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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 22
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....
Rebel Wilson to host springtime MTV Movie Awards
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — “Pitch Perfect” star and “Bridesmaids” scene-stealer Rebel Wilson is taking center stage.MTV tapped the Australian actress to host its annual movie awards, set for April 14 in Culver City, Calif. The network made the announcement late Thursday during the finale of its popular “Jersey Shore” series.Wilson is an actress and writer who rose to fame with her role as Kristin Wiig‘s nosy...
Alabama to End Isolation of Inmates With H.I.V.
Label: HealthJamie Martin/Associated PressThe H.I.V. ward of an Alabama women's prison in 2008. The state was ordered to stop segregating inmates with the virus. A federal judge on Friday ordered Alabama to stop isolating prisoners with H.I.V. Alabama is one of two states, along with South Carolina, where H.I.V.-positive inmates are housed in separate prisons, away from other inmates, in an attempt to...
Dec
21
Boehner's 'fiscal cliff' plan fails
Label: World WASHINGTON — House Speaker John A. Boehner abruptly canceled a vote on his Plan B tax proposal late Thursday after failing to...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 21
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....
Michael Kors replaced by Zac Posen as “Project Runway” judge
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Michael Kors is out at “Project Runway.”Fashion designer Kors will not be a judge on the Lifetime reality competition when it returns for its 11th season on January 24, Lifetime said Tuesday. Instead, designer Zac Posen will join Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Tim Gunn as a featured judge.Lifetime told TheWrap that Kors is vacating his judge‘s position due to scheduling conflicts.“Due...
Stigma Fading, Marijuana Common in California
Label: HealthJim Wilson/The New York TimesAt a San Francisco concert in 2010, marijuana use was general while signatures were collected for a measure to decriminalize it. LOS ANGELES — Let Colorado and Washington be the marijuana trailblazers. Let them struggle with the messy details of what it means to actually legalize the drug. Marijuana is, as a practical matter, already legal in much of California. ...
Boehner Tax Plan in House Is Pulled, Lacking Votes
Label: BusinessBrendan Hoffman for The New York TimesSpeaker John A. Boehner of Ohio leaving a meeting Thursday with fellow House Republicans on talks over the “fiscal cliff.” WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner’s effort to pass fallback legislation to avert a fiscal crisis in less than two weeks collapsed Thursday night in an embarrassing defeat after conservative Republicans refused to support legislation that...
Dec
20
Fearful 'end of world' calls, emails flood NASA as Dec. 21 nears
Label: World If there's one government agency really looking forward to Dec. 22, it's NASA.The space agency said it has been flooded with...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 20
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....
Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy welcome a baby boy
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy‘s “Homeland” just got bigger.Danes’ rep confirms the couple welcomed a baby boy named Cyrus Michael Christopher.People.com first reported Monday’s birth.It’s the first child for 33-year old Danes and 37-year-old Dancy. They were married in 2009.There’s no word yet whether the new mom will attend the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13. She’s nominated for Best...
Recipes for Health: Spiced Roasted Almonds
Label: HealthAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesSpiced roasted almonds. Roasted nuts are standard snacks, and almonds are a healthy food. But it is easy to eat too many. I find that if they are a little spicy or hot, delicious as they are, they are not quite as addictive. 3 cups (about 400 grams) almonds 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil Salt to taste 1/4 to...
Dec
19
Gun lobby's grip on Congress threatened
Label: World WASHINGTON — The gun-control debate sharpened Tuesday as President Obama backed an effort to revive the assault weapons ban...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 19
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....
“Zero Dark Thirty” review: Like a really good “Law & Order” – with waterboarding
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – It’s always a challenge to tell a story where the audience knows the ending. The trick comes in offering a new perspective on familiar events or at least generating suspense in a way that makes us nervous that Apollo 13 might not land safely, even when history tells us otherwise.“Argo” and “Lincoln” are two films that successfully tread these waters, and now comes “Zero...
Church Officials Call on Filipinos to Campaign Against Birth Control Law
Label: HealthMANILA — After losing a battle to stop the passage of a contentious birth control law, Roman Catholic Church officials on Tuesday dug in and instructed their millions of followers to campaign against the measure in communities, schools and homes. “Let us intensify the moral spiritual education of our youth and children so that they can stand strong against the threats to their moral fiber,”...
DealBook: As Unit Pleads Guilty, UBS Pays $1.5 Billion Over Rate Rigging
Label: BusinessUBS, the Swiss banking giant, announced a record settlement with global authorities on Wednesday, agreeing to a combined $1.5 billion in fines for its role in a multiyear scheme to manipulate interest rates.In a sign that officials are increasingly taking a hard line against financial wrongdoing, the Justice Department also secured a guilty plea from the bank’s Japanese subsidiary, sending a warning...
Dec
18
Newport Beach dock renters may withhold holiday love
Label: World Marcy Cook embraces the holiday season. The tell? Start with the teddy bears dressed as Santa. More than 1,500 stand sentry...
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for Dec. 18
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....
“The Playroom” lands distributor
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media have acquired the theatrical, DVD and VOD rights to “The Playroom,” a drama directed by Julia Dyer (“Late Bloomers”), which stars John Hawkes (“Winter’s Bone,” “The Sessions”) and Molly Parker (“Dexter,” “The Firm”).The film is slated for a day-and-date theatrical release and on DVD/VOD on February 8, 2013.“The Playroom” premiered...
Mind: A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness in Gun Control Debate
Label: Health The gunman, Adam Lanza, 20, has been described as a loner who was intelligent and socially awkward. And while no official diagnosis has been made public, armchair diagnosticians have been quick to assert that keeping guns from getting into the hands of people with mental illness would help solve the problem of gun homicides. Arguing against stricter gun-control measures, Representative Mike...
A Quest for Speedier and Smarter Airport Security
Label: BusinessAs 15 million people in the United States head to airports this holiday season — slightly fewer than last year — some travelers will find welcome changes to security screening procedures. Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto AgencyTravelers on Thanksgiving eve at Reagan National; quicker screening under PreCheck has been expanded. The Transportation Security...
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