To generations of baseball fans, he was simply "Stan the Man."Stan Musial, a legendary slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals who...
Timeline: Kim Dotcom’s year, from Megaupload to Mega
Label: TechnologyAUCKLAND (Reuters) – Here are the milestones in the past year for Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. Dotcom plans to launch on January 20 a new online file storage system, known as Mega.January 20, 2012 – Seventy armed New Zealand police raid Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom’s mansion outside Auckland, acting on a request from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Dotcom and his colleagues Finn Batato,...
“Beasts of Southern Wild,” “Les Miz” among Costume Designer Award nominees
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Films as diverse as “Beast of the Southern Wild” and “Les Miserables” were among the nominees for the 15th annual Costume Designers Guild Awards announced Thursday by the organization.Stephani Lewis was nominated for “Beasts” in the contemporary film category, along with Louise Stjernsward for “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” Mark Bridges for “Silver Linings Playbook,”...
The Boss: New Leaders Inc. C.E.O. on Giving Children a Chance
Label: BusinessI AM the youngest of 10 children in my family, and the only one born in the United States. My father was a municipal judge who fled Haiti during the Duvalier regime. He and my mother settled in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn, but could not initially afford to bring over my four brothers and five sisters, who stayed in Haiti with relatives. Jean S. Desravines is the chief executive...
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Obama loyalists are now Organizing for Action
Label: World WASHINGTON — Underscoring its potential to become a political heavyweight, a new advocacy group launched Friday to push President...
Twitter co-founders move Obvious Corp into spacious new digs
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the co-founders of Twitter, have leased three sprawling floors in a historic downtown San Francisco tower for their low-profile start-up incubator, The Obvious Corporation.Obvious said Friday it leased 75,000 square feet at the busy 760 Market Street location – known as the Phelan Building – in one of the city’s larger commercial real estate deals...
John Powers, author who wrote about growing up Catholic, dies
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – John Powers, a U.S. author and motivational speaker who wrote about his experiences growing up Catholic in Chicago including the novel “Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?” has died, his family said on Thursday.Powers, 67, died late Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, his daughter Jacey Powers said.A product of a working-class neighborhood, Powers...
Well: A Great Grain Adventure
Label: HealthThis week, the Recipes for Health columnist Martha Rose Shulman asks readers to go beyond wild rice and get adventurous with their grains. She offers new recipes with some unusual grains you may not have ever cooked or eaten. Her recipes this week include:Millet: Millet can be used in bird seed and animal feed, but the grain is enjoying a renaissance in the United States right now as a great source...
DealBook: Despite Improving Profits, Morgan Stanley's Path Is Uncertain
Label: Business8:40 p.m. | Updated Morgan Stanley has taken aggressive action to bolster profit. Over the last year, the Wall Street bank has cut thousands of employees, sold costly assets and retooled major businesses.Those efforts worked. In the fourth quarter, Morgan Stanley reported earnings of $481 million, in contrast to a loss of $275 million in 2011. Profit was equally strong for the year.But the path to...
Jan
17
White House launches campaign for support of gun control measures
Label: World WASHINGTON — A day after President Obama announced a wide-ranging series of gun-control initiatives, the administration kicked...
Ex-Red Sox pitcher Schilling puts bloody sock up for auction after video game company collapse
Label: TechnologyPROVIDENCE, R.I. – Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling — whose video game company underwent a spectacular collapse into bankruptcy last year — is selling the blood-stained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series.Chris Ivy, director of sports for Texas-based Heritage Auctions, says online bidding begins around Feb. 4. Live bidding will take place Feb. 23.The sock previously had been on loan...
Eclectic opening for Sundance with films about Mideast, Chile, U.S. Southwest
Label: LifestylePARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) – The Sundance Film Festival opens Thursday with movies and documentaries from around the world, including a feature that examines the cultural divide between the Middle East and the United States.The 10-day Sundance Film Festival, founded by actor-director Robert Redford and now in its 35th year, will showcase 119 films from 32 countries.“May in the Summer,” the U.S. dramatic...
Chinese Economy Picks Up Steam in Last Quarter
Label: BusinessHONG KONG — The giant Chinese economy picked up some steam during the last few months of 2012, closely watched data from Beijing on Friday confirmed. But at the same time the figures underlined the view that the pace of future growth is likely to remain well below that seen in recent years. China’s gross domestic product expanded 7.9 percent during the final quarter of last year, compared...
Jan
16
State agency says U.S. removed wildlife habitat without permit
Label: World A state regulatory agency Wednesday said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to obtain a required permit before it removed...
Commentary: Background Checks? Yes, but Leave Video Games Alone
Label: TechnologyCOMMENTARY | I have mixed feelings toward the White House‘s gun violence response. I agree that background checks should be required before people are allowed to buy a firearm and that an assault weapon ban should be reinstated into law. While limiting the number of bullets in a weapon’s magazine will decrease the number of deaths in a mass shooting, the public does not need high-capacity magazines....
Pregnant Kim Kardashian wants to be more private
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — As the tabloids speculated about whether Jessica Simpson is expecting again (she is) and the media zeroed in on Kate Middleton‘s acute morning sickness, Kim Kardashian says it was nice to be out of the media spotlight during the early stages of her pregnancy.“I’m obviously so happy for them, but if anything I loved the privacy,” the 32-year-old reality TV star said in an interview...
Some With Autism Diagnosis Can Recover, Study Finds
Label: HealthDoctors have long believed that disabling autistic disorders last a lifetime, but a new study has found that some children who exhibit signature symptoms of the disorder recover completely. The study, posted online on Wednesday by the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, is the largest to date of such extraordinary cases and is likely to alter the way that scientists and parents...
DealBook: H.P. Said to Have Suitors for Two Units
Label: BusinessHewlett-Packard has received a number of inquiries from would-be buyers for its Autonomy and Electronic Data Systems units in recent weeks, though the technology company isn’t interested in selling at the moment, a person briefed on the matter said on Wednesday.The volume of calls from potential suitors and bankers picked up after H.P. filed its annual report with regulators on Dec. 28, this person...
Jan
15
December home prices jump 19.6% in Southern California
Label: WorldSouthern California¿s housing market ended last year with sharp home-price gains and the highest sales for a December in three years. ...
Tablet Too Small? Try Lenovo’s 27-Inch ‘Table PC’
Label: TechnologyGoogle’s aptly-named Nexus 7 tablet made a splash when it debuted last year, at $ 199 and with a screen 7 inches across. Apple soon released its own iPad Mini to join the increasingly crowded world of miniature tablets, which — at about half the size of a regular iPad — are so small as to be pocketable.Other manufacturers, however, aren’t taking the “smaller is better” route. Microsoft‘s Surface tablet...
Americans favor “Lincoln” for top Oscars: poll
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – Director Ben Affleck and “Argo” may have been the big winners at the Golden Globes, but many Americans think Steven Spielberg and “Lincoln” should take home the top Oscars at next month’s awards.Nearly a quarter of Americans questioned in an Ipsos poll for Reuters thought the Civil War drama “Lincoln” should win the Oscar for best picture at the 85th Academy Awards in Los Angeles...
Breaking Link of Violence and Mental Illness
Label: HealthNo one but a deeply disturbed individual marches into an elementary school or a movie theater and guns down random, innocent people. That hard fact drives the public longing for a mental health system that produces clear warning signals and can somehow stop the violence. And it is now fueling a surge in legislative activity, in Washington and New York. But these proposed changes and...
Daniel J. Edelman, a Publicity Pioneer, Dies at 92
Label: BusinessDaniel J. Edelman, the founder and chairman of one of the largest public relations firms in the world and a groundbreaker in the field, died on Tuesday in Chicago. He was 92. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his son Richard, president and chief executive of the company. Daniel Edelman started the company, Edelman, in a small office in Chicago in 1952. It now has 63 offices...
Jan
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L.A. County coroner changes Natalie Wood's cause of death
Label: World Through three decades of fevered tabloid speculation and whispers of a deeper story, the official account never changed: Natalie...
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