The resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus has brought a sudden and unexpected end to the public career of a four-star general...
Philip Roth Is Retiring; Amazon Glitch Disables Buy Buttons
Label: Technology
Today in books and publishing: Philip Roth confirms his retirement; Amazon‘s mysteriously vanishing buy buttons; Kobo expands to Italy, Kindle considers China; cities in literature.RELATED: Trikes, a Mustache, and Andy Warhol
Philip Roth wraps it up. One of America’s most celebrated living novelists has been hinting...
Weinstein Co., Clear Channel, Madison Square Garden Hosting Benefit Concert for Sandy Relief
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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Clear Channel Media, The Madison Square Garden Company and The Weinstein Company are joining together to produce a benefit concert to raise money for victims of Hurricane Sandy.The concert, titled “12-12-12,” will feature live music, although the producers did not reveal who would be performing. The roster should be an A-list...
The New Old Age Blog: The Emotional Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
Label: HealthLet’s talk about the emotional aftermath of the storm that left tens of thousands of older people on the East Coast without power, bunkered down in their homes, chilled to the bone and out of touch with the outside world.Let’s name the feelings they may have experienced. Fear. Despair. Hopelessness. Anxiety. Panic.Linda Leest and her staff at Services Now for Adult Persons in Queens heard this...
Retailers plan earlier start to Black Friday
Label: Business Cierra Hobson is a die-hard Black Friday shopper.Every year she queues in front of one of her favorite stores, where she waits,...
Nov
09
Groupon shares fall below $3
Label: World Shares of Chicago-based Groupon Inc. are falling hard a day after its disappointing third-quarter earnings.The stock was tanking 27 percent, to $2.86, in late morning...
‘NBA 2K13′ tops video games titles in October
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. retail sales of new video game hardware, software and accessories fell 25 percent in October, marking the 11th straight month of declining sales for physical game products, according to a report from NPD Group.Many gamers are waiting for big holiday releases such as Activision‘s “Call of Duty: Black Ops II.”
NPD...
On Twitter, pope to get different type of followers
Label: Lifestyle
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict already has 1.2 billion “followers” in the standard sense of the word but he soon will have another type when he enters what for any 85 year old is the brave new world of Twitter.Vatican officials say the pontiff, who is known not to love computers and still writes most of his speeches by hand, will have his own handle...
Malaria Vaccine Candidate Produces Disappointing Results in Clinical Trial
Label: HealthThe latest clinical trial of the world’s leading malaria vaccine candidate produced disappointing results on Friday. The infants it was given to had only about a third fewer infections than a control group. But researchers said they wanted to press on, assuming they keep getting financial support, because the number of children who die of malaria is so great that even an inefficient vaccine...
Sandy to raise U.S. used-car prices
Label: Business The estimated 250,000 cars flooded by Superstorm Sandy on the East Coast will drive up used-car prices, even as far away as...
Nov
08
Funeral for firefighter: 'We're a brotherhood'
Label: World Hundreds of firefighters from Chicago, the suburbs and other locations attend the wake of Herbert Johnson, a Chicago firefighter who was killed while battling a South Side house fire. (Phil Velasquez/Chicago Tribune) ...
Exclusive: Google Ventures beefs up fund size to $300 million a year
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UK PM warns of witch-hunt against gays in pedophile scandal
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron warned on Thursday that speculation about the identity of an unidentified member of his ruling Conservative party accused of sexually abusing children could turn into a witch-hunt against gay people.Cameron, who leads a troubled two-party coalition, ordered an investigation this week after a victim...
Well: The Presidential Health Quiz
Label: HealthWhether it’s George Washington’s teeth or Bill Clinton’s former hamburger habit, Americans have always been fascinated by the health of the president and presidential candidates.With help from the Web site DoctorZebra, which has compiled an exhaustive list of the medical history of American presidents, we’ve created an Election Day quiz to test your knowledge of presidential fitness and heal...
McDonald's sales drop, first time since 2003
Label: Business McDonald's Corp. reported its first decline in monthly U.S. same store sales in nine years Thursday, as the chain began to suffer...
Nov
07
Day after: Obama wins, but voters divided
Label: World Fresh from a decisive re-election win, President Barack Obama returns from the campaign trail on Wednesday with little time...
Apple's shares slide 4 percent to five-month low
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“Dad’s Army” star Clive Dunn dies aged 92
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LONDON (Reuters) – British actor Clive Dunn, best known as a bumbling old butcher in the popular World War Two sitcom “Dad’s Army”, has died, his agent said on Wednesday.Dunn passed away on Tuesday, Peter Charlesworth said, adding that he believed the actor died in Portugal where he has lived for many years. He was 92.
As...
Alarm Over India’s Dengue Fever Epidemic
Label: HealthEnrico Fabian for The New York TimesA man at the Yamuna River, an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. Filthy standing water abounds in New Delhi. More Photos »NEW DELHI — An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge the scope of a problem that experts say is threatening hundreds of millions of people,...
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