Baby girls enter the world with enough of them to populate perhaps 40 small cities. A dozen or so years later, the first will make a debut of its own. And in the months and years to come, others will appear regularly, sometimes greeted with relief, other times with disappointment, perhaps most often with a touch of annoyance. Abdullah Pope/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesNot women's...
Dell founder to take PC maker private in $24.4-billion buyout
Label: Business Once-mighty Dell Inc., which has struggled for years in a competitive and increasingly mobile device-driven industry, will try...
Feb
04
Scientists identify remains as those of King Richard III
Label: World LONDON -- More than 500 years after his death in battle, scientists announced Monday that they had definitively identified a...
NJ Gov. Christie, Letterman laugh about fat jokes
Label: LifestyleTRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and David Letterman have shared some laughs about the many fat jokes the comedian has made about the lawmaker's ample girth.Christie has termed his plumpness "fair game" for comedians. And during his first appearance on "Late Show with David Letterman" on Monday, the outspoken Republican and potential 2016 presidential contender read two of Letterman's...
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...
California high court backs online retailers in privacy battle
Label: Business Internet retailers of music and other downloadable products may seek personal identifying information from consumers that ordinary...
Feb
03
Greuel is in good position in mayor's race
Label: World Wendy Greuel's success in winning support of key city employee unions has enabled her to jump ahead of rivals in TV advertising...
Take-Two delays launch of Grand Theft Auto V video game
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Take-Two Interactive Software Inc said on Thursday it has pushed back the launch of the latest game from its hit “Grand Theft Auto” franchise to September 17 from its previously announced release window of spring 2013.Shares of Take-Two were down six percent at $ 12.31 in early afternoon trading on the Nasdaq.The delay was to allow Take-Two’s Rockstar Games studio, which develops “Grand...
Phys Ed: Helmets for Ski and Snowboard Safety
Label: HealthPhys EdGretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness.Recently, researchers from the department of sport science at the University of Innsbruck in Austria stood on the slopes at a local ski resort and trained a radar gun on a group of about 500 skiers and snowboarders, each of whom had completed a lengthy personality questionnaire about whether he or she tended to be cautious or a risk taker.The researchers...
Love, money and the online dating industry
Label: Business At the heart of the new book "Love in the Time of Algorithms" is a philosophical question: does the billion-dollar dating industry,...
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