By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO — Linda Beattie is trying desperately to pay Nintendo $250, but the company is not cooperating.
Two weeks ago, Ms. Beattie went to a video game retailer in the Bay Area in search of a Wii, Nintendo’s intensely popular video game machine. She timed her visit to correspond with the arrival […]
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By THOMAS FULLER and ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: December 14, 2007
NUSA DUA, Indonesia — Amid growing frustration with the United States over deadlocked negotiations at a United Nations conference on global warming, the European Union threatened Thursday to boycott separate talks proposed by the Bush administration in […]
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By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: December 14, 2007
Parasites that breed in fish farms kill so many passing juvenile wild salmon that they threaten the survival of fish populations in some rivers and streams, Canadian researchers are reporting.
Alexandra Morton
A young salmon infested with sea lice in British […]
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By Adria Cimino
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — European stocks increased, led by financial companies, after Bear Stearns Cos. analysts said Freddie Mac, the second-biggest U.S. mortgage finance company, has enough money to fund its operations.
UBS AG, the region’s biggest bank, and Barclays Plc of the U.K. advanced. Deutsche Lufthansa AG gained after agreeing […]
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By Shannon D. Harrington and Elizabeth Hester
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. will take over seven troubled investment funds and assume $58 billion of debt to avoid forced asset sales that would further erode confidence in capital markets. Moody’s Investors Service lowered the bank’s credit ratings.
The biggest U.S. bank by assets will […]
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EU leaders are gathering in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, to sign the new reform treaty to overhaul the bloc’s outgrown institutions.
The treaty is designed to replace the European constitution rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005.
It aims to streamline the bloc’s institutions after 12 mainly eastern European countries joined in the last three years.
It […]
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