rescue California, one of the groups leading the recall campaign, called the lawsuit laughable.

The agreement resolves a lawsuit AOL filed against Microsoft in January 2002 on behalf of its subsidiary, Netscape Communications.

The street-racing sequel "2 Fast 2 Furious" won the pole position at the box office, taking in an estimated $52.1 million in its opening weekend.

Dell has about 32 percent of the U.S. market, but much lower share in the rest of the world.

He was sent to Larned State Hospital, where he was evaluated and treated.

Two weeks later on New Year's night, Nikia Shanell Kilpatrick was discovered bound and strangled in her apartment.

With the power back on, state workers headed back to their jobs Friday morning.

The report shows that drugs sold in Canadian pharmacies are manufactured in facilities approved by Health Canada - the FDA's counterpart in Canada.

Democrats argue they are not constitutionally required to redraw the lines, and that proposed maps would disenfranchise minorities and rural Texas.

After about three hours of negotiations, the gunman released the hostages after authorities delivered on his request for soft drinks.

Lee Peterson testified that he reached his son on his cell phone and talked to him for a couple of minutes.

Danbury prosecutor Warren Murray could not be reached for comment Monday.

Both bidders agreed to assume about $90 million in debt owed on the planes.

In 1999, the building's owners, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, issued guidelines to upgrade the fireproofing to a thickness of 1{ inches.

A woman was listed in good condition at Memorial's HealthPark campus, he said.

Palm plans to issue about 13.9 million shares of Palm common stock to Handspring's shareholders, on a fully diluted basis.

The judge ordered the unsealing yesterday at the request of several news agencies, including The Seattle Times, The Associated Press and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Wittig resigned last year after being indicted on federal bank fraud charges involving a real estate loan unrelated to Westar business.

Assani said Tuesday he did not know what to charge the men with because US officials refused to share information with him.

Researchers predicted an additional 23 cases of dementia a year for every 10,000 women on the therapy.

Jacob has pushed consolidation for years, but he has said many communities, especially rural ones, have opposed it.

A slit the size of one created in the test would let in a stream of gas three times as hot as a blowtorch."

Legato stockholders will get 0.9 of a share of EMC stock for every share of Legato they own.

"The Republicans went into a closet, met with themselves, and announced a 'compromise.'"

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is awaiting recommendations from his commanders.

Goodrem, 18, announced on Friday that she was suffering Hodgkin's disease, a curable form of lymphoma cancer.

He says that "this is a time when we priests need to be renewing our pledge to celibacy, not questioning it.

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be kept under house arrest following her release from a hospital where she underwent surgery, her personal physician said Friday.

Shattered Glass,"starring Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass, debuted well with $80,000 in eight theaters.

United already has paid the city $34 million in penalties for not meeting the first round of employment targets.

The budget fell steadily until dropping as low as $2.93 billion in 1998 and has gradually risen to $3.27 billion for fiscal 2002.

A council of up to nine Iraqis probably will lead the countrys interim government through the coming months, the U.S. civil administrator said Monday.

He was arrested Friday night at an Alpharetta seafood restaurant while dining with his wife, singer Whitney Houston.

They found molecules that can only be produced when ozone breaks down cholesterol.

Ghulam Mahaiuddin, head of administration in the southern province of Helmand, said the bus blast happened early in the morning, west of the provincial capital Lashkargah.

Synthes-Stratec's cash payment for Mathys would be financed with cash on hand plus bank borrowings being arranged by Credit Suisse First Boston.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others argued that Saddam Hussein possessed chemical and biological weapons and was hiding them.

The numbers highlight a conundrum: the difficulty of classifying racial and ethnic categories in an increasingly fluid and multi-ethnic society.

"Kmart needs to dramatically overhaul management in the areas of buying, store operations and sourcing," he said.

The fight over online music sales was disclosed in documents filed last week with the judge and made available by the court yesterday.

The two cases concerned the admissions policies of the University of Michigan's law school and undergraduate college.

With the test, Hubbard said, "I believe that we have found the smoking gun.

Scribner's body was found floating in the city's Portage Bay, where he lived with his wife in a houseboat.

Congo's war began in 1998 when Uganda and Rwanda invaded to back rebels fighting to topple the central government.

The Pentagon, saying that Boykin requested it, is investigating his remarks.

She said Jane Doe's lawyers asked Verizon to withhold her name because she was planning on challenging the subpoena.

The two men were allegedly trying to engage Russian exiles in Britain in the assassination plot.

The council comprises 13 Shi'ites, five Sunni Arabs, five Kurds, an Assyrian Christian and a Turkmen.

University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman said in a statement on the university's Web site, "Our fundamental values haven't changed.

Eyewitnesses told how Sally, 62, originally from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, screamed as the escalator collapsed then sucked her in.

The company is working with the ObjectWeb consortium, Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse IDE development community as part of the effort.

The United States has accused Iran of masking plans to make nuclear weapons behind a civilian nuclear programme.

A new variant of Blaster also appeared Wednesday and seemed to be spreading, according to antivirus companies.

Directed by Jonathan Lynn from a script by Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K. Patterson.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog reprimanded Iran on Thursday for failing to comply with its nuclear safeguards obligations and called on Tehran to unconditionally accept stricter inspections by the agency.

She said he persisted and she eventually allowed him to fix her bike while she sat in the front seat of his car.

The first products are likely to be dongles costing between US$100 and US$150 that will establish connections between consumer electronics devices and PCs.

A base configuration with a 2.0GHz Intel Celeron processor, 128M bytes of memory, a 40G-byte hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive costs US$729.

"We have some small opportunities in November and maybe January," Mr. Parsons said optimistically.

Foam flaking off from all over the tank left dozens of pockmarks each flight on the thermal tiles that cover much of the shuttle, Turcotte said.

Mr Eddington described Monday's talks with union leaders as "sensible".

Vaccine makers have been thrust into the limelight as government programs to encourage wider vaccination and fears of biological attacks on civilian and military targets.

During the same quarter last year, EDS declared a profit of $354 million, or 72 cents per share.

ICANN has criticised the changes and asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend them.

Less than a month after departing her anchor's chair at "Dateline NBC," Jane Pauley has signed a new deal with NBC to host a syndicated daytime talk show.

"The releases are the latest in a series of efforts by the government to move Myanmar to multi-party democracy and national conciliation."

The administration cited those links as primary justification for invading Iraq and toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein.

A few hours later, the House voted 256 to 170 to pass the Healthy Forest Restoration Act sponsored by Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo.

I would like to publicly thank Sir Alex Ferguson for making me the player I am today."

Bremer will focus on the politics, Garner said, adding that he expects Bremer to arrive in Iraq by next week.

More than 130 people and $17 million have been seized nationwide in operations by the FBI and other agencies to stop cybercrime.

The family stopped for lunch at Freshwater Spit, where several children went to the water's edge to play in the surf shortly after noon.

Island Def Jam must pay $52 million in punitive damages, and Cohen must pay the remaining $56 million, the jury said.

However, Lapidus expects foreign brands' sales to be up 4 percent, driven by strong truck sales at Honda Motor Co.

Without going into specifics, Oracle managers also indicated PeopleSoft's roughly 8,000 workers could expect mass layoffs.

"I am happy to be here in the United States, far away from the clutches of the tyrant Castro," Wilson said through a Spanish interpreter.

Michel, who remains in the government, denied that US pressure had provoked the government's move.

Excluding one-time items, the company enjoyed a profit of 6 cents a share.

In January 1996, two of his nude models were arrested atop of a Manhattan snowdrift, posed beneath an ice-cream parlor sign that advertised Frozen Fantasies.

Lakhani was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a terrorist group and acting as an arms broker without a license.

General Motors Corp. posted a record 8.4 percent improvement in 2000.

Woodley, who underwent a liver transplant in 1992, died of liver and kidney failure.

Her detention brings to 19 the number of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis now in US custody.

Just five months ago, Dean committed to accepting taxpayer money and vowed to attack any Democrat who didnt.

"Contrary to the court's decision, we firmly believe Congress gave the FTC authority to implement the national Do Not Call list.

Ruffner, 45, doesn't yet have an attorney in the murder charge, authorities said.

Some of the computers also are used to send spam e-mail messages to drum up traffic to the sites.

It also faces significant regulatory delays and uncertainty, and threatens serious damage to the company's business, he added.

Mason said al-Amoudi was arrested at Dulles International Airport on Sunday as he came into the country.

I never thought I'd write these words, but here goes: I miss Vin Diesel.

The report ranked 45 large companies based on employment, marketing, procurement, community reinvestment and charitable donations.

Those findings, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, are the latest bad news about estrogen-progestin therapy.

A view of the devastation left behind when a man drove his car through a crowded farmers market in Santa Monica on Wednesday.

Experts said the case marks one of the first times in which a parent was charged with contributing to a child's suicide.

An amendment to remove the exemption for the state-sanctioned sites failed on a much closer 237-186 vote.

The AP quotes a local policeman as saying the British troops were targeted by townspeople angry over civilian deaths during a demonstration yesterday in the town of Majar Al-Kabir.

Baer said he had concluded that lawyers for the two victims "have shown, albeit barely ... that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al-Qaeda".

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that the men's behavior "was a disgrace, and totally inappropriate for city employees."

Right now, only six states do: Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Indonesia's army has often been accused of human rights abuses during GAM's battle for independence, charges it has generally denied while accusing the separatists of committing rights violations.

Mr. Brendsel is expected to remain with the Freddie Mac Foundation.

They also are reshaping the retail business relationship elsewhere, as companies take away ideas and practices that change how they do business in their own firms and with others.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 39.39 points, or 2.2 percent, to 1,826.33, after losing more than 2 percent on Tuesday.

Frank Quattrone, the former Credit Suisse First Boston technology investment-banking guru, reportedly pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of obstruction of justice and witness tampering.

It is the fifth such election in Iraq, after the northern city of Mosul and three cities in Iraq's south.

It said a civil complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission is expected as well.

"This individual's lawyers are trying to obtain from the court a free pass to download or upload music online illegally."

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR firmed 26/32, taking its yield to 4.17 percent, after hitting another record low of 4.16 percent.

The shooter ran away, police said, eluding an officer who gave chase.

But SCO has hit back, saying: "We view IBM's counterclaim filing today as an effort to distract attention from its flawed Linux business model.

Helicopters hovered over al-Khalidiya into the early hours of Sunday.

If Walker appeals Parrish's ruling, it would stop the extradition process and could take several months, Rork said.

Boykin’s also referred to Islamist fighters as America’s “spiritual enemy” that, “will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus”.

The first vulnerability is a buffer overrun that results from IE's failure to properly determine an object type returned from a Web server.

"To make sure that we avoided any perception of wrongdoing, we are not co-mingling appropriated and non-appropriated funds (from Congress)," said Faletti.

In Falluja on Thursday, two grenades were thrown at soldiers from the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, wounding seven.

Prince Saud said, "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been wrongfully and morbidly accused of complicity in the tragic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."

"If the voluntary reliability standards were complied with, we wouldn't have had a problem."

China accounted for about 14 percent of Motorola's sales last year, and the company has large manufacturing operations there.

Bush also hoped to polish his anti-AIDS credentials in Uganda, which has been hailed as an African pioneer in fighting the killer disease.

Shares of MONY were gaining $2.57, or 9%, to $31.90 in after-hours trading on Instinet.

Founded in 1996, the LendingTree exchange consists of more than 200 banks, lenders, and brokers.

Houston fourth-graders also performed similarly to national peers in writing.

If achieved it would represent an increase of 10 per cent from the same quarter a year ago.

It cut taxes while balancing the budget for three years and reduced Europe's second highest per capita national debt.

"We continue to work with the Saudis on this, but they did not, as of the time of this tragic event, provide the additional security we requested."

In the second quarter last year, the company experienced a net loss of $185 million, or 54 cents a share, on sales of $600 million.

We don't know if any will be SARS," said Dr. James Young, Ontario's commissioner of public safety.

We need a certifiable pay as you go budget by mid-July or schools wont open in September, Strayhorn said.

In 1995, Schwarzenegger expanded the program nationwide to serve 200,000 children in 15 cities, most who come from housing projects or homeless shelters.

A spokesman said: "Further testing is under way but at this stage, given the early detection, the outlook is positive."

Later this year, the command will send trainers with soldiers from four North African nations on patrolling and intelligence gathering missions.

Except for a few archaic characteristics, they are as recognizable as Hamlet's poor Yorick.

He is a brother to three-year-old Mia, from Kate's first marriage, to film producer Jim Threapleton.

Only two other countries, Germany and the Dominican Republic, have publicly expressed reservations, and Germany has since said it will sign it.

The settlement includes $4.1 million in attorneys' fees and expenses.

It reports a mailing list of 50,000 and support from about 500 congregations and 50 bishops.

Dick is going to be there as long as Dick wants to be there," Reuters reports Langone as saying.

The state has received 19 entries in a competition for a World Trade Center Memorial and is working with families of victims to select a winner.

However, John Clare, chief executive of the Dixons Group, expressed his disappointment.

"The same three Response Team members also met with Monsignor Grass, who while manifestly repentant, admitted that the allegations were true.

U.S. manufacturing growth expanded for the third straight month in September but at a slower pace, according to a report released shortly after the opening bell.

Microsoft has described the technology as "a brand new client platform for building smart, connected, media rich applications in Longhorn."

But for more than a century, an untold amount of money intended for some of the nation's poorest residents was lost, stolen or never collected.

It is rare for a legal challenge to occur before a bill becomes law.

St. Paul Chairman and Chief Executive Jay S. Fishman, 51, will be CEO of the combined company.

There are now 37 active probable cases in the GTA, compared with 70 cases on June 6.

The constitutionality of outlawing partial birth abortion is not an open question.

"It should have reported that it was sailing with an atomic bomb cargo," Anomeritis said, referring to the quantity of explosives on board.

Mr. Bergonzi was the finance chief from 1995 until his departure in 1999, and was intimately involved in the alleged scheme to pump up Rite Aid's earnings.

The Aspen Fire had charred more than 12,400 acres by today on Mount Lemmon just north of Tucson, and more than 250 homes had been destroyed.

They said he would be open to letting that license go to the city of Chicago.

It argued that such access "is not required by domestic or international law and should not be treated as a precedent."

The male eagle was found by a zookeeper early Thursday, suffering from severe puncture wounds in his abdomen.

He served as a marine in the Second World War and afterward began submitting articles to magazines.

The Legislature on Wednesday sent Gov. Jeb Bush a bill it hopes will lower malpractice insurance rates and keep doctors from limiting their practices or moving out of state.

In Taiwan, the capital's mayor and other officials handed out free thermometers in a islandwide ``take-your-temperature'' campaign Sunday, amid evidence that containment efforts were also paying off.

Lawtey is not the first faith-based program in Florida's prison system.

The reports helped overcome investor jitters after the euro briefly hit an all-time high against the dollar Tuesday.

American forces here organized the elections, which officials say are important steps toward establishing democracy in Iraq.

Negotiators talked with the boy for about an hour and a half, Bragdon said.

"If draining the ponds in Maryland will help further establish [his] innocence, we welcome it.

But Cruz resembled a police sketch of the suspect and had injuries consistent with what police expected from the struggle he had with the girl's mother, Lansdowne said.

Passed in 1999 but never put into effect, the law would have made it illegal for bar and restaurant patrons to light up.

A number below 50 suggests contraction in the manufacturing sector, while a number above that indicates expansion.

Half of the women were given a daily dose of the drug and half took a placebo.

It would be difficult to overestimate the potential dangers of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) vulnerability.

Mr. Bloomberg later told reporters that the agreement "will be a compromise, like the real world requires."

The man, who entered the post office in Lakeside shortly before 3 p.m., gave up to deputies about 6:30 p.m.

Rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, recovering from a quad bike crash, is conscious and joking in his hospital bed, his daughter Kelly said tonight.

The New York senator's new book, "Living History," appears a certain bestseller.

IBM is also "pursuing membership in the group" and plans to be an active participant, according to the CELF statement.

Through Thursday, Oracle said 34.75 million PeopleSoft shares had been tendered.

The company's chief executive retired and chief financial officer resigned.

The FBI is trying to determine when White House officials and members of the vice president’s staff first focused on Wilson and learned about his wife’s employment at the agency.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Stock Markets composite index added 1.16 points to 1,504.04.

He will replace Ron Dittemore, who announced his resignation April 23.

Pen Hadow, who became the first person to reach the geographic North Pole unsupported from Canada, has just over two days of rations left.

Many of the victims had been headed home for R&R or emergency leave when they were killed.

The face of President Saddam Hussein was added to Iraqi currency after the 1991 Gulf War.

"It's safe to assume that the Senate is prepared to pass some form of cap," King said.

He was also accused of masterminding bombings that killed 22 people in Manila in December 2000.

The Nikkei average ended trading down 1.83 percent at 10,310.04, a four-week low.

That exploit works on unpatched Windows 2000 machines with Service Pack 3 and 4.

The center has a budget of $45 million, most of which will be spent on research and testing, Bridges said.

Out of the nearly $20 billion, $18.6 billion is earmarked for reconstruction of Iraq and $1.2 billion for Afghanistan.

"For me, the Lewinsky imbroglio seemed like just another vicious scandal manufactured by political opponents," according to extracts released yesterday.

Associated Press Writer Sara Kugler contributed to this report from New York City.

That compares with a profit of $1 million, or breakeven, on $1.39 billion in revenue during the same period last year.

The company reported quarterly revenue of $388.1 million, compared with $318.5 million in the same period a year ago.

The study was presented yesterday in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.

Under the plan, Maine would act as a "pharmacy benefit manager" to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

"The impact of increased prices has only begun to be seen in the financial numbers of the company," Noranda president and chief executive officer Derek Pannell said.

In exchange, North Korea would be required to end its nuclear weapons program.

Thousands of people in the South of England caught a glimpse of a lunar eclipse as they gazed up at the sky on Saturday night.

The rats that consumed the tomato powder had a 26 percent lower risk of prostate cancer death than the control rats, researchers found.

It is a national concern that will touch virtually every American," Abraham said.

It will also unveil a version of its Windows Server 2003 operating system tuned specifically for storage devices.

At 12, Lionel Tate was charged with first-degree murder over the death of Tiffany Eunick.

Sales for the quarter beat expectations, rising 37 percent year-on-year to 1.76 billion euros.

If the MTA's appeal to a higher court is successful, the $2 bus and subway base fare won't be rolled back.

Now, nearly two years later, Mallard prepares for trial on charges of murder and tampering with evidence.

In Nairobi, Kenya, the Very Rev. Peter Karanja, provost of All Saints Cathedral, said the U.S. Episcopal Church "is alienating itself from the Anglican Communion."

Recall backers say they have collected 1,600,000 signatures, approaching twice the 897,158 needed to force an election.

The book, called "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," hits stores this weekend.

Selenski had previously spent seven years in prison on a bank robbery conviction.

Robert Walsh, 40, remained in critical but stable condition Friday at Staten Island University Hospital's north campus.

The decision was among the most significant steps toward deregulation undertaken during the Bush administration.

"For us, that doesn't make a difference - the sexual orientation," Archbishop Tutu said in the black urban centre of Soweto.

Around 9:00 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT), the euro was at $1.1566 against the dollar, up 0.07 percent on the day.

The Guru microcontroller serves four functions: hardware monitoring, overclocking management, BIOS (Basic Input Output System) update and a troubleshooting-assistance feature called Black Box.

Sony's portfolio gives subscribers a variety of personalized services including the ability to download and experience images, ring tones, music videos and other music entertainment services.

He said the local organized crime police were investigating a suspect, but he would not confirm if it was the 24-year-old cited by Bitdefender.

Previously, it had reported a profit of $12 million, or 0 cents a share, for that period.

The life expectancy for boys born in 2001 was 74.4 years, up two years since 1990.

U.S. corporate bond yield spreads tightened in spotty trading on Friday as Wall Street labored to get back on its feet after the largest power outage ever in North America.

Big Blue says the SEC calls the action a fact-finding investigation and has not reached any conclusions related to this matter.

They were held under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 on suspicion of involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.

Starting on Saturday, every computer infected with MSBlast is expected to start flooding Microsoft's Windows Update service with legitimate-looking connection requests.

"We see the First Amendment to protect religious liberty, not crush religious liberty," said Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition.

Florida's Third District Court of Appeal saidon Wednesdaythe original proceedings were "irretrievably tainted" by misconduct by lawyers representing the class.

Courant Staff Writers Matt Eagan and Ken Davis contributed to this story.

The company said it would issue revised guidance for the full fiscal year next month when it releases its Q2 results.

In addition, the committee noted, "while spending is firming, the labour market has been weakening".

Nigeria and other African oil producers are increasingly important in U.S. plans to lessen dependence on Middle Eastern suppliers for its energy security.

Appeals had kept him on death row longer than anyone else in the U.S., AP said.

While many likely now will quit – as millions of women already have – Soltes said she likely will continue to prescribe the supplements for relief of change-of-life symptoms.

The federal and local governments remained largely shut down in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel, as were schools, and much of the region's transportation network was slowed.

Ursel Reisen confirmed it operated the coach, but gave no details other than to say the passengers were of mixed ages.

But he is the only candidate who has won national labor endorsements so far, picking up his 11th union on Tuesday when the United Steelworkers of America endorsed him.

Regardless, its first quarter saw a profit of $721 million, or 29 cents, on revenue of $17.9 billion.

Under the proposal, Slocan shareholders will get 1.3147 Canfor shares for each common share.

BellSouth also added 654,000 net long-distance customers in the third quarter.

The day after Wilkie resigned, Howard said in a televised address that Iraq possessed "chemical and biological weapons capable of causing death and destruction on a mammoth scale".

"I stand 100 percent by it, and I think our intelligence services gave us the correct information at the time."

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI slipped 9.54 points, or 0.1 percent, at 9,558.92.

"I don't know if the person I'm talking to now may end up being someone else at another time that may not follow the rules," Parrish said.

Earlier on Monday, Grant Thornton SpA repeated previous statements that it was "a victim of fraudulent action".

The winner of this year's Most Popular New Talent Logie, Goodrem first went to a specialist on Monday feeling tired and unwell.

All three were studied for fingerprints, DNA and other traces of evidence, but prosecutors have not yet testified to what, if anything, they yielded.

Cambone said U.S forces found the tractor-trailer April 19 at a Kurdish checkpoint near the city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

Sony Ericsson also said it would shut down its GSM/UMTS R&D center in Munich, Germany, to increase profitability.

J.D. Edwards shareholders will receive 0.86 of a share of PeopleSoft for each share of J.D. Edwards.

That failure to act contributed to September the 11th and the failure to act today continues (to put) Americans in a vulnerable circumstance," Graham said.

The Intel C++ Compiler for Platform Builder for Microsoft .NET is available for the suggested list price of $1,499 and is intended for OEM and system integrator use.

"There were," said board member and Nobel-prize winning Stanford physicist Douglas Osheroff, "some extremely bad decisions.

He later learned that the incident was caused by the Concorde's sonic boom.

Zulifquar Ali, a worshiper slightly wounded by shrapnel, said the attackers first targeted the mosque's guards.

He said the problem needs to be corrected before the space shuttle fleet is cleared to fly again.

Doctors would face fines and up to two years in prison for performing the procedure, except as a lifesaving step.

"I think it's going to be a close vote, but I think the grant proposal is going to win," McConnell said.

"We make no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from further terrorist attack," Barbara Comstock said.

Since March 11, when the market's major indices were at their lowest levels since hitting multi-year lows in October, the tech-laden Nasdaq has climbed nearly 20 per cent.

The two men, whose names were not released, both were using Pakistani passports and were seen together at the airport earlier in the evening, police said.

"We've put a lot of effort and energy into improving our patching progress, probably later than we should have.

Rebels sought to consolidate their grip on a troubled northeastern Congolese town Tuesday after a week of fighting that killed at least 112 people.

This was around the time Congress was debating a resolution granting the President broad authority to wage war.

After their arrests, the men told investigators they paid to be smuggled into Blaine, Wash., from Canada last month, two sources said.

But Adora Obi Nweze, the NAACP state president, said the state only tried to prove its conclusion of suicide, rather than consider the possibility of murder.

"We can't change the past, but we can do a lot about the future," Sheehan said at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

Subsequently, some bondholders have filed suit to block the exchange offer.

Officer Evans did not respond to requests for an interview last week.

Sixty players and five coaches from the school attended the training camp in August in Preston Park, about 125 miles north of Philadelphia.

The official would not name the leakers for the record and said he had no indication that Mr Bush knew about the calls.

In his new position, Dynes will earn $395,000, a significant increase over Atkinson's salary of $361,400.

Schering-Plough shares fell 72 cents to close at $18.34 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Pentagon officials downplayed Wallace's comments.

Twenty-eight people were believed to have been spending Christmas Day with the caretaker of the St Sophia's camp, when the mudslide smashed into two cabins.

One, Fort Carson-based Sgt. Ernest Bucklew, 33, was on his way home to attend his mother's funeral in Pennsylvania, relatives said.

And "although the preconditions for recovery remain in place," it said the prospects for British exports were "weaker than previously expected."

One, Capt. Doug McDonald, remained hospitalized in critical condition on Thursday.

Israel's defense minister on Sunday raised the specter of an Israeli invasion in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian militants already face a deadly air campaign.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX eased 7.57 points, or 0.76 percent, at 990.94.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries defied expectations on Wednesday and lowered its output ceiling by 900,000 barrels a day to 24.5 million barrels starting in November.

Though that slower spending made 2003 look better, many of the expenditures actually will occur in 2004.

But Odette is the first to form over the Caribbean Sea in December, the Center said.

Announced last week, Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold over 1 million songs in the first week, the company announced on Monday.

"Such communication will help adult smokers make more informed choices," company vice president Richard Verheij told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee at a separate hearing.

The dollar was last at $1.1149 to the euro, close to its strongest level since April 30.

After their arrests, the men told investigators they paid to be smuggled into the United States from Canada last month.

The Production Index rose by 1.4 percentage points from 51.5 percent in May to 52.9 percent in June.

The United States finally relented during President Bush's visit to Africa earlier this month.

Germany, another opponent of the war currently on the U.N. Security Council, has moved closer to the United States, and did not insist on a timetable Monday.

Power5, like Power4, includes two processor cores in a single slice of silicon.

She said in 2003, not one U.S. state had an obesity rate below 15 percent.

Special, sensitive light sensors pick up the telltale glow, he said.

The federal government is approving new pesticides without basic information such as whether they harm children, says Canada's environment commissioner.

In September 2002, the nearby Gard region was hit by similar floods.

Overall, 83 percent of women washed up, compared with 74 percent of men.

Analysts had expected 53 cents a share, according to research firm Thomson First Call.

The number of people in the UK infected by HIV, the virus that causes Aids, increased by almost 20 per cent last year to nearly 50,000.

But stocks have rallied sharply over the past 3-1/2 months amid hopes for an economic rebound later this year.

"Spring has arrived in Estonia -- we're back in Europe," Prime Minister Juhan Parts told a news conference on Sunday.

AMD will own a 60 percent interest in the new company and Fujitsu owns 40 percent.

He was then given leave to appeal against the sentence to the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Songs can be burned to CDs, but the same playlist can only be burned up to five times - Apple's puts the limit at ten burns.

SSE shares were little changed, up 0.3 percent at 654 pence by 1018 GMT, but analysts welcomed the move.

Shares of EDS gained $1.49, or 6.6 percent, to $23.999 early Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.

"There is no conscious policy of the United States, I can assure you of this, to move the dollar at all," he said.

The deficit is still expected to top $500 billion in 2004 -- even with an improving economy.

It's the first such drill since the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

"As a responsible leader we feel it necessary to make these changes because online chat services are increasingly being misused," Microsoft told the BBC.

We have already found two trailers, both of which we believe were used for the manufacture of biological weapons.

Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will return home late Friday but will remain in detention after recovering from surgery at a Yangon hospital, her personal physician said.

Governor Gray Davis estimated yesterday that the fires could cost nearly $2 billion.

None of the Prairie Plant Systems marijuana can be distributed until the document is made available, she said.

According to the Merchant Marine Ministry, the 37-year-old ship is registered to Alpha Shipping Inc. based in the Pacific Ocean nation of Marshall Islands.

He left the ship after the collision, went to his home, and attempted suicide.

He reportedly claims Prime Minister Sir Allan Kemakeza had made a deal with him to keep his guns while Harold Keke's group was armed.

"The woman was taken to New Charing Cross Hospital by ambulance and her condition is critical.

In an unusual move, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is reconsidering a patent affecting Internet pages that critics contend could disrupt millions of Web sites.

If sufficient evidence exists at the end of what is expected to be a five-day hearing, Peterson will be held for trial on the charges.

They returned in 1999 after rebel raids on a neighboring Russian region and a series of deadly apartment-building bombings that were blamed on the rebels.

Kansas Department of Health and Environment records show there were 88 abortions performed on girls age 14 and younger last year.

Tropical Storm Claudette continued its slow churn toward the Texas coast early Sunday, with forecasters expecting the plodding storm system to make landfall as a hurricane by early Tuesday.

"Everything is going to move everywhere," Doug Feith, undersecretary of defence for policy, said in an interview.

According to Sanmina-SCI, Newisys, based in Austin, Texas, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Several black Democratic leaders were attempting to arrange a meeting with DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe to discuss the layoffs.

The company's shares fell 3.6 percent to close at $66.89 on the Nasdaq.

The Emeryville-based toy company filed suit Friday in federal court in Wilmington, Del., claiming Fisher-Price is violating its 1998 patent on interactive learning books for toddlers and preschoolers.

They also drafted a non-binding priorities list specifying that a quarter of it may be used to reduce planned 5 percent cuts in fees paid to health-care providers.

The Thomson First Call consensus was for earnings of 19 cents a share.

Mr Hadley, who has a new partner and child, said: "I am absolutely delighted.

"I love the Catholic Church with all my heart, mind, soul and strength," said Troy, who spoke quickly but in a steady voice.

A European Union spokesman said the Commission was consulting EU member states "with a view to taking appropriate action if necessary" on the matter.

A divided Supreme Court ruled that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters.

Under NASD regulations, Mr. Young can file a response and request a hearing before an NASD panel.

"We make no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from further terrorist attacks," said Barbara Comstock, Ashcroft's press secretary.

One man died and 15 others were hospitalized after drinking tainted coffee following the April 27 worship service at Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 98.74 points, or 1.12 percent, to 8,949.00.

Analysts' consensus estimate from Thomson First Call was for a loss of $2.08 a share, excluding one-time items.

He blamed guerrillas from the Taliban regime ousted in late 2001 and said it was possible the bomber died in the blast.

Waiting crowds filling the streets on both sides overwhelmed the peacekeepers soon after daylight, sweeping past the barbed wire barricades.

Responding later, Edward Skyler, a spokesman for the mayor, said, "The comptroller's statements, while noteworthy for their sensationalism, bear no relation to the facts.

Hannum was five and a half months pregnant when her mother died.

Goold said reporters' calls to Peterson may have been monitored.

The state's population was 6,080,485 in 2000, according to the U.S. census.

Barry Callebaut will be able to use Brach's retail network to sell products made from its German subsidiary Stollwerck, which makes chocolate products not sold in the United States.

The other 18 people in the building, including Harrison's ex-girlfriend, were not injured, police spokesman Don Aaron said.

By skirting the FDA's oversight, Eagan said, the quality of the imported drugs is "less predictable" than for those obtained in the United States.

He also accused royal courtiers of poisoning the brothers’ “little minds”.

The total for the Johnny Depp swashbuckler rose to $232.8 million.

I would like to congratulate Russia on the successful World Climate Change Conference last week.

At least seven other governments have signed agreements, but have asked not to have them publicized.

The G+J executive was testifying in Manhattan's State Supreme Court where O'Donnell and G+J are suing each other for breach of contract.

He said: "For the first time there is an easy and affordable way of making this treasure trove of BBC content available to all."

By 10 p.m., Claudette was centered about 320 miles east of Brownsville, with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, 9 mph shy of hurricane strength.

Jim Furyk celebrated his first Father's Day as a father by winning his first major golf championship.

"We must not engage in borough warfare," Thompson testified at a budget hearing by the City Council's Finance Committee.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 3.14 points, or 0.29 percent, to 1,071.99.

He took batting practice on the field for the second time Tuesday since his opening-day injury.

Three such vigilante-style attacks forced the hacker organizer, who identified himself only as "Eleonora[67]," to extend the contest until 7 p.m. EST Sunday.

The redesigned Finder also features search, coloured labels for customized organization of documents and projects and dynamic browsing of the network for Mac, Windows and UNIX file servers.

But to see those pages, users would be required by Amazon to register, and Amazon plans to limit the amount of any single book a customer can view.

Eric Gagne pitched a perfect ninth for his 23rd save in as many opportunities.

Also Thursday, the NYSE's board elected six new directors - three non-industry representatives and three industry representatives.

Between 1993 and 2002, 142 allegations of sexual assault were reported.

"Mr Gilbertson would have been entitled to these superannuation payments irrespective of ... (how) he left the company," Mr Argus said.

Five Big East schools, Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Virginia Tech and West Virginia, filed the lawsuit June 6.

Graham said the surgery was not exactly the way to begin a campaign, but he is recovered.

As temperatures soar above 50 degrees (120 Fahrenheit), fridges and air conditioners have stuttered to a halt in Basra.

Chief merchandising officers oversee the buying and development of merchandise, deciding the merchandising direction of the company, or basically what it should stand for.

"September and third-quarter data confirm that demand in the global semiconductor market is rising briskly," George Scalise, the SIA's president, said in the statement.

The ISM noted that "with the exception of March 2003, growth in business activity has been reported by ISM members every month beginning with February 2002."

Officials at Mortazavi's office and the judiciary declined to respond to Reuters' requests for comment on the accusations.

Beagle 2 is attached to Mars Express by what is known as a Spin-Up and Ejection Mechanism (Suem).

Gary Nicklaus, the 34-year-old son of Jack Nicklaus who is playing on a sponsor's exemption, birdied five of his first nine holes before faltering to a 69.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was up 3.41 points, or 0.35 percent, at 967.00, also its highest close so far this year.

"There is no conscious policy on the part of the United States to move the dollar at all," Snow said.

"Events on our system, in and of themselves, could not account for the widespread nature of the outage," FirstEnergy Chief Executive Peter Burg told the House panel.

Kinsley, for example, wrote in the Post Monday: "Sinners have long cherished the fantasy that William Bennett, the virtue magnate, might be among our number.

He projected Vanderpool will be available within the next five years.

One way or another, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix will be in your hands by Saturday.

The ambassador said it was up to the Americans to press the Iraqis to make the invitation, which he said the United States appears unwilling to do.

In afternoon trading in Europe, France's CAC-40 advanced and Britain's FTSE 100 each gained 0.7 percent, while Germany's DAX index rose 0.6 percent.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index fell 3.99, or 0.2 percent, to 1,682.72, following a two-day win of 55.93.

He was released on $3-million bail and immediately returned to Las Vegas, where he had been filming a video.

Florida's primary isn't until March 9 - following 28 other states.

"It still remains to be seen whether the revenue recovery will be short- or long-lived," Sprayregen said.

Dividends are currently taxed at ordinary income tax rates of as much as 38.6 per cent.

Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, said the vaccine poses little danger.

There was no way the man could hear him, but he turned in the rescuers' direction, forlorn, hopeless.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, said he intended to work to get the loan provision removed from the final bill.

A final decision on his fate, including the power of the death penalty, lay with President Bush.

"I´m very proud of the citizens of this state," Gov. John Baldacci said after votes from Tuesday´s referendum were counted.

The two blond opponents appeared almost identical in matching powder-blue outfits – to their dismay.

The decision unnerved voting officials who already have been warning that they have barely enough time to organize the election before the balloting is scheduled to begin.

The House Government Reform Committee rapidly approved the legislation this morning.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> edged down 9 points, or 0.98 percent, to 921.

"Allison just proves you don't need to wait until August or September to have a disaster," said Josh Lichter, a meteorologist with the Houston-Galveston weather office.

Today, analysts say, UN members can no longer ignore the shifts since the September 11 2001 attacks.

The seizure of the money was confirmed by a US Treasury official assigned to work with Iraqi financial officers in Baghdad in rebuilding the country's banking and financial system.

That was a reversal from a loss of $35 million, or 20 cents, a year earlier.

The lawsuit, filed after a 19-month investigation by the Employee Benefits Security Administration, names Lay and Skilling among others.

Police say CIBA was involved in the importation of qat, a narcotic substance legal in Britain but banned in the United States.

We can make life very difficult for terrorist elements, we can scatter them, we can cut off one head here and one tentacle there.

Overall, students are most likely to be taught by a 15-year veteran with a growing workload and slightly eroding interest in staying in teaching, the work-force portrait shows.

Carnival Corp. stock was trading at $31.29 during midday trading Wednesday, down 72 cents or 2.25 percent.

According to the 2000 Census, Long Beach's Hispanic or Latino population was listed at 35.8 percent.

Lewis, the WBC champion, can still fight June 21 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles against another opponent.

With 2.3 million members nationwide, the Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the 77 million-member global Anglican Communion.

BEA Systems Inc. BEAS.O on Thursday said second-quarter profits rose 28 percent, as revenues grew amid a contracting overall market for business software.

It will appear in the next few weeks on the Web site of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The market's broader gauges also posted big gains, having climbed higher for four consecutive weeks.

Mr. Geoghan had been living in a protective custody unit since being transferred to the prison on April 3.

WinFS will require that applications be rewritten to exploit such capabilities.

The pilot decided to fly to Kennedy, which has longer runways than Newark Airport.

The number of probable cases dropped to 64 on Tuesday from 66 on Monday in and around Toronto, a city of four million people.

Despite their differences, U.S. and EU leaders said there were areas of agreement.

Bolland told the News of the World: “I was astonished at Sir Michael’s question.

Symbol's former chief accounting officer, Robert Korkuc, is expected to plead guilty in a federal court in Long Island later Thursday, according to reports.

Two partners in Grant Thornton's Italian business were arrested last week and questioned by magistrates investigating the collapse of Parmalat, the Italian dairy company.

But Senate criticism of the House plan Tuesday came on several fronts.

He proposed a system under which it would take fewer and fewer votes to overcome a filibuster.

The industry censor forbade the sexual innuendo contained in the play and would not allow the characters to sleep together.

A month ago, the Commerce Department estimated that GDP had grown at a 7.2 percent rate in the third quarter.

Chiron already has nearly 20 percent acceptances from PowderJect's shareholders.

Mark Kaiser, vice-president of marketing, and Tim Lee, vice-president of purchasing, were dismissed last week.

The transaction will grant Handspring stockholders 0.09 of a share of Palm--and no shares of PalmSource--for each share of Handspring common stock.

Shares of San Diego-based Jack In The Box closed at $21.49, up 78 cents, or 3.8 percent, on the New York Stock Exchange.

It doesnt appear the children struggled, Prowers County Coroner Joe Giadone said Saturday.

The most recent was in 1998, when Dr Barnett Slepian was killed in his home in Amherst, New York.

Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst alluded to an interparty political struggle: "Sounds like the Republican primary started early this year."

In Washington on Sunday, FBI spokesman John Iannarelli said the bureau will join the investigation in An-Najaf.

Cabrera was called up to help in left field because Todd Hollandsworth has not been productive.

Months later, another clinic doctor, Dr. Wayne Patterson, was killed away from the clinic.

"Although some firms show BPO savings, vendors overstate their current offerings," John C. McCarthy, Forrester Group director, said.

Bloodsworth was ultimately cleared with evidence gathered from a semen stain on the victim's panties.

Rescue workers had to scrounge for boats to retrieve residents stranded by high water.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners nearly 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Ernst & Young has denied any wrongdoing and plans to fight the allegations.

In the year-ago period, Pearson posted a 26 million pre-tax profit.

World Airways Inc. and North American Airlines Inc. also have filed applications seeking authority to provide service to Iraq.

When the manager let him in the apartment, Brianna was in her mother's bedroom lying in a baby's bathtub, covered with a towel and watching cartoons.

DeVries did make one stop in town Wednesday - registering as a sex offender at the Soledad Police Department.

Inflation-index bonds are carrying an interest rate of 4.66 percent.

The state wants to kill the wolves in approximately a 1,700-square-mile area near the village of McGrath.

Air Transport Association spokeswoman Diana Cronan said that travel was down in May through July and that she also expected it to be off over Labor Day.

"NASA's organizational culture and structure had as much to do with this accident as the (loose) foam."

Durst was acquitted this week in the murder of his elderly neighbor, 71-year-old Morris Black.

Civil liberties groups protested and a US district judge ruled that the monument was an unconstitutional promotion of religion.

Jordan Green, the prelate's private lawyer, said he had no comment.

Shares closed on NASDAQ just below their 52-week high, at $32.17, up $1.54.

Some state lawmakers say they remain hopeful Bush will sign it, though they acknowledge pressure on the governor to do otherwise.

The attack followed several days of disturbances in the city where American soldiers exchanged fire with an unknown number of attackers as civilians carried out demonstrations against the American presence.

A total of 114 soldiers were killed in the active combat phase that began March 20.

Gillespie sent a letter to CBS President Leslie Moonves asking for a historical review or a disclaimer.

"Dan brings to Coca-Cola enormous experience in managing some of the world's largest and most familiar brands," Heyer said in a statement.

However, official statistics published this week showed a surprise 0.6 per cent fall in manufacturing output in August.

Printer maker Lexmark International Inc. spurted $3.95 to $63.35, recouping some of the $14.10 it lost Monday.

Representatives of abuse victims were dismayed by the development.

Bloodsworth was ultimately cleared with evidence gathered from a semen stain on the victim's underwear.

He said the issue of disclosing classified information about a C.I.A. officer was "a very serious matter" that should be "pursued to the fullest extent" by the Justice Department.

Unemployment across the state fell a half of a percentage point last month to 6.1 percent from August's mark of 6.6 percent.

No company employee has received an individual target letter at this time.

Under the U.S. Constitution, the other chamber of Congress, the House of Representatives, does not vote on foreign alliances.

Shares in Wal-Mart closed at $58.28, up 16 cents, in Tuesday trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

"And they will learn the meaning of American justice," he said to strong and extended applause.

Two of the Britons, Sandy Mitchell from Glasgow and Glasgow-born William Sampson, face the death penalty.

During a period of nearly a decade, Telemarketing Associates raised more than $7 million.

In the present case, Mr. Day said he hoped there would be another mediated out-of-court settlement, and he estimated that it could approach $30 million.

"That doesn't mean to say it doesn't exist," said Mr. Chandler, but simply that his team hasn't uncovered evidence indicating such a link.

In 2002, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee took in $18,009 from moonlighting as a songwriter, according to his latest Senate financial disclosure.

Mr Levine confirmed that Ms Cohen Alon had tried to sell the story during the World Cup.

In addition to HP, vendors backing SMI-S include Computer Associates, EMC, IBM, Sun and Veritas.

Business groups and border cities have raised concerns that US-VISIT will mean longer waits to cross borders and will hurt commerce.

With the economy sluggish, producers have had a tough time trying to raise prices.

In next week's drill, "our objective is to improve the nation's capacity to save lives in ... a terrorist event," Ridge said.

Second-quarter results reflected a gain of 10 cents per diluted share, while the 2002 results included a loss of 19 cents per diluted share.

Easynews Inc. was subpoenaed late last week by the FBI, which was seeking account information related to the uploading of the virus to the ISP's Usenet news group server.

Excluding legal fees and other charges it expected a loss of between 1 and 4 cents a share.

"They are trying to turn him into a martyr," said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation, which tracks abortion-related violence.

He allegedly told his ex-wife in an angry phone call that he had no intention of following their new custody agreement.

Two women lost their battle in a British court yesterday to save their frozen embryos and use them to have children without the consent of their former partners.

BOB HOPE, master of the one-liner and Americas favourite comedian, died with a smile on his face yesterday just months after celebrating his 100th birthday.

Prior to joining Kodak, Palumbo worked for Procter & Gamble Corp., where he managed products such as Folgers and Pantene shampoo.

But Davis adviser Roger Salazar said the governor's focus is on his job, not the recall petition.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index lost 6.77, or 0.7 percent, to 927.62 as of 10:33 a.m. in New York.

Instead of being reprimanded by court security officers, a smiling senior policeman shook hands with Mr Laczynski and patted him on the shoulder.

"He just heard two huge bangs and the balloon shuddered and fell," Nicky Webster, a spokesman for Hempleman-Adams, said.

The long-running newsmagazine Dateline NBC has been cut from three to two airings per week and is searching for a replacement for retiring co-anchor Jane Pauley.

A Commerce spokesman issued a brief statement late Friday, noting that the task force "evaluated regions of the world that are vital to global energy supply."

Each count has a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and $1 million fine.

Revenue jumped 26 percent to $817 million, the South San Francisco-based company said in a statement.

"PeopleSoft has consistently maintained that the proposed combination of PeopleSoft and Oracle faces substantial regulatory delays and a significant likelihood that the transaction would be prohibited."

Cruz came to the United States in 1960, a year after the Cuban revolution.

The Association of South East Asian Nations groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

The fight about online music sales was disclosed in documents filed last week with the judge and made available by the court Monday.

The dollar's slide against the yen was curbed by wariness that Japanese authorities could intervene to stem the yen's rise.

Referring to a battle against a Muslim warlord in Somalia, Boykin told another audience, "I knew my God was bigger than his.

Meester, a 20-year-old sophomore, could face life in prison if convicted on charges of rape, forcible sodomy, indecent assault and providing alcohol to minors.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.3 per cent at 9,886.75, while the Nasdaq Composite index was 0.4 per cent higher at 1,986.97.

His decision was delayed by concerns over the budget process in Washington and the war in Iraq.

Woori Finance is the only large bank remaining to be sold but the government still has large stakes in several other lenders.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock are in different political worlds.

In addition, juries in both state and federal cases have become increasingly reluctant to impose the death penalty.

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 index slipped 12.27 points or 1.23 percent to 981.73.

The other 18 people inside the building -- two visitors and 16 employees, including Harrison's ex-girlfriend -- escaped unharmed, Aaron said.

BT said the combination would have an immediate impact on subscriptions with 60,000 additional customers between September and March, 2004.

The King of Prussia-based company could liquidate the other two chains if it cannot find a buyer by then, the company said.

He has declined to comment on the charges, but court documents indicate a lingering medical problem could be part of his defense.

They used discarded skin from consenting patients who had undergone surgery and exposed it to UVA light at intensities similar to that of sunlight.

And Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who installed the monument in the courthouse two years ago, said he will fight to keep his job.

Regional utility Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc said an 825,000-kilowatt (kW) nuclear reactor, the Onagawa No.3 unit near Sendai automatically shut down due to the quake.

Blagojevich reiterated his stance Wednesday to not prop up the budget with a gambling expansion.

"I'm pleased by the fact that we are bringing this to a conclusion," he said.

Shares of National were losing 95 cents, or 3.9%, to $23.73 in afternoon New York Stock Exchange trading.

Intel Corp. narrowed its fourth-quarter sales estimate to the top end of earlier estimates Thursday, anticipating that customers will buy more personal computers during the key holiday season.

"This proposed investment starts the process of raising the funding we need to increase our capacity," Elpida President Yukio Sakamoto said in a news release.

Many women complain that they become more forgetful around the time of menopause, and some doctors believe that hormonal changes are the reason.

Sobig.F became one of the most widespread viruses ever, crippling corporate e-mail networks and filling home users' inboxes with a glut of messages.

The girl turned up late Sunday at a convenience store in East Palo Alto, about 30 miles from her home.

"We haven't decided whether to use an unbroken or dotted white line, but this is an experiment worth introducing," said David Richardson, the ICC's cricket manager.

BaFin and the head of the principal finance group, Robin Saunders, were not immediately available to comment.

The SEC specifically advised IBM that this is a fact-finding investigation and that it has not reached any conclusions related to this matter, IBM said in a statement.

"His advice to the House Republicans is to pass it, to send it to him, so he can sign it."

Worldwide, more than 50 million people have seen "Les Miz," with gross receipts of $1.8 billion.

The US Federal Trade Commission has also filed a lawsuit challenging Rambus.

That would give smokers the right to take complaints to the Human Rights Commission or Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Drugs are up to 50 percent cheaper in Canada than the United States because of government price controls.

Their father had pleaded with the doctors to stop the fight after his wife's euthanasia bid left their son in a coma and he was put on life-support.

Brian Florence, 38, died Sept. 25 of a heart attack in Alexandria, said the couple's lawyer, Maranda Fritz.

Health Minister Peter Coleman said about 300 people had been killed and 1,000 wounded in the past few days.

A West Knoxville restaurant has reported several cases of hepatitis A to the Knox County Health Department.

The review outlines the tariffs' impact on domestic steel industry and steel consumers halfway through the three-year program.

Besides the fact that Americans want to be liked, she said, there is a "huge cost when world opinion is negative to the United States.

John Logsdon, a board member, said that "human spaceflight had become a place where dissent was not welcome."

PC-related products were the strongest sector in July, with microprocessors up 5.6% and DRAMs up 8.2% from June, the industry group said.

The Prime Ministers of China, Russia and four central Asian nations have met in Beijing and approved a budget for their regional security grouping.

In fiction: Edward P. Jones ("The Known World") and Scott Spencer ("A Ship Made of Paper").

The two Democrats on the five-member FCC held a press conference to sway opinion against Powell and the two other Republicans on the panel.

It will cost about $20,000 per eight-week course of treatment, comparable to other injected cancer therapies, a spokeswoman said.

The OneNote note-taking tool is listed at £169.99 while the InfoPath XML (Extensible Markup Language) data gathering application is priced at £179.99.

The current plan is to release the videotapes of the sessions, after U.S. review, on Friday, said Jim Landale, a spokesman for the tribunal.

Forty to 50 years ago, the ratio was 3 to 1, Kessler said, and 10 years ago, it was 2 to 1.

Before addressing the economy, Bush discussed the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia, which killed as many as 29 people, including seven Americans.

Senate passage of the Medicare bill was almost certain, possibly as early as today.

Five foreign embassies, including the Singapore embassy, in Bangkok were among the targets, it said.

SARS has also taken a toll on Taiwan's economy, as it has on economies across the region, hammering consumer spending and leaving shops, restaurants and airports empty.

Minister Saud al-Faisal visit was disclosed Monday by two administration officials who discussed it on condition of not being identified by name.

Spot gold was quoted at $367.90/368.60 an ounce at 1000 GMT, having marched up to $369.50 -- a level not seen since February 10.

Parson has been charged on one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a computer.

She appeared in federal court there Monday and was expected to be transferred to Houston in two weeks.

There is, however, no photo of Peter Hollingworth in the June issue examined by the Herald yesterday.

The bank also said its offer was subject to the agreement of Drax's senior banks, senior bond holders and hedging banks by 30 September 2003.

Hill, 50, would be the first person executed for killing an abortion doctor.

On Jan. 10, Shawanda Denise McCalister, who was also pregnant, was found bound and strangled in her apartment in the same neighbourhood.

It ended a diplomatic drought between the two nations, at odds for months over North Korea's nuclear program and American demands that it cease.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency that runs Medicare, last year began a similar effort for nursing homes.

Scientists have reported a 90 percent decline in large predatory fish in the world's oceans since a half century ago.

The Nasdaq composite index fell 25.17, or 1.4 percent, to 1,792.07 following a loss of 26.46 the previous session.

Congress twice before passed similar restrictions only to see President Bill Clinton veto them.

"He said they were in distress," said Kingsville Police Chief Sam Granato.

Calvin Hollins Jr.'s attorney, Thomas Royce, has repeatedly said his client had no link with the company that owned and operated E2.

No one has been killed in the attacks, which have continued despite major setbacks for al Qaeda in a battle with Saudi security forces.

That ought to be the standard — not how many people sign up," he said.

Among three major candidates, Schwarzenegger is wining the battle for independents and crossover voters.

The chief merchandising officer decides what the store is going to sell, giving it a signature to attract shoppers and hopefully lure them back.

"For customers to get the most of the Internet, several factors are crucial," Pierre Danon, CEO of BT's retail unit.

A representative for Phoenix-based U-Haul declined to comment on the case before the judge's opinion was released.

Vivace was founded in 1999 and has raised over $118 million in three rounds of venture financing.

He has also directed "The Flintstones," "Beethoven," and "Jingle All The Way."

As he left court, McCartney cast one long angry glare at Amrozi, who almost hid behind his lawyer to the side.

"We are starting the epidemic with more cases and more areas affected than last year.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> added 28 points, or 0.27 percent, at 10,557, hitting its highest level in 21 months.

The $19.50-a-share bid, comes two days after PeopleSoft revised its bid for smaller rival J.D. Edwards & Co. JDEC.O to include cash as well as stock.

CIA Director George Tenet said the two men were "defined by dedication and courage."

The FTC also asked the judge to suspend his ruling pending its appeal.

Gerry Kiely, a EU agriculture representative in Washington, said EU ministers were invited but canceled because the union is closing talks on agricultural reform.

The Democratic candidates also began announcing their fund-raising totals before Wednesday's deadline to file quarterly reports with the Federal Election Commission.

Even the pizza man took part, delivering a flier with the missing girl's picture along with the pizza and a two-liter bottle of Pepsi to Cruz's house.

The Institute for Supply Management said its index of non-manufacturing activity rose to 50.7 from 47.9 in March.

It will also boost SuSE's sales reach worldwide and enhance HP's Linux business, they said.

Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday said it had added 100 new third-party systems and 100 new components to its Hardware Compatibility List for the Solaris x86 operating system Platform Edition.

To create the condyle, Dr Mao and colleague Adel Alhadlaq used adult stem cells taken from the bone marrow of rats.

New research indicates that some 540,000 high-tech jobs were lost in the United States during 2002.

Of personal vehicles, 57 percent are cars or station wagons, 21 percent vans or SUVs, 19 percent light trucks.

Network security products maker Secure Computing Inc. said Tuesday it is acquiring content-filtering vendor N2H2 for $20 million, furthering consolidation in an already-competitive market.

Mel Gibson's passion-stirring Biblical epic "The Passion of Christ" will open in the United States on Feb. 25 - Ash Wednesday on the Roman Catholic calendar.

Justice John Paul Stevens compared the interrogation of Martinez to "an attempt to obtain an involuntary confession from a prisoner by torturous methods."

Illinois State Police accident reconstruction experts were investigating the cause.

Prosecutors said PW Marketing violated the state's 1998 anti-spam law by sending unsolicited e-mail without a toll-free number for recipients to call to stop additional mailings.

They were released to authorities after officers delivered the soda to the gunman, using a long stick to pass the six-pack through a door.

The children were last seen July 4 at a fireworks display in Concord with their father, Manuel Gehring.

The hall will be home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the LA Master Chorale.

The Neighbours star and singer spent yesterday resting at her family home in Sydney and will have more tests today.

Kerry Kennedy Cuomo and Andrew Cuomo have been married 13 years.

The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee, said he hoped Congress would finish work on the legislation by the end of September.

The crime report surveyed 11,600 police and law enforcement agencies nationwide.

The state wants to lower wolf numbers in approximately a 1,700-square-mile area near the village of McGrath.

The 3 rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is 5,200 strong and the largest combat unit at Fort Carson.

O'Donnell wrote in her autobiography, "Find Me," that she was "an abused child."

"The risk of inflation becoming undesirably low remains the predominant concern for the foreseeable future," the Fed said in a statement accompanying the unanimous decision.

The poll, conducted by KRC Communications Research of Newton, was taken Wednesday and Thursday.

"It is bad for Symbian," said Per Lindberg, analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.

Pressure also came last night from religious circles as three Anglican bishops said it was time for their former colleague to step down.

The attack on the al-Rashid Hotel, during the visit of Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz underscores the nature of the problem.

"He would often call me for advice," said Ronald L. Kuby, a friend and well-known lawyer who had represented him in the harassment case.

The United States wants the measure passed by June 3, when the oil-for-food program needs to be renewed.

Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang confirmed Saturday that another two had been arrested, one in Jakarta and another in Magelang, Central Java.

Late last year, for example, more than 1800 US soldiers were placed in Djibouti to conduct counter-terrorism operations in the Horn of Africa.

"I think it should have been released years ago," said Brian Rohrbough, whose son, Daniel, was killed at Columbine.

The bureau report shows significant increases in uninsured rates occurred among whites, blacks, people 18 to 24, and middle- and higher-income earners nationwide.

Bob Richter, a spokesman for House Speaker Tom Craddick, had no comment about the ruling.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> added 8.27 points, or 0.51 percent, to 1,633.53.

Carlow and his group peddled drugs by forging paperwork showing the shipments' prior owners.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Atlanta also refused to comment.

Blair has said there is not ''a shred of truth'' in allegations the government manipulated evidence, and has resisted calls for a full public inquiry.

They were just making sure they dotted all the I's and crossed all the T's," said Schooff.

It even struck a deal for distribution and advertising with popular P2P service Grokster.

The group criticizing Schwarzenegger, the League of United Latin American Citizens, said the Austrian-born actor's advisory board position brings into question his commitment to Latinos.

He said European governments "have blocked all new bio-crops because of unfounded, unscientific fears.

Market sentiment was subdued after International Business Machines Inc. IBM.N said U.S. securities regulators were investigating the accounting of the world's largest computer company.

Oh yeah, Miami, Boston College and Syracuse leaving the Big East to take a seat in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Community college students will see their tuition rise by $300 to $2,800 or 12 percent.

U.S. forces recently apprehended some 40 suspected foreign militants near the Syrian border and are now interrogating them.

"No one has anything to fear from being correctly identified but everything to fear from their identity being stolen or misused," Mr Blunkett said.

They suspect the same anarchist group that claimed responsibility for the Dec. 21 explosions near his house, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

Supporters say a city casino will attract tourists and conventioneers who will gamble and spend money in restaurants and stores.

Currently, about 37,000 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea.

Lee said Brianna had dragged food, toys and other things into the bedroom.

Peterson told police he fished alone in San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve, returning to an empty house.

North American markets finished mixed in directionless trading Monday as earnings season begins to slow and economic indicators move into the spotlight.

Mosel was unable to present financial statements in time due to mergers among subsidiaries and a change of accountants, the company said on Monday.

A navy official on the scene said divers were scanning the river bed with metal finders before rain drove them to shore.

"The Matrix Reloaded," which opened in limited previews Wednesday night, took in an estimated $135.8 million for all five days.

At first blush, then, the distinction drawn by the creators of the do-not-call registry would seem to draw the line in precisely the right place.

They said no decisions had been made about how many troops would be moved, where they would come from, or where they would end up.

"The bank requires growth from elsewhere in the economy and needs the economy to rebalance," he said in an interview with the Press Association news agency.

Voters in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, were asked to decide whether to allow same-sex couples - and also unmarried heterosexual couples - to officially register as domestic partners.

Cisco has signed similar deals with AT&T Corp. T.N , SBC Communications Inc. SBC.N and Sprint Corp. FON.N .

The Dow Jones industrial average advanced for the fourth week in a row.

But Ms Ward said the headroom under its financial covenants was "tight" and that there could be another downgrade if Southcorp breached any of its banking covenants.

Also missing is Al Larsen, 31, of Fort Worth, Texas, who was in another vehicle swept off the turnpike.

He also could be barred permanently from the securities industry.

The Cradle of Liberty Council isn't the first one to buck the national group's stance.

It would be cumbersome for restaurants that serve different meals each day, she said.

Debra Mitchell, a member of the church, said Wilson had recently lost her job.

Today, we preserve essential tools to foster voice competition in the local market.

"The discovery that the MAP bug is present in the vast majority of Crohn's sufferers means it is almost certainly causing the intestinal inflammation," it said in a statement.

A big surge in consumer confidence has provided the only positive economic news in recent weeks.

He added: ``I've never heard of more reprehensiblebehaviour by a doctor.

"I have heard the people of New York say, 'Enough is enough,' " Pataki said. "

The government says the changes are necessary if Israel is to compete successfully in the global marketplace and attract investment.

The computers were located in the United States, Canada, and South Korea.

He was voluntarily castrated in 2001, an operation he contends removed his ability to become sexually aroused.

Broomhead was assigned to 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armor Cavalry Regiment, based at Fort Carson.

Diana was at her lowest ebb when she wrote the letter to Paul Burrell claiming there was a plot to kill her.

SARS, the deadly respiratory disease first detected in China last November, gave the agency its first real test of a new state-of-the-art emergency operations center.

This morning, at UM's New York office, Coen revised his expectations downward, saying that spending would instead rise 4.6 percent to $247 billion.

Cross-dressing teens from Harvey Milk High School offered sex for money in Greenwich Village and then robbed the would-be johns by pretending to be cops, sources said last night.

Massachusetts does not have a state death penalty, and only once before - in Michigan - has the federal death penalty been given in a state without capital punishment.

In Toronto, police said they arrested 38 people and reported 114 incidents, mostly for looting and other thefts.

We caught this ... and haven't sent it into the blood supply," said Dr. Dale Towns, CBS Calgary medical director.

Other staff members, however, defended the document, saying it would still help policy-makers and the agency improve efforts to address the climate issue.

The Senate's proposal will need the support of the Democrat-led Assembly and Pataki to become law.

The stock lost about 75 percent of its value after that bombshell and remains 40 percent below pre-disclosure levels.

The crates are full of hardback copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

French special police raided a farm in Corsica on Friday, capturing the top suspect in the 1998 murder of France's highest official on the Mediterranean island, officials said.

Tom Kasmer, a 14-year-old from Belmont, N.C., got a word that sounded like "zistee" during yesterday's competition.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 86.56 points, or 0.94 percent, to 9,109.99, after giving up more than 1 percent earlier.

General Wesley Clark finally confirmed this week that he would seek the Democratic nomination to run against President George Bush in next year's presidential elections.

China would become only the third nation to put a human in space.

ImClone Systems Inc. and Genentech Inc. led shares of U.S. biotechnology companies higher after medicines they are developing helped cancer patients in studies.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 27.13 points, or 1.64 percent, at 1,626.49, based on the latest data.

The American Express Corp. has pledged at least $3 million of more than $5 million needed.

Privately-held GeCAD Software, founded in 1992, has supplied antivirus and security products since 1994 under the name RAV AntiVirus.

Kelly Boggs' column will appear daily during the June 17-18 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix.

This is the only planet that has been found in orbit around a binary star system.

More than 1,000 people staged mostly peaceful protests during the talks, proclaiming that genetically modified foods weren't the answer to the world's food problems.

Lee Janzen, who was tied atop the leaderboard with five holes left, finished with a 68 and tied for sixth.

The equivalent of 75,000 55-gallon barrels of waste thought to contain transuranic waste are stored underground at Hanford.

There are more surprises than you can possibly imagine," Gov. Gray Davis told reporters at a campaign stop in Compton.

Officials said all three would be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

Less than 20 percent of Boise's sales would come from making lumber and paper after the OfficeMax purchase is completed.

But they are split over whether the Fed will acknowledge risks are tilted toward weakness, or say they are balanced.

Yehuda Abraham, a 76-year-old jeweler in New York's diamond district, allegedly accepted a $30,000 down payment on behalf of Lakhani for the missiles, the government said.

Samudra claims the meeting agreed with this and fine-tuning was handed to Dulmatin, a bombmaker still on the run and so-called smiling Bali bomber, Amrozi.

The seventh person charged in the case - Habis Abdu al Saoub - remains at large.

Vivendi shares closed 1.9 percent at 15.80 euros in Paris after falling 3.6 percent on Monday.

The Bank of England starts its two-day meeting on Wednesday, but was expected to leave British interest rates steady.

Wall Street analysts had expected 22 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call.

Annika Sorenstam gets her first opportunity to test that objective this week at the McDonald's LPGA Championship.

The dollar gained against the euro, yen and Swiss franc after September U.S. retail sales figures came in slightly weaker than consensus forecasts.

The San Jose-based company posted a net income of $64.2 million, or 27 cents per share, in the quarter ended May 30.

He claims it may seem unrealistic only because little effort has been devoted to the concept.

"And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting."

"After what happened here ... it's tacky and unpatriotic," said JoAnn Marquis, visiting the site with her husband from Salem, Mass.

President Bush raised a record-breaking $49.5 million for his re-election campaign over the last three months, with contributions from 262,000 Americans, the president's campaign chairman said Tuesday.

An hour later, an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing two Hamas officials and at least five other people.

He also called Hovan a "person of good reputation" who had worked as a bus driver since 1967.

The 30-year bond <US30YT=RR> was down 10/32 for a yield of 4.91 percent, up from 4.89 percent late Thursday.

The companies also announced plans to collaborate on the design for future generations of memory technologies.

The British ambassador to the United Nations, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, is scheduled to lead a Security Council Mission to the region in mid-May.

An episode is declared when the ozone reaches .20 parts per million parts of air for one hour.

This year, local health departments hired part-time water samplers and purchased testing equipment with a $282,355 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Roslyn shares gained 82 cents to close at $20.79 yesterday in Nasdaq trading.

"He may not have been there," the defence official said on Thursday.

American has laid off 6,500 of its Missouri employees since Dec. 31, according to Driskill.

She met Lady Mary at her Double Bay home yesterday to thank her for the donation.

Acting Police Chief Francisco Ortiz said the explosion was being treated as a criminal matter, but no possibility had been ruled out.

The value will total about $124 million, including convertible securities, according to Corel.

"I can say I am being forced into exile by the world superpower," he said.

Goss said CIA Director George Tenet has provided the committee with 19 volumes of documents on prewar intelligence which has been made available to House members.

The U.N. troops are in Congo to protect U.N. installations and personnel, and they can only fire in self defense and have been unable to stem the violence.

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR slid 1-10/32 for a yield of 4.30 percent, up from 4.23 percent.

North American markets grabbed early gains Monday morning, as earnings season begins to slow and economic indicators take the spotlight.

The service also features a "self-healing" option that can provide continuous access to critical applications.

Shares of the Smithfield rose more than 8 percent as the company said it expected the transaction to boost earnings immediately.

Consolidated volume was heavy, with 2.17 billion shares traded, compared with 1.92 billion on Tuesday.

Chief Executive Rod Eddington is to meet the three unions separately on Monday afternoon.

He had said before the meeting that he planned to urge Chinese officials to move quickly to adopt a more flexible currency system.

With Claritin's decline, Schering-Plough's best-selling products now are two drugs used together to treat hepatitis C, the antiviral pill ribavirin and an interferon medicine called Peg-Intron.

Shares of Smithfield closed up $1.64, or 8.5 percent, at $20.85, on the New York Stock Exchange.

He planned Monday to formally announce the effort alongside several union presidents.

TSMC also accused Syndia of trying to interfere with its customer relationships.

Also at increased risk are those whose immune systems suppressed by medications or by diseases such as cancer, diabetes and AIDS.

Xerox itself paid a $10 million fine last year to settle similar SEC charges.

Upscale department store chain Nordstrom Inc. (nyse: JWN - news - people) jumped $1.49, or 9.4 percent, to $17.35.

"I figure we've destroyed about one-half of Al Qaeda, the top operators of Al Qaeda, and that's good," Mr. Bush said.

Her knees were swollen for days and she still bears scars there and on her legs and ankles.

The new 25-member Governing Council's first move was to scrap holidays honoring Saddam and his party and to create a public holiday marking the day of his downfall.

Al Qaeda, the terror network led by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden and blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, has been linked to both cases.

He praised the work of the Rhodes Trust, saying that it was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford who first interested him in politics.

Turki Nasser al-Dandani, another key Saudi operator for Al Qaeda and a second main suspect in the Riyadh bombings remains at large.

"What they have done is a thinly veiled attempt to do an end run around the Constitution," she said.

"There were a number of bureaucratic and administrative missed signals -- there's not one person who's responsible here," Gehman said.

H. Carl McCall, co-chairman of the exchange's special committee on governance, resigned Thursday, saying Reed should start with a "clean slate."

He hugged his lawyers and their assistants and then said, "Thank you so much."

The department also sent water and soil samples to the state health laboratory.

Pat Anderson, the attorney representing the parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, declined to comment.

The company has agreed terms on the purchase of the paper division of the Dutch office supplies group Buhrmann, the largest paper distributor in Europe.

A power cut in New York in 1977 left 9 million people without electricity for up to 25 hours.

It is almost certain to exacerbate the bitter divisions between Washington and Europe that have not abated since the end of the war in Iraq.

Resigning along with Brendsel was Vaughn Clarke, the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer.

The vast majority of trades will be priced at 20 cents per contract or less depending on participation in incentive schemes."

Associated Press Writer Curt Anderson at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., contributed to this story.

Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N , the No. 2 computer maker, rose 41 cents, or 2.4 percent, to $17.29.

He urged patience from Americans eager for the service, which is intended to block about 80 percent of telemarketing calls.

"Everyone who has a cell phone wishes they had a better one," Huang said.

Taher, acting against his attorney's advice, became the fifth member of a group of six Yemeni-Americans to enter a plea agreement with the government in the case.

"We're still confident that Gephardt will get the lion's share of union support."

"The accusation that I misappropriated money from Jennifer Lopez is both untrue and offensive," Medina said in a statement.

On Jan. 10, 20-year-old Shawanda Denise McCalister, who also was pregnant, was found bound and strangled in her apartment in the same neighborhood.

After the further analysis of the subset data, the companies plan to discuss the results with regulators and then determine how to proceed.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 3 points, or 0.39 percent, at 924.

They are being held on immigration violations as the incident is investigated.

"Rendezvous has been a TIBCO mark for many years and is one of our flagship products," said George Ahn, chief marketing officer, Tibco.

Bad publicity has already weakened sales which are highly profitable for retailers.

Turner, who held about 105 million shares before the sale, also transferred 10 million AOL shares to a charitable trust.

Several cities are competing for the headquarters, including Miami; Panama City; Atlanta; Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; and Puebla, Mexico.

Beagle 2 has no propulsion system of its own; it is "in the hands of Mr Newton now", as an astronaut once put it.

Diane Lade of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a Tribune Publishing newspaper, contributed to this report.

But the Russell 2000 index, the barometer of smaller company stocks, had a weekly gain of 3.71, or 0.9 percent, closing at 418.40.

"This deal makes sense for both companies," said National Chief Executive Brian Halla.

At 5 p.m. EDT, Grace's center was near latitude 25.6 north, longitude 93.7 west or about 280 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi.

The National Transportation Safety Board has subpoenaed Gansas, arguing his immediate testimony remains critical to its investigation.

Janet Racicot heard the thud from the kitchen, where she was getting a glass of water, she said in an interview Tuesday.

But as more people were shot, Moose had to admit that he couldn't give the public the safety it needed.

"The longer this series goes, the better chance Dirk has to play."

The seal will ultimately be used to identify DHS badges, vehicles, signs, sea vessels and aircraft.

There are an estimated 25,000 to 28,000 tribal fighters in the region, with thousands deployed in and around the town.

Neither Iowa State athletic director Bruce Van De Velde nor Morgan could be reached for comment.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average held on to small gains, up 19.96 to 9,092.91, while the S&P 500 index shed 0.39 to 981.25.

An airplane carrying Spanish peacekeepers back from Afghanistan crashed into a fog-shrouded mountain in Turkey and exploded Monday, killing all 75 people aboard.

But the subject of oil market debate, Iraq, will not be present, an issue which has rankled Iraqi officials.

Security forces stormed the building, but 129 hostages were killed along with the attackers.

So far, Georgia has been returned all but $70,000 of the money it wired.

Lee told the newspaper that the girl had dragged the food, toys and other things into her mother's bedroom, where he found her.

Morrill's wife, Ellie, sobbed and hugged Bondeson's sister-in-law during the service.

"With the target funds rate at 1 percent, substantial further conventional easings could be implemented if the FOMC judged such policy actions warranted," he said.

The US responded coolly to the EU deadline, warning that trade sanctions would backfire by hurting European consumers.

Derek Jeter took batting practice on the field for the first time since dislocating his left shoulder on Opening Day and expects to begin a minor league rehab assignment tomorrow.

Water management officials in Florida were worried about some of the already-swollen rivers and lakes, because a direct hit from a hurricane could cause severe flooding.

Spansion products are to be available from both AMD and Fujitsu, AMD said.

Wal- Mart, Kohl's Corp., Family Dollar Stores Inc., and Big Lots Inc. posted May sales that fell below Wall Street's modest expectations.

Rambus Inc. (nasdaq: RMBS - news - people) shot up 38 percent, making it the biggest percentage gainer on the Nasdaq.

Pines said he would convene the relevant party bodies within 10 days to discuss whether new elections would be held or whether a temporary leader would be appointed.

The tendency to feel rejection as an acute pain may have developed in humans as a defensive mechanism for the species, said Eisenberger.

A discouraging outlook from General Electric Co. sent its share down 81 cents (U.S.) or 2.7 per cent to $29.32.

This was double the $818 million reported for the first three months of 2001.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said the wholesalers were not to blame and were "victims in this."

At the very long end, the 30-year bond US30YT=RR slid a full point for a yield of 4.47 percent from 4.41 percent.

And yes, Marilyn Monroe is definitely part of the story, titled "Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin."

The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index was 49.4 percent last month, up from 45.4 in April.

Mr. Parsons has been director of the Stennis Center, which specializes in rocket engine research and testing, since August.

As part of the changes, Microsoft will also tie stock awards for its top 600 or so executives to the growth and "satisfaction" in its customer base.

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR grew 1-3/32 for a yield of 4.30 percent, down from 4.35 percent late Wednesday.

In December 1998, a 33-year-old woman died when she was hit by a metal cleat that came loose from the Columbia sailing ship.

Last year, he was forced to repay $3,000 in bar tabs that he and his staff incurred while he was labour minister but had originally billed to taxpayers.

Gamarekian told The News she remembers only the woman's first name - and refused to reveal it.

Peterson was arrested near Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla on April 18, the day DNA testing identified the bodies.

The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index rose to 49.4 in May from 45.4 in April, the biggest monthly gain since December.

The decomposed remains of 17-year-old Max Guarino of Manhattan were found floating near City Island April 25.

Kodak earned 85 cents per share excluding one-time items in the quarter a year earlier.

Scholars in medical ethics have said the issue of medicating patients to improve their mental health to execute them might present formidable obstacles for doctors.

The man, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Comoros islander, is on the U.S. FBI's list of most wanted suspects.

Asked about the controversy, Bloomberg said, "I didn't see either one today, but if they're here and wave from the side I'll certainly wave to them.

He said it was a mistake, and he reimbursed the party nearly $2,000.

Both NASA and Russian space officials said it posed no danger to the crew.

The Bluetooth SIG made its announcement at the Bluetooth World Congress in Amsterdam this week.

Respondents who rated current business conditions as "bad" increased to 30.4% from 28.1% in June.

The singer has been on a ventilator since the crash at his Buckinghamshire estate last night, but his condition was described as “stable” and “comfortable”.

One of the FBI’s key operatives, who had a falling out with the bureau, provided an account of the operation at a friend’s closed immigration court proceeding.

At least 61 people were killed and dozens injured across Afghanistan yesterday in the worst outbreak of violence for more than a year.

The Dow Jones industrials climbed more than 140 points to above the 9,000 mark, the first time since December.

A nationally board certified teacher with a master's degree, Kelley makes a salary of $65,000 in his 30th year.

Emergency crews said some of the passengers were thrown partly out of the open side of the bus.

"I feel that people that are sending these messages are infringing on my rights and everyone else's rights to use their computers," said McKechnie.

Page said it's also possible that genes on the Y chromosome may influence gender-specific differences in disease susceptibility.

The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.95, or 0.2 percent, for the week to 1,912.36 after stumbling 37.78 yesterday.

The House version pays 80 percent of a senior's first $2,000 in drug costs after a $250 deductible.

Overture's listings are generated by more than 100,000 advertisers who bid for placement on keywords relevant to their business.

The company said that with proper funding, ABthrax could be available for emergency use as early as the end of 2004.

A really robust program could be had for about 20 cents a day," Griffin said.

"We don't know at this point if the current investigation includes one or more outside contractors.

We intend to appeal vigorously and still expect to be vindicated ultimately.

Shares of LendingTree soared $5.99, or 40.1 percent, to $20.68 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

July Brent rose 31 cents to $28.39 per barrel on London's International Petroleum Exchange.

A man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot and kill a city councilman from Queens was ordered held on $100,000 bail during an early morning court appearance Saturday.

Also helping Tokyo stocks were hopes the government would next week adopt some of the market boosting proposals discussed on Thursday at a meeting of its top economic advisory panel.

However, scientists led by physicist Frank McDonald of the University of Maryland disagree.

"It was brazen intimidation to keep people on the reservation," said a Republican who attended but did not want to be named.

They were being held Sunday in the Camden County Jail on $100,000 bail.

At midday Monday, the 10-year note US10YT=RR had slipped 12/32 in price giving a yield of 3.16 percent from 3.12 percent.

Axelrod died in his sleep of heart failure, said his daughter, Nina Axelrod.

But it said that the Danish ban had been effective in reducing the spread among food animals.

Montgomery was one of the first places to enact such a law, but many places, including New York City, now ban smoking in bars.

"30 years waiting for you," read one banner hoisted over the crowd, as many wept tears of happiness at finally seeing and hearing their idol.

He also noted Tom Siebel had turned in 26 million stock options valued at more than $50-million (U.S.) earlier this year.

Catholic Church officials reported that two miners were killed and six other protesters injured 50 miles (110 km) outside of La Paz.

ATA shares were down $1.85 at $8.07 on the Nasdaq Stock Market in Tuesday afternoon trading.

There was no immediate response from North Korea or the United States.

But the new vaccine will not even begin to be tested in people until 2005 and will not be approved for use for several years after that.

But authorities have been unable to stop the tragedies, which they blame on overcrowding, poor vessel construction and lax enforcement of safety rules.

The euro <EUR=> was up 0.67 percent against the dollar at $1.1784 after rising to a three-month high earlier in the session above $1.18.

Grass' plea will leave Rite Aid's former vice chairman and chief counsel, Franklin C. Brown, to stand trial alone in federal court starting Monday.

He started in the 1983 Super Bowl, which Miami lost 27-17 to Washington.

However, George Heath, a Fort Campbell spokesman, said shortly after the attack that Akbar had "an attitude problem".

"Dan brings to Coca-Cola enormous experience in managing some of the world's largest and most familiar brands," Mr. Heyer said.

The new WPAN standard uses the 2.4-GHz unlicensed frequency band and specifies raw data rates of 11M, 22M, 33M, 44M and 55Mbit/sec.

"We believe that it is not necessary to have a divisive confirmation fight over a Supreme Court appointment.

Nterprise Linux Services is expected to be available before then end of this year.

With a wry smile, Mr. Bush replied, "You're looking pretty young these days."

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI edged down 28.08 points, or 0.3 percent, at 9,256.49.

Christina's aunt, Shelley Riling , said the defense's claims were preposterous.

"This is extraordinarily fast," said Matt Geller, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.

Agnew said Pinellas began baiting when rabies cases "went from zero to 30" in 1995.

And now it's anything he wants to say," Alesha Badgley, Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director, said this week.

Bond also voiced his disappointment that neither President Bush nor his brother attended this conference in Florida or last year's in Texas.

The 30-year bond <US30YT=RR> firmed 24/32, taking its yield to 4.18 percent, after hitting another record low of 4.16 percent.

British-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc said earlier this year it would cut off supplies to Canadian drugstores that ship to the United States.

The Justice Department Aug. 19 gave pre-clearance for the Oct. 7 date for the election to recall Gov. Gray Davis, saying it would not affect minority voting rights.

Those in their twenties who ejaculated more than five times a week were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life, they say.

But the prime minister told the BBC he wasn't bothered by polls and that he would continue to do what he believed to be right.

We need to challenge old habits and seriously rethink business-as-usual," he wrote.

The plea makes Grass the second high-ranking Rite Aid executive to strike a deal with federal prosecutors in the past two weeks.

Class-action suits expand exponentially the number of plaintiffs and damages in a lawsuit by allowing initial plaintiffs to plea on behalf of a far larger group with common interest.

The benchmark 10-year Bund yield was down 5.2 basis points at 3.60 percent.

Powers said almost all supercomputer users would rather pay companies like IBM to do all that than try to build their own.

One of the Oregon species was acclimated to a temperature of 65, but survived until the aquarium temperature reached 87.

It was developed with consultation from more than 300 leaders in academia, industry, government and the public.

The judge's decision ended an 18-month process that included a frenzy of last-minute negotiations between bidders and creditors during a standing-room only purchasing hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

The value of the deal has increased since BP first announced it in February.

Hoy confirmed the woman's age Tuesday and said she has left on vacation with her family.

Chapman was not immediately arrested and is expected to appear for arraignment July 3.

Lord Falconer hailed the changes as "a new beginning as far as the courts, Crown Prosecution Service and police are concerned".

Their worst-case scenario is the accidental deletion or malicious falsification of ballots from the 1.42 million Californians who could vote on electronic touch-screen machines.

Tech stocks were hurt by a sour forecast from Sun Microsystems, which was viewed as a bad omen for the upcoming quarterly earnings season.

"Let's show we won't let them off," said Marc Blondel, leader of the Force Ouvriere union.

GE stock closed at $30.65 a share, down about 42 cents, on the New York Stock Exchange.

An artist who painted a fake "CAUTION Low Flying Planes" sign on a building near ground zero said Tuesday that he did not mean to offend anyone.

Utah's median household income also took a hit, falling 1.8 percent, from $48,875 to $47,978.

Culturecom is confident it will make a significant impact on market share with this new development," Frank Cheung, chairman of Culturecom, said in a statement.

Larger rivals, including Tesco and Sainsbury’s, were excluded from the bid battle following a Competition Commission inquiry last month.

The move to rein in losses at its four boutique outlets comes as the retailer seeks to cap the cost of doing business.

Defence lawyers sought to have those charges thrown out, claiming the Bali court had no jurisdiction over those crimes.

Many compensation experts had predicted Carty would get a generous severance deal because his voluntary resignation helped keep the concessions deals in place.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX declined 10.65 points, or 1.07 percent, to 987.86.

Nine traffic deaths were blamed on the storm in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington.

He faces 25 years in prison when he is sentenced in federal court July 7.

Also in Mosul, rebel gunmen on Friday assassinated a Sunni Muslim tribal leader who backed the coalition.

Mr. Manuel and his group entered the United States by walking across the bridge linking Matamoros and Brownsville.

Goldman is trying to sell the shares to institutional investors at $US13.15 each, said the traders, who received calls from the securities firm's sales force.

Daughter Renee Jackson said she often made "huge pots of, like, beans and rice with, like, meat and casseroles" for the whole family.

Dotson, 21, was arrested and charged on July 21 after reportedly telling authorities he shot Dennehy after Dennehy tried to shoot him.

The identical rovers will act as robotic geologists, searching for evidence of past water.

Shellfire could be heard in the background as Ghafar spoke by satellite telephone.

"As expected, second-quarter sales were weak driven by the combination of declining retail inventories and market-share losses," said Robert A. Eckert, chief executive.

He added International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM) endorsement of Linux has "added credibility and an illusion of support and accountability."

His dissent was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas.

Davis, who appointed all of the PUC commissioners, called the proposed settlement ``too expensive for the ratepayers.

The Iranian refugee who sewed up his eyes, lips and ears in protest at the handling of his asylum claim has won his fight to remain in Britain.

Justice Anthony Kennedy dissented in an opinion joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

Seven Air Force Academy cadets face punishment for allegedly drinking with two high school girls.

About 130,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq, with others deployed in Afghanistan, South Korea and elsewhere.

Spot gold was fetching $365.25/366.25 an ounce at 0520 GMT, having galloped as high as $368.90 -- a level not seen since February 10.

Henri was centered about 75 miles southwest of Cedar Key and was moving east-northeast at 5 mph, forecasters said.

Branch was later fired by the company and eventually filed a wrongful-termination suit that included details about the documents, the Journal story said.

The stretch of Danube river passing through the Balkans dropped so low that wrecks of World War II boats became visible.

Police arrested a "potential suspect" Monday in the case of a nine-year-old girl who turned up safe two days after being violently abducted from her home.

Bush is spending the weekend at his Crawford ranch, where he will play host to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio is expected to raise more than $1 million.

But a state judge has ruled that the so-called "double jeopardy" protections do not apply in the case.

After protesters rushed the stage and twice cut power to the microphone, Hedges drew the speech to an early close.

At least 27 US troops have been killed in hostile fire since Bush's statement.

The worst-affected area was South Kyongsang province where at least 15 people drowned and roads were swept away.

She said the president's eyes filled with tears when she told him he would have to confess to their teenage daughter as well.

The Legislature returns today for a special session and they're expected to pass a compromise bill aimed at lowering doctors' medical malpractice insurance rates.

A recent poll showed Edwards with a narrow lead in South Carolina, and he plans a rally there later on Tuesday.

Mr Berlusconi is accused of bribing judges to influence the sale of the state-controlled SME food company in 1985.

The stock closed Friday at $5.91, down $1.24, or 17 percent, on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Shelia Chaney Wilson seemed agitated when she came to help prepare for Turner Monumental A.M.E. Church's upcoming 104th anniversary celebration, worshippers said.

"SCO has not shown us any evidence that we've violated our agreements in any way," IBM spokesperson Trink Guarino told internetnews.com.

In March, Rowland's former deputy chief of staff pleaded guilty to accepting gold and cash in return for steering state contracts.

Further out the curve, the benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR shed 25/32 in price, taking its yield to 3.26 percent from 3.17 percent.

"United is continuing to deliver major cost reductions and is now coupling that effort with significant unit revenue improvement," chief financial officer Jake Brace said in a statement.

Minister Saud al-Faisal's visit was disclosed Monday by two administration officials who discussed it on condition of not being identified by name.

SAN Architect and AutoAdvice can be used by themselves or as extensions to the ControlCenter family of storage management applications.

Teams of inspectors walked into a restricted area at one park without being stopped; others took pictures of sensitive areas without being challenged.

When Biggs's body was found, authorities had no leads until four months later, when a tipster said Mallard talked about the incident at a party.

He is accused of obstructing justice, witness tampering and destroying evidence.

Mr. Stevens has also told his officers that information from British intelligence indicates there are more al Qaeda agents in Britain than previously thought.

The victims included seven Lebanese, four Egyptians, one Saudi and one Sudanese, the ministry official said.

He said some issues _ such as division break-up _ really can only be resolved if and when the conference is expanded.

But in the first 30 seconds after Young entered the ring, the family knew it was an uneven match, Meyers said.

"This blackout was largely preventable," said Spencer Abraham, US energy secretary.

November 17's last victim was British defence attache Stephen Saunders, who was shot on an Athens road in June 2000.

Nearly all of Ford's second-quarter profit came from Ford Credit, which earned a net $401 million, up 21.5 percent.

The suit is to be filed against Secretary of State Kevin Shelley and election officials in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.

Marissa Jaret Winokur, as Tracy, won for best actress in a musical.

But while Microsoft's share of the low-end server software market has increased since the EU's investigation started five years ago, the firm has denied anti-competitive practices are to blame.

No country seems likely to oppose proposals for a long-term European Council president, replacing the current rotating presidency, as well as an EU foreign minister.

Early voting will run weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Sept. 9.

Third-quarter revenue declined to $36.9 billion from $39.3 billion, primarily reflecting lower vehicle sales.

Gartner analysts said that businesses are not yet feeling confident enough to upgrade corporate PCs.

Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa was suspended for eight games by major league baseball Friday for using a corked bat.

For proof, look no further than this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Shirley Hazzard and Edward P. Jones, both of whom needed more than a decade to complete their current novels, are among this year's nominees.

U.S. troops encountered no resistance during the five-hour sweep near Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown and the center of a region of Baath Party supporters.

His 1996 Chevrolet Tahoe was found abandoned June 25 in a Virginia Beach, Va., parking lot.

It also named Robert Willumstad chief operating officer, also to take effect by Jan. 1, 2004.

The agency charged that one WD Energy worker discussed false reporting with traders at two other energy companies.

"These despicable acts were committed by killers whose only faith is hate," Bush said, adding that the United States will find the killers.

A second bomb, evidently carried by the other woman, did not explode; the authorities detonated the explosives later.

AN artist has infuriated New Yorkers by painting a sign reading "CAUTION Low Flying Planes" on a building near Ground Zero.

"During the investigation, Bryant was cooperative with investigators and remains cooperative with authorities," the sheriff's office said.

Seniors would then have to pay 50 percent of their drug costs up to $3,450.

The National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago's factory index increased to 58.9 from 55.9 in July.

Adrian Lamo, 22, had told reporters he planned to surrender to the FBI in Sacramento Friday, but he then had second thoughts.

Zulifquar Ali, a worshipper slightly wounded by shrapnel, said the assailants first targeted the mosque's security guards.

For the second year in a row, rises in hospital costs accounted for much of the inflation, accounting for 51 percent of the overall cost increase.

"While many good people work in the telemarketing industry," Bush said in prepared remarks, "the public is understandably losing patience with these unwanted phone calls, unwanted intrusions.

General Jeffrey said he would donate his military pension to charity for the period he was in office at Yarralumla.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC climbed 40.09 points, or 2.46 percent, to 1,666.58, based on the latest data, and marking its highest close since May 23, 2002.

Quattrone's action, prosecutors argue, amounted to criminal obstruction of justice.

SEA 05D is the Naval Sea Systems Command’s technical authority for surface ship design and engineering.

Results from No. 2 U.S. soft drink maker PepsiCo Inc. (nyse: PEP - news - people) were likely to be in the spotlight.

About $250,000 worth of her jewelry was discovered last week at Kennedy International Airport, where it had up and disappeared before a flight to the BET Awards.

The airline also said it has the option to buy 380 more airplanes, orders that would be split evenly between the two manufacturers.

The diocese reached a settlement in 2001 involving five priests and 26 plaintiffs for an undisclosed sum.

The U.S. government and private technology experts warned Wednesday that hackers plan to attack thousands of Web sites Sunday in a loosely co-ordinated "contest" that could disrupt Internet traffic.

But Mr Kenny said his advice to Mr Hicks - if they are ever allowed to meet or speak - may well be that he accept a deal.

Mr Kenny and the Hicks family's American lawyer, Michael Ratner, are trying to get access to Mr Hicks before he faces a planned military tribunal.

The two forms account for about 30 percent of the approximately 7 million immigration benefits applications received annually, immigration officials said.

The unions also staged a five-day strike in March that forced all but one of Yale's dining halls to close.

FBI spokesman Steve Lazarus did not immediately return a phone call for comment on Friday.

Wyles previous feature credits include White Oleander, Enough and Donnie Darko.

White House officials say Iran has one last chance to comply with IAEA inspection demands.

After he was led into the execution chamber and strapped to a gurney, Swisher raised his head and appeared to smile as his spiritual adviser spoke to him.

Parrado remained on a Coast Guard cutter Wednesday as immigration officials attempt to determine his status, the Coast Guard said.

A month ago, the Commerce Department said GDP grew at a 7.2 percent rate.

Roxio, which is based in Santa Clara, Calif., would get access to the music libraries of the major labels and the Pressplay distribution system.

Boeing shares fell nearly 4 percent to $27.54 in afternoon New York Stock Exchange trade, while Lockheed slipped 1.6 percent to $49.42.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> was up 7.42 points, or 0.45 percent, at 1,653.44.

Jakarta has boosted the number of troops and police in the resource-rich province in recent weeks from 38,000 to more than 45,000.

Five alternate jurors were also chosen, with a final one set to be selected Friday morning from the panel.

In interviews with engineers, most of whom have not spoken publicly until now, the lines of discord between NASA's engineers and managers are evident.

A suburban Chicago man was arrested Wednesday on charges of secretly gathering information on Iraqi opposition figures as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's intelligence service.

Another million barrels, bought by Spanish refiner Cepsa SA, was to be loaded onto a Spanish tanker, Sandra Tapias.

The contractors convicted last month, Brian Rose, 36, and Joseph Quattrone, 35, are to be sentenced in January.

"The board did so and accepted that resignation," said McCall, who chaired the meeting.

"He died doing something he loved," William Dusenbery, Sr., who lives in Fairview Heights, just outside St. Louis, Mo.

The answer is clearly yes," said Dr. Larry Norton, deputy physician-in- chief for breast cancer programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Quattrone, 47, was highly influential at Credit Suisse First Boston during the tech bubble.

Dr Mark McClean, Jonathan's family doctor, said if the drug had been administered earlier Jonathan would have retained more of his brain functions.

This change in attitude gave upscale purveyors including Neiman Marcus, the parent of Bergdorf Goodman; and Nordstrom strong sales gains in May.

President Vlad imir Putin threw his weight behind Russia’s main pro-Kremlin political party for the first time last week, ahead of parliamentary elections.

Officials in Malawi said the five suspects had been on the CIA's "watch list" since the twin 1998 truck bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Passengers would be given a refund and voucher for another trip, she said.

A monthlong grace period in New York City ended May 1, and now bars and restaurants that allow people to puff can face hefty fines.

First, it's found in most versions of Windows, including the new Windows Server 2003.

No Americans were reported among the casualties, according to Capt. Michael Calvert, a spokesman for the regiment.

Suspected rebels also blew up an oil pipeline in north-east Colombia.

The capsule landed on its side and drifted about 12 metres, probably dragged by the main parachute.

The chain operates more than 3,400 stores, and has annual revenue of about $15.8 billion.

Frank Partnoy, a securities law professor at the University of San Diego, said the case suggested that Merrill's oversight and control of its executives were inadequate.

All patients developed some or all of the symptoms of E. coli food poisoning: bloody diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramping and nausea.

The parents want her kept alive; her husband says she never wanted to be kept alive artificially.

Federal regulators have turned from sour to sweet on a proposed $2.8 billion merger of ice cream giants Nestle Holdings Inc. and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Inc.

While robbery appeared to be the motive, the suspects drove off before taking anything.

However, Hayes, the CDC official, said there are many complicated interactions in play.

Microsoft, which acquired Virtual PC from Connectix in February, said a fix for the problem is not around the corner.

Environmental campaigners are using this weekend’s lunar eclipse to highlight the huge increase in light pollution across the UK.

Mr. Bankhead said the crime scenes indicated that the killer was "very methodical."

A tradition of Labor Day racing was established long ago in the Inland Empire.

In his female disguise, the real estate heir used the name Dorothy Ciner, a childhood friend.

Its shares fell 71 cents, or 3.5 percent, in after-hours trading to $19.55.

Last week, his lawyers asked Warner to grant clemency under conditions that would have lead to a new sentencing hearing.

"We have an incredible amount of work to do, but it's not in [designing new] instruction set architectures.

Defense attorneys said Durst accidentally shot Black in the face as they struggled for a gun after the elderly man illegally entered his apartment.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index rose 4.64 points, or 0.27 percent, to 1,735.34, according to the latest available data.

Fanned by the hot, dry Santa Ana winds and minimal humidity, major fires were raging in at least 10 places, having already burned nearly 80 937 hectares.

The condition is associated with heart disease, chronic kidney disease, blindness, and amputations.

Available July 7, the software supports the Solaris, IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux and Windows operating systems.

"The United States welcomes a greater NATO role in Iraq's stabilization," Powell said.

Since March 11, when the market's major indexes were at their lowest levels since hitting multi-year lows in October, the Nasdaq has barreled back 21.2 percent.

In September, a 27-year-old Singapore researcher contracted SARS while working in a laboratory.

He characterized the hostile bid as "atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of atrociously bad behavior."

In March 2002, 63 percent of home broadband users connected via cable modem; 34 percent used a DSL service.

Justice Minister Martin Cauchon and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien have both said the Liberal government will introduce legislation soon to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot for personal use.

Eustachy acknowledged at a news conference Wednesday that he was an alcoholic and was seeking treatment.

Seven of the nine Democratic presidential candidates were also scheduled to address the forum.

Miodrag Zivkovic, of the Liberal Alliance of Montenegro, won 31 percent of the vote, while the independent Dragan Hajdukovic got 4 percent.

But Chauncey Billups demonstrated he's also capable of big games, scoring 77 points over the final two games against the Magic.

Moffitt said the results need to be replicated in another study before testing of individuals for presence of the long or short versions of the gene will be pursued.

The first trial of a suspect in last year's Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people opened in Indonesia today, Sky News reported.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 63.09 points, or 0.68 percent, at 9,270.70.

If convicted, Ciobanu could face up to 15 years in prison based on new laws in Romania designed to prosecute cybercrime, Softwin said.

Shaklee spokeswoman Jenifer Thompson said the company is continuing to work with authorities.

At the Pentagon, the Department of Defense's Inspector General has separately been asked to investigate how the telecom licences were awarded.

Police believe someone strangled her and she may have been sexually assaulted.

On Monday, it also announced the resignation of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Condit.

"Accordingly, there needs to be more on the horizon than simply winning a war against terrorism.

The hot technologies -- networking, storage and wireless products -- will be front and center this week.

PG&E Corp. shares were up 39 cents or 2.6 percent at $15.59 on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.

Kelly killed himself after being exposed as the source for a BBC report which claimed the government had embellished evidence of Iraq's banned weapons to justify the war.

At 5 p.m. EDT, the center of Hurricane Fabian was located near latitude 15.7 north, longitude 45.2 west or about 1,075 miles east of the Lesser Antilles.

But when no justice announced a retirement when the court's term ended in June, it was seen as making those efforts moot.

Neither military action nor large-scale bribery can solve the North Korean problem, Wolfowitz said.

Californias rate was 6.4 percent, down from a revised 6.7 percent in August and also down from the 6.7 percent posted in September 2002.

In a statement later, he said it appeared his side had fallen a bit short.

The movie opens this weekend and the companion game has been on sale since late last month.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office was not available for comment.

Sgt. Ernest Bucklew, 33, was coming home from Iraq to bury his mother in Pennsylvania.

Shares of Bristol-Myers rose to $28 in electronic trading from the $26.90 close on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Foreign Office says that Heaton is in detention but has not yet been charged with any offence.

The nine states are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

"We do not use service members as guinea pigs," William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, told a Pentagon briefing.

Since June of last year the Red Cross has spent $114 million on disasters, but taken in only $40 million in donations.

The United States and Britain are seeking backing at the United Nations for their agenda to hand over power to Iraqis.

The US version will cost $99 for an individual licence, the same as the existing version.

The format must be an open standard that has been formally ratified by an internationally recognized standards organization, and IP must be licensed under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms.

In Damascus, Syrian Information Minister Ahmad al-Hassan called the charges "baseless and illogical".

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index edged up 1.01 points, or 0.1 percent, at 1,012.67.

And it's going to be a wild ride," said Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican consultant.

Water samples are being tested in a state lab to determine what caused the reaction.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 41.61 points, or 0.44 percent, to 9,415.82.

"Any decision on Charleroi will have huge implications for regional airports in France," he said.

"This is very serious," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

On the upside, Coca-Cola Co. (nyse: KO - news - people) reported higher profit for the quarter early on Thursday, helped by European demand.

Shelley's office reported Friday that 575,926 signatures have been reported to him.

Arguing that the case was an isolated example, Canada has threatened a trade backlash if Tokyo's ban is not justified on scientific grounds.

The shooting happened at 5:30 a.m. in the living room of the home the extended family shared on the city's westside.

His spokesman, Tom Parker, said Moore's attorneys would respond to the complaint Monday.

They made a similar discovery in Houston on another aircraft, Dallas-based Southwest said in a statement.

The group ambitiously expects to issue guidelines by the end of the year and release products by late 2004.

"The sentence reflects the seriousness with which our office and the courts views these crimes," Spitzer said in a statement.

Bush said resistance forces hostile to the U.S. presence "feel like ... the conditions are such that they can attack us there.

Wall Street regained a positive track yesterday after two of Saddam Hussein's sons were killed in a firefight in Iraq.

A prosecutor said investigators were searching his home in Muenster in the presence of his wife when news of his death arrived.

Such a move has been widely predicted by industry observers and follows the recent announcement that Christopher Galvin, the company's chairman and chief executive, would soon retire.

The United States and Russia have spent billions since the 1960s on a handful of space craft designed to land on Mars.

Charles Howell III picked up some local knowledge a year ago that provided much-needed insight in the opening round of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.

Avalon means the next Windows OS will support new styles of user interfaces and elements.

The three priests were careful to go through church channels first as they exercised their rights under canon law.

There were no plans to build permanent US bases in Africa, Pentagon officials said.

Sarah Weddington, the abortion advocate and attorney who originally represented McCorvey, could not be reached for comment.

Monday, the CIA said analysts concluded that Saddam is likely the speaker on the tape.

The report by the Justice Department's inspector general found "significant problems" in the government's handling of foreigners who were jailed under blanket edicts adopted by the department after the attacks.

Under the agreement, LendingTree shareholders would receive 0.6199 of a USAi share for each share in LendingTree.

Prince William County prosecutors told a judge yesterday they now want the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad moved out of the area.

Greenspan is head of the U.S. central bank, which sets U.S. interest rates.

The statewide unemployment rate fell to 6.4 percent, down from a revised 6.7 percent in August.

Others rushed up the aisle to vocally protest the remarks, and one student tossed his cap and gown to the stage before leaving.

Last year, Congress passed similar, though less expensive, buyout legislation for peanut farmers to end that program, which also dated from the Depression.

Responding, Edward Skyler, a spokesman for the mayor, said later: "The comptroller's statements, while noteworthy for their sensationalism, bear no relation to the facts.

"Indeed, Iran should be put on notice that efforts to try to remake Iraq in their image will be aggressively put down," he said.

It is important for a process to be put into place, he said, that would permit a smooth transition from war to peace.

The American conservatives are clearly in the minority within the Episcopal Church.

While the Ibrahims had one separation operation, Goodrich and Dr. David Staffenberg plan about three for the Aguirres, with several weeks between each.

"If I was diagnosed today with CJD, I would ensure I received this treatment as soon as humanly possible.

Representatives of its tribal and ethnic groups named a cross section of residents yesterday to run municipal affairs alongside the US military.

I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn't deserve.

A COUPLE have been arrested for starving their four sons while letting their daughters feast in front of them.

Local police authorities are treating the explosion as a criminal matter and nothing has been ruled out.

The ELF has claimed responsibility for a slew of arson attacks against commercial entities that members say threaten or damage the environment.

Claudia Gonzles Herrera, an assistant attorney general in charge of the case, said the arrests show that Guatemala "takes the defense of its ancient Maya heritage seriously."

Dos Reis is scheduled to be sentenced in Danbury Superior Court this morning on charges of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree sexual assault.

Gordon stressed that his bill "is a lesson-learned bill and not a reflection on Admiral Gehman's handling of the Columbia investigation."

Shiite Muslims account for about a third of Quetta's of 1.2 million people.

About 24 percent of men who took placebo, or 1,147 men, developed prostate cancer.

Lay had contended that turning over the documents would violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Friends said Frank Riva worked in construction in Manhattan and recently helped his son get into the construction workers union.

A panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California's assault weapons ban in a 2-1 ruling last December.

Cardenas and Estrada, who is on trial for economic plunder, have denied any involvement.

The number of passengers aboard was not known and may never be, since ferry operators rarely keep full passenger lists.

More than 6 percent of men on the drug developed high-grade tumors compared with 5.1 percent on placebo.

The MPx200, which will sell for $299.99, is now available through AT&T Wireless' mMode service.

"This new division will be focused on the vitally important task of protecting the nation's cyber assets so that we may best protect the nation’s critical infrastructure assets."

The WHO experts didn't say how many cases in Hebei were in rural areas.

Sales of downloaded singles and albums will be included in Billboard's charts for those configurations.

The findings were reported online in the June 1 edition of scientific journal Nature Medicine.

Kerry last month outlined a U.N. resolution authorizing a military force under U.S. command and transferring responsibility to the United Nations for the political and humanitarian efforts.

Downer originally said the 14 Kurds had not asked to be considered as refugees when they arrived in a boat off Melville Island last week.

Nearly 300 mutinous troops who seized a Manila shopping and apartment complex demanding the government resign gave up and retreated peacefully after some 19 hours.

The government identified the alleged hijackers as Francisco Lamas Carón, 29, Luis Alberto Suarez Acosta, 22, and Yosvani Martínez Acosta, 27.

"The court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary," O'Connor wrote.

The FTC also said AOL and CompuServe failed to deliver timely rebates to consumers.

CELF said IBM is pursuing membership and plans to be an active participant in the forum.

The news came as authorities in Taiwan quarantined hundreds at two major hospitals amid fears of a widespread epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome on the self-governing island.

"I do not wish to be present during this witness," he told Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Al Girolami.

In three years, Lend Lease has slipped from a top-five stock, when its share price was around $24, to 37th.

About two hours later, his body, wrapped in a blanket, was found dumped a few blocks away.

The Satellite's 17-inch panel offers a maximum resolution of 1,440 by 900 pixels, Toshiba said.

The average American makes four trips a day, 45 percent for shopping or errands.

In afternoon trading in Europe, France's CAC-40 rose 1.5 percent, Britain's FTSE 100 gained 0.3 percent and Germany's DAX index advanced 1.2 percent.

The key vote Thursday came on the dividend tax provision offered by Sen. Don Nickles, R-Oklahoma.

"We did not want to shut down," Lawrence Diamond, the CFO, said as O'Donnell lawyer Matthew Fishbein questioned him.

OpForce 3.0 supports Solaris, IBM AIX, Red Hat Linux and Windows.

As such, consumers want to easily enjoy this content, regardless of the source, across different devices and locations in the home, said the group.

Because of that, the family had kept him from the home over the objections of the grandmother, police said.

Fifty-seven senators, including 24 Republicans, have signed the letter.

One of the Commission's publicly stated goals is to ensure other producers' server software can work with desktop computers running Windows as easily as Microsoft's.

"We respectfully disagreed with Massachusetts's request for fees on the basis that they did not prevail on the vast majority of their original claims," Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake said.

But he added: "You can't win elections by looking in the rearview mirror."

Recent U.S. appeals court rulings have required Internet providers to identify subscribers suspected of illegally sharing music and movie files.

She also thanked her boyfriend, Sgt. Ruben Contreras, who was sitting next to the stage.

Federal offices were to remain closed for a second day overnight (Friday US time).

Missouri Gov. Bob Holden asked the White House to declare a federal disaster in 39 counties.

According to the affidavit, Al-Amoudi made at least 10 trips to Libya using two American and one Yemeni passport.

It can store more than a gigabyte of information equivalent to around 12 hours of music in one cubic centimetre.

An attempt last month in the Senate to keep the fund open for another year fell flat.

His coalition also passed some of the world's most progressive laws in legalizing gay marriage and euthanasia and decriminalizing the personal use of soft drugs.

Passenger Keith Charlton, who helped tackle the man, last night praised the efforts of the injured chief flight attendant, known to passengers as Greg.

Revenue in the most-recent quarter rose 5.4 percent to $45.9 billion.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 18.06, or 0.2 per cent, at 9266.51.

But she didn't say whether she'll certify the two-year $117.4 billion budget for 2004-05.

If Poland, Spain and Germany were prepared to make concessions in Brussels, the basis for a deal could be found.

When a manager let him into the apartment, the youngster was in a baby's bathtub, covered with a towel and watching a TV cartoon channel.

"We will accede to the request while we explore all of our options," VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin told Reuters.

Electronic Data Systems Corp. Thursday said the Securities and Exchange Commission has asked the company for documents related to its large contract with the U.S. Navy.

Monday ratcheted up its database software line with the introduction of a new suite that automates the process of defining, describing and indexing information contained in the database.

The veteran Malyasian diplomat met Suu Kyi Wednesday at the lakeside home in Yangon where she is under house arrest.

Malvo's attorneys mounted an insanity defense, arguing that Muhammad's indoctrination left him unable to tell right from wrong.

And the First Amendment doesn't say that the free exercise of religion is allowed — except in government buildings.

The victim, who was also not identified, was taken to Kings County Hospital in "extremely critical" condition, Czartoryski said.

On average the students suffered at least one of the 13 symptoms between three and 11 times in the last year.

SEIU President Andrew Stern said the unions are "totally comfortable" with Dean's positions.

Witnesses from Malaysia will testify Thursday in the treason trial of cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, said to be the leader of terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah.

The Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly has been the latest to speak out.

But the institute says the department "woefully underestimates" the changes that would occur under the proposal.

In March, 67 percent connected through cable, up from 63 percent a year earlier.

Close behind was India, 14.3 percent, followed by Thailand and the Philippines.

A year or two later, 259, or 10 per cent, of the youths reported that they had started to smoke, or had taken just a few puffs.

On Thursday, authorities evacuated residents who live in the canyon and closed off the road leading there.

EU ministers were invited to the conference but canceled because the union is closing talks on agricultural reform, said Gerry Kiely, a EU agriculture representative in Washington.

Andrew Sugden, an evolutionary biology expert and international managing editor of Science, described the find as a "milestone . . . this research has broken the size barrier for rodents".

Officials with North Carolina Speedway at Rockingham could not be reached.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has unsealed a heavily edited transcript of the June 3 court session where classified evidence was discussed out of public earshot.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX dropped 9.90 points, or 0.99 percent, to 988.61.

Identical wording was introduced in the Senate last week by three Republicans, Wayne Allard (Colo.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.) and Sam Brownback (Kan.).

Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas were the two other dissenting judges.

The Lord Chancellor was guardian of the Great Seal, used to stamp all official documents from the sovereign.

Prisoners were tortured and executed -- their ears and scalps severed for souvenirs.

U.S. troops killed nearly two dozen suspected Taliban militants after coming under fire in southern Afghanistan in the latest in a series of such attacks.

Cindy Yeast, a 50-year-old Washington-area publicist, says she began taking supplements two years ago in part to avoid mild dementia that affects her elderly parents.

About 25 countries have signed in the past four months, and about half of those have been signed in the past few weeks.

"The United States welcomes a greater NATO role in Iraq's stabilisation," Powell said, according to the text of prepared remarks seen by Reuters.

The conflict centers on a proposal to change a French unemployment fund for artists that takes into account their downtime between shows.

The two are not related, but have referred to each other as father and son.

Hormone replacement therapy that combines estrogen and progestin doubles a woman's risk of breast cancer, a British study of more than a million women has found.

"I will pass on to him [Mr. Cheney] that Canada still remains a safe, secure and reliable supply of energy," Mr. Klein said Sunday.

"It is a benign web where we hope to catch investors and where each of us can advance our enlightened self interest through cooperation with others."

Adolescent specialist Dr Michael Cohen, who worked on the study, said doctors had treated eight-year-old children with anorexia - and that he had once treated a four-year-old boy.

"It's obvious I'm not riding as well as years past," Armstrong said at a news conference.

At a news conference on Staten Island, U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf announced she would be taking over the probe from District Attorney William Murphy.

"When I talked to him last time, did I think that was the end-all - one conversation with somebody?

Slow-moving, drenching Tropical Storm Henri doused an already soaked Florida Friday, bringing powerful storms which further tested already-swollen lakes and rivers.

The case had consolidated numerous class action suits filed against Rambus in 2001.

He added that we are "not going to make progress if we don't broaden the tent."

Gibson said last month in a press statement that "neither I nor my film are anti-Semitic.

The MTA had argued it needed to raise fares to close a two-year deficit it estimated at different times ranged from less than $1 billion to $2.8 billion.

The world's largest software company said it recognized the difficulty the multiple patches posed for companies, and set out to make it easier for them to apply the updates.

By 2040, the county's population is expected to be 985,066, compared to the 2000 population of 860,454.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI ended up 64.64 points, or 0.71 percent, at 9,191.09, according to the latest available data.

The vote came just two days after Kurds swept City Council elections, taking the largest single block of votes on the 30-seat council.

Dolores Mahoy, 68, of Colorado Springs, Colo., is someone who might be helped by the legislation pending in Congress.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said he was prepared to call another meeting of leaders next month.

But Islamic Jihad's main leadership in the Gaza Strip disowned the bombing, saying the group was still committed to the ceasefire.

Cox said state police would still help his office in the investigation, but Sturdivant would not be involved.

The skull is then punctured, the brain suctioned out, and that causes the skull to collapse so it can be removed from the birth canal.

"The accuser arrived at the hospital wearing yellow knit panties - with someone else's semen and sperm in them, not that of Mr. Bryant," Mackey hammered triumphantly.

Shinseki retires Wednesday after a 38-year career that included combat in Vietnam and head of U.S. peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia.

Tornadoes, up to a foot of rain and hail as big as cantaloupes pounded southern Nebraska and northern Kansas, killing one man and destroying at least four homes.

Large swells and dangerous surf already were being felt along sections of the coast.

He said: "I fear on this occasion what happened was those bits of the alphabet which supported the case were selected.

Wall Street was also waiting for aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. AA.N to report earnings after the close.

Duisenberg said in an interview with Bloomberg News' German television channel released earlier on Wednesday it was too early to discuss further interest rate cuts for the euro zone.

The total number of new cases in China was fewer than 100 for the third day in a row.

Det Chief Insp Norman McKinlay said there was "evidence a body or bodies have been in this area".

Rosenthal declined comment on the Garrett situation Tuesday but said in a statement: "We had a big contract negotiation.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement that the ruling would "throw a monkey wrench into the FCC's efforts to develop a vitally important national broadband policy."

Police official S.K. Tonapi told Reuters at least 40 people had been killed and more than 100 wounded.

It marked the fourth straight week and the ninth time this year that rates on this benchmark mortgage fell to an all-time weekly low.

I've still got a fighting chance, though," Hewitt said after battling to overcome Davydenko 6-3 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-5) on centre court.

Harris and Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher before taking their own lives on April 20, 1999.

He also reaffirmed his wish to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis peacefully.

Then they moved inside the mosque and started firing on the people,'' he told the Associated Press.

"Everything was decided in advance," said one of the men, Thierry Falise, a Belgian photographer, as he arrived in Bangkok.

Based on a separate survey of households, the unemployment rate fell in August to 6.1 percent from 6.2 percent.

Likewise, the 30-year bond <US30YT=RR> slid 1-11/32 for a yield of 4.38 percent, up from 4.30 percent.

The company is in the early stages of testing the drug for rheumatoid arthritis.

R&D spending is expected to be $4.4 billion for the year, as compared to the previous expectation of $4.3 billion.

Several relatives of Australian victims of the attack were in court to witness the proceedings, but few Balinese attended the trial.

The benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR slipped 16/32 in price, sending its yield to 4.48 percent from 4.42 percent late on Thursday.

The California Farm Bureau did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

U.S. corporate bond yield spreads opened tighter overall on Tuesday, but tobacco company bonds widened significantly after an adverse legal ruling on Philip Morris USA.

That package included increases to both the city's sales and income taxes.

Buyers can purchase a Windows- and Office-loaded desktop for $298, excluding taxes, the report said.

Not only is this the oldest known planet, it's also the most distant.

When asked where the weapons were, Rice said: ''This is a program that was built for concealment.

They have been identified by the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office as Melena's brother, Angel Melena, 25, and Narcisco Del Angel Lozano, 34.

United Nations inspectors have discovered traces of highly enriched uranium near an Iranian nuclear facility, heightening worries that the country may have a secret nuclear weapons program.

Nelson had received a technical foul with 2:46 to go in the first quarter.

Dynes will get $395,000 a year, an increase over Atkinson's current salary of $361,400.

Shares of Coke closed New York Stock Exchange trading Thursday at $44.01.

Qualcomm has enjoyed many years of selling CDMA chips against little or no competition.

Predictions ranged from 16 cents a share to 27 cents a share, according to Thomson First Call.

Full classes of 48 are booked through September, he said, and the Transportation Security Administration plans to double its classes in January.

A federal judge ruled that the monument violated the law and ordered it removed.

Other recommendations included a special counsel on oceans in the White House, creation of regional ocean ecosystem councils and a national system to protect marine reserves.

During the fiscal second quarter, Cisco earned $991 million, or 14 cents a share, on sales of $4.7 billion.

The appeals court hearing comes at a sensitive time for Microsoft.

The remains of three illegal immigrants were found Tuesday in a sweltering railroad car after fellow immigrants escaped and left behind their weakened companions.

Gasps could be heard in the courtroom when the photo was displayed.

Last month, it narrowed the range to between $7.6 billion and $7.8 billion.

Sir Wilfred Thesiger, traveller, writer, and one of the last solitary explorers of a shrinking planet, has died aged 93.

"Arifin has disclosed to the I.S.D. that he is involved with a group of like-minded individuals in planning terrorist attacks against certain targets in Thailand," the statement said.

An amendment by Rep. Ellen Tauscher of California to create a special committee to investigate Iraq intelligence failures was rejected on procedural grounds.

Intel updated investors midway through the quarter and said business was proceeding exactly as planned.

"The NAFTA ruling confirms that Canadian producers dump lumber in to the U.S. market," Rusty Wood, chairman of the coalition, said in a release.

"No data exists to indicate that the situation with repair stations poses a safety concern."

Doctors have advised that the boy get chemotherapy, but Daren and Barbara Jensen have refused, fearing the treatment would stunt Parker's growth and leave him sterile.

IAAF council member Jose Maria Odriozola said Drummond should be excluded from the championships.

Combined, the companies will have about $2.8 billion in annual revenues, 13,000 employees and more than 11,000 customers in 150 countries.

As a teen, he stabbed a 6-year-old boy, nearly killing him, for no apparent reason.

"For me, the Lewinsky imbroglio seemed like just another vicious scandal manufactured by political opponents," according to extracts leaked yesterday.

Labor Department analysts think the payroll statistics from the survey of businesses provide a more accurate picture of the economy because the survey figures are based on a larger sample.

Only 66 years old, Brooks was killed on Monday, Aug. 11, 2003 in an automobile accident in his native Minnesota.

Prince is replacing Sanford "Sandy" Weill, who will remain Citigroup's chairman.

Gilead had earnings of $73.1 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with $20.8 million, or 10 cents, in the year-ago quarter.

Mohcine Douali, who lives in the centre of Algiers, said: "It was a great shock.

"But the First Amendment does not shield fraud," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court.

Whether it works out, timewise, that I can march with all four ... we'll see what happens," he said.

"The strength of demand for credit increases the danger associated with delaying (a rate rise) that is called for on general macroeconomic grounds," Mr Macfarlane said.

But while the prime minister's trial judders to a halt, his co-defendants in the same case are not protected.

Since it was launched, the SiteFinder service has come under increasing criticism from users and analysts who say that VeriSign has overstepped its authority.

His 1996 Chevrolet Tahoe was found abandoned in a Virginia Beach, Va., parking lot June 25.

Without comment, the court declined to hear suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's appeals.

"I had one bad stretch of holes that put me out of contention to win," Woods said.

Former chief financial officer Franklyn M. Bergonzi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy on June 5 and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

The Modesto Bee and NBC were notified their calls had been intercepted, Goold said.

My view is these al-Qaeda terrorists - and I believe it was al-Qaeda - would prefer to have many such events."

Steverson said Williams was known as a racist who did not like Blacks.

Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad today after demonstrators stormed a police station demanding they be given jobs they claimed to have paid bribes for.

The court's 1992 decision reaffirmed the basic findings of Roe protecting abortion choice but lessened the standards of protection guaranteed to women by Roe.

The latest quarter's profit was a penny above of the average estimate as compiled by Thomson First Call.

More than 60 percent of the company's 1,000 employees were killed in the attack.

Only two bidders of the six have expressed interest in the whole pie - oil tycoon Marvin Davis and Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr.

Bush also said he plans to meet with scientists and legal experts and will not make a determination on the bill for a few more weeks.

Variable annuity sales were $4.2 billion, 82 percent higher than a year ago.

But U.S. administration officials moved to talk down Snow's impact on currencies, saying his comments were not reflective of Washington's policy and were merely an observation about the economy.

However, one subset of women — those on hormonal treatment following chemotherapy — appeared to show improvement in survival.

Intel’s Xeon surpassed HP’s PA-RISC to become the most often used processor, rising from 76 systems in June to 152 systems in November.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Stock Markets composite index lost the most ground, falling 16.95 points to 1,506,76.

"We are very pleased that the court dismissed the vast majority of the plaintiff's claims," Coke spokeswoman Sonya Soutus said.

UBS Warburg downgraded Altria, a Dow member, to "neutral" from "buy," based on valuation.

A postal distribution center where four anthrax-laced letters passed through two years ago was fumigated with chlorine dioxide gas as crews wound up the decontamination process this weekend.

The American military's task is to provide the security in the meantime.

The FTC has asked the court to suspend its decision while the agency appeals.

Officials said the data will be used to verify whether they had stayed beyond their authorized time.

A $5 billion dollar-denominated portion has seen about $19 billion of bids, investors said.

Dayton finished 24-6 last season, won the Atlantic-10 Conference championship and was a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

It would not affect economic damages such as lost wages or hospital bills.

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he would fight any extension of the cable's use.

Schneiderman said this fare price would reflect the agency's legitimate financial condition as well as riders' concerns about having to pay 33 percent more to ride in a recession.

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR dipped 14/32 for a yield of 4.26 percent from 4.23 percent.

The two countries agreed last week to hold their first diplomatic discussions in two years.

The proposal also may help Bloomfield Hills-based Taubman Centers Inc. fend off a takeover from Indianapoils-based shopping mall operator Simon Property Group Inc.

Shares of Coke were up 6 cents at $44.42 in afternoon trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.

The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Last year, the board raised rents by 2 percent on one-year renewals, 4 percent on two-year leases.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> eased 7.57 points, or 0.76 percent, at 990.94.

South Africa has the world's highest caseload with 4.7 million people infected with HIV or AIDS.

Cordiant has been on the block since it lost the key Allied Domecq account in April.

"The investigation appears to be focused on certain accounting practices common to the interactive entertainment industry, with specific emphasis on revenue recognition," Activision said in an SEC filing.

Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by fellow conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, dissented.

A Stage One alert is declared when ozone readings exceed 0.20 parts per million during a one-hour period.

The department told airlines "the threat level to UK civil aviation interests in Kenya has increased to imminent.

Time magazine named the American soldier its Person of the Year for 2003.

As part of a 2001 agreement to extradite them from Canada, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

The anguish was detectable in the voices of those of Forlong's television colleagues who would speak on Monday.

Graham, a presidential candidate, was criticized by several Republicans as ''politicizing'' the report.

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee's senior Democrat, later said the problem is serious but called Hatch's suggestion too drastic.

"Ex-Im board members displayed courage and environmental leadership in the face of considerable pressure," Jon Sohn of Friends of the Earth said after the panel's vote.

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 <.SPX> eased 0.37 of a point, or 0.03 percent, at 1,121.

Malaysia has launched an aggressive media campaign over its water dispute with Singapore.

The Cavaliers won the right Thursday to select James in the June 26 draft.

Two Atlanta companies that have not been accused of wrongdoing -- Delta Air Lines Inc. and the Home Depot -- were mentioned as having excessive pay packages for its CEOs.

The Republic of Korea was found to lead the way in broadband penetration, with approximately 21 broadband subscribers for every 100 inhabitants.

Mr Blair admitted in a newspaper article Mr Bush’s critics were “rubbing their hands at the scope for embarrassing him”.

Intel Corp. unveiled Wednesday its next generation processor for cellular phones, personal digital assistants and other wireless devices.

Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos of Los Angeles, was quick to swipe at the testing procedure.

The venture owns five oil refineries and more than 2,100 filling stations in Russia and Ukraine.

The Belgian probe centred on allegations that certain cereals firms were tipped off about prices two hours before they were officially available.

They said they also seized several items which might be linked to ritual killing, including an animal's skull with a nail driven through it.

It features a 4K color screen and 40-tone polyphonic sound with exchangeable Style-Up front panels.

Dealers said the yen was also undermined by falling Japanese interest rates.

The World Health Organization and the United States Centers for Disease Control sent down a team to look into it.

Fighting has continued sporadically in the west, where it is complicated by the presence of battle-hardened Liberians on both sides.

The Globe reported that Smiledge hasn't spoken with his son, Joseph Druce, in eight years.

SMILING bomber Amrozi was inspired to launch an attack on Bali after his former Australian boss revealed the tourist island was a haven for sinful behaviour by westerners.

Abplanalp used plastic in a model that could be mass-produced, lowering the price per valve from 15 cents to 2 1/2 cents.

Russia, along with France, China and others, advocate a stronger U.N. role to give a U.S.-chosen Iraqi authority international legitimacy.

SCC argued that Lexmark was trying to shield itself from competition by installing a chip on its toner cartridges to make it difficult for third-party manufacturers to make generic cartridges.

On Oct. 10, an 18-year-old freshman member of the men's swim team jumped from the same 10th-floor ledge.

The deal is subject to N2H2 approval and is expected to be completed by year's end.

Yesterday, two Japanese diplomats were killed in an apparent ambush near Tikrit, 175 kilometres north of the capital.

"We condemn and denounce the Governing Council, which is headed by the United States," Moqtada al-Sadr said.

"These are violent surgeries and I wanted to convey that," Murphy says.

Under the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, before a fetus could live outside the womb, the abortion decision was left to the woman and her physician.

Sean Harrigan, president of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, also suggested paring down the NYSE's 27-member board, changing its composition and making it more accountable.

"If that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting," he said to a standing ovation.

"I think we made some mistakes with this exam, and it's up to us to identify and correct them," Mills said.

The Recording Industry Association of America says it plans to sue the song traders next month.

And if estimates hold, it will mark the first time in history that five films grossed more than $20 million each in one weekend.

"But that does not clear them of the obligation to do everything possible to protect civilians, and that is not what we're seeing."

A total of 17 cases have been confirmed in the southern city of Basra, the Organization said.

There is no transcript the courtroom session in Tarrytown, 12 miles north of New York on the Hudson River.

One of the latest shootings was at a car on Sunday on I-270, Franklin County sheriff's Chief Deputy Steve Martin said.

"Both of these kids are in wonderful physical condition right now," he said during a press briefing at the hospital.

Egyptologists cast doubt Tuesday on an expedition's claim that it may have found the mummy of Queen Nefertiti, one of the best-known ancient Egyptians.

Watertown, Saugus and Framingham also are going smoke-free Monday, joining a growing number of cities around the country.

IBM stock rose $1.75, to $84.50, on the New York Stock Exchange.

That is evident from their failure, three times in a row, to get a big enough turnout to elect a president.

He was arrested less than two kilometres from where he allegedly kidnapped her after brutally beating her mother and brother.

His election was hailed in some quarters as a breakthrough for gay rights, but condemned in others as a violation of God's word.

Gov. Don Carcieri said the ruling shows that state taxation laws apply on the tribe's sales activities.

Wyeth estimates that 1.2 million women continue to take Prempro pills, down from about 3.4 million before the study was halted last summer.

But he said he had Dr Hollingworth's legal advice that he had been denied natural justice by the church inquiry.

Come tonight, 21-year-old Morgan and as many as 1,200 fellow students at Wheaton College will gather in the gym for the first real dance in the school's 143-year history.

Dennehy, 21, hasn't been heard from in more than two weeks, and police suspect he was killed in the Waco area.

Vaccine makers have been thrust in the limelight following government programmes to encourage wider vaccination and fears of biological attacks on civilian and military targets.

"If these loss reductions continue as expected, further rate reductions should be ordered."

President Bush signed a waiver exempting 22 nations from these sanctions because they had signed but not yet ratified the immunity agreement.

Shares of AT&T climbed 4.4 percent or 90 cents to $21.40, adding to the previous day's gain of 6 percent.

AMD reported a net loss of $140 million for the quarter ended June 29, on sales of $645 million.

"People just love e-mail, and it really bothers them that spam is ruining such a good thing," said Deborah Fallows, the Pew researcher who wrote the report.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI climbed 179.97 points, or 2.09 percent, to 8,781.35, ending at its highest level since mid-January.

And in the Muslim world, Osama bin Laden is becoming more of a hero, not less of one.

We firmly believe we have an absolute right to use the common word 'spike' as the name of our network."

In a major setback to consumers, a federal judge granted the government's request Thursday to shut down a company that helps customers buy cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.

Anyone with information on Lopez can call O'Shea at 561-688-4068 or Crime Stoppers at 800-458-8477.

The panels picture the towers standing tall and outline their history, including their construction, the 1993 bombing and their ultimate destruction on Sept. 11, 2001.

Though the legal age for marriage in Romania is 18, the country generally tolerates the Gypsy tradition of arranged child weddings.

The Institute for Supply Management's index of nonmanufacturing activity rose unexpectedly in April, reports said.

The two rugged counties got 2 to 3 inches of rain between midnight and noon.

Although obesity can increase the risk of health problems, skeptics argue, so do smoking and high cholesterol.

Intel plans to present a paper on its findings today at a conference in Japan.

Foreigners board helicopters for evacuation from the European Union compound in Monrovia, Liberia, on Monday.

A statement released by DEI said Green would begin driving the car on an interim basis beginning next week in the Winston Open at Lowe's Motor Speedway.

Coupling, an American version of a hit British comedy, will get the valuable Thursday 9:30 p.m. time slot.

It was the third time in four years that wildfires forced the park to close.

Disney has repeatedly said the "safety and enjoyment" of its guests were the reasons the company wanted the no-fly zones, and wants them maintained.

Sources who knew of the bidding said last week that cable TV company Comcast Corp. was also looking at VUE.

The caretaker, identified by church officials as Jorge Manzon, was believed to be among the nine missing - some of them children.

On Wednesday, the total of National Guard and Reserve members called to active duty worldwide stood at 154,603.

The shares fell 72 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $18.34 Monday on the New York Stock Exchange.

But at age 15, she'd reached 260 pounds and a difficult decision: It was time to try surgery.

"Of course I want to win again, but I think is worse when you never won before because you are very anxious," he says.

E Ink is one of several groups trying to develop electronic "paper" for e-newspapers and e-books, and other uses - even clothing with computer screens sewn into it.

The fawn, named after Dr Duane Kraemer, one of the researchers, was born a few months ago.

Canadian researchers ordered the slaughter of more than 2,000 cows and conducted an extensive investigation but were not able to find evidence of any other infected animals.

But MTA officials appropriated the money to the 2003 and 2004 budgets without notifying riders or even the MTA board members considering the 50-cent hike, Hevesi found.

The measures could be taken up by the full Senate as early as Friday.

Toronto yesterday had 64 probable cases of SARS and nine suspect cases.

Shares of Pleasanton-based PeopleSoft rose 4 cents, to $16.96, in Monday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Broomhead, 34, was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment.

In terms of a free trade area, we've got a long, long way to go and the Pakistanis understand that.

Whoever is selected will report directly to Robert Liscouski, the assistant secretary of homeland security for infrastructure protection.

But Mr Robinson urged the voters to be "kind and sensitive and gentle" to the believers who "will not understand what you've done here today".

The technology-loaded Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC added 0.35 of a point, or 0.02 percent, to 1,662.

"This will be a marathon, not a sprint," said Jimmy D. Staton, a senior vice president with the utility.

"I am listening to the same things I listened to 17 years ago," Hollings said.

Heatley was sixth in the league in goals last season with 41 and ninth in points with 89.

The cables can be engorged with far more power, and it can be turned on and off like a water spigot, making billing more accurate, Taub said.

Law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press that Limbaugh was being investigated by the Palm Beach County state attorney's office.

One of the most well studied facets of temperament is how people respond to novelty.

July 18: Hurlbert files a single count of felony sexual assault against Bryant.

Mr Koizumi rebuked Mr Konoike, saying his remarks were "inappropriate".

The CBO analysis of the Senate package said an amendment sponsored by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., accounted for $40 billion of the total cost.

White, who had suffered kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center around 9:30 a.m., said manager Ned Shankman.

In July, EMC agreed to acquire Legato Systems (Nasdaq: LGTO) for about $1.2 billion.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined 6.11, or 0.6 per cent, to 1003.27, having shed 19.67 in the previous session.

The Nasdaq fell about 1.3% for the month, snapping a seven-month winning streak.

Shares of Cellegy were down $2.04, or 39%, to $3.18 in midday trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Fifty-seven percent were Hispanic, 10% were Asian, 7% were Black, 16% were Caucasian, and 10% were of other ethnicity.

This is a process and there will be other opportunities for people to participate in the rebuilding of Iraq." he told reporters.

Matthew Lovett, 18, who just graduated from Collingswood High School, was among those arrested.

About 10 percent of high school and 16 percent of elementary students must be proficient at math.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has also initiated an informal probe of Coke.

That compares with earnings of $446 million, or 7 cents per share, on revenue of $6.3 billion in the same period a year ago.

President Bush and top administration officials cited the threat from Iraq's banned weapons programs as the main justification for going to war.

Ebert asked Franklin, pointing to a color photo of Linda Franklin on a projection screen.

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was up 8.79 points, or 0.96 percent, at 929.06.

Republican officials said the advertising buy was proof that Democrats are panicking that they were losing their stature on Medicare.

Moore was expected to be discharged from the hospital Thursday or Friday, according to Jackie Green, a spokeswoman for the show's press agent.

The merged company will keep the Interwoven name and be headquartered in Sunnyvale.

Apple has also built a new VPN (define) server into Panther Server that supports Mac OS X, Windows or UNIX clients using PPTP and L2TP tunneling protocols.

Bush's aides describe Omaha as the most crucial stop, since Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) has become their top lobbying target on the tax cut package.

The legal ruling follows three days of intense speculation Hewlett-Packard Co. may be bidding for the company.

He had performed outside Cuba on several occasions, including shows in the US last year and in Brazil, South Africa and several European countries.

Hoffa, 62, vanished the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in Oakland County, about 25 miles north of Detroit.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX fell 3 points, or 0.30 percent, to 995.

The European Commission, the EU's antitrust enforcer, is expected to issue its decision next spring — unless a settlement is reached.

Since Perkins' arrival at UConn in 1990 from Maryland, UConn has fielded six national championship teams in three sports - men's and women's basketball and men's soccer.

"So Sebastian did his best to convincingly confess to a crime that he didn't commit in order to survive," she told jurors.

Twenty percent of Latino students and 23 percent of black students performed at proficient or higher.

But the signal is designed to make it more difficult for consumers to then transfer those copies to the Internet and make them available to potentially millions of others.

Although Prempro pills were used in the study, the researchers said they had no evidence that other brands were safer.

Novell is acquiring SuSe Linux in a $210 million cash deal subject to regulatory approval.

Almihdhar and Alhazmi were aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon.

Andy Savage, who is representing Renee Britt, asked the jurors to "give her a fair shake.

Another soldier died and three were wounded when their vehicle hit a land mine or a piece of unexploded ordnance in Baghdad, a military statement said Tuesday.

Dennehy's family reported him missing June 19, seven days after he was last seen on campus.

The WWF also thinks a further 13,000 animals are being caught every year around the Straits of Gibraltar and in nearby areas.

He had also said an interest rate cut by the European Central Bank, which meets Thursday, would be welcome.

Most of that - $51 billion - was for American troops in Iraq, while another $10 billion was for U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

Two of his cousins members of the Jordanian royal family have been mentioned as possible contenders to the throne.

He is charged in three bombings in Atlanta including a blast at the 1996 Olympics and one in Alabama.

A race observer sits in the passenger seat of the vehicle following the contestant car to record broken rules and track of the car's time.

But the justices ruled that the police supervisor who repeatedly questioned Martinez did not violate his Fifth Amendment rights in doing so.

The men were remanded in custody and are due to appear again before court on July 8.

The single currency dropped to 136.94 yen compared with its late U.S. level of 137.64.

A second Indonesian, Imam Samudra, the so-called "field commander" of the bombings, was sentenced to death last month.

Bombardier and Embraer will each deliver 85 jets by September 2006, U.S. Airways said in a release.

Leung, who faces a maximum of 50 years in prison if convicted, also told the judge that she understood her constitutional rights.

"No matter who becomes the sponsor for stock-car racing's top series, NASCAR will need an all-star event," Wheeler said in a statement.

"Californians understand that we have some real problems in the state and they want common-sense solutions, and recall isnt one of them," Davis adviser Roger Salazar said.

The news comes after Drax's American owner, AES Corp. AES.N , last week walked away from the plant after banks and bondholders refused to accept its restructuring offer.

Mizuho's (JP:8411: news, chart, profile) shares closed up 3,500 yen, or 4.8 percent, to 76,800 yen.

A 64 year-old paedophile described by police as the "most prolific Internet groomer ever caught" has been jailed for five years.

Sylvan Shalom, the Israeli Foreign Minister, said there was a possibility that Mr Bush “will come to this area”.

"Now, the other guy, he's ashamed of his party," Street said to crowd laughter.

Some 26.5 million shares changed hands, more than three times the daily average over 10 days of 6.8 million.

He also said it is too early to know whether a second wave might occur later in the winter.

Her birthday, 21 April, was declared a public holiday and she attended a reception and a ball.

"Right from the beginning, we didn't want to see anyone take a cut in pay.

The transition is slated to begin no later than June 7, Dayton said.

Miodrag Zivkovic, of the Liberal Alliance of Montenegro, won 31 percent of the vote while the independent Dragan Hajdukovic got four percent.

The greenback scored beefy gains against the euro, yen and Swiss franc despite weaker-than-expected September U.S. retail sales figures.

The Phillies were upset that Counsell had stolen second in the sixth inning with Arizona leading 7-1.

On July 10, a team of 32 Singaporean police officers was sent to Baghdad.

Shares of the company, the second-largest U.S. coal producer behind Peabody Energy Corp. BTU.N , were up more than 3 percent in afternoon trade.

He said his hatred for such people grew from these discussions and had helped convince him violence was the answer.

Under the plan being announced Wednesday in Washington, GM will provide Dow manufacturing plants with trucks containing fuel cell conversion equipment.

The American Film Institute recently named her the top female screen legend.

That story also named archbishops Harry J. Flynn, of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Edwin F. O'Brien, of the Military Services, as possible candidates.

A demolitions expert for JI, al-Ghozi was arrested in Manila in January 2002.

But Abraham said changes in air-pollution rules would be up to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Rumours swirled among market participants that Japan may have intervened overnight when the yen appreciated to 116 per dollar.

Ontario Premier Ernie Eves appointed a judge on Tuesday to hold an independent investigation into how the province has handled SARS.

"There is no need for one deadline for all to create the ASEAN Economic Community," Thaksin said.

"Biotech products, if anything, may be safer than conventional products because of all the testing," Fraley said.

Boeing's board is also expected to decide at its December meeting whether to offer the airplane for sale to airlines.

The announcement was made during the recording of a Christmas concert attended by top Vatican cardinals, bishops, and many elite from Italian society, witnesses said.

They face charges of robbery and criminal impersonation of a police officer.

He also said the academy will get its own internal report next week detailing how serious the problem remains.

Nissan North America announced yesterday that it will spend $250 million to expand its Smyrna assembly plant to bring production of the Pathfinder sport utility vehicle to Tennessee.

"Kahuku Ranch has world - class qualities - tremendous resources, tremendous beauty and tremendous value to global biodiversity."

Southwest said it had already inspected its fleet of 385 aircraft and found no additional suspicious items.

The additional contribution brings total U.S. food aid to North Korea this year to 100,000 tonnes.

"It ends tonight," a grim Keanu Reeves announces, in the trailer for The Matrix Revolutions.

His daughter, Nina Axelrod, told The Associated Press that he died in his sleep, apparently of heart failure.

Media moguls jostled for position as the deadline for bids for Vivendi Universal's U.S. entertainment empire neared on Monday in an auction of some of Hollywood's best-known assets.

Stewart said she intends to declare her innocence and proceed to trial if she is indicted, her lawyer said in a statement.

"Three Weeks in October" goes on sale Monday, nearly a year after the Washington, D.C.-area sniper shootings started.

Klitschko said: "I'm excited to box in Los Angeles first and then against Lennox Lewis.

The SIA says the DRAM market is expected to grow 2.9 percent to $15.7 billion in 2003 and 43 percent to $22.5 billion in 2004.

He said the Senate has confirmed 124 judicial nominees since Bush took office and "I don't see much broken."

The 60-year-old millionaire hugged his attorneys, saying: "Thank you so much."

The report cites the marriage of the alleged operational commander of the Bali bombings, Mukhlas, to Farida, a "highly cosmopolitan and well-educated young woman".

This deterioration of security compounds when nearly all computers rely on a single operating system subject to the same vulnerabilities the world over," Geer added.

Last month, 62 Spanish peacekeepers died when their plane crashed in Turkey as they were returning home.

Its legal representatives began meeting with plaintiffs' attorneys last week to discuss a settlement.

Quattrone is accused of obstructing justice by helping to encourage co-workers in an e-mail to destroy files on lucrative investment banking deals.

Of 456 women who had experienced stress, 24 (5.3%) had developed breast cancer.

Werdegar also said Intel's servers were not harmed by the computer messages and the thousands of recipients were able to request that the e-mails stop, which Hamidi honored.

If the subsidies are not repealed, the European Union is threatening trade sanctions against the United States.

If the extra equity for the project cannot be found, AustMag directors will have to abandon the project in order to avoid trading while the company is insolvent.

Microsoft has been awarded a patent for a feature in instant messaging that alerts a user when the person they are communicating with is inputting a message.

Leon Williams' body was found inside his third-floor apartment at 196 Bay St., in Tompkinsville.

Prosecutors said the investment was a breach of duty and resulted in the pension fund immediately losing $1 million.

Taiwan reported 18 additional cases giving it a total of 149 cases and 13 deaths.

Nonetheless, the economy "has yet to exhibit sustainable growth."

Santa Clara-based Intel had sought the injunction, arguing that Hamidi was trespassing on its computer servers just as though he were intruding on private property.

Microsoft said Friday that it is halting development of future Macintosh versions of its Internet Explorer browser, citing competition from Apple Computer's Safari browser.

"The only thing that I know for certain is that these are bad people," Bush told a joint news conference with Blair.

New cases of SARS might continue to appear, the authors write ominously, "until the stratospheric supply of the causative agent becomes exhausted."

Such a letter indicates the government intends to pursue an indictment and believes it has substantial evidence to support an indictment, the company said.

Furthermore, with the target fed funds rate at 1 percent, "substantial further conventional easings could be implemented if the FOMC judged such policy actions warranted."

The Communicator can also consolidate e-mail from multiple screen names and other POP and IMAP accounts into a single application.

It would remove $55 billion in tax subsidies for exporters, which are illegal under international trade law, in exchange for new tax breaks.

"This is a cloud hanging over their credibility, their word," said Hagel.

He transferred another 10 million shares to a charitable trust and these shares were also liquidated.

The player's eyes were bloodshot and a blood-alcohol test produced a reading of 0.18 - well above Tennessee's level of presumed intoxication of 0.10, the report said.

"Although the preconditions for recovery remain in place, the prospect for external demand for UK output is weaker than previously expected."

The outbreak was especially intense in Colorado, where within the past month more than 6,300 people have been infected and at least six have died.

But Virgin wants to operate Concorde on routes to New York, Barbados and Dubai.

The ministers also intend to initiate plans for a national centre for disease control.

Taiwan ranked No. 3 in the world behind China and Hong Kong for SARS deaths and cases.

She noted some fast-food chains, including McDonald's, already display calorie information in their stores or on their Web sites.

He tried to fight off officers and was taken to a hospital after a police dog bit him but was later released.

His wife, who he married in a first ever space wedding by a space phone during his lengthy mission, waited in Moscow.

The announcement, which economists said was not a surprise, may be bittersweet for the millions of Americans without jobs.

Not only had Bashir given his blessing but he had asked "that we hit the target well", Mr Bafana said.

Metropolitan Ambulance spokesman James Howe said five people were taken to hospital and three were treated at the scene after yesterday's incident.

Farmland Foods President George Richter said, "With Smithfield's support and leadership, Farmland Foods will succeed and continue to sustain the Midwestern communities which depend on it."

The panel ordered the Commerce Department to issue revised figures for the duties within 60 days.

Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff was sentenced to 37 months in prison for illegally possessing a handgun as a convicted felon at a firing range in Maryland.

A beauty contest to be held in Italy next week may be the first for pixel-perfect pin-ups.

Protesters had been calling for an end to the country's hard-line establishment and for supreme leader Khamenei's death.

A number of conflicting standards and media formats exist today making the digital home complex to set-up and manage.

Asked if the delegates could leave on Friday, police intelligence chief in Aceh, Surya Dharma, told reporters they could not because they did not have proper permission.

Some 175 million shares traded on the Big Board, a 7 percent increase from the same time a week ago.

The government defeated the rebel motion by 297 votes to 117 in the 659-seat House of Commons.

Peter Smith, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, leads the $325 million Phoenix mission.

The new Army Commander is the Masaka Armoured Brigade commanding officer, Brigadier Aronda Nyakairima who is now promoted to major general.

The final will be at the new Home Depot Center in Carson on Oct. 12.

In morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Coca-Cola shares were down 34 cents at $43.67.

The study found that only about one-third of parents of sexually experienced 14-year-olds knew their children were having sex.

WorldCom's financial troubles came to light last year and the company subsequently filed for bankruptcy in July, 2002.

Mr. Bush said he was taking the action in response to Hamas's claim of responsibility for the bus bombing in Israel on Tuesday that killed 20 people.

Had the creditors turned down the bailout plan, LG Group might have been forced to close down its credit card business.

On Monday, the Dow declined 5.25, or 0.1 percent, at 8,983.80, having shed 2.3 percent last week.

The vulnerability affects NT 4.0, NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

He found that men who had ejaculated more than five times a week in their 20s were a third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life.

"I know of no pressure," said Mr. Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy.

"Instead of pursuing the most imminent and real threats to our future -- terrorism -- this Bush administration chose to settle old scores," he said.

Paul Durousseau, 30, was charged Tuesday with murder in five slayings between December and February, and also is suspected of a 1997 killing in the state of Georgia.

Rep. Peter Deutsch, D-Fla., criticized the FDA's efforts in Florida.

The number of hostnames using BSD is nearing four million, while the number of active sites is nearly two million, Netcraft said.

The latest arrests come as police continue to question a suspected "potential suicide bomber" detained in the south western town of Gloucester last Thursday.

Dealers said the dollar also drew some downside support as Japanese investors are expected to keep snapping up foreign bonds amid the yen's rise against the dollar.

Dotson admitted to FBI agents that he shot Dennehy in the head "because Patrick had tried to shoot him," according to an arrest warrant released Tuesday.

The civilian unemployment rate improved marginally last month - sliding down to 6.1 percent - as companies slashed payrolls by 93,000.

Vanderpool said the gunmen were retaliating because the other group had taken the smugglers' human cargo earlier.

The Nasdaq composite index rose 13.70, or 0.8 per cent, to 1700.34.

The proposal likely would result in the election of 22 Republicans and 10 Democrats to Congress, instead of the state's current 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans, officials say.

"After careful analysis, WHO has concluded that the risk to travelers to Beijing is now minimal," Omi said today at a news conference in Beijing.

If requested by outside authorities, however, the FCC will provide data from system audit logs to support external investigations of improper Internet use.

A call to Rev. Christopher Coyne, the spokesman for the archdiocese, was not immediately returned.

"This fire is going to have a great potential to get into those areas," Oltrogge said.

Freddie Mac shares were down more than 16 per cent at $50.18 at midday yesterday.

Iran has until the end of the month to satisfy the agency it has no plans for nuclear weapons.

At a hearing before U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, she was released without bail until her next court appearance June 19.

Her father, Florin Cioaba, the king of Transylvania's Gypsies, had her brought back and she was married against her will.

It says the intervention force will confiscate weapons, reform the police, strengthen the courts and prison system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry.

Claire had advanced to the third round of the 76th annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.

The Fed afterglow lingered well into Wednesday and enhanced demand for the second installment of a massive U.S. Treasury refunding -- $18 billion in five-year notes.

Citigroup Inc. C.N , the world's largest financial services company, on Wednesday promoted Marjorie Magner to chairman and chief executive of its global consumer group.

The festival kicked off yesterday one day after the Competition Commission delivered its final verdict to the Government on the proposed £4.1 billion merger.

Aileen Boyle, a Simon & Schuster spokeswoman, declined to comment on any potential legal action.

"Germany is on the right path," Mr. Schrder said, specifying his government's announced structural reform plan, known as Agenda 2010, and cuts in taxes.

However, the Nasdaq composite index managed to eke out a gain of 4.64 points at 1,735.34.

Mr. Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, met here today with Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi.

"I feel confident saying that HP is no longer an integration story," Fiorina said.

Making jokes about a mistake like that, that's not something good people do.

House Democrats renewed their push Wednesday for a deeper investigation into the handling of intelligence on Iraq's weapons program.

The woman was hospitalized June 15, Kansas health officials said.

The two filed a lawsuit in 1998, alleging IBM's staff doctors never warned them that their symptoms could reflect chemical poisoning.

The lawyer representing Torch Concepts, Rich Marsden did not respond to repeated phone calls.

As of Wednesday, there were 65 probable SARS cases in the Toronto region.

The government said FirstEnergy Nuclear determined that a contractor had established an unprotected high-speed computer connection to its corporate network that allowed the "Slammer" infection to spread internally.

One witness told Anatolian he saw the plane on fire while it was still in the air.

OS ANGELES, Oct. 24 Will Walt Disney Concert Hall, the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, bring urban vitality to the city's uninviting downtown area?

Let me just say this: the evidence that we have of weapons of mass destruction was evidence drawn up and accepted by the joint intelligence community.

The American Chamber of Commerce and InvestHK, which oversees investment into the territory, are talking to other bands to ask them to step in.

The consensus among Wall Street analysts was for a loss of 28 cents a share.

We are currently trying to understand the scope and details of the investigation. . . .

The stalemate, over less than 1 percent of the budget, is more about politics than policy.

Abbas told the summit he would end the "armed intefadeh," renounced "terrorism against the Israelis wherever they might be" and alluded to the disarming of militants.

While a critical success, Luhrmann's opulent production of the Puccini opera will end with losses of about $US6 million ($A9.2 million).

Mr. Rollins made $721,154 in salary and $243,389 in bonuses in the prior fiscal year.

The single currency rose as far as 135.13 yen , matching a record high hit shortly after the euro's launch in January 1999.

Sunnis make up 77 percent of Pakistan's population, Shiites 20 percent.

Ridge said no actual explosives or other harmful substances will be used.

The report that cost Mr Forlong his career at Sky News was screened on 29 March.

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR jumped 20/32, taking its yield to 4.14 percent from 4.18 percent.

"The momentum in the marketplace continues to shift in our direction," he said of his company, formerly named Caldera Systems.

That means Democrats can block any Supreme Court nominee through a filibuster if they can get 40 of their members to agree.

When a mechanic found 33 pounds of marijuana in a secret compartment, Rodriguez agreed they should notify police, who then arrested him.

Microsoft has proposed a work-around that consumers and enterprises should implement until a new patch is released.

Take-Two also defended its right to create a "realistic" game for an adult audience.

If the deal is approved, EMC will operate Legato as a software division of EMC headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.

The suspects are expected to turn themselves in to Pennsylvania authorities within the next few days.

But late Thursday night, the campaign issued a statement saying there would be no news conference and no big announcement.

The provision requires the secretary of Health and Human Services (news - web sites) to certify that the importations can be done safely and will be cost-effective.

Ms Pike also said it was not unusual for hospitals to go into deficit, but the Government would ensure they remained viable.

MAX Factor cosmetics heir and fugitive rapist Andrew Luster was captured today in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, authorities in the United States said.

There's also a flaw that results because IE does not implement an appropriate block on a file download dialog box.

This means Berlusconi will be safe from prosecution until he leaves elected office, scheduled for 2006.

Another $100-million in savings will come from management layoffs and pay cuts.

Adults, who were shy as toddlers, had stronger brain activity in a part of the brain associated with coyness.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is also considering a look into the issue.

The center's president, Joseph Torsella, was struck on the head but was able to walk to an ambulance.

Stanford (46-15) takes on South Carolina today at 11 a.m. in the first game of the College World Series.

In recent years, he served on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.

Cohen recessed the hearing until this afternoon and said he expected to issue his findings next week.

Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., declared, "The Congress of the United States has never -- ever -- outlawed a medical procedure.

Violence persisted, with a U.S. soldier killed early Saturday while guarding a bank in west Baghdad.

Aspen Technology's shares dropped 74 cents, or 23 percent, to close at $2.48 on the Nasdaq.

In addition, it offered the United States and Israel a way to work around Mr. Arafat.

He called on Prime Minister John Howard to establish a royal commission on child sex abuse.

Against the Canadian dollar, the greenback was trading nearly flat at C$1.3252 <CAD=> after the Bank of Canada kept key interest rates unchanged.

AAA spokesman Jerry Cheske said prices may have affected some plans, but cheap hotel deals mitigated the effect.

Nick Markakis, a left-hander from Young Harris Junior College in Georgia, went to the Orioles with the seventh pick.

He was the Ace of Diamonds in a pack of cards depicting Iraqi fugitives that has been issued to U.S. troops.

But the yen's gains were capped by wariness about Japanese intervention, with some traders reporting irregular bids that smack of intervention around 118 yen.

The Swedish central bank was also meeting on Wednesday and widely expected to announce a cut on Thursday.

Werdegar also said Intel's servers weren't harmed by the computer messages and the thousands of recipients were able to request that the E-mails stop, which Hamidi honored.

Ms. Strayhorn said she has hired a constitutional scholar to assist her staff.

Kansas City drafted outfielder Chris Lubanski, from Kennedy-Kenrick High School in Pennsylvania, with the fifth pick.

A smaller number, 8 per cent, looked for higher profits through price increases.

Hampton Township is just northeast of Bay City and about 100 miles from Bloomfield Township.

"We think that the United States of America should support the free speech of all groups," Mr. White said, objecting to Mr. Olson's recommendation.

Many conservatives have staunchly opposed condom programs, saying they send the wrong message and encourage and enable teens to have sex before marriage.

Terri Schiavo, 39, underwent the procedure at the Tampa Bay area hospice where she has been living for several years, said her father, Bob Schindler.

Police said they will conduct DNA tests to confirm the man's identity.

Penn Traffic filed for Chapter 11 reorganization at the end of May.

The jury verdict, reached Wednesday after less than four hours of deliberation, followed a 2 1/2 week trial, during which Waagner represented himself.

Actor Noah Wyle, who has played Dr. John Carter since the shows inception in 1994, extended his contract with the show through the 2004-2005 season.

Investigations by the Air Force inspector general and the Defense Department also are under way.

Earlier Thursday, PeopleSoft formally rejected the unsolicited bid from Oracle.

More than 60 suspected cases have been reported in the United States, none of them fatal.

The woman felt threatened and went to the magistrate's office, police said.

Goldman decided to increase its quarterly dividend to 25 cents a share from 12 cents, citing recent tax legislation as a primary factor behind the move.

Medicaid is the federal and state government health insurance program for the poor.

A New Castle County woman has become the first Delaware patient to contract the West Nile virus this year, the state's Department of Health reported.

The 19 face charges including racketeering, conspiracy, organized fraud, grand theft and illegal drug sales, all felonies carrying penalties of five to 30 years in prison.

Boeing shares fell 3.5 percent to close at $27.62 on the New York Stock Exchange, while Lockheed slipped 1.4 percent to $49.50.

Searches for survivors from several previous shipwrecks have often had to be abandoned for similar reasons, leaving the vessels and most of their passengers unaccounted for.

UAL attorney James Sprayregen told a court hearing yesterday that it would submit a fresh business plan, but gave no indication of when.

There were estimated to be between 400,000 and 750,000 Iraqis employed by state-owned enterprises, but most of the businesses were non- operative, he said.

Attackers detonated a second roadside bomb later Sunday as a U.S. convoy was traveling near Fallujah, killing an American soldier and wounding three others.

He and 13 others were arrested Monday after blocking traffic in support of striking university workers.

At 11 p.m., Henri was centered about 70 miles southwest of St. Petersburg and was becoming disorganized as it drifted south at about 3 mph, forecasters said.

Southwest said it recently exercised remaining options for the delivery of nine Boeing 737-700s next year.

After 18 months, Nissen found that Lipitor stopped plaque buildup in the patients' arteries.

My judgment is 95 percent of that information could be declassified, become uncensored so the American people would know," Mr. Shelby said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Following the ATP's notification by Hewitt's lawyers of pending action, it issued another statement that Hewitt has added to his suit.

"I´m very proud of the citizens of this state," Gov. John Baldacci said.

Dotson, 21, admitted to FBI agents that he shot Dennehy in the head "because Patrick had tried to shoot him," according to an arrest warrant released yesterday.

If this escalation continues as Rowling concludes the saga, there may be an epidemic of Hogwarts headaches in the years to come, he wrote.

The program, which downloads the pornographic material to the usurped computer only briefly to allow visitors to view it, is invisible to the computer's owner.

Toll, Australia's second-largest transport company, last week offered NZ75 a share for Tranz Rail.

On March 6, the board, most of them appointed by Gov. George Pataki, unanimously agreed to the hikes; they were implemented at the beginning of this month.

From that point until costs reached $5,300, the individual would pay 100 percent of the bill.

Two Kuwaitis and six Palestinians with Jordanian passports were among the suspects, the official said.

Mailblocks was founded five years after WebTV was acquired by Microsoft for $425 million.

The specific product that is the subject of the petition, 6000 series aluminium alloy rolled plate, is used for general-purpose engineering, tooling and die applications.

"We will keep fighting within the law...against this terrorist group and those who support it."

Only one third of high-speed trains within France were running, national rail company Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer said.

Instead of remains, the Ragusas will bury a vial of Michael's blood, which he had donated to a bone marrow center.

"But I do question the motives of a deskbound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech."

But it now has 600 fewer stores - about 1,500 in all - and a $2 billion loan to compete against bigger merchants.

Two of the six people who testified before Congress Wednesday were engaged in a bitter dispute about airing Yankees games.

Tampering with medicine has been so lucrative that many of those arrested lived in million-dollar homes.

The new link between Mohammed and Pearl was first reported in Tuesday's editions of The Wall Street Journal.

The decades-long conflict has killed more than 10,000 people in the resource-rich province, most of them civilians.

In Somalia, only 26% of adolescent females (aged 10-19) have heard of Aids and just 1% know how to protect themselves.

"Of course the FBI agent who ran him down received nothing," Mr. Connolly said.

"This child was literally neglected to death," Armstrong County District Attorney Scott Andreassi said.

The U.S.-backed Governing Council appointed a cabinet of 25 ministers, most of them little-known, saying they represented the will of Iraq.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman accused President Bush on Wednesday of presiding over a new economy with old thinking, and for failing to reward innovation in the workplace.

Police said three of them had also been detained last week and held for two days as suspects over bomb attacks in Jakarta and the North Sumatran city of Medan.

He said they should "not really be patrolling or be around those areas when they ... are conducting their prayers."

The search feature works with around 120,000 titles from 190 publishers, which translates into some 33 million pages of searchable text.

The dollar rose 0.6 percent to 109.54 yen<JPY=> and climbed more than 1 percent to 1.3315 Swiss francs<CHF=>.

Late trading: Placing a buy order for a mutual fund after 4 p.m. ET and getting it at that day's closing net asset value.

"Fighting continued until midnight," western rebel commander Ousmane Coulibaly told Reuters by satellite phone on Sunday.

Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella, bench coach John McLaren and right fielder Aubrey Huff were ejected for arguing after Huff was called out on strikes to end the ninth.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index advanced 5.37, or 0.5 percent, to 1,020.18.

A coalition of campaign groups, including the militant national students body, is backing the protests, which the NLC called in defiance of a court order banning them.

The Seattle band's groundbreaking grunge anthem is No. 1 on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years."

Drinking more coffee may reduce the risk of developing the most common form of diabetes, a study has found.

In Britain, temperatures threatened to top the 37.1 C (98.8 F) all-time high.

A car and a house were hit in the latest shootings, said Chief Deputy Steve Martin of the Franklin County sheriff's office.

In a letter sent to The Times and read to the Associated Press after his resignation, Blair blamed "personal issues" and apologized for his "lapse of journalistic integrity."

"September and third quarter data confirm that demand in the global semiconductor market is rising briskly," said George Scalise, president of the SIA.

No pill is ever expected to replace earplugs and other mechanical ear protection.

Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, has expanded its antidiscrimination policy to protect gay and lesbian employees, company officials said Tuesday.

In after-hours trading, H-P shares rose 62 cents to $22.83 after adding 56 cents in the regular session.

Lower state courts and federal courts are still hearing recall several recall cases, one of which a Los Angeles court dismissed on Friday.

To reach John A. Dvorak, who covers Kansas, call (816) 234-7743 or send e-mail to jdvorak@kctar.com.

He will be paid $395,000 per year, up from Atkinson's current salary of $361,400.

He admits he occasionally lived the life of a playboy: smoking pot, chasing women and living fast and loose.

The case puts the Supreme Court back into the debate over the separation of church and state.

In 2001, the number of death row inmates nationally fell for the first time in a generation.

Metro, bus and local rail services in France's four largest towns -- Paris, Lyon, Lille and Marseille -- were severely disrupted, Europe 1 radio reported.

Prosecutors contended that Mr. Durst had plotted the murder to assume Mr. Black's identity.

"The lives of American warfighters can be placed at direct risk through illegal transfer of military components," said Defense Department Inspector General Joseph Schmitz.

In the undergraduate case, Rehnquist said the use of race was not "narrowly tailored" to achieve the university's asserted interest in diversity.

Thirty-eight percent of patients surveyed in five urban clinics believed the myth that cancer spreads when exposed to air during surgery, according to a poll to be published Tuesday.

For the first quarter, HP pulled in $2.94 billion and captured 27.9 percent of the market.

Still, Mauresmo has the confidence of having beaten Serena for the first time and also is buoyed by Venus Williams' upset loss Sunday to Vera Zvonareva.

The latest attack came just two days after three suicide bombers drove a truck loaded with explosives into a government office complex in northern Chechnya, killing 59 people.

"I reliably receive reminders when my dog needs a vaccination," writes Steinberg, of Johns Hopkins University.

In early afternoon trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 18.42, or 0.2 percent, at 8,569.94.

The legislation opens the way for police and other personnel to be deployed to the Solomons and to carry out law enforcement functions.

Falls in euro/yen also pushed down the dollar against the yen, with the pair at 118.32 yen compared with Friday's late New York level of 118.51.

Wells Fargo and Quicken Loans couldn't be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon.

The FBI is trying to determine when White House officials and members of the vice president's staff first focused on Wilson and learned about his wife's employment at the CIA.

Mr Neil said that according to the source, the report will say its inspectors have not even unearthed "minute amounts of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons material".

Marjorie Scardino, the chief executive, said: "We have one headline.

She was physically ill several times on the day he died, she said.

No legislative action is final without concurrence of the House, and it appeared the measure faced a tougher road there.

This is a case about a woman who for 20 years dedicated her life to this country," said Janet Levine.

SP2 is basically about security enhancements to Windows, such as the improved Internet Connection Firewall (ICF).

"In Iraq," Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the intelligence committee, said on CNN's "Late Edition" Sunday, "we're now fighting an anti-guerrilla ... effort."

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose as high as 4.66 percent Aug. 14 from 3.07 percent in June.

The farmers market reopened Saturday; at least 11 people remained hospitalized, three in critical condition.

A landslide in central Chungchong province derailed a Seoul-bound train and 28 passengers were injured, television said.

A Trillian representative did not return an e-mail requesting comment.

State health officials have reported 18 suspected cases in Wisconsin, 10 in Indiana and five in Illinois.

No charges have been filed in the deaths of the other victims; Lupas said authorities were making progress in the case.

The head of the panel -- Tillie Fowler, a former US representative from Florida -- told present and past commanders that cadets don't trust them.

They will help draft a plan to attack obesity that Kraft will implement over three to four years.

"It's unfortunate that Senator Clinton would seek to politicize such a qualified nominee as Governor Leavitt," said Taylor Gross, a White House spokesman.

The girl turned up two days later at a convenience store several cities away, shaken but safe, and helped lead police to her alleged abductor.

Ride, astronauts Story Musgrave, Robert "Hoot" Gibson and Daniel Brandenstein will enter the hall of fame together.

But that amount would probably be impossible to pass in the Senate, where Republican moderates have refused to go above $350 billion.

They varied greatly, ranging from one per cent or two per cent to 36 per cent for a speciality US brand called American Spirit.

The board is investigating whether a shortage of funds in the shuttle program compromised safety.

The island nation reported 65 new cases on May 22, a one day record, and 55 new cases on May 23, making Taiwan's epidemic the fastest-growing in the world.

A year earlier, it posted a profit of $102 million, or 13 cents a share.

British-born astronaut Michael Foale is about to fly into space to take up his post as commander of the International Space Station.

In the clash with police, Lt. Mothana Ali said about 1,000 demonstrators had gone to the station demanding jobs.

Clark said the program would cost about $100 million a year and would be part of the Department of Homeland Security.

Ximian brings Novell unparalleled expertise, strengthening our ability to work with [our] customers and leverage open source initiatives more constructively."

Video replays suggested the ball had hit the ground before making contact with Sangakkara's foot.

The GPO previously closed bookstores in San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Birmingham, Cleveland, and Columbus.

Peterson is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife and unborn son.

A second victim, Michael Walker, 23, was struck in the torso, the bullet perforating his lung.

In late morning trading, the Dow was up 13.88, or 0.2 percent, at 9,002.93, having shed 2.3 percent last week.

Ryland Group (nyse: RYL - news - people), a homebuilder and mortgage-finance company, sank $9.65, or 11.6 percent, to $73.40.

Corixa shares rose 54 cents to $7.74 yesterday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

PeopleSoft's board now has 10 business days to evaluate the Oracle offer and make a recommendation to its shareholders.

They named the man charged as Noureddinne Mouleff, a 36-year-old of North African origin who was arrested in the southern coastal town of Eastbourne last week.

Fatalities in rollover crashes accounted for 82 percent of the increase in 2002, NHTSA said.

His next play, "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" a satire on Hollywood, lasted more than a year on Broadway.

"I am unaware of any genuine entries concerning British servicemen in the police records," said a spokesman for the British High Commission in Nairobi yesterday.

Amrozi said Jews and the US and its allies had evil plans to colonise countries like Indonesia.

It is so far out in international water that the finder Odyssey Marine Exploration, of Tampa, Fla., does not have to share the wealth with any governments.

Law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press that Limbaugh was being investigated by the Palm Beach County, Fla., state attorney's office.

"Of course, I want to win again, but I think it's worse when you have never won because you get anxious.

CS's other main division, Financial Services, made a 666 million franc net profit, six percent below the prior quarter.

The answer, the group said, would be to "create a format that can be used by all devices but can accommodate other formats."

Committee approval, expected today, would set the stage for debate on the Senate floor beginning Monday.

Recall proponents claim to have turned in more than 1.6 million signatures.

Kelly said Mr Rumsfeld last month made the unsolicited suggestion that this year's honour should go to all men and women who wear the US uniform.

Carlton Dotson, a teammate who lives in Hurlock, Md., said he talked to police Friday but was instructed not to talk about the case.

PowderJect is roughly 20 percent owned by CEO Drayson, a high-profile UK businessman, and his family.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said the push for higher standards and accountability "is showing results."

The husband's family says he has since passed two lie detector tests.

However, disability declined by more than 10 percent for those 60 to 69, the study said.

"Admiral Black has provided spiritual guidance to thousands of service men and women during his 25 years of service," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said yesterday .

On Monday, Christian Ganczarski was apprehended at the airport and was to appear before an anti-terrorism judge soon, the officials said.

The Standard Edition is $15,000 per processor or $300 per named user.

Ottawa police reported 23 cases of looting, along with two deaths possibly attributed to the outage - a pedestrian hit by a car and a fire victim.

The teen was in critical condition with life-threatening wounds, police said in a news release.

United already has paid the city $34 million in penalties for missing the first round of employment targets.

Wild rock legend Ozzy Osbourne was in intensive care today as he continued his “steady” recovery from a quad bike accident.

Analysts surveyed by Reuters Research expected earnings of 13 cents a share on revenue of $6.7 billion, on average.

He plans to visit an AIDS clinic in Uganda and meet with infected mothers in Nigeria.

O'Brien was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident, a felony.

Colorado Attorney-General Ken Salazar later said his office has also filed suit against Invesco, charging it with violations of the state's consumer protection act.

Preventing stronger gains, News Corp <NCP.AX> fell 1.3 percent to A$12.43 and Brambles <BIL.AX> dropped 1.9 percent to A$4.75 after a weak performance overnight.

Police said her two small children were alone in the apartment for up to two days.

All five were charged with robbery and criminal impersonation of a police officer.

Long lines formed outside gas stations and people rushed to get money from cash machines Sunday as Israelis prepared to weather a strike that threatened to paralyze the country.

But he confessed: "There's total fear to start with because you are completely at the mercy of the winds."

Siebel, whose fortunes soared with the tech boom, has cut nearly one-third of its workforce since the end of 2001.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority was given two weeks to restore the $1.50 fare and the old commuter railroad rates, York declared.

Microsoft this week released a critical update to fix a bug with its newly released Office 2003 suite.

About 22% of twentysomethings are obese, which is roughly 30 pounds over a healthy weight.

"She was crying and scared,' said Isa Yasin, the owner of the store.

The same flood that blocked the airport road also swamped a Federal Express depot.

He wants to kill him, but then I suppose I'd be that angry too if somebody tried to kill my old man," he said.

Sovereign, based in Philadelphia, expects to close the acquisition in the first quarter of 2004.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> jumped 26 points, or 1.78 percent, to 1,516.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC ended off 8.15 points, or 0.49 percent, at 1,644.03.

The high profile two-week campaign – which started on September 28 – was designed to show a strong police presence around London.

Tom Hamilton said his daughter was conscious and alert and in stable condition after the attack Friday morning.

All of those governments have said their support will not waver, though public sentiment is rising against it.

U.N. inspectors found traces of highly enriched, weapons-grade uranium at an Iranian nuclear facility, a report by the U.N. nuclear agency says.

Since being drafted into service in 1971, it has racked up a record 45 accidents, with 393 deaths.

All along, we were basing our decisions on the best information that we had at the time," she said.

The Calgary woman, who is in her twenties, donated blood on Aug. 7.

He said Qualcomm has enjoyed many years of selling CDMA chips without much competition.

It passed only after Republicans won the support of two wavering senators, Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Republican George Voinovich of Ohio.

The jump in tobacco shares was led by New York-based Altria, whose shares rose almost 10 percent to $38.28.

Veritas will offer its File System, Volume Manager and Cluster Server software products on SUSE Enterprise Server in the first quarter next year.

Washington, however, said more was needed to prevent complaints being filed in the first place.

Southwest's net income amounted to $246 million, or 30 cents per share.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index ended up 1.03 points, or 0.10 percent, at 998.51, ending at its highest since late June 2002.

Microsoft has released separate patches for client and administrative versions of Office 2003.

The Nasdaq Composite increased by 40.09 points, or 2.5 per cent, to 1666.58.

The nine largest airlines had $75.4 billion in revenue last year.

Three Southern politicians who risked their political careers by fighting against bigotry and intolerance were honored Monday with John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Awards for 2003.

The effort is the Bush administration's latest effort to expand the role of religious organizations in government services.

It also said it expects a civil complaint by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC lost 2 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,649.

A top aide to state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was charged Wednesday with raping an unidentified, 22-year-old female state Assembly employee.

Officials say Peeler and Jones were never legally married but had a common-law marriage.

He made the same decree in June 2002, but that measure was limited to the southern city of Arequipa amid fatal protests against the privatization of two power firms.

"We have found the smoking gun," investigating board member Scott Hubbard said.

The Washington Times first reported yesterday that Army Capt. James.

The cards are issued by Mexico's consulates to its citizens living abroad and show the date of birth, a current photograph and the address of the card holder.

The final chapter in the trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions, is out in November.

The losses occurred overnight in Willow Canyon, one of three areas in the Santa Catalina Mountains threatened by the 2-week-old fire that already had blackened 70,000 acres.

But a U.S. appeals court in San Francisco disagreed and upheld the law.

The Boston Archdiocese has faced waves of scandal that have not only angered victims' advocates but parishioners and some priests.

"This is not a scaled-down version of the Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition [database].

Significantly, it made no mention of the role of terrorist organisation Jemah Islamiyah, accused of being behind the attacks.

One, from a former CIBC executive, described the returns earned by the bank on its Enron deals as "outrageous."

The MDC said a supporter, Tichaona Kaguru, died in hospital on Wednesday after being tortured and assaulted by soldiers putting down the protests.

The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 16.95, or 1.1 percent, to 1507.76, its first slide in five days.

That leaves about three dozen at risk of aid cutoffs, said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, who did not identify them.

"Prospects for the whole Canadian aerospace industry are improving with recent developments contributing to the enhancement of the aircraft financing capability in this country," Mr. Tellier said.

Two astronomers surveying the region around Jupiter have detected 20 new moons, bringing the giant planet's total to 60.

A seventh victim, a woman, died Tuesday night in the burn unit at childrens Hospital Medical Center of Akron.

And two key shuttle program leaders were out of town during the flight.

A council resolution is considered essential in giving Iraqi or U.S.-controlled entities in Baghdad the legal authority to export oil.

Last week, his lawyers asked Gov. Mark R. Warner to grant clemency, but the governor declined to intervene.

"The benefit is equal for everyone, both in traditional Medicare and in the enhanced Medicare we're setting up."

In the weeks leading up to the execution, several Florida officials received anonymous threatening letters.

The disagreement over online music sales was disclosed in documents filed last week with the judge and made available by the court yesterday.

She insisted, though, that it not be published until after her death.

About 700 MONUC troops are based in Bunia, but the force has neither the mandate nor the manpower to stop the fighting.

Garner said Iraq's reconstruction was not as difficult as he had expected -- mainly because the war caused less infrastructure damage and fewer refugees than anticipated.

The president began his speech by acknowledging the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 29 people, including seven Americans.

It's almost as if they (Russians) hit an x-mark on the ground," NASA spokesman Robert Navias said.

The institute estimates that last year 15.7 per cent of the average supermarket's sales and more than half of gross margin went to pay employee costs.

French retirees will increase from one fifth to a third of the population by 2040.

He had served nine years in prison for the crime -- two on death row -- when he was released.

"This is not unanticipated," Chief Deputy District Attorney John Goold said Monday.

Samudra, 33, a textile salesman, is also charged with the church bombings across Indonesia on Christmas Eve, 2000, in which 19 people died.

The two have no diplomatic ties and their already tense relationship has been frayed by the crisis over the North's nuclear ambitions.

The only commercial carrier flying to Baghdad, Royal Jordanian, also suspended its flights for three days.

"I make no apologies for the fact that the negotiations have been undertaken largely in secret," Mr Truss said.

A senior law enforcement official, discussing the case on grounds of anonymity, identified the suspect as Ahmed Mehalba.

Parson was charged with intentionally causing and attempting to cause damage to protected computers.

"That obligation to pay rent continues unabated notwithstanding the heinous attacks of Sept. 11 and the destruction of 1 World Trade Center," the suit says.

Investors were askingwhether other banks, some of which are still being audited, could be dealt with in the same way.

Bennett told Newsweek that "over 10 years, I'd say I've come out pretty close to even."

"It is symptomatic of the communication difficulties that often trouble the ECB," said Ken Wattret of BNP Paribas.

"We're going to defend these charges in court," said Ira Lee Sorkin, Furst's attorney.

"The court and the public need to know much more of the details of the defendant's seemingly massive fraud," the judge said.

But the Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday cleared Blair's cabinet of that accusation.

Those searches have not found stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons or significant evidence of a nuclear weapons program.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX slipped 0.13 points, or just 0.01 percent, to 966.87.

This is the first time in the United States that five whales have been released simultaneously from a single stranding incident.

There are a total of 659 women enrolled at the academy, the report said.

Token-issuing framework provides capabilities that build on WS-Security and define extensions to request and issue security tokens and to manage trust relationships and secure conversations.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday on whether companies can be sued under the Americans with Disabilities Act for refusing to rehire rehabilitated drug users.

He has established a group to revise the constitution, possibly to protect private property.

The IRS said taxpayers can avoid undelivered checks by having refunds deposited directly into their checking or savings accounts.

"More than 70,000 men and women from bases in Southern California were deployed in Iraq.

BP shares slipped 0.8 percent to 433.50 pence ($6.85) each in afternoon trading on the London Stock Exchange.

They worry the treatment could leave their son sterile, blind or even dead.

Because of the accounting charge, the company now says it lost $1.04 billion, or 32 cents a share, in the quarter ended June 30.

The parade, which moves west along Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, went through the district Davis represented.

The company said it now expects second-quarter earnings of 68 cents and 72 cents a share, down from its prior outlook of 77 cents to 82 cents.

Byrd, speaking from the Senate floor, said he questioned "the motives of a deskbound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for purposes of a speech."

Some Wall Street experts believe stocks have rallied too far, too quickly, given the muddled economic reports of recent weeks.

The NASD also alleges Young flew multiple times on Tyco corporate jets, often accompanied by Kozlowski.

We believe the report is fully consistent with what the courts have ruled ... that the department's actions are fully within the law.

"I conclude that plaintiffs have shown, albeit barely ... that Iraq provided material support to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda," Baer said.

Reagan is played by James Brolin, who is married to singer Barbra Streisand, a leading Democratic activist.

A US programmer has developed a software tool that allows users to download shared music files using Apples Windows iTunes software, which was released last month.

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was up 8.79 points, or 0.96 percent, at 929.06.

A U.S. Court of Appeals Thursday ruled that Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) does not have to carry the Java programming language in its Windows operating system.

"You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life," Limbaugh said Friday on his program.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX climbed 10 points, or 1.10 percent, to 943.

The Foreign Office said there was a "clear" risk of terrorist attack in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 98.32, or about 1.1 percent, to 9011.53.

Friday's report raised new worries that a weak job market could shackle the budding economic recovery despite a slight improvement in the overall unemployment rate.

The truck carried the equivalent of 1.6 tons of TNT, emergency ministry official Ruslan Khadzhiyev said.

An international warrant for his arrest was issued both to the Ghanaian authorities and to Interpol.

PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors on Friday unanimously rejected Oracle Corp.'s revised bid of $19.50 per share.

Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas told a news conference Monday that authorities were ``continuing to make significant progress'' in the case.

Berry also married and divorced his second wife twice, most recently in 1991.

Goldman also raised its quarterly dividend to 25 cents from 12 cents, citing the new tax law.

Tomorrow's testimony is to give an inside look at tax shelter development and marketing.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was off 4.86 points, or 0.49 percent, at 993.82.

Goodyear's third-quarter earnings report, which had been scheduled to be released on Thursday, was postponed until November.

The bonds traded to below 60 percent of face value earlier this year.

A summary of his remarks says: all the group's savings have been lost to raids and arrests, and JI is totally dependent on al-Qaeda for money.

Under Mexican law, bounty hunting is considered a form of kidnapping.

The unusual decision to declassify an intelligence report came in an attempt to quiet a growing controversy over Mr Bush's allegations about Iraq's weapons programs.

But the FBI never kept tabs on al-Bayoumi - even though it had received information that he was a Saudi agent, the document says.

Several doctors and courts have found Schiavo to be in a persistent vegetative state, but Byrd disagreed.

Federal Emergency Management Administration designated $20 million to establish the registry.

That compares to a net loss of $6.6 million, or 47 cents per share, on revenue of $15.5 million in 2002's second fiscal quarter.

He really left us with a smile on his face and no last words, daughter Linda Hope said.

About two decades ago, U.S. District Court Judge Walter Rice and others decided to protect and polish what remained.

He said sales of grocery and other consumer packaged products are the strongest, but discretionary items are still weak.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX slipped 11.83 points, or 1.20 percent, to 975.93.

France, Russia, China and others had advocated a stronger U.N. role to give a U.S.-chosen Iraqi authority international legitimacy.

Second comes HP (27 percent with $2.9 billion, up just 0.4 percent).

BREAST cancer cases in the UK have hit an all-time high with more than 40,000 women diagnosed with the disease each year, Cancer Re-search UK revealed yesterday.

The discoveries came a day after a package bomb burst into flames in the Bologna, Italy home of EU Commission President Romano Prodi, who was not injured.

"It was never our intention to sell the product," said Health Minister Anne McClellan, a skeptic of medical marijuana use.

The scientists wanted to pick the minds of the Buddhist scholars about how best to use technology such as brain imaging to study consciousness.

But homecomings for those soldiers, as well as the division's 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, have now been postponed indefinitely.

He was in Cincinnati helping another daughter move when the tragedy occurred, friends said.

In the entire fiscal year, the company lost a record $1.27 billion, or $2.11 a share, on sales of nearly $3.1 billion.

The indictment supercedes a criminal complaint filed against Quattrone on April 23 with similar charges.

"I don't think my brain is going to go dead this afternoon or next week," he said.

GM, the world's largest automaker, has 115,000 active UAW workers and another 340,000 retirees and spouses.

Obviously, I've made statements that are ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

"This puts telemarketers on notice that we will take all measures necessary to protect consumers who chose to be left alone in their homes."

Jim Guest, president of Consumers Union, said they stand by their reporting.

In addition to O'Connor, Rehnquist's majority opinion was joined by Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer.

But he added, "Once the problem grew to a certain magnitude, nothing could have been done to prevent it from cascading out of control."

Stony Brook University launched the study in 1996, after earlier studies indicated a possible connection between electromagnetic fields and cancer.

It was the first suicide attack in Israel since October 4, when a bomber killed 23 people.

They include Ask Jeeves Inc., Global Crossing, Aether Systems, Clarent, Copper Mountain Networks and VA Linux, now VA Software.

Rosenthal is hereby sentenced to custody of the Federal Bureau of prisons for one day with credit for time served," Breyer said to tumultuous cheers in the courtroom.

The UAW earlier this week reached tentative agreements, also for four years, with Ford Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group and supplier Visteon Corp.

Then the authority can hold another set of public hearings on raising commuting costs, the judge said.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC declined 16.68 points, or 1.01 percent, at 1,636.94.

In New York, $7,646 is spent annually on each Medicaid recipient, almost double the national average of $3,936.

Peterson, 30, was arrested in La Jolla April 18 after the two bodies were identified through DNA tests.

In Kentucky, Democratic Attorney General Ben Chandler faces U.S. Rep. Ernie Fletcher.

Other retailers that will be affected are Argos, part of GUS, and privately owned Littlewoods.

Sun filed its lawsuit after an appeals court in Washington upheld the U.S. government's antitrust case against Microsoft.

Jewish and Muslim leaders expressed horror at the proposals, which have not been approved.

A female attendant, 25, was slashed across the face as the attacker closed on the cockpit.

Of the 23.5 million high-speed lines, 16.3 million provided advanced services, which the FCC defines as speeds exceeding 200 kbps in both directions.

Daniel said it takes about two hours and 15 minutes to drive from his home to Nashville.

Cullen, 43, is charged with murdering a Catholic clergyman and attempting to kill another patient at Somerset Medical Center.

Authorities appealed to the public Friday to come forward and provide what could be the key to solving the sniper-style shootings that have killed three people outside area convenience stores.

Duke and North Carolina have been resolute in their positions against expansion.

Despite generic competition for acne drug Accutane, flagship drug sales rose 21 percent excluding exchange rate swings and nine percent in francs to 10.31 billion.

Tehran has said it will only sign the protocol if a ban on imports of peaceful Western nuclear technology is lifted.

Financial terms of the deal, expected to close this month, were not released.

It also hired Citigroup and Morgan Stanley to explore refinancing or restructuring of $175 million in senior notes due next year.

At last week's meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush, Roh said inter-Korean exchanges would be "conducted in light of developments on the North Korean nuclear issue."

Analysts have predicted third-quarter earnings of 16 cents a share and revenue of $7.15 billion, on average.

In 2001, President Bush named Kathleen Gregg one of six appointees to the Student Loan Marketing Association, the largest US lender for students.

After hours of negotiations, a SWAT team burst in early yesterday and found Hoffine dead.

"I never grabbed anyone and then pulled up their shirt and grabbed their breasts, and stuff like that.

"The death of al-Ghozi signals that terrorists will never get far in the Philippines," Arroyo said in a statement on Monday.

Board Chancellor Robert Bennett declined to comment on personnel matters Tuesday, as did Mills.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Stock Market's composite index rose 3.41 points to 1,915.31.

"We are committed to helping the Iraqi people get on the path to a free society," Rumsfeld said in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Young said he was disappointed that the government didn't see the severe acute respiratory syndrome crisis as worthy of federal disaster-relief money.

Last week, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee ended an 18-month chill in relations by ordering normalisation of diplomatic ties and restoration of air services with Pakistan.

Evacuation went smoothly, although passengers weren't told what was going on, Hunt said.

By Wednesday, the Red Planet will come as near to Earth as it has been in 60,000 years.

Microsoft will seek to simplify creation of BizTalk applications by tying it more tightly to its flagship development tool, Visual Studio.Net.

The 12-nation currency has risen by 33 percent against the dollar over the past 15 months.

In February 2000, the officers — Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy — were acquitted of all charges in the killing.

I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening.

Before the blast, Wells told police he had been forced to rob the bank and asked police to help him remove the bomb.

"Our party will never be the choice of the NRA - and I am not looking to be the candidate of the NRA," he said.

Since last April, scientists have learned how acrylamide is formed.

One of the company's employees was hospitalized in critical condition at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, said hospital administrative assistant Alex Reichert.

The state's House delegation currently consists of 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans.

Shares in Berkeley-based Xoma lost 77 cents, or 14 percent, to close at $4.72 each in trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

"We need the somebody who notices them to come forward," he told a news conference to introduce his successor, Brig. Gen. Mastin M. Robeson.

Under the adjusted definition, officials Thursday listed 29 cases as suspected and said that 107 other people showing possible SARS symptoms were being monitored.

"The numbers are starting to change very, very quickly," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the CDC's director, told a news briefing Thursday.

Mr Howard said he also had faith in the system under which Hicks could be tried.

Police investigating a fatal hit-and-run accident conducted a search Monday at the home of Bishop Thomas O'Brien, head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix.

Freddie also said Leland C. Brendsel will retire as chairman and chief executive and resign from the board.

Progress Software plans to acquire privately held DataDirect Technologies for about $88 million in cash, the companies said Friday.

Altria shares fell $1.17 to $42.51 and were the Dow's biggest percent loser.

Hurricane warnings were posted Friday along parts of the lower Texas coast as Tropical Storm Erika sped across the Gulf of Mexico and headed for landfall.

Dos Reis also pleaded guilty to federal charges that he crossed state lines to have sex with Christina and another girl on a different occasion.

As previously announced, the final will be at the new Home Depot Center in Carson on Oct. 12.

The Java Enterprise System bundles a slew of Sun software for a yearly subscription of $100 per employee.

The memorandum analyzed lawful activities, such as recruiting demonstrators, and illegal activities, such as using fake documentation to get into a secured site.

Law enforcement sources who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that Limbaugh was being investigated by the Palm Beach County, Fla., state attorney's office.

Even when the exchange detected violations, it often failed to take disciplinary action, the SEC said.

United said the new airline will expand next year to 40 Airbus A320 jets, each seating 156 passengers.

Now they are waiting to see if Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan will try and repair the damage in his testimony to the House next week.

Medical investigators matched the body's teeth to Aronov's dental records this morning, medical examiner's spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said.

Joe Nichols captured new male vocalist honors, riding back-to-back hits "The Impossible" and "Brokenheartedsville."

They found that 6.4 percent of men on finasteride had high-grade tumors, compared with 5.1 percent taking a placebo.

The compilers are available in two flavors: the Intel C++ Compiler for Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ retails for USD$399 and is intended for application development use.

Thousands of pounds of fireworks inside the warehouse and packed in the tractor-trailer rig exploded, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said.

BA shares were up 0.59 percent at 170 pence in early afternoon trading, slightly outpacing London's FTSE 100 Index which was up 0.28 percent.

Martha Stewart shares fell $2.03, about 18 percent, to $9.17 and were the NYSE's biggest percentage loser.

By late Thursday afternoon, Putnam said the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York had subpoenaed its trading documents, raising the possibility of a criminal indictment.

The shares represent more than half the 115.9 million shares Turner held at the end of April, according to Bloomberg data.

In turn SuSE will license Java 2 Standard Edition while also formalising an existing agreement to distribute Sun's Java Virtual Machine for running Java applications.

We'll be listening carefully to the [IAEA] director general's report at the next board meeting.

Mr. Rush is the only witness to the events in the pilothouse who has spoken to investigators.

Geoghan, 68, was taken to Leominster Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:17 p.m.

"With Internet usage and broadband adoption continuing to escalate, marketers are throwing their weight and dollars behind interactive advertising," said IAB President and CEO Greg Stuart.

Rescue and search operation had been going on since the tragedy happened on Thursday night, Manali Sub-Divisional Magistrate Raj Kumar Gautam told Times News Network.

Fidelity Investments, the nation's largest mutual-fund company, said it received a subpoena from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office regarding its investigation to potential fund-trading abuses.

Both devices use version 5.2 of the Palm operating system and feature a new design, which resembles a miniature notebook with a screen that swivels around 180 degrees.

General Myers told reporters that "at first blush, it doesn't look like any rules were broken".

Trading volume was incredibly light at 500.22 million shares, below an already thin 611.45 million exchanged at the same point Thursday.

Officials with the rebel group Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy could not be reached for comment Saturday.

Roberts said he didn't think excess inventory showed up in Avery's first quarter, although it might explain the drop and quick recovery in sales this quarter.

In that position, Elias will report to Joe Tucci, president and CEO of EMC.

But with the PM due to leave tomorrow afternoon for personal reasons there was a risk he might not be present when the final decision was made.

"These are defining moments for players and organizations," Anaheim coach Mike Babcock said.

He led Philippine police to a tonne of TNT that officials say was intended for planned attacks in Singapore on Western targets, including US and Australian diplomatic posts.

They did not nationalize them," Manouchehr Takin, an analyst at the Center for Global Energy Studies in London, said.

Since both companies described the talks as exclusive, it's likely the two signed an agreement saying Dynegy wouldn't talk to other suitors for a certain period of time.

BioReliance's stock closed down 2 cents yesterday at $47.98 per share.

In 2001, Evan helped found an after-school nonviolence program named after a college student shot and killed by a teen gang member, said Alexis Lukas, the program supervisor.

The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index ended the quarter up 120 points, a gain of 14 percent, the best performance for that broad market benchmark since 1998.

The draft statement said progress on the nuclear issue and the pending trade deal were "interdependent, indissociable and mutually reinforcing elements".

The S&P 500 finished 13.78 points higher at 930.08, or 1.5 per cent, the highest level since January 14.

The Qantas colleagues were last night in a serious but stable condition after being rushed to Royal Melbourne Hospital.

The trial, featuring 125 witnesses, could continue until the start of 2004.

But price declines have remained below 30 percent, year over year, for the last two quarters, said IDC analyst John McArthur.

The previous weekend record for an R-rated film was $58 million for "Hannibal."

The second rover is scheduled for launch later this month, and both vehicles are expected to arrive at Mars in January.

A pro-independence radical, Miodrag Zivkovic, of the Liberal Alliance, came in second with 31 percent of the vote.

The per-share earnings were 4 cents per share higher than the expectations of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.

Mr. Kerkorian tried unsuccessfully to take over Chrysler in 1995, but did win representation on its board.

The Sars illness, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and economic uncertainty in Europe and the US have depressed air travel.

The 2002 second quarter results don't include figures from our friends at Compaq.

A nationally known computer hacker is being sought on a federal arrest warrant stemming from a sealed complaint in New York, a federal defender in California said Friday.

A man, 19-year-old Antowain Johnson, ``tried to go back in and get the rest of them but the smoke wouldn't let him,'' she said.

Defense lawyers had said a change of venue was needed because massive pretrial publicity had tainted the jury pool against their client.

WHO spokeswoman Maria Cheng agreed, saying: "It looks very much like an isolated event."

The GAO found cable rates have increased 40 percent over the past five years, versus 12 percent inflation during the period.

Dowdell was transported to Boston Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries.

GBI spokesman John Bankhead said the murder scenes showed that the killer was very methodical.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., sent a letter to President Bush Wednesday demanding action on the legislation.

The Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, spokesman for the archdiocese, wouldn't comment Friday.

He was sentenced in June to more than seven years in prison for securities fraud, perjury and other crimes.

They looked at their son-in-law and his relatives, but did not exchange words.

The woman felt threatened and reported the incident to police, and around 2:30 p.m. Stackhouse was arrested.

Maurice Greene advanced to the semifinals of the 100-meter dash at the World Track and Field Championships.

Claudette, the first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season, hit the mid-Texas coast July 15 with 85-mph wind.

Two brothers who were among seven Portland suspects accused of aiding terrorists have decided to plead guilty to conspiring to aid al-Qaida and the Taliban, officials said Wednesday.

Media giant Vivendi Universal EAUG.PA V.N set to work sifting through bids for its U.S. entertainment empire on Monday in a multibillion-dollar auction of some of Hollywood's best-known assets.

Like Viacom, GE -- parent of NBC -- is also seen as a less enthusiastic bidder compared to the likes of Bronfman or Davis.

He was revived but was pronounced dead at Virginia Medical Center in Arlington.

The proceedings were taken up with prosecutors outlining their case against Amrozi, reading 33 pages of documents outlining allegations against him.

He urged the US to provide clear rules on what would happen at possible trials.

Scruggs, who did not testify, was cleared of a second charge of failing to provide her son with proper medical and psychological care.

The rebels suspended peace talks with the government April 21 citing a lack of progress.

"The timing of [the miniseries] is absolutely staggering to me," Nancy Reagan said in a statement to Fox News Channel last week.

As you know, East Africa has been an area of terrorist threats and indeed terrorist attacks in the past."

People who have this disorder absorb excessive amounts of iron which can lead to organ damage.

Although deeply disapproved of in the Soviet Union, the Beatles popularity knew no bounds and far outreached any other Western rock music.

Mr. Berg says in an advertisement for it, "More than my remembrances, this book intends to convey hers."

Shares of LendingTree rose $6.21, or 42 percent, to $20.90 after hitting $21.36 earlier.

He said the district had been waiting for the subpoenas and had always planned to comply once it received them.

In their study, researchers tested the hearing of 479 men between 20 and 64 years old who were exposed to noise in their jobs.

In May 2002, Malikah Alkebulan and Deirdre Small filed a federal lawsuit in Brooklyn for more than $20 million in damages after the MTA objected to their headdresses.

"We're in a highly competitive industry where few apparel brands own and operate manufacturing facilities in North America," Levi Strauss Chief Executive Officer Phil Marineau said in a statement.

In Nigeria alone, the report said, as many as 1 million women may be living with the condition.

Global HRT sales, which are dominated by Wyeth of the US, were worth $3.8bn in 2001, according to Data- monitor, the London-based market research company.

Glover spoke at a news conference that included about 20 relatives of the victims.

The migrants were first spotted by a Coast Guard jet around 2 p.m. Tuesday and two small patrol boats were sent to the area, Doss said.

Dunlap won both the swimsuit competition and the talent portion of the competition, singing "If I Could."

"I don't want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," said Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt.

Market research firm Dell'Oro Group estimates this market will total $12 billion in 2004.

Robbins said he wants to take any network like ESPN that charges more than $1 per Cox customer and make those optional choices for consumers to buy.

Fourteen of those infected passengers sat within four seats of the SARS patient and two were flight attendants, said Mike Ryan, WHO's global coordinator for anti-SARS efforts.

Shares of Berkeley, California-based Xoma dropped 89 cents, or 16 percent, to $4.60 in Instinet trading.

It names Shelley, Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters Conny McCormack, and registrars in Orange and San Diego counties as defendants.

He reiterated Schroder's statement last week that Berlin would consider sending peacekeepers to Iraq only if requested by an interim Iraqi government or the United Nations under a U.N. mandate.

The four were remanded in custody and will appear before the magistrate's court again on July 8.

Four years ago, Nike was sued in state court by California activist Marc Kasky under a statute designed to protect consumers from false advertising.

At one of the three sampling sites at Huntington Beach, the bacteria reading came back at 160 on June 16 and at 120 on June 23.

"This will put a severe crimp in our reserves," O'Keefe said Friday during a roundtable discussion with reporters at NASA headquarters.

The next court session will be when the three-judge tribunal announces its verdict in mid-February.

Microsoft has won a patent for an instant messaging feature that notifies users when the person they are communicating with is typing a message.

Freddie Mac shares fell $1.49, to $50.01, on the New York Stock Exchange after official acknowledgment of the criminal investigation.

X2 took in $17.1 million for a total three-week take of $174 million.

Four other men who were also charged in June have already pleaded guilty.

But its most popular comedy, Friends, is going into its last season.

He was arrested Tuesday night at a northwest Atlanta tire shop after a national manhunt.

NASA satellite images show that Arctic ice has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 10 percent a decade.

The Lockheed Martin-built SIRTF is the last of NASA's Hubble-class "Great Observatories."

"We're making these commitments first and foremost because we think it's the right thing to do," said Michael Mudd, spokesman for the Northfield-based company.

Sgt. Randy Force, a police spokesman, said O'Brien wasn't being charged with causing the crash because Reed was jaywalking.

The book, scheduled for release next month, is described by Franken as a criticism of right-wing leaders and media spokesmen.

Federal investigators are looking for possible connections between the theft of 1,100 pounds of an explosive chemical from construction companies in Colorado and California in the past week.

The affidavit said British customs officials stopped al-Amoudi at Heathrow Airport last month when he was attempting to travel to Damascus, Syria.

"New" farmers say they have increased the numbers of dogs they keep for "protection" but former farmers say the packs are used to hunt depleted wildlife.

Albertson's and Kroger's Ralphs stores locked out their workers in response.

The decision means that Qarase must invite up to eight Labor Party members into cabinet.

"Landing on an aircraft carrier doesn't make up for the loss of 2.5 million jobs in America," said the senator, a much-decorated Vietnam War veteran.

Kevin Rollins, Dell's president, received $770,962 in salary and a bonus of just more than $2-million in fiscal 2003.

As part of his deal, Mr. Delainey has agreed to cooperate in the continuing investigation.

The United States accuses Saddam loyalists of attacks on oilfields and pipelines crucial to Iraq's economic recovery.

Mall operators and retailers reported fewer people camping out for early-bird specials on Saturday morning, although many parking lots were crowded by early afternoon.

Josephine Burke, who ran the unlicensed daycare, eventually served four months in prison on misdemeanor assault and child neglect charges.

Bob Schindler: That's correct, and the strategy behind that is, we wanted to kind of smoke him out, to see where he was coming from.

Hedge funds came under renewed scrutiny recently when New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer unveiled a probe of illegal trading in mutual fund shares.

Operating revenue fell 4.5 percent to $2.3 billion from a year earlier.

As they wound through police barricades to the funeral home, many chanted "Celia, Celia" and sang snippets of her songs.

In 2001, 8.4 per cent of six-year-olds and 15 per cent of 15-year-olds were obese.

Most of the alleged spammers engaged in fraudulent or deceptive practices, said Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior VP and general counsel.

Since December 2002, Evans has been the vice chair of the U.S. Chief Information Officers Council.

Companies that fall under that definition are subject to much less stringent regulation.

Many of the countries affected, like Colombia and Ecuador, are considered critical to the administration's efforts to bring stability to the Western Hemisphere.

The huge bottom-line loss stemmed from a 1.5 billion pound assets writedown, on top of a 3.5 billion first-half charge.

Police arrested a "potential suspect" Monday in the abduction of a 9-year-old who was found safe after two days, the police chief said.

BOCHK chief executive Liu Jinbao was transferred abruptly to Beijing last month.

In case the company does not turn in the reports before the end of May, it is likely to be delisted, an SFC official said.

Watson, of Whitakers, N.C., was found guilty of making a false threat to detonate explosives, and destruction of federal property.

Drax faced a financial crisis late last year after it lost its most lucrative sales contract, held with insolvent utility TXU Europe.

It's one of several negotiating items where Canada appears to have caved in to U.S. demands and accepted less favourable terms.

His harsh criticism of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat led to his books being banned for a time by the Palestinian Authority.

The 2000 Democratic platform supported "the full inclusion of gay and lesbian families in the life of the nation."

"We believe we are fully prepared to roll out the [touch-screen] machines for the 2004 presidential primary," said Gilles W. Burger, State Board of Elections chairman.

He has a preliminary hearing Thursday to determine whether he'll stand trial.

"They were an inspirational couple, selfless and courageous," said the Oscar-winning film director.

But I would rather be talking about high standards than low standards."

WorldCom, brought down by an $11 billion accounting scandal, is adopting the name of its MCI long-distance division in a bid to clean up its image.

Launched from the space shuttle Atlantis in 1989, Galileo will have travelled about 4.6 billion kilometres by the time it hits Jupiter.

Following California's lead, several states and the federal government passed similar or stricter bans.

Both papers are being published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The search was concentrated in northeast Pennsylvania, but state trooper Tom Kelly acknowledged that Selenski could have traveled hundreds of miles by now.

The US investment bank said: "We believe the long-term prospects for the energy sector in the UK remain attractive."

Available in June, Bare Metal Restore 4.6 costs $900 per Windows client and $1,000 per Unix client for new customers.

Both Estrada and Honasan have denied any involvement in the failed military rebellion.

It was not immediately known how many people were on flight UTA 141, which could carry 141 passengers and crew.

But the country is scrambling to prevent it spreading to the vast countryside where most of its 1.3 billion people live.

But labor leaders said it was often difficult for these Americans to join a union because many employers fought organizing efforts.

Australia's view on Zimbabwe "will not be changing, irrespective of the views of other countries," he said.

The Democratic primary results have a margin of error of plus or minus 6.1 percentage points.

Advertising revenue at the FT newspaper was down 18 percent in the first half and circulation was down 5 percent.

"We disagree with the judge's decision on notice for Engine Company 261," said a statement by Michael A. Cardozo, the city's corporation counsel.

The market remains pinned in a narrow range after a powerful rally drove the broad Standard & Poor's 500 index .SPX up more than 20 percent since mid-March.

Samuel Waksal, ImClone's former CEO, recently began serving a prison sentence of more than seven years for securities fraud.

Scotland Yard said the three were charged under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, with alleged failure to disclose information about acts of terrorism.

Witnesses said they believed the man planned to crash the Launceston-bound Qantas flight 1737, which was carrying 47 passengers and six crew.

In Virginia, Mr. Kilgore, a Republican, accused the court of undermining "Virginia's right to pass legislation that reflects the views and values of our citizens."

The deal will combine Adobe's Form Server, Form Designer and Reader products with IBM's DB2 Content Manager and DB2 CommonStore products.

The research is set to change how the public and doctors check for melanomas.

Spider-Man snatched $114.7 million in its debut last year and went on to capture $403.7 million.

In Las Vegas, agents entered two clubs — Cheetah's and Jaguars — along with Galardi Enterprises, an office atop a bar and pool hall in downtown Las Vegas.

The announcements were made at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam.

Because of the holiday period, the agency will not release data from the period since Dec. 27 until today.

As Samudra sat down to hear the indictment, he looked over to his nine lawyers and shouted ``God is Great'' three times.

IBM said it believes that the investigation arose from a separate SEC investigation of a customer of IBM's Retail Store Solutions unit, which markets and sells point-of-sale products.

"I think the financial diplomacy here of the sort that we are engaged in is the surest course to get the result we want."

"No, what I do is I answer questions as to whether or not the help that is available is being delivered," Bush said.

Perry has since called two special legislative sessions to try force the redistricting plan through.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC lost 4.95 points, or 0.33 percent, at 1,486.14.

"The difference is just something called the tuner, which is a very small piece of equipment."

When the butterflies were exposed to constant light, they flew directly towards the sun, presumably because they no longer had any sense of time.

They said he organized a network of associates operating in as many as a dozen states.

In addition, David Jones will pay him $10 million to take over the Foodchain leases.

Indeed, Mr. Weill, a self-described workaholic, said he planned to remain very involved in the company.

Tisha Kresler, a spokeswoman for Global Crossing, declined to comment.

The agreement between architect Daniel Libeskind and representatives of developer Larry Silverstein gives architect David Childs the lead role in developing the "Freedom Tower."

O'Keefe declined to discuss whether such photos from spy satellites might have been able to detect the small crack in the wing.

Residents forced out of their homes on Sunday returned Monday, many to floods in their basements or lower floors.

Initial reports indicated the shots had been fired from inside a mosque.

Last week, the executive committee of the Board of Trustees issued a no-confidence vote in Goldin.

Mahmud controlled access to Saddam for everyone but immediate family members, Pentagon officials said.

Manfred Bischoff, EADS co-chairman and also a member of the management board of DaimlerChrysler, said both EPI and Pratt & Whitney had presented "excellent proposals.

The TAAD and SAR-x chips are priced from $125 to $300 in quantities of 10,000.

The findings are being published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index shed 5.20, or 0.6 percent, to 924.42 as of 9:33 a.m. in New York.

D'Cunha said, from a science standpoint, Toronto's last case was April 19, so the all-clear day was actually yesterday.

Mike Austreng, editor of the weekly Cold Spring Record, said he saw one wounded student taken from the school by helicopter.

They describe themselves as "lifelong non-smokers whose primary interest is an accurate determination of the health effects of tobacco".

A photograph of the doctor's son, Ariel, holding the guitar appeared in the National Enquirer two weeks after Harrison's death.

Inamed shares closed down nearly 12 percent on Nasdaq, where it was one of the top percentage losers.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC gained 21.35 points, or 1.33 percent, to 1,624.91.

Before completion, the group will take surplus cash of 16.5m from TCG to reduce its net borrowings.

Delta personnel at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were scrambling all day to find alternate flights -- even on other airlines, when necessary -- to move the inconvenienced passengers.

"Based on that review, I have concluded that CEO & President Greg Parseghian and General Counsel Maud Mater should be replaced," said Falcon in a statement.

For the year, Marvell expects revenue of $760 million to $790 million.

In trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Kraft shares fell 25 cents to close at $32.30.

The European Union banned the import of genetically modified food in 1998; the United States is now demanding that the EU end its ban.

Stealing identities and credit card numbers with bogus e-mail and websites that appear to come from legitimate companies is an increasing problem on the Internet, federal officials warned Monday.

He was listed last night in critical but stable condition at Kings County Hospital Center, police said.

Investigators have meticulously looked into virtually every aspect of Campbell's personal and financial affairs, Campbell has acknowledged.

For the full 12-month period ending June 30, advanced services lines of all technology types increased by 56 percent.

On Sunday August 3, the House of Deputies voted nearly 2-1 in favor of the Reverend Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.

Federal officials gave the DPS officer an FAA number to call to initiate lost-aircraft procedures.

After 26 hours of surgery and a year of anticipation, the boys were separated Sunday at Children's Medical Center of Dallas.

But the settlement also defers any payment to investors, potentially for years, until the securities lawsuits against the brokerage firms are resolved.

"The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws," SCO Group said in an answer filed to an IBM court filing.

The Nasdaq composite index dropped 33.90, or 2.1 percent, to 1,610.82, having risen 1.1 percent last week.

Elsewhere in Europe, Philips was up 4.6 percent after raising its targets for chip sales on Friday.

Police searched Tanzi's home near Parma on Wednesday, and prosecutors had sought to interrogate him that day only to find he had left Italy for an undisclosed foreign country.

The rule bars groups from airing ads that promote, support, attack or oppose a candidate at any time.

Last year, Cuban officials said none of nearly two dozen nominated Cuban musicians received U.S. visas on time to attend the Grammys in Los Angeles.

The 244th Engineer Battalion has been clearing rubble, building playgrounds and restoring irrigation in Iraq, the military said.

Xerox shares closed at $11.45, up 2 cents on the New York Stock Exchange.

At midday Saturday, automatic gunfire rattled windows in the Qadesiyah neighborhood, a largely Arab area that borders a Kurdish quarter.

Southwest, the largest U.S. discount airline, said Friday that inspections of its fleet of 385 planes had found no additional items.

The vulnerability affects Windows NT 4.0, NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition, XP and 2000, as well as Windows Server 2003.

The FBI later learned that two of the hijackers had lived near Awadallah in San Diego.

"We need to change old habits and seriously rethink business-as-usual."

The panel said some of NASA's cameras were obsolete and others no longer have a good view, because of civilian buildings built near them.

Both companies automate many channels, though XM has some live programming, and Sirius airs live in-studio performances and interviews.

The national denomination of the Episcopal Church, with 2.3 million members, is the U.S. branch of the 77 million-member Anglican Communion.

That means that if the planet is in a season, it will continue to brighten for the next 20 years.

Neighboring Canada has just decided to legalize same-sex marriage, and they have high hopes that Massachusetts' supreme court will take a similar step soon.

Excluding food and energy costs, the core CPI was up 0.1 percent last month, compared to a rise of 0.2 percent in July.

The matriarch - who celebrates her 81st birthday next month - was yesterday thanked for her generosity by model and actor Sarah O'Hare, the National Breast Cancer Foundation patron.

The researchers at Imperial College London had previously shown that the hormone could suppress the appetites of lean people.

Voyager 2, also launched in 1977, lags some 1.6 billion miles behind Voyager 1.

The film stars James Brolin as Mr. Reagan and Judy Davis as Mrs. Reagan.

Wind River also cut costs, reducing first-quarter operating expenses by 28 percent to $47.1 million.

But Advani said Pakistan should prove its sincerity by handing over suspects wanted by New Delhi in connection with previous bombings in India.

A federal judge yesterday disconnected a new national "do-not-call" list, just days before it was to take effect, saying the agency that created it lacked the authority.

The U.S. Conference Board said its latest measure of business confidence hit 60 after falling to 53 in its first quarter survey.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was up 9.69 points, or 0.98 percent, at 994.53.

A nationally known itinerant computer hacker faces a federal arrest warrant on a sealed federal complaint in New York, a federal defender in California said Friday.

New York City will get an estimated $182.5 million in tax revenue from the bonuses this year, compared with last year's $125.4 million.

Under state law, DeVries must be released to the jurisdiction in which he was convicted.

Whitney said officials evacuated a YMCA camp that had been scheduled to host 250 people beginning Sunday.

AN inquest into the car crash that killed Princess Diana will be held January 6, the royal family's coroner announced overnight.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan suggested on Monday that the United States should lead a multinational force to stop fighting between government forces and rebels in Liberia.

Chairman Michael Powell and FCC colleagues at the Wednesday hearing.

MessageLabs, which runs outsourced e-mail servers for 700,000 customers around the world, said it had filtered out 27,000 infected e-mails in 115 countries as of Thursday morning.

Veritas said new customers can buy Bare Metal Restore for $900 per Windows client and $1,000 per Unix client.

Officials at Microsoft and Lindon, Utah-based SCO couldn't be immediately reached for comment.

They did so after her feeding tube was removed this afternoon, accompanied by the Rev. Thaddeus Malanowski, a Catholic priest who visits Mrs. Schiavo weekly.

He is expected to ask banks for around €50m this week to keep the company afloat.

Economists said that raised the odds of a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting on June 24-25.

The company had an operating loss of $56.7 million in the first half of 2003.

She has a boyfriend, too, officials said: Sgt. Ruben Contreras, who sat with her family Tuesday.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> jumped 118 points, or 1.36 percent, to 8,829.

Enron spokesman Eric Thode declined to comment on the mediation order.

"In 1980, 6% of children aged six to 18 were overweight," he said.

In the total external disk storage system market, revenue increased 1.5 percent year over year in the third quarter, to $3.2 billion.

"We have found the smoking gun," board member Scott Hubbard said.

An experimental drug can slow the loss of vision caused by an eye disease that is the leading cause of blindness among the elderly, researchers have found.

The legislation, which now goes to the full House, would amend the state's 1988 corporate takeover law.

They said the child was taken to Nassau County Medical Center for observation.

The airline said the results showed that its recovery programme and other initiatives were helping to offset a continued deterioration in revenues.

In the first hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 34 points to 9,107, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 2 points to 1,612.

In hardest-hit Taipei, traffic has disappeared from once bustling streets, ubiquitous department stores stand mostly empty and restaurants are eerily quiet.

In a statement, Lee said he "no longer believes that Viacom deliberately intended to trade on my name when naming Spike TV."

The seven other nations in the initiative are Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

"Accusations of improper activity are as false today as they were when the Democrats first made them," Grella said.

The euro was at 1.5276 versus the Swiss franc , up 0.2 percent on the session, after hitting its highest since mid-2001 around 1.5292 earlier in the session.

The Aspen fire had charred more than 12,400 acres by Monday on Mount Lemmon just north of Tucson and more than 250 homes had been destroyed.

Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong says China plays an important role in the integration of Asia, including managing the stresses and strains both within and between countries.

The court on Monday reversed the decision of that court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

In 1999, Mauritania became only the third Arab League state to establish full diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

Just across a river, St. Joseph has trendy restaurants, boutiques, offices and a picturesque beachfront.

That client component, the Microsoft Windows Rights Management Client 1.0, is what Microsoft posted for free download Tuesday.

The worm attacks Windows computers via a hole in the operating system, an issue Microsoft on July 16 had warned about.

But in Palestine, her rural neighbourhood 225 miles west of Washington, residents had nothing but praise for Pte Lynch.

Justices Stephen Breyer, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy disagreed.

Cool, moist air moved into Colorado early Thursday and brought precipitation to two wind-whipped wildfires that had forced thousands to flee and threatened several hundred homes.

The latest outbreak seems to have begun with one of the female patients, a transfer from Jen Chi Hospital in Taipei.

Its second-quarter earnings per share of 22 cents was slightly better than analysts' estimates of 19 cents a share and more than double its prediction in April.

The board's final report, expected in late August, will stop short of assigning individual blame for the Columbia accident that killed seven astronauts, Gehman said.

Treasury prices rose slightly, sending the 10-year note yield down to 4.38 percent from 4.39 percent late Friday.

But it is clear that the Joint Intelligence Committee was not involved.

Microsoft acquired Virtual PC when it bought the assets of Connectix earlier this year.

The premium edition adds OfficeFront Page 2003, Acceleration Server 2000, and SQL Server 2000.

PFP Legislator Kao Ming-chien (), the fifth Taiwanese expert invited by the WHO to join the conference, will arrive in Malaysia today.

In the year-ago quarter, the steelmaker recorded a profit of $16.2 million, or 15 cents per share, on sales of $1.14 billion.

Earlier, he told France Inter-Radio, "I think we can now qualify what is happening as a genuine epidemic."

SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome emerged in November last year.

Sony claimed that the reader's capacitance sensing technology cannot be fooled by paper copies and does not require cleaning.

Hines died of cancer Saturday in Los Angeles, publicist Allen Eichhorn said Sunday.

Sutherland is the 65-year-old computing pioneer who co-founded Evans & Sutherland, which made high-performance graphics computers.

He said there was no indication, so far, that Gehring used his card for hotels, motels or other overnight stops.

Negotiators talked with the boy for more than an hour, and SWAT officers surrounded the classroom, Bragdon said.

"There are some who feel that if they attack us, we may decide to leave prematurely," Mr Bush said at the White House.

That fire, the largest wildfire in state history, charred 469,000 acres and destroyed 491 homes in surrounding communities.

He listed LeapFrog Enterprises' LF.N LeapPad books, Hasbro Inc.'s HAS.N Beyblade starter set, and MGA Entertainment's Bratz doll line as toys that were stealing market share.

Amazon.com shipped out more than a million copies of the new book, making Saturday the largest distribution day of a single item in e-commerce history.

Bush said that he ordered the Treasury Department to freeze the assets after the suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed 20 people Tuesday.

The show's closure affected third-quarter earnings per share by a penny.

"A lot of these are made-up stories," Schwarzenegger told NBC television.

He said that President Bush's proposed Clean Air Act amendment, called the Clear Skies Initiative, would result in greater efficiency and therefore less pollution.

Gates dismissed the challenge from open-source programs such as Linux, which is gaining adherents in the public and private sectors.

The global death toll approached 770 with more than 8,300 people sickened since the SARS virus first appeared in southern China in November.

Chances were, he said more than a week ago, he would see people who year after year pick the same place to sit.

The appeal came as NATO was preparing to the take command of the 5,000 strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Monday.

Compared with the same quarter last year, Cisco earned $729 million, or 10 cents a share, on revenue of $4.82 billion.

He adds: "She started beating me with her hands about the head until I ran into the other room."

In the interview, Janet Racicot said she heard the thud from the kitchen, where she was getting a glass of water early Saturday morning.

After the war she spent three years in custody but tribunals cleared her of any wrongdoing.

Jackson, 45, posted a $3 million bond and returned to Las Vegas, where he is filming a music video.

After the two-hour meeting on May 14, publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd pledged quick remedies to staff grievances.

"We make no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from further terrorist attacks," she said.

The intelligence service, headed by Fujimori's spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, was accused of torture, drug trafficking and disappearances.

"There's nothing we can do to stop" the water flow, Stegman said.

The Federal Open Market Committee meeting gets under way on Tuesday with a monetary policy decision due on Wednesday.

Late last month Microsoft restricted access to its MSN Messenger network.

Rashidi Ahmad, 33, was found dead in his pickup truck after it crashed into a building at Lincolnshire and Williamsborough drives, near Franklin Boulevard.

Bolivia's army fought to stop columns of protesters from streaming into the food-starved capital on Wednesday as a popular uprising against the president spread.

Both Mr Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw have denied that Britain had reneged on plans to involve the UN in the reconstruction of Iraq.

It's been a busy couple of days for security gurus assigned to keep their companies safe and sound.

They include two Kuwaitis and six Palestinians with Jordanian passports with the remainder Iraqis and Saudis, the official said.

Johnson and four other protesters were arrested soon afterward for blocking the roadway, a state misdemeanor.

The government has chosen three companies to develop plans to protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missile attacks, homeland security officials announced Tuesday.

Vivendi argues the agreement had not been approved by the board and that the payoff was inappropriate given the state of Vivendi's finances when new CEO Jean-Rene Fourtou took over.

Two Americans killed in a recent ambush in Afghanistan were contract employees of the CIA, the agency said Tuesday.

Lu reclined in a soft chair wearing a woolly coat near the blackened capsule.

Gov. Bob Riley proposed the budget cuts after Alabama voters rejected his $1.2 billion tax plan Sept. 9.

Over the weekend, NASA landed a six-wheeled robot on Mars to study the planet.

Mr Charlton was in the third aisle when a man in a brown suit raced past him with his hands in the air, armed with the stakes.

On Wednesday, Judge Pollack dismissed another case, this one against Merrill Lynch investors in the firm's Global Technology Fund.

Overall control will be wielded by a national security council, headed by Mr Arafat.

Congress twice passed partial birth bans, but former President Bill Clinton (news - web sites), citing the need for a health exception, vetoed both measures.

The Syrian government has said nothing in public about the raid.

Hackett and Rossignol did not know each other and Hackett had no connection to Colby, Doyle said.

At another point, Mr. Bush said: "The choice was up to the dictator, and he chose poorly.

"It is probably not the easiest time to come in and take over the shuttle program, but then again, I look forward to the challenge," he said.

Two hours earlier, they had recovered the body of Melissa Rogers, 33, of Liberty, Mo.

But JT was careful to clarify that it was "not certain about the outcome of the discussion at this moment."

Median household income declined 1.1 percent between 2001 and 2002 to $42,409.

President Bush called the blackout "a wake-up call" for Americans about the nation's outdated power grid.

Eugene Uhl followed his father and grandfather into the military, his mother said.

The main change, said Jim Walton, CNN's president, is a fundamental shift in the way CNN collects its news.

The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.

Legal experts said the case may mark the first time a parent has been convicted of contributing to a child's suicide.

Five 17-year-olds have been charged with robbery and impersonating a police officer.

Doctors have speculated that estrogen protects against cell damage and improves blood flow.

They fear the treatment would leave 12-year-old Parker Jensen sterile and stunt his growth.

No charges have been filed in those deaths, but prosecutor David Lupas said authorities were making progress in the case.

"You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life," Limbaugh, 52, said during a stunning admission aired nationwide.

The Turkish troops also could be targets for attack, the ambassador acknowledged.

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Estonia's place in the European mainstream and safeguard its independence regained in 1991.

The indictment ``strikes at one of the very top targets in the drug trafficking world,'' said U.S. Attorney Marcos Jimenez.

Lee, 33, told the newspaper that the girl had dragged the food, toys and other things into her mother's bedroom, where he found her.

Microsoft presented several options at the meeting, the consortium said in the statement.

About 25 governments have signed in the last four months, about half of those in the last three weeks.

"The committee will define the role of the interim chairman and recommend an individual to fill that role," said lead director H. Carl McCall in a statement.

Franklin County Judge-Executive Teresa Barton said a firefighter was struck by lightning and was taken to the Frankfort Regional Medical Center.

Some 55 gang members and associates were arrested in a coordinated sweep across the West on Wednesday, some for charges not related to the casino brawl.

Sirius recently began carrying National Public Radio, a deal pooh-poohed by XM because it doesn't include popular shows like "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition."

At the hearing yesterday, High Court Judge Frank Kapanda ordered the men immediately released on bail, evidently unaware they had already left the country.

Former Secretary of State Bill Jones has also expressed interest in the race but has not yet announced plans.

Lt. Scotty Smither, a county firefighter, was struck by lightning.

"The flu season has had an earlier onset than we've seen in many years," said Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

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Gold's rise pulled other precious metals higher, shunting silver to $4.81/83 an ounce from $4.77/79 last quoted in New York.

Trade deals between manufacturers and grocery retailers or distributors have long been governed by complicated contracts that offer retailers discounts, money for advertising or payments for prominent shelf space.

Based on the history and success of The Winston in Charlotte, I believe theres no place but Lowes Motor Speedway that can do it justice.

It was the first speech by a US president to a joint session of the Philippines Congress since 1960.

Pressed for details, Mr Warner said: "All six of them are dead, we were told by Harold and his group".

Both rebels and government forces have been accused of pillaging villages in Liberia's countryside despite the peace agreement.

He worked out how to get through the bone with his cheap "multitool"-type knife, made duller from futile attempts to scratch away at the rock.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Stock Markets composite index added 14.17 points or 0.94 per cent to 1,517.05.

The juvenile arrested yesterday allegedly authored a variant of the worm known as "RPCSDBOT."

"I believe it is my duty to not only represent Australia but the people of the world as one as a stance against terrorism," he replied.

A draft statement, obtained by Reuters on Friday, stopped short of endorsing the U.S. charge but said some aspects of Iran's programme raised "serious concern".

Jim Eisenbrandt, Wittig's attorney, also was not available for comment immediately; his secretary said he was reviewing the report.

Police suspected that Shaichat, 20, had been abducted either by Palestinians or by Israeli Arabs.

British ministers have been asked to explain why they gave undue prominence to the claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy chemical or biological weapons "within 45 minutes".

During this year's August to October quarter, Lowe's opened 38 new stores, including two relocations.

Staff writers Selwyn Crawford and Colleen McCain Nelson and Brian Anderson of DallasNews.com contributed to this report.

SCO intends to provide them with choices to help them run Linux in a legal and fully paid-for way, he said.

Bush said the United States was reviewing documents and interviewing Iraqis in an intensive effort to support the still unproven claim that Saddam had forbidden weapons.

South Asia follows, with 1.1 millions youths infected — 62 percent of them female.

Researchers have identified roughly 130 genes on chromosome six that may predispose humans to certain diseases.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas told Palestinian Satellite TV the helicopter strike was a "terrorist attack."

Government bonds sold off sharply after Greenspan told Congress on Tuesday that the U.S. economy "could very well be embarking on a period of extended growth".

This is what Dr. Dean said: "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

A picture of the doctor's son holding the guitar appeared in the National Enquirer just two weeks after George died.

Mayor Mike Bloomberg weighs in former football star William 'The Refrigerator' Perry for the 88th annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Stocks had surged on Tuesday as economic reports pointed to a thriving housing market and an uptick in consumer confidence.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> declined 25.78 points, or 1.56 percent, to 1,627.84.

A senior Administration official who briefed journalists on Friday said neither Mr Bush nor National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice read the estimate in its entirety.

Shares of Mandalay closed down eight cents to $29.42, before the earnings were announced.

Muhammad will stand trial for the Oct. 9 slaying of Dean Harold Meyers, 53.

You have to dig deep and come up with the goods against guys who are out there competing with you."

The consensus estimate of analysts polled by Thomson First Call called for a profit of $1.70 per share.

Poland has finished assembling a 9,200-strong multinational stabilisation force it will command in central and southern Iraq, Defence Minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski said on Wednesday.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX ended up 1.03 points, or 0.10 percent, at 998.51, ending at its highest since late June 2002.

Shares in Tellabs were up 16 cents, or 2.2 percent, at $7.34 in morning trading on Nasdaq.

Sony said the PSP would also feature a 4.5-inch LCD screen, Memory Stick expansion slots.

Columbine gunman Dylan Klebold is shown firing a sawed-off shotgun in a video tape released by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

The yield fell 2 basis points to 1.41 percent, after reaching 1.4 percent on May 8, the lowest since March 12.

The artists say the plan will harm French culture and punish those who need help most--performers who have a hard time lining up work.

Excluding the impact of accounting changes, Ford would have earned 13 cents a share.

Sharon says he is willing to free the two as holding them will not bring back Arad, who Israel believes is held by Iran.

PeopleSoft also said it expects the acquisition to close in the third calendar quarter of 2003.

The dollar was also helped by concerns about possible yen- selling intervention by Japanese authorities.

State health officials said Monday a young northeast Kansas woman likely has the state's first case of monkeypox among humans or animals.

"It's hard to believe that we live in a society where parents wouldn't be notified of an abortion, which is a very profound decision."

After hours of debate, the Senate passed the reform package 32-4.

Despite such optimism, Taiwan's SARS crisis threatened to whirl out of control this month.

Baer said he had concluded that lawyers for the two victims "have shown, albeit barely . . . that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al-Qaida."

He'll present his proposals to the state Legislature in January.

Washington is wary of involvement, given its commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But U.S. District Judge Joseph DiClerico denied their request in a brief ruling.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, 870 pages, $29.99.

Also Thursday, the NYSE's board elected six new directors _ three non-industry representatives and three industry representatives.

Belcher said the airport's conference room became a shelter for several area families who had hiked up wooded hillsides in advance of rising water.

A 1991 Florida straw poll helped catapult a little-known Bill Clinton to national prominence.

Clinton did not mention that two Democratic senators, Charles Robb of Virginia and Wendell Ford of Kentucky, voted to shelve the McCain bill.

"Our own history should remind us that the union of democratic principle and practice is always a work in progress," Rice said in reference to Iraq.

He was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to terrorists, and dealing arms without a licence.

In Lytle Creek Canyon, a 4-foot-high mud flow crossed a road, trapping a car.

However, prosecutors have declined to take criminal action against guards, though Fine said his inquiry is not finished.

About 18 percent of men taking finasteride developed prostate cancer, compared with 24 percent on placebo.

Justices said that the Constitution allows the government to administer drugs only "in limited circumstances."

Dr. Greg Robinson -- an AIDS patient -- left Health Canada's advisory committee because of inconsistencies in pot access.

Some of the company's software developers will join Microsoft, but details haven't been finalized, said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Microsoft's security business unit.

The Dow Jones industrials briefly surpassed the 9,000 mark for the first time since December."

Peter Lyman and Hal Varian of Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems say that information production has increased by 30 percent each year between 1999 and 2002.

The league said it is not taking a position on whether Governor Gray Davis should be recalled in the Oct. 7 voting, and will not endorse a replacement candidate.

In 1999, NIST found, the Port Authority issued guidelines to upgrade the fireproofing to a thickness of 1 1/2 inches.

Mr Annan said terrorism "will only be defeated if we act to solve the political disputes and long-standing conflicts which generate support for it".

Smackdown, first organized by WWE, registered more than 400,000 voters for the 2000 presidential election.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC climbed 19.11 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,615.02.

"Michael is innocent," Jackson's mother, Katherine, said in a written statement.

The German financial regulator, BaFin, may prove critical of WestLB's risk assessment.

U.S. President George W. Bush said "the nation lost a great citizen" with Hope's death.

The manufacturers include Fujitsu Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Motorola Japan Ltd., NEC Corp., Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd., and Sharp Corp.

Nor has it said how many astronauts will be on board, through there reportedly will be between one and three.

The euro rose as high as $1.1535 -- a fresh four-year high -- in early Asian trading before standing at $1.1525/30 .

Radio reports said hundreds of settlers converged on the four outposts overnight, hoping to disrupt their evacuation.

"They will feel themselves to be deceived and they may well dismiss legitimate evidence of the risks of this and other drugs in the future.

The computers were reportedly located in the U.S., Canada and South Korea.

He said the space program is developing antisatellite weapons and robotic space weapons, but said he did not think that the Shenzhou V had military applications.

The leased applications are designed to help sales people track customer accounts and sales leads.

And although he has acted in period dramas before in screen versions of Jane Austens Persuasion and Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre Henchard is a breed apart.

US District Judge William M. Hoeveler's removal by his superior was a victory for US Sugar Corp., which led the fight for his ouster.

Wal-Mart has said it plans to open at least 40 Supercenters in the state in the coming years; analysts expect four or more to be in San Diego County.

Cintas is battling efforts to unionize 17,000 of its workers and to let unions organize the workers by signing cards, rather than by a lengthy election process.

For Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly), the house means stability and family.

The justices declined without comment to review the ruling that upheld physicians' rights to speak freely with their patients.

The opposition would resort to rolling mass action "at strategic times of our choice and without warning to the dictatorship," he said.

It has also been revealed the boy's family filed two other abuse-related lawsuits in the past, winning a $165,000 settlement in one case.

Dr Blix said: "I don't know exactly how they calculated this figure.

Federal Agriculture Minister Warren Truss said the Government still did not know the real reason the sheep were rejected at the Saudi port of Jeddah on August 21.

Only 12 of the last 30 attempts to reach Mars have succeeded (two are in transit).

Lucent's stock shed 6 cents, or 2.7 percent, to close at $2.15 after heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

Mitchell, Man of La Mancha, Malcolm Gets from Amour and John Selya, Movin' Out, complete the field.

Tom Kraynak, manager of operations and resources for the Canton, Ohio-based East Central Area Reliability Council, said that scenario is one among many that investigators are considering.

But White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said yesterday: "The steps the Iranians claim to have taken in terms of capturing al-Qa'ida are insufficient."

The Smyrna Nissan plant was recently named the most productive automotive manufacturing site in North America, said Kisber.

On Hebert's body were his wallet, driver license and cell phone, its batteries drained, Tracy said.

Drewes and a friend were playing a game of "ding-dong-ditch" -- ringing doorbells and running away -- in the Woodbury neighborhood in suburban Boca Raton.

Advertising and circulation revenues from the flagship Martha Stewart Living magazine have declined.

That risk, described as minor, remains "the predominant concern for the foreseeable future," the statement released after the Fed meeting said.

Elsewhere in the diary, Truman showed a more familiar side, colorful and outspoken in his disdain for life in the White House.

Russian Yuri Malenchenko, American Edward Lu and Pedro Duque of Spain landed in their Soyuz TMA-2 capsule at 0240 GMT.

Authorities in Alabama said the passage of time, and the transfer or retirement of some investigators, has not hurt their case.

Fasting glucose was 142 mg/dL on average for those given usual care, compared with 129 mg/dL in the group given specialized care (P < .01).

The victim, who was also not identified, was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.

The remaining five men continue to be questioned under Section 17 of the Terrorism Act.

Wall Street is looking for a profit of 30 cents a share in the third quarter and $1.31 for the fiscal year.

Daniel C. Clark and James Hargadon; a former priest, Bruce Ewing; and two teachers are awaiting trial.

A senior air force official and a member of parliament were also on board, state radio report said.

The Nets and the Spurs are crossing new frontiers of offensive ineptitude while causing their high-scoring American Basketball Association forefathers to cringe.

Police spokesman Brigadier-General Edward Aritonang confirmed that another two men had been arrested yesterday, one in Jakarta and another in Magelang in central Java.

Most taxpayers will get surprise tax cuts of between $4 and $11 a week from July 1.

"I can tell you that it's routine for IBM to challenge its internal IT teams to rigorously test new platforms and technologies inside IBM."

Roberts said his committee was briefed about a week ago about the likelihood of a major attack in Saudi Arabia.

Neither immediately said his agency would appeal the decision, but many others following the case said an appeal was likely soon.

BofA said yesterday it had "policies in place that prohibit late-day trading".

Palm Beach County is considering adding up to $200 million more in incentives.

Viacom's lawyers say Spike is a common name that does not necessarily prompt thoughts of Lee.

The American troops, who also defend the mayor's compound, have been attacked on two separate occasions.

YES filed suit yesterday in the Supreme Court of New York County in Manhattan.

Hester said Sanmina was the best fit among several purchase offers the company received from electronics manufacturers and computer makers.

Shares of Tampa-based Outback Steakhouse Inc. closed at $44.50, up $1.78, or 4.2 percent, on the New York Stock Exchange.

The discovery was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"At that time I didn't agree, because the people who will be the victims are schoolchildren and security," he says.

Tamil parties blame the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for these killings.

The other inmate fell but Selenski shimmed down the makeshift rope to a second-story roof and used the mattress to scale a razor-wire fence, Fischi said.

Mr. Grassley and Mr. Baucus rejected any disparity in drug benefits.

Investigators conducted DNA tests on the stains and ran the results through a national DNA data base in August.

In January, Georgia's U.N. envoy Revaz Adamia accused Russia of annexing the region and appealed to the Security Council to "assume effective leadership over the peace process."

If you're over here thinking this problem has been blown out of proportion by the media, you are wrong.

WHO noted that most resistant bacteria growth among humans was due to overuse of antibiotics by doctors -- not due to farmers.

In Canada, Tim Hortons' same-store sales were up as much as 6.7 per cent.

One had also pointed to the word refugee in an English/Turkish dictionary.

The hearing, expected to last a week, will determine whether Akbar faces a court-martial.

Drug developer Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc. ISPH.O tumbled $2.17, or 13.4 percent, to $13.98.

Russian cosmonaut Malenchenko managed a space first earlier this month by marrying his earth-bound fiance by space phone.

Wal-Mart, Kohl's Corp., Family Dollar Stores Inc., and Big Lots Inc. were among the merchants posting May sales that fell below Wall Street's modest expectations.

On Monday, one American soldier was killed and another was wounded when their convoy was ambushed in northern Iraq.

A senior Malaysian member of JI testified in June that Bashir had approved the church bomb attacks and had called a meeting to plan Megawati's assassination.

Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez and Maria de Teresa Quiej Alvarez did not leave the private jet during a stop for customs inspection at Brown Field.

Maddox, 87, cracked two ribs when he fell about 10 days ago at an assisted living home where he was recovering from intestinal surgery, Virginia Carnes said.

Mr Adams, managing director, will become chief executive on January 1.

"Really, this plan is an insult to working parents throughout New York City," Mr. Silver said.

Muslim guerrillas attacked a town and took hostages yesterday as they withdrew from fighting that killed at least 22 people, military officials said.

"I am responsible for the approval process in my agency," he said in Friday's statement.

He said he has begun a court action to seize Beacon Hill's assets and has frozen more than $13 million Beacon Hill had when it closed.

The $250 million expansion will boost Nissan's total investment at its two Tennessee plants to $2.75 billion.

The document, headlined Information for Health Care Professionals, warns of potential panic attacks, psychosis and convulsions.

In Europe, France's CAC-40 fell 0.8 percent, Britain's FTSE 100 lost 0.9 percent and Germany's DAX index gave back 1 percent.

On a positive note, C&W's estimated lease commitments -- one potential hurdle to U.S. exit -- fell 600 million pounds to 1.6 billion.

Attorneys for the defense and media have filed documents opposing a gag order.

Speaking for the first time yesterday, Brigitte's maternal aunt said his family was unaware he had was in prison or that he had remarried.

"Our policies are well-known, and I'm not aware of any changes in policy" on Iran, Powell said.

"They were brutally beaten, and it's really a wonder that Porchia is the only deceased in this case."

At least 13 of the affected flights were scheduled out of Atlanta.

"Here's what happened: I go to their Web site and start complaining to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering me," he said. "

The Supreme Court agreed Monday in Illinois vs. Telemarketing Associates.

Experts say they think better treatment, including widespread use of the drug tamoxifen, as well as mammogram screening are responsible for the improvement.

"He wasnt like that, except for getting in a couple fights with his dad.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC inched down 1 point, or 0.11 percent, to 1,650.

"Close co-operation between our law enforcement agencies, close co-operation between our intelligence services lie at the heart of the ongoing fight against terrorism."

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> declined 16.68 points, or 1.01 percent, at 1,636.94.

The tuxedo shop was used as a front for laundering proceeds from a stolen credit cards.

A Connecticut judge Tuesday sentenced a man to 30 years in prison in the death of a teenage girl he met on the Internet.

They say inspectors must certify that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction before sanctions can be lifted.

State wildlife officials have concluded that the fluorescent zebra fish from Florida poses no danger, and they have recommended that the state exempt it from the ban.

The high Saturday is expected to be about 92 degrees, and it will likely drop to 90 degrees Sunday and Monday.

The mother of a Briton held by Colombian guerrillasspoke of her relief yesterday after hearing that he might be freed in the next few weeks.

Gartner raised its own worldwide PC shipment forecast in August to 8.9 per cent growth for 2003, up from expectations of 7.2 per cent.

We strongly disagree with Novell's position and view it as a desperate measure to curry favor with the Linux community.

Strong spokeswoman Stephanie Truog said, "We are in the process of a thorough internal review with the assistance of outside professionals.

AMD had revenue of $715 million and a loss of 42 cents a share during the March quarter.

After more than two years' detention under the State Security Bureau, the four were found guilty of subversion in Beijing's No. 1 Intermediate Court last Wednesday.

Genetic studies of ethnic groups raise concerns because of fears that they could be used or distorted to justify discrimination against a group or to promote stereotypes.

General Huweirini, who has worked closely with the US, was wounded in the shooting on December 4, US officials said.

She countersued for $125 million, saying Gruner & Jahr broke its contract with her by cutting her out of key editorial decisions.

With the government grant added in, the airline earned $246 million, or 30 cents a share.

Mr Russell, 46, a coal miner from Brisbane, said: "They are obviously hurting, so we are basically going over there to help them."

The New York Democrat and former first lady has said she will not run for the White House in 2004, but has not ruled out a race in later years.

Analysts have estimated the worth of the core properties at $10 billion-$15 billion.

A prosecutor says Dorchester County parents were responsible for the death of their a 6-year-old autistic son, whose body was found in a pond near the family home.

The Commerce Commission would have been a significant hurdle for such a deal.

At least 7000 computers were affected by Parson's worm, Assistant US Attorney Paul Luehr said.

In Ventura County, the number of closings and advisories dropped by 73 percent, from 1,540 in 2001 to 416 last year.

On Saturday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it was temporarily closing its offices in Baghdad and Basra.

It held elections in 1990, but refused to recognize the results after Suu Kyi's party won.

In Washington, the federal government remained closed for a second day.

Aquila is short of cash, and Avon bondholders at one point feared it may default on interest payments.

Janice Kelly said her husband had received assurances from senior MoD officials that his name would not be made public.

The arrests came two days after Ken Livingstone, the London Mayor, claimed police and security services had foiled four terrorist attacks on the capital.

In the evening, he asked for six pizzas and soda, which police delivered.

For the full 12-month period, high-speed cable modem connections increased by 49 percent.

Even her request, decades later, to attend her father's funeral on the island was denied.

Paul Durousseau, 30, was charged with murder in five Jacksonville slayings between December and February, and is also suspected of a 1997 Georgia killing.

Advancers outnumbered decliners 1,821 to 1,199 on the New York Stock Exchange on volume of just over 480 million shares.

Mississippi placed among the bottom 10 states in 13 of the 17 measures.

The seizure took place at 4 a.m. on March 18, just hours before the first American air assault.

Most other potential buyers are interested only in cherry-picking the most attractive assets.

"Generally unwanted - and often pornographic or with fraudulent intent - spam is a nuisance and a distraction," Gates writes, warming us up for the punchline.

"We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9-11."

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.14, or 1.2 percent, to 931.41."

In 2002, spending on inpatient hospital care grew by 6.8 percent and the costs of outpatient hospital care rose by 14.6 percent, the study.

This decision would "throw a monkey wrench into the FCC's efforts to develop a vitally important national broadband policy," he said.

The truck was later found parked near the Tacoma Mall about three miles away.

Donations stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks helped push up contributions to human service organizations and large branches of the United Way by 15 percent and 28.6 percent, respectively.

No charges were announced, but the statement said legal proceedings were expected Monday.

The WHO says the latest case does not fit its profile of SARS and is not a public health concern.

He was a close associate of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed," Bush said.

Some analysts estimate sales of Xolair could reach $260 million by 2006 and $750 million by 2008.

The highly integrated amplifiers for driving microphone and speakers, the part requires only minimal external components.

For the week, the Russell 2000, the barometer of smaller company stocks, advanced 11.92, or 2.5 percent, closing at 497.42.

In Chatsworth, 52km north-west of Los Angeles, residents of multimillion-dollar homes there were being told to begin gathering their belongings.

Thompson ordered Moore to remove the monument within 30 days, but stayed that order pending Moore's appeal to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Her 92-year-old husband is now severely debilitated by Alzheimer's disease.

Daniels said he doesn't know what Bush will have to say about him at tonight's $2,000-per-person presidential fund-raiser.

In May, Mr. Hatfill said he was struck by a vehicle being driven by an FBI employee who was tailing him in Georgetown.

To the caller who claimed to have found a mini-cassette from the space shuttle Columbia: NASA is extremely interested in talking to you, "no-questions-asked".

Also, hospital efforts to start "fever clinics" in parking lot tents to keep infectious patients out of emergency rooms are "moving along impressively," Dr. Roth said.

His opinion contradicts one issued in 1992 by then-Attorney General Bob Stephan.

You can use interactive features on the IRS Web site (www.irs.gov) to track refunds or advance child-credit payments.

"I will support a constitutional amendment which would honor marriage between a man and a woman, codify that," he said.

That's one reason why I'm running to be president," he told a rally in New Hampshire.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said she will send a U.S. technical team to Canada to assist in the situation.

While JI has undoubted links with al-Qaeda, the relationship "may be less one of subservience... than of mutual advantage and reciprocal assistance".

Three Cubans were executed for hijacking a Cuban ferry a day later, and six Cubans face trial in Key West in December over a March plane hijacking.

Helen Sharkey, 31, and Gene Foster, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

The men were immediately flown to nearby Botswana on a chartered Air Malawi flight, Malawi intelligence officials said on condition of anonymity.

Authorities in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan have searched for the bodies.

Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV quoted unnamed experts as saying launch will be between Oct. 10 and 17 and will carry two men.

Excluding autos, retail sales rose by 0.3% in September, lower than a forecast rise of 0.5%.

IBM of the US and Infineon Technologies of Germany will today announce a technological development that could threaten multi-billion dollar memory chip markets.

He said firefighters had an advantage on the northern flank because of an existing firebreak dug during last year's fire north of Mount Lemmon.

Earlier this month, RIM had said it expected to report second-quarter earnings of between 7 cents and 11 cents a share.

Iraqi officials say the attacks are being carried out by what they call outsiders who slip into Falluja and attack at night.

In court, Stewart briefly waved to courtroom sketch artists seated in the jury box.

GM's offering is also expected to include about $3.5 billion in convertible securities.

Costa's semifinal opponent is Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero, whom he beat in last year's final.

At about 3 p.m. on Friday, a relative of Bondeson called police to report his apparent suicide.

The US Senate judiciary committee overcame a significant hurdle yesterday in the battle to create a trust fund to pay victims of asbestos exposure.

Nordstrom also is expanding its play area in the children's clothes area, adding salt-water fish tanks and activities.

In 2002, the West Nile virus infected 4,000 people and took 284 lives in the United States.

Activists say they fear the gathering is an attempt by corporate farming to push bio-engineered crops on starving countries.

Yesterday, Taiwan reported 35 new infections, bringing the total number of cases to 418.

A former employee of a local power company pleaded guilty Wednesday to setting off a bomb that knocked out a power substation during the Winter Olympics last year.

Additionally, early voting will be conducted from 1 to 6 p.m. Sept. 7.

Enron's 401(k) plan covered about 20,000 workers, retirees and beneficiaries.

He said that it would be ''very difficult'' to establish a cause of death.

Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering said the victims appeared to be customers of the bank.

He said the situation undermines efforts to win international co-operation in the war on terror.

Once identified, remains of terrorists are immediately removed from the so-called memorial park, a temporary refrigerated storage facility on Manhattan.

It’s just another example of the global war on terrorism and why this is going to be a long effort”.

Some 50 million phone numbers are registered on the list, which was to take effect Oct. 1.

By comparison, the proportion of people with a BMI of 50 or above increased by a factor of five — from about 1 in 2,000 to one in 400.

"We will clearly modify some features of our plans as well as their administration," Reed said in a letter to the NYSE's 1,366 members.

Plants still must abide by state and federal air-pollution laws, so there will not be an increase in smog, the administration argues.

"The fire calmed down considerably overnight, then it rained," said Andy Lyon, spokesman for the fire south of the city.

Earlier this month, Bremer called off a visit here, a move officials privately linked to U.S. uncertainty about the Kurdish issue.

The news will be announced Monday morning in Dallas at Tech Ed 2003 during a keynote by Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server Platform Division.

The Taiwan Stock Exchange will ask the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to suspend trading in Mosel shares.

All three had criminal records for stealing cattle, the statement said.

Auditors acknowledged the auditors did not look at priests' personnel files.

Thyroid hormones are known to help in weight loss by stimulating metabolism - and cutting cholesterol - but come with the unwanted side effect of speeding up the heartbeat.

But U.S. troops will not shrink from mounting raids and attacking their foes when their locations can be pinpointed.

Responding to speculation that she was ready to retire, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor indicated today that she would serve out the next term of the Supreme Court.

"We are in the process of a thorough internal review with the assistance of outside professionals," she said in the statement.

Senator Hill appeared completely unaware of the issue, which has been of serious concern to US, Australian and British intelligence officers.

Judge Craig Doran said it wasn't his role to determine if Hovan was "an evil man" but maintained that "he has committed an evil act."

In its quarter ended May 30, Adobe earned $64.25 million, or 27 cents a share.

Doctors have speculated that the body's own estrogen protects against cell damage and improves blood flow.

Officials said one provision in the Senate-passed measure accounted for $40 billion over 10 years in the CBO calculation.

Indeed, prior defense filings said Moussaoui contended he was part of a post-Sept. 11 operation outside the United States.

Telemarketers argue that there is no logical link between the registry's limited scope and advancing that interest.

I thought things went a bit overboard but I prefer to leave it on the field," Sarwan said.

The North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in New York announced plans for a tissue bank this month.

The tone was set by President Hu, the 60-year-old who became the Communist Partys general secretary in November last year and then the countrys president in March this year.

The United States only agreed to let the agency back into Iraq after repeated warnings by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei.

After that process is completed, it will take an additional six to eight months to refurbish the center, Day said.

Sentenced to 20 years to life, she was granted parole last month despite the opposition of relatives, friends and colleagues of the slain men.

The Hartford shares rose $2.88, or 6.6 percent, to close Monday at $46.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Smith said simply "Oh, my God," in the seconds afterward, according to Weinshall.

Appellate courts across the country have issued differing rulings on the issue, allowing public displays of the Ten Commandments in some cases and banning them in others.

An evaluation suggested there was no overall net clinical benefit in patients receiving the drug in the study, the companies said in a statement distributed by Business Wire.

It also offers a built-in NAND flash boot loader so that high-density NAND flash memory can be used without having to install an additional support chip.

Meat giant Smithfield Foods Inc. has won a bidding war to buy a bankrupt Midwestern pork producer.

Energy prices dropped by 8.6 percent, the biggest decline since July 1986.

Authorities said the informant, an inmate named Richard Powell who is imprisoned for killing his landlady in 1982, led a team to the spot.

More than 100 officers launched the raids in the final phase of a two-year operation investigating a cocaine import and money laundering ring.

She said she told O'Donnell, "Your mother died of breast cancer.

October gasoline prices settled 1.47 cents lower at 78.70 cents a gallon.

The group expects to roll out the first products by the second half of 2004.

It decided instead to issue them before the stock market opened Monday after the downgrade of its debt late Friday by Moody's, the credit rating agency.

The benchmark 10-year note US10YT=RR rose 11/32 for a yield of 3.25 percent.

"We don't have new places to check," said Steve Anderson, a Waco public-information officer.

"It's a terrible tragedy, people who were on the way home, all of a sudden, taken from us," Bloomberg said at a dockside news conference.

"It seems to be following the sun," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at antivirus vendor Sophos.

Moose frequently criticizes reporters and news organizations in the book, especially those that reported on leaks from investigators.

The indictment charges that Mzoudi was involved in preparations for the attack until the end and was aware of and supported the attackers' violent goals.

Altria shares fell 2.5 percent or $1.11 to $42.57 and were the Dow's biggest percentage loser.

SEC Chairman William Donaldson said there is a "building confidence out there that the cop is on the beat."

A nationally board certified teacher with a master's degree, Kelley, in his 30th year teaching, makes $65,000.

Prosecutor Jim Hardin called the decision a victory for Kathleen Peterson's family.

Called "Taxpayers Against the Recall," it was to be launched Wednesday afternoon outside a Sacramento fire station.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy dissented in an opinion joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

The staged scene, covering several acres, featured smashed cars and buses, ruined buildings, scattered debris and spot fires.

The findings were published in the July 1 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

All five suspects were charged with robbery and criminal impersonation of a police officer.

SCO net income of $4.5 million, or 33 cents per share, on revenue of $21.4 million, in 2003's second fiscal quarter, ended April 30.

No rabies vaccine is available for humans in Zimbabwe and if it was it would be too expensive for most bitten by infected dogs.

ODonnell was just 3-of-5 for 24 yards and no touchdowns or interceptions a year ago.

India blamed that and other attacks on Pakistan-based militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state.

However, several ministers from more developed APEC economies have said failure to fight terror will be a cost in itself.

She was persuaded not to resign but she was expected to be the victim of a forthcoming ministerial reshuffle.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi must be counting his lucky stars.

"This legislation benefits the entire state of Illinois, every town, every city, every citizen," Blagojevich told the crowd of political heavyweights at O'Hare.

It will be followed in November by a third movie, "The Matrix Revolutions."

Malpractice victims say limits on damage payouts make it less likely lawyers will take cases, meaning access to justice could be denied.

Schools that fail to meet state goals for three years in a row must offer tutoring in addition to transfers.

But butterflies exposed to an earlier light cycle, from 1am to 1pm, orientated themselves towards the south-east.

Analysts expected earnings of 27 cents a share on revenue of $17.7 billion, Thomson First Call says.

The German finance ministry on Monday said there was no case for softening.

Massachusetts regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday pressed securities fraud charges against Putnam Investments and two of its former portfolio managers for alleged improper mutual fund trading.

Tehran has made clear it will only sign the Additional Protocol introducing such inspections if a ban on the import of civilian Western nuclear technology is lifted.

"We are confident that this issue will be behind us by mid-year," said Nestle spokesman Francois Perroud, who declined to comment further.

Selenski's partner in the jailbreak, Scott Bolton, injured his ankle, pelvis and ribs during the escape attempt, Warden Gene Fischi said.

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Before Sunday, 19 firefighters assigned to wildfires had died on duty this year, according to Tracey Powers of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.

Putin hailed Saudi Arabia as ``one of the most important Muslim nations.

Naim al-Goud, mayor of Hit, said people from outside his region were ``doing this sabotage against the lines.

During the flight, engineers misjudged the extent of the damage, and even during that period they lamented that the liftoff photography was poor.

The Web site is registered to Parson under his home address, allowing investigators to trace him easily.

The woman, Mary Kathryn Miller, 55, was arrested by the state police on Nov. 20 and charged with first-degree larceny.

The Hubble Space Telescope's newest picture of Mars shows summer on the Red Planet just as it makes its closest pass by Earth in 60,000 years.

He is blocking them until the Air Force assigns four additional C-130 cargo planes to Gowen Field, an Idaho Air National Guard base in Boise.

Stocks have rallied sharply for more than three months in anticipation of a rebound in the second half of the year.

The Fed's Empire State survey far exceeded expectations by jumping to 26.8 in June, a record high, from 10.6 in May.

"We're a quiet, peaceful town of 862 people and nothing ever happens," said Carolyn Greene Bennett, Cedar Grove's town recorder.

Nursing schools turned away more than 5,000 qualified applicants in the past year because of shortages of faculty and classroom space.

"This deal makes good sense for both companies," said Brian L. Halla, National's chairman, president and CEO.

The best the investigators can do is nitpick about the process and substance of isolated business decisions ... and question his competence as a manager."

The study, published Monday in the journal Molecular Brain Research, is likely to also apply to humans, its authors said.

Three retailers Dillards Inc., Kohls Department Stores and Nordstrom Inc. got Fs.

It's a task that would challenge even the sharpest of computer geeks: set up a hacker-proof computer network for 190,000 government workers across the country fighting terrorism.

"Of course I want to win again but I think it's worse when you've never won, because you are so anxious to win."

The operating revenues were $1.45 billion, an increase over last year's result of $1.38 billion.

Although Mr Sorbello was taken to hospital for a check-up, he was later released.

Their ancestors are coming home at last -- the healing can finally begin,'' delegation leader Bob Weatherall told Reuters by telephone after the ceremony.

As envisioned by Breaux, the government would help pay for the first $3,450 in prescription drug costs.

Romanian port authorities said two ships that sank during World War II had resurfaced as water levels fell and could block river traffic.

Grant also has been elected to Monsanto's board of directors, the company said in a statement.

Ms. Kethley has said she also repeatedly denied his accusations.

With more and more Bluetooth-equipped cellular phones coming onto the market, "people are going to be sorry if they didn't buy a PDA with Bluetooth," he said.

By the time the two-term president left office in 1989, the Navy had nearly 600 ships - about twice the ships it has today.

"Ms. Stewart is being prosecuted not because of who she is, but because of what she did," Comey said.

Nelson,27, is being retried on civil-rights charges stemming from the disturbance which led to Rosenbaum's death.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government was free to withhold the names of more than 700 people detained in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001.

Asked about other possible attacks, Roberts said: "I don't think there's any question about it that . . . they're going to be very global in nature.

No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals, and the New Jersey Nets don't want to try their luck at such a daunting task."

There are no suspects in the shooting, which took place around 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday at East 126th Street and Fifth Avenue, the police said.

"But the reality is that there needs to be a big structural change," she added, "and you can't do that without funding."

Knight had 29 interceptions in his six years with the Saints, including 17 the last three seasons.

The budget analysis comes as negotiations between the City Council and the Bloomberg administration heat up.

Taupo was guiding her owner Paul Kibblewhite, 62, on a three-day walk with a tramping party of eight.

Handset market share for the second quarter, it said, is higher than the first quarter.

Where long-lines used to catch 10 fish per 100 hooks in past decades, they are now lucky to catch one, the study found.

By contrast, the Senate-passed prescription drug plan requires seniors to pay 50 percent of drug costs, with a $275 deductible each year.

Canada won't commit more troops to Afghanistan until the current year-long mission is complete, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said yesterday.

Data showed Italian business confidence slipped to its lowest level in 16 months in May, aiding rate cut expectations.

He said Qantas would also cut capital spending by retiring some aircraft and deferring delivery of some new planes.

"The government elements who have been causing trouble are still in place.

That objection was cited by PeopleSoft's board in rejecting Oracle's offer.

Dylan Baker and Lindsay Frost play her parents, Ed and Lois Smart.

Palm expects to move Handspring's employees to Palm Solutions headquarters in Milpitas, Calif.

The giant rock was first observed on August 24 by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Program, based in Socorro, New Mexico.

He also said he advised his grown-up children not to run up credit card debts.

Some women are also concerned that so many women are turning to cosmetic surgery in a quest for bodily perfection.

Normally, congressional districts are redrawn by state legislatures every 10 years to reflect population changes recorded in the U.S. census.

Two area lawmakers said Democrats might entice some Republicans to support a tax hike.

Two of Collins' top assistants will consult with state police during the investigation and determine if any federal laws were violated, he said Friday.

Sirius carries National Public Radio, although it doesn't include popular shows such as "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition."

The unemployment rate rose a tenth of a percentage point to 6.1%, the highest level since July 1994.

Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) Commissioner Mark McClellan said Kraft's initiative could start an important trend.

She had been barred on the grounds that her headscarf would violate the state's neutrality in religion.

Without admitting or denying the S.E.C.'s allegations, Mr. Markovitz agreed to a permanent ban from associating with an investment adviser or mutual fund.

Now, for the first time, those without Internet access can sign up with a single phone call.

Initial reports said the attackers fired from a mosque within in the city, 30 miles west of Baghdad.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC> rose 8.25 points, or 0.45 percent, to 1,861.15.

Paul Durousseau, 32, was charged Tuesday with five counts of first-degree murder for the Dec. 19 to Feb. 5 killings.

Dan Powers, vice president of grid computing strategy at IBM Corp., says he's not worried about such off-the-shelf PC clusters threatening sales of traditional supercomputers.

Britain has said it will oppose articles calling for closer coordination of tax and economic policy, to uphold the national right of veto.

Next Monday at about 2 p.m. (CST), hospital officials in and near Chicago will notice a sudden increase in people complaining of flu-like symptoms.

Four people were found shot to death along a highway Tuesday morning and three others were wounded in a possible dispute involving immigrant smuggling, officials said.

The subjects were next given a squirt up the nose of a rhinovirus, the nasty little germ that causes colds.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kohl's Corp., Family Dollar Stores Inc. and Big Lots Inc. were among the merchants posting May sales that fell below Wall Street's modest expectations.

Horn remained in critical but stable condition Monday, the hospital said.

It will be the first handset to ship with the Smartphone 2003 version of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT)  Windows Mobile software, the mobile operator said.

The patch also fixes a vulnerability that results because IE does not implement an appropriate block on a file download dialog box.

Analysts surveyed by Reuters Research had been looking for, on average, revenue of $723 million and a loss of 28 cents a share.

PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway has described Oracle's $5.1 billion bid as "atrociously bad behaviour from a company with a history of atrociously bad behaviour".

Hernandez has been treated for breast cancer, and Moore suffers from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Peterson, a former fertilizer salesman, is charged with murder in the deaths of his 27-year-old wife and the baby boy she was carrying.

In a landmark ruling yesterday, the Court of Appeals ordered the Legislature and Gov. George Pataki to fix the funding system by July 30, 2004.

Dealers said the single currency's downward momentum may pick up speed should it break below $1.15.

The House would limit the increases to troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to those supporting the nation's war efforts from bases outside the combat zone.

The attack by the three militant groups took place here at Erez, the main border crossing between Israel and Gaza.

He attends football training for three hours a day to accelerate the healing process, and has lost 17 kilograms since October.

The chip also features an updated LongRun power and heat management system.

SPOT products run a Microsoft operating system and the company's DirectBand radio technology developed with SCA Data Systems.

On Monday, a suicide bomber blew himself up near the United Nations compound here, killing a security guard as well as himself.

The company claims it's the largest single Apple VAR Xserve sale to date.

With the Fourth of July weekend approaching, state parks such as the Spruce Run Recreation Area in Union Township will be open.

The 2001 recession is considered short and shallow relative to the nine others since World War II, which averaged 11 months.

Seven of the nine major Democratic presidential candidates were to address the forum last night.

Barbini's comments came Tuesday, the second day of the Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology.

On the Mediterranean coast of neighboring Turkey, Iraqi, U.S. and Turkish officials gathered in the port of Ceyhan for a ceremony launching the shipment.

He replaces Ron Dittemore, who announced his resignation in April.

While opposition parties have welcomed the cabinet's decision on anti-retroviral treatment, some said Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was not fit to preside over a rollout plan.

"We're optimistic we can deliver the vaccine to these people in time to do good," said Dr. David Fleming of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"Only 1pc of those taking the drug worldwide have contracted ILD as a result," she said.

Rescue workers arriving to February's deadly fire at a West Warwick nightclub met a horrific scene, as people trapped in the club's doorway screamed for help.

Detectives told Deasean's father, Stelly Chisolm, a college student, and mother, Kimberly Hill, of the arrest shortly after Perry was apprehended.

Subway and bus fares rose 33 percent, from $1.50 to $2, on May 4, while tickets on suburban trains rose an average 25 percent May 1.

Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport will test a nationwide security system that will collect fingerprints and take photographs of millions of foreign visitors each year.

These plans would offer preventive health coverage as well as protection against catastrophic health-care expenses, neither of which is currently available under the government-run program.

They were among about 40 people attending the traditional Jewish ceremony colored by some non-traditional touches.

Notes: Cabrera, at 20 years, 63 days, is the second-youngest player to debut with the Marlins.

The number of injured dropped to 2.92 million in 2002 from 3.03 million a year earlier.

No dates have been set for the criminal or civil cases, but Shanley has pleaded not guilty.

Shares of Guidant plummeted in trading both on and off the New York Stock Exchange before a news halt was imposed after midday.

McNair was stopped after a police officer saw his vehicle weaving on a downtown street before pulling into a convenience store, the arrest report said.

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said Fox's claim was "wholly without merit, both factually and legally."

The injured were taken to hospitals in Jefferson City and Columbia, a college town about 30 miles to the north.

Stack said he did no work for Triumph until 1999, when a grand jury began investigating Silvester.

Federal agent Bill Polychronopoulos said it was not known if the man, 30, would be charged.

The chipset will operate in the 2.4-GHz band, and features radio signal interference prevention and low power consumption.

It has been named Colymbosathon ecplecticos, which means "astounding swimmer with a large penis".

"I think we should leave them as they are," said Lott, R-Miss., of the current ownership rules during a Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

The company must either pay NTP the $53.7-million or post a bond with the court pending the appeal, Mr. Wallace said.

Taiwan had been relatively free of the viral infection until a fiasco at a Taipei hospital in late April caused the number of infections to skyrocket.

"The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque," said Wyden.

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," Dean said Friday in a telephone interview from New Hampshire.

Without the fleet, NASA has relied on the Russian space program to rotate crew members for the International Space Station and to send supplies to the orbiting laboratory.

At least 29 American troops have been killed in action since Bush declared major combat over on May 1.

Another piece would be sent to the lab in Virginia for additional testing, Conte said.

Some Boston managers are concerned that banning smoking will create safety hazards as groups of smokers huddle outside bars and nightclubs.

Park rangers searched an abandoned lighthouse on Monomoy yesterday, but found no sign of them, said Stuart Smith, the Chatham harbormaster.

A total of 32 U.S. soldiers have been killed in attacks since May 1, when President Bush declared the end of major hostilities in Iraq.

He was sentenced to five years in prison at at Kingston Crown Court yesterday after pleading guilty to the attempted abduction of a teenager.

Mr. Rowland attended a party in South Windsor for the families of Connecticut National Guard soldiers called to active duty.

Doctors say one or both boys may die, and that some brain damage is possible if they survive.

His protest led to a 47-hour standoff with police that caused huge traffic jams in downtown Washington and northern Virginia.

The Institute for Supply Management said its manufacturing index stood at 53.7 in September.

The agency could not say when the tape was made, though the voice says he is speaking on June 14.

"The United States welcomes a greater NATO role in Iraq's stabilization," Mr. Powell told his colleagues in a speech today.

Ross Garber, Rowland's lawyer, said Tuesday he would attend the meeting and would ask to speak on the issue.

Gore said while the Patriot Act made some needed changes, it has "turned out to be, on balance, a terrible mistake."

PeopleSoft, of Pleasanton, California, said the deal would increase its 2004 earnings, excluding amortization and other items.

An 18-month run for it in Toronto was originally planned as part of a North American tour.

Cmdr. Rod Gibbons, an academy spokesman, said, "The academy is shocked and saddened.

Gainers included Dow components AT&T, which rose $1.25 to $21.75, and General Motors, which rose 57 cents to $37.70.

They calculate that one-third of those taking the drug would gain an average of 11 years of life, free of cardiovascular disease.

"We do not want to stand by and let a credit card lynching take place," declared Rep. Major Owens (D-Brooklyn).

The problem likely will mean corrective changes before the shuttle fleet starts flying again.

In a conference call with reporters, RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie said he sent the request to CBS Television President Leslie Moonves.

And Forrester forecasts that on-demand movie distribution will generate $1.4bn by 2005, while revenue from DVDs and tapes will decline by eight per cent.

The Ministry of Defence is facing a 20m compensation claim from hundreds of Kenyan women who claim they were raped by British soldiers.

The results were released at Tuesday's meeting in Seattle of the American Thoracic Society and will be published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.

Music mogul Simon Cowell's latest project, a reality TV dating show called Cupid, airs in the US on Wednesday.

The defeat of the ninth seed Daniela Hantuchova on Wednesday was the only thing to disrupt an otherwise orderly second round in Serena Williams's half of the women's draw.

The euro was at 1.5281 versus the Swiss franc EURCHF= , up 0.2 percent on the session, after hitting its highest since mid-2001 around 1.5292 earlier in the session.

Nearly 2,000 pages of transcripts were ordered to be made public after a legal action by the New York Times.

Like the outgoing centre-left coalition, the next government is expected to come under pressure to hand over indicted war criminals or risk losing Western aid.

"We acted because we saw the existing evidence in a new light, through the prism of ... Sept. 11th."

On the cell's surface, the foreign components are recognised by other cells that then realise it is infected and kill it.

Unilever Bestfoods said Wednesday it would strip trans fats from its I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spreads by the middle of next year.

"We are pleased with the judge's decision and pleased that they accepted our arguments," a Merrill spokesman said Tuesday.

On the stand Wednesday, she said she was referring only to the kissing.

Deasean and Walker, a resident of nearby Barbey Street, were rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where they died about 6 p.m., O'Brien said.

More than 6,000 companies must get shareholders' approval before granting their executives options and other stock compensation packages, the Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday.

Garner said the group would probably be expanded to include, for example, a Christian and perhaps another Sunni leader.

Blair's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw was to take his place on Monday to give a statement to parliament on the European Union.

What's next: If finally passed by the House, the measure moves to the Senate.

Mr Goh on his part, described the visit as especially important - given the SARS situation.

It is publishing the studies in the July issue of its Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

"This blackout was largely preventable," U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said at a briefing on the report.

The two powerful men also disagree about ethanol (sacred in Iowa) and authorizing oil and gas drilling in Alaska's wildlife refuge.

Analysts say Davis, who faces a historic recall election in October, could get a boost in the polls with a budget plan in place.

"There were more people surrounding the clubhouse than the Unabomber's house up in the hills," Baker said.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX advanced 2 points, or 0.24 percent, to 977.

Blair took over the Labour Party when his predecessor John Smith died of a heart attack in 1994.

Friends of Animals president Priscilla Feral said she would spend the weekend considering the possibility of further legal action.

He then drove south on Hemphill and west on Drew Street driving about 60 mph, Jones said.

The Fourth of July Parade begins at 10:30 a.m. on Redwood Road, above the Sequoia and Redwood intersection.

"The actions reflect our strong forward momentum as we intensify our business focus and work to achieve profitability."

What's more, Mr. O'Neill said that he hoped Hyundai would sell one million vehicles annually in the United States by 2010.

Think Dynamics, which is based in Toronto, will become part of IBM's Software Group.

State Sen. Vi Simpson, former state and national Democratic chairman Joe Andrew are seeking the Democratic nomination.

It recommended that consideration be given to making the job of CIA director a career post instead of a political appointment.

Officials are also meeting with the International Organization for Epizootics (OIE), which establishes animal-health standards for the world.

Mr Li, deputy chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings, is the son of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing.

GE stock closed Friday at $30.65 a share, down about 42 cents, on the New York Stock Exchange.

Pope John Paul has health problems but is still at the helm of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope's top aide has told Reuters.

Fletcher will not do that, said his campaign manager, Daniel Groves.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC gave up 3.88 points, or 0.24 percent, to 1,644.76.

Pharmacy Guild president Richard Heslop said many pharmacy customers were also returning recalled products.

Kempenaers said some species are still faithful, notably swans and sea birds such as the albatross, which mate for life and are never unfaithful to their partners.

US troops encountered fire from rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and small arms coming from bunkers and buildings.

HCA Inc. , the largest U.S. hospital chain, dropped $2.21, or 5.8 percent, to $36.14.

They said they were not advocating the changes yet, but believed they are worth considering — especially as NATO expands to 26 members.

They were identified as Abdul Azi Haji Thiming and Muhammad Jalaludin Mading of Thailand, and Esam Mohammed Khidr Ali of Egypt.

In 2001 and 2002, wire transfers from 4 of the company's 40 accounts totaled more than $3.2 billion, prosecutors said.

Elsewhere, European stocks were barely changed but within a few points of year highs.

The only other JI member to reveal similar information is Omar al Faruq, now held at a secret location by the United States.

His lack of co-operation was allowing other Jemaah Islamiah fugitives to remain at large, Mr Dila told the court.

"Prime Minister Abbas, we are facing a new opportunity today, a better future for both peoples," Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said after Tuesday's meeting.

Two officials initially said about 300 workers had been arrested at 61 stores in 21 states.

"He really left us with a smile on his face and no last words," daughter Linda Hope said.

The Midwestern research center will focus on the development of diagnostic, therapeutic and vaccine products for anthrax, botulism, tularemia, hemorrhagic fever viruses and plague.

The hearing is to determine whether there is enough evidence to order Akbar to a general court-martial proceeding.

In the United States, heart attacks kill about 460,000 year, in Canada about 80,000.

As frequently happens to a company making a major acquisition, PeopleSoft's shares dropped during yesterday's trading, decreasing $1.42 to close at $14.97.

About 400 of those taken into custody were charged with manufacturing or distributing child pornography on the Internet.

Ninety-five percent of international cargo to the United States is carried by ship.

"I'm disgusted, physically sick in the stomach," said Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

One Republican sent out a flier this week citing a 3.8-percent increase in the S&P 500 stock index since passage of the tax cuts in May.

P&G officials later concluded that the better approach was to split up the contracts to avoid reliance on just one contractor.

Under the NBC proposal, Vivendi would merge its U.S. film and TV business with NBC's broadcast network, Spanish-language network and cable channels including CNBC and Bravo.

"It's a major victory for Maine, and it's a major victory for other states.

Belgium said Saturday it has decided to scrap a controversial war crimes law which has seen cases launched against President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"His comments were extremely inappropriate and the decision was an easy one," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.

Already, the impact of Chinas moves is sending ripples through the region.

He also had management jobs at three space centers before being named director of Stennis.

News that oil producers were lowering their output starting in November exacerbated a sell-off that was already under way on Wall Street.

Chi-Chi's has agreed to keep the restaurant closed until Jan. 2 - two months after it voluntarily closed following initial reports of the disease.

The Commerce ruling Tuesday will impose a 44.71 percent tariff on dynamic random access memory semiconductors (DRAMS) made by Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been gathering information on suspect cases.

They note that after several weeks of rallies on upbeat earnings, investors are looking for stronger evidence of a recovery before sending stocks higher.

Shares of Mattel were down 13 cents to $19.72 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Both were declared dead about 6 p.m. at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.

In terms of format, DVD music took off while legitimate online music broadened its reach, the IFPI said.

Malvo was brought into the courtroom for about two minutes Monday so a witness could identify him.

They cover more than 300,000 UAW workers and 500,000 retirees and spouses.

The hospital where she is staying is being guarded by about a dozen undercover police and military intelligence officers.

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled late Friday that the small size, limited use and secular purpose make the image legitimate.

In an interview, Healey, who is a criminologist, acknowledged that much of the sentiment among legislators here and across the country was wariness toward capital punishment.

Today, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board will issue its findings on what caused the accident.

"I'm not aware of any changes in policy - we have contacts with them, they will continue."

Telemarketers who call listed numbers could face FCC fines of up to $120,000.

The compensation committee will prohibit securities industry directors from sitting on it.

Immediately after the blast, people portraying some of the 150 "victims" stumbled amid the wreckage as emergency vehicles converged on the scene.

"This is, I think, a very seminal moment in our agency's history," Mr O'Keefe said.

British police claim they have been taking statements from more than 30 of the women.

A group of investors wants to start a TV network aimed at the estimated 8 million Muslims living in the United States.

He said that in early December, immigration inspectors at Hartsfield will be able to match the fingerprints to the federal government's computerized "watch lists."

Derrick Todd Lee is helped from a plane in Baton Rouge, Wednesday.

They also said the rule will make the nation's electrical system more reliable -- a high-profile issue after last week's massive power blackout.

Sanchez de Lozada promised a referendum on a controversial gas project, a reform of a free market energy law and constitutional reforms.

Yesterday, this honor was given to Firefighter Thomas C. Brick, who died last Tuesday battling a fire in an Upper Manhattan warehouse.

In the settlement, Tyrer agreed to pay $US1.06 million in allegedly ill-gotten trading profits and $US342,195 in interest, the SEC said.

The agency said it would not release the name of the 17-year-old involved because he is a minor.

He was also expected to visit Yemen and Bahrain during his tour of the region.

Opposition to the bill has come from environmentalists, the Miccosukee Tribe, some scientists and members of Congress.

After the shooting, Hoffine fled to the nearby home of a friend, and allowed her and her daughter to leave.

He gave a surprisingly impassioned speech to the United Steelworkers of America, who announced their endorsement yesterday.

Merrill neither admitted to nor denied wrongdoing in the accord.

Mr. Marshall demonstrated a preference for results over rhetoric in preparing the Civil Rights Act.

The FTC judge is set to render a decision on Dec. 18, which is viewed as the final chapter of a long-standing legal saga that's dragged on for years.

The lawmakers were departing Wednesday and expected to arrive in Pyongyang on Friday.

Authorities said the bodies of a man and woman were recovered on Friday from a camping ground in nearby Devore, where a wall of mud destroyed 32 caravans.

Democrats currently hold a 17-15 advantage in the state's congressional delegation.

He said that most of the 250 persons living near the disaster site were asleep when the cloudburst took place late on Thursday evening.

The awards are being announced today by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation.

According to the survey, last years identity theft losses to businesses and financial institutions totaled nearly $48 billion and consumer victims reported $5 billion in out-of-pocket expenses.

The company also became synonymous with ethical business practices.

Peterson, 27, was eight months pregnant when she disappeared in the days before Christmas.

At present, the FCC will not request personal identifying information prior to allowing access to the wireless network.

The US on Tuesday assembled a coalition of more than a dozen countries to launch a World Trade Organisation case against the European Union's ban on new genetically modified crops.

A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated perjury charges against a San Diego student accused of lying about his association with 9/11 hijackers.

Kerr, who won three championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 90's and one with the Spurs in 1999, finished with 12 points, 3 assists and 2 rebounds.

Another million barrels, bought by Spanish refiner Cepsa SA, was to be loaded onto a Spanish tanker, the Sandra Tapias.

Lloyds TSB confirmed on Tuesday it was "considering its options" over the sale of its National Bank of New Zealand subsidiary.

Most economists had expected a more dire report, with many anticipating the fifth month of job losses in six months.

The reading for both August and July is the best seen since the survey began in August 1997.

Former U.S. Rep. Frank McCloskey, 64, died this afternoon in his home after a long battle with bladder cancer.

Instead, bond bulls focus on the fact the Fed has done nothing to dispel market expectations of an easing, either in speeches or through the press.

He also drove in a run on a groundout against Franklin in the fifth.

In a series of raids, Moroccan police arrested 33 suspects on Saturday, including some linked to the radical Djihad Salafist group, a senior official said.

Novelist Michael Peterson was convicted Friday of murdering his wife, whose body was found in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase in their home.

President Bush on Saturday became the first American president to address a joint session of the Philippine National Congress since Dwight Eisenhower in 1960.

Allied forces have overthrown the government, moved into Saddam Hussein's palaces and started to patrol the streets of the capital.

They went into the operations of their own free will," their father Dadollah Bijani said.

The yield on the 3 5/8 percent February 2013 note dropped 2 basis points to 3.66 percent.

"Approximately 60 per cent of all national advertisers do not yet advertise in Spanish," he said.

Previously he had seen the grinning mechanic from east Java only on television.

As part of the agreement to extradite the two best friends from Canada, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

MySQL AB on Tuesday announced that it had ported its open-source database to the HP-UX operating system on the 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC edged up 2.84 points, or 0.18 percent, at 1,593.59.

"The question that has to be penetrated is, how did 38 visits over 2 years not rescue these children from slow torture and starvation?"

Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that portion of the DMCA gives too much leeway to copyright holders.

The S3C2440 CPU supports major operating systems including Microsoft Windows CE/Pocket PC, Palm OS, Symbian, and Linux.

The transaction will expand the revenue from Callebaut's consumer products business to 45 percent of total sales from 23 percent.

Meanwhile, law enforcement officials in Palm Beach County, Fla., where Limbaugh owns a $24 million mansion, said his drug use is under investigation.

State Rep. Ron Wilson, D-Houston, joined committee Republicans in voting for the map.

State unemployment last month stood at 6.4 percent, down from a revised 6.7 percent in August.

The three chains have replaced most of the 70,000 striking workers with temporary employees to keep their stores open.

Government workers trapped in a burning downtown office tower frantically dialed 911 as they tried to make their way through smoke-filled staircases and hallways, officials said.

Because of the distance between the two chambers, the eventual conference between House and Senate tax writers promises to be intense and possibly rocky.

Their groundbreaking contributions commercialize technologies, create jobs, improve productivity and stimulate the nation's growth and development."

Oak Brook, IL-based McDonalds is expected to launch several hundred restaurants by year's end.

But software license revenues, a measure financial analysts watch closely, decreased 21 percent to $107.6 million.

The dividend, the company's second this calendar year, is payable Nov. 7 to shareholders of record at the close of business Oct. 17.

Mr. Hampton had been living at a residence for AIDS patients in Beth Israel Hospital.

Already suffering with the nation's worst credit rating, the state is operating for the first time completely on borrowed money.

Testing of the swimsuit at a state police lab and at a private lab in Virginia had not yet been able determine whether it belonged to Bish, Conte said.

Under the final tax bill, most dividends and capital gains would be taxed at 15 per cent until the end of 2008.

A grassy field and asphalt island, topped with an ATM, sit where Orville Wright once developed a split airplane wing, tinkered with cars and even built toys.

Shares of GE were slipping 17 cents, or 0.6%, to $28.02 in Instinet premarket trading.

King, brand-name writer, master of the horror story and e-book pioneer, is receiving this year's medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters.

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Frank T. Griswold III, declined, through a spokesman, to comment on the development Saturday.

IAC's stock closed yesterday down $2.81, or 7.6 percent, at $34.19.

Memories also live on of the bloody debacle in Somalia 10 years ago -- the last major US military involvement in Africa.

He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

At 5 p.m. EDT, Henri had maximum sustained winds near 50 mph, with some gusts reaching 60 mph.

"It's a huge black eye," said publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., whose family has controlled the paper since 1896.

The industry is working with the FDA "to get firm answers and not just speculation," he told Reuters Health.

It would have been the first time in Texas history that the comptroller had not certified the budget.

Sales at Ford fell 0.1 percent while sales at DaimlerChrysler rose 7 percent.

The rate of survival without serious brain damage is about 10 per cent, said Dr Leo Bossaert, executive director of the European Resuscitation Council.

The Denver-based natural gas producer and marketer said the inaccurate reporting was discovered after it received a subpoena from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

GREAT train robber Ronnie Biggs was fighting for life last night after a massive heart attack.

The steel tariffs, which the U.S. president imposed in March 2002, will officially end at midnight, instead of March 2005 as initially planned.

Russian and Saudi officials on Monday signed a five-year agreement on cooperation in the oil and gas sector.

A judge stayed an injunction against RIM that would have prevented it from selling the Blackberry device and services in the United States.

Imam Samudra, 32, is accused of being the "field commander" of the October 12 attacks that killed 202 people, mostly tourists.

This is just the latest movement in a continuing trend towards open source support of business applications.

Dusenbery's fiancee, Jessica Wheat, said he was considering settling down in Fort Campbell and making the Army his career.

Jack Ferry, company spokesman, said that a search is in progress but would not comment on its status.

Three Federal Reserve speakers and the Fed's anecdotal summary of U.S. economic conditions could help firm expectations.

The U.N. Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq last week reported that cases of diarrhea have tripled in Baghdad.

Billy Hodge, 11, is engrossed with the Harry Potter series books.

Mr Eddington warned yesterday that the future of the airline was "in the hands of the negotiators".

Selling it symbolically writes a finish to that chapter in the administration of our city schools."

The SIA said chip sales were expect to rise 16.8 percent to $180.9bn next year, followed by a 5.8 in 2005.

Peterson has been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife and son.

U.S. stocks fell, led by computer-related shares, after network-equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. said sales will be unchanged this quarter.

Mr. Dewhurst has called for a "cooling period" between special sessions, which could give the Democrats some time at home.

Mr. Weingarten said that he expected Mr. Ebbers, who turned 62 yesterday, to be fully exonerated at trial.

The four fund companies named by Spitzer each said they're cooperating with his investigation.

Artists are worried the plan would harm those who need help most - performers who have a difficult time lining up shows.

At 10 p.m., Odette was centered about 295 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and was moving northeast near 8 mph.

AMC has since asked the experienced Fluor company of the US to produce a detailed costing of the project, but the report is still two weeks away.

The researchers found only empty cavities and scar tissue where the tumors had been.

The House has already approved the measure, and Congress twice sent similar legislation to President Clinton, who vetoed it.

Mr. Bush has credited the Dallas pastor with helping to inspire the idea of using federal dollars to fund faith-based programs.

Attorney Patricia Anderson, who represents the Schindlers in the courtroom tug-of-war with their son-in-law, declined to comment on the case.

The court today reversed the decision of that court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

"High-tech scam artists who think they can hijack the Internet should think again," Ashcroft said.

Those systems typically combine institutional and community-based care and are financed by a combination of state, federal, and private dollars.

A passer-by found Ben hiding along a dirt road in Spanish Fork Canyon about 7 p.m., with his hands still taped together but his feet free.

The companies uniformly declined to give specific numbers on customer turnover, saying they will release those figures only when they report overall company performance at year-end.

Chaudhry was released 56 days later and the Fiji military installed an all-indigenous government led by Qarase, who won democratic elections in September 2001.

Russia had closed checkpoints on parts of the border with China and Mongolia until June 4, Itar-Tass news agency said.

Business Week's online edition reported on Friday that WorldCom and the SEC could announce a settlement as early as Monday.

Nonetheless, the open-source guru insisted, "This attack was wrong, and it was dangerous to our goals."

The U.S. military on Dec. 2 began a large-scale sweep, dubbed Operation Avalanche, targeting the south and east of the country, where Taliban activity has been highest.

Britz earned $3.77 million in salary, bonus and other compensation, and Kinney earned $3.76 million.

But the company said that its competitors simply were trying to hinder MCI's emergence from bankruptcy.

As a result, Murphy sought to substitute Strier's sister, Ethel Celnik, as the trustee.

"This moves us a lot closer to saying that the foam can do this kind of damage," said Hubbard, a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Vincent’s team said all of the fresh water poured out of the 20 mile (30 km) long Disraeli Fjord.

Instead, tickets for the Jersey jam went on sale last night through Ticketmaster.

On Wednesday, a man was shot near Kut as he tried to run over two marines at a checkpoint.

Among the proposals is one for Zimbabwe to have the opportunity to rejoin the 54-member body before the next CHOGM meeting in two years.

The percentage of Americans without health coverage rose from 14.6 to 15.2.

Yesterday's ruling is a great first step toward better coverage for poor Maine residents, he said, but there is more to be done.

A ruling last week by U.S. District Judge Lee R. West in Oklahoma City that the FTC lacked authority to run the registry triggered a whirlwind of activity in Washington.

Seven people were taken to hospital today after a second derailment on the London Underground in less than 48 hours.

The quick conviction followed a 21/2-week trial, during which Waagner represented himself.

IDEC shareholders would own 50.5 percent of the stock of the combined company, and Biogen shareholders the remaining 49.5 percent.

U.S. officials say Hussein loyalists do not require high-technology eavesdropping devices to gather substantial amounts of information on the activities of American officials.

Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP said it filed suit in a New York court on Monday on behalf of the Southern Alaska Carpenters Pension Fund.

Both figures were below consensus expectations, but August sales were revised to a 1.2 percent increase from a previously reported 0.6 percent gain, fueling a dollar rally.

Attorneys for the Roman Catholic archdiocese and nearly 250 alleged victims began meeting last week to reach an out-of-court settlement.

The two other passengers were taken to John Peter Smith and Harris Methodist Fort Worth hospitals with critical injuries.

The new law requires libraries and schools to use filters or lose federal financing.

At first, the animals’ performance declined compared to the sessions on the joystick.

"The public is understandably losing patience with these unwanted phone calls, unwanted intrusions," he said at a White House ceremony.

Lucent's stock was off 7 cents, or 3.7 percent, at $1.84 in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

McBride dismissed Novell's Unix ownership claims as "a desperate measure to curry favor with the Linux community."

Although they no longer get the glory, desktop PC exceeded IDC's shipment expectations in the second quarter, Kay said.

"Clearly it is a tragic day for Americans," he said in Washington.

In an editorial in the journal, two breast cancer researchers said hormones' effect on the breast creates a double-whammy that is "almost unique" in medicine.

PC-related products were the strongest sellers, with microprocessors up 5.6 percent and DRAMs up 8.2 percent, the SIA said.

Last month, The Washington Post Co. introduced Express, a tabloid distributed largely along transit routes.

Ten, two mobile homes and numerous outbuildings were destroyed by the now-smoldering fire northwest of Boulder.

Limbaugh's lawyer, Roy Black, has accused the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office of having political motives for investigating whether the conservative radio commentator bought painkillers illegally.

The top speed of Ethernet could hit 40G bps (bits per second) within the next two years, a senior Cisco Systems Inc. executive said Wednesday.

Many of the victims of Sunday's attack had been headed out of Iraq for R&R or emergency leave.

He also wrote the state was right to execute a search warrant at the store.

Three such vigilante-style attacks forced the hacker organizer, who identified himself only as "Eleonora67," to extend the contest until 6 p.m. EDT Sunday.

Only one of the five buildings in the Baghdad compound of the United Nations Development Program escaped being burned, the UN said on its Web site.

Shares of Ahold rose 12 cents, or 2.3 percent, to 5.35 euros in Amsterdam.

Michelle Wie chips Sunday during her 1-up victory over Virada Nirapathpongporn in the 27th U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.

Powell's rendition of the third conversation made it more incriminating, by saying an officer ordered that the area be "cleared out."

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> gained 3 points, or 0.39 percent, at 924.

The euro soared to US$1.1914 in Asian trading, before slipping back slightly to US$1.1895 as trading opened in Europe.

PBL's Channel Nine has been billed as Australia's most popular commercial station after it recently recorded 26 consecutive weeks on top of the ratings.

The Nasdaq composite index rose 15.82, or 0.9 percent, to 1,861.52.

It appears that the machine was cracked using a ptrace exploit by a local user immediately after the exploit was posted on BugTraq."

The money was taken at 4 a.m. on March 18, hours before the U.S. launched its first air strikes, the newspaper said.

"The company has always made, and continues to make, exceptional customer service and customer satisfaction a top priority," the statement said.

Nvidia shares lost 58 cents (U.S.) or 3.46 per cent to $16.20 yesterday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Yang would dine on shredded pork with garlic and kung pao chicken washed down with Chinese tea, state media said.

Shares of Salix have rocketed 64 percent since Axcan made its first offer on April 10.

Cullen is replacing former chief privacy officer Richard Purcell, who left earlier this year.

Singapore reported no suspected SARS cases Wednesday, but officials quarantined 70 people who had contact with the Taiwanese patient.

The agencies warn that the "insulation can sift through cracks in the ceiling, around light fixtures or around ceiling fans."

Mallard's friend, Clete Jackson, and his cousin, Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, pleaded guilty last year to dumping Biggs' body.

"Oh, it's never fun to be No 4, especially if you've been No 1 before.

But Nelson claims he did it because he was drunk on beer, not because Rosenbaum was jewish.

In the 1990's, the board found, budget cuts and trade-offs ate away at the shuttle program's safety margins.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI jumped 118 points, or 1.36 percent, to 8,829.

The 5,000 members have already pledged to relocate to the selected state, Free State Project organizers say.

In Hong Kong, 24 patients were quarantined Wednesday after seven public hospital workers developed flu-like symptoms.

By late afternoon, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 12.81, or 0.1 percent, at 9,331.77, having gained 201 points Monday to its highest level since July 2002.

On Friday, every major exhibitor will donate time to play daily trailers on all screens in more than 5,000 U.S. theaters.

The jury verdict, reached Wednesday after less than four hours of deliberation, followed a 2 week trial, during which Waagner represented himself.

The charges came after the federal government prohibited the sheik from speaking with the media and imposed special measures restricting his access to mail, the telephone and visitors.

The updated 64-bit operating system, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems, will run natively on AMD Athlon 64 processor-powered desktops and AMD Opteron processor-powered workstations.

"I regret we had an incident that could be an impediment to progress," Mr. Powell said, referring to the killing of Abdullah Qawasmeh, a leading Hamas figure.

The department's position threatens to alienate social conservatives, who have provided strong political support for Mr. Ashcroft and President Bush.

French President Jacques Chirac was said to have demanded that a European company provide the engines.

"This new division will be focused on the vitally important task of protecting the nation's cyber assets so that we may best protect the nation's critical infrastructure assets."

Apple is working with Oxford Semiconductor and affected drive manufacturers to resolve this issue, which resides in the Oxford 922 chipset," the company statement said.

It's happened five times in the last 11 years: A disaster puts this Southwestern town in the headlines during the summer tourist season.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX edged down 9 points, or 0.98 percent, to 921.

"His statement is that he possibly hit the gas instead of the brakes," Mr Butts said.

Ten police officers were facing disciplinary action yesterday after they abandoned their night patrol to watch David Blaine.

Whitey Bulger is now on the law enforcement agency's "10 Most Wanted" list alongside Osama bin Laden.

Humphries, and his father William, were on the IU campus Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.

Blue chips edged lower by midday on Wednesday as a wave of profit warnings drained some of the optimism that has driven a rally over the past three months.

"They did not read footnotes in a 90-page document," said the official, referring to the section that contained the State Department's dissent.

At least 2 female patients sharing a room and 10 nurses have fevers or other symptoms, and about 100 people who have had contact with them have been quarantined.

The results appear in the January issue of Cancer, the American Cancer Society journal, being published online today.

The rioters shot one person in the shoulder and beat and stabbed others, police said.

Congo's many-sided war began in 1998 when Uganda and Rwanda invaded to back rebels fighting to topple the government in Kinshasa.

Senate President Pro Tempore Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, said he spoke with Kernan not long before the oath of office ceremony.

For the first time starting Thursday, all four pages of the Constitution will be on view instead of just the first and last pages.

Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said the yen has strengthened too much but declined to comment on whether Japan had intervened.

The American Anglican Council, which represents Episcopalian conservatives, said it will seek authorization to create a separate province in North America because of last week's actions.

The company emphasized that McDonald's USA does not import any raw beef or hamburger patties from Canada for McDonald's use in the United States.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes recorded their third straight week of gains.

He said there were complex reasons for the increased numbers of cases and scientists were only just beginning to understand the risk factors.

After all, China isn't racing anyoneso there's no great rush," Clark said.

Additionally, the new Server Admin tool is intended to make it easy for system administrators to set up, manage and monitor the services built into Panther Server.

Gregory Parseghian, a former investment banker, was appointed chief executive.

Furthermore, Bremer estimated that as many as 200 operatives from the extremist group Ansar al-Islam have slipped back into the country since May 1.

Holders of paper bonds will be able, though not required, to convert to electronic accounts.

Their contract will expire at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday instead of 12:01 a.m. Sunday, said Rian Wathen, organizing director for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700.

Labor's Julia Gillard said it was a "major failure of coastal surveillance".

The suspected militants ambushed the convoy Saturday near the town of Spinboldak, said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Douglas Lefforge.

She has also signed a contract with Random House to write two books.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC declined 25.78 points, or 1.56 percent, to 1,627.84.

But plaque volume increased by 2.7 percent in pravastatin patients.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11.67, or 1.2 percent, to 975.26, having risen 3.3 percent last week.

The retailer said it came to the decision after hearing the opinions of customers and associates.

Analysts attributed the increase in part to negative news from bankrupt competitor WorldCom Inc. WCOEQ.PK and talk that AT&T could be a takeover target.

The NEA report, the "Status of the American Public School Teacher," aims to help education groups shape their agendas.

Paul Themba Nyathi, an MDC spokesman, said the Avenues Clinic was being targeted because it was treating opposition supporters.

Federal Judge William Barbour said Tuesday he imposed the maximum sentence because Avants showed no remorse in the brutal slaying.

"These are dark days for our industry," Giovanni Bisignani, director general of the Geneva-based organization, said in a statement.

US Special Forces troops are training Colombian soldiers at military bases in the region to protect the pipeline, which transports crude from Colombia's second-biggest oil field.

Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, argued that the freeze is for only a few months.

She was the only woman in her unit and a member of Teamsters Local 995.

After consulting with experts, he said he was advised a delay will give Luna his best chance of reuniting with "L" Pod, his family.

Today in the US, the book - kept under wraps by its publishers, G. P. Putnam's Sons, since its inception - will appear in bookstores.

Analysts have estimated that Vivendi Uni could fetch $12 billion-$14 billion for VUE.

Microsoft favors setting up "independent e-mail trust authorities to establish and maintain commercial email guidelines, certify senders who follow the guidelines, and resolve customer disputes."

"The reasons behind the increase in incidence are more complex and we are only just beginning to understand the risk factors," he said.

The interview, which also focuses on Schwarzenegger's training routines and prowess as a bodybuilder, was reprinted this week on the website http://www.smokinggun.com.

Trevor Fetter, who returned to Tenet as president last November, has been appointed as acting CEO, the company said.

The 3{ hours of recordings include conversations between police, firefighters and other emergency workers, as well as media inquiries.

Germans account for more than 40 percent of foreign visitors coming to Italy.

The S&P/TSX composite rose 87.74 points on the week, while the TSX Venture Exchange composite gained 44.49 points.

Muhammad and fellow sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo, who goes on trial Nov. 10, were arrested Oct. 24, 2002, at a Maryland highway rest stop.

Thursday, Mr. Romanow called it an offence to democracy to not implement a council that so many Canadians support.

"The anticipated global sales improvement in the month of June did not materialize," said Chief Financial Officer Robert Rivet.

Ex-KGB agent Putin added that the Beatles were considered 'propaganda of an alien ideology'.

Feelings about current business conditions improved substantially from the first quarter, jumping from 40 to 55.

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said the incident resulted from "two staff members bringing in Halloween costumes."

The company reported that it terminated Sequent's Unix contract for improper transfer of source code and development methods into Linux.

Investors are taking heed of the latest warning from Japan's top financial diplomat Zembei Mizoguchi that Japan would act to prevent excessive swings in rates.

Mr McDevitt has been granted control of three crucial aspects of policing in the Solomons.

In 2002, Linksys overtook Cisco Systems as the leading wireless equipment vendor, accounting for 14.1 percent of revenue.

RT Jones analyst Juli Niemann said Grant was "the one we were all pulling for.

The layoffs at Eddie Bauer headquarters were dispersed across the company and at all levels, spokeswoman Lisa Erickson said.

Mr Martin said the company is "cautiously optimistic regarding some improvement in sales and operating performance trends in the second half of 2003".

"It was one of the first times in my life that I felt we were truly being treated as Americans,'' she said.

"Please, keep doing your homework," said Bavelier, the mother of three.

While Mr. Qurei is widely respected and has a long history of negotiating with the Israelis, he cannot expect such a warm welcome.

"Nobody wants to go to war with anybody about anything ... it's always very much a last resort thing and one to be avoided," Mr Howard told Sydney radio.

"The message is: If an individual is thinking of getting a flu shot, they shouldn't wait.

Gilroy police and FBI agents described Gehring as cooperative, but said Saturday that he had revealed nothing about what had happened to the children.

Knox County Health Department is following national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Protocol to contain infection.

The new rules will allow a single company to own TV stations that reach 45 percent of U.S. households instead of the old 35 percent.

"At this point, Mr. Brando announced: 'Somebody ought to put a bullet'" through her head, the motion continued.

Martin, 58, will be freed today after serving two thirds of his five-year sentence for the manslaughter of 16-year-old Fred Barras.

"We have concluded that the outlook for price stability over the medium term has improved significantly since our last decision to lower interest rates," Duisenberg said.

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR rose 22/32 for a yield of 4.31 percent, versus 4.35 percent at Wednesday's close.

Referring to him as only "the witness", Amrozi accused his brother of deliberately distorting his evidence.

Yucaipa bought Dominick's in 1995 for $693 million and sold it to Safeway for $1.8 billion in 1998.

On June 10, the ship's owners had published an advertisement on the Internet, offering the explosives for sale.

Tab shares jumped 20 cents, or 4.6%, to set a record closing high at A$4.57.

PG&E Corp. shares jumped $1.63 or 8 percent to $21.03 on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday.

With the scandal hanging over Stewart's company, revenue the first quarter of the year dropped 15 percent from the same period a year earlier.

The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite .IXIC rallied 30.46 points, or 2.04 percent, to 1,520.15.

Earnings were affected by a non-recurring $8 million tax benefit in the year-ago period.

"The foodservice pie business does not fit our long-term growth strategy.

Shares of Xoma fell 16 percent in early trade, while shares of Genentech, a much larger company with several products on the market, were up 2 percent.

Legislation making it harder for consumers to erase their debts in bankruptcy court won speedy, House approval in March and was endorsed by the White House.

The Nasdaq Composite index, full of technology stocks, was lately up around 18 points.

De Sole said in the results statement that group performance would improve in the second half of the year and beyond.

"Saddam's daughters had British schools and hospitals in mind when they decided to ask for asylum -- especially the schools," he told The Sun.

The head of the local disaster unit, Gyorgy Heizler, said the coach driver had failed to heed red stop lights.

Senior Vice President Eric Rudder, formerly head of the Developer and Platform Evangelism unit, will lead the new entity.

Internal chaos has allowed foreign companies to set up damaging commercial logging and fishing operations without proper monitoring or export controls.

His wife said he was "100 percent behind George Bush" and looked forward to using his years of training in the war.

Sheena Young, a spokesman for Child, the national infertility support network, said the proposed guidelines should lead to a more "fair and equitable" service for infertility sufferers.

"I think you'll see a lot of job growth in the next two years," said Mankiw.

Panther's redesigned Finder navigation tool puts a user's favourite folders, hard drive, network servers, iDisk and removable media in one location.

Tropical storm warnings were in place Thursday for Jamaica and Haiti and watches for the western Dominican Republic, the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands.

Zuccarini was ordered held without bail Wednesday by a federal judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered normal, over 25 is considered overweight and 30 or greater is defined as obese.

The dollar was at 116.78 yen JPY= , virtually flat on the session, and at 1.2871 against the Swiss franc CHF= , down 0.1 percent.

But six months ago, the two sides managed to strike a $6.8-billion debt rollover deal, which expires in August.

Simply put, shy invividuals tend to be more timid with new people and situations.

"I wanted to bring the most beautiful people into the most beautiful building," Tunick said Sunday.

The S&P 500 index was up 1.26, or 0.1 percent, to 1,039.32 after sinking 10.75 yesterday.

Currently living onboard the space station are American astronaut Ed Lu and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.

Although a small city-state, Singapore is the 12th-largest trading partner of the United States, with trade volume of $33.4 billion last year.

The AFL-CIO announced Wednesday that it will decide in October whether to endorse a candidate before the primaries.

Sub-indexes measuring prices, new orders, inventories and exports increased.

The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading yesterday in Loral, which closed at $3.01 Friday.

That beat the company's April earnings forecast of 8 to 9 cents a share.

After that, he plans to have dinner at Camp Bondsteel with U.S. troops stationed there.

Retailers J.C. Penney Co. Inc. JCP.N and Walgreen Co. WAG.N kick things off on Monday.

Last year, the court ruled 5-4 in an Ohio case that government vouchers are constitutional if they provide parents with choices among a range of religious and secular schools.

Armstrong, 31, battled testicular cancer that spread to his brain.

Sorkin was to have been tried separately on charges of conspiracy and lying to a grand jury.

Pete Slover reported from Laredo and Gromer Jeffers from Albuquerque.

The Americas market will decline 2.1 percent to $30.6 billion in 2003, and then grow 15.7 percent to $35.4 billion in 2004.

The group will be headed by John S. Wolf, an assistant secretary of state who has served in Australia, Vietnam, Greece and Pakistan.

An average residential customer paying $840 a year for electricity could see a savings of $30 annually.

The company had announced in January that it would have to restate earnings for 2002, 2001 and perhaps 2000.

"The result is an overall package that will provide a significant economic growth for our employees over the next few years," he said.

It has also said it would review all of its domestic employees more than 1 million to ensure they have legal status.

The talk, however,has been downplayed by PBL which said it would focus only on smaller purchases that were immediately earnings and cash flow-accretive.

The stock rose 48 cents to $30 yesterday in Nasdaq Stock Market trading.

The Institute said dioxin levels in the environment have fallen by as much as 76 percent since the 1970s.

IBM said the Rational products were also integrated with Rational PurifyPlus, which allows developers to work in Java, Visual C# and VisualBasic .Net.

The plant plans to shut down its first shift and parts of the second shift Monday to accommodate the president's appearance, Crosby said.

His body was found July 25, and former teammate Carlton Dotson has been charged in his shooting death.

Several of the audience questions were new to the candidates as well.

The global death toll from SARS was at least 767, with more than 8,300 people sickened since the virus first appeared in southern China in November.

Twenty-seven Iraqis were killed, pushing the number of opposition deaths to about 100 in a U.S. operation to hunt down supporters of Saddam Hussein's fallen regime.

The women had follow-up examinations in 1974-75, 1980-81 and 1992-93, but were not asked about stress again.

The Bombardier and Embraer aircraft will be delivered to U.S. Airways by September 2006.

Ellison said that contrary to the contentions of PeopleSoft management, Oracle intends to "fully support PeopleSoft customers and products" for many years to come.

The new application intelligence features will be available June 3 and are included with the SmartDefense product, which comes with FireWall-1.

Note the subheading of this terrible parable in the "American Masters" series, "Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin."

The downtime is expected to take 60 million to 70 million board feet out of the companys system.

Troy faces life in prison without parole at his July 30 sentencing.

The University of Michigan released today a new admissions policy after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down in June the way it previously admitted undergraduates.

The new processor was unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum 2003 in San Jose, Calif.

The Justice Department filed a civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the state of Mississippi, alleging abuse of juvenile offenders at two state-run facilities.

The document says the damage to the wing provided a pathway for hot gases to penetrate Columbia's thermal armour during its fatal re-entry.

Also demonstrating box-office strength -- and getting seven Tony nominations -- was a potent revival of Eugene ONeills family drama, Long Days Journey Into Night."

For residents with incomes above $500,000, the income-tax rate will increase to 4.45 percent.

Secretary of State Colin Powell last week ruled out a non-aggression treaty.

Like many doctors, Mr. Thomas and Mr. Tauzin say the Bush administration has the power to correct some of those flaws.

U.S. military officials have said it could take up to two years before regular elections are held, based on experiences elsewhere in the world.

The results appear in the January issue of Cancer, an American Cancer Society (news - web sites) journal, being published online Monday.

The first biotechnology treatment for asthma, the constriction of the airways that affects millions of Americans, received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday.

Bin Laden’s men pointed out that raising and distributing funds has been complicated by the U.S. crackdown on jihadi charitable foundations, bank accounts of terror-related organizations and money transfers.

A former partner of accountancy firm Ernst & Young was yesterday arrested by FBI agents in the US on charges of obstructing federal investigations.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov said in Moscow Tuesday a firm date would be fixed by this months end.

Another shooting linked to the spree occurred Nov. 11 at Hamilton Central Elementary in Obetz, about two miles from the freeway.

"Sanitation is poor, drinking water is generally left behind . . . there could be typhoid and cholera."

In early trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 3.90, or 0.04 percent, at 9,113.75, having gained 36.90 on Tuesday.

PDC will also almost certainly reignite speculation about release dates of Microsoft's new products.

It also disclosed that sales -- a figure closely watched by analysts as a barometer of its health -- were significantly higher than industry experts expected.

NEC's pitching its wireless gear and management software to a variety of industries, including healthcare and hospitality, a company spokesman said.

ELENA Slough, considered to be the oldest person in the US and the third oldest person in the world, has died.

"We have declared war on sexual assault and sexual harassment," Rosa said.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC dipped 0.08 of a point to 1,646.

Against the Swiss franc the dollar was at 1.3289 francs, up 0.5 percent on the day.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was down 25.36 points, or 1.53 percent, at 1,628.26.

El Watan, an Algerian newspaper, reported that the kidnappers put up fierce resistance during the army assault, firing Kalashnikov rifles.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial (JP:8316: news, chart, profile) was down 2.5 percent at 198,000 yen.

"Leaving aside attorney fees, we're dealing with bragging rights of who wins and who loses," said Gammerman.

Shares of Hartford were up $2.28, or 5.2 percent, to $45.90 in midday trading.

This was almost certainly its last full quarter before the company becomes a part of Palm.

They researchers say the research could be relevant to other forms of cancer.

Tokyo Electric Power Co., Asia's largest power company, restarted the first of 17 nuclear reactors it shut down after admitting it falsified inspection reports.

For the current academic year, tuition at public colleges averaged $4,694, up almost $600 from the year before.

Security lights have also been installed on a barn near the front gate.

So far the only declared major party candidate is Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican who has spent $1.5 million of his own money to fund the recall.

Mr Jouejati said that with the US-backed road map "in a coma" the attack could easily widen through the region.

But this could happen with any document format that supports VBA, including Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

"This is an extremely heartrending time for the entire Brandeis University community.

And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be in the wrong meeting," he said to thunderous applause from his supporters.

Fewer than a dozen FBI agents will be sent to Iraq to secure and analyze evidence of the bombing.

Tonight a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said it might issue a statement on Thursday clarifying Russia's position on aiding Iran's nuclear-energy efforts.

A day earlier, a committee appointed by President Mohammad Khatami had called for an independent inquiry into the 54-year-old photojournalist's death.

The suite includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation application (analogous to PowerPoint), and other components -- all built around the XML file format.

The Skagit was expected to crest during the night at 38 feet at Mount Vernon, 10 feet above flood stage, the National Weather Service said.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 18.25 points, or 0.19 percent, to 9,586.71.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was off 24.44 points, or 1.39 percent, at 1,739.87.

Physicians who perform the procedure would face up to two years in prison, under the bill.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 1.75 points, or 0.18 percent, to 977.68.

Anhalt said children typically treat a 20-ounce soda bottle as one serving, while it actually contains 2.5.

Kline's opinion dealt specifically with abortion providers, but later his office said it also would apply to doctors providing services such as prenatal care to pregnant girls under 16.

The International Atomic Energy Agency asked for information on the uranium assertions after London's dossier was published, but Britain did not provide any, U.N. officials said.

Sixteen days later, as superheated air from the shuttle’s re-entry rushed into the damaged wing, ‘‘there was no possibility for crew survival,’’ the board said.

"It is clear that the free world, those who love freedom and peace, must deal harshly with Hamas and the killers," he said.

The pressure may well rise today, with national coverage of the final round planned by ESPN, the cable sports network.

Scotland Yard's decision to issue new guidance has been prompted by new intelligence passed to Britain by the FBI in late July.

The memo specifically mentioned Linux, a still small but emerging software competitor that is not owned by any specific company.

The judge had told the state Department of Mental Health to find supervised housing and treatment for DeVries somewhere in California.

Meanwhile in southern Iraq, the United States released more Iraqi prisoners of war, and officials announced that all would be let go soon.

The decision came a year after Whipple ended federal oversight of school busing as well as the district's racial balance, facilities and budget.

A prime-time special on the list, "AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Heroes & Villains" aired Tuesday on CBS.

Police advised residents Friday not to travel alone to convenience stores and to be watchful.

"Microsoft had absolutely nothing to do with AtStake's internal personnel decision," Sundwall said.

Prosecutors said there is no question Waagner was behind the letters, which were sent at the same time that real anthrax attacks were killing people in 2001.

His plan would cost over $200 billion annually and be paid for by repealing Bush's tax cuts.

There were fears that Heather would never have children after suffering two ectopic pregnancies and cancer of the uterus.

The drug was approved for use Friday by the Food and Drug Administration.

Apple noted that half the songs were purchased as part of albums.

The ECB has cut rates from 4.75 percent in October 2000 to 2.5 percent in that period.

Brian Halla, CEO of NatSemi, claimed the deal made sense for both companies.

People in a van opened fire on a pickup and SUV believed to be transporting illegal immigrants, said Pinal County Sheriff Roger Vanderpool.

Tyco has said the loan was not forgiven, but that Swartz fully repaid it with interest, according to his lawyer, Charles Stillman.

The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC dipped 8.59 points, or 0.48 percent, to 1,773.54.

After the other inmate fell, Selenski used the mattress to scale a 10-foot, razor-wire fence, Fischi said.

Fatima, meanwhile, was on her turquoise cell phone organizing the prom.

But he added that De Niro is "a private person and doesn't care to have his treatment out for public consumption."

While a month's supply of aspirin can cost under $10, the equivalent amount of ticlopidine can run well over $100.

She said it would take an estimated three months to conduct and require the cancellation of a sub-audit of the Department of Environmental Quality.

Arison said Mann was a pioneer of the world music movement -- well before the term was coined -- and he had a deep love of Brazilian music.

Complications from flu kill roughly 36,000 Americans in an average year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Two new schemes target families of those serving in the military and e-mail users.

A widely praised film of the same name was directed by Wim Wenders.

Commenting on the firing today, Ms. Novikova said that there was no standard weight for ballerinas but that Ms. Volochkova "is bigger than others."

Both have aired videotapes apparently from deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, encouraging Iraqis to fight the U.S. occupation.

Under the program, US officials work with foreign port authorities to seek out high-risk cargo before it can reach the United States.

Crews are told: "If we don't do this, innocent people on the ground are going to die", he said.

The verdict means Nelson faces up to 10 years in prison rather than a possible life sentence.

With all precincts reporting, Fletcher had 88,747 votes, or 57 percent of the total.

Shadrin said Khodorkovsky's aircraft was approached by officers identifying themselves as members of the FSB domestic intelligence service.

"What she told our investigators was that all the babies were born full-term and then died within hours," Hughes said.

The French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, is also expected to attend.

The researchers believe the same is true in humans, translating to a 30 per cent greater risk of the disease.

Wal-Mart said sales at stores open at least a year rose 4.6 percent from a year earlier.

U.S. law enforcement officials are sneering at Dar Heatherington's version of of the events -- including a police conspiracy to discredit her -- which thrust her into the public spotlight.

The newspaper Okaz reported that the six suspects arrested Sunday fled the raid in a car that broke down on the outskirts of Mecca.

Michael Mitchell, the chief public defender in Baton Rouge who is representing Lee, was not available for comment.

In Canada, the surging dollar was in focus again as it struggled and just failed to stay above the 75 cent (U.S.) mark.

Consumers, tired of paying high prices for CDs and DVDs, are looking for flexible forms of on-demand media delivery.

"The bolt catcher is not as robust" as it should be, said retired Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman Jr., the board chairman.

Morgan Stanley raised its rating on the company to "overweight" from "equal-weight," saying the beverage maker's pricing power with bottlers should improve in 2004.

Moroccan Interior Minister Al Mustapha Sahel told state-run 2M television late Saturday the investigation "points to a group that has been arrested recently" an apparent reference to Salafist Jihad.

The British pound flexed its muscle against the dollar, last up 1 percent at $1.6672.

The report was found last week tucked inside a training manual that belonged to Hicks.

Among CNN viewers, 29 percent said they were Republicans and 36 percent called themselves conservatives.

Muslim immigrants have used the networks _ which rely on wire transfers, couriers and overnight mail _ to send stashes of cash overseas to their families.

Also arrested Friday was Claudia Carrizales de Villa, 34, a citizen of Mexico residing in the border city of Harlingen, Texas.

Mrs. Boncyk's husband, Wayne, had taken the family's only car to work, so she and the children had to catch a ride with neighbors.

The dispute has led Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma to cut short a state visit to Latin America.

The overall box office soared, with the top 12 movies grossing $157.1 million, up 52 percent from a year ago.

Platinum prices soared to 23-year highs earlier this year after U.S. President George W. Bush proposed investing $1.2 billion for research on fuel cell-powered vehicles.

"Nobody really knows what happened there except for me and the guard, and I can assure you that what he said happened didn't happen," Kaye said.

Shares of Corixa fell 12 cents to $6.88 on the Nasdaq stock market.

A federal grand jury and the Securities and Exchange Commission were looking into how the company allocated shares of initial public stock offerings.

US authorities have said the council would include 20 to 25 members.

October heating oil ended down 0.41 cent to 70.74 cents a gallon.

By 2007, antivirus solutions will carry a worldwide price tag double that of 2002: $4.4 billion.

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud suit against the teen in Boston.

ConAgra shares closed Monday at $21.63 a share, down 11 cents, on the New York Stock Exchange.

One of the features is the ability to delete data on a handheld device if a user loses or locks down the device.

At the end of the second quarter, Intel initially predicted sales of between $6.9 billion and $7.5 billion.

Byrne says he got carried away with PowerPoint and just "started making stuff."

Georgia cannot afford to not get funding," said county health director Dr. Melinda Rowe.

Handspring's shareholders will receive 0.09 Palm shares (and no shares of PalmSource) for each share of Handspring common stock they own.

Microsoft's stock was up 50 cents, to $28.34 a share in New York yesterday.

Tibco has used the Rendezvous name since 1994 for several of its technology products, it said.

Several thousand 3rd Infantry troops, including the 3rd Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Benning in Columbus, Ga., began returning last week.

European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg said in a televised interview that it was too soon to discuss further interest rate cuts in the euro zone.

Teen-agers at high schools where condoms are available are no more likely to have sex than other teens, a study says.

And Thursday, a former Intel exec blasted wireless as too insecure, too complicated, and too difficult to install.

State troopers arrested the men in a stolen van at the Jubilee Market on Route 14 in Horseheads, said James Flateau, a Department of Correctional Services spokesman.

On Thursday, a Post article argued that a 50-basis-point cut was most likely.

IBM (NYSE: IBM)  was the fastest-growing vendor, with sales jumping 37 percent to 220,000 units.

Copps, one of two Democrats on the five-member commission, has pushed for harsher penalties against radio and television stations that violate indecency laws.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI tacked on 97 points, or 1.14 percent, to 8,699.

The latest toll given by officials to state media was 643 dead and over 4,600 injured.

A downturn in services activity in March was the only break in what has been broad growth in services for the past 15 months.

In the first quarter of this year, weekly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 1.5 percent - the biggest drop in more than a decade.

Their findings were published Monday in Circulation: The Journal of the American Heart Association.

The PRC epidemic began in Guandong province in November, but the Communist Party government refused to report truthfully about its spread for four months.

"This man gambled with our lives and we, the passengers, lost," said passenger Andres Rivera Jr., whose 15-year-old niece, Jazmine Santiago, was killed.

IG Farben's 500 properties were valued at around 38 million euros ($43.63 million) and the firm had debts totalling some 28 million euros.

The lawsuit was filed on Friday at the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

At the accident scene, the driver was "covered in blood" but helped to remove children, Wood said.

"Smallpox is not the only threat to the nation's health, and vaccination is not the only tool for preparedness," his introductory statement says.

His Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, replied that "every day without an agreement is an opportunity that was lost.

Alhart said the governor "remains hopeful that the city will continue to work with us and engage in good-faith discussions."

French soldiers later threatened to open fire on a Hema battlewagon that tried to pass near the UN compound.

Shares of Gillette closed down 45 cents at $33.70 in trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.

Those that choose the handset option must have 95 percent of their customers using the technology by the end of 2005.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered yesterday evening to stand before this city's legislature building and call for free elections and the resignation of Hong Kong's leader.

The jurors were taken into the courtroom in groups of 40 and asked to fill out a questionnaire.

Shares in Microsoft slipped 4.7 percent in after-hours trade to $27.54 from a Nasdaq close of $28.91.

Nvidia's acquisition has been approved by directors at both companies, and is expected to close in the Nvidia's third quarter of fiscal 2004.

Barrera said Luster gave police a false name immediately after his arrest Wednesday but later revealed his true identity.

In a statement distributed today, 28 Chechen non-governmental organisations said they would boycott the vote and warned voters to expect fraud.

If a company won't do so, its drugs could be prescribed to Medicaid patients only with the state's say-so.

Hussein loyalists have been blamed for sabotaging the nation's infrastructure and attacking US soldiers.

Brandy and Husband SplitR'n'b star Brandy and Robert Smith, her husband of two years have split up.

"The president's campaign in 2000 set a standard for disclosure in political fund raising and the campaign will again in 2004," said Dan Ronayne, a campaign spokesman.

On April 11, Mayor Bart Peterson conceded that the facility's fate was inevitable, quashing the hopes of the airline's 1,500 local workers, including 1,100 mechanics.

Its closest relative is found in the Seychelles Archipelago, near Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

At Northwest Medical Center of Washington County in Springdale, one child is in serious condition.

Dancing was the only physical activity associated with a lower risk of dementia.

In Texas, public watchdog groups opposed Mr. Bush's efforts to house his papers at his father's presidential library, where they would have remained secret for a half-century.

Four of those killed by Williams were black; the other was white.

A hearing Thursday morning before Judge Elizabeth Long in Fulton County Superior Court marked one of the first steps in deciding the case of Matthew Whitley.

It will continue its regional service for Delta Air Lines DAL.N , Atlantic Coast said.

"It's amazing to be part of an industry that rewards its young," said Hernandez, who only graduated from Parsons School of Design last May.

Sir Richard was speaking after a meeting in London with Australian Tourism Minister Joe Hockey.

Ryan Harvey, a high school outfielder from Florida, was chosen sixth by the Cubs.

San Joaquin County sheriff's deputies found 37-year-old Adan Avalos of Riverbank shot to death inside the SUV.

The Nasdaq fell 49.95 points, or 2.86 percent, to end at 1,698.02, based on the latest available data.

He was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia.

The bulk of the bill - $64.7 billion - goes for military operations primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The product will be targeted at companies that need to create, publish, manage and archive web-based content within a corporate intranet, extranet and internet environment.

When you crossed the line, you violated the constitutional right," said Charles Weisselberg, who teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley.

A $500 million coal-fired power plant, for example, could replace $100 million in equipment yearly without adding new pollution controls.

Today, the experts will perform the United States' first simultaneous release of five whales from a single stranding incident.

Shares of AstraZeneca, Europe’s second biggest drug company, rose 3 per cent on the New York Stock Exchange after the news.

Gov. Rick Perry opposes expansion of gambling but has said he would be "hard-pressed" to veto the lottery sunset bill.

"Things go wrong," U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Wednesday at the Department of Energy.

Typhoon Maemi was on Saturday night moving over the Sea of Japan, where it had weakened considerably, the meteorology department said.

Along with chip maker Intel, the companies include Sony, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, International Business Machines, Gateway, Nokia and others.

Officials tentatively planned to burn about 2,000 acres of dense forest by dropping incendiary devices from the air, aiming to remove fuel from the wildfire's path.

Protesters chanted, "Tapping our phones, reading our mail, the LEIU should go to jail," put on small skits and danced to drumbeats.

"It remains to be seen whether the revenue recovery will be short- or long-lived," said James Sprayregen, UAL bankruptcy attorney, in court.

About 38,000 OGE Energy Corp. customers are without power, the company said on its Web site.

"The SIA forecast reflects the new realities of the semiconductor industry of an 8-10 per cent'' growth rate", said George Scalise, the association's president.

Eighty-six U.N. workers who were wounded in Tuesday's bombing were airlifted out for medical care.

To the frightened Burns, Richardson said, confessing a crime he did not commit looked like the only out.

A message left with Spitzer's office as well as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs were not immediately returned.

Stevens said that the drug manufacturers had not shown why the plan should be prevented from taking effect.

Medical experts said Blair's problem was worrying but relatively common and easily manageable.

Joan B. Kroc, the billionaire widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc known for her philanthropy, died Sunday of brain cancer.

The company has expanded those basic services, offering payment and even financing.

A 32-year-old mother of two is suspected of drowning her children in a bathtub before slashing her wrists in an unsuccessful suicide attempt, police said.

She was surrounded by about 50 women who have had abortions but now regret doing so.

Lee Boyd Malvo will be called as a witness Wednesday in a pretrial hearing for fellow sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad.

Revelations of the expenditures shocked some employees at Delta, an airline that has posted huge losses and cut jobs as it struggles with increased security costs and fewer passengers.

The search was concentrated in northeastern Pennsylvania, but State Police Trooper Tom Kelly acknowledged that Selenski could be out of the area.

One is a statistical calculation based on the number of deaths from pneumonia and influenza in 122 cities.

Researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institute recently went over data from more than 2,000 children treated with radiation for a harmless birthmark condition between 1930 and 1959.

Outside the court, Sriyanto denied to The Age that he had done anything wrong.

The state previously conducted two triple executions and two double executions, a practice it says is intended to reduce stress on the prison staff.

Earlier in the evening, the mother, whom authorities did not identify, had brought her daughter to the bank after a doctor's appointment.

At least 26 American troops have been killed in hostile fire since major combat was officially declared over on May 1.

Apple is working with Oxford Semiconductor and affected drive manufacturers to resolve this issue, which resides in the Oxford 922 chip-set."

Lately, he had earned money by calling fans on the telephone, taking part in the service www.HollywoodIsCalling.com.

The transaction will expand Callebaut's sales revenues from its consumer products business by around 45 percent to some one-third of total sales.

It also added that both proposals would allow Vivendi Uni to maintain "a substantial minority interest in a U.S. media corporation with excellent growth potential."

In Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday ElBaradei had accepted Iran's invitation, but said no date had yet been set.

Strikingly, the poll saw very little difference between women and men in their feelings about the former First Lady.

The 25 percent hike takes annual UC undergraduate tuition to $4,794 and graduate fees to $5,019.

Between July 1, 2002 and June 30, 2003, the Red Cross spent $114 million on disaster relief, while taking in only $39.5 million.

Hundreds of reporters and photographers swamped the town and the short hearing involving the five-time All-Star was carried live on national cable networks.

The computers were located in the United States, Canada and South Korea, he said.

"The time has come to make public places smoke-free," they wrote in a letter to the Times newspaper.

A church minister was charged yesterday in the death of an 8-year-old autistic boy who suffocated as church leaders tried to heal him at a storefront church.

In 1999, two years before his death, Mr. Nielsen told an interviewer that he thought the rock face would outlive him by many years.

Chest tightness after exercise and overall prevalence of asthma were also linked to the total amount of time spent at indoor pools.

Police have arrested 21 people in connection with the murder of a young Nigerian child whose headless and limbless torso was found floating in the river Thames.

Tony winners will be announced June 8 in televised ceremonies from Radio City Music Hall.

Supporters asked a federal court Monday to block the removal of a Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building.

"I'm quite positive about it, except that I would not want to cut across things that are now occurring," he said.

"Instead of pursuing the most imminent and real threats - international terrorists - this Bush administration has chosen to settle old scores," Graham said.

Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean?

"As of now, they are not supposed to wear anything on their heads but a NYC transit depot logo cap," Baldeo said.

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 11.22 points, or 1.13 percent, at 1,007.19.

Between 50 and 100 people die a year due to these allergies, and thousands more suffer severe reactions such as constricted breathing and dramatic swelling.

"Today we are trying to pull the pig away from the trough," Mr. Harrigan said.

A black pickup truck was also seen in the Campbells Creek area, Morris said.

Two more died later, and initial autopsy reports show they succumbed to dehydration, hypothermia and suffocation.

Some of the passengers were from Benin, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

It will be distributed through major hardware store chains and local libraries and will be available on the EPA Web site: www.epa.gov.

Gansas got more bad news yesterday from the city Department of Transportation - a hearing officer recommended that he be fired.

Since then, police divers have searched those waters looking for the remaining three.

Morgenthau said the women, all U.S. citizens, lied on a sworn affidavit that requires them to list prior marriages.

He resides in Doha, Qatar, from which Russian authorities have been trying to extradite him for nearly two years.

Clearly Roman creams of any type, paint or cosmetic, do not normally survive ... it's pretty exceptional."

"Yes, I'm taking his office and we're going to keep on building and keep on fighting," he added.

The Video Software Dealers Association said 28.2 million DVDs were rented out last week, compared to 27.3 million VHS cassettes.

Throughout China's mainland, the disease has killed 300 people and infected more than 5,270.

In jihad, we are not allowed to kill women, except those who join the war (against Islam)."

Funny Cide is looking to become horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in a generation.

The service will launch later this summer with 800 locations, and Sprint plans 2,100 locations by the end of the year.

Sobig.F spreads when unsuspecting computer users open file attachments in e-mails that contain such familiar headings as "Thank You!," "Re: Details" or "Re: That Movie."

Besides Japan he will visit the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Australia before returning home on Oct. 24.

The transfers would reduce P&G’s worldwide work force to slightly less than 100,000, down from 110,000 several years ago.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that two Iraqis and two Saudis detained after the attack gave information leading to the arrest of the others.

In papers filed Tuesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, Lee asked for an injunction against Viacom's use of the name Spike for TNN.

The church already was grieving for the death of a congregation member who was killed in another helicopter crash in Iraq on Nov. 7.

Glover said the killer used a ``peculiar slipknot,'' including a coaxial cable and an extension cord, to strangle some of the victims.

They weighed an average 100 kilograms and needed to lose between 14 and 36 kilograms.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat.

Jon Friedman is media editor for CBS.MarketWatch.com in New York.

She leaves her birdie putt some three feet short but drops her par putt.

The test, conducted by UCLA and UC Riverside, was paid for with $450,000 from the ARB.

Douglas Meester, 20, is charged with rape, sodomy, indecent assault, and providing alcohol to minors.

The name for the robot, due to be launched at 2:05 p.m. (7:05 p.m.) on Sunday, was selected from among 10,000 names submitted by U.S.

Doris Brasher, who owns a grocery store on Highway 96, said many in the close-knit town knew the three men who were killed.

"I had no direct interest and Craxi begged me to intervene because he believed that the deal was damaging to the state," Berlusconi testified.

They are located in Grande Cache, Alta., Carrot River, Sask., Chapleau, Ont., and Aberdeen, Wash.

Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said the company was disappointed and assessing its "options in the event Mr. Hamidi resumes his spamming activity against Intel."

Hong Kong has not seen such a protest since hundreds of thousands marched in outrage over the 1989 massacre of democracy activists occupying Beijing's Tiananmen Square.

The company is also adding .Net and J2EE support to its Enterprise Application Environment development toolset, Sapp said.

Gov. Linda Lingle and other dignitaries are scheduled to be at the base to watch the launch.

The information was first printed yesterday in the New York Times.

Annan warned that the dangers of extremism after September 11 should not be used as an excuse to suppress "long-cherished" freedoms.

The euro ros further into record territory on Tuesday as demand for higher-yielding euro-based assets overshadowed U.S. economic data showing rising consumer confidence and a strong housing market.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 5.51 points, or 0.56 percent, to 981.73.

"That really affects the companies, big time," said Jim Santangelo, president of the Teamsters Joint Council 42 in El Monte.

The seizure at 4 a.m. on March 18 was completed before employees showed up for work that day.

He said the ferry's crew will be interviewed and tested for drugs and alcohol.

Taylor is now expected to leave the broken shell of a nation founded by freed American slaves in the 19th century.

Commercial releases of the 2.6 kernel by major Linux distributors still remain months away.

It beat the previous record of $54.9 set by 1999's "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me."

Its attackers had to launch their strike from hundreds of metres away, with a makeshift rocket launcher disguised as a portable electric generator.

Though Dean made a point of saying during the debate that the Confederate flag is a racist symbol.

In late afternoon trade in New York, the euro was down 0.83 percent against the dollar at $1.1633 <EUR=>.

They were killed over a few days in April 2001 and "deviant cannibalistic tendencies" were the primary motivation for the murders, authorities said.

On Tuesday, before Byrd's speech, Fleischer said Bush wanted ''to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas must defend the record of his first 100 days in office before Parliament today as the death toll in the occupied territories continues to rise.

Another soldier drowned after diving into an aqueduct in northern Iraq, the Central Command said.

The civilian unemployment rate improved marginally last month _ sliding down to 6.1 percent _ as companies slashed payrolls by 93,000 amid continuing mixed signals about the nation's economic health.

Hunt's attorneys filed a motion Monday seeking to have Hunt's conviction thrown out based on the new evidence.

Other data showed sales of existing and new homes grew at a robust pace in April, spurred by low mortgage rates.

Close also questions whether it would be worth the cost of licensing third-party software, along with Salesforce.com's rental price.

Still others cite the difficulty of assembling a group of subjects whose depression is of comparable severity, a problem that complicates the task of properly measuring effectiveness.

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, Limbaugh said during a stunning admission aired nationwide on Friday.

That's the highest third-quarter growth rate we've seen in over 25 years," CFO Andy Bryant told the Associated Press.

Police Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer said the exercise went well, with some aspects, including the communication system between varying agencies, working better than expected.

Two federal agencies are investigating telecommunications gear maker Lucent Technologies for possible violations of U.S. bribery laws in its operations in Saudi Arabia.

"This sale is part of our efforts to simplify our Foodservice Products business and improve its cost structure," chairman and CEO Gary Costley said in a statement.

A DoD team is on site to determine how this happened and what needs to be done to fix the breach, the release stated.

Maria Parrado believes her nephew, who served a 12-year prison sentence in Cuba after being arrested in Cuban waters, will be persecuted if he is sent back there.

Companies trading on the biggest stock markets must get shareholder approval before granting stock options and other equity compensation under rules cleared yesterday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Workplace Messaging is $29, Workplace Team Collaboration is $89, and Collaborative Learning is $35.

Microsoft Corp. is preparing changes to its Internet Explorer (IE) browser because of a patent verdict against it, the company said Friday.

"It is routine for IBM to challenge its internal IT team to rigorously test new platforms and technology inside IBM."

SARS has killed about 800 people and sickened more than 8,400 worldwide, mostly in Asia.

Nearly 6,000 MTA drivers and train operators then walked off the job in solidarity.

At that time, Rambus accused Infineon of patent infringement and Infineon countersued Rambus for breach of contract and fraud.

Low-income earners would pay a 5 percent rate for both capital gains and corporate dividends.

Vasile Ionescu, of the Roma Centre for public policies, said: "The princess's marriage was not set up by force.

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and longtime companion Fran Walsh.

Meanwhile, Hynix Semiconductors voiced strong criticism of the United States, calling its decision an "outrageous tactic aimed at a hidden agenda."

There was no immediate evidence that the two incidents were connected, police said.

The Food and Drug Administration ultimately denied ImClone's drug application in December 2001, saying that an Erbitux clinical trial was deficient.

General Sattler heads a Combined Joint Task Force aboard the command ship Mount Whitney.

Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly did not let the judge's penny-pinching get him down.

SAN Architect will run approximately $2,400 while AutoAdvice is available with coverage from one to 50,000 CPUs.

CAPPS II will not use bank records, credit records, or medical records, according to Loy and Kelly.

In addition, the Justice Department said that the FBI has conducted ''fewer than 10'' investigations involving visits to mosques.

Moore has said he plans to appeal the matter to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"We are confident that the new leadership in Boston will be willing to take responsibility for the past actions of the archdiocese,' said Lincoln. "

Aug. 15, 1982: Remains of Chapman, Hinds and Mills are found in the Green River.

France, which infuriated Washington by leading the charge against U.N. approval for the war, also sought changes.

He also said Shockey is "living the dream life of a New York athlete.

Peterson helped raise Ratliff's two daughters, Margaret and Martha Ratliff, who supported him throughout the trial.

Money from oil sales will now be deposited in a new Development Fund for Iraq, controlled by the United States and Britain and used to rebuild the country.

Car volume was down 8 percent, while light truck sales--which include vans, pickups and SUVs--rose 2.7 percent.

Mr Williams added that the Government had made it "very plain" to the US it did not support the death penalty for Hicks.

Police detained Khodorkovsky early on Saturday when his jet made a refueling stop in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk.

Robert Stewart, spokesman for Park Place Entertainment, the parent company for Caesars, said the Supreme Court seemed to change the rules for lawsuits.

Last year, Bush appointed him to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

Its shares fell $9.61 to $50.26, ranking as the NYSE's most-active issue and its biggest percentage loser.

He added, "There's just too many leaks in Washington, and if there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

In midday trading, the Dow Jones industrial average lost 68.84, or 0.7 percent, to 9,248.80.

Mascia-Frye oversees European operations for the West Virginia Development Office.

Puretunes representatives could not be located Thursday to comment on the suit.

Mr. O'Neill had a solution: a 10-year, 100,000-mile warranty, meant to reassure buyers that they could trust Hyundai.

The Episcopal Church is the American branch of the Anglican Communion.

The season's name comes from the Latin word adventus, which means "coming."

"In creating the game, it was not our intention to target or offend any group or persons or to incite hatred or violence against such groups persons."

Another brother, Ali Imron, received a life sentence after he cooperated with the authorities and expressed remorse.

At one point in the chain, a wholesaler would sell the questionable drugs to one of three huge national companies that supply virtually all drugs in this country.

Rumsfeld has been feuding for a long time with Army leadership, and he passed over nine active-duty four-star generals.

However, it is not possible to say whether it may pose a cancer risk to humans.

After Jackson testified he never touched the officers during the struggle on the ground, Barnett showed photos of a scratch on Morse's neck and the officer's bloody ear.

According to the writer of the letter, the infant was "placed on the bed in a baby blanket" by a nurse.

Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk told Criss Wednesday his office only this week received the recordings.

"This is a widening and continuing investigation, which is likely to result in numerous other charges," Mr. Spitzer said yesterday at a news conference.

JAPAN added to growing international pressure on Burma yesterday, threatening to halt its hefty economic aid unless the military government released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Tuesday's decision could prove useful to the government in the war on terrorism.

Although Republicans now hold every statewide office, the state's congressional delegation comprises 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans.

The first stage of the malicious software began Monday, when the Lovsan worm began spreading around the world.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, who announced yesterday's ban, also said Washington would send a technical team to Canada to assist in the Canadian situation.

Only 29 families of frogs are known, most of which were named by the mid-1800s.

The survey which uncovered the star only covered a narrow slice of the sky.

Still, changes to IE "may affect a large number of existing Web pages," according to the W3C's notice.

At home, the premier has faced accusations that he overplayed intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to make the case for war.

"About 70 percent of the work is already done," Mr. Tauzin said.

"We must defend those whom we dislike or even despise," said Neal Sonnett, a Miami lawyer who headed an ABA task force on enemy combatants.

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR lost 16/32, taking its yield to 4.20 percent from 4.18 percent.

China, haunted by the spread of SARS in its vast countryside, has threatened to execute or jail for life anyone who intentionally spreads the killer virus.

Earlier, Bashir's supporters had defied a police order and cried "Allahu Akbar (God is Greatest)" as he walked to his seat.

The announcement comes one day after Scott Charney, Microsoft's global security chief, reiterated Microsoft's promises to simplify the way it distributes patches to customers.

The fighting begun May 7 after neighboring Uganda completed the withdrawal of its more than 6,000 soldiers from in an around Bunia.

A lieutenant colonel in the People's Liberation Army, Yang is the son of a teacher and an official at an agricultural firm.

The Yankees wasted no time breaking through against Zambrano (4-4) in the rematch.

Mr. McCall, who ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York in 2002, styled himself an advocate of better corporate governance.

Yeager said the incident appeared to be isolated, but the suspect showed tendencies of being a prior offender.

In November, Jeffrey Brabakow, the chief executive at the time, said the company used aggressive pricing to get higher payments for the sickest Medicare patients.

That means the case against Gary Lee Sampson, including the capital charges, will now to trial in September.

Other contenders included General Electric's GE.N NBC, which submitted a letter of interest, a source familiar with the matter said.

Consumers who said jobs are difficult to find jumped to 32.6 from 29.4, while those saying work was plentiful slipped to 12.6 from 13 in April.

A Lieberman aide said there were no immediate plans for television advertising.

The Rev. John Johnston, 64, was charged with aggravated harassment in the phone call case and with criminal possession of a weapon, according to a police statement.

"Qualcomm has enjoyed many years of selling CDMA chips against little or no competition," said TI General Counsel Joseph Hubach.

That state will not emerge until the interim government decides on a process to write a new constitution and to hold the first democratic elections.

"I think it happened very quickly," said Investigator Phil Yochum of the Houston Police Department's homicide division.

The product can be instructed to permit business-only use, according to Sendmail.

It has not come to a vote yet in the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The poll conducted between Oct. 24 and Nov. 2 had a margin of error of 2 percentage points.

Senior vice president Sara Fields said the airline "will work professionally and cooperatively with all our unions."

As many as 1,200 students at Wheaton College will gather in the gym Friday night for the first real dance in the Christian school's 143-year history.

Warren David Campbell, 32, and climbing companion Jonathan Smith, 47, did not return as expected on Tuesday from climbing on Mt D'Archiac in the McKenzie District.

In 2001, President Bush named her to the Student Loan Marketing Association, the largest U.S. lender for students.

Beckham will pocket a weekly salary of about $213,000 and earn $10 million a year, plus bonuses.

In his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa as president, Mr. Bush will visit Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria before returning home on Saturday.

Executive recruiters say that finding a seasoned chief merchandising officer perhaps will be the trickiest of all hires.

"We have sent a new message out to the nation — that this is a new Louisiana."

As of this week, 103 human West Nile cases in 45 counties had been reported to the health department.

A statement from the allied command said that the raid was part of "the continued effort to eradicate Baath Party loyalists, paramilitary groups and other subversive elements."

NBC will probably end the season as the second most-popular network behind CBS, which is first among the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic.

In afternoon trading in Europe, France's CAC-40 fell 1.6 percent, Britain's FTSE 100 dropped 1.2 percent and Germany's DAX index lost 1.9 percent.

Declining issues outnumbered advancers slightly more than 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Some 660 prisoners from 42 countries are being held at the Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, many captured during the war against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Beginning, early stages, not life threatening, treatable, Bruno told a state Capitol news conference.

"Oracle's offer undervalues the company and is not in the best interest of PeopleSoft stockholders," said PeopleSoft President and CEO Craig Conway, in the statement.

Bryant presented himself to authorities last Friday and was released after posting $25,000 bail.

She was bitten on the back and scratched on the leg, her mother said.

He says the release of a tarot card left at a shooting scene may have prolonged the spree by cutting off fragile communications with the sniper.

Bryant has said that hike had a greater effect on demand than officials expected.

Solomon 5.5 is now available in the U.S. and Canada through Microsoft Business Solutions resellers.

The document stated: "This report does not attempt to address the complexities of this issue."

Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission said its staff was preparing to draw up rules to combat trading abuses.

Dr. Belding Scribner, inventor of a device that made long-term kidney dialysis possible and has saved more than a million lives, has died in Seattle at age 82.

They include French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

He is temporarily serving as Chechnya's acting president while his boss, Akhmad Kadyrov, is running in the region's Oct. 5 presidential election.

The hearing occurred a day after the Pentagon for the first time singled out an officer, Dallager, for not addressing the scandal.

NCSD's chief will be Robert Liscouski, the assistant secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection.

Officials in Chechnya's Moscow-backed government are a frequent target for rebels, and tension is running high ahead of Sunday's presidential election in the war-ravaged region.

The Columbia broke apart during descent on Feb. 1, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

Friends of Animals, which touts 200,000 members, was behind a successful tourism boycott that resulted in then-Gov. Walter J. Hickel imposing a moratorium on wolf control in 1992.

Mrs Clinton said her husband action's were morally wrong but did not constitute a public betrayal.

Further back, Sen. Bob Graham of Florida reported about $1.7 million on hand.

The test, in four sections, includes algebra and geometry, along with some questions on probability and statistics.

Business confidence among top U.S. executives hit a 12-month high in the second quarter, according to a survey released Monday.

Massachusetts is one of 12 states without the death penalty, having abolished it in 1984.

His aides warn an abrupt departure could trigger more bloodshed, a view shared by many in Liberia.

HPs shipments increased 48 per cent year-on-year, compared to an increase of 31 per cent for Dell.

Recall proponents say they have turned in nearly twice the number of necessary signatures.

"We are going to continue to hammer away at the negotiations process until we reach an agreement," he said.

A radio station has suspended two disc jockeys for locking themselves in the studio and continuously playing Dixie Chicks songs, violating the station's two-month-old ban on the group's music.

Their difference was over whether the court should take into account the legal opinions of other world courts, like the European Court of Human Rights.

It's also a strategic win for Overture, given that Knight Ridder had been using Google's advertising services.

The American Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston has offered $55 million to settle more than 500 sex abuse lawsuits involving priests.

Deposit and loan growth, strong investment banking and trading results and strong growth in mortgage and card revenues drove this quarter's results.

Telecom equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. (nyse: QCOM - news - people) rallied 43 cents, or 12.3 percent, to $3.95.

They were not supplied or given to us, but unearthed by our reporter" in Iraq's foreign ministry, he said.

Congress twice passed similar bills, but then-President Clinton vetoed them both times.

Her son would get upset, his mom said, but then turn around and befriend his taunters.

Avants, wearing a light brown jumpsuit, had tubes in his nose and a portable oxygen tank beside him.

McKnight's lawyers said she had no intention of harming the child.

The number of Americans considered extremely obese, or at least 100 pounds overweight, has quadrupled since the 1980s to a startling 4 million, the research shows.

A verbal flare-up between Keating and Mahony began when the cardinal initially refused to participate in that survey unless procedures were changed.

An Alaska judge has rejected an attempt by an animal rights group to stop a state-sponsored program allowing hunters to shoot wolves from airplanes in Alaska.

The federal agency has been investigating whether several energy companies manipulated energy markets by reporting false natural gas trading prices to industry publications.

He went on: "One part of that should have been sourced to a reference work.

The injunction was immediately stayed pending an appeal to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington.

He was taken to Hammersmith hospital, where doctors regulated Blair's heart beat via electric shock in a procedure called "cardio-version".

Chirac, who has the authority to pardon law-breakers, refused Humbert's request to be allowed to die last year but kept in close touch with the family.

Dotson was taken to an area hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

Each boy weighed less than 50 pounds when they were removed from the home Oct. 10.

The government now charges that Sattar conspired with Rahman to kill and kidnap individuals in foreign countries.

The second company, to be called Prisma Energy International Inc., includes 19 international power and pipeline holdings.

He was convicted in his absence in January and sentenced to 124 years.

The original report had concluded that ''climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment,'' according to an internal EPA memo.

Civilian reservists also could be sent overseas for jobs such as reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, working in positions from translator to truck driver.

It has a margin of error of plus or minus three to four percentage points.

Westfield also will continue discussions over the other co-owned centres, such as Knox City in Melbourne, where Deutsche Bank owns a 50 per cent stake.

Last year, Bloomberg snubbed the affair after being told he couldn't march with cast members of the "The Sopranos."

Clinton’s national security adviser, Sandy Berger, said in an interview that the White House was not informed of the FBI activities.

UK retail like-for-like sales for the 17 weeks to December 27 were flat, with gross margin down two percentage points.

"What this allows us to do is have a crossover that is much more fuel- efficient, aimed at young families," Mr. Cowger said.

The teen was in critical condition at Sacred Heart Medical Center, police said in a news release.

The money can be used for road upgrades, tollways, public transit or any other means to improve mobility.

The decision is "clearly incorrect," FTC Chairman Tim Muris said.

The park service purchased the land from the estate of Samuel Mills Damon for $22 million.

McCartney has three children - fashion designer Stella, 31, Mary, 33, and James, 25 - by first wife Linda.

In recent years, Hampton kept in touch with friends and stayed in trouble: He faced charges of fare-beating and credit-car theft.

SCO claims that the Linux kernel holds Unix intellectual property owned by SCO.

Amrozi did not reveal, and was not asked, the identity of his boss.

Maj-Gen Jeffery said he would give his military pension to charity while he served at Yarralumla.

The rest said they had no affiliation or belonged to another party.

Mr Blair became Labour leader in 1994 after the then leader, John Smith, died of a heart attack.

For example, the Dow dropped more than 1,500 points, or 15.6 percent, from May to October 2002, largely because of terrorism fears driven by the headlines.

The House Republican leadership said it expected to call members back Dec. 8 for a vote on the omnibus bill.

Six were from Douglas County, which includes Roseburg, and two from the Portland area.

PeopleSoft gained $1.09, or 6.3 percent, to $18.24 and was Nasdaq's most active issue.

Prosecutors allege that Nichols and coconspirator Timothy McVeigh worked together to prepare a 4,000-pound fuel-and-fertilizer bomb that destroyed the Murrah building.

A rival distributor, Mike Selwyn, of United International Pictures, says he cannot detect, unlike The Matrix Revolutions, any advance scepticism.

He admits that the law "has several weaknesses which terrorists could exploit, undermining our defenses."

A passionate nationalist, Mr. D'Alessandro said: "Canada is a small country, and we need more companies like this."

The Williams-Mauresmo winner will play the winner of the match between Justine Henin-Hardenne and Chanda Rubin.

"By its actions," Lieberman said, "the Bush administration threatens to give a bad name to a just war."

He urged Congress to "send me the final bill as soon as possible so that I can sign it into law."

The House of Representative passed an identical amendment on Sept. 9, by a 227-188 vote.

Former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun ended June with $22,126 in the bank, according to her FEC report.

The nurse called Allison Smith with the news: The experimental drug that so effectively treated her severe peanut allergy was being taken away.

John Heine, a spokesman for the commission in Washington, declined to comment on Mr. Spitzer's criticism.

Using bookmarks and back and forth buttons -- we had about eighteen different things we had in mind for the browser."

Against the dollar, the euro rose as high as $1.1537 , a fresh four-year high and up a half cent from around $1.1480 in late U.S. trade.

There are three warships with 2,300 Marines lingering off its coast.

In a public statement, a spokesperson said: "Removing the waiver means nothing when Oracle still has pending litigation in Delaware that opposes the PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards transaction."

At best, Davydenko's supporters were naively ignorant to tennis etiquette; at worst, they cheated – yet went unpenalised by umpire Lars Graf.

The Pentagon insists the technique has successfully predicted elections and even box office receipts.

Treatment guidelines, many written by medical specialty organizations, outline recommended approaches to many common ailments, ranging from painkillers and exercise for arthritis to surgery for breast cancer.

Three months into the study, the Atkins group had lost an average of about 15 pounds, compared with five for the low-fat group.

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday designated Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev a threat to the security of the United States and to U.S. citizens.

"It's probably not the easiest time to come in and take over the shuttle program," Mr. Parsons said at a news conference at NASA headquarters.

None of Dean's opponents picked him as someone to party with and Dean was not asked the question.

Mr. Kozlowski contends that the event was in large part a business function.

"Today, we are trying to convey this problem to Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) and President Bush (news - web sites)."

The Mariners piled on against Randy Choate and Juan Acevedo in the bottom of the inning.

Microsoft said Tuesday it intends to acquire the intellectual property and technology assets of Romanian antivirus firm GeCAD Software Srl.

The inquiry may hinder Chief Executive Phil Condit's strategy of bolstering defense-related sales during a slump in jetliner deliveries.

The attacks are often fuelled by a mix of tribal hatreds and a desire to spread terror in the region.

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, of which he was a member, said he was researching a schools exchange project.

A spokeswoman for Interscope Geffen A&M Records declined to elaborate.

The Nasdaq composite gained 4.78 to 1,955.80, having edged up 0.1 percent last week.

Lynch, who returns to the hills of West Virigina Tuesday, also received the Purple Heart and Prisoner of War medals at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno urged member states contributing police and soldiers to U.N. peacekeeping operations to provide more women.

Many of the changes are improvements to the original plan, Libeskind said.

Thursday morning, PeopleSoft's board rejected the Oracle takeover offer.

The contract sets his annual base salary at $1.4 million and his target bonus at a minimum of $1 million.

A captured rebel said 2,100 combatants had been involved in the offensive.

In the opinion, Kline noted that it is illegal for children that young to have sexual relations.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 10.89 points, or 0.11 percent, to 9,837.94.

On the sidelines of the Bo'ao forum, Mr Goh also met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and held talks with Tajikistan President Emomali Sharipovich Rakhmonov.

Cortisol levels in the saliva of day-care children were highest and rose most steeply in those whom day-care centre staffed judged to be the shyest.

Fires in Spain's Extramadura region bordering Portugal, and Avila province forced hundreds of people to leave their homes.

"The idea that Tony Abbott is in some way a one-dimensional political head kicker couldn't be more wrong."

Because it takes Neptune 165 years to orbit the Sun its seasons will last for decades.

After the deal SSE will sell on Midlands's power generation assets in Turkey and Pakistan to fellow UK utility International Power Plc for 21 million pounds.

"Biotech products, if anything, may be safer than conventional products because of all the testing," said Robert Fraley, Monsanto's executive vice president.

NBC also plans to shelve Crossing Jordan until January as star Jill Hennessy has her first child.

Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said the university planned to keep the campus running with managers and temporary workers performing union workers' jobs.

A member of the rap group So Solid Crew threw away a loaded gun during a police chase, Southwark Crown Court was told yesterday.

It said the patents were "allegedly" assigned to Syndia in 2001 through the Lemelson Medical, Educational and Research Foundation Limited Partnership.

Shares of LendingTree rose $6.03, or 41 percent, to close at $20.72 on the Nasdaq stock market yesterday.

"We believe it is without merit and we will defend ourselves rigorously."

The Russell 2000 index, the barometer of smaller company stocks, rose 3.28, or 0.7 percent, to 494.20.

The law does not regulate how much individuals can contribute to their own campaigns, a decided advantage for millionaires such as Schwarzenegger and Ueberroth.

Scott Dixon eventually made winning the Honda Indy 225 look easy Sunday at Pikes Peak International Raceway.

Zilkha conceded in a statement issued today that his group may have fallen "a bit short."

The most recent addition to the list, which to date includes 125 names, is Zelimkhan Yandarbiev, the former president of Chechnya.

In addition, 6,800 people were in quarantine and thousands of health-care workers in working quarantine.

About 1,000 people came in stifling heat to begin two days of observances tied to the coming 40th anniversary of the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.

Revenue in the second quarter ended June 29 was $645 million, up from $600 million a year ago.

Hermon-Taylor said an unexpected finding of the research showed that patients suffering from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may also be infected with MAP.

The men had Pakistani passports and reportedly were seen together at the airport earlier in the evening, law enforcement sources said.

The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, involved just 47 heart attack patients.

Spain, Poland, United Arab Emirates and Lithuania have advised their citizens not to travel to Taiwan for any reason.

The technology-focused Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> advanced 6 points, or 0.30 percent, to 2,053, erasing earlier losses.

United Airways plans to offer in-flight, two-way e-mail on all domestic flights by the end of the year, becoming the first U.S. carrier to do so.

Volodymyr Gorbanovsky, deputy general director of the plane's owners, Mediterranean Airlines, said initial information indicated it had veered from its flight path because of fog.

I called the number and the lady told me she was talking on the phone to Toby Studabaker."

Sweeney is to formally announce the campaign in a speech Wednesday in Detroit.

The study also found that skin cancer nearly tripled in Norway and Sweden since the 1950s.

Shares in Safeway rose 1-1/4p to 288-1/4p in morning trade in London.

Ask Jeeves Wednesday announced it plans to sell its enterprise software division, Jeeves Solutions, to Kanisa.

It went on: "I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hated most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex.

Before confirming a diagnosis of cancer, a positive PSA test must be followed up with a biopsy or other procedures.

But Peterson added, I dont know anybody in the conference committee whos fighting to keep it out completely.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was down 1.55 points, or 0.09 percent, at 1,744.91.

Earlier this year, Intel invested $123 million in Elpida Memory over two funding rounds, Mulloy said.

So far, only four companies have licensed Microsoft's communications protocols: EMC, Network Appliance, VeriSign and Starbak Communications, the report noted.

"I am advised that certain allegations of criminal conduct have been interposed against my counsel J. Michael Boxley," Silver said.

Rather, the US acted because the administration saw "existing evidence in a new light, through the prism of our experience on September 11".

Production for the second quarter was cut to 46 million barrels from 48 million barrels.

The Institute's national manufacturing barometer slipped to 53.7 in September from 54.7 in August.

"It got up on his personal radar screen in the past week, and I had to get my pitch.

"It's just too important to keeping crime down in the city to let it lapse," the mayor said of Operation Impact.

Joanie Harper and Brothers were granted an annulment in September 2001, and Harper was given sole custody of Marques and Lyndsey, court records show.

Trans fat accounts for 2.5 percent of Americans' daily calories, compared to 11 percent to 12 percent for saturated fat.

A 14 percent slide in crude prices this month and expectations of a build up in oil inventories compounded OPEC's fears of a further softening of the market.

Iraq's economy was shattered under former president Saddam Hussein and by the U.S.-led war to oust him which ended in April.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome has infected more than 8,300 worldwide and killed at least 790, most of them in Asia.

Under the agreement, Solutia will pay $50 million and Monsanto will pay $390 million.

Smith ruled that the state's tax falls on the tobacco consumer, not the tribe, making the tribe simply an agent for collecting the tax.

Hoffa, 62, vanished on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from a parking lot in a Detroit suburb in Oakland County.

After Mao's death in 1976, she was tried and sentenced to death, later commuted to life.

Several passing vehicles and an adjacent shop were also damaged in the explosion.

If convicted, each faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or more based on the amount of gains involved.

There will be no vote on the issue but those opposed to Robinson's appointment are thought to be in the majority.

Peterson, 31, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son, Conner.

Writing safe programs that demonstrate an infection vector is adequate without building in the reproductive sequences."

Ironically, Cablevision will be footing the bill for YES' lawsuit against Time Warner Cable.

Germany said most of the passengers were from the northern states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein.

A gunman stormed into the Lakeside post office and took two employees hostage Wednesday, San Diego County authorities said.

The agency said it would consider as timely any tax returns or payments due from Friday through Aug. 22 if they are completed by Aug. 22.

He said investigators have not ruled out the possibility that more than one person was behind the poisonings.

Microsoft shares (MSFT: news, chart, profile) fell 1 cent to close at $25.65.

His movies include "Malcolm X," "Summer of Sam," "Jungle Fever" and "Do the Right Thing."

She was arraigned on three counts of second-degree murder and ordered held without bail in Sullivan County Jail.

A Melbourne TV producer who worked on shows including Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?

Service officials said Carlson refused to recuse himself from the case.

Connolly said FBI agents in San Diego and abroad spent thousands of hours investigating al-Bayoumi.

The program will be expanded to include areas of the Middle East such as Dubai, Turkey and Malaysia, Mr. Ridge said.

The Dow Jones industrial average finished the day down 98.32 points at 9,011.53.

In Millville yesterday, Mayor James Quinn ordered all city flags flown at half-staff for the next 30 days.

Kroc ranked No. 121 on Forbes magazine's latest list of the nation's wealthiest people, with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion.

The biggest threat to order seemed to be looting and crime, including robberies by some of the tens of thousands of prisoners that Mr. Hussein freed last year.

Pratt & Whitney had said that if it won the contract 75 per cent of the engine equipment would be outsourced to European suppliers, with final assembly in Germany.

The woman was exposed to the SARS virus while in the hospital but was not a health-care worker, said Dr Colin D'Cunha, Ontario's commissioner of public health.

"Happy people sleep better, have better diets, exercise more and have less levels of stress hormones," Cohen said.

Robin Saunders, head of the principal finance unit, has made clear she has funding to buy parts of the business.

The discovery so alarmed researchers that they stopped the study, known as the Women's Health Initiative.

The agency wants him to return the illegal proceeds with interest and pay civil monetary penalties.

"These are not solely American principles nor are they exclusively Western," Rumsfeld said.

Mahmud was seized near Tikrit, the area from which he and Saddam hail, about 150 kilometres north-west of Baghdad, US military officials said.

"As long as we don't march on Tehran, I think we are going to be in pretty good shape," he said.

The stock remains 43 percent below levels prior to the February overstatement news.

Kerkowski and Fassett's bodies were unearthed at Selenski's Mount Olivet Road home on June 5.

The broad Standard & Poors 500-stock index was down 4.77 points to 929.62.

Bond also voiced his disappointment that neither President Bush nor his brother attended this conference in Florida or last year's conference in Texas.

Now, Blanca's husband, 63-year-old Roger Lawrence Strunk of Tracy, faces a murder indictment issued by the Philippine government in February.

"We don't know everything [but] what we know suggests that we should take what they're saying seriously," he said.

Stocks barely budged Friday as trading resumed with some glitches from the blackout in New York.

The Prime Minister has taken a hardline stance arguing nothing should be done to lessen the pressure on Mugabe.

James Brolin and Judy Davis play Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the CBS film.

A month ago a military transport plane returned to Baghdad when an engine exploded in what officials called a "safety incident."

The Swiss franc rose three quarters of a percent against the dollar and was last at 1.2980 to the greenback.

Associated Press Writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this article.

On Saturday, Roddick equalled the world record with a 149 m.p.h. serve in beating Andre Agassi.

The $22 million deal, announced Thursday, is also the largest land conservation transaction in Hawaii history.

It also required that existing televisions, VCRs, DVD players and related equipment will remain fully functional under the new broadcast flag system.

The Schaumburg, Ill.-based company had scheduled its earnings report to be released on Tuesday after the close of trading.

The majority of the dead were labourers from Jharkhand and Nepal.

Axcan's shares were down 3.8 percent, or 66 Canadian cents, at C$16.90 in Toronto on Tuesday.

The bank booked 820 billion yen in loan-loss charges compared with 1.9 trillion yen a year ago.

Former prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch is winning admiration in her hometown all over again for the courage to reveal she was raped by her Iraqi captors.

On Thursday, a New York City judge ordered Viacom to stop using the name Spike TV pending a trial.

One old woman, disconsolate with grief, smeared her face with dirt, only able to utter: "My child, my child."

In 1999 a California state senator proposed a law requiring motorists over the age of 75 to take driving tests to renew their licenses.

They have included local and foreign aid workers, U.S. troops, Afghan soldiers, officials and police, as well as many guerrillas.

Chad Kolton, emergency management spokesman with the Department of Homeland Security, said the government is open to new ways to communicate.

The Leader of the Opposition, Simon Crean, said from Jakarta that the reshuffle had been forced by ministerial incompetence.

Turner said he transferred 10 million additional shares to a charitable trust, which also liquidated them.

The airline's pilots, for example, are taking a 15-per-cent cut.

One study found that combination therapy doubled the risk of probable dementia and did not prevent less-severe mental decline.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index added 28.73 points, or 1.77 percent, at 1,655.22.

Older people who eat fish at least once a week could cut their risk of Alzheimer's by more than half, a study suggests.

Panther Server also includes an updated release of Apache, along with Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis for creating powerful web services.

"APEC leaders are painfully aware that security and prosperity are inseparable," Thaksin said.

Clayton Homes' stock ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange after Wednesday's close.

The $130 million cleanup included new carpet, electrical wiring and bathrooms.

They said the police officers also entered various private wards at the clinic and attacked patients.

U.S. authorities blame Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network for the attacks, which killed 231 people, including 12 Americans.

"The whole thing is a travesty," fumed Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

Bremer said he would launch a $70-million program in the next two weeks to clean up neighborhoods across Iraq and build community projects, but gave no details.

Earlier this year, the company said it would restate its 2000, 2001 and 2002 financial results.

DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 23:  The world economic leaders hailed on Tuesday signs of a global revival but agreed it had to be handled with care to prevent any setback.

The dollar rose 0.15 percent against the Japanese currency to 115.97 yen.

Police said on Monday they believed Cruz knew of the fourth-grade girl through one of her former schoolmates, although neither the girl nor her family knew him.

Peck, who was 87, died peacefully at his Los Angeles home last Thursday with his French-born wife of 48 years, Veronique, at his side.

Mr. Holden toured Northmoor, where between 25 and 30 homes were either damaged or destroyed and the town hall and police station also were damaged.

But Vincent Weafer, security director with Symantec Security Response, said all the virus did was visit a pornography site.

It was called mandatory, but Dupont said authorities did not force people to leave.

The stock of Juniper Networks Inc. rose sharply Monday after the Mountain View, Calif.-based network-equipment maker announced a distribution and development deal with Lucent Technologies Inc.

U.S. District Judge Lee R. West ruled Tuesday in Oklahoma City that the FTC lacks authority to run the registry.

The report said the agent twice called state Rep. Juan Escobar while he was with the other protesting Democrats in Ardmore, Okla.

Amazon's shares yesterday closed at $54.32 on the Nasdaq Stock Market, up 29 cents.

North American stock markets got off to a slow start Tuesday, with investors ready to get their first taste of quarterly earnings.

President George Bush and top administration officials cited the threat from Iraq's banned weapons programs as the main justification for war.

The director of Rescue California, the group leading the recall campaign, called the lawsuit "laughable."

The legal settlement resolves the private anti-trust lawsuit filed against Microsoft in January 2002 by AOL Time Warner's America Online unit on behalf of its Netscape subsidiary.

The PG-13 sequel "2 Fast 2 Furious" raked in an estimated $52.1 million during its opening weekend, jumping over last weekend's catch, "Finding Nemo."

Dell has 32 percent of the PC market in the United States, but it has only a 10 percent share in the rest of the world.

He ordered him sent to the Larned State Security Hospital for continued evaluation and treatment.

On Jan. 1, Nikia Shanell Kilpatrick, who was pregnant, was found bound and strangled in her apartment.

Pataki said if power was restored, state workers would be back on the job Friday morning.

The report shows that drugs sold in Canadian pharmacies are manufactured in facilities approved by Health Canada, which serves a similar role as the FDA for the Canadian government.

They argue that proposed congressional redistricting maps reviewed by the Legislature would disenfranchise minorities and rural Texas.

After about three hours of negotiations, the gunman released the hostages when authorities delivered on his request for a six-pack of soda.

Lee said he reached Scott on his cell phone and they talked for a couple minutes between noon and 2 p.m. on Dec. 24.

Prosecutors could not be reached for comment after the legal papers were obtained late Monday afternoon.

Wexford had agreed to assume about $90 million in debt to buy the planes and certificate.

The NIST discovered that in 1999 the Port Authority issued guidelines to upgrade the fireproofing to a thickness of 1 1/2 inches.

His injured co-worker, a woman, was hospitalized as well but listed in good condition, Reichert said.

Palm will issue approximately 13.9 million shares of Palm common stock to Handspring's shareholders.

The depositions were made public yesterday at the request of the P-I, The Seattle Times and The Associated Press.

Wittig resigned in late November about two weeks after being indicted on bank fraud charges in a real estate case unrelated to the company.

Prosecutors said they did not know what crimes to charge the men with because U.S. officials refused to share information with them.

This represents an additional 23 cases of dementia per year in every 10,000 women treated.

Jacob has pushed consolidation for years but said it has been opposed by many communities, especially rural ones.

A slit the size of one created in the test would let in a stream of gas three times hotter than a blowtorch.

Under terms of the agreement, Legato stockholders will receive 0.9 shares of EMC common stock for each Legato share they hold.

"The Republicans went into a closet, met with themselves, and announced a compromise," Hollings said in a statement.

Rumsfeld is awaiting recommendations from his commanders about troop needs in Iraq.

It was announced on Friday that Goodrem had been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a form of cancer which affects the lymph nodes.

"This is the time we priests need to be renewing our pledge to celibacy, not questioning it," he wrote.

Burma pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from a hospital after recovering from surgery but remain under detention at home, her personal physician said today.

"Shattered Glass" _ starring Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass, The New Republic journalist fired for fabricating stories _ debuted well with $80,000 in eight theaters.

United has paid $34 million in penalties for failing to meet employment targets.

It fell steadily until it dropped as low as $2.93 billion in 1998 and rose gradually to $3.27 billion for fiscal 2002.

A council of up to nine Iraqis will probably lead the country's still unformed interim government through the coming months, the American civil administrator said Monday.

He was arrested again Friday night at an Alpharetta restaurant where he was having dinner with his wife.

And all of the samples contained molecules that can only be produced when cholesterol interacts with ozone.

The bus blast in Helmand happened early in the morning in Nadi Ali district, west of the provincial capital Lashkargah.

Synthes-Stratec's cash payment for Mathys will be made up of money on hand, plus bank borrowings arranged by Credit Suisse First Boston.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others argued that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) possessed chemical, biological and other weapons and was hiding them.

As stark as the numbers themselves, is the conundrum they highlight: the growing difficulty of classifying racial and ethnic categories in an increasingly fluid and multi-ethnic society.

Overall, "Kmart needs to dramatically overhaul management in the areas of buying, store operations and sourcing," said Burt Flickinger of Strategic Resource Group.

The fight over online music sales was disclosed in documents made available Monday by the court.

The two cases were from the University of Michigan, one involving undergraduate admissions and the other, law school admissions.

A kayaker found Dr. Scribner's body floating near the doctor's houseboat in Portage Bay, where he was eating lunch when his wife, Ethel, left for an appointment.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's war began in 1998 when Uganda and Rwanda invaded together to back rebels trying to topple Kinshasa.

The Pentagon has begun an official investigation into Boykin's remarks.

Jane Doe, deciding to fight the subpoena, asked Verizon to withhold her name.

The informant alleged that the two arrested men were trying to engage Russian exiles in Britain in the conspiracy to kill Mr Putin.

The council includes 13 Shiites, five Kurds, five Sunnis, one Christian and one Turkoman.

Only in the past few weeks have officials settled on the 20 percent figure.

"Our fundamental values haven't changed," Mary Sue Coleman, president of the university, said in a statement in Ann Arbor.

Mother-of-two Sally, originally from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, had stepped on to the escalator when it collapsed.

This framework will be based on the company's work with the ObjectWeb consortium, Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse IDE community.

The United States has repeatedly accused Iran of trying to develop nuclear weapons.

The new variation of Blaster was identified Wednesday, according to antivirus company Sophos.

Whole Nine Yards," and written by first-time screenwriters Elizabeth Hunter and Saladin K. Patterson.

The U.N. atomic watchdog rapped Iran Thursday for failing to comply with nuclear safeguards, issuing a statement Washington said underlined international opposition to Tehran developing any banned weapons.

She said she eventually allowed him to fix her bike while she sat in his car, and they chatted.

The first products will likely be dongles costing $100 to $150 that will establish connections between consumer electronics devices and PCs.

A base configuration with a 2.4GHz Pentium 4, 128MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive costs $699.

"I think we have some opportunities -- some small opportunities -- in November and possibly January," he said.

During the problem liftoffs, foam left dozens of pockmarks on the thermal tiles that cover much of the shuttle, Turcotte said.

Vaccine makers have been thrust into the limelight as government programs encourage wider vaccination amid fears of biological attacks.

EDS reported a first-quarter loss of $126 million, or 26 cents per share.

ICANN asked VeriSign to voluntarily suspend Site Finder while the Internet community studied the issues.

Less than a month after leaving as host of "Dateline NBC," Pauley agreed Thursday to launch a daytime talk show for NBC Enterprises.

"The releases are the latest in a series of efforts by the government to move Myanmar closer to multiparty democracy and national reconciliation," a government statement said.

The Bush administration cited that intelligence as primary justification for invading Iraq.

The House voted 256-170 on Tuesday to approve the bill sponsored by Rep. Scott McInnis, R-Colo.

I would like to publicly thank Sir Alex Ferguson for making me the player I am today, Beckham said in the statement.

Bremer will focus on the politics and Garner on the rest of the reconstruction efforts, Garner said, adding that Bremer will arrive in Iraq by next week.

More than 130 people have been arrested and $17 million worth of property seized in an Internet fraud sweep announced Friday by three U.S. government agencies.

Several children, including the 8-year-old, went down to the water's edge to play in the surf.

TVT Records sought $360 million in punitive damages and $30 million in compensatory damages, officials said.

Lapidus expects Ford to be down 5 percent, Chrysler down 10 percent and foreign brands up 4 percent driven by strong truck sales at Honda.

Oracle managers also indicated PeopleSoft's roughly 8,000 workers could expect mass layoffs, though they did not get into specifics.

"I am very happy to be here in the United States far away from the clutches of the tyrant Castro," Wilson told the judge.

Michel, who has stayed in the new government, denied that it was U.S. pressure which had provoked the government's move.

Excluding one-time items, it expects profit of 11 cents to 15 cents a share.

On Jan. 12, 1996, two of his nude models were arrested atop of a Manhattan snowdrift, posed beneath an ice-cream parlor sign that advertised "Frozen Fantasies."

General Motors Corp. posted the best-ever improvement in 2000 at 8.4 percent.

Mr. Woodley died Sunday at age 44 of liver and kidney failure in his native Shreveport, La.

Her detention brings to 19 the number of the 55 who have been caught.

Just five months ago, Dean committed to accepting taxpayer money and the spending limits that come with it and vowed to attack any Democrat who didnt.

"Contrary to the court's decision, we firmly believe Congress gave the F.T.C. authority to implement the national do-not-call list," the congressmen said in a statement.

Ruffner, 45, does not have a lawyer on the murder charge, authorities said.

Some are also used to send spam e-mail messages to boost traffic to the sites.

"It is highly conditional, faces significant regulatory delays and uncertainty, and threatens serious damage to our business."

Al-Amoudi was arrested at Dulles International Airport after arriving on a British Airways flight from London.

I never thought I'd say this, but I almost missed Vin Diesel at first.

Of those three, only Dillard's responded to the survey that ranked 45 large companies on employment, marketing, procurement, community reinvestment and charitable donations.

The findings, published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, were the latest bad news about estrogen-progestin therapy.

The body of a victim lies under a yellow tarp in front of a car that plowed through a crowded farmers market in Santa Monica.

Legal experts say the case may mark the first time a parent has been convicted of contributing to a child's suicide.

An amendment to remove such protections failed by a vote of 186 to 237.

Associated Press quotes a local policeman as saying that the British troops were targeted by townspeople angry over civilian deaths during an earlier demonstration in the town of Majar al-Kabir.

Judge Harold Baer concluded Wednesday that lawyers for the two victims "have shown, albeit barely ... that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al-Qaida."

Mayor Bloomberg said the "behavior of the people in question was a disgrace and totally inappropriate for city employees."

Manuals produced by only six states _ Arkansas, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin _ now have such sections.

Indonesia's army has been accused of human rights abuses during its earlier battles with GAM, charges it has generally denied.

Freddie expects Brendsel to continue serving as chair of the Freddie Mac Foundation.

They also are reshaping the retail-business relationship, as companies take away concepts and practices that change how they do business internally and with others.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI jumped 194.14 points, or 2.09 percent, to 9,469.20 after sinking more than 1 percent a day earlier.

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Former star investment banker Frank Quattrone pleaded not guilty Tuesday to criminal charges of obstruction of justice and witness tampering.

Other elections have taken place in the northern city of Mosul and three cities in Iraq's south.

Stewart also faces a separate investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

"Her lawyers are trying to obtain a free pass to download or upload music on-line illegally.

The 30-year bond US30YT=RR firmed 14/32, taking its yield to 4.19 percent from 4.22 percent.

Police said the shooter ran away from an officer who chased him, and still was being sought Thursday night.

In a statement, an SCO spokeman said, "We view IBM's counterclaim filing today as an effort to distract attention from its flawed Linux business model.

Helicopters hovered throughout the day over the Al-Khalidiya neighborhood where the raid took place.

The appeal would stop the extradition process and could take several months, Rork said.

Our "spiritual enemy," Boykin continued, "will only be defeated if we come against them in the name of Jesus."

First up, Microsoft said a buffer overrun vulnerability occurs because IE does not properly determine an object type returned from a Web server.

"To make sure that we avoided any perception of wrongdoing, we are not comingling appropriated and nonappropriated funds [from Congress]," said Faletti.

In Al-Fallujah, two grenades were thrown Thursday at soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, wounding seven, none seriously.

"The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been wrongfully and morbidly accused of complicity in the tragic terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001," he said.

"If the voluntary reliability standards had been complied with, we wouldn't have had a problem," Mr. Dhaliwal said.

China accounted for 14% of Motorola's $26.7 billion in sales last year.

President Bush flies to Uganda Friday hoping to polish his anti- AIDS credentials in a country hailed as an African pioneer in fighting the epidemic.

MONY shares rose 8.76 per cent to $31.90 in after-hours trading in New York.

LendingTree matches borrowers via the Internet with more than 200 mortgage brokers, banks and other lenders.

"New York City and Houston fourth-graders were at the national average in writing.

That would represent an increase of some 10 per cent from the year before, it added.

It cut taxes while still balancing the budget for three years and bringing down Europe's highest national debt as a proportion of gross domestic product after Italy.

"But they did not, as of the time of this particular tragic event, provide the security we had requested," Mr Jordan said.

The company posted a net loss of $185 million, or 54 cents per share, in the year-earlier period, it said in a statement Wednesday.

"We're being hyper-vigilant," said Dr. James Young, Ontario's commissioner of public safety.

Texas lawmakers must close a $185.9 million budget gap by the middle of July or the schools wont open in September, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn said Thursday.

In 1995, Schwarzenegger expanded the program nationwide to 15 cities, serving 200,000 children, most of whom come from housing projects or homeless shelters.

"Further testing is still under way, but at this stage, given the early detection, the outlook in such instances would be positive," the specialist said yesterday.

This fall the command will send trainers to work with soldiers from four North African nations on patrolling and gathering intelligence.

Except for a few archaic characteristics, the skulls are readily recognizable.

Winslet, 28, has a three-year-old daughter Mia by her first husband, British film producer Jim Threapleton.

Only two other countries, the Dominican Republic and Germany, publicly expressed reservations about the treaty, and Germany has since said it will support the pact.

The group has the support of about 215 churches and an estimated 25 bishops.

The state has received 19 entries in that competition and is working with families of victims to select a winner.

John Clare, Dixons chief executive, objected to the Commission's findings.

"Monsignor Grass ... while manifestly repentant, admitted that the allegations were true," the statement said.

US manufacturing grew for the third consecutive month in September, but at a slower rate than in previous months, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Microsoft calls it: "A brand new client platform for building smart, connected, media-rich applications in Longhorn."

For more than a century, an undetermined amount of money was lost, stolen, or never collected.

Experts say legal challenges are rare before a bill becomes law.

Jay Fishman, 51, chairman and chief executive of St Paul, will be chief executive of the combined company.

And, globally, the number of active probable cases has declined to 573.

Defenders of the partial birth abortion ban downplayed the legal challenges.

"It should have declared that it was sailing with a cargo that was like an atomic bomb," said Anomeritis.

Mr. Bergonzi was the chief financial officer from 1995 until his departure, and was intimately involved in many of the alleged schemes to pump up Rite Aid's earnings.

The fire has so far charred 11,400 acres on Mount Lemmon just north of Tucson, and more than 250 homes have been destroyed.

Schafer said the governor would be open to offering that last license for a riverboat in Chicago.

The Pentagon statement said that allowing Hamdi access to a lawyer "is not required by domestic or international law and should not be treated as a precedent."

The 21-year-old eagle, found by a zookeeper early Thursday, had severe puncture wounds to his abdomen and back, spokeswoman Julie Mason said.

After serving as a marine in World War II, he began submitting articles to magazines.

The Legislature on Wednesday approved a bill that caps damages received by medical malpractice plaintiffs in the hopes it will lower insurance rates and help the state retain doctors.

In Taiwan, officials handed out free thermometers in an island-wide ``take-your-temperature'' campaign amid signs containment efforts were paying off.

Stocks slipped at the open after the euro hit record highs against the dollar.

U.S. forces organized the elections, which officials said were a step toward establishing democracy in the nation.

If draining the ponds in Maryland will further help establish Steve's innocence, we welcome it."

Cruz looked like a police sketch of the suspect and had injuries consistent with what police expected from the struggle he had with Jennette's mother, Chief William Lansdowne said.

Passed in 1999 but never put into effect, the smoking law would have prevented bar and restaurant patrons from lighting up, but exempted private clubs from the regulation.

A reading above 50 suggests growth in the sector, while a number below that level indicates contraction.

Half the women received a daily tablet of the combination oestrogen plus progestin while the rest were given a placebo.

The flaw involves the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) protocol, which deals with inter-computer communications.

"It will be a compromise, like the real world requires," he said.

The man had entered the post office on Woodside Avenue at Maine Avenue shortly before 3 p.m.

Doctors hope rock singer Ozzy Osbourne, who is recovering from a quad bike crash, will begin breathing unassisted again soon, they said today.

Hillary Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, has a book out Monday titled Living History.

Some 34.7 million shares have been tendered, Oracle said in a statement.

A third executive, chief operating officer David Glenn was fired.

The FBI is trying to determine when White House officials and members of the vice president's staff focused on Wilson and learned about his wife's employment.

Pen Hadow became the first man last week to reach the geographic North Pole on an unsupported trek through Canada, a journey of about 770 km.

Many of the victims of Sunday's attack were headed out of Iraq for R&R or emergency leave.

Saddam's portrait was added to Iraq's currency after the Gulf War.

Its safe to assume the Senate is prepared to pass some form of a cap....The level of it is to be debated.

During interrogation, he admitted that he helped organise and carry out near-simultaneous bombings that killed 22 people in Manila in December 2000.

The Nikkei average .N225 was down 1.83 percent or 192.25 points at 10,310.04, its lowest close since August 28.

Both Counterpane and iDefense contend that the exploit works effectively against Windows 2000 systems running Service Pack 3 and 4.

The safety center has a $45 million budget for its first year, much of which will be spent on tests and analyses.

The $87 billion budget includes $51 billion for military operations in Iraq, another $20 billion for reconstruction and about $11 billion for Afghanistan.

"For me, the Lewinsky imbroglio seemed like just another vicious scandal manufactured by political opponents," Mrs Clinton writes.

Associated Press Writer Michael Gormley contributed to this report from Albany.

Total revenue for the second quarter was $1.48 billion, up 7% from $1.39 billion in the same period last year.

That compared with a loss of $55.4 million, or $4.92 per share in the same period a year earlier.

Both sets of findings were presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America in Chicago.

Under Maine Rx, which state lawmakers approved in 2000, Maine would act as a "pharmacy benefit manager" to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

"The impact of increased prices has only begun to be seen in the financial numbers of the company," president and CEO Derek Pannell said in a statement.

His wife, married to Moore by a justice of the peace, started planning her dream wedding.

Thousands of people in the South of England caught a glimpse of the lunar eclipse as they gazed up at the night sky early today.

Rats on the tomato powder diet had a 26 percent lower risk of prostate cancer death than the control rats, allowing for diet restriction.

The impact of natural-gas shortages "will touch virtually every American," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham warned yesterday.

It also unveiled an update to its Windows Server 2003 operating system, which is tuned specifically for storage devices.

Tate was 12 when he was charged with beating Tiffany Eunick, 6, to death in July 1999.

Sales rose 37 per cent year-on-year to 1.76bn, beating expectations.

If the MTA's appeal is successful, the $2 bus and subway base fare won't change.

Chante Jawaon Mallard, 27, is charged with murder and tampering with evidence.

The Episcopal Church ''is alienating itself from the Anglican Communion,'' said the Very Rev. Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral, in Nairobi.

Fox was seeking an injunction to halt distribution of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."

Selenski had served about seven years in prison for bank robbery.

Walsh, also 40, was in critical but stable condition at Staten Island University Hospital last night.

The decision is among the far-reaching deregulatory actions made during the Bush administration.

"For us that doesn't make a difference, the sexual orientation," Tutu told Reuters Television in South Africa's sprawling Soweto township.

The µGuru microcontroller serves four functions: hardware monitoring, overclocking management, BIOS update and a troubleshooting-assistance feature called Black Box.

Sony Music's portfolio of products and services currently enable carriers to offer subscribers the ability to download images, ring tones, music videos and other entertainment services.

He said the local organized crime police were investigating a suspect, but he would not say if it was Ciobanu.

Previously, it had reported a small profit of $12 million, or break-even on a per-share basis, for the period.

According to the report, average life expectancy has increased by nearly two years since 1990.

U.S. stocks rose slightly on feather-light volume on Friday, as Wall Street regrouped after the biggest-ever power outage in North America.

The SEC specifically advised IBM that this is a fact-finding investigation and that it has not reached any conclusions related to this matter.

Badat was arrested under section 41 of the Terrorism Act “on suspicion of involvement in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism,” Scotland Yard confirmed.

Starting on Aug. 16, every computer infected with MBlast will start flooding Microsoft's Windows Update service with legitimate-looking connection requests.

"We put the call out," said the Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition.

Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal said on Wednesday the original proceedings were “irretrievably tainted” by misconduct by attorneys for the class.

The company said it would renew its guidance for 2003 when it announces its second quarter results in mid-July.

"The evidence accumulated over the intermeeting period confirms that spending is firming, although the labor market has been weakening.

Nigeria and other African producers are increasingly important in the former Texas oilman's plans to lessen dependence on Middle Eastern suppliers for energy security.

While many likely now will quit - as millions of women already have - Soltes said she is likely to continue prescribing the supplements for relief of change-of-life symptoms.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel, federal and local governments remained shut down, as did schools and many businesses.

Ursel Reisen confirmed it had been operating the coach, but declined to give details of the passengers other than to say they were of mixed ages.

But he is the only candidate who has won national labor endorsements so far, picking up his 11th on Tuesday.

Obus also denied a defense motion to postpone the Sept. 29 trial date.

Under a proposed plan of arrangement, Slocan shareholders will receive 1.3147 Canfor shares for every Slocan share they own.

BellSouth added 111,000 DSL customers during the quarter to reach a total of 1.3m subscribers.

In a televised address back in March, Mr Howard declared Iraq had weapons capable of "causing death and destruction on a mammoth scale".

I stand 100 percent by it, and I think that our intelligence services gave us the correct intelligence and information at the time," Blair said.

"I don't know whether the person I'm talking to now may end up being someone else," Parrish said.

She first went to a specialist for initial tests last Monday, feeling tired and unwell.

All three were studied for fingerprints, DNA and other traces of evidence, but there has been no testimony yet about what the tests might have yielded.

Kurdish forces at a checkpoint near Mosul in northern Iraq seized the trailer on April 19.

Sony Ericsson also said it plans to close its R&D site in Munich, Germany, for GSM and UMTS handsets.

Shareholders will get 0.86 PeopleSoft share, or $13.11, for each J.D. Edwards share, based on recent trading prices.

"That failure to act contributed to September 11 and the failure to act today continues [to put] Americans in a vulnerable circumstance," said Graham.

The Intel C++ Compiler for Platform Builder for Microsoft Windows CE.Net is available for $1,499 and is intended for use by device manufacturers and systems integrators.

Board member Douglas Osheroff, a Nobel-prize winning Stanford physicist, said: "There were some extremely bad decisions.

He later found out the alarming incident had been caused by Concorde's powerful sonic boom.

Witness Zulfiqar Ali, who was slightly wounded by shrapnel, said the attackers had focused on the mosque's guards.

He said the prob lem needs to be corrected before the space shuttle fleet flies again.

"I think it's going to be a close vote, but I think the grant proposal's going to win," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, assistant majority leader.

Since March 11, when the markets major indexes were at their lowest levels since hitting multiyear lows in October, the tech-laden Nasdaq has climbed nearly 20 percent.

"We have put a lot of energy into patching, later than we should have," he said.

Rebels consolidated their grip on a troubled northeastern Congolese town Tuesday as residents identified at least 112 dead after a week of fighting.

Within four days, the House and Senate overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution granting the president authority to go to war.

Adora Obi Nweze, the NAACP state president, said the state has refused to consider the possibility of murder.

"We can't change the past, but we can do a lot about the future," Sheehan said hours after arriving in Phoenix.

Bondholders of Mirant Americas Generation subsequently filed suit against Mirant seeking to block the exchange offer.

Officer Evans had declined written and telephone requests for an interview.

Sixty players and five coaches from Mepham High School in Bellmore, Long Island attended the training camp in August.

The official would not name the leakers for the record and would not name the journalists.

Dynes will be paid $395,000 a year; Atkinson's salary is $361,400.

The Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and other top Pentagon officials played down his comments.

Twenty-seven people were believed to have been spending Christmas Day with the caretaker of Saint Sophia Camp, a Greek Orthodox facility, when the mudslide roared through.

Her 20-year-old sister, Allyson, was severely burned and remained hospitalized in critical condition.

Shaul Mofaz, Israel's Defence Minister, raised the prospect of a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip, in addition to a growing air campaign to assassinate Hamas militants.

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided yesterday to lower its output ceiling by 900,000 barrels a day to 24.5 million barrels starting in November.

Though that slower spending made 2003 look better, many of the expenditures will actually occur in 2004, making that year's shortfall worse.

It is the first named storm to develop in the Caribbean in December.

Apple Computer's new online music service sold more than 1 million songs during its first week of operation, the company said Monday.

"Such communication will help adult smokers make more informed choices," company vice president Richard Verheij told a separate hearing, before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee.

The dollar pushed as high as $1.1115 to the euro in early trade, extending Tuesday's one percent rally to hit its strongest level since April 30.

After their arrests, sources said the men admitted they were smuggled into Washington state from Canada in July.

The production index rose to 52.9 percent from 51.5 percent in May.

During President Bush's trip to Africa earlier this month, however, Washington said it would support the increase.

Germany, another opponent of the war currently on the U.N. Security Council, in recent weeks has moved closer to Washington and did not insist on a timetable.

Like the Power4, the Power5 contains two processor cores on one chip.

She said in 2003, not one American state had an obesity level less than 15 percent of the population.

A sensitive light detector then looks for the telltale blue glow.

The federal government is approving new pesticides without even knowing whether they pose a threat to children, Canada's environment watchdog warned yesterday.

But in San Francisco, 80 percent of men and only 59 percent of women washed their hands.

Home Depot is expected to report earnings per share of 46 cents for the third quarter, according to Thomson First Call.

The global epidemic of HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is tightening its grip on Britain with a record number of new cases diagnosed last year.

But stocks have roared higher in the past 3-1/2 months amid hopes for an economic rebound.

"Spring has arrived in Estonia - we're back in Europe," Juhan Parts, prime minister, told a news conference last night.

Fujitsu will own 40 percent of the company, which will be headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.

He was given leave to appeal against part of his conviction and sentence.

Tracks can be burned to CDs, but the same playlist may only be burned up to five times.

SSE shares were unchanged at 652 pence by 0835 GMT but analysts welcomed the deal.

Shares were off 30 cents, or 1.3 percent, at $22.58 on Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange.

He also said there is no conscious policy by the United States to move the value of the dollar.

But Mr. Bolten cautioned that the deficit was still likely to exceed $500 billion in the 2004 fiscal year.

It is the nation's first large-scale counterterrorism exercise since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

"As a responsible leader we felt it necessary to make these changes because online chat services are increasingly being misused," stated Gillian Kent, director at MSN UK.

We have already found two trailers that we and the Americans believe were used for chemical and biological weapons."

None of Prairie Plant's marijuana can be distributed until the Health Canada's user manual is made available, she said.

The Baltic Sky is a 37-year-old ship registered to Alpha Shipping Inc. based in the Pacific Ocean nation of Marshall Islands.

Captain Smith left the ferry terminal after the crash, went to his home and attempted suicide.

He was reported as saying Prime Minister Sir Allan Kemakeza had made a deal with him to keep his guns while notorious warlord Harold Keke's group was armed.

She was taken to Charing Cross Hospital, where she remained critically ill last night.

In an unusual move that critics contend could disrupt millions of Web sites, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is reconsidering a patent affecting Internet pages.

If the judge decides that is so at the end of what is expected to be a five-day hearing, Peterson will be held for trial on the charges.

In 1999, troops returned after rebel raids on a neighbouring Russian region and a series of deadly apartment-house bombings in Russian cities that were blamed on the rebels.

Statistics from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment show that 11,844 abortions were performed in the state last year.

Tropical Storm Claudette headed for the Texas coast Saturday, with forecasters saying the sluggish storm system could reach hurricane strength before landfall early Tuesday.

"Everything is going to move everywhere," Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of defence force policy, is quoted as saying.

Newisys, an Austin, Texas, startup headed by former IBM and Dell execs, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary.

Black Democratic leaders were trying to arrange a meeting with Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe to discuss the layoffs of 10 minority staffers at party headquarters.

Shares of Express Scripts ESRX.O fell about 4 percent to $66.73 on the Nasdaq in late morning trade.

The Emeryville-based toy company filed suit Friday claiming Fisher-Price is violating its 1998 patent on interactive-learning books for toddlers and preschoolers.

They also drafted a nonbinding priorities list specifying that one-quarter may be used to reduce planned cuts of 5 percent in fees paid to health care providers.

Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had expected earnings of 19 cents per share in the third quarter.

In a statement issued by his solicitors, Mr Hadley said: "I am absolutely delighted with the outcome of proceedings.

"I love the Catholic Church with all my heart, mind, soul and strength," he said.

Laos's second most important export destination - said it was consulting EU member states ''with a view to taking appropriate action if necessary'' on the matter.

The Supreme Court said Monday the government can require public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters, rejecting librarians' complaints that the law amounts to censorship.

The analyst, already let go by Merrill, can request a hearing before a NASD panel.

"We make no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from further terrorist attack," said Barbara Comstock, Justice Department spokeswoman.

The victims drank tainted coffee after the April 27 worship service at Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church in New Sweden.

The city index outperformed the Dow Jones industrial average, which rose 2.9 percent during the four-day trading week.

The estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call was for a loss of $2.75 a share.

He blamed the blast on guerillas from the Taliban regime overthrown in late 2001 and said it was possible the bomber was killed in the blast.

But waiting crowds filling the streets rushed the bridges soon after daylight, overrunning razor-wire barricades.

Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg said: "The Comptroller's statements, while noteworthy for their sensationalism, bear no relation to the facts."

In her testimony, Kate Hannum said she was 5 1/2 months pregnant when her mother was killed.

Prosecutors said interviews Peterson gave reporters may have been monitored in case the fertilizer salesman confessed.

Between 1960 and 2000, however, the state's population grew by 30.4 percent to 6,080,485.

Barry Callebaut will be able to use Brach's retail network to sell products made from its German subsidiary Stollwerck, which makes chocolate products unknown to the American market.

The other 18 people inside the building - two visitors and 16 employees, including Harrison's ex-girlfriend - escaped unharmed, Aaron said.

By skirting the FDA's oversight, Eagan said the quality of the imported drugs is "less predictable" than U.S. drugs.

He said the royal family has poisoned the princes' "little minds."

Its cumulative total is $232.8 million, heading for $275 million.

Momentous happenings at the World Climate Conference in Moscow last week.

Egypt, Mongolia, the Seychelles, Tunisia and at least three other governments have signed unpublicized agreements.

He spoke in Manhattan's State Supreme Court, where O'Donnell and G+J sued each other for breach of contract.

"For the first time, there is an easy and affordable way of making this treasure trove of BBC content available to all," Dyke said.

Early Monday, the center of Claudette was about 300 miles east of Brownsville, with maximum sustained wind blowing at 65 mph, 9 mph shy of hurricane strength.

"We must not engage in borough warfare," the Comptroller William Thompson told the Council, according to his written testimony.

The Standard & Poor's retail index <.RLX> was up more than 1.5 percent.

Jeter, who dislocated his left shoulder in a collision March 31, took batting practice on the field for the first time Monday.

It also supports coloured labels to better organise documents, and dynamic browsing of the network for Mac, Windows and Unix file servers.

But to see those pages Amazon would require users to register, and it plans to limit the amount of any single book a browser can view.

Gagne struck out two in a perfect ninth inning for his 23rd save.

Also Thursday, the NYSE's board elected six new directors to the board and re-elected six others.

From 1993 to 2002, there were 142 reported sexual assaults at the academy.

"Mr Gilbertson would have been entitled to these (pension) payments irrespective of the circumstances in which he left the company," Mr Argus said.

Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Rutgers, Connecticut and Virginia Tech filed the lawsuit this month in Hartford, Conn.

Graham acknowledged that surgery was not exactly the way to begin a campaign, but he said he feels strong and has the go-ahead from his doctors.

As temperatures soar above 120 Fahrenheit in Basra, fridges and air conditioners have stuttered to a halt.

He or she decides the merchandising direction of the company, or basically what it should stand for.

"September and third quarter data confirm that demand in the global semiconductor market is rising briskly," stated SIA President George Scalise, in a statement.

"With the exception of March 2003, growth in business activity has been reported by ISM members every month beginning with February 2002," the Arizona-based group said.

Judiciary officials did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment on the criticism of Mortazavi's appointment.

A command is sent to Mars Express to release Beagle 2 by what is known as a Spin-Up and Eject Mechanism.

Gary Nicklaus, the 34-year-old son of the Golden Bear who is playing on a sponsor's exemption, birdied five of his first nine holes before shooting 69.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was down 0.04 points, or 0 percent, at 971.52.

"Events on our system, in and of themselves, could not account for the widespread nature of the outage," Burg said.

"Sinners have long cherished the fantasy that William Bennett, the virtue magnate, might be among our number," Michael Kinsely wrote.

Products featuring Vanderpool will be released within five years, he said.

Just about everything about "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" will set records.

The ambassador said it was up to the Americans to press the Iraqi council to make the invitation - a move he said the United States appears unwilling to make.

In Europe, France's CAC-40 rose 1.3 percent, Britain's FTSE 100 declined 0.2 percent and Germany's DAX index gained 0.6 percent.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC eased 8.52 points, or 0.51 percent, to 1,670.21.

After posting $3 million bail, Jackson flew to Las Vegas, where he had been working on a video.

Florida's primary will be March 9, after 28 states' primaries or caucuses.

Under current law, dividends are taxed at standard income tax rates up to 38.6 percent.

"We stand behind this program," said Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs.

There was no way the man could hear him, but he turned and mouthed something.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, said he intended to work to see that the loan provision was not in the final bill.

A final decision on his fate would lie with US President George Bush.

"I'm very proud of the citizens of this state," said Gov. John Baldacci, a casino foe.

The two blond opponents appeared almost identical because they wore matching powder-blue outfits - to their dismay."

The decision unnerved voting officials who already have been warning they have barely enough time to organize the election.

"Allison just proves you don't need to wait until August or September to have a disaster," Lichter said.

On Wednesday, analysts say, UN members can no longer ignore the shifts since the attacks in the US of September 11 2001.

The seizure of the money was confirmed by a United States Treasury official assigned to work with Iraqi financial officers here to rebuild the country's banking and financial system.

Net income was 12 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $35 million, or 20 cents, a year earlier.

The lawsuit, filed after a 19-month investigation by the Employee Benefits Security Administration, names former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeff Skilling, among others.

Mr McKinlay said that CIBA was involved in the importation of qat, a narcotic substance legal in Britain but banned in the US.

We can scatter them, we can cut off one head here and one tentacle there, but often the beast survives.

The average teacher is a 15-year veteran with a growing workload and slightly eroding interest in staying in teaching, the work force portrait shows.

Carnival Corp. stock was down 2.5 percent, or 81 cents, at $31.20 on the New York Stock Exchange.

According to the Census Bureau, the Hispanic population increased by 9.8 percent from the April 2000 census figures.

With Johnson's injury, the fight card at the Staples Center in Los Angeles is in question.

The Episcopal Church, with 2.3 million members, is the U.S. branch of the 77 million-member Communion.

BEA Systems Inc. BEAS.O said on Thursday second-quarter profits rose 28 percent, as revenues grew slightly more than Wall Street expected amid a contracting overall market for business software.

Details of the research will appear in a future issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The broader market also retreated, having climbed higher for four consecutive weeks.

He had been in protective custody since being transferred to Souza-Baranowski in April, officials said.

However, applications will have to be rewritten to take advantage of such capabilities.

"Realizing this, the pilot changed course and diverted to Kennedy, which has longer runways."

As of Monday, there were 66 probable cases in and around Toronto, a city of 4 million people.

Despite these and other differences, U.S. and EU leaders insisted they were working well together.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Robert Korkuc was expected to plead guilty Thursday in federal court on Long Island to securities fraud charges.

Two partners in Grant Thornton's Italian business have been arrested and are being questioned by magistrates over the collapse of the giant food group.

Frist proposed a process in which it would take gradually fewer votes to overcome filibusters preventing final votes on judicial confirmations.

The industry censor forbade the sexual innuendo of the play and would not allow Ewell's character to sleep with Monroe's.

Chiron has acceptances from holders of nearly 20 percent of PowderJect shares.

Mark Kaiser and Tim Lee, respectively US Foodservice vice-presidents for marketing and purchasing, have been dismissed.

Under the proposed terms of the transaction, and following the spinoff of PalmSource, Palm will exchange 0.09 shares for each share of Handspring.

The cause of death is drowning, and the manner of death is homicide, Prowers County Coroner Joe Giadone said.

The most recent killing was in 1998, when Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot and killed in his home in Amherst, N.Y.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst suggested a political motive for the report, saying: "It sounds like the Republican primary started early this year."

In Washington, FBI spokesman John Iannarelli said Sunday the bureau will provide forensic analysis of the wreckage.

Cabrera was called up Friday from Double A Carolina and started in left field.

Months later, an unknown shooter killed Dr. Wayne Patterson, who ran Gunn's clinic.

"Although some firms show BPO savings, vendors overstate their current offerings," McCarthy said in a statement.

In 1993, after nine years in prison, Bloodsworth was cleared with evidence gathered from a semen stain on the victim's panties.

Wagner and Wolford both said that rescue workers were scrounging for boats to retrieve residents stranded by high water.

Ernst & Young has denied the SEC's claims, and called its recommendations "irresponsible".

Cargo carriers World Airways Inc. and North American Airlines Inc. have also applied for permission to fly to Baghdad, Mosley said.

When a manager let him into the apartment, the youngster was lying in a baby's bathtub, covered with a towel and was watching a TV cartoon channel.

Convicted child molester Brian DeVries spoke out in response to community outrage Wednesday afternoon after registering as a sex offender at the Soledad Police Department.

The interest rate on Series EE savings bonds for May through October is 2.66 percent.

The state wants to kill the wolves in approximately a 1,700-square-mile area near McGrath to establish a moose nursery of sorts.

ATA spokeswoman Diana Cronan said travel was down in May through July, and she also expects it to be down some over Labor Day.

"The NASA organizational culture had as much to do with this accident as the foam," the report said.

Durst, a millionaire, pleaded self-defense in the death of his neighbor Morris Black.

Civil liberties groups filed suit, and U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson ordered the monument moved last October, calling it an unconstitutional promotion of religion by government.

Trading of EchoStar's stock closed Tuesday at a 52-week high of $32.17, up $1.54.

Some state legislators behind the bill say they remain hopeful Bush will sign the legislation, though they acknowledge pressure is building on the governor to do otherwise.

The attack came after several days of disturbance in the city in which U.S. soldiers exchanged fire with an unknown number of attackers as civilians protested the American presence.

A total of 114 U.S. soldiers were killed between the start of the war March 20 and the end of April.

Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie issued a letter Friday to CBS Television President Leslie Moonves.

In a statement, Heyer said, "Dan brings to Coca-Cola enormous experience in managing some of the world's largest and most familiar brands.

The ONS this week reported a surprise 0.6 per cent fall in manufacturing output in August.

Other gainers included Lexmark, which rose $US3.95 to $US63.35, recouping some of the $US14.10 it lost Monday.

Representatives of abuse victims expressed dismay at the possibility.

The White House said that leaking classified information was a serious matter that should be "pursued to the fullest extent" by the Justice Department.

The unemployment rate in San Joaquin County dipped last month to 8.5 percent, down nearly a full percentage point from August.

She said no company official had received "an individual target letter at this time."

The U.S. House of Representatives, the other chamber of Congress, does not vote on treaties.

Wal-Mart shares rose 16 cents to close at $58.28 on the New York Stock Exchange.

"The U.S. will find the killers and they will learn the meaning of American justice," Bush told the crowd, which burst into applause.

Sandy Mitchell, 44, from Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, and William Sampson, a British citizen born in Glasgow, face beheading in public.

Telemarketing Associates, hired by VietNow, raised $7.1 million from 1987 to 1995.

In the present case, too, Mr. Day said he hoped there would be an out-of-court settlement, which he estimated could approach $30 million.

"That doesn't mean to say it doesn't exist," Mr. Chandler said, but simply that his team has found no such evidence.

In 2002, Senator Trapdoor took in $18,009 from moonlighting as a songwriter, according to his latest Senate financial disclosure.

Ms Cohen Alon's lawyer, Donald Levine, confirmed she tried to sell the story in February.

Computer Associates, EMC, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and VERITAS are also onboard to support the storage standard.

Business groups and border cities have raised concerns that US-VISIT will mean longer lines that will damage cross-border commerce.

Economists said the report on wholesale prices showed producers were having a tough time trying to raise prices.

"Our objective is to improve the nation's capacity to save lives in ... a terrorist event," including use of weapons of mass destruction, Ridge said.

The second-quarter results had a non-operating gain of 10 cents a share while the 2002 second-quarter performance had a net non-operating loss of 19 cents a share.

Easynews Inc. said Monday that it was cooperating with the FBI in trying to locate the person who uploaded the virus to a Usenet news group hosted by the ISP.

Excluding litigation charges it made a profit of $7.8 million, or 10 cents a share.

"We need to take these threats seriously," said Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation.

The two had battled over custody and he allegedly told her in an angry phone call that he had no intention of following their new custody agreement.

Two British women lost a desperate court battle on Wednesday to have babies using frozen embryos their former partners want destroyed.

Bob Hope, the master of one-line quips, died Sunday night "with a smile on his face," his daughter said yesterday.

Prior to joining Eastman Kodak, Mr. Palumbo held senior marketing positions for Procter & Gamble.

But Davis adviser Roger Salazar said the governor's focus "is on doing the work that he's being paid to do."

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX shed 0.17 of a point, or just 0.02 percent, to 934.

Instead of being reprimanded by court security officers, a senior policeman smiled and shook Mr Lacsynski's hand and patted him on the shoulder.

Partway across the Atlantic, "He just heard two huge bangs and the balloon shuddered and fell," the balloonist's spokesperson Nicky Webster said.

The long-running newsmagazine Dateline NBC has been cut from three to two airings per week, losing its Tuesday berth.

"The energy task force evaluated regions of the world that are vital to global energy supply," the statement said.

Both executives face up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for securities fraud.

Revenue rose 26 percent, to $817 million, the company, based in South San Francisco, Calif., said.

PeopleSoft has argued that an Oracle takeover would face substantial regulatory delays and a significant likelihood that the transaction would be prohibited.

Cruz came to the United States in 1960, a year after Fidel Castro overthrew a dictatorship and installed a Communist government.

ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Despite hefty losses against the euro, the dollar's slide versus the yen was curbed by wariness that Japanese authorities could intervene to stem the yen's rise.

Referring to a Muslim fighter in Somalia, Boykin said that "my God was bigger than his.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.5 per cent at 9,905.8 and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.7 per cent at 1,995.1.

Daniels told the Star April 20 he was holding back because of concerns over the budget process in Washington and the war in Iraq.

Woori Finance is the only large bank still to be sold but the state retains large stakes in several others, leading to suspicions of government meddling in lending decisions.

Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante was first choice of 25 percent, followed by state Sen. Tom McClintock with 18 percent.

Juries in state and federal cases alike have also grown reluctant to impose the death penalty.

BT said it expected the combination to reap 60,000 additional customers between September and March, 2004.

The company, based in King of Prussia near Philadelphia, said it could liquidate the other two chains if it cannot find a buyer for them.

He has declined to comment on the charges, but court documents show that a lingering medical condition could contribute to his defense.

Sanders and colleagues at RAFT exposed skin samples removed from consenting patients during surgery to UVA light at intensities similar to that of sunlight.

It was the culmination of a row caused by Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who installed the 2400kg monument in the Alabama Judicial Building in 2001.

Japan's Tohoku Electric Power Co Inc said an 825,000-kilowatt (kW) nuclear reactor, the Onagawa No.3 unit in northern Japan, automatically shut down due to the quake.

Governor Rod Blagojevich said he would not balance the state budget with gambling revenues.

Walgreen's shares were up 4.6%, or $1.42, to $32.11 in midday New York Stock Exchange trading.

Intel Corp. narrowed its fourth-quarter sales estimate to the top end of earlier estimates Thursday, and announced it will take an accounting charge on one of its businesses.

"The proposed investment starts the process of raising the funding we need to increase our capacity to better support our customer requirements," said Yukio Sakamoto, Elpida's president.

Many women complain that they become more forgetful after menopause, and some doctors have come to believe the hormonal changes brought on by menopause are the reason.

Since surfacing late Monday, Sobig.F has been crippling corporate e-mail networks and filling home users' inboxes with a glut of messages.

The girl turned up late Sunday night at an East Palo Alto convenience store about 30 miles from her home.

"We haven't decided whether to use an unbroken or dotted white line," said Dave Richardson, the ICC's cricket manager.

BaFin, Germany's chief financial regulator, and the prosecutor's office were not immediately available for comment.

The president's "advice to the House Republicans is to pass it, to send it to him, so he can sign it," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

District Superintendent J. Chester Floyd told reporters Monday that McCrackin will be reassigned within the district.

Worldwide, Les Misérables has been seen by over 50 million people, with a total gross of over $2 billion.

Still pending against Rambus is a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission.

He agrees that technically smoking could be considered a disability, giving smokers the right to take complaints to the Human Rights Commission or Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Brand-name drugs in Canada tend to be cheaper than in the United States because of government price controls and a favorable exchange rate.

Their father had pleaded with doctors to abandon their efforst after his wife's euthanasia bid left their son in a coma and he was put on life support.

"Mr. Florence died Thursday of heart failure," said the couple's lawyer, Maranda Fritz.

Health Minister Peter Coleman said about 300 people had been killed and 1,000 injured as the rebels fought into the capital.

The news has caused a rush of people to the Knox County Health Department to get vaccinated.

The ITC midpoint review of the tariffs outlines their impact so far on the domestic steel industry and steel consumers.

Americans just want to be liked, she said, but there also is a "huge cost" when world opinion is negative toward the United States.

In fact, said John Logsdon, a board member and George Washington University expert on space policy, "human spaceflight had become a place where dissent was not welcome."

The prime ministers of China, Russia and four Central Asian countries signed agreements on Tuesday that set plans in motion for a long-awaited regional anti-terrorism centre in Uzbekistan.

The fifth nominee for fiction is Scott Spencer, for A Ship Made of Paper.

"Windows was the part of the experience that really resonated with people."

The two Democrats on the five-member FCC panel held a news conference to sway opinion against Powell.

It will cost about $20,000 per average course of treatment -16 to 17 weeks.

The OneNote note-taking tool is listed at $273 while the InfoPath XML data gathering application is priced at $289.

The current plan is to release videotapes of the sessions on Friday, after the review, said Jim Landale, a tribunal spokesman.

Forty to 50 years ago, the ratio was about 3-to-1, Kessler said, and 10 years ago, it was about 2-to-1.

The no-shows were Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Bob Graham of Florida.

Five foreign embassies in Bangkok, including the Singapore embassy, were among those targeted.

SARS has also taken a toll on Taiwan's economy, hammering consumer spending, with shops, restaurants and airports empty while people stay at home.

Minister Saud al-Faisal's visit was disclosed by two administration officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Spot gold was quoted at $358.65/359.15 an ounce at 0500 GMT, having darted as high as $359.25 -- a level not seen since February 25.

Parson faces one federal count of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer.

Holloway surrendered in Cleveland on Friday and was expected to be transferred to Houston in two weeks.

There is, however, no photograph of Dr Hollingworth in the June issue of the magazine examined by The Age yesterday.

The offer is also subject to Goldman signing an agreement with Drax's senior banks, senior bond holders and hedging banks by Sept. 30, it said.

On Wednesday, Hill is scheduled to become the first person executed for murdering an abortion doctor.

The contact between the delegations ended a diplomatic drought between the two nations, at odds over the nuclear program and U.S. demands that it cease immediately.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid launched a similar consumer tool for nursing homes last year.

Scientists reported a 90 percent decline in large predatory fish in the world's oceans since a half-century ago, a dire assessment that drew immediate skepticism from commercial fishers.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC dropped 25.17 points, or 1.39 percent, to 1,792.07, based on the latest available figures.

We're asphyxiating,' '' said Sam Granato, chief of the Kingsville police.

The lawyer for Hollins Jr., Thomas Royce, has said his client had no link to the company that owned and operated E2.

But none of the ministers opposed Mr. Powell's suggestion outright on Thursday, the ministers said.

No one has been killed in the recent attacks, which have continued despite serious setbacks for al-Qaeda following battles with Saudi security forces.

"That ought to be the standard, not how many people actually signed up," Mr. Rule told the judge.

Schwarzenegger picks up more independents and crossover voters than Bustamante.

The chief merchandising officer decides what the store is going to sell, giving it that signature that draws in shoppers and brings them back again and again.

"For customers to get the most out of the internet, several factors are crucial," Mr Danon said.

Anthony Citrano, a representative for WhenU, declined to comment on the case.

During difficult times for technology venture capital, Vivace raised over $118 million in three rounds of venture financing.

Levant's other credits include "The Flintstones," "Jingle All the Way" and "Beethoven."

As he left the court, McCartney cast a long, angry glare at Amrozi, who tried to hide behind his lawyer.

"It indicates we are starting the epidemic with more cases than last year," Gerberding said.

The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 49 points, or 0.47 percent, to 10,578.

Oracle's $19.50-a-share bid comes two days after PeopleSoft added cash to its original all-share deal with smaller rival J.D. Edwards & Co. JDEC.O .

"[They] were defined by dedication and courage," said the CIA's director George Tenet.

The FTC asked the court Wednesday to block the ruling and filed for an appeal.

The EU's agriculture representative in Washington said EU ministers were invited but canceled because the union is wrapping up talks on agricultural reform.

The Democratic candidates also began announcing their fund-raising totals in advance of the deadline today to file quarterly reports with the Federal Election Commission.

Even the pizza delivery took part, unwittingly delivering a leaflet with the missing girl's picture during his run to Cruz's house.

The Institute for Supply Management said its index of non-manufacturing activity rose to 50.7, bouncing back from a one-month contraction in March at 47.9.

The deal also boosts SuSE's sales reach worldwide and enhances HP's Linux business, they said.

The vendor has added 100 new third-party systems and 100 new components to the operating system's Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).

He and a colleague created the articular condyle using stem cells taken from the bone marrow of rats.

In 2001, there were 6.5 million high-tech jobs in the United States.

Of all personal vehicles, 57 percent are cars or station wagons, 21 percent are vans or sport utility vehicles and 19 percent are light trucks.

Network security products maker Secure Computing said Tuesday it is acquiring content filtering firm N2H2 for $20 million, furthering consolidation in an already competitive market.

Mel Gibson is negotiating with Newmarket Films to distribute his embattled Biblical epic "The Passion of Christ" in the United States.

Writing for the minority, Justice John Paul Stevens said the interrogation was akin to "an attempt to obtain an involuntary confession from a prisoner by torturous methods."

Prosecutors said PW Marketing violated the 1998 anti-spam law because these unsolicited e-mails were sent without a free call number for recipients to phone to stop additional mailings.

They were released to authorities after officers delivered a six-pack of Dr Pepper to the gunman, using a long stick to pass the soda through a door.

Authorities believe the children, who were last seen with their father at a fireworks display in Concord on July 4, are dead.

The Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Brass Ensemble also performed.

Goodrem spent yesterday resting in her family home in Sydney and will have more tests today to determine her exact treatment.

The Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he hoped Congress would finish work on the legislation by late September.

The report details crime reported to law enforcement agencies statewide.

In her autobiography, "Find Me," O'Donnell wrote, "I was an abused kid.

"The risk of inflation becoming undesirably low remains the predominant concern for the foreseeable future," the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee said.

The poll of 405 registered Massachusetts voters was conducted Wednesday through Friday by RKM Research and Communications.

"Motorola has displayed clear disloyalty" to Symbian, said Per Lindberg, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London.

The pressure on Peter Hollingworth to resign as Governor-General intensified last night as three Anglican bishops said it was time for their former colleague to step down.

The attack on the Rashid Hotel on Sunday, during the visit of the deputy secretary of defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, underscores the nature of the problem.

"He would often call me for advice," said lawyer Ron Kuby, a friend who had represented him in court.

The Bush administration wants the measure approved by June 3, when the existing oil-for-food program is up for renewal.

Brigadier General Edward Aritonang, a police spokesman, confirmed yesterday that another two had been arrested, one in Jakarta and another in Magelang, Central Java.

Since late last year, for example, more than 1,800 members of the American military have been placed in Djibouti to conduct counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa.

Brian Rohrbough, whose son, Daniel, was killed at Columbine, said the tape raises disturbing issues.

Reflecting the broad scope of the recession and its aftermath, significant increases in uninsured rates occurred among whites, blacks, people 18-to-64, and middle- and higher-income earners.

Bob Richter, spokesman for Craddick, R-Midland, said the speaker had not seen the ruling and could not comment.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX crept up 4.3 points, or 0.44 percent, to 980.52.

The network peddled drugs by forging paperwork showing prior owners of the shipments.

Coca-Cola announced Friday morning that the U.S. Attorney's office in Atlanta has started an inquiry.

Blair has said there is not ``a shred of truth'' in allegations that the government manipulated evidence about Iraq's weapons programs.

They were just making sure they dotted all the I's and crossed all the T's," said Blair Schoof, executive director of music for AOL Europe.

A public comment period on the proposed new taxes will end on Monday.

Puretunes has also lost a distribution deal with the popular Grokster file-swapping software company.

The League of United Latin American Citizens, the group criticizing Schwarzenegger, said the Austrian-born actor's advisory board position brings into question his commitment to Hispanics.

"They have blocked all new bio-crops because of unfounded, unscientific fears," Bush said.

Market sentiment was also cautious after International Business Machines Inc. IBM.N said that federal securities regulators had begun an investigating into its accounting.

Boston College, Miami and Syracuse are considering leaving the Big East for the Atlantic Coast Conference by the end of the month.

Tuition at the six two-year community colleges will leap by $300, to $2,800.

The Third Armored Cavalry Regiment recently apprehended about 40 suspected fighters near the Syrian border, officials said.

He added: "No one has anything to fear from being correctly identified, but everything to fear from their identity being stolen or misused."

Italian police investigating the Prodi bomb suspect an anarchist group that claimed responsibility for Dec. 21 explosions near his house, according to Italian news agency ANSA.

Supporters say those people will gamble and have enough money left over to spend in restaurants and stores.

There are 100,000 U.S. troops in Asia, most of them in South Korea and Japan.

Lee, 33, said the girl had dragged the food, toys and other things into her mother's bedroom.

Peterson told police he left his wife at about 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 24 to fish alone in San Francisco Bay.

Mosel had been unable to present financial statements in time because of mergers among subsidiaries and a change of accountants, the company said yesterday.

A navy official said divers scanned the river bed with metal detectors before rain drove them to shore.

Matrix Reloaded opened in limited previews Wednesday night, and its total for all five days was estimated at $135.8 million.

At first blush, then, the creators of the registry would seem to have drawn the line between exempted and banned calls in the right place.

They added that decisions have been made about how many troops will be moved, where they will come from, or where they will end up.

The Bank of England "requires growth from elsewhere in the economy and needs the economy to rebalance," he told the Press Association news agency.

Voters in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, approved a proposal allowing same-sex couples -- and also unmarried heterosexual couples -- to officially register as domestic partners.

Cisco has similar relationships with BellSouth competitors SBC Communications, AT&T and Sprint Communications.

But Ms Ward said the headroom under its financial covenants was "tight" and that there could be a rating downgrade if Southcorp did breach any banking covenants.

The other victim recovered Tuesday morning was Al Larsen, 31, of Fort Worth, Texas.

Young faces a fine, suspension or being permanently barred from the securities industry.

Philadelphia's council is not the first to defy the national policy.

It would be especially cumbersome for restaurants that change their menus daily, she said.

Mitchell said many knew Wilson, 43, to be unstable and that she recently lost her job.

"We preserve essential tools to foster voice competition," Copps said.

The researchers say that the fact the MAP bug is present in the vast majority of Crohns sufferers means it is almost certainly causing the intestinal inflammation.

Only a big surge in consumer confidence has interrupted the bleak economic news.

The Harrisons’ lawyer Paul LiCalsi said: “I’ve never heard of more reprehensible behaviour by a doctor.

"I have every reason to believe that people understand enough is enough," Mr. Pataki said.

However, the Israeli government argues that changes in Israel’s state-controlled economy are necessary if the state is to compete in the global marketplace.

The PCs are scattered across the United States, Canada and South Korea.

DeVries, who was voluntarily castrated in August 2001, has said the surgery took away his ability to become sexually aroused.

Burrell said Diana wrote a letter in October 1996 claiming there was a plot to kill her in a smash and gave it to him to keep as insurance.

And SARS, the deadly respiratory disease first detected in China last November, tested the agency's new state-of-the-art emergency operations center.

Speaking to reporters at a New York news conference, Universal McCann's Coen projected that total U.S. ad spending will rise 4.6 percent to $247.7 billion this year.

Four Harvey Milk High School students who dressed as women were arrested yesterday for robbing men in the West Village - and pretending to be police officers, sources said.

Massachusetts has no state death penalty, and only once before -- in Michigan -- has the federal death penalty been given in a state without capital punishment.

Toronto police made 38 arrests linked to the blackout and reported 114 incidents, mostly for looting and other thefts, said Constable Mike Hayles.

"We're delighted the testing has worked -- we caught this ... and haven't sent it into the blood supply," said Dr. Dale Towns, Calgary medical director of CBS.

Some E.P.A. staff members defended the document, saying that although pared down it would still help policy makers and the agency address the climate issue.

Even if the Senate approves the proposals, they would require the support of the Democrat-led Assembly and Gov. George Pataki to become law.

The stock lost some three quarters of its value after the initial February 24 bombshell disclosure.

On June 4, Amazon said it had received orders for over 1 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

Police arrested on Friday the chief suspect in the murder of the top state official on the unruly French island of Corsica, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said.

The 14-year-old national spelling finalist who attends school in Belmont, N.C., got a word that sounded like "zistee" during competition Wednesday.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 79.43 points, or 0.86 percent, to 9,117.12 on Friday.

Retired General Wesley Clark's entry into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination will almost certainly strengthen anti-war forces determined to unseat US President George W Bush next year.

China would become the third nation to achieve manned spaceflight.

ImClone Systems and Genentech led shares of biotechnology companies higher yesterday after studies showed the medicines they are developing helped cancer patients.

The city had requested federal funds, but withdrew that request when American Express pledged at least $3 million.

GeCAD, founded in 1992 and based in Bucharest, provides anti-virus, anti-spam and content-filtering products under the name RAV AntiVirus.

Kelly Boggs, Baptist Press' weekly columnist, will be writing a column each day during the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting this week in Phoenix.

The new found planet is the only one known to orbit such a double-star system.

More than 1,000 people rallied over three days, proclaiming that genetically modified foods weren't the answer to the world's food problems.

Lee Janzen, tied atop the leaderboard with five holes left, finished with a 68 to tie for sixth with Bob Crane (67) at 269.

The equivalent of 75,000 55-gallon barrels of transuranic and low-level radioactive waste, some of it mixed with hazardous chemicals, is buried at Hanford.

There are more surprises than you can possibly imagine," Davis said after appearing with former U.S. president Bill Clinton at a school dedication.

All three of the teens were charged with offenses including conspiracy to commit murder.

Less than 20 percent of Boise's sales would come from making lumber and paper after the OfficeMax purchase is complete, assuming those businesses aren't sold.

Wall Street is debating whether the central bank will say risks are tilted toward weakness or balanced with inflation.

Yehuda Abraham, a 76-year-old jeweler from New York's diamond district, accepted a $30,000 down payment on behalf of Lakhani for the first missile, investigators said.

He claims they agreed on this plot and that fine-tuning was handed to Dulmatin, a bombmaker who is still on the run.

The seventh member of the cell, Habis Abdullah al Saoub, 37, a Jordanian, remains at large.

The Bank of England starts a two-day policy meeting on Wednesday and is expected to leave British interest rates steady at 3.75 percent on Thursday.

The results were 3 cents a share lower than the forecast of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.

The appetizer devoured, Annika Sorenstam moves on to the entree this week at the McDonald's LPGA Championship.

The greenback rose steeply against the euro, yen and Swiss franc despite weaker-than-expected September U.S. retail sales figures.

That was up from the year-ago quarter, when the company earned $54.3 million, or 22 cents a share.

"This proposal is modest compared with the space programme, and may seem unrealistic only because little effort has been devoted to it.

"It's nasty," said JoAnn Marquis, visiting with her husband from Salem, Mass. "After what happened here .

President Bush has raised $83.9 million since beginning his re-election campaign in May, and has $70 million of that left to spend, his campaign said Tuesday.

An hour later Israeli attack helicopters rained missiles on a car in Gaza City, killing seven people, Palestinian sources said.

Hovan, a resident of Trumbull, Conn., had worked as a bus driver since 1967 and had no prior criminal record.

The 30-year bond was down 14/32 to yield 4.92 percent, up from 4.89 percent on Thursday but off an earlier yield high of 4.95 percent.

The two groups said they would collaborate on the design of future memory technologies.

On Aug. 8, Juvenile Court Judge Robert Yeates ordered that Parker be placed in protective custody.

Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the UK's ambassador to the UN, is due to lead a week-long Security Council mission to West Africa in mid-May.

A Stage 1 episode is declared when ozone levels reach 0.20 parts per million.

This year, Peninsula health officials got the money to hire part-time water samplers and purchase testing equipment thanks to a $282,355 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

In recent dealings, shares of Roslyn were up 40 cents, or 1.9 percent, to $21.25.

"He may not have been there," said a defence official speaking on condition of anonymity.

Since October 2001, American has laid off 6,149 flight attendants, according to George Price, a union spokesman.

She met Lady Mary for the first time at her Double Bay home in Sydney yesterday to thank her in person for the donation.

Acting New Haven Police Chief Francisco Ortiz said police were treating the explosion as a criminal matter.

Including convertible securities, the total estimated value of the deal is $124 million, according to Corel.

"I am being forced into exile by the world's superpower," Taylor said in an address videotaped at his home.

He also noted that Tenet has provided the committee with 19 volumes of documents on prewar intelligence which has been made available to House members.

The troops - whose mandate is to protect U.N. installations and personnel - can only fire in self-defense and have been unable to stem the violence.

North American futures pointed to a strong start to the first trading session of the week Monday, as earnings season slows and economic indicators take the spotlight.

It also offers a "self-healing" option so businesses have continuous access to critical servers, data and applications.

Smithfield shares rose more than 8 per cent yesterday as the company said it expected the transaction to boost earnings immediately.

Consolidated volume was moderate, with 1.91 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, compared to 1.5 billion Monday.

Eddington is to meet the other two unions separately later on Monday.

He has said he plans to urge Chinese officials during the G20 meeting to move more quickly to adopt a more flexible currency system.

With Claritin's decline, Schering-Plough's best-selling products are now antiviral drug ribavirin and an interferon medicine called Peg-Intron -- two drugs used together to treat hepatitis C.

Shares of Smithfield rose $1.64 yesterday to close at $20.85, a rise of 8.5 per cent, on the New York Stock Exchange.

He plans to announce the effort formally tomorrow in Cincinnati alongside several union presidents.

TSMC feels that Syndia's actions are designed to interfere with TSMC's customer relationships, the company said.

Also at increased risk are those with suppressed immune systems due to illness or medicines.

Xerox itself previously paid a $10-million penalty to settle the SEC accusations.

Upscale department store chain Nordstrom Inc. JWN.N jumped $1.49, or 9.4 percent, to $17.35.

"We've destroyed about one half of al Qaeda, the top operators of al Qaeda, and that's good.

Grieson said both of her knees were swollen for days and that she still has scars on her legs from the incident.

Its first decisions were to scrap all holidays honoring Saddam and his outlawed Baath Party and to create a new public holiday marking the day of his downfall.

Al-Qaida, the terror network led by Saudi-born bin Laden and blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been linked to both cases.

Blair praised the work of the Rhodes Trust, saying it was an Australian Rhodes Scholar he met while at Oxford who first interested him in politics.

Turki Nasser al-Dandani, another suspected Saudi operative for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network and top suspect in the Riyadh bombings, remains at large.

The church's lawyer, Shirley Phelps-Roper, was clear: "What they have done is a thinly veiled attempt to do an end run around the constitution," she said.

In turning down the NIMA offer, Gehman said, ''there were a number of bureaucratic and administrative missed signals here.

Reed arrived a day after H. Carl McCall, co-chairman of the exchange's special committee on governance, resigned saying Reed should have a "clean slate" to make changes.

Moments later, he hugged his defense lawyers, softly saying, "Thank you, so much."

Water samples are being sent to the state health department for analysis.

Pat Anderson, the lawyer representing the Schindlers, declined to comment on the filing.

The company has reached agreement on the terms for buying the paper division of the Dutch office supplies group Buhrmann, the largest paper distributor in Europe.

The outage resurrected memories of other massive power blackouts, including one in 1977 that left about 9 million people without electricity for 25 hours.

Ms. Gelinas said only 1.5 per cent of those have been fully re-evaluated.

It is almost certain to exacerbate the divisions between Washington and Europe that emerged before the war in Iraq.

Chairman and chief executive Leland Brendsel and Vaughn Clarke, the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer, resigned.

Eurex said "the vast majority" of trades on Eurex US would be priced at 20 cents per contract or less depending on "participation in incentive schemes".

Associated Press Writer Jay Reeves in Birmingham, Ala., contributed to this story.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (nyse: HPQ - news - people), the No. 2 computer maker, rose 41 cents, or 2.4 percent, to $17.29.

The free service was originally intended to block about 80 percent of telemarketer calls.

They have a cell phone and everybody that has a cell phone wishes they had a better one."

Taher, acting against his attorney's advice, became the fifth member of the six to enter a plea agreement with the government.

Whether or not we get to the two-thirds, we're going to have the lion's share of union support."

In response, Medina issued the following statement: "The accusation that I misappropriated money from Jennifer Lopez is both untrue and offensive.

The two companies plan further analysis of the subset data and will discuss the results with regulatory agencies.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> rose 6 points, or 0.41 percent, to 1,498.

The case decided Monday centered around an Illinois fund-raiser, Telemarketing Associates.

Both men are being held for investigation of administrative immigration violations.

Tibco's chief marketing officer George Ahn said: "Rendezvous has been a Tibco mark for many years and is one of our flagship products.

Bad publicity surrounding warranties has already sent sales into decline.

Mr. Turner transferred about 10 million shares to a charitable trust before they were sold.

But Miami is competing with eight other cities, including Atlanta; Panama City; Port-of-Spain, Trinidad; and Cancn, Mexico.

It is "in the hands of Mr Newton" as a US space agency (Nasa) astronaut once put it.

Staff Writer Diane Lade and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

But the Russell 2000, the barometer of stocks of smaller companies, had a weekly gain of 3.71, or 0.9 percent, closing at 418.40.

At 11 a.m. EDT, Fabian's center was near latitude 18.1 north and longitude 53.2 west, or about 550 miles east of the Leewards.

The National Transportation Safety Board had subpoenaed him, but he initially ignored the order.

His wife, Janet, said she heard the thud from the kitchen, where she was getting a glass of water.

But as time passed and more people were shot, Moose had to admit that he couldn't give the public what it needed most from the police - safety.

"I think the longer the series goes, the more chance Dirk has to play," Nelson said.

The seal will ultimately be used on department materials, signage, credentials, badges, vehicles, sea vessels and aircraft.

Bunia has about 750 U.N. troops, compared with an estimated 25,000 to 28,000 tribal fighters in the region, with thousands deployed in and around Bunia.

Iowa State athletic director Bruce Van de Velde would not confirm an offer was made to Lebo.

The Dow Jones industrial average was up 17 points to 9,090, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 10 points to 1,601.

The Atlanta Olympic Games attack killed one woman and injured more than 100 other people.

A charter plane crashed in Turkey on Monday, killing all 75 people aboard, including 62 Spanish peacekeepers returning from Afghanistan, officials said.

Meanwhile, the main subject of oil market debate, Iraq, will not send a delegation, an issue that has rankled Iraqi officials.

Russian forces stormed the building to free the hostages but 129 people died in the operation.

Georgia has received all but $70,000 of its money back with the help of the FBI.

At the service Morrill's widow, Ellie, sobbed and hugged Bondeson's sister-in-law as people consoled her.

The US administration responded coolly to the EU deadline, warning that trade sanctions would backfire by hurting European consumers but pledging "to comply with our international obligations".

Water management officials in Florida were worried about the storm's possible effect on some of their already-swollen rivers and lakes.

Spansion Flash memory solutions are available worldwide from AMD and Fujitsu.

Wal-Mart, Kohl's Corp. and Big Lots Inc. were among the merchants posting May sales below Wall Street's modest expectations.

Rambus Inc. shot up almost 33 percent, making it the biggest percentage gainer on the Nasdaq.

Mitzna and party secretary Ophir Pines agreed to convene party organizations within 10 days to discuss whether new primaries would be held or a temporary leader appointed.

Feeling rejection as an acute pain may have developed as a defence mechanism for the species, Eisenberger said.

Around 1,500 police are to be deployed at Niigata for the ferry's visit.

A discouraging outlook from GE sent the company's shares down 81 cents (U.S.) or 2.7 per cent to $29.32.

Berkshire Hathaway made profits of $1.7 billion in the first three months of this year alone, its best performance.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald declined to name the wholesalers, whom he called "victims in this."

At the very long end, the 30-year bond US30YT=RR lost 2/32 for a yield of 4.41 percent.

Mr. Parsons has served as the director at the Stennis Space Center, which employs 4,600 people, since August.

Microsoft also said it will tie stock awards for 600 or so executives to the growth and "satisfaction" in its customer base.

At 11 a.m. (1500 GMT), the 10-year note US10YT=RR was up 11/32 for a yield of 3.36 percent from 3.40 percent Wednesday.

In 1998, a 33-year-old man died after he was struck by a metal cleat at the Columbia ship attraction.

Last year, Stockwell was forced to repay $3,000 in bar tabs that he and his staff rang up while he was labour minister.

She told the New York Daily News she remembers only the intern's first name, which she refused to reveal.

The Purchasing Managers Index, released on Monday by the Institute for Supply Management, rose to 49.4 in May from 45.4 in April.

Max Guarino, 17, was found April 25 in the water off City Island.

Kodak expects earnings of 5 cents to 25 cents a share in the quarter.

Scholars in medical ethics have said the notion of medicating people to improve their mental health to the point where they may be executed can present formidable obstacles for doctors.

A Comoros islander, he is on the United States' list of most wanted suspects.

"I didn't see either one today, but if they're here and wave from the side, I'll certainly wave to them," Bloomberg said.

The governor said the use of the credit card was a mistake, and has since reimbursed the party for the expense.

American and Russian space officials stressed there is no immediate danger to the crew or the operation of the orbiting outpost.

A new version of the Bluetooth specification was officially launched today at the start of the Bluetooth World Congress in Amsterdam.

"Those rating present business conditions as 'bad' increased to 30.4 per cent from 28.1 per cent," the report said.

The singer has been on a ventilator since the crash at his Buckinghamshire estate on Monday, with his condition last night described as “stable and comfortable”.

One of the FBI's key operatives, who has had a falling-out with the bureau, provided an account of the operation at a friend's closed immigration court proceeding.

I am not giving any consideration to resignation," Shumaker said in a statement.

Sixty-one people were killed and dozens wounded in outbreaks of violence across Afghanistan in the troubled country's bloodiest 24 hours in more than a year, officials said Wednesday.

Emergency crews said no passenger was ejected, but some were thrown partly out of the open side of the bus.

The people who are sending these messages are infringing on my rights and everyone else's rights to use your computer," McKechnie said.

He added that genes on the Y might play a role in influencing gender-specific differences in disease susceptibility.

The Nasdaq eased 0.15 percent for the week after two consecutive up weeks.

Under the House-passed plan, seniors would pay 20 percent of drug costs, plus a $250 deductible annually.

Overture generates its search listings from more than 100,000 advertisers who bid for placement on keywords relevant to their business.

Human Genome said ABthrax could be available for emergency use as early as the end of 2004.

"A really robust space program could be had for a mere 20 cents a day from each person," he said.

The scientists' research is being published today in the journal Science (www.sciencemag.org).

"We do not know if the current investigation involves one or more multiple contractors," she said.

We think this was bad law, and we still expect to be vindicated ultimately.

Shares of other mortgage lenders and home construction companies also fell.

Brent crude for July delivery fell 38 cents to $27.45 a barrel on London's International Petroleum Exchange.

The Queens man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot City Councilman Hiram Monserrate was held on $100,000 bail Saturday, a spokesman for the Queens district attorney said.

Stocks rebounded on Friday on hopes the government would next week adopt some of the market boosting proposals discussed on Thursday at a meeting of the top economic advisory panel.

It's just a matter of time, said Frank McDonald, of the University of Maryland.

"It was a brazen attempt at intimidation," said a Republican legislator who attended the meeting.

Axelrod died of heart failure while asleep at his Los Angeles home, said his daughter, Nina Axelrod.

But, in a 58-page report, WHO said the Danish ban had been effective in reducing the spread among food animals.

While Montgomery was one of the first to enact such a law, it's now relatively common - even New York City bans smoking in bars.

"30 years waiting for you," read one banner hoisted over the crowd, as many concert-goers wept tears of happiness.

He also said that Tom Siebel had turned in 26 million stock options with a value of $54 million to $56 million earlier this year.

A Catholic priest said two miners were killed and nine other protesters injured 110 kilometres outside La Paz as a convoy of miners threw dynamite at soldiers manning a roadblock.

ATA shares closed down $1.66, or 16.7 percent, at $8.26 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

North Korea has demanded one-to-one talks with the United States.

However, the new vaccine won't begin to be tested in people until 2005 and won't be approved for use for several years after that.

But authorities have been unable to stop the tragedies, which they blame on overcrowding, rickety vessels and lax safety standards.

Ms Stewart, 61, its chief executive officer and chairwoman, did not attend.

In early U.S. trading, the euro <EUR=> was down 0.6 percent to $1.1741, after rising to a four-month high of $1.1860.

If accepted by the judge, Grass' plea will leave Rite Aid's former vice chairman and chief counsel, Franklin C. Brown, to stand trial alone next month.

He played four seasons in Miami, including the Dolphins' 27-17 loss to Washington in the Super Bowl.

However, a Fort Campbell spokesman, said that Akbar had "an attitude problem."

The new WPAN standard uses the 2.4 GHz unlicensed frequency band and specifies raw data rates of 11, 22, 33, 44 and 55Mbit/s.

"We believe that it is not necessary to have a divisive confirmation fight," Daschle of South Dakota wrote the Republican president.

Beta versions of Nterprise Linux Services are expected to be available on certain HP ProLiant servers in July.

Christina's aunt, Shelley Riling, said she will address the court.

They are actually going to record sales for Velcade this year," said Matt Geller, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.

Still, Pinellas rabies cases fell sharply to 17 in 1996 and 3 in 1997, Agnew said.

And now it's anything he wants to say," confirmed Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center social director Alesha Badgley.

GlaxoSmithKline, the UK drugmaker, has said it would cut off supplies to Canadian stores shipping drugs to the US.

The Justice Department on Aug. 19 sanctioned the Oct. 7 date for recall election, saying it would not affect voting rights.

Those who ejaculated more than five times a week were a third less likely to develop serious prostate cancer in later life.

He said he wasn't bothered by polls and that he would continue to do what he believed to be right, in both foreign and domestic policy.

Grass is the second of the Rite Aid defendants to strike a deal with federal prosecutors this month.

Class-action suits expand sharply the number of plaintiffs and damages in a suit by allowing initial plaintiffs to sue on behalf of a larger group with common interests.

The Swedish central bank cut interest rates by 50 basis points to 3.0 percent.

Powers said almost all supercomputer users would rather pay the $100,000 to $10 million for a supercomputer than try to build their own.

One of the Oregon species was acclimated to a temperature of 65 (18.33 Celsius), but survived until the aquarium temperature reached 87 (30.56 Celsius).

The plan, called The NIH Roadmap, was developed over 14 months with help from more than 300 consultants in industry and academia.

Jones' decision Friday ended an 18-month process that included a frenzy of last-minute negotiations between bidders and creditors.

The value of BP's investment has risen since the deal was announced in February.

Hoy confirmed the woman's age Tuesday and said she was on vacation with her family, but is expected to return this week.

Mr. Chapman, who hasn't been arrested, is expected to appear for arraignment next Thursday, prosecutors said.

"It's a new beginning as far as the courts, Crown Prosecution Service and police are concerned, making the criminal justice system work better."

Their worst-case scenario is the accidental deletion or malicious falsification of ballots from the 1.42 million Californians voting electronically - 9.3 percent of the state's 15.3 million registered voters.

A sour forecast from Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O put more pressure on Wall Street before the quarterly earnings season.

"The movement to defend pensions is gaining momentum, and we won't give up," said Marc Blondel, leader of the Force Ouvriere union.

GE's shares closed at $30.65 on Friday on the New York Stock Exchange.

An artist painted a sign reading ``CAUTION Low Flying Planes'' on a building near ground zero, angering neighbors and stirring complaints.

Georgia's median household income dropped about 0.9 percent to $43,096 -- a $408 dip.

He added: "Culturecom is confident it will make a significant impact on market share with this new development."

A Competition Commission inquiry last month has already excluded larger rivals Tesco, Asda and J Sainsbury from the bid race.

The move to rein in the losses of the four upmarket food outlets comes as the retailer seeks to cap the cost of doing business.

Defence lawyers sought to have those charges thrown out, claiming the Bali court hearing Mr Samudra's case did not have jurisdiction over those crimes.

Many compensation experts had predicted that Carty would get a generous severance package because his voluntary resignation helped preserve the concessions, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

At least 36 deaths have been blamed on the storm, 20 of them in Virginia.

He faces an additional 25 years in prison on the federal charges when he is sentenced July 7.

Near a mosque in the northern town of Mosul, rebel gunmen also assassinated a Sunni Muslim tribal leader who backed the coalition.

Manuel and his group entered the US the same way thousands of people do every day, by walking across the bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville.

Goldman offered the shares for sale to institutional investors at $13.15 each, said the traders, who received calls from the securities firm's sales force.

Their biological daughter Renee Jackson, 29, said she made huge pots of beans and rice, and meat and casseroles.

Dotson was arrested July 21 after telling FBI agents he shot Dennehy when Dennehy tried to shoot him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.

As he spoke by satellite phone, shellfire could be heard in the background.

"As expected, second-quarter sales were weak driven by the combination of declining retail inventories and market-share losses," Chief Executive Robert Eckert said in a statement.

Complicating the situation, he continued, are companies, like IBM, whose support of Linux "has added credibility and an illusion of support and accountability."

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.

"The proposed settlement is too expensive for the ratepayers," the governor said in a statement.

An Iranian Kurd who stitched up his eyes, lips and ears in protest at being refused asylum has been granted refugee status.

He was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

Seven Air Force Academy cadets face punishment for drinking with two high school girls in the latest incident to embarrass the academy.

About 130,000 US soldiers remain in Iraq, with others serving in Afghanistan, South Korea, Japan, Germany and elsewhere.

It was centered about 100 miles southwest of Cedar Key and drifting erratically southward, forecasters said.

The former employees filed wrongful-termination suits, dismissed in July 2002, that included details about the documents, the Journal story said.

Rivers were also drying up - a stretch of Danube passing through the Balkans dropped so low that wrecks of World War II boats became visible.

He is to play host to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday and Monday.

Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich passed $1 million last week and was still counting money.

A judge already has ruled that double-jeopardy protections don't apply in the case.

After protesters rushed the stage and twice cut power to the microphone, Hedges cut his speech short.

The worst affected area was South Kyeongsang province where at least 15 people drowned and roads were swept away in mud sides.

Mrs Clinton writes her husband's eyes filled with tears when she told him he would have to confess to Chelsea as well.

Florida legislators return today for a special session in which they're expected to pass a compromise bill aimed at lowering doctors' medical malpractice insurance rates.

A recent poll showed Edwards in a virtual four-way tie at the top in South Carolina, and he plans a rally there later on Tuesday.

Mr Berlusconi is accused of bribing judges to influence a takeover battle in the 1980s involving SME, a state-owned food company.

Congregants of Turner Monumental AME Church said Shelia Chaney Wilson, 43, was agitated when she came to the church, in the Kirkwood neighborhood on the city's east side.

"SCO has not shown us any evidence that we violated our agreements," spokeswoman Trink Guarino said.

Lawrence E. Alibozek, his former deputy chief of staff, pleaded guilty to accepting cash and gold coins in exchange for influencing state contracts.

Meanwhile, Funny Cide's trainer, Barclay Tagg, called the allegations "ridiculous."

Early Wednesday, the benchmark 10-year US10YT=RR had lost 16/32 in price, driving its yield up to 3.33 percent from 3.26 percent late Tuesday.

"United is continuing to deliver major cost reductions and is now coupling that effort with significant unit revenue improvement," he said.

SAN Architect and AutoAdvice can be used as stand-alone applications or as an extension to EMC's ControlCenter applications.

Teams of inspectors walked into a restricted area at one park without being stopped by employees; others took pictures of security-sensitive areas without anyone challenging them.

Authorities had no leads in Biggs' death until four months later, when a tipster said Mallard talked about the incident at a party.

Quattrone, 47, is charged with obstruction of justice and witness tampering.

Sir John has also told his officers that information from British intelligence indicates there are more al-Qa'eda agents in Britain than previously thought.

State television said the dead included seven Lebanese, four Egyptians, one Saudi, one Sudanese and four whose nationalities were not named.

He said some issues - including division alignments - will be resolved if the conference expands.

But in the first 30 seconds of the bout, family members knew it was an uneven match, Jodie Meyers, Stacy Young's sister, said.

"This blackout was largely preventable," Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said at a press conference this afternoon.

November 17's last victim was British defense attache Stephen Saunders, who was shot and killed at point-blank range on a busy Athens road in June 2000.

Nearly all of Ford's second-quarter profit came from its Ford Credit finance arm, which earned $401 million, up 21.5 percent from a year earlier.

The lawsuit names Shelley, a Democrat, and registrars in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties.

Newcomer Marissa Jaret Winokur in "Hairspray" bested Broadway veteran Bernadette Peters in "Gypsy" for best actress in a musical.

Microsoft's share of the low-end server software market has increased since the probe started five years ago, but the firm denied anti-competitive practices were the reason for this.

No country now opposes plans for a long-term European Council president, replacing the current rotating presidency, as well as an EU foreign minister.

Early voting polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 8 and Sept. 9.

Revenue fell to $36.9bn from $39.3bn a year ago, mainly due to lower vehicle sales.

What's more, companies are not feeling confident enough to replace older PCs, the analyst firm said.

Sammy Sosa was suspended for eight games by major league baseball Friday for using a corked bat, and he immediately appealed the decision.

The company is expected to unveil the console on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Shirley Hazzard and Edward P. Jones, both of whom needed more than a decade to complete their current novels, were also among the fiction finalists announced Wednesday.

Tikrit is Saddam Hussein's hometown and the region around it is known as a hotbed of Baath Party supporters and former high-ranking Iraqi military officials.

His sport utility vehicle was found June 25, abandoned without its license plates in Virginia Beach, Va.

Robert B. Willumstad, 57, Citigroup's president, was named chief operating officer.

The agency found further that a WD Energy employee discussed false reporting with traders at two other energy companies, which the CFTC didn't identify.

These despicable acts were committed by killers whose only faith is hate and the United States will find the killers and they will learn the meaning of American justice.

A second bomb, evidently carried by the other woman, did not explode; the authorities found explosives and detonated them afterward.

Bryant was "interviewed and was cooperative," said Kim Andree, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office.

The National Association of Purchasing Management-Chicago's monthly index rose to 58.9 from 55.9 in July, the highest in 15 months.

Lamo had told reporters he would surrender to the FBI on the federal courthouse steps in Sacramento on Friday, but he didn't show up.

For the second year in a row, rises in hospital costs dominated the increase, accounting for 51 percent of the overall cost spiral.

While he said "many good people work in the telemarketing industry, the public is understandably losing patience with these unwanted phone calls, unwanted intrusions.

Congress has added a new benefit - an option to buy insurance coverage for prescription drugs.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> was up 40.09 points, or 2.46 percent, at 1,666.58, marking its highest close since May 23, 2002.

The Future Concepts and Surface Ship Design Group is the Naval Sea Systems Command’s technical authority for all surface ship design and engineering.

Wall Street was also waiting for aluminum maker Alcoa Inc. (nyse: PEP - news - people) to report earnings after the close.

An estimated $250,000 worth of jewelry belonging to the hip-hop performer was recovered Friday at Kennedy Airport, where it had disappeared June 20.

The airline has the option to buy 380 more, split evenly between the two manufacturers.

In 2001, the diocese reached a $15 million settlement involving five priests and 26 plaintiffs.

THE US government and private technology experts have warned that hackers plan to attack thousands of websites on Sunday in a loosely co-ordinated "contest" that could disrupt Internet traffic.

But Mr Kenny said his advice to David Hicks, should they be allowed to meet, might be that he accept a deal.

Mr Kenny and the family's American lawyer, Michael Ratner, want access to Hicks before he faces a military tribunal.

The two forms constitute 30 percent of the 7 million applications filed to the bureau each year.

The unions also staged a five-day strike in March; strikes have preceded eight of the last 10 contracts.

Adaptable and Carter's Trading Co. did not immediately return calls seeking comment on Wednesday.

Wyle's feature credits also include "White Oleander," "Enough" and "Donnie Darko."

The Treasury said wants to give retail buyers of all Treasury securities the ability eventually to manage holdings online in a single account.

A White House spokesman added that Iran had "one last chance" to comply with its disarmament obligations.

After he was led into the execution chamber and strapped to a gurney, Swisher raised his head and appeared to smile as the prison chaplain spoke in his ear.

Parrado remained on a Coast Guard cutter Wednesday as officials determined his status and immediate future, the Coast Guard said.

A month ago, the Commerce Department estimated that GDP had a grown at a 7.2 percent rate in the third quarter.

Roxio, would get access to more than 300,000 tracks from the music libraries of the major labels, and the Pressplay distribution system.

Boeing shares fell 95 cents, or 3.3 percent, to $27.67 at 3:30 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was 0.46 points lower, or 0.05 percent, at 997.02.

While the shape of any military operation is unclear, Jakarta has boosted the number of troops and police in the resource-rich province to more than 45,000 from 38,000.

Five alternate jurors also were selected, with a sixth alternate to be picked on Friday.

In interviews with numerous engineers, most of whom have not spoken publicly until now, the lines of discord between NASA's engineers and managers stand out in stark relief.

The FBI arrested a suburban Chicago man Wednesday and charged him with secretly collecting information on individuals in the United States who opposed Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government.

A Spanish tanker, Sandra Tapias, was to be loaded with another million barrels, bought by Spanish refiner Cepsa SA, in the afternoon.

Contractors Brian Rose, 36, and Joseph Quattrone, 35, who were convicted of submitting hundreds of phony invoices to Blue Cross, are to be sentenced in January.

"The board did so, and accepted that resignation," said the chairman of the exchange's compensation committee, H. Carl McCall.

"He died doing something he loved, which was flying his helicopters," said the father, who lives in Fairview Heights, just outside St. Louis, Mo.

The answer is clearly yes," said Dr. Larry Norton, deputy physician-in-chief for breast-cancer programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Quattrone, 47, was highly influential working in the Palo Alto office of Credit Suisse First Boston during the tech bubble.

Dr Mark McClean, the family's GP, said had the drug been administered to Jonathan earlier, he would have retained more of his brain function.

This change in attitude gave upscale purveyors including Neiman Marcus Group Inc. and Nordstrom Inc., along with some boutique retailers, strong sales gains in May.

President Vladimir Putin threw his weight for the first time on Saturday behind Russia's main pro-Kremlin political party ahead of parliamentary elections.

Officials in Malawi said the men were on the CIA's ''watch list'' since the twin 1998 bombings at the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Passengers on that cruise are to be given a refund and voucher for another trip.

In New York City, bars and restaurants that allow people to smoke can face hefty fines.

It is the first "critical" flaw discovered and fixed in the new Windows Server 2003.

None of the casualties was Americans, said Capt. Michael Calvert, regiment spokesman.

Also Sunday, suspected rebels dynamited an oil pipeline in northeast Colombia.

The capsule ended up on its side and appeared to have been dragged about 40ft by the main parachute after landing.

The chain, which has been under new management since late 1999, has more than 3,400 stores and $15.8 billion in annual revenue.

Frank Partnoy, a securities-law professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, said the case suggests Merrill Lynch's oversight and control of its executives was inadequate.

Symptoms of the E. coli infection include bloody diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal cramping.

Michael Schiavo has argued that his wife never wanted to be kept alive artificially.

Federal regulators have changed their minds on a proposed $2.8 billion merger of ice cream giants Nestle Holdings and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.

While robbery appeared to be the motive, the suspects fled before they could take anything, he said.

But Hayes, of the CDC said, "Many complicated interactions come into play that are often difficult to predict."

Virtual PC, which Microsoft acquired from Connectix Corp. in February, will not run on the G5, the company said.

Environmental campaigners used the eclipse to highlight the surge in light pollution across Britain.

In his female disguise, he used the name Dorothy Ciner, a childhood friend, and rented an apartment in Galveston.

The stock had risen 63 cents, or 3 percent, to close at $20.26 in regular-session Nasdaq trading.

"We've got an incredible amount of work to do, but it ain't in the instruction set," he said.

Durst's attorneys contend their client accidentally shot Black in the face as they struggled for a gun after Black illegally entered his apartment.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX climbed 17.08 points, or 1.74 percent, to 998.68.

Those hot, dry Santa Ana winds and minimal humidity created optimal conditions for raging fires in at least 10 places that have already burned nearly 200,000 acres.

Those with diabetes run the risk of severe complications, including heart disease, chronic kidney disease, blindness and amputations.

The OpForce product currently works with Solaris, AIX, Red Hat Linux and Windows servers.

In a case in August, a 27-year-old laboratory worker in Singapore developed SARS.

Conway called the move "atrociously bad behaviour from a company with a history of atrociously bad behaviour."

In the earlier survey, 63 percent of home broadband users had cable modems, compared with 34 percent who connected with DSL technology.

Justice Minister Martin Cauchon and Prime Minister Jean Chretien both have said the government will introduce legislation to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot.

Eustachy disclosed this week that he is an alcoholic and is seeking treatment.

Seven of nine Democratic candidates for president also said they would participate in the conference Monday.

Billups scored 77 points in the final two games of the first-round series against the Magic.

Professor Moffitt said the results needed to be replicated before pursuing testing of individuals for the presence of the long or short versions of the gene.

One of the key suspects in the October nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people in Bali went on trial Monday amid tight security.

In the first hour of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 12.98, or 0.1 percent, at 9,346.77.

Ciobanu could face up to 15 years in prison under a new law in Romania, according to BitDefender's Web site.

Shaklee spokeswoman Jenifer Thompson referred all calls to the FBI.

But a source close to the Pentagon said the Defense Department's own inspector-general had been asked to investigate how the licences were awarded.

Park appeared to have been strangled and may have been sexually assaulted, Homicide Capt. Charles Bloom said.

The move came just hours after the company's Chief Executive Officer Phil Condit resigned.

"There must be more on the horizon than simply winning a war against terrorism," namely, a "promise of a better and fairer world."

Storage, networking and wireless products will be prevalent at the show.

PG&E's shares gained 24 cents to $15.44 during Tuesday's trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

He killed himself after being exposed as the source for a BBC report which claimed the government exaggerated the case for war against Iraq.

But when neither Justice O'Connor nor any other justice announced a retirement when the court's term ended in June, it was widely seen as making those campaigns moot.

Indeed, Wolfowitz admitted Saturday that neither military action nor "large scale bribery" would solve the issue.

Zilkha conceded in a statement issued Tuesday that his group may have fallen "a bit short."

The movie opened over the weekend in the number one spot and the companion game has been on sale since late last month.

A spokesman for the United States Attorney's office in Manhattan had no comment.

Ernest Bucklew was headed home for his mother's funeral in Pennsylvania.

Bristol shares rose $1.30, or 5 percent, to $28.20, after closing at $26.90 on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Foreign Office said Heaton was in Saudi detention but had not been charged, and that consul officials had visited him on Thursday.

So far, eight states have laws legalizing marijuana for patients with physician recommendations: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

At the United Nations, the United States and Britain are seeking backing for their agenda to hand over power to Iraqis.

Contribute 2 costs 69 for an individual license, the same as the existing version.

The format must be formally ratified by an internationally recognized standards organization, and IP must be licensed under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, they added.

In Damascus, the Syrian Information Minister, Ahmed al-Hassan, dismissed the claim.

But the technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 5.91 points, or 0.35 percent, at 1,674.35.

Now the rest is just mechanical," said Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican consultant.

The Dow Jones rose 41.61 points Friday, a gain of 0.4% for the day and 0.7% for the week.

"A bad decision on Charleroi would have huge implications for state-owned regional airports in France.

We're seeing some very high levels of widespread flu infections in some places," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Coca-Cola Co. (KO) reported higher profit for the quarter, helped by European demand, early on Thursday.

Shelley's office released signature counts late Friday and said counties had reported counting 575,926 signatures so far.

Canada which is a major meat exporter to Japan, has threatened a trade backlash if Tokyo's ban is not justified on scientific grounds.

The shootings happened at 5:30 a.m. in the living room of the home that the extended family shared on Gary's west side.

Parker said Moore's lawyers were reviewing the complaint and would respond Monday.

The airline said a similar discovery was made on the plane in Houston.

Mr. Spitzer said in a statement that the sentence "reflects the seriousness with which our office and the courts view these crimes."

There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there.

WALL St regained a positive track today following news that two of Saddam Hussein's sons were among four Iraqis killed in a US raid in northern Iraq.

Investigators were searching his home in Muenster in the presence of his wife when news of his death came, prosecutor Wolfgang Schweer said.

Such a move has been widely predicted by industry observers and follows the departure of Christopher Galvin, the company's chairman and chief executive.

The United States and Russia spent billions on a dozen or so robotic craft meant to land on Mars and radio back their findings.

Charles Howell III picked up some local knowledge a year ago that provided some much needed insight in Thursday's opening round of the Memorial Tournament.

Thanks to Avalon, Longhorn will support new styles of user interfaces and user interface elements.

The priests went through church channels first, exercising their rights under canon law.

There are no plans to build permanent U.S. bases in Africa, Defense Department officials say.

Sarah Weddington, the abortion advocate and lawyer who originally represented McCorvey, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

The CIA on Monday said voice and sound analysts concluded that Saddam is probably the speaker on the tape.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General described "significant problems" in the Bush administration's actions toward the 762 foreigners held on immigration violations after the attacks.

Under the proposed stock for stock transaction, LendingTree shareholders will get 0.6199 shares of USAI common stock for each share of LendingTree common stock.

Prosecutors reversed course Friday and said they support moving the murder trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad out of the Washington suburbs.

Greenspan's Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, decides interest rates in the world's largest economy.

A few tried to rush the podium, and at least one graduate tossed his cap and gown to the stage before leaving.

Second-quarter sales grew 7 percent, to $645 million from $600 million in 2002.

Last year, Congress passed similar, though less expensive, buyout legislation for peanut farmers, ending that Depression-era program.

"Iran should be on notice that attempts to remake Iraq in Iran's image will be aggressively put down," he said.

He added: "Let the process be put in place that will ensure a smooth transition from war to peace.

The letter indicates the Vatican's interest in bolstering conservatives within the Episcopal Church.

Instead of one long operation to separate the twins, Goodrich and Dr. David Staffenberg plan about three, with several weeks between each.

He added that if he were diagnosed with vCJD "I would ensure I received this treatment as soon as humanly possible".

That poll had 712 likely voters and sampling error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.

Representatives of its tribal and ethnic groups named a cross-section of residents yesterday to run municipal affairs alongside the U.S. military until elections can be held.

There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve."

A couple starved their four adopted sons for years while allowing their daughters to feast on takeaways, police and neighbours said today.

The underground group has claimed responsibility for a series of arsons against commercial entities that members say damage the environment.

Claudia Gonzales Herrera, an assistant attorney-general in charge of the case, said the arrests showed that Guatemala took the defence of its Mayan heritage seriously.

Saul Dos Reis is scheduled to be sentenced in Danbury Superior Court for the death of Christina Long.

But Gordon emphasized that the legislation he introduced last week is "a lesson-learned bill and not a reflection on Admiral (Harold) Gehman's handling of the Columbia investigation."

The researchers found that 18 percent of the men who took finasteride, or 803 men, developed prostate cancer.

Lay had refused to turn over the papers, asserting his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

Riva had recently helped his son, Frank Riva Jr., get into a construction workers' union and land a job.

The December decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California's law banning certain assault weapons and revived the national gun-ownership debate.

Mr Estrada, who is in prison, has denied any involvement in the mutiny.

The exact number of passengers on the ferry was not known and may never be determined because ferry operators typically do not keep accurate passenger manifests.

They found that 6.4 percent of men on finasteride had high-grade tumors, compared to 5.1 percent taking a placebo.

The phone is available for $299.99 with any compatible AT&T Wireless service plan.

"This new division will be focused on the vitally important task of protecting the nation's cyberassets so that we may best protect the nation's critical infrastructure assets," he added.

Hebei has reported 191 cases and eight deaths, though the WHO experts did not say how many were in rural areas.

Digital download sales of recorded albums and singles will be included in the album and singles sales charts, respectively.

The findings are published in today's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.

Kerry outlined last month a UN resolution authorizing a military force under US command and transferring responsibility for political and humanitarian efforts to the UN.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer yesterday claimed the group of 14 Kurds had not asked to be considered as refugees when they arrived off Melville Island last week.

Mutinous troops who seized a Manila shopping and apartment complex demanding the government resign ended a 19-hour standoff late Sunday and returned to barracks without a shot fired.

The ministry said the hijackers Francisco Lamas Caron, 29; Luis Alberto Suarez Acosta, 22; and Yosvani Martinez Acosta, 27, shot themselves for unknown reasons.

O'Connor wrote, "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary."

In a separate complaint, the FTC alleged that AOL and CompuServe failed to deliver timely $400 rebates to consumers.

IBM is pursuing membership and plans to be an active participant in the CELF, according to various members of CELF.

The threat came as Taiwanese authorities quarantined hundreds at two hospitals amid fears of an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

"Yes, I do not wish to be present during this witness," Peterson, 31, calmly told the judge as he was returned to his cell.

In the space of three years, Lend Lease has slipped from a top-five 5 stock when its share price hovered around $24 to 37th on the list.

Then his body was dumped a few blocks away, found in a driveway on Argyle Road.

The new P25-S507 sports a 17-inch display with a resolution of 1,440 pixels by 900 pixels the same as Apples PowerBook.

The key vote Thursday was on a provision that temporarily eliminates the dividend tax.

"We did not want to shut down," Diamond testified under questioning by Matthew Fishbein, one of O'Donnell's lawyers.

The companies say their consumers want to enjoy their content, regardless of the source, across different devices and locations in the home.

Because of that, the family had run him out of the house over the objections of the grandmother and he was living on the street.

Of those who signed the letter, 57 are senators, including 24 Republicans.

The Commission has publicly said one of its goals is to ensure other producers' server software can connect to desktop computers running Windows as easily as Microsoft's can.

"We respectfully disagreed with Massachusetts' request for fees on the basis that they did not prevail on the vast majority of their original claims."

"You can't win elections by looking through the rear view mirror," he said.

The new campaign comes just weeks after U.S. appeals court rulings requiring Internet service providers to identify subscribers suspected of illegally sharing music and movie files.

And she has a boyfriend, officials said: Sgt. Ruben Contreras, who sat with her family today.

The Government shut down in Washington, and federal offices were to remain closed yesterday.

Gov. Bob Holden asked Bush to declare 39 Missouri counties disaster areas.

The affidavit said Mr. al-Amoudi made at least 10 trips to Libya using one Yemeni and two U.S. passports.

And it can store more than a gigabyte of information - equivalent to 1,000 high quality images or around 12 hours of music - in just one cubic centimetre.

An attempt to keep the fund open for another year fell flat in the Senate last month.

The coalition passed some of the world's most progressive social legislation, legalising gay marriage and euthanasia.

Passenger Keith Charlton, who also tackled the attacker, praised the efforts of the injured chief flight attendant.

Jordan Green, O'Brien's private attorney, said he had no comment.

Revenue rose 5.4 percent to $45.9 billion from $43.6 billion a year ago.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> slipped 44.32 points, or 0.48 percent, to 9,240.25.

She said she didn't know yet whether she would certify the budget.

"Poland, Spain and Germany, were ready to talk about a deal," he said.

We will accede to the request while we explore all of our options," said Russell Lewis, executive vice president of VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services Group.

In a regulatory filing, EDS said the SEC had asked for information related to its troubled IT outsourcing contract with the US Navy.

DB2 Cube Views automates the process of creating metadata by defining, describing, and indexing information in a database.

Razali Ismail met for 90 minutes with Suu Kyi, a 1991 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, at her lakeside home, where she is under house arrest.

Malvo's lawyers have presented an insanity defense, saying brainwashing by convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad left Malvo incapable of knowing right from wrong.

The amendment deals with the free exercise of religion versus the government establishment of a religion.

The shooting victim was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, where he later died, the police said.

Based on having at least one of these symptoms, most students were hung over between three and 11 times in the past year.

In his speech, Stern says his members are "totally comfortable" with Dean's positions on health care issues.

The secrecy surrounding terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah was again smashed when witnesses from Malaysia testified in the treason trial of Abu Bakar Bashir.

Marcel Desailly, the France captain and Chelsea defender, believes the latter is true.

But the institute says the department ‘‘woefully underestimates’’ the changes that would occur if the proposal is implemented.

By March 2003, 67 percent of broadband users connected using cable modems, compared with 28 percent using D.S.L.

The largest supplier of medicines was Canada, followed by India, Thailand and the Philippines.

Within two years, 259, or 10 percent, of the youths reported they had started to smoke or had at least taken a few puffs.

Authorities evacuated residents and closed off the road leading to Waterman Canyon.

Andrew Sugden, an evolutionary biology expert and the international managing editor of Science, described the find as a "milestone".

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., released the edited transcript of a closed hearing June 3, which followed a public proceeding.

Identical wording was introduced in the Senate last week by three Republicans: Wayne Allard of Colorado, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Sam Brownback of Kansas.

Falconer will hold on, for now, to the Lord Chancellor's Great Seal, used to sign off instructions from the sovereign.

They frequently tortured and shot prisoners, severing ears and scalps for souvenirs.

U.S. soldiers killed about two dozen suspected Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan after their convoy came under attack, the military said Sunday.

She started taking supplements two years ago - partly to stave off mild dementia that affects her elderly parents.

According to the State Department list, about 25 nations have signed bilateral agreements in the past four months, about half in the past three weeks.

"The United States welcomes a greater NATO role in Iraq's stabilization," Mr. Powell said in a speech to fellow NATO ministers.

France has a unique unemployment fund for artists that takes into account their downtime between shows.

He's not related to Malvo, but the two have referred to each other as father and son.

A major British study has added to the evidence that hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer, especially when women receive a combination of estrogen and progestin.

"I will pass on to him that Canada still remains a safe, secure and reliable supply of energy."

It is a benign web where we hope to catch investors and where each of us can advance our enlightened self-interest through cooperation with others,' said Mr Goh.

Adolescent specialist Dr. Michael Cohen, who worked on the study, said doctors had treated 8-year-old children with anorexia _ and that he had once treated a 4-year-old boy.

"I think it's obvious I'm not riding as well as I have in years past.

One of those infected reported having recent contact with exotic animals there.

On Friday, U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf said she would take over the probe from District Attorney William Murphy.

Slow-moving, drenching Tropical Storm Henri doused an already soaked Florida on Friday, pushing heavy rains into areas where lakes and rivers were full to overflowing.

The case consolidated multiple purported class actions filed in 2001.

He added Democrats are not going to make progress if we dont broaden the tent.

Gibson said in a June statement that he and his film are not anti-Semitic.

The MTA argued it needed to raise fares to close a two-year deficit it estimated, at different times, to be $952 million or $2.8 billion.

The world's largest software company said it recognized the difficulty the multiple patches posed for companies trying to apply them.

Through 2040, Indiana's population is expected to increase by about 19 percent, to more than 7.2 million people.

The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI added 38 points, or 0.42 percent, to 9,165.

The vote for mayor followed City Council elections that gave Kurds the largest block of votes on the 30-seat council.

Dolores E. Mahoy, 68, of Colorado Springs is just the type of person who might be helped by the legislation pending in Congress.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, chairing the summit, said he was prepared to call an extra informal meeting of leaders next month on the constitution if necessary.

The group's leadership in Gaza insisted on Tuesday that it was still committed to the ceasefire.

On Friday, authorities had said the state police would head the investigation.

The skull is then punctured and the brain suctioned out, causing the skull to collapse and easing passage through the birth canal.

"The accuser arrived at the hospital wearing panties with someone else's semen and sperm in them, not that of Mr. Bryant, correct?"

Shinseki's career included combat in Vietnam and head of U.S. peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia.

Up to a foot of rain and at least seven tornadoes pounded southern Nebraska and northern Kansas, killing a man and destroying at least four homes.

Already large swells and dangerous surf have arrived along the mid-Atlantic.

"I fear on this occasion what happened is that those bits of the alphabet that supported the case were selected," he said.

On Monday, the number of SARS cases in China passed 5,000, hitting a total of 5,013.

Detective Chief Inspector Norman McKinlay, leading the investigation, said: "There is evidence a body or bodies have been in this area.

The show's creator and executive producer, Phil Rosenthal, quipped in a statement: "We had a big contract negotiation.

He added that the decision will "throw a monkey wrench into the FCC's efforts to develop a vitally important national broadband policy."

State interior ministry spokesman Vasant Pitke told Reuters that at least 42 people had been killed and 112 injured.

Mortgage rates around the country fell again this week, the ninth time this year rates have hit an all-time low.

"I'm still not red-hot favourite," Hewitt said after battling to down Davydenko 6-3 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-5) on centre court.

Harris and Klebold killed 12 students, a teacher and themselves at the school.

But the North Korean nuclear crisis has dominated his time in office.

"Then they moved inside the mosque and started firing on the people."

"It was a total mockery of justice, a parody," said Thierry Falise, a Belgian photographer, as he arrived here.

Labor Department analysts discounted a slight improvement in the national unemployment rate, which fell in August to 6.1 percent from 6.2 percent.

The company is also testing its cancer drug Rituxan for use by rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Spending on research and development is expected to be $4.4 billion for the year, compared with the previous expectation of $4.3 billion.

Several relatives of Australian victims of the attack sat in the front row of the court, but few Balinese attended the trial.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 4.46% from 4.42% late Thursday.

The California Farm Bureau did not immediately have an official response to Tuesday's ruling.

U.S. corporate bond yield spreads ended mostly tighter amid slumping Treasuries on Tuesday, while bonds of tobacco firms widened significantly after an adverse legal ruling on Philip Morris USA.

He also objects to the sales and personal income tax increases in the package.

Buyers can now choose a Windows- and Office-loaded desktop for 12,390 baht (US$298), excluding taxes, the report said.

Astronomers have found the oldest and most distant planet known in the universe.

"The fact is, this was a program that was built for concealment.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the deceased passengers at the scene as Angel Melena, 25, and Narcisco Del-Angel Lozano, 34.

NITED NATIONS, Aug. 26 International inspectors have found traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian facility, according to a new confidential report distributed today.

Nelson stared down referee Joey Crawford during a timeout with 2:46 left in the first quarter and San Antonio leading 26-16.

Full classes of 48 each are booked through the end of September, he said, and the agency plans to double its classes in January.

The federal courts have ruled that the monument violates the constitutional ban against state-established religion.

Sovereign shares closed on the New York Stock Exchange at $15.68, down 74 cents, or 4.5 percent.

Other recommendations included the creation of regional ocean ecosystem councils and a national system to fully protect marine reserves.

He said federal regulators would work with the corporation to ensure a "smooth transition."

Cisco reported earnings of $987 million, or 14 cents a share, on revenue of $4.62 billion for the quarter ending in April.

The appeals court has generally proved a favorable venue for Microsoft.

Three undocumented immigrants were found dead inside a railroad hopper car Tuesday, two days after fellow immigrants escaped the sweltering car and left behind their weakened companions.

Gasps could be heard as the photo was projected onto the screen.

Sir Wilfred Thesiger, writer, explorer and chronicler of the world's vanishing ways of life, has died at age 93.

"Arifin has disclosed . . . that he is involved with a group of like-minded individuals in planning terrorist attacks against certain targets in Thailand.

Her proposal to create a special committee to investigate Iraq intelligence failures was rejected on procedural grounds.

Intel said midway through its quarter, which ended in June, that business was exactly as expected.

"The NAFTA ruling confirms that Canadian producers dump lumber into the U.S. market," said Rusty Wood, chairman of the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports.

However, FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said no data indicate that the situation poses safety problems.

Daren and Barbara Jensen refused to heed doctors' recommendation of chemotherapy, fearing the treatment would stunt Parker's growth and leave him sterile.

"I have proposed to the [IAAF] council that Drummond be excluded from the championships."

The deal creates a company with about $2.8bn in annual revenues with 13,000 employees and 11,000 customers.

He also told investigators that when he was in his mid-teens, he stabbed a 6-year-old boy for no apparent reason.

"For me, the Lewinsky imbroglio seemed like just another vicious scandal manufactured by political opponents."

The analysts said they believe the payroll statistics provide a more accurate picture of the economy because they are based on a larger sample.

When Brooks was killed in an automobile accident Monday in Minnesota, Taylor lost a good friend.

Prince, who heads Citigroup's global corporate and investment bank, is replacing Sanford Weill as CEO.

Quarterly profit climbed to $73.1 million, or 33 cents a share, from $20.8 million, or 10 cents, a year earlier, the company said.

"It was a great shock," said Mohcine Douali, who lives in central Algiers.

"The First Amendment does not shield fraud," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the court in Madigan v. Telemarketing Associates, No. 01-1806.

Whether it works out timewise with all four, I don't know but we will see what happens."

The strength of demand for credit increases the danger associated with delaying a tightening of policy that is called for on general macroeconomic grounds."

While he is now spared that threat, his co-defendants in the same case are not protected.

"Tonight he was an offensive catcher," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said.

Since it was launched Monday, the SiteFinder service has drawn widespread criticism from Internet users who complain that VeriSign has overstepped its authority.

The defeat for suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was expected.

"I had one bad stretch of holes that put me out of contention," Woods said, referring to his 42 on the front nine Saturday.

Last week, former chief financial officer Franklyn Bergonzi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with the government's investigation.

Journalists were not the only people notified that their phone calls had been intercepted.

"My view is that these Al Qaeda terrorists -- and I believe it was Al Qaeda -- would prefer to have many such events."

Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad Wednesday after demonstrators demanding jobs stormed a police station and threw stones at officers, police said.

In a 1992 case, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the basic findings of Roe protecting abortion choice, but lessened the standards of protection guaranteed to women by Roe.

The earnings beat by a penny the consensus estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.

More than 60 per cent of its 1,000 employees at the time were killed.

Only two of the bidders have so far expressed interest in buying all the assets -- Davis and Bronfman.

Bush said he plans to meet with scientists and legal experts and will not decide the bill's fate for a few more weeks.

U.S. administration officials said Snow's rate comments were not reflective of Washington's policy and were merely an observation about the economy.

However, one subset of patients, women on hormonal treatment following chemotherapy, "appeared to show a favorable trend to improvement in survival."

Intel's Xeon surpassed HP's PA-RISC to become the processor most often used, rising from 76 systems in June to 152 systems in November.

"We are very pleased that the court dismissed the vast majority of the plaintiff's claims," said Coke spokesman Ben Deutsch.

It fell 0.5 percent after UBS downgraded it to "neutral" from "buy," citing valuation.

Workers cleaning up a postal distribution center where four letters laced with anthrax had passed through two years ago planned to complete the fumigation operation early Sunday.

The U.S. military's task, in this period, is to provide security.

Dell's Personal All-in-One A920 is an entry-level device that combines printer, scanner and copier functions for $89.

U.S. District Judge Edward W. Nottingham in Denver denied an FTC request to suspend his decision while the agency appeals.

Officials said data will be used to verify whether travelers have exceeded their authorized stay.

A $5 billion dollar-denominated portion from GM drew about $21 billion of bids, an analyst looking at the deal said.

That season, the Rams finished the regular season ranked 11th and were a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament.

Economic damages, such as lost wages or medical costs, wouldn't be capped under Bush's plan.

Meanwhile, the Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, said he was considering legal action against Mr. Abraham's order.

Schneiderman said the price would reflect the agency's legitimate financial status as well as riders' concerns about having to pay 33 percent more at the turnstile in a recession.

Last week, India and Pakistan said they would hold their first diplomatic talks in two years.

The legislation, approved 12-3 by the House Commerce Committee, may allow Bloomfield Hills-based Taubman Centers Inc. to fend off a takeover attempt by Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc.

Shares of Coke were down 26 cents to close at $44.10 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Analysts' average forecast was $4.02 per share on revenue of $25.56 billion.

It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points and was conducted Thursday through Saturday.

For lofts, the board proposed increases of 4 percent for one-year leases and 7 percent for two-year renewals.

With 4.7 million people infected with HIV or AIDS, South Africa has the world's highest AIDS caseload.

Cordiant has been a target since it lost a crucial client, Allied Domeq, in April.

According to the company filings, the investigation "appears to be focused on certain accounting practices common to the interactive entertainment industry, with specific emphasis on revenue recognition."

Justice Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O'Connor and Clarence Thomas dissented from the ruling.

Britain's Department for Transport said ''the threat level to UK civil aviation interests in Kenya has increased to imminent,'' and suspended flights after 6 p.m. EDT.

The American Soldier was first selected as Times Person of the Year during the Korean War in 1950.

As part of the agreement to extradite the two best friends from Canada, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty for convictions.

The anguish could be heard in the voices of Mr Forlong's television colleagues who would speak.

Graham, who co-chaired the inquiry, is a presidential candidate.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's senior Democrat, later said the problem is serious but called Hatch's idea too drastic a remedy to be considered.

"Two Ex-Im board members displayed courage and environmental leadership in the face of considerable pressure," said Jon Sohn, international campaigner for Friends of the Earth.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> slipped 0.26 point, or 0.02 percent, to 1,121.96.

MALAYSIA will launch a publicity campaign in local newspapers today giving its version of the water dispute with Singapore.

The Cleveland Cavaliers won the right to draft James by winning the NBA's annual lottery Thursday night.

Two Atlanta-based companies that have not been accused of wrongdoing -- Delta Air Lines and Home Depot -- were also mentioned by witnesses as having excessive pay packages for CEOs.

Not surprisingly, broadband nation Korea leads the way in broadband penetration, with approximately 21 broadband subscribers for every 100 inhabitants.

The Prime Minister today admitted that critics are “rubbing their hands at the scope for embarrassing him”.

Intel on Wednesday unveiled its next-generation processor for cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless devices.

Peterson's lawyer, Mark Geragos, of Los Angeles, has contested the DNA evidence, saying it is unreliable.

TNK-BP has six oil producing units, five refineries and 2,100 filling stations.

He said the allegations were that certain cereals companies were tipped off to grain prices two hours before they were officially available.

Among the evidence seized by detectives was an animal skull with a nail driven through its head, which may have been used in a "black magic" ceremony.

Dealers said the dollar also drew some support due to falling Japanese interest rates.

The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States have sent a team to investigate.

Both are in the cocoa-growing west of the world's top producer in a region where fighting is complicated by the presence of Liberians on both sides.

Smiledge said he hasn't spoken with his son in eight years and wants nothing to do with him.

BALI bomber Amrozi claims he was inspired to launch an attack on the tourist island after his Australian boss revealed Bali was a haven for sinful behaviour of Westerners.

Mr. Abplanalp used plastic in a model that could be mass produced, lowering the price per valve, to 2 1/2 cents from 15 cents.

France, Russia, China and even staunch ally Britain had advocated a stronger U.N. role, which they said was needed to give a U.S.-backed Iraqi authority international legitimacy.

The company also argued that Lexmark was trying to squash competition by installing a microchip on its toner cartridges to make it difficult for third-party manufacturers to make generic cartridges.

On Oct. 10, an 18-year-old freshman from Dayton, Ohio, climbed over the same 10th-floor ledge and plunged to his death.

The deal is subject to N2H2 approval and is expected to be complete during the final calendar quarter of 2003.

Two Japanese diplomats were also killed in an ambush near Tikrit, according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

"We condemn the Governing Council headed by the United States," Sadr said in a fiery sermon at Koufa mosque near Najaf.

I mean, these are violent surgeries, and I wanted to properly convey that."

Under the original Roe v. Wade ruling, the abortion decision was left to the woman and her physician before a fetus could live outside the womb.

Sean Harrigan, president of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, also suggested paring the NYSE's 27-member board and allotting more seats to investors outside the securities industry.

Mills yesterday admitted, "We made some mistakes with this exam and it's up to us to identify and correct them.

That is, if the Recording Industry Association of America has anything to say about it.

It is also the first time in history that five films grossed more than $20 million each in one weekend.

"But that does not clear them of the responsibility to do everything possible to minimize civilian harm."

A total of 17 confirmed cases of cholera were reported yesterday by the World Health Organisation in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

There was no transcript of Thursday's courtroom session in Tarrytown, which is 12 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

A car and a house were hit in the new shootings, the chief deputy sheriff of Franklin County, Steve Martin, said.

"Both of these kids are in wonderful physical condition right now," said Goodrich, also director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore.

Egyptologists think they may have identified the long-sought mummy of Queen Nefertiti, one of the ancient world's legendary beauties.

Along with Boston, Watertown, Saugus and Framingham also are going smoke-free Monday.

IBM shares closed up $1.75, or 2.11 percent, at $84.50 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Three times in a row, they failed to get a big _enough turnout to elect a president.

He was arrested less than 1km from where he allegedly kidnapped Jennette Tamayo after beating her mother and brother.

Robinson's election was hailed in some quarters as a major breakthrough for gay rights, but condemned by others as a "rebellion against God's created order."

Gov. Don Carcieri said the ruling shows that state taxation laws apply to any tribal activity.

Wyeth estimates that 1,2 million women are still taking Prempro pills, down from about 3,4 million before the WHI study was halted last year.

Senator Brandis backed Dr Hollingworth's claims he had been denied natural justice by the Anglican Church inquiry into the claims against him.

Authorities and Baylor officials say Dennehy, 21, hasn't been heard from in more than two weeks.

If those loss reductions continue, further rate reductions should be ordered, Bordelon said.

President Bush signed a waiver exempting 22 countries because they had signed but not yet ratified immunity agreements.

Shares of AT&T climbed 4 percent, adding to the previous day's 6 percent rise.

In the first quarter of 2003, AMD reported a net loss of $146 million, or 42 cents per share, on sales of $715 million.

"People just love e-mail, and it really bothers them that spam is ruining such a good thing," said Deborah Fallows, senior research fellow with the Pew project.

And in the Muslim world, Osama bin Laden, the missing leader of the al-Qaida terrorist network, is becoming more of a hero, not less of one.

We firmly believe that we have an absolute right to use the common word 'spike' to name our network.

A federal judge Thursday granted a request by the Food and Drug Administration to shut down Rx Depot, a popular Internet company that sells cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Kevin Umphrey at 688-4163 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-8477.

The panels outline the twin towers' history, including their construction, the 1993 bombing and their ultimate destruction by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001.

Though the legal age for marriage in Romania is 18, the country generally tolerates the tradition of arranged child weddings among Roma, as Gypsies are also known.

The weather service estimated that between two and three inches of rain hit Kanawha and Nicholas counties between midnight and noon Monday.

Although obesity can increase the risk of a host of health problems, skeptics argue, so do smoking and high cholesterol, which are not considered diseases.

The breakthrough technology was presented by Intel scientists at a conference in Japan.

French troops defend a group of foreigners as they board helicopters for evacuation from the European Union compound in Monrovia, Liberia.

It was announced that Green will replace Park in the Dale Earnhardt Inc. No. 1 Chevrolet, beginning with the Winston Open at Lowe's Motor Speedway next week.

Coupling, an American version of a hit British comedy, will couple with Friends on Thursdays.

For the third time in four years wildfires closed Mesa Verde National Park, the country’s only park dedicated to ancient ruins.

Disney spokeswoman Rena Callahan said the "safety and enjoyment" of its guests were the only reasons the company wanted the no-fly zones, and wants them kept in place.

Late last week, sources told Reuters cable TV company Comcast Corp. CMCSA.O also was looking at buying VUE assets.

The caretaker, identified by church officials as Jorge Monzon, was believed to be among the missing, who are presumed dead.

As of yesterday, the total number of National Guard and Reserve troops called to duty worldwide stood at 154,603.

Schering-Plough shares fell 3.8 percent, or 72 cents, to close at $18.34 in trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange.

But at the age of 15, she weighed a whopping 117kg and came to a difficult decision: it was time to try surgery.

"Of course, I want to win again, but it is worse when you have never won because you are anxious," he said.

E Ink is one of several companies working to develop electronic "paper" for e-newspapers and e-books, and other possible applications _ even clothing with computer screens sewn into it.

The fawn, named for university researcher Duane Kraemer, turns 7 months old today.

Canadian investigators slaughtered more than 2,000 cows but were not able to find evidence of any other infected animals.

MTA officials appropriated the surplus money to later years' budgets without notifying riders or the MTA board members when the 50-cent hike was being considered, he said.

Ratliff said he hopes to bring the two measures to the full Senate by Friday.

PeopleSoft shares were up 4 cents at $16.96 in late morning trade on the Nasdaq.

Quinn was assigned to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Carson, Colo.

As for a free trade area, the official stressed that weve got a long, long way to go, and the Pakistanis understand that.

The NCSD has about 60 employees, Robert Liscouski, the assistant secretary of homeland security for infrastructure protection, said at a briefing today.

But he urged the delegates who elected him to be "kind and sensitive and gentle" to believers who "will not understand what you've done here today."

The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 17.48 points, or 1.06 percent, to 1,661.51, based on the latest available figures.

"This will be a marathon, not a sprint," said Jimmy D. Staton, senior vice president of operations at Dominion Virginia Power.

Heatley led Atlanta in scoring last season with a team-record 41 goals and 48 assists.

The cables can carry far more power, and can be turned on and off like water spigots, making billing more accurate, Taub said.

Law enforcement officials confirmed that Limbaugh was being investigated by the Palm Beach County, Fla., state attorney's office.

One of the defining and well-studied characteristics of temperament is how people react to novelty.

Koizumi told reporters at his office that Konoike's remarks were "inappropriate."

The budget office said one provision of the Senate bill accounted for $40 billion of the cost.

White, who had kidney failure from years of high blood pressure, had been undergoing dialysis and had been hospitalized since a September stroke.

In July, the Hopkinton, Mass., company agreed to buy Legato Systems of Mountain View for $1.3 billion.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index declined by 4.39, or 0.4 percent, to 998.88, after losing 6.11 on Thursday.

The Nasdaq is down roughly 0.4 percent for the month, on track to snap a 7-month streak of gains.

Shares of Cellegy plunged $1.99 to $3.23 Monday on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Haskell said 57 percent were Hispanic, 10 percent Asian, 7 percent black and 16 percent white.

This is a process and there will be other opportunities for people to participate in the rebuilding of Iraq."

In math, 16 percent of elementary and middle school students and 9.6 percent of high school students must be proficient.

That federal investigation is separate from an informal inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

That compares with a profit of $446 million, or seven cents per share, on revenue of $6.32 billion in the same period last year.

A photo of Linda Franklin's bloodied body was shown on a large screen in the courtroom yesterday.

Republican officials said the advertisements were proof that Democrats were panicking about losing their stature on Medicare.

The English star was expected to be discharged from the hospital soon, said Jackie Green, a spokeswoman for the show's press agent.

The new company will be named Interwoven and will be headquartered in Sunnyvale.

A new VPN server built into Panther Server supports Mac OS X, Windows or UNIX clients using PPTP and L2TP tunneling protocols.

Bush's aides describe Omaha as the most crucial stop, since Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, has become their top lobbying target on the tax-cut package.

The legal ruling follows three days of wild volatility in RIM's stock over speculation that PC giant Hewlett-Packard Co. may be bidding for the company.

He had performed outside of Cuba on several occasions, including shows in the United States last year.

The European Commission is expected to issue its decision in the case next spring — unless a settlement is reached.

Since Perkins arrived at UConn in 1990 from Maryland, the Huskies have fielded six national championship teams in three sports -- men's basketball, women's basketball and men's soccer.

"Sebastian did his best to confess convincingly to a crime he didn't do in order to survive," Ms. Richardson declared.

FCC officials said the embedded electronic signal is designed to make it more difficult for consumers to then transfer copies to the Internet.

Athough Prempro pills were used in the study, the researchers say they have no evidence that other brands are safer.

"It's a blond-haired woman wearing a Cartier watch on her wrist," the source said.

Linux company SuSE was today acquired by Novell in a $210 million all-cash deal.

Both have been identified as some of the hijackers who flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.

Andy Savage, who is representing Renee Britt, said she is undereducated and has some mental problems herself.

Also Monday, one soldier died and three were wounded when their vehicle hit a land mine or a piece of unexploded ordnance in Baghdad.

Dennehy’s family reported him missing June 19, about a week after he was last seen on the Baylor campus in Waco.

According to WWF, a further 13,000 individuals are estimated to be caught around the Straits of Gibraltar and in neighboring zones.

He had also said on the eve of Monday's talks that an interest rate cut by the European Central Bank, which meets on Thursday, would be welcome.

Most of that – $US51 billion – was for American troops in Iraq, while another $US10 billion was for US forces in Afghanistan.

In addition, two of his cousins - members of the Jordanian royal family - have been mentioned as possible competition for the throne.

He is charged in three bombings in Atlanta - including a blast at the 1996 Olympics - along with the bombing in Alabama.

A race observer sits in the passenger seat of the follow vehicle to record any broken rules and also keep track of the car's time.

But the justices ruled that the police supervisor who repeatedly questioned Mr Martinez as he screamed in pain did not violate his Fifth Amendment rights.

They were remanded in custody and will appear in court again on July 8.

Against the Japanese currency, the euro was at 136.06 yen compared with the late New York level of 136.03/14.

Imam Samudra, leader of the team that carried out the bombing, was sentenced to death last month.

Smith, who faces a maximum 40 years in prison if convicted, is free on $250,000 bond.

No matter who becomes the sponsor for stock-car racings top series, NASCAR will need an all-star event, Wheeler said Tuesday.

"Californians understand that we have some real problems ... and they want commonsense solutions, and recall isn't one of them," said Davis adviser Roger Salazar.

Last week its American owners, AES Corp, walked away from the plant after banks and bondholders refused to accept its financial restructuring offer.

Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial (JP:8306: news, chart, profile) lost 2.6 percent to 444,000 yen.

A PAEDOPHILE from Twickenham has been described by police as the most prolific 'internet groomer' ever caught.

Shalom said there was also a possibility that "the president will come to this area."

"The other guy, he's ashamed of his party, and I don't blame him.

Some 11.8 million shares have changed hands, well above its daily average over 10 days of 6.8 million.

Dr. Ostroff also said it was still too early to know whether a second wave would occur later in the winter.

When his grandmother, then-Princess Elizabeth, turned 21 in 1947, the day was declared a public holiday, and she attended a reception and a ball.

But Mr. Crosby told The Associated Press: "Right from the beginning, we didn't want to see anyone take a cut in pay.

Miodrag Zivkovic, the leader of the pro-independence opposition Liberal Alliance, came in second with 31 percent of the vote.

The Phillies were apparently upset when Counsell stole during the sixth with the Diamondbacks up 7-1.

In July 32 Singaporean police officers were sent to Baghdad to help train Iraqi police forces and returned home last month.

Shares of the company, the second-largest U.S. coal producer behind Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU), were up more than 3 percent at midday.

His hatred for these people had germinated from these discussions and helped cement his belief that violence was the panacea.

Under the plan, which GM and Dow were to announce Wednesday in Washington, GM will provide Dow manufacturing plants with trucks containing fuel cell conversion equipment.

In 1999 the American Film Institute named Hepburn as the 20th century's greatest screen actress.

They include two sitting archbishops, Harry J. Flynn of Minneapolis-St. Paul and Edwin F. O'Brien of the Military Services, head of all US military chaplains.

Al-Ghozi was arrested in Manila in January 2002 while on a mission to buy explosives for bombing targets in Singapore.

Changes in air pollution rules would be up to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Rumours swirled among market participants that Japan may have stepped in overnight and in Tokyo on Friday.

Ontario Premier Ernie Eves announced yesterday that a former judge would conduct an independent investigation of how the province and city handled SARS.

Thus, he said, there did not have to one deadline to create the economic community.

It is widely expected to give Bair formal approval to offer the plane for sale to airlines.

The broadside came during the recording on Saturday night of a Christmas concert attended by top Vatican cardinals, bishops and many elite of Italian society, witnesses said.

The academy will get its own internal report next week and it will be made public, Rosa said.

Nissan North America Inc. said Wednesday it was moving production of the Pathfinder sport utility vehicle to Tennessee, adding 800 jobs.

"Kahuku Ranch has world-class qualities—tremendous resources, tremendous beauty and tremendous value to global biodiversity," he said.

Southwest said it completed inspections of its entire fleet of 385 aircraft and found no additional items.

The donation of 60,000 tons brings the total of U.S. contributions for the year to 100,000.

Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving in a scene from the motion picture The Matrix Revolutions.

Media giant Vivendi Universal has given itself two weeks to sift through offers for its U.S. entertainment empire in a multi-billion dollar auction of some of Hollywood's best-known assets.

Stewart intends to declare her innocence if indicted and proceed to trial, her lawyer said.

Moose's book goes on sale Monday, nearly a year after the sniper shootings started in the Washington area.

"I am excited to be fighting in Los Angeles and on HBO," Klitschko said.

Three other police officers were among five people who were seriously injured.

Mr. Daschle said the Senate had confirmed 124 judicial nominees since Mr. Bush took office.

The report cites the marriage of the alleged operational commander of the Bali bombings, Mukhlas, as an example of how JI uses marriage to grow.

"The deterioration of security compounds when nearly all computers rely on a single operating system subject to the same vulnerabilities the world over."

In another disaster, 62 Spanish peacekeepers were killed May 26 when their plane crashed in Turkey on their way home.

Attorneys for both the archdiocese and the plaintiffs began meeting last week to reach the out-of-court settlement.

Quattrone is accused of attempting to obstruct justice by endorsing that e-mail, which encouraged co-workers to destroy files on profitable investment banking deals.

Of the unstressed women, 23 developed breast cancer and 871 did not.

She also noted that Intel's servers were not harmed and that the thousands of Hamidi e-mail recipients were able to request that the e-mails stop, which Hamidi honored.

The European Union is threatening trade sanctions unless the subsidies are repealed.

If the extra equity for the project cannot be found, AMC directors will have to abandon it to avoid trading while AMC is insolvent.

Microsoft has been awarded a patent on a popular instant-messaging feature that shows users when the person on the other end of the conversation is typing a message.

The dead man, Leon Williams, was found in his third-floor apartment.

The indictment says the investment was a breach of fiduciary duties and resulted in the state pension fund immediately losing $1 million.

On Thursday, Taiwan reported 131 suspected cases of the disease -- up 11 cases from a day earlier.

A lower court had considered Hamidi to be trespassing on the Santa Clara-based chipmaker's servers, just as if somebody were squatting on a piece of physical private property.

Microsoft will stop developing versions of its Internet Explorer browser software for Macintosh computers, saying that Apple's Safari is now all that Apple needs.

But he added: "The only thing I know for certain is that these are bad people."

New cases might continue to appear until the stratospheric supply of the causative agent becomes exhausted, they said.

The Kenilworth-based company said it believes the letter shows that the government plans to pursue a criminal indictment and likely has substantial evidence supporting an indictment.

"Furthermore, with the target funds rate at 1 per cent, substantial further conventional easings could be implemented if the FOMC judged such policy actions warranted," he said.

AOL Communicator can consolidate e-mail from multiple AOL screen names, as well as from other POP and IMAP-based e-mail accounts.

In exchange for new tax breaks, it would remove $55 billion of tax subsidies for exporters that are illegal under international trade law.

"This is a cloud hanging over their credibility, their word," Hagel said on ABC's "This Week."

The worker's taxable income is reduced by that amount, saving money at tax time.

A further 10 million shares were transferred to a charitable trust, after which they were also sold.

He failed a field sobriety test and a blood-alcohol test produced a reading of 0.18 – well above Tennessee's level of presumed intoxication of 0.10, the report said.

He continued, "although the preconditions for recovery remain in place," prospects for British exports were "weaker than previously expected."

The outbreak was particularly intense in Colorado, where more than 6,300 people have been infected and at least six have died in the past month.

Branson said that his preference would be to operate a fully commercial service on routes to New York, Barbados and Dubai.

The health ministers also announced plans for healthy living and tobacco control strategies.

Taiwan ranked No. 3 on the global list for deaths and cases, behind China and Hong Kong.

She said some fast-food chains already display calorie information about their meals on their Web sites.

Cruz tried to fight off officers and was hospitalized after a police dog bit him, Sgt. Steve Dixon said.

His wife Yekaterina Dmitriyeva, whom he married in a first ever space wedding by a space phone during his daunting mission, was waiting for him in Moscow.

Economists said the announcement was not a surprise, and politicians said it offered little comfort to the millions of Americans without jobs.

Not only giving his blessing but he asked that we hit the target well."

Spokesman James Howe said five children aged between 4 and 17 were taken to hospital with neck and chest injuries, while three others were treated at the scene.

With Smithfields leadership, Farmland Foods will succeed and continue to sustain the Midwestern communities which depend on it.

Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff was sentenced to 37 months by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz for illegally possessing a handgun as a convicted felon at a Maryland firing range.

A new beauty contest kicking off in Italy next week will give pixel-perfect pin-ups the chance to steal sultry Sophia's sex-symbol status.

The protesters denounced the country's supreme leader, hard-liner Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

However, the group points to a number of conflicting standards and media formats.

Asked if the delegates could leave on Friday, police intelligence chief Surya Dharma told reporters: "Of course they may not go.

Some 1.6 billion shares traded on the Big Board, a 17 percent increase over the three-month daily average.

It was defeated by 297 votes to 117, a Government majority of 180.

TEGA is the product of University of Arizona planetary scientist William Boynton, co-investigator on the Phoenix mission.

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has promoted Brigadier Aronda Nyakairima to Major General and named him Army Commander.

Williams recently toured the new soccer-specific Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.

Coca-Cola's shares were steady in late morning trading in New York, down just 13 cents to $43.88.

Only about one-third of parents of sexually experienced 14-year-olds know that their child has had sex," the report says.

WorldCom's problems came to light last year, and the company filed for the largest bankruptcy in US history in July 2002, citing massive accounting irregularities.

Bush said in a statement that he ordered the U.S. Treasury Department to act following Tuesday's suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem, which killed 20 people.

If the creditors turn down the bailout plan, LG Group may have to closedown its card business.

In early trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 39.94, or 0.4 percent, at 8,945.50, having slipped 3.61 points Monday.

They said it affects all default installations of Windows 2000, Windows XP  and Windows 2003 Server.

"I know of nobody who pressured anybody," Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, said at a Pentagon briefing.

Paul Durousseau, 32, was charged Tuesday with murder in five Jacksonville slayings between December and February, and in a 1997 Georgia killing.

The number of host names using BSD is nearing 4 million, whereas the number of active sites is nearly 2 million, Netcraft said.

The move came as police continued to question a suspected potential suicide bomber arrested in the southwestern town of Gloucester last Thursday.

Dealers said the dollar also drew some downside support as Japanese investors are expected to keep snapping up foreign bonds amid ever-falling domestic interest rates.

According to an arrest warrant released Tuesday, Dotson admitted to FBI agents that he shot Dennehy in the head "because Patrick had tried to shoot him."

One group had taken the other group's human cargo earlier, he said.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC gained 13.73 points, or 0.81 percent, to finish at 1,700.34.

The plan would likely result in the election of 22 Republicans and 10 Democrats from Texas, versus the current 17 Democrats and 15 Republicans, officials say.

"After careful analysis, WHO has concluded that the risk to travellers to Beijing is now minimal," Omi told a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

However, the agency said it will provide data from system audit logs to support external investigations of improper Internet use if requested by outside authorities.

"The fire is going to have great potential to get in there tomorrow," he said.

Freddie Mac shares were off $7.87, or 13.2 percent, at $52 in midday trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Iranians have until the end of the month to answer all the agency's questions about their past nuclear activities.

She was booked out of view of the media, then released without bail until her next court appearance June 19.

Her father, Roma King Florin Cioaba, had her brought back and she was promptly married against her will.

It will also help reform the Royal Solomon Islands Police, strengthen the courts and prisons system and protect key institutions such as the Finance Ministry from intimidation.

One by one they strolled to the microphone, all 251 youngsters in the 76th Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.

In the second installment of a three-legged, record $58 billion refunding, the U.S. Treasury is slated to sell $18 billion in five-year notes on Wednesday.

Citigroup (C) on Wednesday named Marjorie Magner chairman and chief executive of its colossal global consumer business.

The Competition Commission delivered its verdict yesterday on the proposed merger of the two big ITV players, Carlton and Granada.

Simon & Schuster declined comment on the potential lawsuit and would not confirm the contents of the story.

"Germany is on the right path," he added, specifying his government's announced structural reform plan, known as Agenda 2010, and tax cuts.

The Nasdaq composite held on to the slimmest of gains, up 4.64 at 1,735.34.

Carter, who received the Nobel Peace Prize last year, met in Tokyo yesterday with Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi.

"We still have a lot to do, but I feel confident that HP is no longer an integration story."

"They feel so happy making jokes about a mistake like that," Sosa said.

Harman sought to strike a balance as some Democrats pushed for deeper investigations into intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs.

Missouri health officials said he had not been hospitalized and is recovering.

The two filed a suit in 1998 and allege they were never warned by IBM's staff doctors that their symptoms could reflect chemical poisoning.

Officials with Torch and JetBlue did not respond to repeated phone calls from the Mercury News seeking comment.

It said FirstEnergy determined that a contractor had established an unprotected computer connection to its corporate network that allowed the so-called ``Slammer'' worm to spread internally.

One witness told the Anatolian news agency he saw the plane on fire in mid-air.

The Texas house requires 100 of its 150 members to present in order to conduct business.

The quarterlies usually stay in stores for between six to eight weeks," Carney added.

OS ANGELES Walt Disney Concert Hall, the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is a French curve in a city of T squares.

"The evidence that we had of weapons of mass destruction was drawn up and accepted by the Joint Intelligence Committee," he said.

The American Chamber of Commerce and InvestHK, which oversees investment into the territory, is talking to other bands to replace the Stones.

Analysts surveyed by First Call were expecting sales of $723 million and a loss of 28 cents a share.

Weber said late Thursday that the company is still trying to understand the scope and details of the investigation.

The stalemate involved less than 1 percent of the budget and had little to do with policy but everything to do with politics.

At Wednesday's summit, Abbas pledged to end the "armed intefadeh," renounced "terrorism against the Israelis wherever they might be" and alluded to the disarming of militants.

Baz Luhrmann's opulent version of the Puccini opera will fold June 29 after a disappointing seven-month run and losses of about $6 million.

Kevin Rollins, Dell's president, received $770,962 in salary and a bonus of just more than $2 million in fiscal 2003.

The single currency rose as far as 135.26 yen , its highest level since the introduction of the single currency in January 1999.

Ridge said no real explosives or harmful devices will be used in the exercise.

The television report that cost Forlong his career at Sky News and his wife a husband was aired on March 29.

"The momentum in the marketplace continues to shift in SCO's direction," said Darl McBride, SCO's president and CEO.

For now, the company's management appears to be standing behind Stewart.

But Democrats can block any potential nominee through a filibuster if they can get 41 votes.

After a mechanic found 33 pounds of marijuana in a secret compartment, Rodriguez, who was at the auto shop, agreed they should notify police.

In lieu of a direct patch, Microsoft has proposed a workaround that consumers can implement until a new patch is released.

The company also defended its right to "create a video game experience with a certain degree of realism."

EMC intends to operate Legato as a software division of EMC from Legato's current base in California.

The boys are expected to surrender voluntarily to Pennsylvania authorities within the next several days, Zimmer said.

But late yesterday, the campaign and the state Democratic Party said there would be no news conference.

But the measure also requires the secretary of health and human services to certify that the reimportation can be done safely.

But Ms Pike said it was not unusual for hospitals to go into deficit and promised services would not be curtailed.

Max Factor cosmetics heir and fugitive rapist Andrew Luster was captured Wednesday in a nightclub at the beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, authorities said.

The second vulnerability is a result of IE not implementing a block on a file download dialog box.

This means Berlusconi will be safe from prosecution until his term ends in 2006, unless his government falls before then.

The airline expects to save another $100-million a year through management layoffs and pay cuts.

When shown pictures of unfamiliar faces, adults who were shy toddlers showed a relatively high level of activity in a part of the brain called the amygdala.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., said he plans hearings.

National Constitution Center President Joseph Torsella was hit in the head and knocked to his knees.

Stanford (46-15) plays South Carolina (44-20) on Friday in the opening game of the double-elimination tournament.

Mr. Istomin was on the piano faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and participated in Professional Training Workshops at Carnegie Hall.

After a day of testimony, Cohen recessed the hearing until this afternoon.

"The Congress of the United States has never — ever — outlawed a medical procedure," said Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter (D-N.Y.).

A U.S. soldier was killed in the early hours Saturday while guarding a bank in west Baghdad, and another American serviceman died Friday.

In afternoon trading, Aspen's shares were off 89 cents or more than 27 percent at $2.33 per share.

When the prime minister's position was established in the spring, it offered the United States and Israel a way to work around Arafat.

The Senate motion also called on Prime Minister John Howard to hold a royal commission into child sex abuse.

Against the Canadian dollar, the greenback rose 0.15 percent to $1.3260 <CAD=> as the Bank of Canada kept key interest rates unchanged.

AAA spokesman Jerry Cheske said prices might have affected some plans, but cheap hotel deals made up for it.

Next, Baltimore took Nick Markakis, a left-handed pitcher and outfielder from Young Harris Junior College in Georgia.

He was the ace of diamonds in a U.S. deck of cards showing pictures of most-wanted Iraqi leaders.

But the yen's gains were capped by wariness about Japanese intervention, with some traders reporting irregular bids around 118 yen that could be from the Bank of Japan.

The Swedish central bank, also meeting on Wednesday, is widely expected to announce a cut on Thursday of as much as half a percentage point.

Strayhorn has brought in a constitutional scholar to advise her on the reallocation.

The Royals chose Chris Lubanski, a high school outfielder from Pennsylvania who hit .528, with the fifth pick.

Another 28 per cent cited stronger demand, while eight per cent intended to boost profits through price increases.

Hampton Township is located a few kilometers northeast of Bay City, near Michigan's Thumb.

We think that the United States of America should support the free speech of all groups, he said.

NASCAR will get an estimated $75 million a year in cash and promotional concessions.

Some conservative groups have staunchly opposed such programs, saying they send the wrong message and in effect encourage and enable teens to have sex before marriage.

The tube was removed Wednesday from Terri Schiavo, 39, at the Tampa Bay-area hospice where she has lived for several years.

Penn Traffic entered chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization May 30.

The quick conviction followed a 2 1/2 week trial, during which the Venango County man represented himself.

Noah Wyle, who has played Dr. John Carter since the series launched in 1994, has inked a one-year extension to his deal with producer Warner Bros. TV.

The Air Force inspector general and the Pentagon also are investigating.

Sixty-five probable cases of SARS have been identified in the United States, along with 255 suspected cases.

The woman reported that she felt threatened and obtained a warrant for Stackhouse's arrest from the local magistrate's office.

In addition, Goldman raised its quarterly dividend to 25 cents a share, up from 13 cents previously.

Medicaid, which receives federal and state funding, is the government health-insurance program for the poor.

A 62-year-old West Babylon man has contracted the West Nile virus, the first human case in Suffolk County this year, according to the county health department.

The suspects were charged with racketeering, conspiracy, organized fraud, grand theft and illegal drug sales, all felonies carrying penalties of five to 30 years in prison.

In several previous shipwrecks, the search for survivors had to be abandoned for similar reasons, leaving the vessels and most of their passengers unaccounted for.

It turned out that the "weapon" was part of a Halloween costume.

UAL bankruptcy attorney James Sprayregen said at a court hearing the company will submit an updated business plan to the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, but gave no timeframe.

There are estimated to be between 400,000 and 750,000 Iraqis employed by state-owned enterprises in Iraq, but most of the businesses are currently inoperative, he said.

Attackers detonated a second roadside bomb later yesterday as a U.S. convoy was travelling near Falluja, just west of Baghdad, killing an U.S. soldier and wounding three others.

On Friday, 83 strike supporters were arrested for blocking traffic.

Boeing said yesterday that Southwest exercised options to purchase 15 737s for delivery next year.

After 18 months, the atorvastatin patients had no change in the plaque in their arteries.

"My judgement is 95 percent of that information should be declassified, become uncensored, so the American people would know."

Following ATP's notification by Hewitt's lawyers that action was pending, it issued another statement in April which Hewitt has added to his suit.

Im very proud of the citizens of this state, said Gov. John Baldacci, a casino foe.

"If this escalation continues as Rowling concludes the saga, there may be an epidemic of Hogwarts headaches for years to come."

The program, which only briefly downloads the pornographic material to the usurped computer, is invisible to the computer's owner.

Toll last week offered to buy the company for NZ75c a share, or $NZ158 million.

On March 6, the board, most of whose members were appointed by Gov. George Pataki, unanimously agreed to impose the hikes.

They include two Kuwaitis and six Palestinians with Jordanian passports, and the remainder are Iraqis and Saudis, the official said.

WebTV was sold to Microsoft in 1997 for $425 million and today is called MSN TV.

At the center of the petition is a 6000 series aluminum alloy rolled plate that is used for general-purpose engineering, tooling and die applications.

We will keep fighting, within the law, against the terrorist band."

One third of high-speed trains within France will run, national railway company Societe Nationale des Chemins de Fer estimates.

Instead of Ragusa's remains, his family will bury a vial of blood he had donated to a bone marrow center.

It now has 600 fewer stores -- about 1,500 in all -- and a $2 billion loan.

Two of the six people that testified to Congress today were engaged in a bitter dispute over airing Yankees games.

Tampering with medicine apparently was so lucrative, investigators said, that many of the suspects lived in million-dollar homes.

The US acknowledgment that it suspects that Mohammed killed Pearl was first reported in yesterday's editions of the Journal.

More than 10,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in three decades of insurgency.

In Somalia, the report says, only 26 percent of adolescent girls have heard of AIDS and only 1 percent know how to protect themselves.

And, of course, the FBI agent who ran him down received nothing - no ticket, no violation."

Armstrong County District Attorney Scott Andreassi said the many family photos in the home did not include Kristen.

The U.S.-backed Governing Council named the cabinet of 25 ministers on Monday, most of them little-known.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman criticized President Bush on Wednesday for a sluggish economy that has kept Americans out of work.

Police said three of them had also been detained last week and held for two days as suspects over recent bomb attacks.

He said they should "not really be patrolling or be around those areas when they are in their time of when they're conducting their prayers."

The feature, which has the approval of book publishers, puts some 33 million pages of searchable text at the disposal of Amazon.com shoppers.

The dollar rose around 0.6 percent against the Japanese currency to 109.51 yen <JPY=> and climbed 1 percent against the Swiss franc to 1.3302 francs <CHF=>.

Forward pricing: Law that states mutual fund shares bought after 4 p.m. ET are priced at the next day's closing net asset value.

"They ransacked and burned the two villages completely," rebel commander Ousmane Coulibaly told Reuters by satellite phone from the bush.

Tampa Bay manager Lou Piniella, bench coach John McLaren and Huff all were ejected in the middle of the ninth.

The Standard & Poor's paper products index .GSPPAPR was one of the leading sectors, up 2 percent.

A coalition of campaign groups, including the militant national students body, is backing the action and is mobilising for protests.

See the complete list of VH1's '100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years.

Drinking caffeinated coffee, you see, may significantly reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.

Western and southwestern Germany were expected to see temperatures hit 38 C (100.4 F).

In a letter sent to The New York Times after his resignation, Mr Blair blamed "personal issues" and apologised for his "lapse of journalistic integrity".

Nobody is saying such a pill could replace earplugs and other mechanical ear protection.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the nation's largest private employer, will now include gays and lesbians in its anti-discrimination policy, company officials said Wednesday.

In after-hours trading, Hewlett-Packard shares rose 55 cents, to $22.86, according to Instinet.

Lower state courts and federal courts are still hearing cases on the recall, but the prospects are uncertain.

To reach Brad Cooper, Johnson County municipal reporter, call (816) 234-7724 or send e-mail to bcooper@kcstar.com.

Schwarzenegger has admitted to occasionally living the life of a playboy: smoking pot, chasing women and living fast and loose.

The case marks the court's second major separation of church and state case in two years.

In 2001, the number of people on death row dropped for the first time in a decade.

Subway, bus and suburban rail services in France's four largest cities -- Paris, Lyon, Lille and Marseille -- were severely disrupted, transport authorities said.

Prosecutors maintained that Durst murdered Black to try to assume Black's identity.

"The lives of American war-fighters can be placed at direct risk through illegal transfer of military components," Joseph Schmitz, Defence Department inspector general, said.

Rehnquist wrote that the system was not narrowly tailored to achieve the interest in educational diversity.

Thirty-eight percent of cancer patients in five urban clinics believed the myth that the disease spreads when exposed to air during surgery, according to a survey.

H-P came in second with nearly $3.32 billion in sales and 26 percent of the market's revenue.

She has the confidence of having beaten her for the first time and she is buoyed by Venus Williams' upset loss of two days ago.

The attacks came two days after suicide bombers detonated a truck bomb in a Government compound in northern Chechnya, killing 59.

"I reliably receive reminders when my dog needs a vaccination and when my car is due for maintenance," he said.

Since sinking to 2003 lows in early March, the Dow Jones industrial average has rallied 13.8%.

"Once the legislation enters into force, it opens the way for police and other personnel to be deployed to Solomon Islands and to carry out law-enforcement functions.

Wells Fargo was not available for comment, and a Quicken Loans spokeswoman declined immediate comment.

According to the BBC, the group's interim report will say its inspectors have not even unearthed "minute amounts of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons material".

Pearson, led by Marjorie Scardino, the chief executive, publishes its interim results this week.

"In fact, I was physically sick several times at this stage, because he looked so desperate," she said.

No legislative action is final without concurrence of the House, and few were predicting what fate the bill would meet there.

"This case is about a woman who for over 20 years dedicated herself to this country," Levine said.

The firewall in the current Windows XP was known as the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF).

"In Iraq," Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the intelligence committee, said on CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday, "we're now fighting an anti-guerrilla . . . effort."

At least 11 people remained hospitalized Saturday, three of them in critical condition.

In central Chungchong province, a landslide caused a Seoul-bound Saemaeul Express train to derail, injuring 28 people, local television said.

The representative did not return calls seeking additional comment.

As of yesterday afternoon, 22 suspected cases had been reported in Wisconsin, 10 in Indiana and five in Illinois.

The head of the panel, former Rep. Tillie Fowler of Florida, told present and past commanders that cadets don't trust them.

The team will help draft a plan by the end of the year to attack obesity.

"It is unfortunate that Senator Clinton would seek to politicize such a qualified nominee as Governor Leavitt.

The arrest came hours after the girl turned up at a convenience store several cities away and helped lead police to her alleged abductor.

Ride will be enshrined along with astronauts Story Musgrave, Robert "Hoot" Gibson and Daniel Brandenstein.

Such an amount would probably be unable to summon a majority of the Senate, where Republican moderates have refused to go above $350 billion.

The results ranged from 1 per cent or 2 per cent to 36 per cent for a speciality brand called American Spirit.

The board is investigating whether this compromised safety on the shuttle.

Taiwan reported 65 new cases on May 22, a one-day record, and 55 new cases on May 23, making its epidemic the world's fastest-growing.

That was more than double the $102 million, or 13 cents a share, for the year-earlier quarter.

British-born astronaut Michael Foale is on his way to take command of the international space station.

In Baghdad, police Lieut. Mothana Ali said about 1,000 demonstrators arrived at the station demanding jobs.

Clark, one of nine Democrats seeking the nomination, said the program would cost about $100 million a year and would be within the Department of Homeland Security.

"Ximian brings Novell unparalleled Linux expertise . . . [and strengthens] our ability to work with and leverage open source initiatives more constructively."

Television replays, though, showed the ball had touched the ground before Sangakkara's boot (262 for 4).

Since 2001, the agency has closed bookstores in San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland, Columbus, Ohio, and Washington.

Peterson, 30, is awaiting trial on two counts of murder for the deaths of his wife, Laci, and their unborn son.

The other victim, Michael Walker, of 550 Barbey Street, was struck in the neck.

Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people) jumped $2.88, or 15.7 percent, to $21.28.

Shares of Corixa rose 54 cents, or about 8 percent, to close at $7.74.

Nevertheless, PeopleSoft must review Oracle's tender offer and make a recommendation to shareholders.

Last week, Nur al-Din Muliff, a 36-year-old of North African origin, was arrested in the southern coastal town of Eastbourne.

Alcohol-related fatalities accounted for 41 percent of the total number of deaths.

His next play, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, lasted more than a year on Broadway and was also filmed by Fox.

"I am therefore unaware of any genuine entries concerning rapes by British servicemen in police records," the spokesman said.

Jews, Americans and their allies had "evil" plans to colonise nations like Indonesia, Amrozi said.

And because it is so far out in international water, salvage company Odyssey Marine Exploration doesn't have to share the wealth with coastal state governments.

CS Financial Services made a 666 million franc net profit, six percent less than in the fourth quarter of last year.

The DHWG says it will instead create a format that can be used by all devices but can accommodate other formats.

That would clear the way for debate in the full Senate beginning on Monday.

Kelly said Rumsfeld, in a November interview, made the unsolicited suggestion that this year's honor go to all men and women who wear the U.S. uniform.

Carlton Dotson, who was on the team last season and lives in Hurlock, Md., said he was told not to talk about the case.

PowderJect, roughly 20 percent owned by Chief Executive Paul Drayson and his family, reported surging annual profit early this month.

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein said he was pleased by the results.

The Web site said Dr. Aronov had passed two lie detector tests, one administered by the police.

Meanwhile, for people aged 60 to 69, disability declined by more than 10 percent.

"Admiral Black has provided spiritual guidance to thousands of servicemen and women during his 25 years of service," Frist said.

On Monday, Christian Ganczarski was apprehended at the airport and was to appear before an anti-terrorism judge in the coming days, the officials said on condition of anonymity.

The Standard Edition One is a single processor version of the Oracle Standard Edition Database.

In Canada's capital of Ottawa, police reported two deaths possibly linked to the power outage — a pedestrian hit by a car and a fire victim.

Wild rock legend Ozzy Osbourne could be kept in intensive care for “several days” following his quad bike accident, his doctor said tonight.

Analysts currently expect earnings of 13 cents a share and revenue of $6.7 billion, on average, according to a survey by Reuters Research.

From there he plans to visit South Africa and make stops in Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria.

Bishop Thomas O'Brien, 67, was booked on a charge of leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

Colorado Attorney General Ken Salazar also filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Invesco, accusing it of violating the state's Consumer Protection Act.

Holding the market back, News Corp <NCP.AX> fell two percent to A$12.34 and Brambles <BIL.AX> dropped 2.3 percent to A$4.73 after a weak performance overnight.

Police said her two small children were alone there for up to two days as she lay dead.

The teens are being held on charges of robbery and criminal impersonation of a police officer, sources said.

Long lines formed Sunday outside gas stations and people rushed to get money from cash machines as Israelis braced for the strike's effects.

But he said there was a "total fear to start with because you are completely at the mercy of the winds".

Whitley's attorney, Marc Garber, called the ruling "a huge victory."

With the purge, Siebel will have cut 2,400 employees - or nearly one-third of its workforce - since the end of 2001.

Ms. Kennedy Cuomo's lawyer, William D. Zabel, said she would not comment.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which plans to appeal, was given until May 28 to restore the old subway and bus fare and the old commuter railroad rates.

Microsoft has released a critical update for its newly released office suite, Office 2003.

About 31 percent of Americans are now obese — roughly 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight.

The water blocking the airport road swamped several buildings, including a Federal Express depot.

"He's wild, he wants to kill him, but then I suppose I'd be that angry too if somebody tried to kill my old man."

Sovereign said it expects the merger to close in the first quarter of 2004, subject to regulatory and First Essex shareholder approval.

The high profile, two-week campaign was designed to show a strong police presence around London and resulted in 42 arrests, which a spokesman said was "pretty impressive".

Bethany, who remained in stable condition after the attack Friday morning, talked of the attack Saturday.

The governments of those countries have said that despite rising public opposition, their support will not waver.

It has a chequered safety record, including 47 accidents that resulted in 668 deaths.

She insisted that throughout the mission, managers "were basing our decisions on the best information that we had at the time."

The woman -- who has no symptoms of illness -- donated blood Aug. 7.

In a statement Monday, his lawyer John Keker said ``Frank Quattrone is innocent.

It passed only after Republicans won the support of Voinovich and another wavering senator, Nelson of Nebraska.

Shares of the cigarette makers jumped on the news, led by New York-based Altria, whose shares rose almost 10 percent to $38.30.

Already in beta, Veritas' File System, Volume Manager and Cluster Server products for SuSE Enterprise Linux Server should drop into the hands of customers in early 2004.

But the US insisted it wanted more done to prevent complaints being filed in the first place, preferably by repealing the entire law.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX was off 1.67 points, or 0.17 percent, at 995.81.

Separate downloadable patches are available for the client and administrative versions of Office.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was up 5.64 points, or 0.34 percent, at 1,672.22.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, the six largest airlines have lost a combined $18 billion.

Three Southern politicians who ``stood up to ancient hatreds'' were honored Monday with Profile in Courage Awards from the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.

July 10 - The Bush administration's latest effort to expand the role of religious organizations in government services enlists church-based youth groups in anti-drug programs.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was up a mere 0.04 of a point at 1,653.

A top aide to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested yesterday for allegedly raping a 22-year-old legislative staffer after a night on the town.

According to the GBI, Ms. Peeler and Mr. Jones were never legally married but had a common-law marriage.

That measure was limited to the city of Arequipa amid protests, that killed three people, against the sale of two power firms.

Istomin later married Casals' widow, Marta, after Casals' death in 1973.

"We have found the smoking gun," said Hubbard, director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California.

The card is issued by Mexico's consulates to its citizens living abroad and shows the date of birth, a current photograph and the address of the cardholder.

The third and final film, "The Matrix Revolutions," will be released in November.

The losses occurred overnight in Willow Canyon, one of three areas in the Santa Catalina Mountains threatened by the resurgent Aspen fire.

Their appointments increase Berkshire's board to nine from seven members.

The high court reversed a decision by a U.S. appeals court that upheld the law.

The waves of scandal angered not only victims' advocates but parishioners and some priests, to the point that Law could no longer run the archdiocese.

The address made no mention of the role of terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiyah, which was behind the attacks.

The report quotes extensively from internal e-mails, including one from a former CIBC executive who described the returns earned by the bank on its Enron deals as "outrageous."

The MDC said that an opposition supporter, Tichaona Kaguru, died in hospital after being tortured and assaulted by the soldiers putting down the anti-Mugabe protests.

The Nasdaq Composite Index rose 19.67, or 1.3 percent, to 1523.71, its highest since June 18.

That leaves about three dozen at risk of aid cutoffs, Boucher said without identifying them.

"Prospects for the whole Canadian aerospace industry are improving with recent developments contributing to the enhancement of aircraft financing in this country," said Paul Tellier, Bombardier chief executive.

Astronomers have clocked eight more moons orbiting Jupiter, bringing its known total to 60.

A seventh person, a 21-year-old woman, was in critical condition in the burn unit at Akron Children's Hospital.

The newspaper also reported that two key leaders were out of town during part of Columbia's flight.

Without an adopted resolution, no Iraqi, U.S. or U.N. entity in Baghdad has the legal authority to export oil.

Last week, his lawyers asked Warner to grant clemency under certain conditions that would have lead to a new sentencing hearing.

"The (drug) benefit is equal for everyone, both in traditional Medicare and in the enhanced Medicare we're setting up," Grassley said.

Several Florida officials connected to the case have received threatening letters, accompanied by rifle bullets.

She had only a single condition, that the book not be published until after her death.

The United Nations has about 700 troops on the ground, but they have neither the mandate nor the manpower to stop the fighting.

Garner said reconstruction will not be as difficult as he anticipated because the war caused less damage and created fewer refugees.

Bush, however, also lashed out at the terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 29 people -- including a number of Americans.

The FMI estimates that last year 15.7 percent of the average supermarket's sales and more than half of gross margin went to pay employee costs, including wages and benefits.

By 2040, retirees will account for a third of the population, up from a fifth today.

He had served nine years in prison, including two on death row, when he was released by a judge and pardoned by the governor.

They often complain about misconduct," John Goold, chief deputy district attorney for Stanislaus County said.

Samudra, 33, a textile salesman, is also charged with a series of church bombings across Indonesia on Christmas Eve, 2000, when 19 people were killed.

The two have no diplomatic ties and their already tense relationship has been frayed further by a diplomatic spat over North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

The only passenger airline serving Baghdad, Royal Jordanian, said it was suspending service for three days.

Mr Truss said he made "no apologies" the negotiations had been undertaken in secret.

The official, describing the apprehension at Boston's Logan International Airport, identified the suspect as Ahmed Mehalba.

Parson is charged with one count of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer.

"That obligation to pay rent continues unabated notwithstanding the heinous attacks of 11 September," the suit says.

Other Japanese banks, some of which are still being audited, could face similar scrutiny.

"Over 10 years, I'd say I've come out pretty close to even," he said.

"It is reminiscent of the communication troubles that have dogged the ECB in the past," said Ken Wattret of BNP Paribas.

"Rob Furst intends to defend the charges in court," said Ira Lee Sorkin, Furst's attorney.

"The court and the public need to know more of the defendants' seemingly massive fraud," he said.

In its report, the foreign affairs committee absolved Mr. Blair of charges of doctoring intelligence.

Alleged stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons have not turned up, nor has significant evidence of a nuclear-weapons program.

Chinese language Web portals also support 3721 keywords, the Web site said.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC crept up 5.05 points, or 0.32 percent, at 1,595.80.

There were 659 women enrolled at the academy at the time of the survey.

Within WSE 2.0, WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation build on WS-Security and define extensions to request and issue security tokens and to manage relationships and secure conversations.

The high court will hear arguments today on whether companies can be sued under the ADA for refusing to rehire rehabilitated drug users.

He also left out any reference to amending the constitution to guarantee private property rights.

The IRS said taxpayers can avoid problems with lost or stolen refunds by having refunds deposited directly into personal checking or savings accounts.

In all, more than 70,000 troops based in Southern California were deployed to Iraq.

BP shares slipped 48 cents to $41.72 Friday in trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

They fear the treatment would stunt the boy's growth and leave him sterile.

Including the charge, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said Monday it lost $1.04 billion, or 32 cents per share, in the period ending June 30.

The parade, which moved west along Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights past hundreds of thousands of spectators, went through the district that Davis represented.

Avery Dennison said it now expects a second-quarter profit of 68 cents to 72 cents a share, down from its prior outlook of 77 cents to 82 cents.

"But I do question the motives of a desk-bound president who assumes the garb of a warrior for the purposes of a speech."

Some Wall Street analysts believe stocks have rallied too far, too fast, given the muddled picture of the economy provided by recent data.

The NASD alleges that the analyst flew multiples times on Tyco's corporate jets for business trips, sometimes accompanied by Kozlowski.

It had a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points.

Comstock said several federal courts have ruled that the detentions are fully within the law.

His supporters were also infuriated that Mr Reagan was played by James Brolin, the husband of Barbra Streisand, a leading Hollywood Democratic activist.

Independent US programmer Bill Zeller has developed software that lets users download shared music files using iTunes for Windows.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 10.89, or 1.2 percent, to 931.12 as of 12:01 p.m. in New York.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a judge's order that would have forced Microsoft to include competitor Sun Microsystems' Java software in its Windows operating system.

"You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life," Limbaugh said during a stunning admission aired nationwide.

The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC jumped 43.64 points, or 2.89 percent, to 1,553.73.

The warnings were issued on Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.

U.S. companies slashed payrolls for a seventh straight month in August, raising new worries that a weak jobs market could shackle the budding economic recovery.

Another Chechen emergency ministry official, Ruslan Khadzhiyev, said the truck was carrying the equivalent of 1.6 tons of TNT.

A warrant for Taylor's arrest has been served on the Ghanaian authorities and sent to Interpol.

PeopleSoft Inc.'s board of directors voted unanimously on Friday to recommend that stockholders reject Oracle's upgraded bid for a hostile takeover.

No charges have been filed in those deaths, but Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas said authorities were "continuing to make significant progress" in the case.

Berry repeated that performance with his second wife, whom he married and divorced twice (most recently in 1991).

Tuesday’s testimony is to give an inside look at tax-shelter development and marketing.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC gained 1.8 points, or 0.1 percent, at 1,732.50.

It canceled its third-quarter earnings announcement, which had been scheduled for this morning.

They traded down early this year to 60 percent of face value on fears Aquila may default.

In addition, Hambali laments, "all the group's savings have been lost to raids and arrests," and "JI is now totally dependent on al-Qaeda for money."

Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico, and the bounty hunter was charged with kidnapping.

The unusual decision to declassify a major intelligence report was a bid by the White House to quiet a growing controversy over Bush's allegations about Iraq's weapons programs.

But the bureau never kept tabs on al-Bayoumi—despite receiving prior information he was a secret Saudi agent, the report says.

Many doctors say she is in a persistent vegetative state and cannot recover.

The registry was launched with $20 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In the first quarter, SCO had reported a net loss of $724,000, or 6 cents per diluted share, on revenue of $13.5 million.

"He really left us with a smile on his face and no last words ... He gave us each a kiss and that was it," she said.

Then, about two decades ago, U.S. District Court Judge Walter Rice, the Aviation Trail group and others made a decision to protect and polish what remained.

Potter added that sales of grocery and other consumer packaged products are the strongest but sales of discretionary items such as decorative accessories are still weak.

The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index gained 2.90 points, or 0.18 percent, to 1,606.87.

HP fell to second place with server sales growing 0.4 percent to $2.9 billion.

Cases of breast cancer in Britain have reached a record high, with the number of women diagnosed with the disease passing the 40,000 mark for the first time.

The discoveries came after a package bomb went off in the Bologna, Italy home of EU Commission President Romano Prodi on Sunday.

"It was never the intention of us to sell product," federal Health Minister Anne McLellan said yesterday in Edmonton.

The scientists, not surprisingly, wanted to pick the minds of the Buddhist scholars about how they meditate.

But the timing of homecomings for those soldiers, as well as the division's 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, is now indefinite.

Rowell, 57, was out of state helping his wife's daughter move when the tragedy occurred, friends said.

For the entire fiscal year, Micron lost a record $1.27 billion on sales of just under $3.1 billion.

The indictment follows a criminal complaint filed by federal prosecutors on April 23.

In a conference call yesterday, he said, "I don't think that my brain is going to go dead this afternoon or next week."

"Obviously, I have made statements that are ludicrous and crazy and outrageous because that's the way I was."

"This puts telemarketers on notice that we will take all measures necessary to protect consumers who chose to be left alone in their homes," FCC chairman Michael Powell said.

Jim Guest, president of Consumers Union, said the Supreme Court did not address the merits of the case.

Joining him in the majority opinion were Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer.

"However, the report also tells us that once the problem grew to a certain magnitude, nothing could have been done to prevent it from cascading out of control."

The State University at Stony Brook launched the study in 1996, after earlier studies indicated a possible connection.

The first Palestinian suicide attack in Israel killed eight people in April 1994 in the centre of Afula.

They included Global Crossing, Akamai Technologies, Ask Jeeves, Copper Mountain Networks, Etoys and VA Linux.

"Rosenthal is hereby sentenced to custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons for one day with credit for time served."

The union earlier this week announced tentative agreements with Ford Motor Co., DaimlerChrysler AG's Chrysler Group and supplier Visteon Corp.

But the judge, Louis York, said the authority can hold another set of public hearings on raising commuting costs afterward.

New York has by far the country’s most expensive Medicaid program, costing taxpayers $7,646 per recipient, almost double the national average of $3,936.

Peterson was arrested near Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla on April 18, the same the day the bodies were identified through DNA testing.

Kentucky: Republican Ernie Fletcher, a three-term House member, is battling Democratic state Attorney General Ben Chandler.

The other main electrical goods retailers are Argos, part of GUS, privately owned Littlewoods and PowerHouse.

Sun filed the suit after the government's successful antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Jewish and Muslim leaders objected to the proposals, which were never approved.

A female colleague, 25, was slashed across the face as the man continued to try to reach the front of the plane.

A total of 16.3 million lines provided advanced services, those services at speeds exceeding 200 kbps in both directions.

Daniel said D'Antonio left between 7:15 p.m. and 8 p.m and it takes about two hours to drive from his home to Nashville.

Cullen, 43, is charged with killing a Roman Catholic Church official and attempting to kill another patient at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.

Authorities looked to the public yesterday for help in solving the deadly sniper-style shootings of three people outside Charleston-area convenience stores.

Two schools, Duke and North Carolina, have steadfastly opposed expansion.

Flagship drug sales rose 21 percent excluding exchange rate swings and nine percent in francs to 10.31 billion, while diagnostics sales fell one percent in francs to 3.57 billion.

Financial terms of the sale, which is expected to be completed by the end of August, were not disclosed.

ATA also has hired Citigroup and Morgan Stanley to evaluate options for refinancing or restructuring $175 million of 10.5 percent senior notes due in August 2004.

The two leaders said inter-Korean exchanges would be "conducted in light of developments on the North Korean nuclear issue".

That I pulled up their shirt and grabbed their breasts and stuff like that: this is not me.

"The death of Ghozi signals that terrorists will never get far in the Philippines," President Gloria Arroyo said.

Mr. Mills declined to comment yesterday, saying that he never discussed personnel matters.

The benchmark S&P/TSX composite index rose 29.12 points yesterday to 7,633.61.

"We are committed to helping the Iraqi people get on the path to a free society," he said.

Young said he was disappointed the government didn't see the SARS crisis as worthy of federal disaster relief money.

The move follows a recent proposal by Mr Vajpayee, whoended an 18-month chill in relations by ordering normalisation of diplomatic links and restoration of air services with Pakistan.

Passengers were evacuated smoothly, although they were not told what was going on, he said.

On Wednesday, at 7.51pm, Mars will be the closest to Earth it has been for 59,619 years.

The software maker is seeking to simplify creation of BizTalk applications by tying it more tightly to its flagship development tool, Visual Studio.Net.

The euro is up 9 percent against the dollar in the past six weeks.

The officers -- Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon and Richard Murphy -- were acquitted in 2000 of state murder charges.

"I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening . . . It was mostly a monologue."

Wells, 46, said he was forced to rob the bank and asked police to help take the bomb off.

Our party will never be the choice of the N.R.A., and I'm not looking to be the candidate of the N.R.A.," a reference to the National Rifle Association.

Scientists are working to determine how exactly how acrylamide is formed in food.

One of the employees who survived the blast and fire was hospitalized in critical condition in Fort Myers.

Democrats hold a 17-15 edge in the state's U.S. House delegation.

The share price of Berkeley-based Xoma lost 73 cents a share, or 13 percent, to $4.76 in afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

"We need the somebody who notices them to come forward," he said at a news conference in which he introduced his successor, Brig. Gen. Mastin M. Robeson.

Another 29 cases were listed as suspected, and officials warned that 107 other people showing possible SARS symptoms were being monitored.

"The numbers are starting to change very, very quickly," Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Thursday.

Mr Howard also said yesterday that Hicks would be fairly treated, saying he had faith in the US justice system.

Police investigating a deadly hit-and-run accident went to the home of Phoenix's Roman Catholic bishop on Monday and found the windshield of his car caved in, authorities said.

He replaces Leland Brendsel, 61, who retired as chairman and chief executive.

Progress Software Corp. is acquiring DataDirect Technologies Ltd., a privately held supplier of data-access software, for approximately $88 million, the companies said Friday.

One month after Hurricane Claudette pounded Texas, hurricane warnings were posted Friday along parts of the coast as fast-moving Tropical Storm Erika churned across the gulf.

Dos Reis had earlier pleaded guilty to federal charges that he crossed state lines to have sex with Christina and one other girl in a separate incident.

For instance, the core Java Enterprise System will cost $100 per employee in the US.

The memo analyzed lawful activities like recruiting demonstrators, as well as illegal activities like using fake documentation to get into a secured site.

Even when the exchange detected such violations, it "often failed to take appropriate disciplinary actions" against individuals or firms.

United said it the new airline use 40 jets, each seating 156 passengers.

Now they were waiting to see if Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan would try to repair the damage done to bond prices in his testimony to the House next week.

Investigators matched the dead womans teeth to Aronovs dental records Wednesday morning, medical examiners spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said.

Joe Nichols, who is touring with Jackson, captured new male vocalist honors, riding back-to-back hits The Impossible and Brokenheartedsville.

The compilers are available in two forms: The Intel C++ Compiler for Microsoft eMbedded Visual C++ is available from Intel for $399, and is intended for applications development.

Thousands of pounds of fireworks inside the Lamb Entertainment's warehouse and packed in the tractor-trailer rig exploded, the ATF said.

BA shares closed down 0.89 percent at 167-1/2 pence, slightly lower than London's FTSE 100 Index which was down 0.28 percent.

Its shares fell 4.6 percent, or $4.04, to $83.38 and was the blue-chip Dow's biggest percent loser.

Earlier this week, Putnam said the Manhattan U.S. Attorney had subpoenaed its trading documents, raising the possibility of a criminal indictment.

The sale represents about 52 per cent of the 115.9 million shares Mr Turner held at the end of April.

Nuremberg, Germany-based SuSE will license Sun's Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) and ship Sun's Java Virtual Machine across its Linux software line.

"We'll be listening carefully to the (IAEA) director-general's report at the next board meeting."

Rush is the only witness to the wheelhouse events who has spoken with investigators, Weinshall said.

Mr. Geoghan was taken to the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster, Mass., where he died at 1:17 p.m.

"With Internet usage and broadband adoption continuing to escalate," Stuart says, "marketers are throwing their weight and dollars behind interactive advertising."

Rescue and search operation was on to find them, Manali Sub-Divisional Magistrate Raj Kumar Gautam told Times News Network.

Fidelity Investments has received a subpoena from New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is investigating charges of market-timing and late-day trading in the mutual fund industry.

We're thrilled to be up 3-2,'' Coach Gregg Popovich said Wednesday.

Both devices use Palm OS 5.2 and feature a completely new form factor that resembles a miniature notebook with a screen that swivels 180 degrees.

"At first blush, it doesn't look like any rules were broken," said Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Trading volume was extremely light at 1.05 billion shares, below an already thin 1.19 billion on Tuesday.

The main rebel force, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy, fears a peacekeeping force could bolster Taylor.

Roberts said he didn't think excess inventory showed up in Avery's March quarter, although it could explain the drop and quick recovery in sales during the current quarter.

As executive vice president of new ventures, Elias will report to Joe Tucci, EMC's president and chief executive.

But with the Prime Minister due to leave tomorrow, a day early, he may not be present when the final decision is made.

"There are defining moments for players and organizations where you are measured.

He led Philippine police to a ton of TNT officials say was intended for attacks on Western targets in Singapore, including the US Embassy.

They did not nationalize them," said Manouchehr Takin of the Center for Global Energy Studies.

Because the companies described the talks as exclusive, it's likely they signed an agreement saying Dynegy wouldn't talk to other suitors for a certain period.

Shares of BioReliance sold at $47.98 at the close of market yesterday, down 2 cents.

In 2001, Nash helped found an after-school nonviolence program named after a college student who was fatally shot by a 14-year-old gang member, program supervisor Alexis Lukas said.

The Standard and Poor's 500-stock index, a broad collection of equities representing leading companies, finished its best quarter yesterday since the last three months of 1998.

They said progress towards resolving the nuclear issue and progress in the trade talks were "interdependent, essential and mutually reinforcing elements of EU-Iran relations".

The S&P rose 13.78, or 1.5 percent, to 930.08, the best level since Jan. 14.

The two flight attendants were in a serious but stable condition last night after being rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital.

The trial, which could last until early 2004, is expected to hear the first of 125 witnesses Friday.

McArthur told internetnews.com price declines have moderated and remained below 30 percent from the previous year for the last two quarters.

The previous biggest R rated opening was "Hannibal's" $58 million.

The second rover is scheduled for launch on June 25 and both will arrive at Mars in January.

That was 4 cents higher than the expectations of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.

Kerkorian and Tracinda had also tried to take over Chrysler in 1995.

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and economic uncertainty in Europe and America have depressed air travel.

The year-ago numbers do not include figures from Compaq Computer.

SACRAMENTO A nationally known itinerant computer hacker faces a federal arrest warrant on a sealed federal complaint in New York, a federal defender in California said Friday.

She said another man, 19-year-old Antowain Johnson, "tried to go back in ... but the smoke wouldn't let him."

Defense lawyers had requested a change of venue for two reasons: They argued that massive pretrial publicity had tainted the jury pool against their client.

"It looks very much like an isolated event," World Health Organization spokeswoman Maria Cheng said.

The GAO found that cable rates have increased by 40 percent during the past five years, far above the 12 percent inflation in that period.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said the crime scenes indicated that the killer was "very methodical."

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a supporter of Boxer's bill, sent a letter to President Bush on Wednesday demanding action on the legislation.

The Rev. Christopher Coyne, spokesman for the archdiocese, did not immediately return several calls seeking comment.

He was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to charges including securities fraud.

She looked at her son-in-law and his relatives at times, but the two sides did not exchange words.

Rogge was a witness to Drummond's tantrums Sunday at the World Track and Field Championships.

Claudette, the first hurricane of the Atlantic storm season, hit the mid-Texas coast July 15, classified as a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph.

Two brothers who were among seven people accused of aiding terrorists pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of conspiring to help Al Qaeda and the Taliban during the war in Afghanistan.

Like Viacom, General Electric is seen as a less enthusiastic bidder compared with Bronfman or Davis.

He was declared dead on arrival at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington at 9:13 a.m.

Proceedings were taken up with prosecutors outlining their case against Amrozi, reading a 33-page accusation letter to the court.

Government sources said Mr Howard urged the US to provide clear rules governing any potential trials.

The six-member jury cleared Scruggs of a second charge that accused her of failing to provide her son with proper medical and psychological care.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suspended peace talks April 21 citing a lack of progress.

Nancy Reagan issued a statement last week to the Fox News Channel saying, "The timing of [the miniseries] is absolutely staggering to me.

"East Africa has been an area of terrorist threats and indeed terrorist attacks in the past," said State Department spokesman Philip Reeker.

Haemochromatosis is a disorder in which people absorb excessive amounts of iron which can lead to organ damage.

Although the Beatles were deeply disapproved of in the Soviet Union, their popularity knew no bounds and far outreached any other Western rock groups.

In an advertisement for the book, Berg says, "More than my remembrances, this book intends to convey hers."

LendingTree shares rose 43 percent, or $6.31, to $21, more than doubling in the last two months.

Mr. Caramore said the district waited for the subpoenas and planned to cooperate with the investigation.

Barrenas's team tested the hearing of 479 men, aged 20 to 64, who were exposed to noise in their jobs.

In May, Alkebulan and Deirdre Small filed a federal lawsuit in Brooklyn that seeks more than $20 million in damages, Hart said.

"We're in a highly competitive industry where few apparel brands own and operate manufacturing facilities in North America," said Phil Marineau, the chief executive.

In Nigeria alone, the report estimated that between 100,000 and 1 million girls and women are suffering from the condition.

Global HRT sales were worth $3.8bn (2.4bn) in 2001, according to Datamonitor, the London-based market research company.

About 20 family members of the victims were invited to the news conference.

The Cubans were spotted by a Coast Guard jet around 2 p.m. Tuesday and two vessels were sent out to the area, Petty Officer Ryan Doss said.

She won the talent portion singing "If I Could" and also won in evening wear.

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," he told the Register.

Market research firm Dell'Oro Group estimates that the Gigabit Ethernet switch market will total about US$12 billion in 2004.

Robbins said he wants to take networks such as ESPN that charge more than $1 per Cox customer and make them optional choices.

Of those, 14 were passengers sitting within four seats of the SARS patient and two were flight attendants, Ryan said.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said last week that Berlin will consider sending peacekeepers only if requested by an interim Iraqi government or the United Nations.

Four years ago, California activist Marc Kasky sued Nike under a statute designed to protect consumers from false advertising.

The readings came back at 160 on June 16 and 120 at June 23 at one of three sampling sites at Huntington Beach.

"This is going to put a severe crimp in our reserves," O'Keefe said during a breakfast with reporters.

The court's three-judge tribunal was expected to give its verdict next February.

Freddie Mac shares fell $1.50 on Wednesday, to close at $50 on the New York Stock Exchange.

Elsewhere in theaters this weekend, "X2" earned $17.1 million to raise its three-week total to $174 million.

Four of the defendants have pleaded guilty to weapons charges and other counts.

But its most popular comedy, Friends, will sign off after a two-hour finale next May.

He was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday night by police acting on a tip-off.

Researchers found that sea ice in the Arctic is disappearing at a rate of 9 percent each decade.

"We're making these commitments first and foremost because we think it's the right thing to do," company spokesman Michael Mudd said yesterday.

Sergeant Randy Force, a police spokesman, said O'Brien wasn't being charged with causing the crash because the victim had been jaywalking.

The book, scheduled for publication next month, has been described by Franken as a criticism of right wing leaders and media spokespeople.

Federal agents said Friday they are investigating the thefts of 1,100 pounds of an explosive chemical from construction companies in Colorado and California in the past week.

The affidavit says al-Amoudi was detained Aug. 16 attempting to travel from London to Damascus, Syria.

Farmers say they have increased the numbers of dogs they keep for protection, although some packs are used to hunt depleted wildlife.

Kroger's Ralphs chain and Albertsons immediately locked out their grocery workers in a show of solidarity.

Mr Qarase must now invite up to eight Labour Party members into cabinet.

"Landing on an aircraft carrier doesn't make up for the loss of 2.7 million jobs in America," Kerry said.

Dell made $950,000 in salary and nearly $2.5 million in bonus pay during the fiscal year.

Dave Delainey agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors in exchange for the plea.

Loyalists are also believed to be behind attacks on oil pipelines and fields that are crucial to Iraq's economic recovery.

Mall operators and retailers reported fewer shoppers camping out for early-bird specials on Saturday morning, although parking lots were beginning to fill at some East Coast shopping centers.

Josephine Burke, who ran the illegal day care, served four months in prison on misdemeanor assault and child-neglect charges.

"We wanted to kind of smoke him out, to see where he was coming from," said Robert Schindler.

A judge branded Mohammed Dica's behaviour "despicable" and added: "There is no evidence of your remorse."

Yesterday, Taiwan reported 65 new cases, its biggest one-day increase yet.

The industry came under renewed scrutiny recently with the launch by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of an investigation of illegal trading in mutual fund shares.

Operating revenues were down about 1 percent to $4.55 billion, from $4.59 billion.

As they wound through police barricades to the funeral home, many chanted "Celia, Celia."

One in seven 15-year-olds and nearly one in 10 six-year-olds are obese.

"Spam knows no borders," said Brad Smith, Microsoft's senior vice-president and general counsel.

Evans is also the vice-chairman of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council.

Phone companies, which have argued that DSL should be subject to less regulation, had mixed reaction.

Many of the affected countries, such as Colombia and Ecuador, are considered critical to the administration's efforts to bring stability to this hemisphere.

The huge bottom line loss stemmed from a 1.5 billion-pound asset writedown, on top of a 3.5 billion first-half charge.

Police have arrested a "potential suspect" in the abduction of 9-year-old Jennette Tamayo, San Jose Police Chief William Lansdowne said Monday.

He was chief executive of BOCHK until he was suddenly recalled to Beijing last month.

If the company did not turn in the results before the end of May, it was likely to be delisted, an SFC official said.

Dwight Watson, 50, was convicted of making a false threat to detonate explosives and of destroying federal property.

Drax’s troubles began late last year when it lost its most lucrative sales contract, with the insolvent utility TXU Europe.

Giving up half the duties is one of several negotiating items where Canada appears to have caved in to U.S. demands and accepted less favourable terms.

His harsh criticism of the PLO's chairman, Yasser Arafat, saw the Palestinian Authority ban his books for a time.

The Democrat's 2000 platform didn't explicitly support gay marriages but backed "the full inclusion of gay and lesbian families into the life of the nation."

"We believe we are fully prepared to roll out the revised Diebold machines," said Gilles W. Burger, chairman of the Maryland State Board of Elections.

The question is whether there will be a hearing to determine if Bryant will stand trial.

He said: “They were an inspirational couple, selfless and courageous.

"I would rather be talking about positive numbers rather than negative.

WorldCom, decimated by a massive accounting scandal, is adopting the name of its MCI long-distance division in a bid to clean up its image.

Launched from space shuttle Atlantis (news - web sites) in 1989, Galileo will have traveled about 2.8 billion miles by the time it hits Jupiter.

Several states and the federal government later passed similar or more strict bans.

"We believe the long-term prospects for the energy sector in the UK remain attractive," Goldman said.

Bare Metal Restore 4.6 will be available in mid-June, said Veritas, and will cost $900 per Windows client and $1,000 per Unix client.

It was still not known exactly how many people were on the plane, which could carry 141 passengers and crew.

China is scrambling to stop the disease from spreading to the countryside, where most of its 1.3 billion people live.

But labor leaders say it is often hard for these people to join a union because many employers aggressively fight organizing efforts.

Before the commitee was formed, Mr Howard was defiant, saying Australia's view on Zimbabwe "will not be changing, irrespective of the views of other countries".

The Democratic sample has an error margin of plus or minus 6.1 percent.

Advertising revenue at the Financial Times was down about 18 percent in the first half and recent months have seen little improvement.

He added that: "We disagree with the judge's decision on notice for Engine Company 261."

The market remains pinned in a narrow range after a powerful rally pushed the broad S&P 500 index up more than 20 percent since mid-March.

Waksal, who pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges, recently began serving a prison sentence of more than seven years.

Scotland Yard said in a statement it had charged a 46-year-old man and two women aged 27 and 35 with failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism.

Witnesses believe he wanted to crash Flight 1737, which had 47 passengers and six crew.

The Virginia attorney-general, Jerry Kilgore, accused the Supreme Court of undermining "Virginia's right to pass legislation that reflects the views and values of our citizens".

Big Blue will integrate Adobe's Form Server, Form Designer and Reader products with its DB2 Content Manager and DB2 CommonStore products designed for businesses.

Now research by Melbourne's Alfred Hospital will change how the public and doctors check for melanomas.

Spider-Man, rated PG-13, snatched $114.7 million in its first weekend and went on to take in $403.7 million.

In Las Vegas, federal agents stormed two clubs - Cheetah's and Jaguars - along with Galardi Enterprises, an office atop a bar in downtown.

The submission was on Monday, but the announcement was made Friday at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam.

Because of the holidays, CDC is not releasing data from the period since Dec. 27 until today.

As he sat down to hear the indictment, Samudra looked over to his nine lawyers and shouted "Takbir!", or "Proclaim!", a religious rallying cry.

The company added: "IBM believes that the investigation arises from a separate investigation by the SEC of a customer of  IBM's Retail Store Solutions unit.

"The financial diplomacy we're engaged in is the surest course to get what we want," Mr. Snow said.

"Now I want to know whether or not the help that is available is being expedited and made available.

Since then, Texas Gov. Rick Perry has called two special sessions trying to push the measure through.

The more broadly based Nasdaq Telecommunications Index rose 0.7 percent.

And when butterflies were exposed to constant light, they flew directly toward the sun, apparently having lost their sense of time.

Agents described Carlow, 50, as a "major player'' who organized a network of associates operating in as many as a dozen states.

DJs will pay homewares and furniture group Freedom $10 million to take over the Foodchain store leases.

The collaboration gives architect David Childs, who has done extensive work with Silverstein, the lead role in developing the tower, which is to be the world's tallest.

O'Keefe declined to discuss whether such photos would have enough resolution to detect small cracks in the wing panels.

Residents of 220 homes forced out of their houses Sunday returned Monday, many to flooded basements or lower floors.

According to Central Command's initial reports, the attackers fired from a mosque in the city.

But last week the executive committee of the board of trustees gave him a vote of no confidence.

Mahmud controlled access to Saddam and was frequently at his side.

Manfred Bischoff, EADS co-chairman and a member of DaimlerChrysler's management board, said EPI and P&W had presented "excellent proposals.

The products are priced at $575 and $295 in quantities of 10,000.

The findings are published in the July 1st issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

He said, from a science standpoint, the city's last case was April 19, so the all clear day was actually yesterday.

Mike Austreng, the editor of the weekly Cold Spring Record, said he saw one wounded person airlifted from the school and another taken away by ambulance.

The journal says: "Both are lifelong non-smokers whose primary interest is an accurate determination of the health effects of tobacco."

Inamed shares dropped as much as about 16 percent on Nasdaq, where it was one of the top percentage losers.

The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC eased 5.16 points, or 0.32 percent, at 1,590.75, breaking a six-day string of gains.

Prior to completion, CCG said it will also extract surplus cash of $27 million to reduce net borrowings.

Delta personnel at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport scrambled all day to find alternate flights -- including seats on other airlines -- to move the inconvenienced passengers.

Based on that review, I have concluded that CEO and President Greg Parseghian and General Counsel Maud Mater should be replaced," Falcon said.

Marvell Technology also reported revenue of $168.3 million, exceeding the First Call estimate of $162.6 million.

Kraft's shares fell 25 cents to close at $32.30 yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange.

The union banned the import of genetically modified food in 1998 after many consumers feared health risks.

Stealing identities and credit-card numbers with bogus e-mail and Web sites that appear to come from legitimate companies is an increasing problem on the Internet, federal officials warned yesterday.

That victim, a New Jersey resident, was in critical but stable condition at the hospital.

Investigators continue to probe virtually every aspect of Campbell's personal and financial affairs, the former mayor has said.

For the full year period ending June 30, 2003, high-speed lines increased by 45 percent.

On Tuesday in Minneapolis, the House of Bishops gave final approval on a 62-43 vote for the Rev. V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire to become bishop.

Federal officials then gave the Texas DPS officer a number to call at the FAA to initiate lost aircraft procedures.

Two-year-old Egyptian twin boys, born with their heads conjoined, have been separated after 26 hours of surgery at the Children's Medical Centre in Dallas.

Any payment to investors will be delayed, potentially for years, until the securities lawsuits against the brokerage firms are resolved.

"The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust  and export control laws," states SCO in documents filed with the U.S. District Court for Utah.

The Nasdaq composite index rose 16.74, or 1 percent, to 1,650.75.

Elsewhere in Europe, Philips was up 3.8 percent after saying on Friday it was seeing positive developments with its U.S. dollar sales.

Magistrates searched Tanzi's home near Parma on Wednesday and tried to question him the same day, only to find he had left Italy for an undisclosed foreign country.

It upheld fallback rules that bar the same groups from airing ads that promote, support, attack or oppose a candidate at any time.

Cuban officials said that last year none of about two dozen nominated Cuban musicians received U.S. visas in time to attend the Latin Grammys.

The battalion has been clearing rubble, building playgrounds and restoring irrigation in Iraq, military officials told The Associated Press.

Xerox shares rose 2 cents to close at $11.45 on the New York Stock Exchange.

It has no jurisdiction over his pay but does oversee the exchange's regulatory powers.

Automatic gunfire rattled windows in the Qadesiya neighborhood at midday today, a largely Arab area that borders a Kurdish quarter.

Microsoft issued a patch for the vulnerability, which affects Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

The government charged that Awadallah knew both hijackers when they lived in the San Diego area.

He urged employees to "avoid complacency" and to "change old habits and seriously rethink business-as-usual."

Others no longer have a good view, it said, because of civilian buildings built near them.

Both companies automate many channels, although XM has some live programming anchored by disc jockeys who can field requests, and Sirius airs live in-studio performances and interviews.

The Episcopal Church, with 2.3 million members, is the American branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which has 77 million adherents.

If what scientists are observing is truly seasonal change, the planet will continue to brighten for another 20 years.

Canada has just decided to legalize same-sex marriage, and they have high hope that Massachusetts' high court will take a similar step within a few weeks.

Excluding food and energy costs, the core CPI is seen rising 0.2 percent, matching the July figure.

The matriarch, who celebrates her 81st birthday next month, was thanked personally yesterday for her generosity by actress Sarah O'Hare, National Breast Cancer Foundation patron.

Bloom and his colleagues had previously shown that the hormone, PYY3-36, could curb the appetites of lean people.

Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977, 16 days after its companion, Voyager 2.

Operating expenses fell 28 percent to $47.1 million in the first quarter from $65.8 million a year earlier.

Advani said Pakistan should prove its sincerity by handing over suspects wanted by New Delhi for past bombings.

A federal judge yesterday struck down the national do-not-call registry slated to take effect Oct. 1, ruling the Federal Trade Commission had no authority to create the list.

The Conference Board said its measure of business confidence, which had fallen to 53 in the first quarter of 2003, improved to 60 in the most recent second quarter.

The tech-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> gained 18.35 points, or 1.13 percent, to 1,646.02.

New York City will collect an estimated $182.5 million in tax revenue from the 2003 bonuses, compared with the $125.4 million it collected in 2002.

Under state policy, DeVries was to be returned to San Jose, where he was last convicted.

Whitney said officials evacuated a camp where 250 people were expected to arrive Sunday.

Inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi Fayed will be formally opened in the New Year, the Royal Family's coroner announced yesterday.

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Saturday called for the urgent dispatch of a multinational force to Liberia to halt fighting between government and rebel forces that has killed hundreds.

Messagelabs, which runs outsourced e-mail servers for 700,000 customers around the world, has labeled the worm "high risk" and reports more than 31,000 infections in 120 countries.

Microsoft in Europe could not be immediately reached for comment.

They did visit after her feeding tube had been removed, accompanied by the Rev. Thaddeus Malanowski, a Roman Catholic priest who visits Mrs. Schiavo weekly.

He is expected to ask for a lifeline of around €50m to pay suppliers and keep the company afloat.

Economists said those concerns raised the odds that the Fed might reduce rates at its next meeting on June 24-25.

In morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 121.51, or 1.4 percent, at 8,832.69.

From 1976 to 1980, it said, 6 percent of children ages 6 to 18 were overweight.

The charges carry up to 25 years in prison and $1.25 million in fines.

In the total external disk storage system market, McArthur said revenue increased 1.5 percent year-over-year in Q3 to $3.2 billion.

An experimental drug can slow the loss of vision caused by a maddening eye disease that is the leading cause of blindness among the elderly, doctors reported on Saturday.

The state House on Thursday approved legislation intended to clarify Michigan's corporate takeover law.

The boy was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where staff said he was "doing okay."

It said today’s results showed that programme and other measures were helping to offset a continued deterioration in revenues.

In hardest-hit Taipei, traffic has disappeared from once-bustling streets and department stores and restaurants are virtually empty.

Spike Lee no longer believes that Viacom deliberately intended to trade on his name by calling its own venture "Spike TV," according to a statement read in court Tuesday.

Other nations involved in the PSI include Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Britain.

Accusations of improper activity are as false today as when the Democrats first made them."

The euro was steady versus the Swiss franc after hitting its highest since mid-2001 of 1.5261 earlier in the session.

HAINAN PROVINCE, China: Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said China plays an important role in the integration of Asia.

It is one of only three states in the Arab League to hold full diplomatic relations with Israel.

Less than a mile away, across a river, St. Joseph features trendy restaurants, boutiques, offices and a picturesque beach front.

Microsoft released Windows Rights Management Client 1.0, the first software client, for free download earlier this week.

The worm attacks Windows computers via a hole in the operating system, which Microsoft warned of 16 July.

In Palestine, a rural neighborhood 225 miles west of Washington, residents had effusive praise for Lynch.

Justices Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer dissented.

Cool, moist air moved into Colorado overnight, raising hopes for firefighters battling two wind-whipped wildfires that forced thousands to flee and threatened hundreds of homes.

The outbreak seems to have begun with one of the roommates, a transfer from Taipei's Jen Chi Hospital.

But an earnings per share of 22 cents was slightly better than analysts' estimates of 19 cents a share and more than double what Ford had predicted in April.

The board's final report, which is expected in late August, will stop short of assigning individual blame for the accident .

Treasury prices gained for the third day in a row, pushing the 10-year note yield down to 4.35 percent from 4.36 percent late Monday.

Microsoft acquired Virtual PC from its developer, Connectix, earlier this year.

The premium edition adds ISA Server, SQL Server and a specialized edition of BizTalk 2004.

Kao, the fifth Taiwanese expert invited by the WHO to attend the conference, however, was absent from the delegation.

In the second quarter last year, AK Steel reported a profit of $16.2 million, or 15 cents a share.

"I think we can now qualify what is happening as a genuine epidemic," Health Minister Jean-Francois Mattei said on France Inter radio.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has infected 8459 people, 805 of whom died.

Its capacitance sensing technology electronically reads a fingerprint; Sony says it can't be fooled by paper copies and doesn't require cleaning.

Hines died yesterday in Los Angeles of cancer, publicist Allen Eichorn said.

Sutherland, 65, was a co-founder of Evans & Sutherland, an early maker of high-performance computers.

There is no indication, so far, that Gehring used his card at any motel or overnight lodging, he said.

Officers talked with the boy for about an hour and a half, Bragdon said.

"There are some who feel like conditions are such that they can attack us there," Bush told reporters at the White House on Wednesday.

That fire devastated timber on the reservation, while charring 469,000 acres and destroying 491 homes in surrounding communities.

LeapFrog Enterprises' LF.N LeapPad books, Hasbro Inc.'s HAS.N Beyblade starter set, and MGA Entertainment's Bratz doll line all were stealing market share, he said.

Amazon.com shipped more than a million copies by Saturday afternoon, making Saturday the largest distribution day of a single item in e-commerce history.

"Well, first of all, a lot of these are made up stories," Mr. Schwarzenegger said.

He said that by allowing power companies more flexibility, the Clear Skies Initiative would result in greater efficiency and therefore less pollution.

But Gates dismissed the challenge coming from open-source programs, including those written for operating systems such as Linux.

The global death toll is 770 with more than 8300 people sickened since the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus first appeared in southern China in November.

Chances are, he will see people who year after year pick the same place to sit.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation on Monday assumes command of the 4.600-strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which is helping with security and reconstruction in the Afghan capital.

"She started beating me with her hands about the head until I ran into the other room," Mr Gest says of one incident.

The committee will make recommendations to Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Executive Editor Howell Raines and Managing Editor Gerald Boyd.

The head of the intelligence service under Mr. Fujimori, Vladimiro Montesinos, was accused of tortures and disappearances.

The Federal Open Market Committee will end its two-day policy-setting meeting and announce its decision on Wednesday.

Microsoft last month said it is updating its MSN Messenger service in October.

Sheriff's deputies found Ahmad in his truck after it crashed into a building at Lincolnshire and Williamsborough drives, just south of the Sacramento city limits along Franklin Boulevard.

Bolivia's army fought to stop a column of dynamite-wielding miners from streaming into the besieged capital on Wednesday, leaving two dead as a popular uprising against the President spread.

Mr Blair and the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, have denied Ms Short's claims that Britain has reneged on plans to involve the UN in the reconstruction of Iraq.

It's been a busy couple of days for enterprise security gurus tasked with the job of keeping their companies safe and sound.

Johnson and four other protesters, ages 69 to 86, were arrested for blocking the roadway.

The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it has selected three companies to continue research into ways to thwart shoulder-fired missile attacks on U.S. commercial aircraft.

Vivendi argues the agreement was not approved by its board and that the payoff was inappropriate given the state of Vivendi's finances at the time.

Two CIA operatives have been killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, the CIA said yesterday.

"It's great to be back home," said Lu, dressed in a woolly coat near the blackened capsule.

After Alabama voters rejected his $1.2 billion tax plan Sept. 9, Riley forecast significant cuts in state programs.

Last Saturday, a six-wheeled robot developed by NASA landed on Mars and began sending back images of the planet.

He said a man in the seventh row in a "brown suit raced past me with his hands raised in the air" armed with sharp stakes.

On Wednesday, Judge Pollack dismissed a similar class-action lawsuit filed by investors who lost money in Merrill's Global Technology fund.

The other six security agencies will report to a National Security Council headed by Arafat.

Congress passed the measure twice and President Bill Clinton (news - web sites), citing the lack of a health exception, vetoed it.

State police Lt. Timothy Doyle said Hackett and Rossignol did not know each other, and that Hackett had no connection to the college.

"The choice was up to the dictator and he chose poorly," Mr Bush said.

Just before dawn Tuesday, searchers found the body of Melissa Rogers, 33, of Liberty, Mo.

"However, we are not certain about the outcome of the discussion at this moment."

The median household earned income fell $500 over the same period to $42,400.

President George Bush called the blackout "a wake-up call" to modernise the nation's power-sharing system.

She said her son followed his father and grandfather into the military.

The main change, said CNN president Jim Walton, was a fundamental shift in the way the network collected its news.

Australia will introduce legislation later this year to ban spam, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston, announced today.

Their belief was based on speculation that estrogen prevents cell damage and improves blood flow.

The Jensens have said they fear the treatment would stunt Parker's growth and leave him sterile.

In "Open Range," Costner plays a cowboy who works with cattleman Robert Duvall.

Turkish troops almost surely would become targets for terrorists, the ambassador said.

You can reach George Hunter at (313) 222-2027 or ghunter@detnews.com.

Estonia was forcibly incorporated in the Soviet Union in 1940 and regained its independence only in 1991.

The newly unsealed 32-count indictment alleges money laundering and conspiracy and "strikes at one of the very top targets in the drug-trafficking world," Jiménez said.

Microsoft officials presented "several options" it is considering, the W3C posting said.

"The committee will define the role of the interim chairman and recommend an individual to fill that role," said Carl McCall, the lead director of the NYSE board.

A county firefighter, was struck by lightning and was in stable condition at Frankfort Regional Medical Center.

About 57 gang members and associates were arrested across the West on Wednesday, some on charges not related to the casino brawl.

At a hearing Wednesday morning, High Court Judge Frank Kapanda ordered the men released on bail immediately.

Former Secretary of State Bill Jones, another potential major candidate, had not divulged his plans Tuesday.

Ms. Johnson's site is www.katyjohnson .com. Mr. Max's is www.tuckermax.com.

Gold's bounce pulled other precious metals higher, sending silver to $4.83/85 an ounce from $4.80/82 last quoted in New York.

Manufacturers and grocers or distributors have a long history of complicated contracts offering retailers discounts, money for advertising or payments for prominent shelf space.

"Based on the history and success of The Winston in Charlotte, I believe there's no place but Lowe's Motor Speedway that can do it justice."

"We think PeopleSoft customers deserve the right to choose," Ellison said.

"All six of them are dead, we were told by Harold and his group," Warner said.

Both rebels and government forces, including those loyald to Taylor, have been accused of pillaging villages in Liberia's countryside despite a peace deal.

He worked out how to get through the bone with his ``multi-tool''-type knife, made duller by futile attempts to chip away at the rock.

The variant the juvenile allegedly created was known as "RPCSDBOT."

"I believe it is my duty to not only represent Australia but the people of the world as one to take a stance against terrorism. "

The EU statement stopped short of endorsing the U.S. charge that Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons but said some aspects of Iran's programme raised "serious concern".

A secretary for James Eisenbrandt, Wittig's attorney, said Eisenbrandt was reviewing the report this morning.

Nobody claimed responsibility for Schaichat's death, but police suspect that the 20-year-old soldier was abducted either by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.

Ahead of the war, Blair cited British intelligence information that Saddam Hussein could deploy deadly chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes.

During the third quarter, Lowe's opened 38 new stores and now has 932 stores in 45 states.

Staff writers Brandon Formby and Colleen McCain Nelson contributed to this report.

We intend to provide them with choices to help them run Linux in a legal and fully-paid for way."

Bush said the United States was reviewing documents and interviewing Iraqis in an effort to support the administration's still unproven claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

Beck and his team have identified roughly 130 genes that somehow cause or predispose humans to certain diseases.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas denounced the helicopter strike as a "criminal and terrorist" Israeli attack.

Greenspan told Congress on Tuesday the U.S. economy "could very well be embarking on a period of sustained growth".

He told the Register: "I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."

A photograph of the doctor's son holding the guitar appeared in the National Enquirer two weeks after Harrison's death.

Ex-Bears star William 'the Refrigerator' Perry competes in the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest Friday.

Wall Street enjoyed a hefty rally on Tuesday as economic reports pointed to a thriving housing market and an uptick in consumer confidence.

The senior administration official said neither Bush nor National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice read the entire National Intelligence Estimate.

Muhammad, 42, is charged in the Oct. 9 slaying of Dean H. Meyers, 53, at a gas station in Manassas.

You have to dig deep and come up with the goods against guys that are out there competing with the best of us.

Analysts polled by Reuters Research, a unit of Reuters Group Plc, on average forecast profit of $1.69 per share.

The advance guard of the 9,200-strong multinational stabilization force Poland will command in central and southern Iraq left Wednesday on the country's biggest military mission in nearly 60 years.

Shares in Tellabs, after initially rising, were unchanged at $7.18 on Nasdaq shortly after midday.

It also features a 4.5 in back-lit LCD screen and memory expansion facilities.

Harris also appears in the tape released Wednesday by the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

The yield fell 7 basis points to 3.61 percent, the lowest since March 12 and within 7 basis points of a 45-year low.

Excluding the $56 million charge and the accounting change, Ford's third-quarter earnings amounted to 15 cents a share.

Sharon has said he is willing to free Dirani and Obeid because holding them will not bring back Arad, who Israel believes is held by Iran.

PeopleSoft said the JD Edwards acquisition would close in the third quarter.

The dollar was helped on Friday by talk of yen-selling intervention by Japanese authorities on Thursday and Friday.

Health officials confirmed Tuesday that a northeast Kansas woman has the state's first case of monkeypox and the first case west of the Mississippi River.

"It's hard to imagine we live in a society where parents wouldn't be notified of an abortion," Bush said.

The House passed the bill 87-26 after the Senate approved it, 32-4.

Despite such optimism, Taiwan's SARS crisis threatened to whirl out of control in the last week of May.

Judge Harold Baer concluded Wednesday that lawyers for two victims "have shown, albeit barely ... that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al-Qaida."

The governor will present his budget proposals to the General Assembly in January.

The United States is wary of deep involvement in Liberia given commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In a brief ruling, US District Judge Joseph A. DiClerico Jr. denied their motion for an injunction.

In ''The Order of the Phoenix,'' Harry is 15, and fully a teenager at last.

Belcher said the airport's conference room was serving as a makeshift shelter for several area families who hiked up the wooded hillside in advance of rising water.

A similar Florida straw poll in 1991 brought attention to Bill Clinton, according to Democrats.

Two Democrats, Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia and Wendell Ford of Kentucky, voted with the 40 Republicans.

"Our own histories should remind us that the union of democratic principle and practice is always a work in progress," she said.

Lakhani, 68, is charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to terrorists and acting as an arms broker without a license.

In Lytle Creek Canyon, the rain caused several mudslides, including a 4-foot-high flow across a road that trapped a car.

Prosecutors have declined to take criminal action against corrections officers, although Fine said his inquiry was not finished.

In a 6-3 ruling, the justices said such anti-psychotic drugs can be used only in "limited circumstances."

Greg Robinson, a doctor who has AIDS, resigned from Health Canada's advisory committee because of what he described as inconsistencies in the access program.

Some of the companys software developers will join Microsoft, but details havent been finalized, said Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Microsofts security business unit.

The Dow Jones industrials climbed more than 140 points to above the 9,000 mark for the first time since December.

That task appealed to two masters of the megabyte, Peter Lyman and Hal Varian, professors at the University of California-Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems.

The group said it is not taking a position on whether Davis should be recalled and will not endorse a replacement candidate.

Annan said terrorism would only be defeated "if we act to solve the longstanding conflicts which generate support for it."

Since the election, the group has registered more than 400,000 voters.

The Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX gained 13.68 points, or 1.42 percent, at 977.27.

Villalona put it more bluntly: ``He did a bad job going up there,'' he said.

"Michael Jackson is unequivocally and absolutely innocent of these charges," Geragos said.

An investigation by BaFin, the German financial regulator, has condemned the bank's risk controls.

"The nation lost a great citizen," U.S. President George W. Bush said Monday.

Companies expected to benefit from the funds are Fujitsu Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Motorola Japan Ltd., NEC Corp., Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. and Sharp Corp.

Nor has it said how many astronauts will be on board, through there reportedly could be as many as three.

Army Radio reported early today that hundreds of settlers converged on four outposts overnight, hoping to disrupt their evacuation.

They will feel themselves to be deceived and they may well dismiss legitimate evidence for the dangers and risks of this and other drugs in the future."

He said he did not think that the Shenzhou V launch had military applications, even though the space program is developing antisatellite weapons and robotic space weapons.

Salesforce.com rents software that helps corporate sales people track customer accounts and sales leads.

And although he has acted in period dramas before - in screen versions of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" and Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" - Henchard is a breed apart.

U.S. District Judge William M. Hoeveler's removal by his superior was a victory for U.S. Sugar Corp., which led the fight against Hoeveler.

At least 40 of the outlets will be in California, and analysts expect four or more to be in San Diego County.

Cintas is battling efforts to unionize 17,000 of its workers and labor's demands to let its workers organize by signing cards, rather than by a lengthy election process.

Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly) is desperate that her family not find out that her life has fallen apart.

The justices declined without comment to review a lower-court ruling that said doctors should be able to speak frankly with their patients.

"From now onwards we will embark on rolling mass action at strategic times of our choice and without any warning to the dictatorship," he said.

It has also been revealed that the boy’s family has launched two other abuse-related lawsuits in the past, winning a £90,000 settlement in one case.

Mr Blix said: "I don't know exactly how they calculated this figure of 45 minutes in the dossier.

He said the Government still did not know the real reason the original Saudi buyer pulled out on August 21.

Of about 30 attempts to reach Mars, only 12 missions have succeeded.

Lucent's stock was up a penny at $2.22 in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday afternoon.

Brian Stokes Mitchell, who stars in a revival of Man of La Mancha, Malcolm Gets from Amour and John Selya of Movin Out fill out the category.

Tom Kraynak, manager of operations and resources for the Canton, Ohio-based East Central Area Reliability Council, said investigators are considering the scenario.

"The steps that the Iranians claim to have taken in terms of capturing al-Qaida are insufficient.

Last week, a national study ranked Nissan's Smyrna plant the most productive in North America.

He was identified by his driver's license and cell phone, Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said.

Drewes and his friend were pulling a mischievous, late-night game of "ding-dong-ditch" knocking on doors or ringing doorbells and running in the Woodbury neighborhood in suburban Boca Raton.

Advertising and circulation revenues for Martha Stewart Living magazine have taken a hit.

Right now it looks to me like it's going to be manageable," he said.

History aside, the diary reveals a colorful, witty, introspective and irreverent president outspoken in his disdain for life in the White House.

Russian Yuri Malenchenko, American Edward Lu and Spain's Pedro Duque came down in their Soyuz TMA-2 capsule at 2:40 a.m. GMT.

Meantime, federal authorities in Alabama said the passage of time has not hurt their case against Rudolph.

Fasting glucose, used to measure diabetes risk, was 142 on average for those given usual care compared to 129 in the group given special treatment.

Three men and two women who were at the property were arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Analysts were expecting a profit of 30 cents a share for the third quarter and $1.31 a share for the full year.

Two other priests, the Revs Daniel C Clark and James Hargadon, and a former priest, Bruce Ewing, are awaiting trial.

A senior air force official and a member of Parliament also died in the crash, it said.

The Nets and the San Antonio Spurs are crossing new frontiers of offensive ineptitude while embarrassing their high-scoring ABA forefathers.

Australia's 9 million income taxpayers received surprise tax cuts of between $3 and $11 a week from Treasurer Peter Costello last night.

Roberts said on Fox News Sunday that said his committee was briefed about a week ago about the likelihood of an attack in Saudi Arabia.

Neither said whether they would appeal the decision but others said an appeal was certain.

Bank of America says its policies prohibit late-day trading, which is illegal.

Palm Beach County is prepared to kick in another $200 million to build the institute's campus.

Viacom's lawyers say Spike is a common name that doesn't necessarily prompt thoughts of the 46-year-old film director.

The American troops from 3-15 infantry, who also defend the compound of the Falluja mayor, have been attacked on two occasions.

Hester said Sanmina's offer was the best among several Newisys received from electronics manufacturers and computer makers.

Shares of the Oak Brook, Ill.-based hamburger giant closed at $24.60, up 51 cents, or 2.1 percent, on the New York Stock Exchange.

They appear in the Oct. 23 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

In a generous gesture of uncharacteristic compassion, Samudra claims: "At that time I didn't agree because the people who will be the victims are schoolchildren".

The government wanted to revive talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to discuss the interim structure.

Grassley and Baucus said they had rejected that approach in their plan.

Investigators conducted DNA tests on the stains and ran the results through a national database last month.

In January, it accused Russia of annexing the region and appealed to the U.N. Security Council to "assume effective leadership over the peace process."

"If you think this problem has been blown out of proportion by the media, you are wrong."

The WHO said in a report on Wednesday that most resistant bacteria growth among humans was not due to farmers, but to overuse of antibiotics by doctors.

One man had brandished an English-Turkish dictionary and pointed to the word "refugee".

The purpose of the hearing is to determine whether Akbar should be court-martialled.

Drug developer Inspire Pharmaceuticals Inc. (nasdaq: ISPH - news - people) tumbled $2.17, or 13.4 percent, to $13.98.

Russian cosmonaut Malenchenko achieved a first earlier this month when he married his earth-bound fiancee by video link.

On Sunday, a U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump exploded.

A senior Malaysian member of Jemaah Islamiah testified on June 26 that Bashir had approved the church bomb attacks and had also called a meeting to plan Megawati's assassination.

Maria de Jesus Quiej Alvarez and Maria de Teresa Quiej Alvarez arrived at the airport in separate ambulances.

Maddox, who had battled cancer since 1983, cracked two ribs earlier this month when he fell at an assisted living home where he was recovering from surgery.

Paul Adams, BAT managing director, will take over as chief executive in January.

"His plan is an insult to working parents throughout New York City."

Muslim guerrillas attacked a town and took hostages Sunday as they withdrew from fighting that killed at least three people, the military and rebels said.

He said he has initiated a forfeiture action in court and frozen more than $13 million Beacon Hill had when it closed.

This will bring Nissan's total capital investment in Tennessee to $2.75 billion.

The document warns of potential panic attacks, psychosis and convulsions in some cases.

Added to savings on the dividend, C&W's estimated lease commitments, one hurdle to its U.S. escape, fell by 600 million pounds to 1.6 billion.

Attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing Frey, also filed documents opposing a gag order in the case.

Brigitte's maternal aunt said his family was unaware he had been sent to prison, or that he had remarried in Sydney.

"Our policies are well known and I'm not aware of any changes," Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday.

"It's a wonder that Porchia was the only deceased in this case," Sax added.

The blaze, started by lightning June 6, is considered 95 percent contained.

"I go to their website and start complaining to them, would you please, please, please stop bothering me," Mr. Booher told a reporter.

Experts say they think better treatment, including use of the drug tamoxifen and mammogram screening, are responsible.

As far as I know, he wasnt like that, except for getting in a couple fights with his dad."

The broad Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX inched up 3 points, or 0.32 percent, to 970.

Close cooperation between regional law enforcement agencies and intelligence services was at the heart of the fight against terrorism, he said.

Ragin and Hayes were accused of using a phony tuxedo rental business as a front for laundering proceeds from stolen credit cards.

A restaurant worker was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday for the sexual assault and strangling of a sixth-grade girl he met in an Internet chat room.

It calls for the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to verify that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction.

State wildlife officials have concluded that the Florida-grown fluorescent zebra fish poses no danger, and they have recommended that it be exempted from the state's ban.

The high today will be about 92 degrees and will drop to 90 degrees Sunday and Monday.

The parents of a Briton being held hostage by Colombian rebels spoke yesterday of their optimism that he would be freed in time for his birthday next month.

Gartner Inc. also raised its worldwide PC shipment forecast in August to 8.9 percent growth for 2003, up from expectations of 7.2 percent.

McBride characterized Novell's move as "a desperate measure to curry favor with the Linux community."

Strong Financial released a statement Wednesday night: "We are in the process of a thorough internal review.

After more than two years in detention by the State Security Bureau, the four were found guilty last Wednesday of subversion.

Geneticists cite fears that ethnic-based research would be used or distorted to justify discrimination against a group or to promote racial stereotypes.

Huweirini, who has worked closely with U.S. officials, was wounded in an attack Dec. 4, the U.S. officials said.

Two years ago, the House passed a similar version that floundered in the Senate.

She countersued for $125 million, saying G+J broke its contract with her by cutting her out of key editorial decisions and manipulated the magazine's financial figures.

"They are obviously hurting so we are basically going over there to help them," Russell, 46, said.

The former first lady has said she will not run for the White House in 2004 but has not ruled out a race later on.

There are three suits challenging the recall still pending in federal court.

St George A prosecutor says a Dorchester County couple was responsible for the death of their 6-year-old autistic son whose body was found in a pond near the family home.

The New Zealand Commerce Commission had given Westpac no indication whether it would have approved its deal.

The FBI said at least 7000 computers were infected by Parson's software.

The number of days when Texas beaches had swimming advisories dropped from 317 in 2001 to 182 last year.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, fearful for the safety of its staff operating in Iraq, announced it was temporarily shutting its offices in Baghdad and Basra.

It held elections in 1990, but refused to recognise the results when Miss Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won by a landslide.

The findings will be reported Friday in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The nation's capital was quiet today, with the federal government shut down for the second day.

Avon bondholders have no recourse to Midlands's assets and at one point feared Aquila would default on interest payments.

She told the inquiry that her husband had received assurances from his line manager and senior ministry officials that when he came forward his name would not be made public.

London Mayor Ken Livingstone announced over the weekend that police and security services had foiled four terrorist attacks on the capital.

In the evening, he asked for six pepperoni pizzas and two six-packs of soft drinks, which officers delivered.

Years later, Cuba refused permission for her to attend her father's funeral.

Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 4-to-3 ratio on the New York Stock Exchange.

Mississippi is among the bottom five states on nine other measures.

Other potential suitors are not interested in acquiring only the music business.

Generally unwanted—and often pornographic or with fraudulent intent —spam is a nuisance and a distraction," Gates writes.

In 2002, spending on inpatient hospital care grew by 6.8 percent and that on outpatient hospital care by 14.6 percent.

The Sonoma was later found near the Tacoma Cemetery, south of the Tacoma Mall.

Donations stemming from the Sept. 11 attacks helped push up contributions to human service organizations by 15 percent and to large branches of the United Way by 28.6 percent.

An FBI statement said legal proceedings were expected Monday in federal court in Baltimore.

The WHO has said the Singapore case did not fit its profile of SARS and was "not an international public health concern."

"He's a known killer who was a close associate of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Analysts estimate peak annual U.S. sales of Xolair will top $200 million.

With integrated amplifiers for driving microphone and speakers, BlueCore3-Multimedia is available in LFBGA package.

In Chatsworth, 32 miles northwest of Los Angeles, residents of multimillion-dollar homes there were told to gather their belongings.

On Dec. 19, he gave Moore 15 days to remove it, but a week later stayed his order pending Moore's appeal to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The 92-year-old former president is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Daniels said he doesn't know what Bush will say at tonight's $2,000-per-person reception to raise funds for his presidential re-election bid.

Last May, Hatfill was struck by a vehicle being driven by an FBI employee who was tailing him in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood.

To the Sound-Off caller who said they found a mini-cassette from the space shuttle Columbia: NASA is extremely interested in talking to you on a "no-questions-asked" basis.

Dr. Roth also said that hospital efforts to start "fever clinics" in parking-lot tents to keep infectious patients out of emergency rooms were "moving along impressively."

Kline's legal opinion differs from the interpretation issued by former Attorney General Bob Stephan in 1992.

Taxpayers unsure if they are owed refunds can use interactive features on the IRS Web site to track refunds or advance child credit payments.

"If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment which would honour marriage between a man and a woman, codify that."

"That's one reason why I'm running to be president of the United States."

Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Janet Grubb approved dismissal of the charges.

While JI has undoubted links with the terrorist group al-Qaeda, the report says the relationship "may be less one of subservience . . . than of mutual advantage and reciprocal assistance".

District Attorney Dave Lupas reminded jurors that Stubbs is, "a cold, calculating killer".

Oracle shares also rose on the news, up 15 cents to $13.51 on the Nasdaq.

Three Cubans were executed for hijacking a Cuban ferry, and six more are scheduled to go on trial in Key West in December for a plane hijacking in March.

The two others, former Dynegy executives Helen Christine Sharkey, 31, and Gene Shannon Foster, 44, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.

The men were flown to nearby Botswana on an Air Malawi flight, the officials said.

So far, authorities also have searched areas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan.

The Web site of Hong Kong-based Phoenix TV quoted unnamed experts as saying it would happen between Oct. 10 and 17 and carry two men.

Retail sales fell 0.2 percent overall in September compared to forecasts of a 0.1 percent dip.

IBMof the US andInfineon Technologies of Germany willon Tuesdayannounce a technological development that could threaten multi-billion dollar memory chip markets.

Fire spokesman Gordon Gay said firefighters had an advantage on the northern flank because of burned areas from last year's Bullock fire.

Iraqi officials here insist that the attacks are being carried out by "outsiders" who slip into Fallujah and attack at night.

Stewart waved to courtroom sketch artists seated in the jury box and took notes in a spiral-bound notebook during the hearing.

GM is also expected to issue $3.5 billion via a convertible bond offering, market sources said.

Costa will play Juan Carlos Ferrero next in a rematch of last year's final.

Two hours later, at 3:22 p.m., a relative contacted police to report a suicide.

The Senate judiciary committee on Tuesday overcame a significant hurdle in the battle to create a trust fund to pay victims of asbestos exposure but the most difficult obstacles remain.

Nordstrom also is expanding its play area in the children’s clothes area, adding salt-water fish tanks and activities for children while their parents shop.

In contrast, he said, West Nile virus made 4,156 people ill and killed 284 in the United States and Canada last year.

Instead, they fear the conference is an attempt by corporate farming and biotech interests to push into new markets.

The island reported another 35 probable cases yesterday, taking its total to 418.

A former Utah Power meter reader pleaded guilty Wednesday to bombing a power substation during the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Enron's stock comprised as much as 61% of the workers' 401(k) portfolios.

Even with time, he said, "it's going to be very difficult to determine the cause of death."

One of the shooting victims died, according to Webster Police Chief Gerald Pickering.

He said the way the situation was being handled was undermining efforts to win international cooperation in the war on terror.

Once identified, terrorist remains are immediately removed from the so-called memorial park, a temporary refrigerated storage facility on Manhattan where the unidentified remains are stored.

It's just another example of the global war on terrorism and why this is going to be a long effort."

The FTC signed up 50 million phone numbers for the list, which was due to go into effect October 1.

Those with a BMI of 50 or greater, sometimes called super obesity, increased by a factor of five, from one in 2,000 to one in 400.

"We will clearly modify some features of our plans as well as their administration," Reed said in his letter.

Plants still must abide by state and federal air-pollution laws, so there won't necessarily be any increase in pollution, the administration argues.

"The fire calmed down considerably overnight, then it rained," said Andy Lyon, spokesman for the Douglas County fire command center.

Earlier this month, Mr. Bremer called off a visit, in a move that officials confided at the time was linked to uncertainty on the Kurdish situation.

The plan is expected be disclosed Monday morning at Tech Ed 2003 during a keynote by Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Microsoft's Server Platform Division.

A request for a two-month extension was denied and the Taiwan Stock Exchange is to ask the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to suspend trading in Mosel shares.

It said they all had criminal records for stealing cattle and Lamas was twice imprisoned for armed robbery.

The auditors, for example, did not have access to church personnel files.

Thyroid hormones are known to help in weight loss by stimulating metabolism, and they can help cut cholesterol too.

But American troops will not shrink from mounting raids in the locations of their foes that can be pinpointed.

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said today that she would serve out the next term of the Supreme Court, dismissing speculation that she was ready to retire.

But Senator Hill appeared unaware of the intelligence problems that have been of serious concern to US, Australian and British military intelligence officers.

Judge Craig Doran said he couldn't determine if Hovan was "an evil man" but said he "has committed an evil act."

Previous defense filings said Moussaoui was to be part of an operation outside the United States.

Lawyers for the telemarketers said there was no logical connection between the registry's limited scope and advancing that interest.

"A lot of things (were said), but I'd prefer to leave it on the field," he said.

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System announced plans for a tissue bank earlier this month.

The tone was set by Hu, 60, who became the Communist Party's general secretary last November and then the country's president this March.

Washington only agreed to let the U.N. mission into Iraq after repeated warnings by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei.

After that, it will take six to eight months more to refurbish the center, said Thomas Day, vice president of engineering for the Postal Service.

Boudin, 60, a former Weather Underground member, was granted parole last month despite heavy opposition by relatives, friends, and colleagues of the slain men.

In the seconds after the crash, she added, Captain Smith said simply, "Oh my God."

Lower courts have splintered on the issue, allowing depictions of the Ten Commandments in some instances and not in others.

An evaluation of 240 arthritis patients suggested there was no overall net clinical benefit from taking the medicine, the companies said in a statement distributed by Business Wire.

The S3C2440 has a built-in NAND flash boot loader, for example, so that high-density NAND flash memory can be installed without an additional support chip.

Pork processing giant Smithfield Foods Inc. said Monday that it won the bidding in an auction for bankrupt Farmland Industries Inc.'s pork business.

Excluding food and energy prices, the PPI fell 0.9 per cent, the biggest drop since August 1993.

Authorities identified the tipster as Richard Powell, who is imprisoned for killing his landlady in 1982.

More than 100 police officers were involved in the busts that were the culmination of a two-year operation investigating the cocaine importing and money laundering gang.

The new group ambitiously expects to issue guidelines by the end of the year and release products by late 2004.

It decided instead to issue them before the stock market opened Monday to counteract the downgrade of its debt late Friday by Moody's to one step above junk status.

"We don't have new places to check," Waco public information officer Steve Anderson said.

"People who were on their way home, all of a sudden taken from us," Mr. Bloomberg said of the collision.

"This is a clear attempt to pinch money," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant with U.K.-based Sophos PLC.

He frequently criticizes the press, especially reporters and news organizations that reported on leaks from investigators.

Prosecutors say Mzoudi was involved in the preparations for the attack until the final moment and that he was aware of and supported the attackers' violent goals.

"I think there's a building confidence that the cop is on the beat."

A nationally board-certified teacher with a master's degree, Kelley makes $65,000 in his 30th year.

The new effort, Taxpayers Against the Recall, will be formally launched today outside a Sacramento fire station.

Smashed cars and buses, ruined buildings, scattered debris and spot fires added to the realism.

Health professionals say there is no rabies vaccine for humans in Zimbabwe and, even if it was available, it is too expensive for most bitten by infected dogs.

The 13-year veteran has passed for 21,438 yards and 118 touchdowns with 67 interceptions.

India has also in the past blamed Pakistan-based militants fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, its only Muslim-majority state, for bombs and other attacks.

More developed APEC members say failure to fight terror will be a cost in itself.

But she was expected to be a victim in a forthcoming ministerial reshuffle.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has all but popped the champagne bottle.

"The legislation I'm proud to sign today benefits the entire state of Illinois, every town, every city, every citizen.

The film is the second of a trilogy, which will wrap up in November with "The Matrix Revolutions."

Limits on damages make it less likely lawyers will take expensive cases, meaning access to justice is denied, they say.

Schools that don't meet the testing goals for two years in a row must offer transfers.

But butterflies housed under an earlier light cycle, 1 a.m. to 1 p.m., flew toward the southeast.

Hewlett-Packard is putting in for a second-quarter profit of $659 million, or 29 cents a share, on revenue of $18 billion.

An electronic implant has helped Limbaugh regain most of his hearing.

Finnish Finance Minister Antti Kalliomaki said: "There is no room for a softening."

State and federal securities regulators filed civil charges against Putnam Investments and two portfolio managers in the ever-expanding mutual fund trading scandal.

Tehran has made it clear it will only sign the protocol if a ban on imports of peaceful Western nuclear technology is lifted.

"We are confident that this issue will be behind us by midyear," said Nestlé spokesman Francois Perroud.

Selenski's partner in the Friday jailbreak, Scott Bolton, was injured in the escape and hospitalized.

From Broadway comedies like "The Seven Year Itch" (1952), "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?"

Before yesterday, 19 firefighters assigned to wildfires had died on duty this year, said Tracey Powers, spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.

Before the meeting, Putin said Russia regards Saudi Arabia as a key Muslim state.

Naim al-Goud, the newly appointed mayor of Hit, said people from outside his region attacked the pipeline.

During the flight, engineers underestimated the extent of the damage, and even then lamented that the liftoff photography was so poor.

The t33kid.com site is registered to Parson at an address in Hopkins, Minnesota.

Mary Kathryn Miller, 55, of 27 Devon Road, Darien, was arrested Nov. 20 by state police and charged with first-degree larceny.

The pictures were taken late Tuesday and early Wednesday as the as the planet made its closest pass by Earth in 60,000 years.

He is holding them up until the Air Force agrees to assign four additional C-130 cargo planes to the Idaho Air National Guard.

Stocks have rallied sharply for more than three months in anticipation of an economic rebound in the year's second half.

Prices had pulled back from offshore highs when the Empire State survey far exceeded expectations by jumping to 26.8 in June, a record high, from 10.6 in May.

"We're a quiet, peaceful town of 862 people and nothing ever happens," Bennett said.

The American Association of Nursing Colleges reported that schools turned away more than 5,000 qualified applicants last year.

Ebbers' lawyer, Reid Weingarten, said despite the thorough investigation, "the best the investigators can do is nitpick about the process and substance of isolated business decisions."

The study, conducted on the brains of developing mice, was being published today in the journal Molecular Brain Research.

Three retailers _ Dillard's Inc., Kohl's Department Stores and Nordstrom Inc. _ got Fs.

It would be a daunting challenge for even the sharpest programming wizards: set up a secure computer network for the 190,000 workers in the Homeland Security Department.

Operating revenues rose to $1.45 billion from $1.38 billion last year.

Governor Rowland said his decision was "not based on any one event."

Mr Sorbello was taken to hospital for a check-up and later released, while Mr Pennisi thinks he may have cracked ribs.

The anguish will begin to end and the healing will commence,'' delegation leader Bob Weatherall told Reuters by telephone.

Breaux outlined a plan Tuesday that would give seniors help with the first $3,450 in prescription drug costs.

Port authorities in Romania said two ships that sank during World War II but resurfaced due to low water levels could block river traffic.

Grant, a 22-year Monsanto veteran, also has been elected to the company's board of directors, Monsanto said in a statement.

Ms. Kethley, who has repeatedly denied any infidelity, has recounted a similar story.

With increasing numbers of Bluetooth-equipped mobile phones coming onto the market, "people are going to be sorry if they didn't buy a PDA with Bluetooth," he said.

By the time that Reagan left office in 1989, the Navy had nearly 600 ships - about twice the number that it has today.

"Martha Stewart is not being prosecuted for who she is but for what she did."

Nelson, 27, is being retried on civil rights charges stemming from the disturbance that led to Rosenbaum's death.

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the U.S. government can withhold the names of people detained as part of the September 11 investigation, reversing a lower court decision.

Asked about other possible attacks, Roberts said: “I don’t think there’s any question about it that they’re going to be very global in nature.

No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals, and the New Jersey Nets don't want to try their luck at it.

Police said there was an argument before the slaying at East 126th Street and Fifth Avenue around 9 p.m.

"But the reality is that there needs to be a big structural change," Dr. Goin added.

Knight has 29 interceptions in six seasons, all with New Orleans -- including a team-high five last season.

Budget negotiations between the mayor and the City Council are entering high gear.

Taupo had been leading Mr Kibblewhite, 62, of Rotorua, on a three-day walk with a tramping party of eight.

Nokia's market share for the second quarter is estimated to be higher than the first quarter, 2003."

Before that the division was known as the NASCAR Grand National Series.

"Whereas long lines used to catch 10 fish per 100 hooks, now they are lucky to catch one," Myers said.

Canada will not consider sending more troops to Afghanistan until its current 12-month peacekeeping mission is complete, Prime Minister Jean Chretien said Saturday.

On Tuesday, figures also showed Italian business confidence slipped again in May to its lowest level in 16 months, doing nothing to discourage rate cut expectations.

It would also further reduce capital expenditure by retiring some aircraft and delaying the delivery of new places.

The government elements who have been causing trouble are still in place, they are attacking us."

PeopleSoft's board has recommended stockholders reject the offer.

Handspring employees are expected to move to Palm Solutions Group headquarters in Milpitas, Calif.

The rock was first observed by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research Program, also known as LINEAR.

Barclays chief executive Matt Barrett also said he had advised his children never to use credit cards.

Some women also express concern about a society in which more people than ever are turning to cosmetic surgery in a quest for bodily perfection.

Normally, redistricting is done every 10 years based on population changes in the census.

Two Inland Valley lawmakers revealed it might be possible for Democrats to entice some Republicans to support a tax hike.

U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins also said two of his assistants will consult with state police during the investigation and determine if any federal laws were broken.

Sirius recently began carrying National Public Radio, a deal pooh-poohed by XM because it doesn't include popular shows like All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

The unemployment rate is predicted to have ticked up a percentage point to 6.1%.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan said Kraft's could start an important trend.

The school had argued that it violated the state's neutrality in religion.

He has agreed to a lifetime ban from association with an investment adviser or mutual fund.

Now, for the first time, those without Internet access can sign up by phone by making a single toll-free call to (888) 382-1222.

The Centcom statement said the gunmen appeared to have fired from a mosque in the city, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad.

The Nasdaq composite index dropped 6.8 percent, and the Standard & Poor's fell 4.9 percent.

Dan Powers, IBM vice president of grid-computing strategy, says he's not worried about off-the-shelf PC clusters threatening traditional supercomputer sales.

Britain has said it wants to haggle over articles of the draft calling for closer coordination of tax and economic policy.

Around the same time, hospital officials in and near Chicago will notice a sudden increase in people complaining of flu-like symptoms.

Four people were found shot to death along a highway Tuesday and four others were wounded in a dispute that apparently involved immigrant smugglers, officials said.

Following their assessment, each volunteer received a squirt in the nose of rhinovirus the germ that causes colds.

The illusionist remained in critical condition Monday with a gaping wound to the neck.

According to the company, it will be the first handset to ship with the Smartphone 2003 version of Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT)  Windows Mobile software.

Hernandez had breast cancer and Moore is being treated for non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

In the landmark ruling regarding New York City schools, the Court of Appeals ordered the Legislature and Gov. George Pataki to fix the funding system by July 30, 2004.

Dealers said the single currency's downward momentum against the dollar could pick up speed if it broke below $1.15.

The House would limit the increases to those troops in the Iraq and Afghanistan combat zones, but not troops supporting those war efforts from bases outside the combat zone.

The attack took place under cover of fog at the Erez crossing on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Mr Hughes, who trains three hours a day to accelerate the healing process, has lost 17 kilos since October.

It also features Nvidia's own PowerMizer power management system.

The DirectBand network was developed with the assistance of SCA Data Systems.

On Monday, a suicide car bomber blew himself up close to the United Nations compound in Baghdad, also killing a security guard.

The company claimed it is the largest sale of Xserves by an Apple retailer.

With the Fourth of July weekend approaching, state parks such as Parvin State Park in Salem County will be open.

The most recent recession was short and shallow relative to the nine others, averaging 11 months, that occurred since World War II.

Seven Democratic presidential candidates have arranged to address the group, according to The Associated Press.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman kicks off the three-day Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology on Monday.

In neighboring Turkey, Iraqi, U.S. and Turkish officials gathered at the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan for a ceremony launching the shipment.

Health Minister Manto-Tshabalala Msimang is not fit to preside over an anti-retroviral treatment rollout plan, according to some opposition parties.

"We're optimistic we can deliver the vaccine to these people in time to do good," said Dr. David Fleming, the CDC's deputy director for Public Health and Science.

AstraZeneca says just 1pc of people of those taking the drug worldwide have suffered serious consequences.

Coach Don Nelson declared Nowitzki out at the team's morning shootaround.

Rescue workers arriving at February's deadly nightclub fire met a horrific scene, as people trapped in the club's doorway screamed for help, rescue tapes released Thursday show.

Shortly after his arrest, detectives told Deasean's father, Stelly Chisolm, a college student, and mother, Kimberly Hill, a medical assistant, about the development.

Subway and bus fares rose 33 percent, from $1.50 to $2, on May 4, while average 25 percent increases took effect May 1 on suburban trains.

Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport will be the testing site next month for a nationwide security system that will collect fingerprints and take photographs of millions of foreign visitors each year.

Perkins and Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway declined comment Sunday night.

The latter would offer preventive health coverage as well as protection against unexpected healthcare expenses, neither of which is currently available under Medicare.

He said about 40 people attended the traditional Jewish ceremony colored by some nontraditional touches.

Noteworthy: Cabrera became the second-youngest player to debut for the Marlins -- 20 years and 63 days.

At the same time, the number of injuries dropped, from 3.03 million in 2001 to 2.92 million in 2002.

No dates have been set for either the civil trial or the criminal trial.

Shares of Guidant were down 5.3 percent at $40.92 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

McNair was stopped just after midnight by a police officer who reportedly saw his sports utility vehicle weaving on a downtown street.

"This case is wholly without merit, both factually and legally," Chin said.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Jefferson City and Columbia, about 48km north; their conditions were not immediately available.

Stack testified that he was not asked to do any work for Triumph until June 1999, after a grand jury investigating Silvester subpoenaed Triumph.

Federal Agent Bill Polychronopoulos said last night the man involved in the Melbourne incident had been unarmed.

The 2.4 GHz radio frequency chipset features radio interference protection and low power consumption.

He and colleagues named it Colymbosathon ecplecticos, which means "swimmer with a large penis."

"I think we should hesitate," Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, said at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

RIM must either pay NTP the $53.7 million or post a bond with the court pending the appeal.

Taiwan had been relatively free of the viral infection until a severe outbreak at a Taipei hospital in late April.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said the "idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and grotesque," WBAL reported.

"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," he told The Des Moines Register.

Without the shuttle fleet, NASA is relying on the Russian space program to rotate crew members on the International Space Station and send new supplies to the orbiting laboratory.

Some three dozen American and British troops have been killed since Bush declared major combat over in Iraq on May 1.

Another piece of the suit will be sent to Virginia for more testing, Conte said.

Some Boston bar managers said they worry that banning smoking will create a hazard as groups of smokers huddle outside on sidewalks and in parking lots to smoke.

Park rangers searched an abandoned lighthouse on Monomoy yesterday afternoon, but there was no sign of the two women, said Chatham Harbormaster Stuart Smith.

Thirty-two U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1.

Former postal worker, Douglas Lindsell, was sentenced yesterday at Kingston Crown Court after pleading guilty to attempting to abduct a young girl.

Rowland was making an appearance at a holiday party for families of Connecticut National Guard soldiers assigned to duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Doctors said that one or both of the boys may die and that if they survive, some brain damage is possible.

His protest triggered a 47-hour standoff with police that led to huge traffic jams as commuters backed up in downtown Washington and Northern Virginia.

The agency could put no exact date on the tape, though the voice says he is speaking on June 14.

Ross Garber, Rowland's legal counsel, said the governor would have no comment on the condo deal.

"Nevertheless, I believe the Patriot Act has turned out to be, on balance, a terrible mistake."

But PeopleSoft said the new deal should add to its 2004 earnings, excluding amortization and other items.

When we opened here, we originally planned an 18-month run as a part of a North American tour.

Naval Academy spokesman Cmdr. Rod Gibbons said: ``Today's announcement came as a surprise.

Gainers included Dow components AT&T, which rose 77 cents to $21.27, and Johnson & Johnson, which increased 95 cents to $53.95.

Still, the scientists said, a third of those taking it would benefit, gaining an average of 11 years free of cardiovascular disease.

"We don't want to stand by and see a credit card lynching take place," he said.

On-demand movie distribution will generate $1.4 billion by 2005, and revenue from DVDs and tapes will decline 8 percent, Forrester predicted.

Hundreds of Kenyan women claiming they were attacked and raped by British soldiers were granted government legal aid Wednesday to pursue their case against the Ministry of Defense.

The study results were released at a meeting in Seattle of the American Thoracic Society and also will be published in tomorrow's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Music mogul Simon Cowell's new TV dating show has made its debut in the US.

The defeat of the ninth seed Daniela Hantuchova on Wednesday was the only thing to disrupt the otherwise orderly second-round progress in the Serena Williams half of the women's draw.

The emotional communications were made public after a legal skirmish between the authority and The New York Times.

The next government is expected quickly to come under pressure to hand over iwar criminals or risk losing crucial Western aid.

"We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light, through the prism of our experience on 9/11."

Staff writers Frank Trejo and Robert Ingrassia contributed to this report.

BuyMusic is the first subscription-free paid download music service for PC users.

The foreign bits are recognized by other cells that realize it is infected and kill it.

Unilever Bestfoods said its "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' margarine spreads will be free of trans fat by next year.

"We're pleased with the judge's decision," said Mark Herr, spokesman for Merrill Lynch.

On the stand Wednesday, she testified that she was referring to the kissing before the alleged rape.

Both shooting victims were rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where they died a short time later.

The group has already met several times and Gen. Garner said it probably will be expanded to include a Christian and perhaps another Sunni Muslim leader.

Blair's office said his Foreign Secretary Jack Straw would take his place on Monday to give a statement to parliament on the EU meeting the prime minister attended last week.

If passed, the measure will return to the Senate for concurrence with House amendments.

But five pools contained no traces of disinfectant leaving bathers open to cross-infection.

Mr Goh said that it was 'especially important given the Sars situation in Singapore'.

The reports are among several published this week in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

They also disagree over ethanol - sacred in Iowa - and on authorizing oil and gas drilling in Alaskas wildlife refuge.

Analysts say Davis, a Democrat, could get a boost in the polls if the 29-day-old budget crisis is resolved without further delay.

"There are more people surrounding the clubhouse than surrounded the Unabomber's home in the hills.

The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was off 6.52 points, or 0.39 percent, at 1,645.66.

Friends of Animals president Priscilla Feral said she is considering the possibility of further legal action but declined to elaborate.

After striking the pedestrian, the pickup traveled south on Hemphill Street, then turned west on Drew Street going about 60 mph, Jones said.

The Fourth of July parade begins at 11 a.m. in downtown Everett, at Colby and Hewitt avenues.

The actions reflect our strong forward momentum as we intensify our business focus and work to achieve profitability," said Katsumi Ihara, president of Sony Ericsson.

Mr. Weill's longtime confidant, Charles O. Prince, 53, was named as his successor.

That wasn't all: by 2010, Mr. O'Neill said, he hoped Hyundai would sell 1 million vehicles annually in the United States.

The 36 employees at Think Dynamics will remain in Toronto and become IBM employees, Crowe said.

Leading Democratic candidates are former state and national Democratic Chairman Joe Andrew and State Sen. Vi Simpson, Ellettsville.

It suggests that Congress consider making the CIA director a professional position, rather than a political appointment.

Canadian officials were also expected to meet yesterday with the International Organization for Epizootics (OIE), which establishes animal-health standards for the world.

Li is the deputy chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd. <0001.HK>.

Pope John Paul has health problems but is firmly in charge of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope's top aide told Reuters on Friday.

Richardson and Fletcher campaign manager Daniel Groves rejected the request.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> added 0.99 points, or 0.1 percent, at 995.69.

Pharmacy Guild president Richard Heslop said it highlighted the need for product regulation.

Kempenaers said fidelity still exists in some species, notably swans and sea birds such as the albatross that mate for life and are never unfaithful to their partners.

The U.S. troops encountered fire from rocket propelled grenades, mortars and small arms originating from bunkers as well as within and atop surrounding buildings.

HCA Inc. (nyse: HCA - news - people), the largest U.S. hospital chain, dropped $1.21, or 3.2 percent, to $37.14.

The sponsors said they were not advocating the changes yet, but believed it was worth considering - especially as NATO expands to 26 members.

The three men charged with terrorism have been identified as Abdul Azi Haji Thiming and Muhammad Jalaludin Mading of Thailand, and Esam Mohammed Khidr Ali of Egypt.

Wire transfers from four of the 40 accounts open at Beacon Hill totaled more than $3.2 billion from 2001 to 2002, Morgenthau said.

Elsewhere, European stocks slipped from their highs but stayed within a few points of year highs.

The only other JI member to reveal similar information is Omar al Faruq, now held by the United States at a secret location.

His lack of co-operation was allowing other JI operatives to remain at large, where they threatened further terrorist acts, Mr Dila said.

"Prime Minister Abbas, we are facing a new opportunity today, a better future for both peoples," Mr Sharon said.

Security assessments of these facilities should take place every three years.

But the officials later revised the numbers and said about 250 had been arrested at some 60 stores.

The Midwestern center will focus on diagnosis, treatment and vaccines for anthrax, botulism, tularemia, hemorrhagic fever viruses and plague.

In the United States, heart attacks kill about 460,000 yearly, according to the National Institutes of Health.

As frequently happens to a company making a major acquisition, PeopleSoft's shares dropped in Monday's trading, decreasing 87 cents to $15.52 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

The largest number of arrests, about 400, were on charges of manufacturing or distributing child pornography on the Internet.

Ships carry 95 percent of international cargo to the United States.

One Republican flier cited a 3.8 percent increase in the S&P 500 stock index since passage of the tax cuts in May.

P&G officials decided it would be wiser to split the contracts to avoid reliance on a sole contractor.

Under a deal with General Electric's NBC, Vivendi's film and TV business would merge with NBC's broadcast network, Spanish- language network and cable channels including CNBC and Bravo.

Belgium said yesterday that it has decided to scrap a war crimes law used to launch cases against President Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel.

"Savage made an extremely inappropriate comment and the decision to cancel the program was not difficult," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.

Parsons held engineering management positions at three space centers before being named director of the Stennis center last August.

News that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was lowering output starting in November exacerbated a stock sell-off already under way yesterday.

Chi-Chi's has agreed to keep the restaurant closed until Jan. 2 -- two months after it voluntarily closed when the disease was first reported.

The Commerce Department imposed a 44.71 percent tariff on dynamic random access memory semiconductors, or DRAMS, made by Hynix Semiconductor Inc.

Nationally, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 4,156 cases of West Nile, including 284 deaths.

After several weeks of market rallies on upbeat earnings, many investors are looking for more concrete signs of an economic recovery.

Mattel shares were down 1.5 percent in early afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

DVD music took off, accounting for more than five percent of sales, and legitimate online music broadened its reach.

Malvo was in the courtroom for about two minutes yesterday to allow a prosecution witness to identify him.

GM, the world's largest automaker, has 115,000 active UAW workers and 340,000 retirees and spouses.

The hospital has been guarded by more than a dozen undercover police and military intelligence officers, said officials.

A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis overturned a ruling issued last year that supported the ordinance.

In an interview, Ms. Healey, who is a criminologist, said many lawmakers here and across the country shared a wariness toward capital punishment.

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board has placed the blame for the accident squarely on Nasa.

"Our policies are well-known and I'm not aware of any changes in policy.

Telemarketers who call numbers on the list after Oct. 1 could face fines of up to $11,000 per call.

The exchange also said its five-person compensation committee will consist only of directors from outside the securities industry.

Immediately after the small explosion, people portraying victims stumbled amid the wreckage as fire trucks and other emergency vehicles converged.

"I think we are at a seminal moment in the history of this agency," he said.

British military police have also been taking statements from 30 of the women who have made the allegations.

A group of investors said Friday it wants to start a television network aimed at the interests of an estimated 8 million Muslims living in the United States.

In early December, immigration inspectors at Hartsfield will be able to match the fingerprints to the federal government's computerized "watch lists," Williams said.

Derrick Todd Lee, 34, is shown in this photo released by the police in Baton Rouge, Monday.

They also said the rule will improve the reliability of the nation's electrical system, which is needed after last week's massive power blackout.

Sanchez de Lozada promised a referendum on the gas project, a reform of energy laws and constitutional changes.

They were there to honor Brick, who died Tuesday battling a four-alarm blaze in an upper Manhattan warehouse.

To settle the charges, Mr. Tyrer agreed to surrender $1.06 million in trading profits and $342,195 in interest.

The agency said it had no plans to release the name of the teenager involved because he was a minor.

Khatami, who arrived in Beirut Monday, was also to visit Syria, Yemen and Bahrain.

Besides a federal judge, the criticism has mounted from environmentalists, the Miccosukee Tribe, some scientists and some congressional leaders.

Hoffine drove to the home of a friend and told her what he had done before allowing the woman and her daughter to leave, Hurley said.

On Tuesday, he picked up the endorsement of the United Steelworkers of America.

Marshall demonstrated his preference for results over rhetoric in preparing the Civil Rights Act that was passed in November 1964.

The FTC decision is viewed as the final leg in a longstanding legal saga that has dragged on for years.

The lawmakers expected to arrive in Pyongyang on Friday and leave Sunday for South Korea.

Two other bodies were recovered on Friday from a campground in nearby Devore, where a wall of mud destroyed 32 trailers.

Most of the 250 persons living near the disaster site were asleep when the cloudburst took place, the second such incident in three weeks.

The prizes, from the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, will be awarded Friday in New York.

Identity theft cost businesses and financial institutions nearly $48 billion and consumer victims reported $5 billion in out-of-pocket expenses last year, according to the FTC.

Peterson was almost eight months pregnant when she was reported missing.

The FCC said that it won't request personal identifying information before allowing people to access the wireless network.

The US on Tuesday filed a long-anticipated case in the World Trade Organisation aimed at forcing the European Union to lift its de facto moratorium on genetically modified foods.

A U.S. appeals court in New York reinstated perjury charges against a Grossmont College student accused of lying about his knowledge of two of the Sept. 11 hijackers.

Kerr, who won three NBA titles with Chicago and one with the Spurs in 1999, finished with 12 points, three assists and two rebounds.

The two other national rating agencies are waiting to take action.

Lloyds TSB yesterday confirmed that it had received bids for its National Bank of New Zealand operation.

Most economists had been expecting a far more dire report, with many expecting to see the fifth month of job losses in six months in September.

It is the highest reading since the index was created in August 1997.

McCloskey died Sunday afternoon in his home after a year-long battle with bladder cancer.

Still, bond bulls can take comfort in the fact the Fed has done nothing to dispel market expectations of an easing, either in speeches or through the press.

Moroccan police have arrested 33 suspects, including some linked to the radical Djihad Salafist group, a government official said.

A jury convicted novelist Michael Peterson Friday of bludgeoning his wife of five years in the stairwell of their home.

"But success requires more than American assistance," Bush said in the first speech to a joint session of Philippine Congress by a U.S. president since Dwight Eisenhower in 1960.

Allied forces have defeated Saddam's military, moved into his palaces and started to patrol Baghdad.

They went into the operation on their own free will,' Reuters quoted their father, Mr Dadollah Bijani, as saying.

"Approximately 60 percent of all national advertisers do not yet advertise in Spanish."

Mr Hughes had seen Amrozi's face on television, the infamous images of the grinning mechanic from east Java.

The company updated the MySQL 4.0 software with the ability to run on the HP-UX 11i Unix operating system and Linux on servers equipped with Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processor.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX added 1.14 points, or 0.12 percent, at 968.14.

"The question that has to be penetrated is how did 38 visits over two years not rescue these children from slow torture and starvation," Ryan said in an interview.

Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Monday that section 512 hands too much power to copyright holders.

It supports the Windows CE, Palm, Symbian, and Linux operating systems.

A law enforcement source in Palm Beach County, where Limbaugh owns a $24 million oceanfront mansion, said last week that Limbaugh's drug use is still under investigation.

State Rep. Ron Wilson, a Houston Democrat, joined nine Republicans in approving the bill Saturday.

The supermarket chains have used managers and replacement workers to keep their stores open, often at reduced hours.

Some people trapped in a burning high-rise building in Chicago's Loop business district frantically dialed 911 for help in escaping the smoke-filled staircases and hallways, officials said.

The eventual conference between House and Senate tax writers promises to be intense and possibly rocky, even though all the principals will be Republicans.

"Their groundbreaking contributions commercialise technologies, create jobs, improve productivity and stimulate the nation's growth and development," it said.

The company's goal is to offer wireless service at several hundred restaurants by year's end.

License sales, a key measure of demand, fell 21 percent to $107.6 million.

In a statement, Microsoft said the dividend is payable Nov. 7 to shareholders of record on Oct. 17.

The Davis administration says the state is operating for the first time completely on borrowed money.

Testing at a Massachusetts State Police lab and a private Virginia lab has not been able to determine whether the swimsuit belonged to Bish, Conte said yesterday.

Under the compromise, most dividends and capital gains would be taxed at 15 percent through 2008.

Orville Wright's laboratory was once there - where he developed a split airplane wing, tinkered with cars and even built toys.

Shares in GE were down 7 cents to $28.12 by the close of trading in New York.

Stephen King, master of the horror story and e-book pioneer, is receiving this year's medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters from the National Book Foundation.

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal church, Frank Griswold, declined to comment on Saturday's development.

InterActiveCorp's shares closed at $34.19, down $2.81, or 7.6 percent on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Memories also live on of a bloody debacle in Somalia a decade ago -- the last major U.S. military involvement in Africa.

If convicted, Parson faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

At 8 p.m. Friday, Henri was becoming disorganized, but still had maximum sustained winds near 50 mph, with stronger gusts.

"It's a huge black eye," Arthur Sulzberger, the newspaper's publisher, said of the scandal.

Companies are working with the FDA and academics "to try and get some firm answers and not just speculation," Jarman said.

Strayhorn said it was the first time in Texas history a comptroller had not certified the appropriations act.

Truck sales for the world's No. 2 automaker dropped 4.1 percent, while its car sales dropped 13.7 percent.

The rate of survival without serious brain damage is about 10 percent, said Bossaert, a professor at the University Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium.

The natural gas producer and marketer said the inaccurate reporting was discovered in response to a subpoena from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC.

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs was back in jail tonight after being treated in hospital for pneumonia.

The U.S. steel tariffs, which Bush imposed in March 2002, were to officially end at midnight Thursday (0500 GMT), instead of March 2005 as initially planned.

After talks, Russian and Saudi energy ministers signed a five-year agreement on cooperation in the oil and gas industry.

NTP also said it would seek an injunction preventing RIM from selling the BlackBerry in the United States.

Imam Samudra is charged with playing a key role in the planning and execution of the Oct. 12 attacks, that killed 202 people, mostly foreign tourists.

This is just the latest movement in a continuing trend toward open-source support among business application vendors.

Jessica Wheat, who said she and Dusenbery were planning to marry, said Dusenbery was considering settling down in Fort Campbell and making the Army his career.

Company spokesman Jack Ferry said a search is ongoing but declined comment on its status.

At 1800 GMT, the Federal Reserve issues its Beige Book summary of U.S. economic conditions.

Children get sick from drinking the water: The United Nations Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq last week reported that cases of diarrhea have tripled in Baghdad.

"The future of BA is in the hands of the negotiators," Eddington told British Broadcasting Corp. television on Sunday.

"Selling it symbolically writes 'Finish' to that chapter in the administration of our city's schools," he said.

The SIA forecast that chip sales next year will rise 16.8 percent to $180.9 billion, followed by a 5.8 percent increase to $191.5 billion in 2005.

U.S. stocks fell after Cisco Systems Inc., the world's biggest maker of networking-equipment, forecast that sales will be unchanged this quarter.

Mr. Dewhurst has suggested a cooling-off period, which could give the senators time to go home.

Mr. Ebbers' attorney Reid Weingarten said he expects Mr. Ebbers to be exonerated.

All the fund companies have said they are cooperating with Spitzer's probe.

The artists say the plan will harm French culture and punish those who need help most - performers who have a hard time lining up work.

Infogrames is to change its name to Atari when NASDAQ opens for trading tomorrow.

At 10 p.m. Thursday, Odette was about 295 miles south-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica and about 900 miles south-southeast of Palm Beach.

AustMag has since asked the experienced US company Fluor to produce a detailed costing of the project but the report is still two weeks away.

No tumors were detected; rather, empty cavities and scar tissue were found in their place.

Congress twice sent similar legislation to former President Bill Clinton, who vetoed it.

He has credited Dr. Evans with helping to inspire the idea of federal financing for faith-based programs.

The court Monday reversed the decision of that court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"High-tech scam artists who think they can hijack the Internet should think again," said Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff of the Criminal Division.

Those systems typically combine institutional and community care and are paid for with combinations of state, federal and private money.

A passer-by found the boy hiding along a dirt road in Spanish Fork Canyon about 7 p.m. Thursday, with his feet free but his hands still taped.

The companies, however, declined to give specifics on customer turnover, saying they would release figures only when they report their overall company performance.

The Fijian military installed an all-indigenous government led by Mr Qarase, who won democratic elections in September 2001.

Russia has closed dozens of checkpoints on the border with China and Mongolia, which has also reported SARS cases, until June 4, Itar-Tass news agency said.

BusinessWeek Online has learned that the settlement could come as early as Monday, May 19.

"This attack was wrong, and it was dangerous to our goals," Raymond said.

Since Dec. 2 the U.S. military has been engaged in a large-scale sweep, dubbed Operation Avalanche, targeting the south and east of the country.

Johnston made $5.8 million in salary and bonus in 2001 as president, and as a part-time adviser earned $1 million in 2002.

But the company said over the weekend that its competitors were simply trying to throw up roadblocks to MCIs emergence from bankruptcy.

Murphy said Strier's sister, Ethel Celnik, was in the courtroom at the time, but Strier was not.

"I think this moves us a lot closer toward saying that foam can do this kind of damage," Hubbard said.

Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, Vincent's team said all of the fresh water poured out of the 20-mile-long Disraeli Fjord.

Tickets, available through Ticketmaster, went on sale yesterday.

On Wednesday, the Marines shot an attacker near the town of Al-Kut as he tried to run over two Marines at a checkpoint.

Among the proposals being considered is for Zimbabwe to have the opportunity to rejoin the 54-member body before the next Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in two years.

The percentage of Californians without health insurance was unchanged, the report showed.

He said the court's ruling was a great first step toward better coverage for poor Maine residents, but that there was more to be done.

The leader of the country’s biggest rail union threatened industrial action today following the second derailment on the London Underground in less than 48 hours.

The companies said Idec holders would own about 50.5 percent of the stock of the combined company.

U.S. officials say operatives loyal to the ousted Saddam government do not require hightechnology eavesdropping devices to gather substantial amounts of information on the activities of American officials.

Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach filed the lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, on behalf of the Southern Alaska Carpenters Pension Fund in federal court in Manhattan.

But August sales were revised to a 1.2 percent increase from a previously reported 0.6 percent gain, fuelling a dollar rally.

Two additional passengers were taken to John Peter Smith and Harris Methodist hospitals, both with what was described as critical injuries.

The 6-3 ruling reinstates a law that told libraries to install filters or surrender federal money.

At first, the animals' performance declined compared with the joystick sessions.

"While many good people work in the telemarketing industry, the public is understandably losing patience with these unwanted phone calls, unwanted intrusions," Mr. Bush said.

Lucent shares fell 8 cents, or 4.19 percent, to $1.83 a share in morning trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

"We strongly disagree with Novell's position and view it as a desperate measure to curry favor with the Linux community," McBride said.

Desktop PC shipments also exceeded IDC's expectations in the second quarter, Kay said.

"It's clearly a tragic day for America," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said in Washington.

In an accompanying editorial, two breast cancer researchers said that the effect of hormones on the breast created a double whammy that was "almost unique" in medicine.

In July, PC-related products were the strongest sector with microprocessors up 5.6 per cent and DRAMs up 8.2 per cent over June.

Last month The Washington Post also launched a free tabloid aimed at younger readers called the Express.

After the French threatened to open fire, the battlewagon turned back.

He said eight or nine homes had been destroyed by the now-smoldering fire northwest of Boulder.

Limbaugh's attorney, Roy Black, has accused the State Attorney's Office of having political motives for its investigation.

The top speed of Ethernet could hit 40G bit/sec within the next two years, a senior Cisco executive said Wednesday.

He said he had told the state police to execute a search warrant but stop if they encountered resistance.

Three such vigilante-style attacks forced the hacker organizer, who identified himself only as "Eleonora[67]," to extend the contest until 3 p.m. Arizona time Sunday.

Only one of the five buildings in the compound in Baghdad run by the UN Development Program, escaped being burned, the UN said on its Web site.

Now she has her first trophy after victory in the US Women's Amateur Public Links here on Sunday.

Powell's version made it seem more sinister when he said an officer on the tape ordered that the area be "cleared out."

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 6 points, or 0.41 percent, to 1,498.

The euro soared to $1.1914 in Asian trading, before slipping back to $1.1884 in late European trading, up from $1.1857 late Monday.

Channel Nine has been billed as the most popular commercial station after recently recording 26 consecutive weeks on top of the ratings.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was up 17.48 points, or 0.95 percent, at 1,863.18.

"It appears that the machine was cracked using a ptrace exploit by a local user immediately after the exploit was posted," it added.

The Company has always made, and continues to make, exceptional customer service and customer satisfaction a top priority in all business practices," AOL added.

Nvidia's stock fell 65 cents, or almost 4 percent, to $16.13 on Nasdaq.

Yang was to dine on specially designed packets of shredded pork with garlic and "eight treasure" rice, washed down with Chinese tea, state media said.

Since the initial takeover offer, Salix shares have risen about 35 percent.

The job had been vacant since Richard Purcell left earlier this year.

Still, Singapore quarantined 70 people who had been in close contact with the scientist.

The insulation can sift through cracks in the ceiling, around light fixtures or around ceiling fans, so cracks should be sealed, they recommend.

That night Jackson and his cousin, Herbert Tyrone Cleveland, went with Mallard to her house.

"It's never fun to be No. 4, especially if you've been No. 1 before,'' said Williams. "

The new jury consisted of eight blacks, two whites and two jurors of Guyanese descent.

Those two witnesses say that Nelson confessed to killing Rosenbaum, but claimed he did it because he was drunk on beer.

In the 1990s, the board found, budget cuts and trade-offs etched away at the shuttle program's thin margins of safety.

The project already has more than 5,000 members committed to relocating to the "free state."

This after seven health care workers at a public hospital fell ill with flu-like symptoms.

In morning trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 8.76, or 0.1 percent, at 9,310.20, having gained 201 points Monday.

Beginning Friday, every major exhibitor in the country will donate time to play trailers in more than 5,000 theaters across the United States.

The charges came after the federal government imposed special administrative measures restricting the sheik's access to mail, the telephone and visitors and prohibiting him from speaking with the media.

Windows XP 64-bit Edition for 64-Bit Extended Systems will support AMD64 technology, running natively on AMD Athlon 64 powered desktops and AMD Opteron processor-powered workstations.

"I regret we had an incident that could be an impediment to progress," Powell told a news conference in neighboring Jordan.

The department's stance disappointed some abortion opponents, and it threatens to alienate social conservatives who have provided strong political support for Ashcroft and President Bush.

French President Jacques Chirac was also reported to have supported the European bid.

It's happened five times in the last decade: A disaster puts this tourist town in the headlines during summer, its busiest season.

The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index <.IXIC> shed 15 points, or 0.98 percent, to 1,492.

"He says he couldn't stop the vehicle ... his statement is he possibly hit the gas instead of the brake," Butts said.

Ten police officers were facing disciplinary action today after they abandoned their street patrol to go and watch the American illusionist David Blaine.

A former FBI informant, Whitey Bulger is now on the agency's "Ten Most Wanted" list alongside Osama bin Laden.

Humphries, and his father, William, arrived at IU in the early afternoon and spent the day with IU coach Mike Davis.

Before that he held various posts in Virginia, including deputy attorney general.

U.S. stocks fell in early morning trade on Wednesday as a wave of profit warnings drained some of the optimism that has driven a rally over the past three months.

"They did not read footnotes in a 90-page document," he said, referring to the annex.

At least two female patients sharing a room and 10 nurses now have fevers or other symptoms, and about 100 of their contacts have been quarantined.

On Tuesday night rioters shot one person in the shoulder and beat or stabbed others.

Senate President Pro Tempore Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, said he'll miss the governor's civility most.

And for the first time, all four pages of the Constitution will be on permanent display.

Japan's Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa said the yen had strengthened too much but declined to comment on whether Japan had intervened in the market to stem the yen's rise.

The American Anglican Council, which represents Episcopalian conservatives, said it will seek authorization to create a separate group in North America.

McDonald's said in a statement that it does not import any raw beef or hamburger patties from Canada for use in the United States.

Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq indexes have scored three straight weeks of gains.

Under the agreement, Medicare coverage for drug benefits would begin in 2006.

However, he said, The reasons behind the increase in incidence are more complex and were just beginning to understand the risk factors.

After all, China isn’t racing anyone…so there’s no great rush,” Clark said.

In addition, Apple's new Server Admin tool makes it easy for system administrators to set up, manage and monitor the complete set of services built into Panther Server.

Furthermore, Mr Bremer said that as many as 200 operatives from the extremist group Ansar al Islam had slipped back into the country since May 1.

Beginning sometime next year, holders of existing paper bonds will be encouraged to exchange them for electronic versions.

"It has outraged the membership," said Rian Wathen, organizing director of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700.

Opposition politicians have described it as a "major failure in coastal surveillance".

The suspected militants ambushed the convoy near the town of Spinboldak, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Douglas Lefforge said Sunday, a day after the attack.

Pauley also announced Thursday that she has struck a deal with Random House to pen two books.

The volume of plaque in Pravachol patients' arteries rose by 3%.

The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.SPX> was up 9.05 points, or 0.94 percent, at 972.64.

The decision came after "listening to our customers and associates," Melissa Berryhill, a spokeswoman for Wal-Mart, said.

Analysts attributed its rise to negative news from bankrupt competitor WorldCom Inc. <WCOEQ.PK> and talk that AT&T could be a takeover target, among other factors.

The NEA report, "Status of the American Public School Teacher," aims to help education groups shape their agendas and mold the country's image of teachers.

MDC spokesperson Paul Themba Nyathi said the Avenues Clinic was targeted because it was handling opposition supporters.

U.S. District Judge William Barbour said he imposed the maximum because Avants showed no remorse.

"These are dark days for our industry," the Geneva-based International Air Transport Association's Director-General Giovanni Bisignani said.

U.S. Special Forces troops are training Colombian soldiers at military bases in the region to protect the pipeline.

Rep. Dan Gelber, D-Miami Beach, said the bill won't freeze rates as its supporters claim.

She was the only woman employed as a warehouse worker and heavy equipment operator and the only woman in her Teamsters local.

Experts say the delay will give Luna his best chance of reuniting with "L" Pod, his family, Thibault said.

Tomorrow the book, kept under wraps by G. P. Putnam's Sons since its inception, will appear in bookstores.

Analysts have estimated that the two networks could fetch as much as $7 billion.

Gates says he wants to see "independent e-mail trust authorities" who "establish and maintain commercial email guidelines, certify senders who follow the guidelines, and resolve customer disputes."

The interview, which also focuses on Schwarzenegger's training routines and prowess as a bodybuilder, was re-printed this week on the Web Site www.thesmokinggun.com.

The board has appointed Trevor Fetter, who returned to the company as president last November, as acting CEO.

Among them are conversations between police, firefighters and other emergency workers, as well as media inquiries.

Germans represent more than a quarter of all foreign visitors to Italy and 40 percent of hotel bookings.

On the week, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 11.56 points, while the Nasdaq Stock Market gained 39.42 points.

Mr. Muhammad, 42, and 18-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo, who goes on trial separately Nov. 10, were arrested Oct. 24, 2002, at a Maryland highway rest stop.

Yesterday, Mr. Romanow said it was an affront to democracy to not implement a council that so many Canadians support.

"The anticipated global sales improvement in the month of June did not materialize as we had anticipated," the company said.

In Soviet times the Beatles' music "was considered propaganda of an alien ideology.

Assessment of current business conditions improved substantially, the Conference Board said, jumping to 55 from 40 in the first quarter.

U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said ``two staff members bringing in Halloween costumes'' were responsible.

SCO said it terminated Sequent's contract due to improper transfer of the company's source code and development methods into Linux.

Investors kept in mind Tuesday's warning from Japan's top financial diplomat Zembei Mizoguchi that Japan would act to prevent excessive swings in currency rates.

Mr McDevitt has been granted control of three aspects of policing by Commissioner William Morrell.

Rolfe said Linksys overtook Cisco Systems last year as the leading supplier of WLAN equipment.

He has a very good reputation," RT Jones analyst Juli Niemann said of Grant.

The eliminations at Eddie Bauer come at all divisions and levels of the company, said Eddie Bauer spokeswoman Lisa Erickson.

We are cautiously optimistic regarding some improvement in sales and operating performance trends in the second half of 2003."

"It was one of the few times in my life when I felt that we were truly being treated as Americans."

"Please, keep doing your homework," said Bavelier, the mother of 6-year-old twins and a 2-year old.

While Qureia is respected and has a history of negotiating with the Israelis, a warm welcome is not expected.

"We don't want to go to war with anybody . . . it's always very much a last resort, and one to be avoided.

"The message to the public is: If you are thinking of getting a flu shot, don't wait any longer," he said. "

Saturday, officials in California described Gehring as cooperative — but said he has revealed nothing about what has happened to the children.

The health department spokesperson added the department is following Centers for Disease Control protocol.

The changed national ownership limit allows a company to own TV stations reaching 45 percent of U.S. households instead of 35 percent.

Brando said that "somebody ought to put a bullet" through her head, according to the defense.

Martin served two thirds of a five-year sentence for the manslaughter of Barras and for wounding Fearon.

In a statement, the ECB said the outlook for price stability over the medium term had "improved significantly" since its last decision to lower interest rates in March.