SACRAMENTO — Fear of embarrassment and budget cuts led high officials at the California parks department to conceal millions...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 5
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Anna Faris Joins Chuck Lorre’s CBS Pilot ‘Mom’
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Anna Faris has joined the ranks of big-screen talent taking on small-screen projects.“The House Bunny” and “Scary Movie 4” star Faris has been cast to star in “Mom,” the CBS pilot from “Two and a Half Men” and “The Big Bang Theory” executive producer Chuck Lorre, individuals familiar with the situation told TheWrap on Friday.Faris will play a newly sober single mom who...
Pregnancy Centers Gain Influence in Anti-Abortion Fight
Label: HealthBrandon Thibodeaux for The New York TimesAmber Jupe, right, attended a session conducted by Margo Shanks at a Care Net facility; the program addressed signs of fetal alcohol syndrome. WACO, Tex. — With free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds, along with diapers, parenting classes and even temporary housing, pregnancy centers are playing an increasingly influential role in the anti-abortion movement....
Pictures From the Week in Business
Label: BusinessA trader at the New York Stock Exchange on New Year’s Eve. Stocks were driven sharply higher on the last day of the year by signs that a resolution to the fiscal negotiations in Washington could come within days. The House passed the bill late Tuesday. Credit: Seth Wenig/Associated Press ...
Jan
04
Youngest Holocaust survivors look to next generation
Label: World She was an orphan, a 14-year-old Jewish girl, when she went to the Berlin train station on a summer day in 1939, leaving behind...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 4
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Congressional critics of bin Laden film step up pressure on CIA
Label: LifestyleWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. senators, including the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, have stepped up their pressure on the CIA over its response to “Zero Dark Thirty,” a new film about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.In a letter sent to the CIA and released on Thursday, Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Intelligence Committee, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin and Senator...
Scant Proof Is Found to Back Up Claims by Energy Drinks
Label: HealthEnergy drinks are the fastest-growing part of the beverage industry, with sales in the United States reaching more than $10 billion in 2012 — more than Americans spent on iced tea or sports beverages like Gatorade. Their rising popularity represents a generational shift in what people drink, and reflects a successful campaign to convince consumers, particularly teenagers, that the drinks...
Deepwater Horizon Owner Settles With U.S. Over Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico
Label: BusinessThe driller whose floating Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew out in 2010, causing a massive oil spill, has agreed to settle civil and criminal claims with the federal government for $1.4 billion, the Justice Department announced Thursday. The Deepwater Horizon exploded, burned and sank in April 2010. Eleven men were killed and millions of gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico and fouled...
Jan
03
Bieber urges crackdown on paparazzi after photographer's death
Label: World Justin Bieber and his collection of exotic cars have been tantalizing targets for celebrity photographers ever since the young...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Jan. 3
Label: Technology Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle posted here.SPOILER WARNING:We leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer....
Jay-Z composing original score for “The Great Gatsby”
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – If you liked the music in the trailer for Baz Luhrmann‘s “The Great Gatsby,” you’ll be happy to hear Jay-Z isn’t just lending a few of his songs to the soundtrack, he’s composing the upcoming film’s entire original score.The rapper is, apparently, hard at work to accomplish the task with another artist, who goes by the name The Bullitts.The latter broke the news on Twitter...
Chinese Groups Slowly Carve Out Space in Work Against H.I.V./AIDS
Label: HealthGilles Sabrie for The New York TimesIn October, a student gave blood for an H.I.V. test at the Lingnan Health Center in Guangzhou. The center tries to be a safe space for gay men in an environment that can be hostile toward them. GUANGZHOU, China — As he waited to give blood for an H.I.V. test one recent afternoon, Le, a 25-year-old marketing professional, explained why he was there. “I was aware...
It's the Economy: What Will the Economy’s New ‘Normal’ Look Like in 2013?
Label: BusinessIllustration by Jasper RietmanBack in the mid-2000s, the U.S. consumer economy was undergoing a serious change. After decades of favoring low prices (even when they promised low quality), consumers began paying more for all sorts of premium features like single-serve packaging and pretty much anything “green” or “organic.” Then came the financial crisis and the drop in consumer demand. ...
Jan
02
Brown plans extensive changes for school funding in 2013
Label: World SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown will push this year to upend the way schools are funded in California, hoping to shift more money...
The Future Is Now: What We Imagined for 2013 — 10 Years Ago
Label: Technology Predicting the future is hard, but that doesn’t stop us from trying. We’re Wired, after all. Ten years ago, we boldly declared that we’d be living with phones on our wrists, data-driven goggles on our eyes and gadgets that would safety-test our food for us. Turns out, a lot of the things Sonia Zjawinski conceptualized in our “Living in 2013” feature way back in 2003...
LA photographer killed while shooting Bieber’s car
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Police say a paparazzo was hit by a car and killed after taking photos of Justin Bieber‘s white Ferrari on a Los Angeles street.Los Angeles police Officer James Stoughton says the photographer, who was not identified, died at a hospital shortly after the crash Tuesday evening. Stoughton says Bieber was not in the Ferrari at the time.The sports car was parked on the side of Sepulveda...
Safed Journal: New Insights on Marijuana in Israel, Where It’s Illegal
Label: HealthBaz Ratner/ReutersTikkun Olam, a medical marijuana farm in Israel, blends the high-tech and the spiritual. SAFED, Israel — Among the rows of plants growing at a government-approved medical marijuana farm in the Galilee hills in northern Israel, one strain is said to have the strongest psychoactive effect of any cannabis in the world. Another, rich in anti-inflammatory properties, will not get you...
Scant Proof Is Found to Back Up Claims by Energy Drinks
Label: BusinessEnergy drinks are the fastest-growing part of the beverage industry, with sales in the United States reaching more than $10 billion in 2012 — more than Americans spent on iced tea or sports beverages like Gatorade. Their rising popularity represents a generational shift in what people drink, and reflects a successful campaign to convince consumers, particularly teenagers, that the drinks...
Jan
01
Senate passes 'fiscal cliff' deal; House to vote Tuesday
Label: World WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly early Tuesday to approve legislation to halt a tax increase for all but the wealthiest...
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