A little more than 40 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where last month 20 first graders and six staff members were massacred, gun dealers and collectors alike ignored calls to cancel a gun show, and gathered for business in Stamford, Conn.Four other gun shows with an hour of Newtown, Conn., recently cancelled their events in the wake of the shootings, when 20-year-old...
Jan
04
Al Gore stands to gain about $70 million after selling Current TV to al-Jazeera
Label: World
Al Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against global warming, may gross about $70 million from the sale of his Current TV network to al-Jazeera, the cable channel funded in part by oil-rich Qatar.
Al-Jazeera will pay about $500 million for Current TV, including the stake held by Gore, 64, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. The network is one...
AHTC unable to verify accuracy of reasons for software sale
Label: Technology SINGAPORE: Chairman of Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) Sylvia Lim has responded to the recent statement by Dr Teo Ho Pin - on the sale of the software formerly owned by the town councils managed by the People's Action Party (PAP) to Action Information Management Pte Ltd (AIM) in 2011, prior to the General Election.She said AHTC is not able to verify the accuracy of the reasons for...
In US, juveniles now entitled to life imprisonment with parole for homicidal cases
Label: Lifestyle MUMBAI: In the US, a minor arrested in a rape and murder case would have been tried in a regular criminal court and got sentenced to life in prison if convicted. Till about six months ago such a person would not even have been entitled to parole in over 20 states and be imprisoned till death. Many states provided for mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole even for juvenile offenders....
Best Pictures: 2012 Nat Geo Photo Contest Winners
Label: Health Winner: PlacesPhotograph by Nenad SaljicA full moon illuminates the Matterhorn peak near Zermatt, Switzerland, in the winning image...
Quadruple Amputee Gets Two New Hands on Life
Label: Business It's the simplest thing, the grasp of one hand in another. But Lindsay Ess will never see it that way, because her hands once belonged to someone else.Growing up in Texas and Virginia, Lindsay, 29, was always one of the pretty girls. She went to college, did some modeling and started building a career in fashion, with an eye on producing fashion shows.Then she lost her hands...
Jan
03
Federal agencies bracing for cuts after ‘fiscal cliff’ deal
Label: World
The fiscal pact Congress reached hours into the new year will delay $109 billion in automatic across-the-board spending cuts for two months. But it will make a down payment on those reductions that will affect federal operations this year and next.
The eleventh-hour agreement to avoid a “fiscal cliff” of higher taxes put off the major cuts known as a sequester until March 1,...
CES show to see changing of guard in tech sector
Label: Technology WASHINGTON: The inexorable push for mobility in gadgets has reshaped the electronics industry, a shift that reflects a changing of the guard at the world's biggest consumer technology show.Gone from the 2013 International CES, to be held January 8-11 in Las Vegas, are giants such as Microsoft, and longtime tech stalwarts such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard are taking a back seat to firms...
Alagiri furious over Karunanidhi's suggestion to hand over DMK's reign to Stalin
Label: Lifestyle CHENNAI: DMK chief M Karunanidhi's older son and Union minister M K Alagiri on Friday reacted angrily to a suggestion by his father that younger son and party treasurer M K Stalin would take over the party affairs after him. When reporters quizzed him at the Chennai airport about media reports that Stalin would take over the party reins after his father, Alagiri said sarcastically, "The DMK is...
Pictures We Love: Best of 2012
Label: HealthPhotograph by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/APPowder-splattered, and powder-splattering, runners cross the finish line of The Color Run 5K in Irvine, California, on April 22. Each kilometer (0.6 mile) of the event features a color-pelting station dedicated to a single hue, culminating in the Pollock-esque riot at kilometer 5.The "magical color dust" is completely safe, organizers say, though...
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