SAN FRANCISCO — With only modest expectations, Robert Leitao of Santa Clarita made a decision in 1994 that would change his...
Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space
Label: Technology To a geologist, glaciers are among the most exciting features on Earth. Though they seem to creep along at impossibly slow speeds, in geologic time glaciers are relatively fast, powerful landscape artists that can carve out valleys and fjords in just a few thousand years.Glaciers also provide an environmental record by trapping air bubbles in ice that reveal atmospheric conditions in the past....
Chicano rock pioneers Los Lobos marking 40 years
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — They are seen as the progenitors of Chicano rock ‘n’ roll, the first band that had the boldness, and some might even say the naiveté, to fuse punk rock with Mexican folk tunes.It was a group called Los Lobos that had the unusual idea of putting an accordion, a saxophone and something called a bajo sexto alongside drums and Fender Stratocaster guitars and then blasting a ranchera-flavored...
School Yoga Class Draws Religious Protest From Christians
Label: HealthT. Lynne Pixley for The New York TimesMiriam Ruiz during a yoga class last week at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School in Encinitas, Calif. A few dozen parents are protesting that the program amounts to religious indoctrination. More Photos »ENCINITAS, Calif. — By 9:30 a.m. at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School, tiny feet were shifting from downward dog pose to chair pose to warrior pose in surprisingly...
Dec
14
Connecticut shooting: 20 schoolchildren among the 28 dead
Label: World The toll in the Connecticut shooting stands at 28 dead, including 20 children and the gunman, Connecticut State Police said...
Man Who Inspired Omar on <em>The Wire</em> Dies
Label: Technology The man who inspired one of the greatest and most fascinating characters in modern television has died.Donnie Andrews, the inspiration behind The Wire‘s Omar Little, died after going through emergency surgery in New York on Thursday, his former attorney told The Baltimore Sun. Andrews was 58 years old and although he was once a stickup man who robbed drug dealers, much...
Singer-songwriter Carole King to receive U.S. Gershwin prize
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – American singer-songwriter Carole King will be awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the U.S. national library said on Thursday.The multiple Grammy Award winner co-wrote her first No. 1 hit at age 17 with then-husband Gerry Goffin and was the first female solo artist to sell more than 10 million copies of a single album, with her 1971 release “Tapestry.”The prize...
Life Expectancy Rises Around World, Study Finds
Label: HealthA sharp decline in deaths from malnutrition and infectious diseases like measles and tuberculosis has caused a shift in global mortality patterns over the past 20 years, according to a report published on Thursday, with far more of the world’s population now living into old age and dying from diseases mostly associated with rich countries, like cancer and heart disease. Tony Karumba/Agence...
News Analysis: U.S., Walking Out in a Huff, Makes Its Point
Label: Business Kamran Jebreili/Associated PressThe U.S. delegation, led by Terry Kramer, right, said the pact could encourage censorship and undermine the hands-off approach to Internet oversight. At the global treaty conference on telecommunications here, the United States got most of what it wanted. But then it refused to sign the document and left in a huff. What was...
Dec
13
Push for minimum wage hike intensifies as worker ranks swell
Label: World NEW YORK — Before the recession, Amie Crawford was an interior designer, earning $50,000 a year patterning baths and cabinets...
SolarCity Market Debut Is All Sunshine
Label: Technology Shares of solar panel installer, sales and leasing company SolarCity (SCTY) had a stellar Nasdaq debut Thursday, climbing from $8 to end the day at $11.79, a 47 percent gain.Investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DBL, and SolarCity chairman and main backer Elon Musk purchased a third of the available 11.4 million shares. SolarCity raised $92 million in the offering, and...
A Minute With: Director Peter Jackson on shooting “The Hobbit”
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – After bringing J.R.R. Tolkien‘s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy to life, filmmaker Peter Jackson is back in the world of Middle Earth with the author’s prequel, “The Hobbit.”The three-film series is due to open in U.S. theaters on Friday with “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.”The Oscar-winning director, 51, told Reuters about the 3D film, including the 48 frames per second...
World’s Population Living Longer, New Report Suggests
Label: HealthA sharp decline in deaths from malnutrition and diseases like measles and tuberculosis has caused a shift in global mortality patterns over the past 20 years, according to a new report, with far more of the world’s population now living into old age and dying from diseases more associated with rich countries, like cancer and heart disease. The shift reflects improvements in sanitation, medical...
S.&P. Streak Comes to an End on Fiscal Worries
Label: BusinessThe Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index ended its six-day winning streak Thursday, retreating as worries intensified that Washington’s fiscal negotiations were dragging on with little progress. Anxiety about the talks between Democrats and Republicans was enough to offset encouraging data on retail sales and jobless claims. Investors are concerned that tax increases and spending...
Dec
12
'Straw' buyer of arms linked to border agent's death is sentenced
Label: World PHOENIX — A federal judge sentenced a Phoenix man Wednesday to nearly five years in prison for purchasing firearms for a Mexican...
Redbox Instant Enters Crowded Instant-Streaming Field With Public Beta
Label: Technology The streaming-video market is getting streamier as Redbox Instant, the Redbox/Verizon mashup aimed squarely at the Netflix juggernaut, goes into the public beta phase by the end of December.In addition to streaming videos like Netflix, $8 bucks a month gets subscribers as many as four DVDs a month at the giant red box in their local convenience store or supermarket....
How “Life of Pi” animators visualized Ang Lee’s blank slate
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “Life of Pi” is a movie that has the proverbial cast of thousands… of animals, that is. In one shot set on the ocean, there are 40,000 flying fish. In another one set on a floating island, there are 60,000 meerkats. And not one of them was living and breathing, of course.“No real meerkats were used,” senior animation supervisor Erik-Jan De Boer told the audience at an effects-themed...
Dec
11
U.S. designates Syria rebel group a terrorist organization
Label: World WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has formally designated a rebel group fighting in Syria as a terrorist organization in...
Google Pins Gmail Outage on 'Routine Update' Gone Wrong
Label: Technology Monday’s Gmail outage didn’t last long — just 18 minutes, according to Google — but it disrupted an awful lot of users. When the popular webmail service went down around 9 a.m. PST, as much as 40 percent of all users were affected.On Tuesday afternoon, Google published its explanation of what went wrong. The problem, the company said, was a “routine” update that caused Google’s load-balancing...
Lawsuit claims A&E’s ‘Storage Wars’ show is rigged
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of the valuables found hidden in abandoned lockers on A&E’s “Storage Wars” have been added by producers to deceive viewers, a former cast member of the show claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.David Hester‘s suit claims producers have added a BMW Mini and newspapers chronicling Elvis Presley‘s death to lockers in order to build drama for the show and that his complaints about...
Rate of Childhood Obesity Falls in Several Cities
Label: HealthJessica Kourkounis for The New York TimesAt William H. Ziegler Elementary in Northeast Philadelphia, students are getting acquainted with vegetables and healthy snacks. PHILADELPHIA — After decades of rising childhood obesity rates, several American cities are reporting their first declines. The trend has emerged in big cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as smaller places like...
Daily Stock Market Activity
Label: BusinessStocks rose on Tuesday, led by gains in technology companies, helping the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to end at its highest level since Election Day. A 2.18 percent gain, to $541.39, in Apple’s stock lifted the Nasdaq composite index, as the company rebounded from a week in which investors took profits before a possible tax increase next year. Before Tuesday’s trading, Apple...
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