Report: Drug errors common, at times fatal
Monsters and Critics.com - 3 hours agoPHILADELPHIA, PA, United States (UPI) -- Every day one hospital patient is the victim of at least one drug overdose or medication mistake, a national report says. The report, released Thursday by the independent ...

Shocking news: Bloggers are regular people
San Francisco Chronicle - 12 hours agoAlexander Halavais, may only be an assistant professor of interactive communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, but he knows how to deliver the money quote. Asked about bloggers by the Washington Post, Halavais came up with a beaut. ...

Marines Back In Beirut For Evacuees
CBS News - 15 hours ago(CBS/AP) For the first time since 1984, US Marines hit the beaches in Beirut Thursday to help evacuate thousands of fleeing Americans, as the first planeload of US citizens arrived back in the United States. ...

Jury finds Owens innocent of rape, but guilty of less charges
Annapolis Capital - 1 hour agoWASHINGTON -- A military jury yesterday acquitted Naval Academy quarterback Lamar S. Owens Jr. of rape, but found him guilty of two lesser charges. Defense attorneys said they plan to ask the trial judge, Cmdr. ...

Microsoft vows to promote competition
Out-Law.com - 11 hours agoComputer manufacturers can set non-Microsoft programs as defaults without being punished in the prices they pay for Windows in future, according to self-imposed principles announced by the software giant to guide the future development of Windows. ...

Google Profit Surges on Strong Search Advertising
New York Times - 20 minutes agoGoogle s profits more than doubled in the second quarter, as the company continued to increase its share of the lucrative search advertising market. The company, which announced results yesterday, exceeded ...

In Mideast Strife, Bush Sees a Step To Peace
Washington Post - 1 hour agoPresident Bush's unwillingness to pressure Israel to halt its military campaign in Lebanon is rooted in a view of the Middle East conflict that is sharply different from that of his predecessors. When hostilities ...

To Save a Revolution
Washington Post - 28 minutes agoYou could sense the hurt and anger as Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora pleaded this week to the US ambassador and other diplomats in Beirut for a halt to Israeli attacks on Lebanese targets. "The country has been torn to shreds," he said. ...

Bush Offers Message of Reconciliation to NAACP
New York Times - 3 hours agoWASHINGTON, July 20 In his first speech to the NAACP since taking office in 2001, President Bush acknowledged on Thursday that many African-Americans distrust my party, and defended his record on domestic issues, including education ...

Luggage forces closure of Union Station
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - 49 minutes agoWASHINGTON - Police closed Union Station, the capital's main inner city train depot, late Thursday after finding a piece of unattended luggage, officials said. An Amtrak police officer discovered the luggage ...

Marines Return to Beirut to Aid US Evacuation
New York Times - 1 hour agoBEIRUT, Lebanon, July 20 United States marines landed in Beirut on Thursday for the first time in more than 20 years to help evacuate Americans from Lebanon, as Israeli officials suggested that Israeli ground troops might take a more active role in ...

Kofi Annan Addresses Middle East Violence
Washington Post - 11 hours agoANNAN: Much of the infrastructure in Beirut and around the country has been destroyed. Lebanon remains under an Israeli military blockade imposed by sea and air. The Israeli people, who had hoped that Israel's ...

Lady in the Water
USA Today - 30 minutes agoBy Mike Clark, USA TODAY. As the title hints, M. Night Shyamalan's newsmaking Lady in the Water is set around a swimming pool. And though the result is too idiosyncratic to be regarded as just one more summer ...

USDA to reduce mad cow testing program by 90 pct
Reuters - 8 hours agoBy Christopher Doering. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US government will scale down its mad cow surveillance program by 90 percent to reflect a smaller presence of the disease in the United States, but reduced ...