A petition demanding the President Barack Obama administration build a Death Star like the one in Star Wars reached 25,000-plus signatures Thursday, a threshold requiring the government to respond whether it will build the fictional weapon capable of annihilating planets with its super laser.The petition on the White House website’s “We the People” page demands the...
‘Homeland’ leads old favorites in Golden Globes TV race
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Cable shows got more Golden Globe nominations for television than traditional network programs on Thursday as HBO‘s political movie “Game Change” and Showtime‘s psychological thriller series “Homeland,” – one of last year’s big winners – led the race.“Homeland” led the TV drama category with four nominations including best drama, best actor for Damian Lewis and best actress...
Another Look at a Drink Ingredient, Brominated Vegetable Oil
Label: HealthJames Edward Bates for The New York TimesSarah Kavanagh, 15, of Hattiesburg, Miss., started an online petition asking PepsiCo to change Gatorade’s formula. Sarah Kavanagh and her little brother were looking forward to the bottles of Gatorade they had put in the refrigerator after playing outdoors one hot, humid afternoon last month in Hattiesburg, Miss. But before she took a sip, Sarah, a...
High & Low Finance: Uncertainty in Washington, Windfall for Others
Label: BusinessLet us pause to give credit where credit is due. The so-called fiscal cliff, and Washington deadlock, dominate the news these days, but the reality is that Congress has accomplished a lot. Thanks to it, as well as to President Obama, action has been taken that will accomplish the following goals: ¶ Provide immediate economic stimulus through the payment of billions of dollars to...
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Oregon mall shooting suspect showed no known sign of trouble
Label: World Jacob Roberts planned big life changes before this week's shooting at a suburban mall in Oregon that left two people dead and...
Battle Bots Fight Kaiju in Epic First Trailer for <em>Pacific Rim</em>
Label: Technology Who’s ready for a nerdgasm? Click “play” above and watch.After a long wait, fans (at least those not lucky enough to catch the sneak peaks offered at San Diego Comic-Con International or New York Comic Con) are finally getting their first look at footage from director Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming “robot porn” flick Pacific Rim. And it was worth the wait — monsters-versus-robots...
Taylor Swift reclaims top spot on Billboard 200
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Country-pop star Taylor Swift reclaimed the top spot on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday with her hit album “Red,” keeping three new entries from the No.1 position.“Red” landed back at No. 1 for the fourth time after selling 167,000 copies last week according to Nielsen SoundScan, ousting Alicia Keys‘ “Girl on Fire,” which fell to No. 7 this week.New entries this...
Google Pins Gmail Outage on 'Routine Update' Gone Wrong
Label: Technology Monday’s Gmail outage didn’t last long — just 18 minutes, according to Google — but it disrupted an awful lot of users. When the popular webmail service went down around 9 a.m. PST, as much as 40 percent of all users were affected.On Tuesday afternoon, Google published its explanation of what went wrong. The problem, the company said, was a “routine” update that caused Google’s load-balancing...
Mexico: Rivera’s plane hit with ‘terrible’ impact
Label: LifestyleMEXICO CITY (AP) — The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a nose-dive at a speed that may have exceeded 600 miles per hour, Mexico‘s top transportation official said Tuesday.In the first detailed account of the moments leading up to the crash that killed Rivera and six other people, Secretary of Communications...
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