E-Trade to buy JPMorgan's BrownCo for $1.6B BusinessWeek - 31 (Web promotion) minutes

E-Trade to buy JPMorgan's BrownCo for $1.6B BusinessWeek - 31 (Web promotion) minutes

E-Trade to buy JPMorgan's BrownCo for $1.6B
BusinessWeek - 31 minutes ago SEP. 29 3:26 PM ET E-Trade Financial Corp. on Thursday said it will buy BrownCo from JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $1.6 billion, a move that intensifies its rivalry with Ameritrade Holding Corp. for dominance in the online brokerage market.

Dark days of a reluctant hero
This is London - 5 hours ago David Cronenberg is incapable of making an entirely straightforward movie, though his latest may at first look that way. It appears to be a generic urban western, but its study of violence and mayhem, laced

Wildfire Devours 17,000 Acres Near LA
ABC News - 56 minutes ago A helicopter drops fire retardant on hillsides Thursday morning, Sept. 29, 2005, in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles. Wind-driven brush fires are ringing huge areas of Southern California. Thousands of acres across four counties have been scorched.

Blair Apologizes for Heckler's Ejection
ABC News - 32 minutes ago Walter Wolfgang an 82-year-old Labour activist from London, who was thrown out of the party's annual conference by stewards for heckling Jack Straw arrives back at the conference, Brighton, England, Thursday Sept. 29, 2005.

Google-NASA partnership rockets Web debate
CNET News.com - 44 minutes ago As part of Google's just-announced plan to build up 1 million square feet of offices at NASA Ames Research Center near Mountain View, Calif., the two entities will cooperate on research projects such as large-scale data management, nanotechnology

Chicago's Garcia goes for 14th victory against Tigers
Sports Network - 6 hours ago (Sports Network) - Freddy Garcia shoots for his 14th victory of the season on Thursday, as the AL Central Division-leading Chicago White conclude a four- game series against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park.

The Artic Meltdown Speeds Up
TIME - 37 minutes ago Even as debate continues about the role global warming has played in the recent burst of violent hurricanes, more bad news on the climate front emerged today from a decidedly untropical part of the world: the Arctic.