Rizwan Tabassum/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesA Pakistani mother mourned her daughter, who was killed on Tuesday in an attack on health workers participating in a drive to eradicate polio from Pakistan. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Five Pakistani women and a man were killed on Tuesday in separate attacks on health workers participating in a national drive to eradicate polio from Pakistan. ...
McDonald's urging franchisees to open on Christmas
Label: Business McDonald's Corp. is urging U.S. restaurant owners to take the unusual step of opening on Christmas Day to deliver the world's...
Dec
17
University of Chicago's Indiana Jones mystery solved
Label: World A mystery at the University of Chicago unfolded like the dotted lines on an old map in classic Indiana Jones movies.Last week,...
Cannibalization concerns ‘overblown’ as half of iPad mini sales go to new buyers
Label: TechnologyIt has been widely reported that Apple’s (AAPL) iPad mini is cannibalizing sales of the company’s full-sized iPad. According to a new survey, however, nearly half of all recent iPad mini buyers are new to the platform, AppleInsider reported. The data comes from Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley, who said that while the smaller tablet is clearly cannibalizing some sales of the larger iPad, concerns...
Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum expecting baby
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The Sexiest Man Alive will soon be a sexy dad.Actor Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum are expecting their first child in 2013, their reps confirm.The news was first reported by People.com, which named Tatum the Sexiest Man Alive in November.The couple, who recently co-starred in the film “10 Years,” met on the 2006 dance film “Step Up,” and wed in 2009.Besides a baby, the...
Mislabeled Foods Find Their Way to Diners’ Tables
Label: HealthATLANTA — The menu offered fried catfish. But Freddie Washington, a pastor in Tuscaloosa, Ala., who sometimes eats out five nights a week and was raised on Gulf Coast seafood, was served tilapia. Dustin Chambers for The New York TimesConsumers are misled most frequently when they buy fish, investigators say, because diners have such limited knowledge about seafood. ...
Reyes goes craft with Windy City deal
Label: Business Independent breweries are still a niche category in the marketplace, but interest in them continues to grow.Reyes Beverage Group,...
Dec
16
Boy, grandmother seriously hurt in West Side fire
Label: World A woman who was unable to pull her 3-year-old grandson out of her apartment after it caught fire was also injured when she followed...
Art for Wealth’s Sake: Art Basel Paints a Picture of Miami’s Separate and Unequal Worlds
Label: TechnologyIt’s 10 p.m. on a Friday night. A naked girl is splashing about in the swimming pool at the Standard Hotel Miami. She is from New York and runs a nonprofit for homeless teens. We’ll call her Liz: “You’re so boring!” she yells from the middle of the pool.It was a common refrain here during Art Basel Miami Beach—now the world’s largest contemporary art fair—where many of earth’s most privileged humans...
Actor Depardieu puts Paris house up for sale
Label: LifestylePARIS (Reuters) – French actor Gerard Depardieu, accused of trying to escape the taxman by buying a house just over the border in Belgium, has put his sumptuous Parisian home up for sale.Depardieu, the latest wealthy Frenchman to seek shelter from government tax hikes, is selling a vast early 19th-century manor house in the Saint Germain district of the capital, playground of writers, jazz musicians...
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