Consumer prices take big jump San Francisco Chronicle - 9 hours (Web promotion)

Consumer prices take big jump San Francisco Chronicle - 9 hours (Web promotion)

Consumer prices take big jump
San Francisco Chronicle - 9 hours ago Consumer prices took their biggest one-month jump in 23 years in September. But economists and investors shrugged off the spike, blaming it on an oil price shock that is expected to recede without igniting an inflationary spiral.

Death Toll From Northeast Floods Hits 11
Guardian Unlimited - 2 hours ago By WAYNE PARRY. SPRING LAKE, NJ (AP) - The death toll from a week of driving rain and swelling floods across the Northeast rose to 11 on Saturday after a 75-year-old Connecticut man was swept away by rushing water at a campground.

Daniel Craig Is Officially 007
Dark Horizons - 21 hours ago Its been floating around the tabloids, papers and news networks all week but a few hours ago at a press conference it was finally made official - 37-year-old British actor Daniel Craig IS the new James Bond.

Foam-loss probe completed, NASA aims for May launch
Houston Chronicle - 14 hours ago By MARK CARREAU. NASA officials announced Friday they will aim for a May launch of the next shuttle mission after investigators blamed application problems for the potentially deadly foam insulation loss that accompanied Discovery's late July liftoff.

FAA Upgrading Radar to Keep Planes on Controllers' Screens
Washington Post - Oct 12, 2005 By Sara Kehaulani Goo. The Federal Aviation Administration said it is upgrading radar equipment to help prevent aircraft from disappearing from the computer screens of air traffic controllers. Controllers at

Russian police round up Muslim men
Seattle Post Intelligencer - 10 hours ago By MIKE ECKEL. NALCHIK, Russia -- When Zarema Valgasova last saw her son, he was semiconscious and bleeding profusely from a badly broken arm with cigarette burns on his body - the result, she says, of police torture after his arrest.

Homework pays off for Wie at Samsung
San Jose Mercury News - 9 hours ago PALM DESERT, Calif. - Doing her homework paid off for Michelle Wie. The 16-year-old phenom from Hawaii, taking a week off from school to make her professional debut at the Samsung World Championship, shot

Iraqis vote on controversial constitution
Xinhua - 3 hours ago BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet, by Jiang Xiaofeng, Jamal Hashim) -- Nine months after Iraqis elected a transitional parliament, they were again in polling stations to vote on the country's first post-Saddam constitution on Saturday.

Miers Known As Tough, Ambitious Lawyer
Guardian Unlimited - 3 hours ago By DONNA CASSATA. WASHINGTON (AP) - For all that talk about Harriet Miers' being a paper-pushing idolizer of the president, acquaintances say there is another side to her. The Supreme Court nominee is a tough