NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slid on Monday, giving the S&P 500 its worst day since November, as renewed worries about the euro zone crisis caused the market to pull back from recent gains. Shares of McGraw-Hill shed 13.8 percent to $50.30, their worst daily percentage decline since the October 1987 market crash, after news the U.S. Justice Department plans to sue Standard & Poor's,...
The Lede Blog: Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban Militants, Speaks in New Videos
Label: WorldLast Updated, 4:54 p.m. Speaking on camera for the first time since she survived an assassination attempt by the Pakistani Taliban last year, the young activist Malala Yousafzai began with the words, “Today you can see that I’m alive.” The 15-year-old, who was shot in the head as she left school in Pakistan’s Swat Valley four months ago, promised that she would continue to be an outspoken advocate...
Second-generation iPad mini could pack a display with 324 pixels per inch
Label: TechnologyApple (AAPL) may be about to make up for delivering a disappointingly low resolution for its first-generation iPad mini display. BrightWire reports that supply chain sources have told Chinese website My Drivers that the next-generation iPad mini will indeed feature a 7.9-inch Retina display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, or 324 pixels per inch. For comparison, consider...
Hostage Standoff Ends with Kidnapper Dead, 5-Year-Old Safe
Label: Lifestyle By Mike Fleeman 02/04/2013 at 05:45 PM EST Police and emergency personnel at the property of Jimmy Lee Sydes on Feb. 4 AL.COM /Landov A 5-year-old boy held hostage for a week in an underground bunker is safe and his alleged kidnapper is dead as the standoff came...
Feb
03
New rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation's schools.For the first time, the government is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out...
"Great Rotation"- A Wall Street fairy tale?
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's current jubilant narrative is that a rush into stocks by small investors has sparked a "great rotation" out of bonds and into equities that will power the bull market to new heights. That sounds good, but there's a snag: The evidence for this is a few weeks of bullish fund flows that are hardly unusual for January. Late-stage bull markets...
IHT Rendezvous: The Face of America's Illegal Immigration
Label: WorldWASHINGTON — In my latest Letter From Washington, I write about the “Kumbaya” moment that immigration reform seems to be enjoying — and the certainty that it will not last as the hard work of writing laws gets underway. But who are the illegal immigrants?Page TwoPosts written by the IHT’s Page Two columnists. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimates that in 2011, the last year for which...
BlackBerry searching high and low in India, Indonesia
Label: TechnologyNEW DELHI/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Research in Motion Ltd must chart a tough course in its two key emerging markets of India and Indonesia: quickly launch cheaper handsets to woo lower-end subscribers while restoring its tattered brand among the countries’ status-conscious.The company, which is rebranding itself BlackBerry after its best-known smartphone, has won millions of followers in these two Asian...
5 Most Paw-Dorable Moments from the Puppy Bowl
Label: Lifestyle People Pets By Alison Schwartz 02/03/2013 at 05:15 PM EST Rooting for the Baltimore Ravens? Hoping the San Francisco 49ers win big?Well, here's something we can all root for: puppies. Puppies chasing balls. Puppies chasing each other. Puppies captured chasing balls and each other in slow-motion. (Okay, enough...
Feb
02
New rules aim to get rid of junk foods in schools
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Most candy, high-calorie drinks and greasy meals could soon be on a food blacklist in the nation's schools.For the first time, the government is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools are more healthful.Under the new rules the Agriculture Department proposed Friday, foods like fatty chips, snack cakes, nachos and mozzarella sticks would be taken out...
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