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02/09/08 3:41 PM

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Crews Search for 4 Bodies at Refinery
Crews searching for four missing sugar refinery workers worked Saturday to shore up the wobbly remnants of the plant devastated by an explosion and fire that killed four other people and injured dozens more. Officials clung to slim hope that


Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft Bid
Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, according to a person familiar with the situation. The decision could provoke a...


Hollywood Writers Meet on Tentative Deal
Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work.


Report: Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft
Yahoo Inc.'s board plans to reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion bid to buy the Internet pioneer, The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Saturday. Board members concluded the unsolicited offer massively undervalues the company, a


Writers Meet on Tentative Deal
Hollywood writers got their first look Saturday at details of a tentative agreement with studios that could put the strike-crippled entertainment industry back to work.


Accused French Trader's Comrade Released
A trader at the French bank Societe Generale was released without charge Saturday after two days of questioning about the case of jailed fellow trader Jerome Kerviel. The bank employee, also a trader, was freed after being questioned Saturday


Writers Strike Nearing Postscript?
The now 3-month-old Hollywood writers strike could enter its final chapter Saturday when guild members gather in Los Angeles and New York to consider a proposed contract. If writers respond favorably, the walkout that has devastated the...


Mob Tied to Big NYC Construction Jobs
The trucks that rolled into Staten Island left more than dirt at the site of a new NASCAR racetrack. They also brought cash for the Gambino crime family, prosecutors say. It was all part of the cost of doing business at construction sites...


PETA Opposes Tribute to Fried Chicken
Animals rights advocates are squawking at a measure that would make fried chicken Kentucky's official picnic food. State Rep. Charles Siler is sponsoring legislation to assign the designation to KFC's "finger lickin' good" chicken, first...


Federal Rules Threaten US Cruise Ports
Portland's gleaming, $21 million terminal for cruise ships and ferries will open this spring. Another $7 million berth built to accommodate the world's largest cruise ships will follow next year. There's one problem. Because of a...


Company Builds $1 Billion Juice Business
On stage at a sales convention, XanGo executive vice president Joseph Morton said that when he first stumbled across mangosteen, a tropical fruit with purported curative powers, "I didn't have to have it confirmed in the New England medical journal...




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