Record levels of industrial smog? A dwindling number of fish in the world’s oceans? A 4° Celsius warming in global temperatures by the end of the century?How about environmental warning fatigue?Global concern for major environmental issues is at an all time low, according to the results of a global poll of more than 22,000 people in 22 countries, released earlier this week.“Scientists report that...
Bonnie Franklin Played Struggling Everymom to Perfection, Says PEOPLE's Critic
Label: Lifestyle By Tom Gliatto 03/02/2013 at 09:00 AM EST Bonnie Franklin, Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli CBS/Getty When certain television stars pass away, they don't leave the stage – they leave your life. They played ordinary people so perfectly, you almost imagine...
WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant's lifetime cancer risk."The additional risk is quite small...
Hallmark shop fades into history
Label: Business I noticed when I shopped for Valentine's Day cards that the supply at my local Hallmark store was woefully thin. I chalked that up to my own procrastinating.But when I went back this week to buy a thank-you card to mail to a friend, I found a note taped to the door that moved me uncomfortably close to tears.To our Valued Friends, it read. Thank you...
Mar
01
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: March 1
Label: WorldNEWS As the sun set on Rome and on his turbulent eight-year papacy, Pope Benedict XVI, a shy theologian who never seemed entirely at home in the limelight, was whisked by helicopter into retirement on Thursday. Rachel Donadio reports from Vatican City.As President Obama and congressional Democrats have tried to force U.S. House Speaker John Boehner back to the table for talks to head off the automatic...
Jennifer Lawrence Says She Sets Up Bradley Cooper
Label: Lifestyle 03/01/2013 at 09:45 AM EST Clearly, the country has become enamored with this year's Best Actress winner, Jennifer Lawrence. And if Bradley Cooper wasn't charmed by her already, now he has plenty to love about her.
"I feel like all I've been doing lately is setting him up," Lawrence, 22, told MTV of her Silver Linings Playbook costar.
But...
WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant's lifetime cancer risk."The additional risk is quite small...
Las Vegas Strip shooting suspect is arrested in L.A.
Label: Business A man suspected in a deadly car-to-car shooting in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip was arrested Thursday at a Studio City apartment...
Feb
28
IHT Rendezvous: Q and A: Keeping ‘A Chorus Line’ in Step
Label: WorldLONDON — For a musical that’s all about dancers, there’s not a huge amount of dancing in “A Chorus Line,” which opened last week at the London Palladium — the first West End revival of the musical since it opened here in 1976, a year after its smash-hit debut on Broadway.But the most dance-intensive moments are fundamental to our very idea of “A Chorus Line”: the “Aaaah-5-6-7-8!” that unleashes...
Debbie Reynolds: Carrie Fisher Will Be 'Just Fine' After Hospitalization
Label: Lifestyle By Elaine Aradillas 02/28/2013 at 08:40 AM EST Carrie Fisher (left) and Debbie Reynolds Ethan Miller/Getty Carrie Fisher was briefly hospitalized last week for her bipolar disorder after a bizarre performance aboard a cruise ship, but her mother Debbie Reynolds...
Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home care
Label: HealthSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after their residents, government investigators have found.The report, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general, said Medicare paid about $5.1 billion for patients to stay in skilled nursing facilities that failed to...
Eric Garcetti showed political savvy during busy student years
Label: Business Fourth in a series of articles focusing on key periods in the lives of the mayoral hopefuls.Ben Jealous still recalls walking...
Feb
27
India Ink: ‘Hole in the Wall’ Wins Indian Educator $1 Million TED Prize
Label: WorldSugata Mitra, an Indian education innovator, was awarded the first $1 million TED Prize for what the global organization called his “innovative and bold efforts towards advancing learning for children.”“Sugata and his colleagues carried out experiments for over 13 years on the nature of self-organized learning, its extent, how it works and the role of adults in encouraging it,” said TED, which announced...
Titanic to Sail Again - But Will You Get Onboard?
Label: Lifestyle By Stephen M. Silverman 02/27/2013 at 09:15 AM EST Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, in Titanic Paramount Pictures/AP It's the biggest Oscar winner of all time, but it's also a code word for disaster: Titanic.Now, an Australian billionaire plans to recreate the legendary ship, and charge...
Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital
Label: HealthBOSTON (AP) — A Vermont woman whose face was disfigured in a lye attack has received a face transplant.Doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital say 44-year-old Carmen Blandin Tarleton underwent the surgery earlier this month.A team worked 15 hours to transplant the facial skin, including the neck, nose, lips, facial muscles, arteries and nerves.The 44-year-old Tarleton, of Thetford, Vt., was...
Imperial County betting its future on renewable energy
Label: Business Situated in the southeastern corner of California, bordering Arizona and Mexico, Imperial County has long depended on agriculture...
Feb
26
The Lede: Comedian’s Blog Morphs Into Major Political Force in Italy
Label: WorldLast Updated, Tuesday, 10:08 a.m. Although an aide to the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi demanded a recount late Monday, after his center-right coalition appeared to lose the battle for the Italian Parliament’s lower house to the main center-left coalition by less than 0.4 percent, a look at the raw vote totals reveals a sharp decline in support for him. According to the provisional count,...
Jennifer Lawrence Dyes Her Hair Jet Black
Label: Lifestyle By Tim Nudd 02/26/2013 at 09:15 AM EST Jennifer Lawrence, blonde (left) and brunette Jason Merritt/Getty; AKM-GSI Oscar's golden girl, Jennifer Lawrence, has gone brunette – almost jet black, in fact! The day after winning Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence, 22,...
Koop, who transformed surgeon general post, dies
Label: HealthWith his striking beard and starched uniform, former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop became one of the most recognizable figures of the Reagan era — and one of the most unexpectedly enduring.His nomination in 1981 met a wall of opposition from women's groups and liberal politicians, who complained President Ronald Reagan selected Koop, a pediatric surgeon and evangelical Christian from Philadelphia,...
Does Eric Garcetti keep his word? Accounts vary
Label: Business Santiago Perez and his neighbors went straight to Councilman Eric Garcetti when they heard that a developer planned to build...
Feb
25
IHT Rendezvous: Horsemeat Scandal Grows More Serious and More Bizarre
Label: WorldLONDON — As European governments struggle in vain to draw a line under the scandal over horsemeat being sold as beef, the affair seems only to be widening, in sometimes bizarre ways.Two German politicians, for instance, suggested over the weekend that one practical use for tainted products, such as tens of thousands of packs of lasagna pulled from supermarket shelves because they contained horsemeat,...
Jennifer Lawrence: Her Most Memorable 2013 Awards Season Moments
Label: Lifestyle By Dahvi Shira 02/25/2013 at 10:00 AM EST Jennifer Lawrence at the Golden Globes (left), the SAG Awards and the Academy Awards Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP; Kevin Winter/Getty It wasn't just Jennifer Lawrence's wins making news during 2013's awards season.The Silver Linings Playbook star, 22,...
Mahony answers questions under oath about clergy sex abuse cases
Label: Business A "relatively unflappable" Cardinal Roger Mahony answered questions under oath for more than 3 1/2 hours Saturday about his...
Feb
24
IHT Rendezvous: As Oscars Fever Builds, Some Chinese Ask: ‘What About Our Films?’
Label: WorldBEIJING — As Oscar fever grows around the world with the 85th Academy Awards set to begin in Los Angeles just hours from now, excitement is building in China, even though it has no films in competition. There is also a sense of frustration here about why China’s movies aren’t nominated for the world’s biggest awards?China sees itself as advancing in many ways, growing richer and more powerful, so...
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