How in the world did something as innocuous as the sugary pink polio vaccine turn into a flash point between Islamic militants and Western “crusaders,” flaring into a confrontation so ugly that teenage girls — whose only “offense” is that they are protecting children — are gunned down in the streets? Nine vaccine workers were killed in Pakistan last week in a terrorist campaign that brought...
BitTorrent co-founder now working with Hollywood
Label: Business A Silicon Valley executive whose previous venture was synonymous with Internet piracy has found a way to play nice with Hollywood.BitTorrent...
Dec
24
Baker's giant thermometer, long on the blink, is taking heat
Label: World BAKER — The temperature hit 114 degrees in July, but most folks passing by the "World's Tallest Thermometer" in this Mojave...
A huge collection of odd TV stuff needs a home
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — James Comisar is the first to acknowledge that more than a few have questioned his sanity for spending the better part of 25 years collecting everything from the costume George Reeves wore in the 1950s TV show "Superman" to the entire set of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson."Then there's the pointy Spock ears Leonard Nimoy wore on "Star Trek" and the guns Tony Soprano used...
The New Old Age Blog: Fudging the Facts, for Peace of Mind
Label: HealthLou, my beloved grandfather, lived almost 101 years and obsessively worried every single day of his adult life — probably because his adult life began before it should have. As a child in Russia, he watched helplessly as his mother and sister were killed during a vicious pogrom in their village.Lou (I called him Zadie) made his way to America, and immediately began imagining the worst about his fate,...
'Mastery' tries to provide a guide to becoming a genius
Label: Business We're all geniuses now. At least, we all could be geniuses if only we buckled down and spent an awfully long time working at...
Dec
23
Richard Adams dies at 65; gay marriage pioneer
Label: World Thirty-seven years ago, Richard Adams made history when he and his partner of four years, Anthony Sullivan, became one of the...
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 : Drugs Aim to Make Several Types of Cancer Self-Destruct
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...
Association board can't use email instead of meetings
Label: Business Question: I recently was elected to the board of directors of my homeowners association. I was surprised to learn that rather...
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