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Dec
04
China goes crazy for iPhone 5: Preorders hit 100,000 units in under 24 hours
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Longtime editor at DC’s Vertigo imprint leaving
Label: LifestylePHILADELPHIA (AP) — DC Entertainment says its executive editor and senior vice president of Vertigo — a groundbreaking imprint whose titles have included “Hellblazer,” ”DMZ” and “Sandman” — is leaving early next year.Karen Berger will step down in March after nearly 20 years at the helm, saying in a statement released by DC late Monday that she is ready for a professional change.During her tenure...
Julie Bowen and the Danger of Allergies
Label: HealthWhat are the odds a child will be exposed to two powerful allergens at the same time? It happened to ” Modern Family” actress Julie Bowen’s son. He was stung by a bee – at the same time he was eating a peanut butter sandwich.The toddler immediately went into anaphylactic shock. His entire face swelled up, including his eyes and lips, and his breathing became labored.“We took him to the ER, where he...
Conservative Republicans booted from House budget panel
Label: BusinessWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the most conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives have been kicked off the House Budget Committee, a rare move that could make it easier for the panel to advance a deal with Democrats to cut fiscal deficits. Representatives Tim Huelskamp of Kansas and Justin Amash of Michigan - both favorites of the anti-tax Tea Party movement - are among...
Dec
03
Gunmen assassinate peasant leader in Paraguay
Label: WorldASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Gunmen murdered one of the surviving leaders of a peasant movement whose land dispute with a powerful politician prompted the end of Fernando Lugo‘s presidency last June.Vidal Vega, 48, was hit four times early Saturday by bullets from a 12-gauge shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver fired by two unidentified men who sped away on a motorcycle, according to an official report...
A bachelorette no more: Ashley Herbert weds beau
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Ashley Hebert (AY’-behr) is no longer a “Bachelorette.”The 28-year-old Maine native got hitched over the weekend in Pasadena, Calif., to 35-year-old J.P. Rosenbaum of Long Island, who proposed to her on the seventh season of the ABC dating reality show “The Bachelorette.” Hebert tweeted that “12/1/12 goes down in history as the best day of my life!!”Natalia Desrosiers, spokeswoman...
Estudio asocia método de relajación con la disminución de los sofocos
Label: HealthNUEVA YORK (Reuters Health) – Aunque los estudios sobre losefectos de las técnicas de relajación en los síntomas de lamenopausia dieron resultados contradictorios, un ensayo deSuecia se define a favor del enfoque como una alternativa a laterapia hormonal.Un grupo de mujeres postmenopáusicas entrenadas pararelajarse antes y durante la aparición de los sofocos pudoreducir a la mitad la frecuencia de...
Duchess of Cambridge expecting a baby
Label: BusinessABC News' Christina Ng and Carolyn Durand report:Kate Middleton is pregnant.The most eagerly awaited pregnancy was announced today by St. James Palace on behalf of Middleton and her husband Prince William.The child, whether boy or girl, will eventually be heir to the British throne according to new legislation awaiting final approval.The duchess was admitted to King Edward VII Hospital today in central...
Dec
02
Italy votes for center-left candidate for premier
Label: WorldROME (AP) — Italians are choosing a center-left candidate for premier for elections early next year, an important primary runoff given the main party is ahead in the polls against a center-right camp in utter chaos over whether Silvio Berlusconi will run again.Sunday’s runoff pits a veteran center-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, 61, against the 37-year-old mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, who has...
“Twilight” shines in third box office win over Bond
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The “Twilight” teen movie vampires sucked more money out of theaters over the weekend, leading James Bond, Brad Pitt and the rest of box office pack with $ 17.4 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales and scoring its third weekly win.Pitt’s new movie, the small-budget gangster film “Killing Them Softly,” bombed with filmgoers who panned it with a rare “F” grade on average...
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