LOS 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...
Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders
Label: HealthFor years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as any tribe’s, and at least as mystifying. Every mental anthropologist who has visited their world seems to walk away with a different story, a...
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
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Anthem Blue Cross seeks to raise individual policyholders' rates
Label: World California's largest for-profit health insurer, Anthem Blue Cross, is seeking to raise rates an average of 18% for more than...
Andrew W.K. Nixed as Cultural Ambassador to Bahrain, Vows to Continue Partying
Label: Technology It’s hard to tell what’s funnier: That the State Department considered sending “positive partying” performer Andrew W.K. as an a cultural ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, or that the effusive entertainer is actually surprised that it didn’t happen.Earlier this week, Andrew W.K. announced that he had been invited to the U.S. embassy in Bahrain, an offer...
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...
United Is Struggling Two Years After Its Merger With Continental
Label: BusinessNam Y. Huh/Associated PressA United 787 Dreamliner at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. United lost $103 million through the third quarter of 2012. CHICAGO — It was supposed to be a moment for celebration: United Airlines observing the delivery of its second Boeing 787 Dreamliner with a flight from Seattle to Chicago earlier this month for a select group of employees, while senior officers,...
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...
Microsoft Says It Has Sold 40 Million Windows 8 Licenses
Label: Technology Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses in the month since it launched, suggesting that the operating system is selling faster, and in larger numbers, than Windows 7.Microsoft executive Tami Reller announced the milestone at the Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference, and the company reiterated it Tuesday in a blog post that said, “Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms...
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