CAIRO — Algerian troops raided a remote natural gas refinery Saturday, killing 11 Islamic militants but not before extremists...
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Sunset on Mars
Label: TechnologyOn May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to stay awake briefly after sending that sol's data to the Mars Odyssey orbiter just before sunset. This small panorama of...
Lance Armstrong biopic in the works from Paramount, J.J. Abrams
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Paramount Pictures and “Star Trek” producer J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot company have purchased the film rights to a forthcoming book about cyclist Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction.Armstrong, whose name and celebrity status helped build a multimillion dollar cancer foundation, admitted on Thursday that he used performance-enhancing...
Business Briefing | Medicine: F.D.A. Clears Botox to Help Bladder Control
Label: Health Botox, the wrinkle treatment made by Allergan, has been approved to treat adults with overactive bladders who cannot tolerate or were not helped by other drugs, the Food and Drug Administration said on Friday. Botox injected into the bladder muscle causes the bladder to relax, increasing its storage capacity. “Clinical studies have demonstrated Botox’s ability to significantly reduce the frequency...
Boeing Closer to Answer on 787s, but Not to Getting Them Back in Air
Label: BusinessIssei Kato/ReutersSafety inspectors looked over a 787 on Friday in Japan. The plane made an emergency landing after receiving a smoke alarm. With 787 Dreamliners grounded around the world, Boeing is scrambling to devise a technical fix that would allow the planes to fly again soon, even as investigators in the United States and Japan are trying to figure out what caused the plane’s lithium-ion batteries...
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California unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.8% last month
Label: World California’s labor market slowed last month as employers shed 17,500 jobs in December and the unemployment rate remained unchanged.The...
Leprosy Reprograms the Body
Label: Technology By Gisela Telis, ScienceNOWLeprosy has plagued humans for thousands of years, but that doesn’t mean it has revealed all of its secrets. A new study in mice suggests the disfiguring disease employs a bit of biological trickery to do its damage: It reprograms certain nerve cells to become like stem cells and uses them to infiltrate the body’s muscle and nervous systems. This is the first time...
“Breaking Bad” star Betsy Brandt is Michael J. Fox’s new TV wife
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – “Breaking Bad” star Betsy Brandt has been cast as Michael J. Fox’s TV wife.NBC is eyeing the series, which has already been ordered for a full season, for fall. Brandt will play the wife of Fox’s character, a New York news anchor coping – like Fox – with Parkinson’s disease. He’ll also have the usual sitcom troubles, like juggling family and his career.Brandt’s “Breaking Bad”...
Well: Your Twitter Tips for Going Vegan
Label: HealthIn this week’s Well column, “How to Go Vegan,”, we asked you to send in your favorite tips and tricks for adopting a solely plant-based diet on Twitter. We received a range of responses, from quirky ingredient combinations that replicate a nonvegan dish to simple mantras to get you in a vegan frame of mind. Here are some of our favorites. To see the entire list of submissions, visit the hashtag, #vegantips.Let’s...
The Lede: Live Blog: Inside the Fed's 2007 Deliberations
Label: BusinessOn Friday the Federal Reserve released the transcripts of its discussions in 2007, the year the housing market, the financial markets, and the broader economy began to unravel. Reporters from The Times are sharing their findings on what the transcripts reveal in the blog entries and tweets bel...
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Algerian military launches raid to rescue hostages
Label: World CAIRO -- The Algerian military on Thursday launched a raid to retake a natural gas complex from Islamic militants who seized...
Massacres Alter Social Structure of Africa's Elephants
Label: Technology By Virginia Morell, ScienceNOWPoachers are slaughtering elephants across Africa at an unprecedented pace. But scientists tracking the animals’ carcasses—their faces and ivory hacked away—are seldom able to explain in detail what these deaths mean to the pachyderms’ populations and social structure. Now, a 14-year study of elephants in northern Kenya concludes that the adult behemoths are more...
Singer Elton John a father for second time
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – British pop star Elton John announced on Wednesday he had become a father for the second time after the birth via a surrogate mother of Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.The “Rocket Man” and “Candle in the Wind” singer and his partner David Furnish confirmed the news in a short statement on John‘s official website, which also provided a link to an article in Hello! magazine.“Both...
Ask Well: Help for the Deskbound
Label: HealthOne of the problems with office work is that many of us are using chairs that don’t fit our bodies very well or give adequate support to the back, said Jack Dennerlein, a professor at Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences in Boston who specializes in ergonomics and safety. If you are experiencing back pain, you may be able to adjust your chair to increase its lumbar support. A good office...
Lawmakers Seek Data on Energy Drinks
Label: BusinessThree Democratic lawmakers on Thursday sent letters to 14 marketers of high-caffeinated energy drinks requesting data about the products’ ingredients and any company studies showing their risks and benefits to children and young people. In recent months, the Food and Drug Administration has begun examining the safety of energy drinks following reports of several deaths and numerous injuries...
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L.A. councilman seeks ban on large-capacity gun magazines
Label: World Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Krekorian wants the city to explore the feasibility of banning the possession of high-capacity...
See a Real-Life <em>Mario Kart</em> Race Complete With RFID Bananas, Power-Ups
Label: Technology What Mario Kart fan hasn’t secretly dreamed of playing a real-life version of the Mario Bros-themed racing game? But while most people would be content with renting regular go-karts and using their imaginations really, really hard, two Texas engineers, Hunter Smith and Ben James, decided to make the dream a reality by creating an ingenious live-action version of...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, but can he flex Box-Office muscle?
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Arnold Schwarzenegger is back at the box office, but will anyone notice? We’ll find out on Friday, when he debuts as a kick-ass small-town sheriff in “The Last Stand,’ his first starring role in nine years.When Schwarzenegger famously delivered his “I’ll be back” line in 1984, it was as a time-traveling android in “The Terminator.” Following his stint as California governor...
The New Old Age: In Flu Season,Use a Mask. But Which One?
Label: HealthFace masks help prevent people from getting the flu. But how much protection do they provide?You might think the answer to this question would be well established. It’s not.In fact, there is considerable uncertainty over how well face masks guard against influenza when people use them outside of hospitals and other health care settings. This has been a topic of discussion and debate in infectious...
Conversation: A Founder of the Soap Maker Method Discusses Its Sale
Label: BusinessFor Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry, the quest began in 2001 in what they call a “dirty little flat” in San Francisco, where the two childhood buddies from Detroit first plotted to disrupt the all-but-impenetrable cleaning products industry long dominated by giants like SC Johnson and Procter & Gamble. They started by mixing soap formulas in beer pitchers labeled “Do Not Drink” and wound up...
Myspace Relaunches With New Justin Timberlake Single 'Suit & Tie'
Label: Technology By Eliot Van Buskirk, Evolver.fmSome artists send out a press release when they have a new single. Justin Timberlake invests in an old social network, helps relaunch it, and makes his new track the first thing that loads up on the homepage.After months of private beta previews, the new Myspace emerged to the public today, with a fresh redesign and a new focus on helping artists post...
Poet Sharon Olds wins T.S. Eliot award
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – American poet Sharon Olds won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry on Monday for “Stag’s Leap”, a critically acclaimed collection that traces the end of her marriage 15 years ago.The annual award, celebrating its 20th anniversary, goes to what a panel of poets decides is the best collection of verse published in the United Kingdom and Ireland each year, and is considered to be one of...
Well: For DTaP Vaccine, Thigh May Be Better Injection Site Than Arm
Label: HealthChildren are less likely to develop bad reactions to the DTaP vaccine, a routine immunization shot that protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, or whooping cough, if they get it in their thigh instead of in their arm, a new study shows.The research looked at more than a million children who were given injections of the vaccine. In many cases it causes some degree of redness or swelling...
Roche Hires Dr. John Reed to Lead Research Operations
Label: BusinessThe Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is turning to a prolific American academic scientist to revitalize its lagging research operations. Dr. John C. Reed, the chief executive of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in San Diego, will become head of Roche’s pharmaceutical research and early development group in April, the company announced Tuesday. Dr. Reed, 54, has spent...
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