Charges Filed in Options Probe
Washington Post - Jul 20, 2006Federal prosecutors yesterday filed the first criminal charges against a top executive who allegedly manipulated stock option awards in order to give his employees a bigger payday and conceal corporate expenses. ...

Medical Mistakes Plague 1.5M Americans a Year
KLTV - Jul 20, 2006A doctor's poor penmanship may soon be a thing of the past. Today in a report on medication errors, the prestigious Institute of Medicine called on physicians to electronically prescribe drugs by the year 2010. ...

Democrats Tweak the Primary Calendar
Washington Post - 3 hours agoBy Chris Cillizza and Zachary A. Goldfarb. There were lots of complaints among Democrats about the lack of racial and geographic diversity in the party's presidential nominating calendar. Yesterday, the party ...

Iraqi leader vows to press US to work for cease-fire in Lebanon
Boston Globe - 2 hours agoBy Associated Press | July 23, 2006. BAGHDAD -- Iraq's prime minister said yesterday that he will urge US officials to work for a cease-fire in Lebanon during his visit to Washington, saying Israel's ``hostile ...

Landis takes 59 second lead into final stage of Tour
Irish Independent - 2 hours agoWith just today's final stage of the Tour de France to go, American Floyd Landis has regained the overall leader's Yellow Jersey after Stage 19. Landis finished third behind Ukraine's Serhiy Honchar in Saturday's ...

US Evacuations Wind Down in Beirut
Washington Post - 7 hours agoBy LAUREN FRAYER. BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Hovercraft landed on a sandy strip near Beirut's port on Saturday, whisking Americans away to the US Navy ships. Others boarded a luxury cruiseliner enlisted in the evacuation of Americans. ...

Gaza militants propose unilateral ceasefire
CTV.ca - 7 hours agoMilitant groups have agreed to halt rocket attacks against Israel beginning at midnight, Saturday, in an attempt to bring an end to the blistering Israeli offensive that began June 28. The Israelis began the ...

ABOUT: CHRON Balance, not bias, guides coverage of Middle East
Houston Chronicle - 3 hours agoBy JAMES T. CAMPBELL. IT'S axiomatic that readers keep score particularly when it comes to the Chronicle's coverage of the Middle East conflict. The news media, the Chronicle included, essentially have become a referee in the struggle. ...

Sony, Yahoo Offer DRM-Free Downloadable Song
MacNewsWorld - Jul 21, 2006By Jay Lyman. The Yahoo Music release -- a personalized song by Jessica Simpson -- is in MP3 format, which means it can be stored, transferred, burned and played on nearly all digital music players, including iPods. ...

A walk in space for $35 million
Mumbai Mirror - 12 hours agoWashington: You do not have to be an astronaut anymore to experience the out-of-this-world freedom of walking in space. All you need is $35 million (Rs 1,633,100,000) and the willingness to risk your life. ...

Giants embrace Hillenbrand
MLB.com - 6 hours agoBy Coley Harvey / MLB.com. SAN FRANCISCO -- Once they heard a few days ago that infielder Shea Hillenbrand was out on the market and left virtually teamless, several Giants players entered manager Felipe Alou's ...

Hezbollah Rocket Attack Kills 2 in Haifa
ABC News - 42 minutes agoA Israeli woman looks at her destroyed apartment after it was hit by a rocket fired by Hezbollah guerrillas from Lebanon in Israel's port city of Haifa Friday, July 21, 2006. Hezbollah has fired hundreds of ...

China Reports New Bird Flu Outbreak
Voice of America - 18 hours agoBy VOA News. China's official Xinhua news agency says a new bird flu outbreak has killed more than 3,000 chickens in the northwest. The Ministry of Agriculture told Xinhua that the July 14 outbreak in Xinjiang region's Aksu city is under control. ...

Stem-Cell Veto Will Factor in Close Races
Newsweek - Jul 21, 2006July 21, 2006 - There s no daylight between President Bush and what any Democrat is saying about the Middle East conflict. Polls show that Americans sympathize with Israel but don t want us to get drawn into the fighting. ...

A Convenient Truth
Austin Chronicle - 23 hours agoNew Jersey has been the butt of so many jokes over the years that, in the eyes of the rest of the country, having as a state nickname the phrase "Garden State" feels like some aging Catskills yukkster's musty punchline. Ba-da-bing! ...

Israelis search & destroy
New York Daily News - 1 hour agoBY MICHELE GREEN in Jerusalem. Israeli officials yesterday predicted at least a month of fighting ahead in southern Lebanon as troops launched search-and.destroy missions to root out a massive network of Hezbollah bunkers. ...

Microsoft's Zune: Its Answer to iPod/iTunes
PC World - Jul 21, 2006It's official. Microsoft will release an iPod rival this year, according to our colleague Elizabeth Montalbano of IDG News Service. She tells us that Microsoft today confirmed it will ship competitive offerings ...

Roddick reaches first final of season at Indianapolis
Reuters.uk - 14 hours agoINDIANAPOLIS, July 22 (Reuters) - Former world number one Andy Roddick reached his first final in 2006 with a 7-5 6-3 win over fellow American Robby Ginepri at the RCA Championships on Saturday. Roddick, now ...

Alzheimer's cure getting closer
The Australian - 16 hours agoIn a world first, a Melbourne research team has developed the once-a-day pill to combat the brain disease. Human trials of the drug start next month. The drug, known as PBT2, was developed by the Mental Health ...

Iran prepared for nuclear talks without preconditions - official
RIA Novosti - 35 minutes agoTEHRAN, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - Iran is prepared to hold negotiations on its nuclear program without any preconditions, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday. Iran's nuclear program ...

Lukewarm Waters
Newsweek - 5 hours agoJamie Foxx and Colin Farrell star in a remake of the 1980s television series. Courtesy Universal. By David Ansen. July 31, 2006 issue - If you got to "Miami Vice" looking for nostalgia, you're barking up the wrong palm tree. ...

Letters: Fighting with Hezbollah
Houston Chronicle - Jul 20, 2006ISRAEL is finally responding to years of Hezbollah rocket attacks on her civilians by targeting the sources of those attacks in Lebanon. Unfortunately, since Hezbollah has cynically located much of its military ...

Treasurys turn lower ahead of the weekend
MarketWatch - Jul 21, 2006NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices turned lower in early afternoon trade Friday, pushing yields above their session lows, as investors squared positions ahead of the weekend. Earlier prices rose, putting ...

Finding Magic Somewhere Under the Pool in 'Lady in the Water'
New York Times - 21 hours agoIT was just around the time when the giant eagle swooped out of the greater Philadelphia night to rescue a creature called a narf, shivering and nearly naked next to a swimming pool shaped like a collapsed heart, that I realized M. Night Shyamalan had ...