Guardian Unlimited - Patients are to be able to access a website on the performance of private hospitals. The Healthcare Commission site is designed to make it easier to see whether independent and voluntary providers are meeting national core standards. The performance
San Francisco Gate - After seeing the high arrest rate, Newsom said the city was hiring Lorie Fridell, a University of South Florida criminologist who is an expert on racial profiling, to analyze the data on black arrest rates in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Los
Digital Spy - We've got a home network, powered by a Netgear router. We've got a PC hardwired to it and one other PC which connects to it wirelessly. We have no problems accessing the internet, download speeds are good, but everything slows to a crawl when we try
Herald Tribune - NEW YORK: Prices of U.S. Treasury notes were little changed Tuesday after government reports showed that housing permits declined in November, while wholesale prices rose the most in more than three decades. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note
Boston Online - Police at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are using photographs, websites, videos, and the student body to identify students who set objects afire and threw bicycle tires, beer bottles, and other projectiles at police after the football
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - Mississippi State University has set up a Web site and phone number for questions about the security breach. Information is available at www. identityprotection.msstate. edu or (662) 325-6827. Mississippi State University has sent letters to 2,400
Street.Com - The news sent Northfield's stock plunging in after-hours trading, dropping it $6.32, or 55%, to $5.10. The test results, described as preliminary, were released after the markets had closed, but investors were nervous earlier in the day. In regular
Forbes - -Arcelor Mittal, up 0.52 eur or 1.7 pct at 31.75 after the world's largest steelmaker announced the purchase of Mexico's Sicartsa from Grupo Villacero for an enterprise value of 1.44 bln usd, in the latest move to expand its production footprint. A
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Baltimore Sun - Although many of the problems associated with a bug-ridden and complicated student-data computer program have been worked out, top-ranking Howard County school officials say they want to replace it with a customized but more costly method of