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Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert Monday, November 07, 2005 09:00 PM PST Today's Most Popular News: Cheerleaders Had Sex in Bar, Witnesses Say US intel on Iraq-Qaeda ties 'intentionally misleading': document Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude Australia foils major attack Feds: Wal-Mart Execs Knew Workers Illegal U.S. Papers Adding Japanese-Style Comics Xavier Struggles to Survive Post-Katrina Calif. City Could Become U.S. Solar Leader Group Wants to Set Minimum Hunting Age Pharmacist Shortage Worsens Nationwide Three die playing catch with grenade Texas City Split Over Vote to Change Name 92,000 US troops told to prepare for Iraq rotation Flyi Files for Bankruptcy Protection China to lead greenhouse gas emissions surge: IEA Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture' Viagra reverses symptoms of Raynaud's Cancer Survivors May Not Get Needed Care US newspaper circulation drops: study New "chip" could provide quick bird flu test Cheerleaders Had Sex in Bar, Witnesses Say Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:23 pm PST AP - Two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders were charged after their arrest at a bar where witnesses told police the women had sex in a restroom. Full Story Top US intel on Iraq-Qaeda ties 'intentionally misleading': document Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:04 am PST AFP - US military intelligence warned the Bush administration as early as February 2002 that its key source on Al-Qaeda's relationship with Iraq had provided "intentionally misleading" data, according to a declassified report. Full Story Top Generation Y: They've arrived at work with a new attitude Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:10 am PST USATODAY.com - They're young, smart, brash. They may wear flip-flops to the office or listen to iPods at their desk. They want to work, but they don't want work to be their life. This is Generation Y, a force of as many as 70 million. Full Story Top Australia foils major attack Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:50 pm PST Reuters - Australian authorities foiled what they believed to be a large-scale terrorist attack, arresting 15 people during raids in the country's two biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Tuesday. Full Story Top Feds: Wal-Mart Execs Knew Workers Illegal Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:48 pm PST AP - Senior Wal-Mart executives knew cleaning contractors were hiring illegal immigrants, many of whom were housed in crowded conditions and sometimes slept in the backs of stores, according to a federal agency's affidavit. Full Story Top U.S. Papers Adding Japanese-Style Comics Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:32 pm PST AP - "Doonesbury" and "Peanuts," make way for "manga." Come January, the Sunday funnies of several major North American newspapers will have doe-eyed women in frilly outfits, effeminate long-haired heroes and other trademark images of the Japanese comic style. Full Story Top Xavier Struggles to Survive Post-Katrina Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:42 pm PST AP - Warped wooden floors and ruined desks have been stripped out of Xavier University's main campus building. Its 4,000 students are scattered across the nation. Half the faculty and staff have been laid off. Full Story Top Calif. City Could Become U.S. Solar Leader Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:54 am PST AP - Here in the sunny suburbs east of San Francisco, voters get a chance to make their community a national leader in solar power at a time of soaring energy prices and global warming. Full Story Top Group Wants to Set Minimum Hunting Age Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:52 pm PST AP - John Wagner was 5 when he killed his first deer with one shot from a .223-caliber rifle. He is now standing in the living room of his family home and recalling with mounting excitement how last December he trained the cross hairs on the 75-pound doe as she paused beneath a tree house where he and his father waited. Full Story Top Pharmacist Shortage Worsens Nationwide Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:36 pm PST AP - Unlike most college students nearing graduation, Clarissa Hall isn't worried about finding a job — she's already considering several offers, including some with possible starting salaries of at least $80,000. Full Story Top Three die playing catch with grenade Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:27 am PST Reuters - A hand grenade being used instead of a ball in a game of catch exploded early on Saturday killing three youths in this Bosnian town, police and news agencies said. Full Story Top Texas City Split Over Vote to Change Name Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:46 am PST AP - In the 1840s, a village of white pioneers sprang up amid several American Indian encampments. Its name, White Settlement, seemed fitting at the time. Full Story Top 92,000 US troops told to prepare for Iraq rotation Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:03 pm PST Reuters - The Pentagon on Monday notified 92,000 fresh U.S. troops to prepare for rotation to Iraq over a two-year period beginning in mid-2006, but cautioned that the number did not signal immediate plans to slash a much-higher U.S. troop level now in that country. Full Story Top Flyi Files for Bankruptcy Protection Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:41 pm PST AP - Flyi Inc., which launched low-fare Independence Air just one year ago from its hub at Washington's Dulles Airport, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday and said it hopes a court-supervised auction will attract a new investor in the next 60 days. Full Story Top China to lead greenhouse gas emissions surge: IEA Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:10 am PST AFP - China and other developing countries will emerge as the world's biggest polluters over the next 25 years, driving a sharp increase in greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday. Full Story Top Bush Declares: 'We Do Not Torture' Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:39 pm PST AP - President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful. "We do not torture," Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas. Full Story Top Viagra reverses symptoms of Raynaud's Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:34 pm PST Reuters - Viagra (sildenafil) relieves the symptoms and improves the circulation of patients with Raynaud's phenomenon that does no response to conventional therapy, German investigators report. In patients with ulcers on their fingers or toes, the treatment leads to healing. Full Story Top Cancer Survivors May Not Get Needed Care Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:26 am PST AP - The nation's 10 million cancer survivors require customized follow-up for years that too few now receive, says a major study that calls for oncologists to create a "survivorship plan" to guide every patient's future health care. Full Story Top US newspaper circulation drops: study Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:30 am PST Reuters - U.S. newspaper circulation fell 2.6 percent in the last six months, according to a report released on Monday, extending a trend that has seen the industry struggle to keep subscriptions in the face of competition from television and the Internet. Full Story Top New "chip" could provide quick bird flu test Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:42 pm PST Reuters - A new "chip" can test for 11 different influenza strains, including avian flu, in less than a quarter of the time it now takes to diagnose flu in patients, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Full Story Top You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences. 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