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Investor pushes airline merger

Associated Press
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - ATLANTA -- A hedge fund which advocates a combination of Delta Air Lines Inc. and UAL Corp.'s United Airlines took its case Friday to a group of investors in the two air...
Official's brother quits Blackwater

Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP)-- The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday, two days after the re...
Ethanol's uncertain future grows risk for ADM

By Eric Kroh Medill News Service
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Despite record first-quarter earnings reported Nov. 6 by Archer Daniels Midland Co., the company's good fortune could still turn on a dime. Some analysts see the Decatur...
French arrest seven on terror-related charges

Associated Press
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - PARIS -- French authorities have detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly trained to fight in Iraq by firing weapons in the woods of eastern France, poli...
Hate crimes spur D.C. marchers

Associated Press
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Marchers surrounded the Justice Department headquarters on Friday to demand federal intervention in the "Jena Six" case and enforcement of hate crimes agai...
DNA gives police lead in student's death

Associated Press
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - ROME -- Police found DNA traces from two people on a kitchen knife believed to be the weapon in the killing of a 21-year-old British student: the victim's on the tip, an...
Baxter vaccine halts one type of bird flu

Bloomberg News
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. said its trial vaccine against an Indonesian variety of avian influenza was safe and effective in a human study, the first time...
Briefs: Fannie Mae under scrutiny

Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Three years after an accounting scandal forced Fannie Mae to restate earnings by $6.3 billion, the government-backed home-loan finance company is on the de...
Doctor's Darfur work earns accolades

Associated Press
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- A doctor who treats victims of torture and sexual violence in Sudan's Darfur region received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award on Friday. Dr. Moh...
WWII code-breaker no match for PC

Associated Press
Nov 16, 2007 10:00 pm - LONDON -- A rebuilt World War II code-cracking computer developed to intercept Nazi messages lost to a desktop computer Friday in a contest to decipher an encrypted radi...

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