TENNIS: Top seed Roger Federer has survived a major scare at the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters, defeating Robby Ginepri in a hard-fought second round encounter. The Swiss star struggled in his match-up with the unseeded American but was able to prevail 6-7 (2/7) 7-6 (7/5) 6-0
Philadelphia police are on the lookout for a gun-toting thief who snuck into a Drexel University building and gave a female employee the scare of a lifetime. The robber made his way into Stratton Hall at 32nd and Chestnut streets shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday and soon wandered into a...
HONG KONG AFP — More toys made in China now need export licences as the world's biggest manufacturer of the children's products moves to boost quality, an official said Wednesday following safety scares last year. Seven new product types need the licences, which have to be renewed every three...
Recent scares about the safety of imported food and feed products have focused intense attention on the government's food safety systems, which some take to include country-of-origin labeling requirements. Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) is among those calling on Congress to take steps to implement COOL as the earliest...
MADRID AFP — Spanish officials rushed to pull hundreds of thousands of falsely labelled toothpaste from shops nationwide Wednesday after a government lab found traces of a toxic substance normally used in antifreeze. More than 693,000 units had been withdrawn nationwide amid a growing scare over illegal imports, particularly...
HALLE, Germany AFP — American James Blake, the third-seed at the Halle ATP tournament, had to survive a first-set scare to see off compatriot Sam Querrey on Monday and reach the second-round. Blake, ranked ninth in the world, struggled in the first set against Querrey, ranked 59 places below...
SHANGHAI AFP — World number one Roger Federer credited a mental overhaul for his success after surviving an early scare at the Masters Cup. Federer lost the first set against defending champion David Nalbandian but refused to hit the panic button, instead working on drawing the Argentine into the net....
Byline: Sammi King When the earthquake hit Hawaii last weekend, my first thought was, at least we don't have to deal with that in the Midwest. OK, maybe we have minor quakes, but 6.8 on the Richter scale? Could it happen here? ...
Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.m Oct. 12 AScribe Newswire -- A good scare this Halloween, whether it's from a horror film or haunted house, is really not the preferred treat for most people, says a Purdue University mass media effects expert. ...
COLOMBO AFP — Several schools in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo have shut following fears that Tamil Tiger rebels may bomb them, officials and parents said. School buses were turned away at key colleges while even some international schools, where mostly children of expatriates study, were also closed amid...
CHICAGO AFP — If bird flu strikes America, Ken Hirsch is certain queues will form outside the Army Navy Surplus store his family has owned for more than 50 years. His cache of emergency rations, boots, camouflaged jackets and other paramilitary goodies is a bellwether of American mass hysteria....
Byline: Lindsey Willhite Daily Herald Sports Writer SAN DIEGO - Maybe it was the ketchup. Or perhaps the mustard. Or the straws or the paper towels stored inside the large silver container. Officials couldn't pinpoint what set them off, but two bomb- ...
KUALA LUMPUR AFP — The United States embassy in the Malaysian capital remained closed, after being shut down last week in a security scare over suspicions it was under surveillance. "We are still closed today," embassy spokeswoman Kathryn Taylor told AFP. The embassy was shut on Friday following...
LaSalle Bank gets back lost data tape CHICAGO - A U.S. mortgage firm affiliated with LaSalle Bank said Tuesday it had retrieved a computer tape with data of 2 million customers that was lost by delivery firm DHL, sparking a data security scare. ABN...
BEIJING AFP — Three people died and three were hospitalized after drinking homemade wine and eating pork on the southern island province of Hainan. The Xinhua news agency, citing a food safety official, blamed the deaths on the wine rather than the pork, which is at the centre of...
WASHINGTON AFP — Police ordered the evacuation of the US Capitol, which houses the US Senate and House of Representatives and President George W. Bush was moved to a secure location following reports that an aircraft had breached restricted airspace around Washington. "It was evacuated. There were reports of...
LONDON AFP — Venus Williams took another step closer to a possible Wimbledon fourth round showdown with sister Serena by easing past Australian veteran Nicole Pratt 7-5, 6-3 in the second round. Williams, the 14th seed and champion here in 2000 and 2001, struggled to overcome the feisty Pratt...
Have we learned anything from the anthrax scare that followed 9/11? We had a mini-scare here in Washington recently that led to antibiotics being given to 900 defense workers. That, it turns out, was a mistake. And it wasn't the only problem. According to the findings of the House Government...
Nearly four years after 9/11, Washington remains on hair-trigger alert. Wednesday, a small plane breached restricted airspace and came within 3 miles of the White House. Fighter jets scrambled to chase the Cessna two-seater. The White House and U.S. Capitol were evacuated. Live TV news reports showed police yelling "Get...
At the meeting point between science and moral judgment on matters environmental, Professor Thomas Sieger Derr of Smith College is second to none. He has been studying and writing on these issues for decades, and his work came to mind while reading a big story by Laurie...
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