REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Pete Uccelli took 20 acres of swampland and transformed it into a boatyard and marina, welcoming visitors...
Geek Culture's 26 Most Awesome Female Ass-Kickers
Label: TechnologyAngelina Jolie extends her reputation as filmdom’s most compelling ass-kicker, Female Division, when Salt opens Friday. Midway through a summer freighted with testosterone, Jolie’s lithe Agent Salt is a potent reminder of the power of feminine fighters.
A minority presence in sci-fi and action realms even in 2010, women warriors remain the exception to the guy-centric rule in film, TV, videogames...
“Hobbit” may bring a Hollywood ending to 2012 box office
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – It took more than a decade, two directors and a lawsuit before “The Hobbit” made it to the big screen. Hollywood executives are crossing their fingers that the culmination of that journey will help smash movie box office records this year.The film, which opens on December 14, is expected to contribute to the first annual box office increase in North America in three years,...
Opinion: A Health Insurance Detective Story
Label: HealthI’VE had a long career as a business journalist, beginning at Forbes and including eight years as the editor of Money, a personal finance magazine. But I’ve never faced a more confounding reporting challenge than the one I’m engaged in now: What will I pay next year for the pill that controls my blood cancer? After making more than 70 phone calls to 16 organizations over the past few weeks,...
Media Decoder Blog: Robert Thomson to Be Chief of News Corporation's New Publishing Company
Label: Business2:53 p.m. | Updated Robert Thomson, the top editor at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones and a confidante of News Corporation’s chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch, is expected to be named chief executive of the media conglomerate’s newly spun-off publishing company.Mr. Thomson will run the separate, publicly traded company, which will include The Journal, The New York Post, HarperCollins...
Nov
30
Tennis umpire Lois Goodman wants job back after murder case dropped
Label: World Professional tennis umpire Lois Goodman, who had been accused by prosecutors of killing her 80-year-old husband, will now try...
Hypersonic Flight 'Breakthrough' Could Have Us in Tokyo by Lunch
Label: Technology The promise of hypersonic flight sending us halfway around the world in a matter of hours is being bandied about again, this time by a British company that declares, with no understatement, that it has made “the biggest breakthrough in aerospace propulsion technology since the invention of the jet engine.”Reaction Engines Limited says its hypersonic engine will send us streaking across the...
Korean pop rides “Gangnam Style” into U.S. music scene
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “Gangnam Style,” the catchy Korean song by rapper Psy, may have danced its way into the American charts but the Korean pop industry isn’t horsing around when it comes to capitalizing on the singer’s phenomenal U.S. success.With “Gangnam Style” topping the current Billboard Digital Songs chart and becoming the most-watched video on YouTube ever with more than 800 million views,...
Hockey Coaches Defy Doctors on Concussions, Study Finds
Label: HealthDespite several years of intensive research, coverage and discussion about the dangers of concussions, the idea of playing through head injuries is so deeply rooted in hockey culture that two university teams kept concussed players on the ice even though they were taking part in a major concussion study. The study, which was published Friday in a series of articles in the journal Neurosurgical...
Wealth Matters: Defined-Benefit Plans Allow Fast Retirement Saving, but With Risks
Label: BusinessKevin Moloney for The New York TimesJohn Rogers, a Denver businessman, used a defined-benefit contribution to catch up on his retirement savings late in his career. WITH the prospect of significant changes in tax rates and deduction limits, taxpayers have been coming up with all sorts of strategies to save on their taxes, some riskier than others. So I couldn’t help but be skeptical when...
At Long Last, iTunes 11 Is Available — And We Dig It
Label: Technology So long, iTunes 10. Apple begins rolling out the 11th iteration of its iTunes media player and store today, and we’re digging the redesigned interface, improved search, ability to play content straight from iCloud and sync playback across devices.For the most part, the new iTunes feels like the old iTunes. The experience is much faster though and has a decidedly more modern, streamlined user...
“Homeland” in, “Boardwalk Empire” out in PGA TV nominations
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Emmy-winning dramas “Homeland”, “Mad Men” and British period piece “Downton Abbey” will compete for the annual Producers Guild Awards for the top shows on U.S. television, organizers announced on Wednesday.But last year’s winner – HBO’s lavish Prohibition-era gangster drama “Boardwalk Empire” – failed to make the cut this year with the Producers Guild of America, one of the...
Chamber Competes to Be Heard in Fiscal Debate
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON — After months of sparring with President Obama in the heat of the campaign season, Chamber of Commerce executives came to the White House this week with a far more conciliatory tone, offering up suggestions to avert large budget cuts without having to raise taxes. Jim Young/ReutersTom Donahue, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, with President Obama last year. The two...
Nov
28
Norquist: GOP concern over tax pledge just 'impure thoughts'
Label: World Grover Norquist on Wednesday rebuffed claims that his anti-tax crusade is losing steam, calling statements from prominent Republicans...
Pentagon Cries Poor, Starts $10 Billion Nuclear Weapon Upgrade
Label: Technology The Pentagon is facing its worst cash crunch in more than a decade, with potential cuts of up to a half-trillion dollars over the next decade if Congress doesn’t act soon. Yet the U.S. military still somehow found the money on Tuesday to put a down payment on a $10 billion upgrade of its nuclear weapons in Europe — y’know, just in case there’s another Cold War.The $178 million, three-year...
Former boxing champ Mike Tyson to take one-man show on the road
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson plans to take his one-man theater show on the road across the United States early next year.Tyson, 45, made the announcement on ABC’s late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday.“Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” is an autobiographical monologue performed by Tyson in which he reflects upon his tough childhood in Brooklyn, the absence...
Well: Weight Loss Surgery May Not Combat Diabetes Long-Term
Label: HealthWeight loss surgery, which in recent years has been seen as an increasingly attractive option for treating Type 2 diabetes, may not be as effective against the disease as it was initially thought to be, according to a new report. The study found that many obese Type 2 diabetics who undergo gastric bypass surgery do not experience a remission of their disease, and of those that do, about a third redevelop...
State of the Art: Tablets Are Hot Holiday Gifts, but Which One to Buy? — Review
Label: BusinessFrom left: J. Emilio Flores for The New York Times, Jim Wilson/The New York Times, Everett Kennedy Brown/European Pressphoto AgencyFrom left, the Kindle PaperWhite, the iPad Mini and the Nexus 7. The other day, I joined NPR for a segment about high-tech holiday gifts. I was ready for the calls from listeners. I’d brushed up on cameras, phones, laptops, music players and game consoles. I was...
Nov
27
Alleged WikiLeaks source says he was illegally punished in jail
Label: World A key pretrial hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of giving classified material to the website WikiLeaks, which then...
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