... two weeks ago. In a survey released on Friday, China’s state news agency, known as Xinhua, said 66 percent of those who responded said they would stay away from Carrefour during a monthlong boycott planned for May. Public indignation has also been directed at Western news outlets, which are blamed for one-sided coverage of the torch relay and for anti-Chinese bias in their reporting on ...

... the city is preparing » The run is the only U.S. appearance for the flame, wrapping up the first week of a 23-city global tour. Beijing organizers have said the monthlong international relay will not be stopped despite the protests, but some International Olympic Committee members have suggested an early end should be considered. The IOC's executive board will discuss the torch relay ...

...,” Ms. Paule was quoted as saying by NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster, Reuters reported. When the flame moves to San Francisco on Wednesday, it will be the sixth stop on its monthlong international tour. Amnesty International and several other rights groups have pledged to rally along the route of the torch, which is scheduled to be run six miles along the city’s scenic waterfront....

...,” Ms. Paule was quoted as saying by NRK, the Norwegian public broadcaster, Reuters reported. When the flame moves to San Francisco on Wednesday, it will be the sixth stop on its monthlong international tour. Amnesty International and several other rights groups have pledged to rally along the route of the torch, which is scheduled to be run six miles along the city’s scenic waterfront....

... organizations have said they plan protests at every stop on the torch’s 21-nation tour. Its next stops are Paris, where it arrived late Sunday, and San Francisco, its only American stop, on Wednesday. The monthlong tour is scheduled to end in Vietnam in three weeks. That is to be followed by a six-week, 46-stop tour of China. Judging by the events in London on Sunday, the tour could prove ...

.../22730686.JPG Tibetan organizations have said they plan protests at every stop on the torch's 21-nation tour. After Paris, it moves to San Francisco, its only American stop, on Wednesday. The monthlong tour is scheduled to end in Vietnam; it is to be followed by a six-week, 46-stop tour of China. Photo: Thibault Camus/Associated Press http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/...

...has denied the charge, condemning the violence and urging an independent international investigation into the unrest and its underlying causes. As the Olympic flame headed to Kazakhstan on Tuesday to start a monthlong global tour that is expected to be a magnet for protests against Beijing's policies, The People's Daily also said in a commentary that China is prepared for the difficulties ...

A 16-monthlong investigation of the crash of a Mercy Air Services helicopter that killed three found that the main rotor blades separated in flight. But why that happened, the National Transportation Safety Board says will never be known. The federal agency's final report of the Sept. 7, 2002, accident near Nipton, Calif., was released Thursday. Investigators determined the official ...

... lie to be "plausible." It never happened. And, I note that you're *now* attempting to downplay what you said, which was that planes from the USS Ranger conducted an extended (was it monthlong?) bombing campaign of Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. Now don't get caught in the Sylvia trap, Stan. We drew combat pay for two months. I never claimed that we bombed anyone for two months. That'd ...

... lie to be "plausible." It never happened. And, I note that you're *now* attempting to downplay what you said, which was that planes from the USS Ranger conducted an extended (was it monthlong?) bombing campaign of Hanoi and Haiphong harbor. Now don't get caught in the Sylvia trap, Stan. We drew combat pay for two months. I never claimed that we bombed anyone for two months. That'd ...