A convicted murderer from Indiana is on the loose because of some bad paperwork in Cook County. (WGN - Chicago) An Indiana man...
How I learned to stop worrying and love Twitter
Label: TechnologyIs anything more uniquely American than our free-wheeling, 140-character missives?Twitter is dead, you guys. Writers used to send pithy tweets across cyberspace, borne on the golden wings of Hermes. Now, as T.S. Eliot would say, “Our dried voices, when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless.” Twitter is so uncool, that even if we resurrected the spirits of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and...
Roseanne Barr to Star in, Produce New Series for NBC
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – NBC is betting on the up-again-down-again Roseanne Barr, signing the television icon to an overall deal that calls for her to develop a show she will star in and produce for the network. She will executive produce the series with Steven Greener, with whom she collaborated on “Roseanne’s Nuts” for Lifetime.As part of the deal, Barr also will guest star in a three-episode arc...
The New Old Age Blog: Caregiving, Laced With Humor
Label: Health“My grandmother, she’s not a normal person. She’s like a character when she speaks. Every day she’s playing like she’s an actress.”These are words of love, and they come from Sacha Goldberger, a French photographer who has turned his grandmother, 93-year-old Frederika Goldberger, into a minor European celebrity.In the photos, you can see the qualities grandson and grandmother have in common: a wicked...
Jobless rate climbs to 7.9% in January
Label: Business U.S. job growth grew modestly in January and gains in the prior two months were bigger than initially reported, supporting views...
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80 fire departments battle 8-alarm blaze in Wisconsin
Label: World Emergency officials are on the scene of a 5 alarm fire at a...
Telecoms boom leaves rural Africa behind
Label: TechnologyJOHANNESBURG/FREETOWN (Reuters) – While mobile phone usage has exploded across Africa over the last decade, transforming daily life and commerce for millions, it’s a revolution that has left behind perhaps two thirds of its people.Poor or no reception outside the towns helps explain why the continent’s mobile penetration, in terms of the percentage of the population using the service, is far lower...
ABC orders pilots for “Big Thunder” drama, Gothic soap opera
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – ABC has ordered pilots for the dramas “Big Thunder” and “Gothica,” the network said Tuesday.“Big Thunder,” which is written by “Ice Age” writer Jason Fuchs (pictured) and executive produced by Chris Morgan (“Wanted,” “The Troop”) follows a brilliant doctor in late 19th century New York whose family is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relocate to a frontier mining...
Well: Myths of Weight Loss Are Plentiful, Researcher Says
Label: HealthIf schools reinstated physical education classes, a lot of fat children would lose weight. And they might never have gotten fat in the first place if their mothers had just breast fed them when they were babies. But be warned: obese people should definitely steer clear of crash diets. And they can lose more than 50 pounds in five years simply by walking a mile a day.Those are among...
Slot maker WMS Ind. to be sold for $1.5B
Label: Business Gaming machines maker WMS Industries Inc. is being swallowed up by larger rival Scientific Games Corp. for $1.42 billion in...
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