Professional tennis umpire Lois Goodman, who had been accused by prosecutors of killing her 80-year-old husband, will now try...
<em>Gadget Lab Show</em>: HTC One X+, Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and Sony Bluetooth Headphones
Label: Technology This week on the Gadget Lab Show, we check out several new gadgets including the HTC One X+, the bigger Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and new set of Bluetooth headphones from Sony.First up, staff writer Nathan Olivarez-Giles and reviews editor Michael Calore take a look at the One X+, HTC’s updated version of the original One X handset, which launched back in May. HTC has made...
Katy Perry, Carly Rae Jepsen get Billboard honors
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Billboard named Katy Perry its woman of the year, but the pop star thought her year was 2011.Perry was interviewed by Jon Stewart at Billboard’s Women in Music event Friday in New York City. The singer said she thought her moment had passed. Perry released “Teenage Dream” in 2010, and it sparked five No. 1 hits on the Billboard charts that spilled over to 2011. This year, she rereleased...
Hockey Coaches Defy Doctors on Concussions, Study Finds
Label: HealthDespite several years of intensive research, coverage and discussion about the dangers of concussions, the idea of playing through head injuries is so deeply rooted in hockey culture that two university teams kept concussed players on the ice even though they were taking part in a major concussion study. The study, which was published Friday in a series of articles in the journal Neurosurgical...
A Hospital War Reflects a Tightening Bind for Doctors Nationwide
Label: BusinessFor decades, doctors in picturesque Boise, Idaho, were part of a tight-knit community, freely referring patients to the specialists or hospitals of their choice and exchanging information about the latest medical treatments. But that began to change a few years ago, when the city’s largest hospital, St. Luke’s Health System, began rapidly buying physician practices all over town, from general...
Google Drive's New 'Site Publishing' Takes on Amazon, Dropbox
Label: Technology Google has unveiled a new feature dubbed “site publishing” for the company’s Drive cloud hosting service. Drive’s new site publishing is somewhere between a full-featured static file hosting service like Amazon S3 and Dropbox’s public folders, which can make hosted files available on the web.Google has set up a simple demo site served entirely from Google...
Lohan arrested in NY, charged also for California car smash
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested outside a New York nightclub on an assault charge early Thursday, police said, while in California, she was charged with reckless driving and lying to police over a car crash in June.Lohan, 26, was arrested shortly after 4:00 a.m. (0900 GMT) on a third-degree misdemeanor assault charge after punching another woman in the face at a...
Clearing the Fog Around Personality Disorders
Label: HealthFor years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the grandiose and the cowardly. Their customs and rituals are as captivating as any tribe’s, and at least as mystifying. Every mental anthropologist who has visited their world seems to walk away with a different story, a...
U.S. Growth Revised Up, but Year-End Slowdown Is Feared
Label: BusinessEven as the government said that the United States economy grew faster than first estimated in the third quarter, economists warned that the rate of expansion could slow sharply before the end of the year as worries mount about the fiscal impasse in Washington. Nam Y. Huh/Associated PressAn employee on the assembly line this month at Generac Power Systems in Whitewater, Wis., a maker...
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