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    Report: LAPD tried to reverse coroner's verdict  Jan 7, 2009
    The deadly shooting occurred on July 11, 2005, when Jose Raul Pena, armed and high on cocaine, barricaded himself with his daughter at his used-car dealership in Watts ... Bratton defended the actions of his officers but acknowledged "it is quite likely our officers killed both the suspect and the baby." ... However, a staffer in the LAPD's crime lab, Amy Driver, examined the evidence photos and X-rays and ballistics reports and became convinced that the girl's fatal wound was caused by a bullet... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    Assessing a Whitman candidacy  Jan 7, 2009
    Assessing candidacy of eBay's Meg Whitman ... Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, who made her political intentions perfectly clear when she quit various corporate boards on Monday, wouldn't be the first eBay alum to run for governor ... He's still very much on his feet, with his own private equity fund, and a bunch of political IOUs from his early boarding of the Barack Obama train. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    Charlotte's turn to bounce Celtics  Jan 7, 2009
    After 19 straight wins and an NBA record 27-2 start, the Boston Celtics have lost that swagger ... Going from unbeatable to vulnerable in less than two weeks, the Celtics were searching for answers after being left battered, bruised and angered by Larry Brown's upstart Bobcats ... And the NBA's worst offensive team had its second-best scoring night of the season. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Ex-Giant Walker to Mariners  Jan 7, 2009
    In 531/3 innings, the right-hander allowed 47 hits, struck out 49 and walked 21 while developing a split-finger fastball for the first time - the same pitch that helped make Putz an All-Star in 2007 ... He earned 10 more in 2006 after being traded to Tampa Bay, then had elbow ligament replacement surgery in July 2006 and missed 13 months before returning to the Giants ... Colorado has a solid core of starters in Aaron Cook, Jeff Francis and Ubaldo Jimenez. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Indians, Carl Pavano agree to $1.5M, 1-year deal  Jan 7, 2009
    3 million in performance bonuses, based on starts from 18-35 and innings from 130-235 ... Could Pavano wind up starting against former-Indian CC Sabathia ... He missed the entire 2006 season and his work ethic and willingness to get back were questioned by some teammates. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    CNN Doc for Surgeon General?  Jan 7, 2009
    Obama Wants Journalist Gupta for Surgeon General ... By Howard Kurtz President-elect Barack Obama has offered to , the neurosurgeon and correspondent for CNN and CBS, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation ... The offer followed a two-hour Chicago meeting in November with Obama, who said that Gupta could be the highest-profile surgeon general in history and would have an expanded role in providing health policy advice, the sources said. (The Drudge Report)

    Jobs breaks silence on health - Apple shares up  Jan 7, 2009
    Jobs became the center of attention Monday when he sought to squelch rumors about his health by publicly attributing his noticeable weight loss over the past year to a treatable hormonal imbalance and not the pancreatic tumor that surgeons removed in 2004 ... "There are more similarities than differences between Apple and Oracle," Friel said - including the fact that both Jobs and Ellison are backed by talented executive teams ... In 1997 Jobs came back, grafted the NeXT operating system into... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Mayor swaps Emerald Bowl payoff on technicality  Jan 7, 2009
    City Insider is back from vacation and has some updates on bizarre holiday happenings at City Hall ... If the Cal Bears won, Diaz owed Newsom several bags of fresh Florida oranges ... Florida oranges can't be shipped to California under federal regulations because of citrus canker, a contagious bacterial disease that causes leaves and fruit to drop from trees prematurely. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Giambi, A's close to deal  Jan 7, 2009
    The A's on Monday announced they have a new radio home, but within the next few days, they could make far bigger news: The team nearly has former Oakland first baseman Jason Giambi back in the fold ... Oakland's top competition for Giambi, Tampa Bay, signed DH/outfielder Pat Burrell on Monday and the Rays' top brass indicated it no longer would pursue any other big bats ... Signing Giambi would not necessarily preclude the club from adding another free-agent hitter if there are bargains to be... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Obama finds lovefest on Capitol Hill  Jan 7, 2009
    The economic package under consideration by President-elect Barack Obama and his congressional allies would commit $675 billion to $775 billion over two years (although additional proposals by lawmakers could increase the cost to as much as $850 billion) ... Obama has set a goal to create or save 3 million jobs in two years ... About half of the money would go to workers under what Obama during his campaign called the Making Work Pay credit, worth up to $500 for individuals and $1,000 for... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Bird flu infects poultry in 2nd province in Vietnam  Jan 7, 2009
    Some 400 chickens in Thanh Hoa's Ba Thuoc district had died of the disease, the agriculture ministry said in a report seen on Wednesday. In response, authorities in Ba Thuoc, about 150 km (94 miles) south of Hanoi, have slaughtered nearly 8,000 chickens in the area to stop the virus from spreading, the report said ... The H5N1 strain has killed 247 people globally among the 391 confirmed cases of infection since 2003, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). (AlertNet)

    Death of Travolta's son raises medical questions  Jan 7, 2009
    The death certificate lists a seizure as the cause of death, according to an undertaker in the Bahamas, where the boy died Friday ... Mild seizures can be barely noticeable; severe ones can cause convulsing and loss of consciousness ... Whether this happened to Jett Travolta or whether autopsy officials in the Bahamas know that term is uncertain. (Yahoo News)

    Obituaries for Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009  Jan 7, 2009
    Survivors include five children, Jeff (Patti Evans) Becker of Bangor, Dave Becker of West Salem, Mike Becker of La Crosse, Deb (Joe) Hemmersbach of Norwalk and Ken (Eileen) Becker of Sparta; five grandchildren, Derrick Hansen, Zach (fiancee Ashley Johnson) Hemmersbach, and Josh, Jacob and Trevor Hemmersbach; one sister, Barbara Ouim of La Crosse; and nieces and nephews ... She was baptized March 26, 1910, in Roundtrip, Mont ... Thelma s family moved back to Wisconsin when she was very young. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    Teens' abuse of cough medications soaring  Jan 7, 2009
    Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Teens' abuse of cough medications soari:/c/a/2006/12/06/BAGK6MQA271. DTL Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Teens' abuse of cough medications soari:/c/a/2006/12/06/BAGK6MQA271. (Yahoo News -- Substance Use)

    Minnesota Cops Sniff Out Pot Operation  Jan 7, 2009
    Paris has slept with "couple of people"; Swayze "scared." German's financial empire a victim of global meltdown ... Apple CEO Steve Jobs says hormone imbalance is cause for weight loss. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Weird News)

    Obama's ambition  Jan 7, 2009
    Article:Obama's ambition:/c/a/2009/01/06/ED1V154HT0. DTL Article:Obama's ambition:/c/a/2009/01/06/ED1V154HT0 ... Barack Obama was elected, in part, as the antidote to ambition. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Dems Redo House Rules, End GOP Influence  Jan 7, 2009
    Republicans would seek to send bills back to a committee to add provisions that often were unrelated to the wider bill, but which were popular enough to gain some Democratic rank-and-file support ... The change would prevent the minority from sending a bill back to committee for burial ... The appropriations bill for the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, stopped by a proposal to use education funds for criminal background checks. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Scan the floor first  Jan 7, 2009
    His status for Wednesday s game against Orlando remains a game time decision based on how the shoulder responds to the treatment ... But I can t imagine he ll see the floor, if he s back, without practicing the two days before the game ... So the Hawks probably won t be at full strength when the game tips off tomorrow night. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

    Grupo Salinas Achieves Superior Performance in 2008  Jan 7, 2009
    - Grupo Elektra Strengthens International Expansion, Operating Successfully in Eight Countries, with Strong Asset Base of Banco Azteca ... Grupo Elektra, the leading consumer finance and specialty retailer in Latin America, strengthened its international expansion through the launch of operations in Peru at the beginning of the year -- with the simultaneous opening of 120 branches in 36 cities -- and with the start of commercial and banking operations in Brazil in March with very promising... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Murad Invests in its Employees Health  Jan 7, 2009
    Based in Los Angeles, CA, the global headquarters are home to the award winning Murad Inclusive Health Center and Spa, Murad Medical Group and Murad Research Labs ... Get Your AA, BA, Masters or PhD at a Top Online School ... Further distribution of these materials by posting, archiving in a public web site or database, or redistribution in a computer network is strictly forbidden. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)

    Schwarzenegger visits state's Capitol Hill Dems  Jan 6, 2009
    But Congress is now in Democratic hands, and President Bush is cool to some Schwarzenegger initiatives, including his pushes on global warming and universal health coverage ... The governor also met with California's two Democratic senators, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, and held an early-evening session open to all 53 of the state's House members ... The governor also described his appeal to Democratic voters, even though he says he remains a loyal Republican "We are out there in a unique... (Yahoo News -- Arnold Schwarzenegger)

    Corporate wellness, Safeway style  Jan 6, 2009
    Eric Ward finally said goodbye to Baby Roo ... Coupled with lunchtime walks, his new exercise plan helped him get rid of the kangaroo-pouch pot belly that he had nicknamed Baby Roo ... "There are a lot of companies that basically are saying, 'You're on your own completely,' " Ward said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    Quakes jolt Indonesia - only 1 death reported  Jan 6, 2009
    Dozens were injured and 135 homes and other buildings were badly damaged or toppled in the province ... The Indonesian Health Ministry was sending an aid team to Manokwari on Sunday night as well as 4 tons of medical supplies and baby food, spokeswoman Lily Sulistyowati said ... Relief agency World Vision Indonesia was flying in 2,000 emergency provision kits, including canned food, blankets and basic medical supplies, said spokeswoman Katarina Hardono. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    FRESH START...  Jan 6, 2009
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Caution returned to Wall Street Monday as investors gave back some gains from last week's rally even as they found encouragement from President-elect Barack Obama's calls for an economic stimulus package ... Some retreat was to be expected after investors sent the Dow Jones industrial average to a two-month high on Friday; investors are wary about pouring more money into the battered market with economic data still weak and fourth-quarter earnings reports coming later this month... (The Drudge Report)

    Obama unlikely to get stimulus bill this month  Jan 6, 2009
    Congressional Democrats said Sunday that President-elect Barack Obama probably will have to wait until next month before getting the chance to sign an economic aid bill his team once hoped would be on his desk by his swearing-in Jan. 20 ... Obama planned to meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev ... Obama said Congress should pass a plan designed to create 3 million jobs. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Like a Virgin: The Press Take On Teenage Sex  Jan 6, 2009
    In fact, the only way the study's author, Janet Elise Rosenbaum of Johns Hopkins University, could reach such results was by comparing teens who take a virginity pledge with a very small subset of other teens: those who are just as religious and conservative as the pledge-takers ... He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, holds a BA in philosophy from Notre Dame and an MS in Communications from Boston University. (Wall Street Journal)

    Ill. impeachment panel may end without FBI tapes  Jan 6, 2009
    Blagojevich, 52, a two-term Democrat, is charged along with former chief of staff John Harris with a scheme to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by Barack Obama's election as president ... Roland Burris, the man appointed by Blagojevich to fill the seat left vacant by Obama, arrived in Washington prepared to fight to be seated, despite pledges from Senate Democrats not to confirm anyone appointed by Blagojevich ... Get Your AA, BA, Masters or PhD at a Top Online School. (Yahoo News)

    How Obama can partner with philanthropy  Jan 6, 2009
    With violence in the Mideast, the spreading economic crisis, the tragedy in Mumbai and the risk of state failure in troubled regions, President-elect Barack Obama has had a glimpse of the in-box that awaits him ... For example, among the most imaginative approaches to combatting poverty was the creation of microfinance by Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus, operating on a small Ford Foundation grant ... Bypassing the commercial banking system and its self-imposed constraints, Yunus' Grameen... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Palestinians say 2nd UN school hit by airstrike  Jan 6, 2009
    Palestinian health official Said Joudeh says three people were killed and four wounded in the airstrike in the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya ... Apple CEO Steve Jobs says hormone imbalance is cause for weight loss. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Bush Legacy In California: 'Zilch'  Jan 6, 2009
    (01-04) 17:10 PST -- President Bush once remarked at a White House party that in the famously liberal enclave of San Francisco, his supporters were so rare that "you could probably fit them all in one room." ... With just 15 days remaining for the Bush administration, political observers note that the Republican president's chilly relationship with the decidedly blue state - a relationship that is poised to undergo a revolution with Democratic President-elect Barack Obama - means that many here... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Palestinians say strike on 2nd UN school kills 30  Jan 6, 2009
    Hospital director Bassam Abu Warda confirmed the 30 deaths from the second airstrike ... THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information ... Palestinian health official Said Joudeh confirmed the death toll from the airstrike in the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya. (Yahoo News -- Politics)

    Al Franken wins Minnesota Senate seat in recount  Jan 6, 2009
    If the recount decision holds up President-elect Barack Obama's Democrats will control at least 58 of the 100 Senate seats in the new U.S. Congress, with one more possible once the Illinois seat vacated by Obama is filled ... "After 62 days of careful, painstaking inspection of ballots, I am proud to stand before you as the next senator from Minnesota," Franken, 57, told a news conference in front of his Minneapolis home with his wife Franni beside him ... A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader... (Yahoo News -- Politics)

    BA trading conditions "broadly unchanged"  Jan 6, 2009
    BA said traffic in December fell by 3 ... 51 million while BA's passenger load factor -- a measure of how full its aircraft were -- fell by 0 ... (Reporting by Matt Scuffham; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien). (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)

    Hebrew scholar Jacob Kabakoff was 90 (2)  Jan 6, 2009
    Hebrew scholar Jacob Kabakoff was 90 ... Published: Friday, December 26, 2008 1:10 AM EST Jacob Kabakoff, dean of the Cleveland College of Jewish Studies (now Siegal College) from 1952-68, died Dec. 17 in White Plains, N.Y. He was 90 ... After leaving Cleveland, Dr. Kabakoff, a noted Hebrew scholar, served as professor of Hebrew at Lehman College of The City University of New York until 1986. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)

    BA says passenger traffic fell 3.4 pct in December  Jan 6, 2009
    BA says passenger traffic fell 3 ... BA says passenger traffic fell 3 ... 4 percent in December compared with a year earlier as the global economic crisis deepened. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Guv approves earlier presidential primary  Jan 5, 2009
    But the approval of SB 113 also paves the way for state lawmakers to keep their jobs longer and the governor to resurrect his earlier promise of reapportionment reform, two issues likely to land on the new Feb. 5 ballot ... A top consultant for Assembly Speaker Fabian N;;ez, D-Los Angeles, is leading a ballot initiative effort to change that into a total of 12 years in either house ... Another ballot initiative to likely appear in February is reapportionment. (Yahoo News -- Arnold Schwarzenegger)

    6 Hurt In S.F. Stolen Car Chase  Jan 5, 2009
    Article:S.F. stolen car caper sends 6 to hospital:/c/a/2009/01/04/BATP153LAK.DTL Article:S.F. stolen car caper sends 6 to hospital:/c/a/2009/01/04/BATP153LAK.DTL ... The incident began shortly after 12:30 p.m. on San Bruno Avenue near Bacon Street in the city's Portola district, where the driver of a stolen car passed a police car ... They chased the driver on foot, over a fence and into the backyard of a house near Mansell Street, where police caught a suspect identified by Gittens as Antoine... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    Despite Video, BART Urges Patience On Probe  Jan 5, 2009
    BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting. Article:BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting:/c/a/2009/01/04/BA0R153LGU.DTL Article:BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting:/c/a/2009/01/04/BA0R153LGU.DTL ... BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    S.F. Bills Victim For Tiger Attack Medical Bill  Jan 5, 2009
    Article:S.F. files lien for tiger attack medical bill:/c/a/2009/01/02/BAKQ1530M2. DTL Article:S.F. files lien for tiger attack medical bill:/c/a/2009/01/02/BAKQ1530M2 ... Paul Dhaliwal is about to be sent to state prison to serve a 16-month sentence he was given in Santa Clara County in August for violating probation by leading police on a 140-mph chase. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    Israeli troops and tanks slice deep into Gaza  Jan 5, 2009
    By IBRAHIM BARZAK and JASON KEYSER, Associated Press Writers ... Thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought militants at close range Sunday, the first full day of an overwhelming ground offensive in the coastal territory ... Backing up the troops, mobile artillery units fired shells that exploded in veils of white smoke over Gaza's urban skyline. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    Critics say Newark barbed wire ban helps criminals  Jan 5, 2009
    Some business owners in this crime-plagued city say recent enforcement of a decades-old ordinance prohibiting some types of barbed wire and razor wire is making Newark more attractive to thieves ... The order was backed up by a previously little-used 1966 ordinance that states: "No barbed wire fence or other fence or wall having barbed or sharp projections facing outward, or otherwise endangering the traveling public, shall be permitted adjacent to or along the line of any street or public... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    BART appeals for calm as footage shows shooting  Jan 5, 2009
    (01-04) 19:38 PST Oakland -- BART's police chief asked for patience from the public on Sunday after video footage surfaced showing one of his officers fatally shooting an unarmed man who was on the ground on a station platform on New Year's Day, and after an attorney for the dead man's family said he planned to sue the transit agency for $25 million ... BART officials have said only that his handgun discharged at about 2:15 a.m. Thursday at the Fruitvale Station in Oakland and that the bullet... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    Monte Rio Man Held In Partner's Death  Jan 5, 2009
    Article:MONTE RIO / Man arrested after partner found dead:/c/a/2009/01/03/BAO4153HTL.DTL Article:MONTE RIO / Man arrested after partner found dead:/c/a/2009/01/03/BAO4153HTL.DTL ... As bad as 2008 was for retailers, it could get even worse in 2009 ... Popular S.F. DJ embarks on a quest to expand his brand into fashion. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)

    China targets Google in crackdown on pornography  Jan 5, 2009
    Pornography is banned in China, though the government's Internet police struggle to block Web sites based abroad. The government announcement said Google and Baidu, China's two most heavily used search engines, had failed to take "efficient" measures after receiving notices from the country's Internet watchdog that they were providing links to pornographic material ... Baidu did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment, and phones at Sina and Sohu rang unanswered. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    Featured Property: 2 green condos in Berkeley  Jan 5, 2009
    A visit to the two four-bedroom, three-bath townhouses at 1411 and 1413 Seventh St. therefore includes the opportunity to see a small display of the artifacts unearthed during their construction, as well as information on the 240-square-foot home that was built on the site in 1895 ... Tucked behind an open-slatted wooden fence, they are clad in a blend of cement fiber siding softened with board and baton finish on the upper floors and a dark gray stucco underneath ... The inclusion of exposed... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    Waterford Wedgwood calls in administrators  Jan 5, 2009
    By ROBERT BARR, Associated Press Writer ... The administration process in Britain is a form of bankruptcy protection ... For the six months ending Oct. 4, the Dublin-based company reported its net loss rose to euro75. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    Oil rises above $47 as OPEC cutbacks take hold  Jan 5, 2009
    Oil prices rose above $47 a barrel Monday on evidence that OPEC production cutbacks were taking hold and news of more unrest in oil-rich Nigeria ... 49 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Europe ... In the oil-rich Middle East, tensions were high as thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships surrounded Gaza's largest city and fought Hamas militants at close range Sunday, as the offensive moved from airstrikes to artillery... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    Interference hunter keeps pulsar waves clear  Jan 5, 2009
    (01-05) 04:00 PST Green Bank, W.Va ... Although buffered by ridgetops in a West Virginia mountain valley, 50 miles from the nearest town of any size, the Green Bank observatory is under an audio assault unlike any it has faced in the 50 years since Congress created the quiet zone ... While Green Bank is one of many radio telescope observatories around the world, it's unique because it features the world's largest steerable radio telescope. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    Sooners' DB takes shot at Tebow  Jan 5, 2009
    Oklahoma cornerback Dominique Franks, a sophomore from Tulsa, Okla. called Florida's Tim Tebow the fourth-best quarterback in the country Sunday ... "If you look at the three best quarterbacks in the country, (they) came from the Big 12," Franks said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Janny Hu's Off the backboard  Jan 5, 2009
    off the backboard By Janny Hu. Article:off the backboard By Janny Hu /:/c/a/2009/01/03/SP90152K7T.DTL Article:off the backboard By Janny Hu /:/c/a/2009/01/03/SP90152K7T.DTL ... off the backboard By Janny Hu. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Well-planned Pleasanton now a sought-after city  Jan 5, 2009
    She has the reputation of being a well-run, midsize city with a strong economic base, whose charms are especially attractive to young families: Sixty-four percent of the city's 23,311 households consist of married couples; 40 percent of households have children under the age of 18 living in them. Included among those amenities are two public high schools ranked in the top 400 in the nation by Newsweek; housing stock with a variety of architectural styles dating back to the 1850s and a range from... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Nancy Gay analyzes wild-card weekend  Jan 5, 2009
    Experience, defense, luck and the importance of great punting - after watching San Diego's Mike Scifres pin the Colts inside their 20 on all six of his attempts, tell me again why Ray Guy isn't in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ... Miami's Chad Pennington was as good as any quarterback in the NFL during the regular season at protecting the ball ... As a team, the Dolphins led the NFL in turnover margin (+17); they lost the ball 13 times while forcing 30 takeaways. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    S.F.'s ambiguous attitude toward brothels  Jan 5, 2009
    The sex shops exist in plain sight from the Sunset District to downtown, serving clients who walk into so-called spas, often with bathtubs, wall-to-wall mirrors and scantily clad women ... To defend the raid-related cases, the health department used lawyers from the city attorney's office to back up their case ... Police officials say that like other vice crimes, prostitution is investigated based on public complaints. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Stanford Beats Arizona  Jan 5, 2009
    After Arizona scored the game's first basket, Fields tied it by flying in from the wing for a dramatic tip-in dunk of a Goods miss ... Bay Area: Santa Clara loses at New Hampshire as Broncos' record falls to 7-9 ... As bad as 2008 was for retailers, it could get even worse in 2009. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    The next bubble to burst?  Jan 5, 2009
    Barring an unprecedented economic turnaround, our retail glut will yield a sizable wave of store closures once the holiday season passes ... Mervyns, based in Hayward, will generate about 10 million square feet of vacant space ... Without population growth, spending on typical big-box goods like hardware, basic clothing or housewares is a relatively fixed pie. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Fantasy predictions 2009: Granger ready to step up  Jan 5, 2009
    You're a shameless, unabashed fan of:All Cleveland teams ... If he lands with a team in need of a starter in the backfield, I think LeSean McCoy will be productive from the giddy-up ... The first player drafted in fantasy football leagues. (ESPN -- Football News)

    Researchers focus on bringing missing bees back  Jan 5, 2009
    The National Academy of Sciences in 2006 found declining populations of several bee species, along with other native pollinators like butterflies, hummingbirds and bats ... And that's what scientists appear to be doing on a larger scale across the country in hopes of bringing bees back ... As bad as 2008 was for retailers, it could get even worse in 2009. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    4.2 quake rattles remote area of Sonoma County  Jan 5, 2009
    2 quake rattles remote area of Sonoma County:/c/a/2009/01/04/BA8M153KFJ.DTL Article:4. 2 quake rattles remote area of Sonoma County:/c/a/2009/01/04/BA8M153KFJ.DTL ... The temblor occurred at 9:27 a.m., 13 miles east of Cloverdale and 2 miles southeast of The Geysers, where geothermal forces by more than 20 power plants are harnessed to provide energy for several North Bay counties. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    Protesters in S.F. and Europe blast Israel  Jan 5, 2009
    "This is the least we could do to protest our government's action," said the U.S. citizen, who fled the West Bank in 1989 and brought his wife and four children to the rally ... In Europe, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in major cities on Saturday against Israel's bombardment of Gaza ... Shoe-throwing has become a popular way to express protest and contempt since an Iraqi journalist pelted U.S. President George W. Bush with a pair of shoes in Baghdad last month. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Bulletin Board  Jan 5, 2009
    Sponsored by Kevin Peay of RealSource and Diane Caruso of Caruso and Associates, 6-9:30 p.m. Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, $20, reservation requested, (510) 339-9014 ... Sponsored by Lucy Liou of Keller Williams, Tina Shea of J. Rockcliff, Wenli Whiteside of Bank of America and Eleanor Ng of Wells Fargo, 10 a.m.-noon, 760 Camino Ramon, #200, Danville, free, reservation required, (925) 819-0752 ... As bad as 2008 was for retailers, it could get even worse in 2009. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    STATUS QUO: Outsourcing surgeryTraveling for Treatment  Jan 5, 2009
    If you need knee surgery, or back rehab, or God forbid, the dental nightmare my husband faced last year - two crowns, two fillings and two root canals to the tune of $3,700 - it may be time to think selfishly, act globally and consider the benefits of medical travel ... Twenty years ago, the phrase "medical tourism" generally evoked images of bargain-basement boob jobs, not state-of-the-art heart surgery ... "Institutions are slowly jumping on the bandwagon.". (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Renting to a friend? Put agreement in writing  Jan 5, 2009
    Beginning today, Rent Watch, a feature that focuses on Bay Area apartment rentals, replaces Rental Roundtable. Look for more regular features on the Bay Area rental market in the Real Estate section in the coming weeks ... To reach the fair housing enforcement center in the San Francisco office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, call (800) 347-3739. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    'Never Tell a Lie,' by Hallie Ephron  Jan 5, 2009
    That, coupled with its title, is the moral of Hallie Ephron's amusing new thriller, "Never Tell a Lie." A better lesson might be: Be careful whom you insult - even high school outcasts may come back to haunt you ... After five years of trying to have a baby, including a terrible miscarriage the year earlier, Ivy is "voluminously pregnant" with their first child and has just started an eight-week maternity leave from her Cambridge dot-com job at Mordant Technologies - one of Ephron's little jokes... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Where is the economy headed in 2009?  Jan 5, 2009
    In this time of uncertainty, the spotlight will shine on three economic advisers to President-elect Barack Obama, including UC Berkeley's Christina Romer, who has been tapped to head his Council of Economic Advisers. Romer, a popular undergraduate professor and expert on the Great Depression, will share Obama's ear with Larry Summers, named to head his National Economic Council, and Timothy Geithner, the president-elect's nominee for Treasury secretary ... Geithner served most recently as... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    'Wildwood,' by Roger Deakin  Jan 5, 2009
    Even after logging our forests with ruthless abandon, Americans remain rich in the arboreal department, joint custodians of a woodsy Fort Knox that includes national parks, wilderness reserves, national and state forests, even the domesticated groves that shade city parks and boulevards ... The willow tree, with its "strong, fibrous wood that won't snap," is perfect for cricket bats ... As bad as 2008 was for retailers, it could get even worse in 2009. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Jett Travolta autopsy to get extra scrutiny  Jan 5, 2009
    (01-04) 04:00 PST Freeport, Bahamas. The Bahamas will use two pathologists to ensure a careful autopsy on John Travolta's son, who died at the actor's vacation home in Grand Bahama, the territory's health minister said Saturday ... The 16-year-old was found collapsed in a bathroom on Friday after having a seizure and hitting his head on the bathtub, said a police officer who declined to be named because she was not authorized to speak on the matter. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Binding contract require 3 elements  Jan 5, 2009
    The buyer's Realtor requested the deposit back, and my Realtor told me it wouldn't be worth fighting, so I followed her advice ... If the buyer wants to back out of the contract using excuses that are not listed in the signed contract, I would consider this a default and (depending on the terms and conditions of the contract) you would be entitled to keep the earnest money deposit ... Obviously if the buyer does have a valid reason, you probably would not want to have to go to court to litigate... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    PROFILE: Stephen Lockhart, M.D.The Activist Doctor  Jan 5, 2009
    My wife, Karen Bals, and I climb throughout the Sierra ... This is a hospital that I think will be recognized as a national leader in providing community-based medicine ... I like background elevator music. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Severe retail downturn forecast for 2009  Jan 5, 2009
    The shift could recast much of the Bay Area retail landscape, blighting shop-lined streets with boarded storefronts, clearing out shopping centers and doing in struggling malls ... After one of their worst holiday seasons in decades, few retailers are in expansion mode and few banks are eager to hand stores cash, so much of the space is likely to sit empty for the foreseeable future ... "In the more marginal malls, a quarter to a half of the space will have the lights turned off, and then you'll... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Well-planned Pleasanton now a sought-after city  Jan 5, 2009
    She has the reputation of being a well-run, midsize city with a strong economic base, whose charms are especially attractive to young families: Sixty-four percent of the city's 23,311 households consist of married couples; 40 percent of households have children under the age of 18 living in them. Included among those amenities are two public high schools ranked in the top 400 in the nation by Newsweek; housing stock with a variety of architectural styles dating back to the 1850s and a range from... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Cautionary story of fund manager's suicide  Jan 5, 2009
    The brothers played football in the street, rode bikes all over town and climbed in nearby hills ... In 1980, Eric Von der Porten, then a staffer in Texas congressman Phil Gramm's office, met Cathy Coons, an analyst for the Small Business Administration, at a pickup baseball game in front of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington ... After working at Bank of America, Berkeley International and elsewhere, gaining experience in commercial lending, mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, Von... (San Francisco Chronicle)

    India gives Pakistan evidence over Mumbai attacks  Jan 5, 2009
    NEW DELHI India gave Pakistan the most detailed evidence yet that it says ties the militants who attacked Mumbai to "elements" in Pakistan responding Monday to weeks of demands from Islamabad for proof that the siege was launched from across the border. India has blamed the November attacks that killed 164 people on Pakistani-based militants, but Islamabad has denied the accusations and requested proof ... India has blamed the three-day siege on Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group based in... (Yahoo News)

    Taliban whopper: claim 5,220 foreign troops killed  Jan 5, 2009
    Taliban militants have attacked. KABUL, Afghanistan The Taliban has long exaggerated its military successes, but its recent claim that it killed more than 5,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan last year may be the militia's most startling yet ... The Taliban said last week on its Web site that it killed 5,220 U.S. and NATO troops in 2008 an exaggerated figure nearly 20 times the official death toll. (Yahoo News)

    Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks  Jan 5, 2009
    In a ruling which could pave the way towards huge lawsuits against tobacco. ATLANTA A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said Wednesday ... The study, the longest-running of its kind, showed the rate of hospitalized cases dropped 41 percent in the three years after the ban of workplace smoking in Pueblo, Colo. (Yahoo News)

    Teens' abuse of cough medications soaring  Jan 5, 2009
    Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Teens' abuse of cough medications soari:/c/a/2006/12/06/BAGK6MQA271. DTL Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Teens' abuse of cough medications soari:/c/a/2006/12/06/BAGK6MQA271. (Yahoo News -- Substance Use)

    Roland Burris is the new senator from Illinois  Jan 5, 2009
    The circumstances under which Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named former state Attorney General Roland Burris to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama are far from ideal. On Dec. 9, federal authorities arrested the Democratic governor on corruption charges involving what U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald referred to as a "public corruption crime spree." Fitzgerald alleged that Blagojevich was preparing to auction off the Obama seat to the highest bidder ... Before the... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Has Israel's response exceeded its right to defend itself?  Jan 5, 2009
    If you shove me in the checkout line at the local market, can I club you across the head with a baseball bat in self-defense ... The truce was imperfectly observed - Israel, for its part, never lifted the crushing siege it had imposed against the Gaza Strip as promised, and continued to kill and capture Hamas members in the West Bank, while Hamas permitted sporadic rocket fire ... The escalation of rocket fire preceding the bombardment was provoked by Israel's own act, when it raided the Gaza... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Bush-Cheney deserve censure for declaring war against the Constitution  Jan 5, 2009
    The resolution should express a congressional intent to prevent repetitions by the President-elect Barack Obama or his successors. The objective is not Bush-Cheney bashing, but to restore a republican form of government in which "We the People" are sovereign, and the president is checked and publicly scrutinized by Congress and the courts ... They maintained that the entire post-9/11 world is an active battlefield where United States military force may be used to kill suspected members of al... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Murdered man's lifesaving gift unites parents with new friend  Jan 5, 2009
    Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Transforming tragedy / Murdered man's l:/c/a/2004/05/25/BAGMH6R3FJ1. DTL Article:SAN FRANCISCO / Transforming tragedy / Murdered man's l:/c/a/2004/05/25/BAGMH6R3FJ1 ... He hitchhiked his way around war-torn Lebanon, lived in China, met with victims of land mines in Cambodia and Vietnam and spent two years in the Sinai region of Egypt, giving scuba lessons and taking visitors diving among sharks. (Yahoo News -- Organ Donation & Transplants)

    49ers can't say 'sorry' enough  Jan 5, 2009
    Asian American leaders told San Francisco 49ers co-owner John York on Tuesday that they want more than an apology for the team's bawdy training film that stereotyped Chinese Americans as bespectacled and bucktoothed ... They want the football players to spend more time in the community ... This wasn't York's first apology and probably won't be his last. (Yahoo News -- Asian Americans)

    Obama adds 'Neighborhood Ball' to festivities  Jan 5, 2009
    President-elect Barack Obama is adding a "Neighborhood Ball" to the list of inaugural parties planned just over two weeks from now ... In announcing the plan Monday morning, Obama said in a statement that he doesn't want citizens of the District of Columbia or elsewhere to feel left out of the celebration surrounding his elevation to the presidency on Jan. 20 ... Obama said he wanted to make sure that "we had an event that would be open to our new neighborhood here in Washington, D.C., and also... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Obama rejoins family in Washington  Jan 5, 2009
    Obama bids Midwest goodbye, lands in Washington. Article:Obama bids Midwest goodbye, lands in Washington:/n/a/2009/01/04/national/a160145S79 ... DTL Article:Obama bids Midwest goodbye, lands in Washington:/n/a/2009/01/04/national/a160145S79. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Analysis: Israel fighting ghost of Lebanon  Jan 5, 2009
    But it also underscores a central issue underlying the Gaza conflict and Israel's position: The Jewish state has lost a large measure of its capacity to intimidate and control its regional enemies, a new vulnerability that dates back to the stalemate with Lebanon's Hezbollah militia in 2006 ... Even Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah mocked Israel in recent days, telling Palestinians they are experiencing a rerun of his group's monthlong conflict with Israel, offering them an analysis of Israel's... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Bipartisan Panels Tapped To Pick Judges  Jan 5, 2009
    Article:Feinstein taps bipartisan panels to pick judges:/c/a/2009/01/04/BA9N152UDJ.DTL Article:Feinstein taps bipartisan panels to pick judges:/c/a/2009/01/04/BA9N152UDJ.DTL ... Dianne Feinstein has named bipartisan committees to screen candidates in California, with Louise Renne, a former San Francisco city attorney, heading the Bay Area panel ... Feinstein and fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer say they will take turns recommending nominees to Barack Obama for U.S. District Court, U.S. attorney and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Braves still shopping  Jan 5, 2009
    Well, hello again, denizens, it s good to be back from Colorado s perfectly powdery slopes with femurs, wrists and my back intact and spirits rejuvenated by a snowboarding vacation. After the business of baseball slowed to a crawl through the holidays, things figure to pick up substantially this week for many teams including the Braves ... First, before we go any further, we have to discuss Andruw Jones and the fact that, according to agent Scott Boras, the fallen former Braves star will be a... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)

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