Associated Press United Airlines passengers awaiting check-in lined up yesterday at San Francisco International Airport. United's second set of cutbacks in two months is a response to a projected $3 billion boost in its 2008 fuel bill.

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United Airlines said yesterday that it will shut down its low-fare Ted airline, ground 70 planes, and cut as many as 1,100 jobs as surging fuel prices extend an industrywide contraction. United's second set of cutbacks in two months is a response to a projected $3 billion boost in its 2008 fuel bill.

Over the past several months, a confidential report has circulated within the headquarters of Wal-Mart stores, proposing sweeping changes to its employee health care plans.

Shares of San Diego genetics analysis company Sequenom jumped more than 20 percent yesterday after the company reported its noninvasive prenatal test to screen maternal blood for Down syndrome was effective in all samples, exceeding analysts' expectations.

Yesterday morning outside a Home Depot store in Point Loma, a group of day laborers waiting for construction work ran toward a visitor approaching from the parking lot. “Do you have work?” a man from Mexico asked in English, a glimmer of hope on his face.

A federal jury in San Diego found yesterday that Microsoft did not infringe on a video-compression patent held by Alcatel-Lucent, closing one piece of a dispute that dates to 2003, before Lucent Technologies merged with Alcatel and before Gateway, an original target of the suit, left San Diego for Irvine.