When Claire Gordon arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, nurses knew she needed extra attention.She was 96, had heart disease...
DC Comics Turns the Occupy Movement Into a Superhero Title
Label: Technology Eighteen months after the phrase first entered the collective public consciousness, the plight of the 99 percent is coming to mainstream superhero comics — via a new series from the second biggest publisher in the American comic industry, which just happens to be a subsidiary of a multi-national corporation that makes around $12 billion a year. Irony, anybody?In May, DC Comics will launch...
Mary J. Blige honored by Vibe at pre-Grammy party
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Babyface called her an icon; Diddy said she was like a sister; and Anita Baker credited her for helping secure her latest Grammy nomination.There was no shortage of superlatives bestowed on Mary J. Blige on Friday night as Vibe magazine celebrated the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul’s career, which has now spanned for more than two decades.“She’s a musical soulmate, she’s my sister, she’s...
In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen
Label: HealthAt least nine polio immunization workers were shot to death in northern Nigeria on Friday by gunmen who attacked two clinics, officials said. The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio. Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of...
Strategies: At Dell, a Gamble on a Legacy
Label: BusinessIN 1984 — the year Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook creator, was born — Michael S. Dell started a tech company in his dorm room, dropped out of college and changed the world. By making personal computers that were powerful, reliable and inexpensive, and by selling directly to buyers who customized their PC features, Mr. Dell revolutionized his industry. “The original PC industry was long...
Feb
08
Big Bear locked down amid manhunt
Label: World The bustling winter resort of Big Bear took on the appearance of a ghost town Thursday as surveillance aircraft buzzed overhead...
Building of the Week: Bank of Georgia
Label: TechnologyEach week, Wired Design brings you a photo of one of our favorite buildings, showcasing boundary-pushing architecture and design involved in the unique structures that make the world's cityscapes interesting. Check back Fridays for the continuing series, and feel free to make recommendations in the comments, by Twitter, or by e-mail.The Soviets were not known for comfortable or ornamental architecture,...
The New Old Age: The Executor's Assistant
Label: HealthI’m serving as executor for my father’s estate, a role few of us are prepared for until we’re playing it, so I was grateful when the mail brought “The American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates” — the fourth edition of a handbook the A.B.A. began publishing in 1995.This is a legal universe, I’m learning, in which every step — even with a small, simple estate that owes no taxes and includes...
Japanese Still Seeking Link in 787 Battery Incidents
Label: BusinessJapan’s investigation of a battery that was smoking on a Boeing 787 flight there last month has not yet determined if the incident started in the same way as a fire on another 787 in Boston, a Japanese official said Friday. Akinobu Yokoyama, a spokesman for Japan’s Transport Safety Board, said it was still not clear whether a short-circuit or other malfunction occurred within one or more...
Feb
07
Fugitive cop stayed in San Diego this week; military bases on alert
Label: World Military bases in the San Diego area have been warned to be on the lookout for a fugitive former LAPD officer suspected of shooting...
Valve's Newell: How PCs Will Take Over the Living Room
Label: Technology LAS VEGAS — At the DICE Summit on Thursday, Valve CEO Gabe Newell laid out his vision for how the PC, as a gaming platform, can move into the living room.“Traditionally, people say nobody wants a PC in the living room,” Newell said. But he sees that changing soon, and pointed to a “good/better/best” scenario in which different users will have different solutions for playing PC games on their...
Well: Expressing the Inexpressible
Label: HealthWhen Kyle Potvin learned she had breast cancer at the age of 41, she tracked the details of her illness and treatment in a journal. But when it came to grappling with issues of mortality, fear and hope, she found that her best outlet was poetry.How I feared chemo, afraidIt would change me.It did.Something dissolved inside me.Tears began a slow drip;I cried at the news storyOf a lost boy found in the...
Media Decoder Blog: Led by Celebrity Titles, Magazine Newsstand Sales Slide
Label: Business2:11 p.m. | Updated As the magazine industry continues to suffer from declining circulation, celebrity gossip magazines and young women’s titles have taken some of the biggest hits.According to data released by the Alliance for Audited Media on Thursday morning, overall paid and verified circulation of magazines declined slightly by 0.3 percent in the second half of 2012. But newsstand sales – which...
<cite>Portal</cite>, the Movie: Valve, J.J. Abrams Team Up for Future Games, Films
Label: Technology LAS VEGAS — Valve, the game developer behind Half-Life and Portal, and J.J. Abrams’ production studio Bad Robot will work together to produce games and movies, the heads of the two studios said at the DICE Summit on Wednesday.“There’s an idea we have for a game that we’d like to work with Valve on,” said Abrams while sharing the stage with Valve head Gabe Newell.“We’re going to figure out...
The New Old Age Blog: For Women, Reduced Access to Long-Term Care Insurance
Label: Health“This was a very, very good business for a short time, with people buying long-term care insurance like it was candy in a candy store,’’ said Michael Perry, a vice president at the Opus Advisory Group, a strategic financial planning firm in Purchase, N.Y.No more. Mr. Perry has sold only one long-term care policy in the last six months and is “backing off from marketing’’ them as he watches this corner...
State of the Art: Microsoft’s Surface Pro Works Like a Tablet and a PC
Label: BusinessFor decades, Microsoft has subsisted on the milk of its two cash cows: Windows and Office. The company’s occasional ventures into hardware generally haven’t ended well: (*cough*) Zune, Kin Phone, Spot Watch (*cough*). But the new Surface Pro tablet, which goes on sale Saturday, seemed to have more going for it than any Microsoft hardware since the Xbox. Everybody knows what a tablet...
Feb
05
Friends, investigators seek answers in killing of O.C. couple
Label: WorldA joint burial is being planned for an engaged Orange County couple found dead inside their car at their Irvine condo complex. ...
How Facebook Is Transforming Science and Public Health
Label: Technology Facebook has encompassed many things in its nine-year run. From a subtler version of a dating site to a gaming platform and a messaging hub. We’ve seen Facebook and its billion-plus users play a part in influencing politics, the form advertising takes, and how retail happens. Now we’re starting to see Facebook begin to impact science and public health, and it could be Facebook’s biggest industry-changing...
Beyonce sings, reunites Destiny’s Child at Super Bowl half-time show
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – Singer Beyonce strutted and shimmied her way through football’s Super Bowl half-time show and thrilled fans by reuniting with her former Destiny’s Child bandmates on Sunday in New Orleans.Beyonce, wearing a revealing black leather jacket and miniskirt combination, was surrounded by bursts of fire, smoke and silhouettes as she performed at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. More than 100 million...
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