Steroid-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa have been denied entry to baseball's Hall of Fame with voters failing to elect any candidates for only the second time in four decades. (Jan. 9) ...
Video: Watch the Entire <em>Dark Knight</em> Movie Trilogy in Three Minutes
Label: Technology Director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which concluded last summer with The Dark Knight Rises, is probably one of the most well-executed comic book hero franchises in recent memory. So good, in fact, that every now and then it’s nice just to have a little taste – even when there isn’t time to watch all three flicks back to back.Luckily, the folks at Screen Rant...
“Homeland,” “Girls” win Directors Guild TV nominations
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The directors of hit television dramas “Homeland” and “Mad Men” were among those nominated for Directors Guild of America (DGA) awards on Wednesday.They were joined by Lena Dunham for her coming-of-age HBO series “Girls” and actor Bryan Cranston for ABC’s “Modern Family” in the comedy category.AMC’s “Breaking Bad” director Rian Johnson and Greg Mottola, director of HBO’s “The...
Pap Test May Prove Useful at Detecting More Types of Cancer, Study Suggests
Label: HealthThe Pap test, which has prevented countless deaths from cervical cancer, may eventually help to detect cancers of the uterus and ovaries as well, a new study suggests. For the first time, researchers have found genetic material from uterine or ovarian cancers in Pap smears, meaning that it may become possible to detect three diseases with just one routine test. But the research is...
Chinese Firm Buys an American Solar Technology Start-Up
Label: BusinessAlexander F. Yuan/Associated PressThe chief of MiaSole, John Carrington, left, at the announcement of the company's purchase by Hanergy Holding Group, for which Zhou Jiesan is an executive. Just a few years ago, Silicon Valley investors were pouring money into solar technologies and talking about how they would bring the same kind of innovation to green energy that they had to the computer chip. ...
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U.S. Supreme Court hands L.A. County a victory in water lawsuit
Label: World Los Angeles County got a reprieve in an ongoing dispute over who is responsible for pollution from storm water when the U.S....
Rogue Planet Confirmed Orbiting Around 'Eye of Sauron'
Label: Technology LONG BEACH, California – Astronomers have confirmed that a controversial exoplanet called Fomalhaut b actually does exist and have calculated its potential orbit. The results show that the object is even stranger than scientists could have imagined, dubbing it a “rogue planet.”The uncertainty about this object started in 2008, when scientists released an image taken with NASA’s Hubble space...
“Idol” judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj play nice after feud
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – New “American Idol” judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj shrugged off their widely publicized feud on Tuesday as a “trumped-up thing” that was merely a passionate difference of opinion over the TV talent show‘s contestants.In their first big media appearance ahead of the hit show’s return to Fox television on January 16, the two pop stars showered each other with praise while...
Gaps Seen in Therapy for Suicidal Teenagers
Label: HealthMost adolescents who plan or attempt suicide have already received at least some mental health treatment, raising questions about the effectiveness of current approaches to helping troubled youths, according to the largest in-depth analysis to date of suicidal behaviors in American teenagers. The study, in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, found that 55 percent of suicidal teenagers had received...
Online Banking Attacks Were Work of Iran, U.S. Officials Say
Label: BusinessSAN FRANCISCO — The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later. Daniel Rosenbaum for The New York TimesJames A. Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington believes that recent online attacks on American banks have...
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