Eighteen months after the phrase first entered the collective public consciousness, the plight of the 99 percent is coming to mainstream superhero comics — via a new series from the second biggest publisher in the American comic industry, which just happens to be a subsidiary of a multi-national corporation that makes around $12 billion a year. Irony, anybody?In May, DC Comics will launch...
Springsteen says “freaky” to be honored at pre-Grammys tribute
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Bruce Springsteen was honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on Friday at a star-studded pre-Grammys event where some of the biggest names in music like Sting, Alabama Shakes and Neil Young paid homage to “The Boss.”The annual event, now in its 23rd year, celebrates a star’s musical achievements and philanthropic work, and is hosted by Grammy organizers to kick off the weekend...
In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen
Label: HealthAt least nine polio immunization workers were shot to death in northern Nigeria on Friday by gunmen who attacked two clinics, officials said. The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio. Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of...
Fair Game: Credit-Rating Club Is Tough to Get Into
Label: Business Ozier Muhammad/The New York TimesAnn Rutledge and her husband, Sylvain Raynes, of R&R Consulting, which has been trying to gain S.E.C. recognition as a debt ratings agency. That was probably a common response to the news last week that the Justice Department had filed a civil suit against Standard & Poor’s, one of the two big credit ratings agencies that...
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Big Bear locked down amid manhunt
Label: World The bustling winter resort of Big Bear took on the appearance of a ghost town Thursday as surveillance aircraft buzzed overhead...
How a Charming Doodling App Arose From the Web's Wildest West
Label: Technology Christopher Poole, the man behind some of the web’s biggest hits like 4Chan and Canvas, launched a new iPad app today. DrawQuest is a painting app that lets you doodle on templates to create cartoon scenes and share them with others. The idea, says Poole, is to give people not only the tools but also the inspiration to have fun drawing.Fire up the app, and you’re presented with a daily “quest,”...
HMV boss Moore axed as one of 60 redundancies: source
Label: LifestyleLONDON (Reuters) – Administrators at HMV, the British music and video retailer which hit the rocks last month, have made the group’s chief executive Trevor Moore redundant, according to a source familiar with the situation.Deloitte, which was appointed as administrator by HMV after the firm struggled against competition from online retailers, supermarkets and streaming sites, had on Friday announced...
The New Old Age: The Executor's Assistant
Label: HealthI’m serving as executor for my father’s estate, a role few of us are prepared for until we’re playing it, so I was grateful when the mail brought “The American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates” — the fourth edition of a handbook the A.B.A. began publishing in 1995.This is a legal universe, I’m learning, in which every step — even with a small, simple estate that owes no taxes and includes...
Media Decoder Blog: Macmillan Settles With Justice Department on E-book Pricing
Label: Business11:58 a.m. | Updated Macmillan said on Friday that it had agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice over the pricing of e-books, asserting that the potential costs of continuing to fight the action were too high.The agreement means that all five major publishing houses have settled the charges brought by the government last spring.Apple, which is also a defendant, will continue...
Magnetic Memories May Guide Salmon Home
Label: Technology After years at sea, sockeye salmon returning to their freshwater homes may be guided by an early memory of the Earth’s magnetic field, encoded at the site where natal streams empty into the Pacific Ocean, according to a study published today in Current Biology.“Lots of folks have been wondering for decades how salmon and other animals, like sea turtles or seals and whales, go out in the ocean...
Frank Ocean, FUN. are front-runners heading into Sunday’s Grammys
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – R&B artist Frank Ocean and indie-pop group FUN. go into Sunday’s Grammy Awards ceremony as front-runners for the music industry’s top accolades in a year where new talent and male artists have attracted most of the attention.After last year’s Grammy ceremony was dominated by British singer Adele, and her best-selling album “21,” this year’s awards show will be all about...
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...
Retailers' Sales Beat Forecasts, but Worries Remain
Label: Business(Reuters) - Many top retailers reported strong January sales on Thursday after offering merchandise and deals that drew in shoppers in spite of higher payroll taxes. But shares of many retailers fell as investors worried that the sales owed too much to margin-sapping discounts and that the tax hit to take-home pay would hurt spending in coming months. Macy's Inc, whose shares rose...
<i>Game of Thrones</i> Creator George R. R. Martin to Develop New Shows for HBO
Label: Technology Game of Thrones fans, time to get excited — or, perhaps, just conflicted: George R.R. Martin, the creator of the Song of Ice and Fire novels the series is based on (and occasional episode scriptwriter), has signed a new deal with HBO that will not only see him continuing as executive producer of the hit fantasy series for the next two years, but also developing...
Boy band The Wanted sign on for E! reality series
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The Wanted is trying to keep it real: The boy band has signed on to do a reality series on E!The British fivesome announced Wednesday that their show will debut in June. A press release said the behind-the-scene series will be “unvarnished” and “nonglossy.”The Wanted broke onto the U.S. music scene with the Top 5 hit “Glad You Came.” They dropped their self-titled U.S. debut EP last...
Well: Gluten-Free for the Gluten Sensitive
Label: HealthEat no wheat.That is the core, draconian commandment of a gluten-free diet, a prohibition that excises wide swaths of American cuisine — cupcakes, pizza, bread and macaroni and cheese, to name a few things.For the approximately one-in-a-hundred Americans who have a serious condition called celiac disease, that is an indisputably wise medical directive.One woman’s story of going gluten-free.Now medical...
DealBook: R.B.S. to Pay $612 Million Over Rate Rigging
Label: BusinessLONDON – The Royal Bank of Scotland on Wednesday struck a combined $612 million settlement with American and British authorities over accusations that it manipulated interest rates, the latest case to emerge from a broad international investigation.In an embarrassing blow to the bank, its Japanese subsidiary also pleaded guilty to criminal wrongdoing in its settlement with the Justice Department....
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