BEIJING — When a thick quilt of smog enveloped swaths of China earlier this month, it set in motion a costly chain reaction...
Facebook Profile May Expose Mental Illness
Label: TechnologyA person’s Facebook profile may reveal signs of mental illness that might not necessarily emerge in a session with a psychiatrist, a new study suggests.“The beauty of social media activity as a tool in psychological diagnosis is that it removes some of the problems associated with patients’ self-reporting,” said study researcher Elizabeth Martin, a psychology doctoral student at the University of...
Disney says JJ Abrams to direct next 'Star Wars'
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — It's official. The force is with J.J. Abrams.The Walt Disney Co. issued a statement Friday night confirming reports that had been circulating for two days that Abrams, Emmy-award-winning creator of TV's "Lost" and director of 2009's "Star Trek" movie, has been pegged to direct the seventh installment of the "Star Wars" franchise."J.J. is the perfect director to helm this," said...
40 Years After Roe v. Wade, Thousands March to Oppose Abortion
Label: HealthDrew Angerer/The New York TimesPro-life activists made their way down Constitution Avenue toward the Supreme Court during the March for Life in Washington on Friday. WASHINGTON — Three days after the 40th anniversary of the decision in Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion, tens of thousands of abortion opponents from around the country came to the National Mall on Friday...
China's smog taints economy, health
Label: Business BEIJING — When a thick quilt of smog enveloped swaths of China earlier this month, it set in motion a costly chain reaction...
Jan
25
Palmdale woman accused of torturing her children
Label: World Neighbors of a Palmdale woman charged with assaulting and torturing two of her children said Thursday that they never even realized...
Nokia CEO closes the door on a potential Android smartphone
Label: TechnologyNokia (NOK) CEO Stephen Elop on Thursday shot down rumors that his company might be interested in developing Android-based smartphones. During Nokia’s fourth-quarter earnings call, the executive reiterated his support for the company’s Asha phones and Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows Phone platform, while shutting the door on earlier Android rumors. [More from BGR: Unlocking your smartphone will...
'Dallas' returns with J.R. Ewing's final schemes
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — J.R. Ewing wouldn't hesitate to cheat his fellow man. He also famously cheated death.In the second-season finale of "Dallas" back in 1980, he was shot by an unknown assailant in his office and left for dead. But he recovered nicely, and the cliffhanger question that gripped the nation (Who shot J.R.?) was answered that November in an episode seen by 80 million viewers.This time, J.R....
The New Old Age Blog: Time to Recognize Mild Cognitive Disorder?
Label: HealthThe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published and periodically updated by the American Psychiatric Association, is one of those documents few laypeople ever read, but many of us are affected by.It can make it easier or harder to get an insurance company or Medicare to cover treatments, for example. It factors into a variety of legal and governmental decisions.And on a personal...
Stocks rise ahead of home sales report
Label: Business Stocks are opening higher on Wall Street ahead of what is expected to be more upbeat data on housing from the government.
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Jan
24
Initial jobless claims drop again, hit new five-year low
Label: World WASHINGTON -- Initial jobless claims fell again last week, to 330,000, a fresh five-year low, as the labor market continued...
Go forth and Tweet! Pope sees web networks as “portals of truth”
Label: TechnologyVATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict urged Catholics on Thursday to use social networks like Twitter and Facebook to win converts, as he launched his own smartphone app streaming live footage of his speeches.The websites – often associated with endless postings of idle gossip and baby photos – could be used as “portals of truth and faith” in an increasingly secular age, the pontiff said in his 2013...
Paris Opera Ballet names Millepied of 'Black Swan'
Label: LifestylePARIS (AP) — Benjamin Millepied, the "Black Swan" choreographer who helped transform Natalie Portman into an obsessed, paranoid ballerina for the film and later married the actress, was named director of the Paris Opera Ballet on Thursday.Millepied, 35, is a former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet who left in 2011 to create his own dance company in Los Angeles, L.A. Dance Project. He'll...
Mind: Avoiding Cold Feet Down the Aisle
Label: HealthHis charisma was big enough to make his bad habits seem small, more like quirks than flaws. The cigarettes on his breath; the extra weight around the middle; the indifference to clothing and appearances — surely these were minor things, correctable in time.In the months leading up to the wedding, in 1988, even the fact that he’d been living with his mother at age 38 seemed somehow explainable, if...
Apple shares tumble after relatively unimpressive earnings report
Label: Business Apple Inc. may still make products customers love, but its latest earnings report appears to have broken investors' hearts.For...
Jan
23
Dodgers near TV rights deal with Time Warner Cable
Label: World The Los Angeles Dodgers have negotiated a long-term television deal that would pay the team $7 billion to $8 billion, a move...
First “Firefox OS” Phones Previewed, to Launch in February
Label: TechnologyMozilla, the non-profit organization behind the popular Firefox web browser, has been promoting its Firefox OS project (once known as “Boot to Gecko”) for some time now. A hardware partnership with Telefonica, the international telecom giant, had been announced, but no phones had yet been unveiled.But in an announcement today on its blog, Mozilla announced the impending launch of its first “developer...
Te'o tells Couric he briefly lied about girlfriend
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist, while maintaining that he had no part in creating the hoax.Pressed by Couric to admit that he was in on the deception, Te'o said he believed that his girlfriend Lennay Kekua had died of cancer and didn't lie about it until December."Katie, put...
The New Old Age Blog: Study Links Cognitive Deficits, Hearing Loss
Label: HealthThere’s another reason to be concerned about hearing loss — one of the most common health conditions in older adults and one of the most widely undertreated. A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine suggests that elderly people with compromised hearing are at risk of developing cognitive deficits — problems with memory and thinking — sooner than those whose hearing is intact.The study...
New look at plan to use eminent domain to seize troubled mortgages
Label: Business San Bernardino County and two of its cities last year created a national stir with a proposal to use eminent domain to seize...
Jan
22
County official calls car leasing contract procedure 'embarrassing'
Label: World Auditors reviewing a $1.75-million car leasing contract given to a company with a politically connected lobbying firm found...
I Might Be Too Old for Facebook Graph Search
Label: TechnologyOn Sunday, I turned 30.That’s not too old, I tell myself, yet the signs of aging are creeping in. Teenagers listen to music that I either haven’t heard of or believe to be mostly terrible. They use slang I don’t recognize, and I imagine my slang would sound to them like “groovy” or “far out” sound to me.But for the purposes of our tech blog, the most notable sign is how much more active teens...
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