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New York Times Turns To Mediation To Break Contract Deadlock
The Huffington Post - 11 Oct 2012 01:27
The New York Times and the Newspaper Guild of New York will turn to an outside mediator to help hammer out a contract, it was announced Wednesday. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the paper's publisher, broke the news to staff in ...
What's Your Reason For Waking Up In The Morning?
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 08:01
There's beauty in a brand new day. The turn from dawn into morning gives us the chance to start anew, begin fresh. Nina Simone may have put it best: "It's a new dawn/It's a new day/It's a new life." And so, each night we...
Stephen Colbert Thinks Obama Supporters Need To Be More Obsessive (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 21:51
President Obama recently told supporters that they need to get more "obsessive" to keep Romney from gaining traction in the next month. Well, Stephen Colbert has some advice for how obsessive they can get on Election Day...
'Psych' Season 7 Premiere Date: USA Series Will Return In February
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 22:35
Shawn, Gus, and Lassie are headed back to USA this February. The network has officially announced that Season 7 of "Psych" will premiere on Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 10 p.m. ET in what's sure to be another crime-filled, puzz...
Big Bird Revealed To Be Product Of Longtime Gay Partnership In Wake Of Romney Remark
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 22:24
Big Bird may have scored this year's Betty White-like career comeback following a jovial nod from Mitt Romney during the Oct. 3 presidential debates. What the Republican presidential candidate possibly didn't know, howev...
Meningitis Outbreak Toll: 137 Cases, 12 Deaths
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 22:20
-- An outbreak of fungal meningitis has been linked to steroid shots for back pain. The medication, made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts, has been recalled. Latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control an...
Race Car Crashes Into French Vineyard During Rallye De Drance (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 22:14
We feel terrible for Daniel Wolfer, owner of the Alsace vineyard in the below video filmed during the Rallye de France. A rally car, driven by Norwegian Petter Solberg and his co-driver, spun out of control during a port...
Glass Bottle Coke No Longer Being Produced In America After 80 Years
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 21:55
Coca-Cola's glass era is over. On Tuesday, the its bottling plant in Winona, Minn. made its last-ever lot of Coca-Cola bottled in six-and-a-half ounce glass bottles. The Winona plant was the last Coca-Cola factory in the...
One Dotcom Angel Flying Too Close to the Sun
Forbes - 10 Oct 2012 21:50
Bubbles (Photo credit: JanneM) Of all Dotcom crush survivors, one stands out: Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN). The company’s stock is a rising angel, but it may be flying to close to the sun like Icarus in the ancient Gr...
Lance Armstrong Doping: Anti-Doping Agency Says 11 Teammates Testified Against Him In Probe
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 19:44
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — U.S. Anti-Doping Agency says 11 of Lance Armstrong's teammates testified against him in probe. Read More... More on AP
Pandora Reveals How Much It Pays Artists, Claims Drake, Lil Wayne Rake In $3 Million A Year
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 18:28
If you think artists on Pandora never get paid by the music-streaming service, think again. On Tuesday, Pandora founder Tim Westergren released a statement detailing just how much Pandora pays its musicians, and the figu...
Ex-Bengals Cheerleader Pleads Guilty To Sex With Student, But Is Still Suing The Dirty For 'Ruining Her Reputation'
Forbes - 10 Oct 2012 15:26
Ex-Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones still blames TheDirty.com for ruining her reputation Sarah Jones, the ex-teacher, ex-Bengals cheerleader, wannabe law student, who prepared for her job working with high schoolers by wa...
Cell receptor work wins Nobel prize for chemistry
Reuters - 10 Oct 2012 14:43
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two American scientists won the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry for showing how cells in the body respond to stimuli such as a rush of adrenalin, work that is helping the development of more effectiv...
CEO Says He'll Fire Employees if Obama's Reelected
Forbes - 10 Oct 2012 06:30
David and Siegel with his wife, Jackie. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. David Siegel, the founder and chief executive of Westgate Resorts, a national timeshare company, became famous this year when a documentary mov...
Hulk Hogan Chokeslams Shaq In Clip For Basketball Star's YouTube Comedy Network (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 03:16
Hulk Hogan took some time out of apologizing for his sex tape to teach Shaquille O'Neal a thing or two about manners. In a video recently posted to Shaq's YouTube channel, Comedy Shaq, Hogan takes issue with the former N...
Lookout App Finds Phones, Even With Dying Battery Life
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 02:50
Strategies for finding a lost cell phone often involve finding someone to continuously call the device in hopes a kind soul will answer. But such efforts also drain the phone's battery life, and thus, one's chances of re...
Rhea Perlman, Danny DeVito Divorce And 10 Other Celebrity Splits That Broke Our Hearts
The Huffington Post - 10 Oct 2012 02:29
The Twitterverse took the news of Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman's split after 30 years of marriage pretty hard. (We admit it -- we did, too.) But DeVito and Perlman are just the latest famous couple whose decision to sep...
Three Countries Take a Tiny First Step Toward More Sensible Drug Laws
Mother Jones - 11 Oct 2012 01:59
Why are U.S. drug laws so draconian? Partly it's because Congress wants it that way, but partly it's because the United States is a signatory to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, which pretty much requires us to k...
Downing Street backed Andrew Mitchell over Rwandan aid
The Guardian - 11 Oct 2012 01:57
Mitchell restored aid on last day as international development secretary in spite of fears about president's human rights record Downing Street approved the controversial decision last month by the then international dev...
Foot sculpture wins £30,000 prize
BBC - 11 Oct 2012 01:52
Ben Greener's sculpture of a pair of feet made from wood, canvas, tea and coffee wins this year's £30,000 Threadneedle Prize.
More strokes occurring in younger age groups
NBC News - 11 Oct 2012 01:49
More young and middle-aged adults are having strokes, a new study suggests. In 1994, 12.9 percent of strokes occurred in adults between ages 20 and 55, whereas in 2005, 18.6 percent of strokes occurred in this age group.
Moscow court frees one Pussy Riot member
Al Jazeera English - 11 Oct 2012 01:45
Appeals court suspends decision over Yekaterina Samutsevich's part in protest against Putin in Moscow cathedral.