Although recent months have seen improvement in the number of housing starts and permits pulled, it will be multi-family builders...
Jan
22
Election of new DNC leaders points up tensions with White House
Label: World WASHINGTON -- After a messy fight that highlighted strains with the White House, the Democratic National Committee completed...
BlackBerry Z10 Looks Like iPhone 5, Takes on Siri
Label: TechnologyRIM is set to announce the first devices running its new BlackBerry 10 operating system at an event on January 30. A lucky few, however, have already gotten their hands on what looks to be the new hardware, including German site TelekomPresse.[More from Mashable: Watch These iPhone Knockoffs Get Bulldozed]The site has the BlackBerry Z10, a touchscreen device with a similar look to some of the other...
The Well Column: Facing Cancer, a Stark Choice
Label: HealthIn the 1970s, women’s health advocates were highly suspicious of mastectomies. They argued that surgeons — in those days, pretty much an all-male club — were far too quick to remove a breast after a diagnosis of cancer, with disfiguring results.But today, the pendulum has swung the other way. A new generation of women want doctors to take a more aggressive approach, and more and more are asking that...
Super Bowl chicken wings getting pricier, less plentiful
Label: Business Americans are going to chow down on 1.23 billion chicken wings during Super Bowl weekend this year. But there will be fewer...
Jan
21
L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases from authorities
Label: World Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor discussed ways...
Putin orders Russian computers to be protected after spy attacks
Label: TechnologyMOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian authorities to protect state computers from hacking attacks, the Kremlin said on Monday, after an Internet security firm said a spy network had infiltrated government and embassy computers across the former Soviet bloc.Dubbed Red October, the network used phishing attacks – or unsolicited emails to intended targets – to infect the computers...
Inauguration offers brief pause from TV bickering
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The second inauguration of President Barack Obama gave television networks a chance to bask in the majesty of a Washington event that unites Americans of all beliefs and ideologies — at least for a moment.Then it was back to business as usual: the dissemination of widely divergent views on what people had just seen for themselves.ABC, CBS and NBC, along with the cable news networks,...
Personal Health: A Check on Physicals
Label: Health“Go Beyond Your Father’s Annual Physical. Live Longer, Feel Better”This sales pitch for the Princeton Longevity Center’s “comprehensive exam” promises, for $5,300, to take “your health beyond the annual physical.” But it is far from certain whether this all-day checkup, and others less inclusive, make a meaningful difference to health or merely provide reassurance to the worried well.Among physicians,...
Craft beer keeps growing, led by Boston Beer, Sierra Nevada
Label: Business The craft beer revolution kept charging ahead in 2012, when 12% more barrels were shipped than the year before, the sixth straight...
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