BEIRUT — A car bomb exploded in eastern Damascus on Saturday, an insurgent spokeswoman said, and the Syrian government reported...
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,...
Americans answer D.C.’s siren song of employment, strong economy
Label: LifestyleWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thirteen years ago the band The Magnetic Fields crooned that the U.S. capital city is “the greatest place to be,” in the indie love song “Washington, D.C.”Recently, a growing number of Americans are singing along as they move to the District in search of jobs, economic opportunity and cultural attractions.In a study on migration provided exclusively to Reuters that is set to...
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...
Amazon Book Reviews Deleted in a Purge Aimed at Manipulation
Label: BusinessGiving raves to family members is no longer acceptable. Neither is writers’ reviewing other writers. But showering five stars on a book you admittedly have not read is fine. After several well-publicized cases involving writers buying or manipulating their reviews, Amazon is cracking down. Writers say thousands of reviews have been deleted from the shopping site in recent months. Amazon...
Dec
21
Flawed data stall California's 911 upgrades
Label: World A three-year effort by California to improve 911 emergency service has been stymied by flawed data and aging computers at local...
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:...
Ashton Kutcher files for divorce from Demi Moore
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Ashton Kutcher filed court papers Friday to end his seven-year marriage to actress Demi Moore.The actor’s divorce petition cites irreconcilable differences and does not list a date that the couple separated. Moore announced last year that she was ending her marriage to the actor 15 years her junior, but she never filed a petition.Kutcher’s filing does not indicate that the couple...
About New York: One Boy’s Death Moves State to Action to Prevent Others
Label: HealthPrompted by the death of a 12-year-old Queens boy in April, New York health officials are poised to make their state the first in the nation to require that hospitals aggressively look for sepsis in patients so treatment can begin sooner. Under the regulations, which are now being drafted, the hospitals will also have to publicly report the results of their efforts. The action by New York...
As Shoppers Hop From Tablet to PC to Phone, Retailers Try to Adapt
Label: BusinessRyan 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 the lowest-price option there, Mr. O’Neil made the purchase on his laptop. “I do use the iPad to browse sites,” Mr. O’Neil said, but when it comes time to close the deal, he finds it easier to do on a computer....
Dec
20
Boehner rejects Democrats' push for immediate vote on gun bill
Label: World WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John A. Boehner rejected calls from Democrats to schedule a vote on new gun restrictions before...
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...
World Music Awards postponed due to visa issues, Newtown tragedy
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The World Music Awards was postponed on Thursday due to “logistical and multiple visa issue,” organizers said, two days before the event was scheduled to be held in Miami.Event producers John Martinotti and Marcol International said in a statement that the December 22 awards ceremony also was being delayed in the wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut,...
Dec
19
Obama makes gun control top priority
Label: World WASHINGTON — President Obama committed himself to placing gun control at the top of his second-term agenda, redoubling his intention...
Thingiverse Removes (Most) Printable Gun Parts
Label: Technology In the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting, Thingiverse is cracking down on 3-D printable gun parts.When the team at Wiki Weapon set the internet on fire by announcing a 3-D printable gun, what they’d actually accomplished was creating a barely working part for an AR-15 assault rifle, the same gun platform that Adam Lanza used in Sandy Hook Elementary. The plans for that part were available...
Music, roses at singer Jenni Rivera’s memorial
Label: LifestyleUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Jenni Rivera‘s “celestial graduation” was marked by festive music, heartfelt speeches in Spanish and English and passionate chants of “Jen-ni! Jen-ni!”Rivera’s children and famed singers Olga Tanon and Joan Sebastian performed during the nearly 2 ½-hour memorial service Wednesday at the Gibson Amphitheatre, where thousands of fans gathered to salute the “Diva de la Banda”...
F.D.A. and States Meet About Regulation of Drug Compounders
Label: HealthMary Calvert/ReutersMargaret Hamburg, the F.D.A. commissioner, testified on the meningitis outbreak before Congress in November. She addressed the need for greater federal oversight of large compounding pharmacies, which mix batches of drugs on their own, often for much lower prices than major manufacturers charge. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Food and Drug Administration conferred with public health...
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...
Dec
18
Two more funerals in Newtown; NRA responds to school massacre
Label: World NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Two more of the children killed by a gunman who invaded a Connecticut elementary school were buried on Tuesday...
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