All the victims of the Connecticut elementary school shooting were killed up close by multiple rifle shots, a medical examiner said. (Dec. 15) ...
Huge Wave of Google App Updates Hits iOS, Android
Label: TechnologyGoogle just brought iPhone and Android phone users a holiday gift. Google Maps has returned to the iPhone, this time in the form of its own separate app, while Google Currents — the company’s Flipboard-style online magazine app for Android — received a substantial update as well.Besides the two big updates, about a half-dozen other apps for Android and Google TV received bug fixes and new features,...
Chicano rock pioneers Los Lobos marking 40 years
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — They are seen as the progenitors of Chicano rock ‘n’ roll, the first band that had the boldness, and some might even say the naiveté, to fuse punk rock with Mexican folk tunes.It was a group called Los Lobos that had the unusual idea of putting an accordion, a saxophone and something called a bajo sexto alongside drums and Fender Stratocaster guitars and then blasting a ranchera-flavored...
School Yoga Class Draws Religious Protest From Christians
Label: HealthT. Lynne Pixley for The New York TimesMiriam Ruiz during a yoga class last week at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School in Encinitas, Calif. A few dozen parents are protesting that the program amounts to religious indoctrination. More Photos »ENCINITAS, Calif. — By 9:30 a.m. at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School, tiny feet were shifting from downward dog pose to chair pose to warrior pose in surprisingly...
Greener planet is goal for 3 startups
Label: Business If the glut of companies billing themselves as "solutions" providers is any indication, the world has no shortage of problems.Green...
Dec
14
Man kills 26 at Conn. school
Label: World A man opened fire Friday inside two classrooms at the Connecticut...
Singer-songwriter Carole King to receive U.S. Gershwin prize
Label: Lifestyle(Reuters) – American singer-songwriter Carole King will be awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the U.S. national library said on Thursday.The multiple Grammy Award winner co-wrote her first No. 1 hit at age 17 with then-husband Gerry Goffin and was the first female solo artist to sell more than 10 million copies of a single album, with her 1971 release “Tapestry.”The prize...
Life Expectancy Rises Around World, Study Finds
Label: HealthA sharp decline in deaths from malnutrition and infectious diseases like measles and tuberculosis has caused a shift in global mortality patterns over the past 20 years, according to a report published on Thursday, with far more of the world’s population now living into old age and dying from diseases mostly associated with rich countries, like cancer and heart disease. Tony Karumba/Agence...
Push for minimum wage hike intensifies
Label: Business NEW YORK — Before the recession, Amie Crawford was an interior designer, earning $50,000 a year patterning baths and cabinets...
Dec
13
Smokestack victim: 'Everything he did, he had fun doing it'
Label: WorldThe man, 23, was trying to take a photo from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel on Michigan Avenue. (Posted Dec. 13th, 2012) ...
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