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Why Is the Dollar Losing Value?
2007-09-21 15:11:00 The Canadian dollar has reached parity with the U.S. dollar for the first time since 1976. They are now equal in value. The euro also soared to its highest-ever level against the dollar, trading above $1.40 for the first time since the currency was introduced in 1999. More About: Dollar , The D , Doll
The Richest Americans
2007-09-21 15:09:00 One billion dollars is no longer enough. The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year. The collective net worth of the nation's mightiest plutocrats rose $290 billion to $1.54 trillion. More About: Americans
President of Iran requests tour of Ground Zero on N.Y. trip
2007-09-20 15:33:00 Don't even think about it. More About: Iran , President , Ground , Tour , Trip
Bin Laden to Declare War on Musharraf in New Video
2007-09-20 15:28:00 Usama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Pervez Mush arraf . More About: Video , Bin Laden , Clar
Nutritionists: Soda making Americans drink themselves fat
2007-09-20 15:27:00 If you're searching for a villain in America's obesity epidemic, most nutritionists tell you to put one picture on the wanted poster: a cold, bubbly glass of soda pop. More About: Drink , Americans , Soda , Makin
Firefighters use forklift to move 900-lb. man
2007-09-20 15:26:00 Firefighters cut a hole in the side of a house and used a forklift to extricate a 900-pound man from his second-floor bedroom after a visiting nurse became worried about his health. More About: Move , Forklift , Fighter
Bloodied 70-year-old woman cuffed for having a brown lawn
2007-09-20 15:23:00 A 70-year-old woman arrested in a dispute over her brown lawn pleaded not guilty Tuesday. She was arrested July 6 after failing to give her name to a police officer who visited her home. During a struggle, Perry fell and injured her nose. She spent more than an hour in a holding cell before police released her. More About: Brown , Woman , Year
Jesse Jackson Says Barack Obama 'Acting White'
2007-09-20 15:21:00 Jesse Jackson reportedly ripped presidential candidate Barack Obama for "acting like he's white," according to The State newspaper in South Carolina, but the civil rights leader says he doesn't recall making any such comment. More About: White , Jesse Jackson
HILLARY CALLS CHENEY 'DARTH VADER'
2007-09-20 15:19:00 "Vice President Cheney came up to see the Republicans yesterday. You can always tell when the Republicans are getting restless, because the vice president?s motorcade pulls into the Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges," Hillary Clinton said. More About: Calls
NBC to Offer a Free Video Download Service
2007-09-20 15:14:00 NBC Universal, acknowledging that viewers are increasingly moving away from traditional television viewing, announced plans today for a service that will make popular NBC programs available to download free to personal computers and other devices. More About: Video , Download , Service , Free , Offer
World markets rally after Fed rate cut
2007-09-19 15:32:00 Asian and European stock markets rallied Wednesday in the wake of Wall Street's overnight surge spurred by the U.S. Federal Reserve's larger-than-expected interest rate cut. More About: World , Markets , Rally , Rate , Ally
Does Britney Spears have an eating disorder?
2007-09-19 15:26:00 Source alleges singer is starving herself, is addicted to diet pills. More About: Britney Spears , Britney , Spears , Eating , Diso
O.J. Gets His Day in Court; Faces 10 Felony Counts, Possible Life Sentence
2007-09-19 15:22:00 Now facing a possible life sentence, O.J. Simpson makes his first court appearance today since his arrest Sunday after on armed robbery charges in Las Vegas. More About: Life , Faces , Felony , Court , Ossi
World's oldest man turns 112
2007-09-19 15:20:00 The world's oldest man celebrated his 112th birthday Tuesday with a healthy Japanese breakfast of rice, miso soup and seaweed, saying he wanted to live forever.
Spears Lawyer Quits, Manager Drops Her: Will Britney Lose Custody of Her So
2007-09-18 14:58:00 A former bodyguard for Britney Spears went to court Monday to support a sealed declaration about questionable behavior by the pop star in a child-custody dispute between the singer and ex-husband Kevin Federline but never got to testify. More About: Lawyer , Manager , Custody
O.J. 'Sting': What Really Happened?
2007-09-18 14:57:00 Just a day after O.J. Simpson's arrest, the saga of his latest brush with the law is turning into a uniquely American version of "Rashomon," the classic Japanese movie about a crime that eludes the truth due to conflicting witness accounts. More About: Sting , Pene , Ally
Baggy pants crackdown goes national
2007-09-18 14:50:00 It's a fashion that started in prison, and now the saggy pants craze has come full circle -- low-slung street strutting in some cities may soon mean run-ins with the law, including a stint in jail. More About: National , Pants , Crackdown , Goes
"Dead" man wakes up under autopsy knife
2007-09-18 14:49:00 A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. More About: Dead Man , Dead , Knife
Nebraska State Senator Sues God
2007-09-18 14:47:00 Nebraska Democratic State Senat or Ernie Chambers has decided to go straight to the top in an effort to stop natural disasters from befalling the world. More About: Nebraska
Man in China dies after three-day Internet session
2007-09-17 15:12:00 A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days. The man from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou, aged about 30, died on Saturday after being rushed to the hospital from the Internet cafe. More About: China , Dies
So Long, New York! See Ya, Miami!
2007-09-17 15:07:00 Edward Mazria wants people to know how rising sea levels ? made worse by global warming ? will affect residents along U.S. coastlines. Goodbye, Hollywood, Fla. So long, Boston. New Orleans? "We're not talking about South Sea islands and Bangladesh here," Mazria said. "We're talking about the U.S. being physically under siege with a very small increment of sea level rise." More About: New York , Miami , York , Long , New-York
Britney Spears Bombshell: Custody of Kids Imperiled
2007-09-17 15:04:00 Britney Spears could lose custody of her two little kids as early as Monday morning. This is a real possibility, thanks to crusading Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred. She?s bringing a ?secret? witness to court Monday for the custody battle between Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline. More About: Britney Spears , Kids , Britney , Custody
O.J. Simpson Arrested in Vegas Hotel Room Robbery
2007-09-17 14:54:00 Police arrested O.J. Simpson on Sunday, saying he was part of an armed group who burst into a Las Vegas hotel room and snatched memorabilia that documented his own sports career, long ago eclipsed by scandal. More About: Arrested , Hotel , Room
Dubai tower now world's tallest free-standing structure
2007-09-14 15:22:00 The world's tallest building, still under construction in the booming Gulf emirate of Dubai , has become the world's tallest free-standing structure. More About: Free , Tower , Structure , Standing
Italians Stage Pasta Strike
2007-09-14 15:20:00 Consumer groups held nationwide protests Thursday to draw attention to the burden placed on families by the rising cost of food ? especially Italians ' beloved staple, pasta. More About: Pasta , Stage , Strike
Shakira rests hips to study at UCLA
2007-09-14 15:18:00 Shakira may get high grades in singing and swiveling her hips, but what about ancient Western history? More About: Shakira , Study
San Francisco to Offer Care for Every Uninsured Adult
2007-09-14 15:16:00 The initiative, known as Healthy San Francisco , is the first effort by a locality to guarantee care to all of its uninsured, and it represents the latest attempt by state and local governments to patch a inadequate federal system. More About: Care , Adult , Offer
Gorillas now 'critically endangered'
2007-09-13 15:29:00 The most common type of gorilla is now "critically endangered," one step away from global extinction, according to the 2007 Red List of Threatened Species released Wednesday by the World Conservation Union. More About: Gorillas , Endangered , Gere , Ally , Critical
End of the World--or Maybe Not
2007-09-13 15:27:00 In about five billion years, current thinking goes, the Sun will use up the hydrogen that fuels it and expand into a red giant, 100 times larger in diameter than it is today. In the process, Mercury, Venus, and possibly Earth will be consumed--burned to cinders and then swallowed by the giant, aging star that used to nurture us. So the clock is ticking. Only five billion years to go? More About: World , The World , End Of The World
Son of Deported Immigration Activist Urges Congress to Bring Mom Back to Am
More articles from this author:2007-09-13 15:26:00 American-born 8-year-old Saul Arellano, who took refuge in a Chicago church with his mother to avoid her deportation, lobbied Congress Wednesday to help bring her back to the United States. More About: Immigration , Back , Urge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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