PARIS (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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