WASHINGTON -- After a messy fight that highlighted strains with the White House, the Democratic National Committee completed...
Mega File-Sharing Service Is No Megaupload
Label: Technology Kim Dotcom’s new Mega file-sharing service surpassed 1 million members one day following its initial Saturday launch from New Zealand, and the number of subscribers has apparently skyrocketed in the following days.In a tweet, Dotcom said the latest sign-up numbers are startling.“If I would tell you how many signups we had since the launch you wouldn’t believe it. I can’t believe it. So, I...
Sundance 2013: Breaking Glass Pictures acquires “Amelia’s 25th,” “Silver Case”
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Breaking Glass Pictures has acquired the rights to “Amelia’s 25th” and “Silver Case,” the distributor announced on Monday.Neither of the films will be screened at Sundance.“Amelia’s 25th” stars Jennifer Tilly, Danny Trejo, Electra Avellan and Robert Rodriguez, who directed Trejo and Avellan in “Machete.” The film, directed by Martín Yernazian, follows the titular character...
The Well Column: Facing Cancer, a Stark Choice
Label: HealthIn the 1970s, women’s health advocates were highly suspicious of mastectomies. They argued that surgeons — in those days, pretty much an all-male club — were far too quick to remove a breast after a diagnosis of cancer, with disfiguring results.But today, the pendulum has swung the other way. A new generation of women want doctors to take a more aggressive approach, and more and more are asking that...
Google Profit Exceeds Expectations
Label: BusinessAlthough Google is scrambling to meet consumers as they flock to mobile devices, the question is whether it is moving fast enough. When Google announced its fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday, investors were watching closely for positive signals of Google’s progress in the evolution to a mobile world. They received a disappointing sign: The price that advertisers paid Google each time...
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L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases from authorities
Label: World Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor discussed ways...
Inauguration offers brief pause from TV bickering
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The second inauguration of President Barack Obama gave television networks a chance to bask in the majesty of a Washington event that unites Americans of all beliefs and ideologies — at least for a moment.Then it was back to business as usual: the dissemination of widely divergent views on what people had just seen for themselves.ABC, CBS and NBC, along with the cable news networks,...
Personal Health: A Check on Physicals
Label: Health“Go Beyond Your Father’s Annual Physical. Live Longer, Feel Better”This sales pitch for the Princeton Longevity Center’s “comprehensive exam” promises, for $5,300, to take “your health beyond the annual physical.” But it is far from certain whether this all-day checkup, and others less inclusive, make a meaningful difference to health or merely provide reassurance to the worried well.Among physicians,...
At La Guardia, Delta Uses iPads to Fill the Wait Time
Label: BusinessOn a recent business trip to New York, Joe Pullin of Novi, Mich., did something he would have considered unthinkable not long ago. Rather than rush off the plane and into a cab headed into Manhattan, he lingered at the arrival gate at La Guardia Airport, stopping for a leisurely lunch at Bisoux, a French bistro, and using the iPad mounted on his table to order his meal, check his e-mail...
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