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Job Cuts Top 100,000 in January - Report Tuesday February 3, 12:50 pm ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - Planned job cuts in January were 26 percent higher than in December as U.S. jobs moved to countries like India, China and the Philippines, and as mergers made some jobs redundant, according to a report on Tuesday. The outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., said post-holiday job cuts reached 117,556 in January surpassing the 100,000 threshold for the first time since last October. Financial markets were on their toes awaiting January's payrolls report to be issued by the Labor Department on...

<p>Ultra-wideband: Imagine a television that can wirelessly send three different programs to separate monitors. Low-power, low-cost, and with roughly 45 times the data transmission speed of run-of-the-mill Wi-Fi, this wireless technology is finally ready to debut in the living room.</p>

Q&A session with Saddam... December 15, 2003 Just over a day after the historic capture of ousted leader Saddam Hussein from within a dark spider hole, media channels worldwide have been immeasurably trying to capture every word, stare or any other gesture coming from Saddam, in order to fully grasp what the Iraqi leader knew and comprehend how he conducted his affairs. Reporters, analysts, commentators, psychologists and other experts are examining every piece of information, every angle of Saddam's face, movements, face expressions and behavior with the aim of trying to understand the "new order" of this Post-Saddam era as...

Hepatitis A Cases at High School May Be Related to Chi-Chi's Outbreak The Associated Press HOOKSTOWN, Pa. (AP) - High school students who have tested positive for hepatitis A may be the first people to contract the virus from victims of an outbreak at a nearby Mexican restaurant. State health officials said they will know Monday or Tuesday whether the latest cases, involving an unspecified number of high school students, are the first secondary cases tied to the largest known hepatitis A outbreak, which was confirmed last month at a Chi-Chi's restaurant about 25 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. Health officials...

Sales of Mexican Green Onions Plummet After U.S. Hepatitis Outbreak Traced to Northwestern Mexico The Associated Press SAN LUIS RIO COLORADO, Mexico Nov. 25 — Sales of Mexican green onions plunged after a hepatitis outbreak in the United States was traced to northwestern Mexico, forcing farmers in this valley to defend the safety of their produce and find ways to stay afloat financially. Many U.S. distributors are slashing orders, even though it hasn't been proved that Mexico was to blame for the outbreak. Green onions are big business in the area, making up 90 percent of the fruit and vegetables...

More layoffs possible for AT&T Wireless; some jobs go to India By Brier Dudley Seattle Times technology reporter Further layoffs at AT&T Wireless are possible, but the Redmond-based company has not "made any firm decisions" on staffing levels, a spokesman said yesterday. As part of its effort to cut costs and improve its profit margin, the company might go beyond the 1,900 layoffs disclosed last week. It is consolidating operations in Redmond and New Jersey and moving tasks such as Web-site operations to vendors in India.

Tommy Chong will stay behind bars 31oct03 Looks like Tommy Chong will stay behind bars. A federal judge has ruled that the Up in Smoke star's prison sentence for conspiracy to sell drug paraphernalia would likely stand and refused to release him from jail pending an appeal. The 65-year-old actor and comedian, best known for his portrayal of a drug-addled ne'er-do-well in the Cheech and Chong movies, pleaded guilty to conspiracy last spring in federal court and was sentenced to nine months in prison. He reported October 8 to begin serving his prison term in Pittsburgh. Prosecutors said Chong grew...

Saturday, October 4Limbaugh won't be prosecuted, attorneys wager By John Pacenti, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 4, 2003 WEST PALM BEACH -- Rush Limbaugh's alleged addiction to painkillers may be documented in e-mails. His reported drug deals may have been taped by his former housekeeper. And the talkative maid and her handyman husband could even be willing to testify against the conservative talk-show host. They sure were willing to spill everything to a supermarket tabloid. But the chance of criminal charges ever being filed against Limbaugh is next to nil, say criminal defense attorneys who have handled numerous...

Limbaugh In The Shadow Of His Own Words Ellis Henican October 3, 2003, 12:31 AM EDT "Let's all admit something." Rush Limbaugh was on his usual tear. "There's nothing good about drug use," he was saying. "We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law...

China Beefing Up World Political Contacts Thursday September 25, 2003 1:49 PM By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press Writer BEIJING (AP) - As China reaches out to the world, its ruling Communist Party is beefing up contacts with scores of political groups abroad - from North Korea's Stalinist Worker's Party to Germany's Christian Democrats. Opening a window onto a little-known branch of Chinese diplomacy, deputy director of the party's International Department, Cai Wu, said Thursday his organization has built links over the past quarter-century with 400 political parties and groupings in 140 countries. Those ties act as an adjunct to China's...

Hands Off, China Tells G7 on Eve of Talks Sept. 19 — By Alan Wheatley, Asian Economics Correspondent DUBAI (Reuters) - China bluntly told the United States on Friday not to make it a scapegoat for its economic woes by pressing for a revaluation of the yuan at this weekend's meeting of the world's leading industrial powers. The need for China and other Asian nations to let their currencies rise to help iron out major imbalances threatening the global economy will be a major talking point when Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers gather on Saturday in Dubai. With the...

<p>WASHINGTON - The economy shed 93,000 jobs in August, nearly a third of them in the well-paid professional sector, the government said Friday in a grim report suggesting that joblessness may persist despite tax cuts and lower interest rates.</p> <p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics said the nation's unemployment rate declined slightly from 6.2 percent to 6.1 percent, but analysts placed more weight on actual job losses reported by businesses. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed job seekers who have given up looking for work aren't counted in jobless-rate calculations.</p>

Celebrity News: 5th September 2003 Belushi Organises Arnie Bash Arnold Schwarzenegger's Red Heat co-star James Belushi is helping the movie superstar raise cash for his campaign to run for Governor of California - by charging businessmen to meet him. Belushi has co-organized a $1,000-a-head fundraising party, but Arnie fans will have to pay and extra $9,000 if they actually want to meet the big guy. The funnyman has joined other celebrities like Rob Lowe and Jamie Lee Curtis who are supporting Schwarzenegger, and he has organized a bash for his pal. He says, "I'm not paying anything. I'm paying for...

<p>U.S. stocks fell after a government report showed the U.S. economy lost jobs last month and Banc of America Securities LLC cut its rating on Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's biggest retailer.</p> <p>The Standard & Poor's 500 Index has climbed for six months in a row, while the number of Americans on payrolls has fallen for seven consecutive months. The dearth of new jobs has raised concerns that consumer spending, which accounts for 70 percent of the U.S. economy, won't pick up as fast as some investors expect.</p>

LinkFor any Western movie lovers out there a film called "Open Range" starring Robert Duvall and Kevin Costner opens today, see a preview here. Looks like it could be good.

Hardline vigilantes in Iran beat up students in their bed inside dormitories Canadian Press Saturday, June 14, 2003 TEHRAN (AP) - Dozens of vigilantes stormed at least two student hostels overnight, beating up students in their beds and detaining several of them, students said Saturday. ``We were sleeping in our beds. Suddenly we heard windows being smashed. Fists and kicks by hardline vigilantes woke up some of the students held up in their rooms,'' student Mojtaba Najafi said. Najafi said about 200 students were sleeping in their rooms in Hemmat Hostel, affiliated to Allameh Tabatabai University, when the attacks began....

<p>At Mayor Terry Overmyer's strong recommendation, Fremont City Council decided unanimously Thursday not to become a part of the multi-jurisdiction Northwest Ohio Pharmacy Card Network.</p> <p>Overmyer said earlier this week that he changed his mind on the program that was started in March by Toledo City Councilman Wade Kapszukiewcz, after finding out that one of the program's features -- a Canadian mail-order prescription drug system -- was illegal according to the Food and Drug Administration.</p>

U.S. soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor, stand next to a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein damaged by gunfire, after conducting a search of a military complex in the town of Kerbala southwest of Baghdad, April 5, 2003. The United States said its troops had maneuvered through Baghdad for the first time, taking the 17-day-old war to topple President Saddam Hussein right into his battered capital. (Peter Andrews/Reuters) U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, take position after they were taking fire from an Iraqi sniper on the main road linking to Baghdad , about a half mile...

Coalition Troops Near Center of Baghdad April 5 2003 By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer NEAR BAGHDAD, Iraq - Substantial numbers of coalition troops were near the center of Baghdad on Saturday and had no plans to pull back, a U.S. Central Command spokesman said. "As of this morning, coalition forces are actually in the city of Baghdad," said Navy Capt. Frank Thorp. "As we moved into the city, we saw sporadic fighting, we've actually moved through the Republican Guard divisions to pretty much the center of the city." "We have substantial forces now moving into the city," he said....

Fleeing troops abandon tanks The Western Mail - The National Newspaper Of Wales THE road from the Kuwait-Iraq border to Basra is lined with abandoned Iraqi tanks. Just a few days ago they were set up along the road to fire on coalition troops advancing on Iraq's second biggest city. But now they lie derelict, abandoned by the Iraqis and left intact by the British Army so they can be used again by Iraq's army once Saddam Hussein's regime is toppled. Officers said the Iraqi soldiers had run away too quickly to attempt to take their tanks with them. On...