Well: Ask Well: Squats for Aging Knees

You are already doing many things right, in terms of taking care of your aging knees. In particular, it sounds as if you are keeping your weight under control. Carrying extra pounds undoubtedly strains knees and contributes to pain and eventually arthritis.You mention weight training, too, which is also valuable. Sturdy leg muscles, particularly those at the front and back of the thighs, stabilize...

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7 Die in Fire At Factory In Bangladesh

A.M. Ahad/Associated PressFirefighters and volunteers worked to extinguish the fire at a small garment factory in Bangladesh’s capital on Saturday. DHAKA, Bangladesh — In the latest blow to Bangladesh’s garment industry, seven workers died Saturday after a fire swept through a factory here not long after seamstresses had returned from a lunch break. Workers said supervisors had locked one of the factory...

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Attack on family in Compton latest incident in wave of anti-black violence

The trouble began soon after they arrived.The black family—a mother, three teenage children and a 10-year-old boy—moved into...

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Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest

A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.Aaron Tobey claimed in a civil rights lawsuit (.pdf) that in 2010 he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation...

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Dr. Phil to interview alleged girlfriend hoaxer

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Phil McGraw has booked the first on-camera interview with the man who allegedly concocted the girlfriend hoax that ensnared Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o.A “Dr. Phil Show” spokesperson confirmed on Friday the interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo (roh-NY-ah too-ee-AH’-so-SO’-poh), the man accused of creating an online persona of a nonexistent woman who Te’o said he fell for without...

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F.D.A. Panel Recommends Restrictions on Hydrocodone Products Like Vicodin

Trying to stem the scourge of prescription drug abuse, an advisory panel of experts to the Food and Drug Administration voted on Friday to toughen the restrictions on painkillers like Vicodin that contain hydrocodone, the most widely prescribed drugs in the country.  The recommendation, which the drug agency is likely to follow, would limit access to the drugs by making them harder to...

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All Viewers Pay to Keep TV Sports Fans Happy

Michael Perez/Associated PressNBC cameras at an N.F.L. game last month in Philadelphia. For a glimpse of how out of control sports bidding wars have become, look no further than your cable television bill. Time Warner Cable subscribers in Southern California will eventually see their monthly bills increase thanks to an impending $7 billion deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the most lucrative...

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Lawmaker questions Disney's plan for wristband data

A congressman from Massachusetts raised questions Thursday about how Walt Disney Co. will use information it collects when it...

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Vine's Launch-Day Woes Include Bugs and Facebook Block

Twitter’s new social video app isn’t having a smooth launch day.Despite being well-received, Vine has faced a mess of issues since it launched Thursday morning. First, server-side bugs led to users signing into other people’s accounts. Then the app had to disable video-sharing to social networks. And all day long, there’s been the general bugginess of trying to sign...

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Legendary Japanese filmmakers to be honored by Hollywood

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Legendary Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa and three of his compatriots will be honored by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) next month for their lifetime of work on movies that organizers said have “given us all a taste of the sublime.”The WGA’s West branch, which represents the U.S. West Coast writers of TV, films, radio and Internet programming, said that the late Kurosawa...

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