Maybe you want to help others. Maybe you long to lend a hand. But you're not sure where and you're not sure how and you don't...
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...
Genetic Gamble : New Drugs Aim to Make Cells Destroy Cancer
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...
Naomi Gleit helps keep Facebook growing
Label: Business The gig: As senior director of Facebook Inc.'s growth, engagement and mobile team, Naomi Gleit helps grow the social network's...
Dec
21
State unemployment rate falls to 9.8% even as employers shed jobs
Label: World California's unemployment rate hit single-digits in November for the first time in almost four years, thanks in part to a holiday...
PSY's 'Gangnam Style' reaches 1B views on YouTube
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Viral star PSY has reached a new milestone on YouTube.The South Korean rapper's video for "Gangnam Style" has reached 1 billion views, according to YouTube's own counter. It's the first time any clip has surpassed that mark on the streaming service owned by Google Inc.It shows the enduring popularity of the self-deprecating video that features Park Jae-sang's giddy up-style dance moves....
For Tracy Anderson, Fitness Expert, Always a New Move
Label: HealthErin Baiano for The New York TimesTracy Anderson, center, teaching a fitness class at her studio in TriBeCa. Her classes and DVDs have attracted devoted followers — and, she says, mimics. TRACY ANDERSON, the tiny blond fitness guru perhaps best known as Gwyneth Paltrow’s trainer and business partner, is as bright and sparkly as the Swarovski crystal-encrusted iPhone case she was admiring one...
State unemployment rate falls to 9.8% even as employers shed jobs
Label: Business California's unemployment rate hit single-digits in November for the first time in almost four years, thanks in part to a holiday...
Dec
20
Majorities support some new gun laws, not bans
Label: World Although public support for “gun control” as a general concept remains well below the levels found in the 1990s, several polls...
Heart joins select class with Rock Hall induction
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The journey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame can be a long and winding road for some acts. For Heart, it took more than a decade, and sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson admitted they were losing hope."(The) running joke in the band was (we) would never get in," Ann said.But all that changed when the group made the class of 2013, announced this month."Well, it just goes to show you that...
Stocks fall as sides snipe in `cliff' talks
Label: Business Stocks dipped Wednesday, recording their first loss of the week. President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress sniped at...
Dec
19
Army seeks death for Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghan shooting rampage
Label: World SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for...
Singer Jenni Rivera celebrated at memorial
Label: LifestyleUNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — The life of Jenni Rivera was celebrated in song, as passionate fans chanted "Jen-ni! Jen-ni!" at the singer's memorial service billed by her family a "celestial graduation."Rivera's children and singers Olga Tanon and Joan Sebastian performed during the nearly 2 ½-hour service Wednesday at the Gibson Amphitheatre, where thousands of fans gathered to salute the "Diva de...
Lawyer Says Ritual Circumcision Is Protected Activity
Label: HealthA lawyer for Orthodox Jewish groups asked a federal judge on Tuesday to throw out a New York City regulation requiring parents to sign a consent form before their infant sons undergo a form of Jewish ritual circumcision in which the circumciser uses his mouth to remove blood from the incision. The lawyer, Shay Dvoretzky, said the practice, which is prevalent in parts of the ultra-Orthodox...
Dec
18
Boehner's 'Plan B' immediately encounters opposition
Label: WorldHouse Speaker John Boehner says he is readying a backup bill aimed at averting the "fiscal cliff." WASHINGTON -- House Speaker...
CBS dominates week in TV ratings
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — CBS had little competition for dominance last week in the television ratings.The network had 17 of the 25 most-watched programs on the air last week, according to the Nielsen company. It beat second-place NBC by an average of nearly four million viewers a night last week, and also took the 18-to-49-year-old demographic that advertisers seek."60 Minutes" and "NCIS" were the most popular...
Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
Label: HealthLorna TilleyDISABLED Almost all the other skeletons at the Man Bac site, south of Hanoi, are straight. But the man now called Burial 9 was laid to rest curled in a fetal position that suggests lifelong paralysis. While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it seems, is caring for the sick and disabled. And some archaeologists are suggesting...
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