Reuters U.S. News: 17 November 2008
November 17th, 2008 • Reuters, U.S.
- Obama as role model for black youth? Not so fast
ATLANTA (Reuters) - The election of the first black president in U.S. history should send a powerful signal to young black Americans: If Barack Obama made it, so can you. - Giants rout Ravens 30-10 to underline superiority
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey (Reuters) - The New York Giants ran over the Baltimore Ravens 30-10 on Sunday to underline their status as top team in the NFC and serious threats to repeat as Super Bowl champions. - Discovery offers way of tracking cancer in blood
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tiny sacs released from tumor cells and circulating in the blood carry genetic information about the tumor, offering a new way to track and treat the cancer, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. - Food banks see more need, fewer donations
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jennifer Bingham earned $7.50 an hour packing boxes for a jewelry company, but after a short illness she was fired and had to seek help at a food pantry and women’s shelter. - JP Morgan could axe thousands of jobs: report
LONDON (Reuters) - JP Morgan, the US investment bank, is drawing up plans to axe thousands of jobs across its worldwide operations, reports The Sunday Telegraph. - U.S. in recession, jobless to peak at 7.5 pct: survey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is in recession and will contract at a faster pace in the fourth quarter, extending the decline into early 2009 as high unemployment crimps consumer spending, a survey showed. - Hollywood out of step with American morals: poll
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A majority of Americans say Hollywood doesn’t share their moral values, according to a poll commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, a group that fights anti-Semitism. - Group therapy may extend lives of cancer patients
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Psychological group therapy for women with breast cancer may help them not only to cope better with their disease but also live longer, U.S. researchers said on Monday. - Americans uneasy over bailout for automakers
ATLANTA (Reuters) - As Congress debates legislation to help struggling automakers on Monday, many Americans said they were uneasy with the plan, arguing that while it may save jobs, it would reward companies for pursuing bad business practices. - Californians go home, many to ashes
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Thousands of Southern Californians returned home to find their houses burned to the ground, or miraculously intact on Monday, after a wind-whipped weekend firestorm swept through bone-dry canyons and hillsides.
