Rick de los Santos wants to reopen an animal slaughter business that's been banned in the U.S. for years. Along the way, he's...
Terra/MODIS Color Image of Copahue Eruption Plume Across South America
Label: Technology For the first time since 2000, Copahue is erupting, sending an ash plume across southern South America. So far, the eruption is following the same patterns as the activity that ran from July to October 2000. That activity started with phreatic (water-driven) explosions, so it will be interesting to see if this eruption has new juvenile magma involved. Earlier this year,...
Reports: Rolling Stones guitarist Wood ties knot
Label: LifestyleLONDON (AP) — Two British newspapers say Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has married his fiancee Sally Humphreys at a ceremony at London‘s Dorchester Hotel.The Sun and the Daily Mirror carried photographs of the 65-year-old rocker with a pale boutonniere and a dark blue suit, and his 34-year-old bride in a traditional white gown and a clutch of matching white flowers.The Sun quoted Wood as saying...
Genetic Gamble : Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct
Label: HealthC.J. Gunther for The New York TimesDr. Donald Bergstrom is a cancer specialist at Sanofi, one of three companies working on a drug to restore a tendency of damaged cells to self-destruct. For the first time ever, three pharmaceutical companies are poised to test whether new drugs can work against a wide range of cancers independently of where they originated — breast, prostate, liver, lung. The drugs...
Genetic Gamble : Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct
Label: BusinessC.J. Gunther for The New York TimesDr. Donald Bergstrom is a cancer specialist at Sanofi, one of three companies working on a drug to restore a tendency of damaged cells to self-destruct. For the first time ever, three pharmaceutical companies are poised to test whether new drugs can work against a wide range of cancers independently of where they originated — breast, prostate, liver, lung. The drugs...
Dec
21
Violence in America? We're all responsible
Label: World For years, the National Rifle Assn. has been telling us that guns don't kill people, people kill people.In the wake of the Newtown...
Digital Social Visibility: How Facebook Gifts Change Our Choices
Label: Technology Facebook Gifts rolled out after a two-month beta last week, seamlessly melding social with shopping. Not to be outdone, Amazon recently released its Friends and Family Gifting option with the same kind of social gifting visibility.For Facebook, another puzzle piece of its business model falls into place. For users, gift giving becomes by default a public rather than private activity:...
‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Hoofs It Into a 10th Season
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Put on your dancing shoes; “So You Think You Can Dance” has been given a 10th season, Fox said Thursday.Auditions for the upcoming season will begin January 18 in Austin, Texas, before moving on to Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles and Memphis.Fox’s president of alternative programming Mike Darnell praised “SYTYCD” creator Nigel Lythgoe in announcing the renewal.“I couldn’t...
As Shoppers Hop From Tablet to PC to Phone, Retailers Try to Adapt
Label: BusinessJim Wilson/The New York TimesShoppers often visit Modcloth, a Web site that sells women’s clothes, on their phones but return on a different kind of device to buy something, said Sarah Rose, a vice president at ModCloth. Ryan O’Neil, a Connecticut government employee, was in the market to buy a digital weather station this month. His wife researched options on their iPad, but even though she found...
Dec
20
A tortilla flap over whether Henry's Tacos folds
Label: World The first time Matthew Schwartz ditched junior high in the early 1980s, some upperclassmen smuggled him in the back seat of...
Net Neutrality, Data-Cap Legislation Lands in Senate
Label: Technology A proposal forbidding internet service providers from turning the data-cap meter off to grant a so-called internet fast lane to preferential online services was introduced Thursday in the Senate.The bill by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) comes a week after a report found that the institutionalization of data caps by ISPs is geared toward profiteering rather than the stated goal of managing traffic...
Twitter post offers clue to The Civil Wars’ future
Label: LifestyleNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — While there still remain questions about the future of The Civil Wars, there’s new music on the way.Joy Williams, one half of the Grammy Award-winning duo with John Paul White, said Thursday during a Twitter chat that she was in the studio listening to new Civil Wars songs.It’s a tantalizing clue to the future of the group, which appeared in doubt when a European tour unraveled...
Op-Ed Contributor: Labs, Washed Away
Label: HealthBEDPAN ALLEY is the affectionate name given to a stretch of First Avenue in Manhattan that is packed with more hospitals than many cities possess. This stretch also happened to be right in the flood zone during Hurricane Sandy. Water damage and power failures closed down all three of the New York University teaching hospitals — Bellevue Hospital, Tisch Hospital and the Manhattan V.A. Two months later,...
Dec
19
Robert H. Bork, pivotal figure in Supreme Court history, dies at 85
Label: World Robert H. Bork, the conservative legal champion whose bitter defeat for a Supreme Court seat in 1987 politicized the confirmation...
Patent Office to Review Apple's Document-Scrolling Patent
Label: Technology The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has ruled that a patent that’s central to the epic Apple v. Samsung intellectual property lawsuit is subject to reexamination, which could lead to portions of the patent — but probably not all of it — being invalidated.Patent No. 7,844,915, referred to as the ’915 patent, covers document scrolling. The patent office rejected all 21 claims of the patent,...
Leah Remini sued by former managers over “Family Tools” commissions
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Leah Remini‘s new TV gig is already giving her a headache, months before it even starts. Former “King of Queens” star Remini is being sued by her former managers, the Collective Management Group, which claims that it’s owed $ 67,000 in commissions relating to her upcoming ABC comedy “Family Tools,” which debuts May 1.In a complaint filed with Los Angeles Superior Court...
Amgen Workers Helped U.S. in Aranesp Marketing Inquiry
Label: Health“I hope no one is taping this,” the Amgen manager remarked at a company sales meeting in 2005. The manager then boasted of how she had given a $10,000 unrestricted grant to a pet project of a doctor who was an adviser to the local Medicare contractor. In turn, she said, the doctor would help persuade the contractor to provide reimbursement for an unapproved use of Amgen’s anemia drug, Aranesp....
State of the Art: Android Cameras From Nikon and Samsung Go Beyond Cellphones - Review
Label: Business60 Seconds With Pogue: Android Cameras: David Pogue reviews the Nikon Coolpix S800C and the Samsung Galaxy Camera.“Android camera.” Wow, that has a weird ring, doesn’t it? You just don’t think of a camera as having an operating system. It’s like saying “Windows toaster” or “Unix jump rope.” But yes, that’s what it has come to. Ever since cellphone cameras got good enough for everyday snapshots,...
Dec
18
Grand jury probes L.A. County sheriff's handling of FBI informant
Label: World When Los Angeles County jail officials learned last year that one of their inmates was a secret FBI informant, they launched...
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