Seven Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have been notified that the department intends to fire them for belonging to a secret...
Microsoft Teases Future Surface Pro Accessories With Extra Battery Power
Label: Technology Days before Surface Pro’s release date, Microsoft is already teasing the types of accessories we’ll see for the device. In a Reddit AMA hosted on Wednesday, members of the Surface Team responded to user questions, and suggested that a Surface Pro cover that would double as an extra battery pack is in the works. Good thing, too, since we found that the Surface Pro could barely get around four...
How Ang Lee Took a Tiger by the Tail to Create ‘Life of Pi’
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – It would have been foolish to predict what “Life of Pi” – has become: a box-office phenomenon that has swept one country after another, a game changer in its use of 3D and computer graphics and a critical darling with 11 Oscar nominations including best picture, director, screenplay, cinematography and two for composer Mychael Danna.“It still comes as a surprise,” director...
Daniel Doctoroff Enlists Bloomberg in A.L.S. Research
Label: HealthNicole Bengiveno/The New York TimesDaniel L. Doctoroff, second from right, chief executive of Bloomberg L.P., at Columbia University’s Motor Neuron Center. Daniel L. Doctoroff watched in pain as his father developed a limp one day, was found to have Lou Gehrig’s disease, and died within two years. Then an uncle also developed symptoms of the same disease, and died soon after. Now Mr. Doctoroff,...
DealBook: R.B.S. to Pay $612 Million Over Rate Rigging
Label: BusinessA campaign to root out financial fraud secured a victory on Wednesday, as authorities took aim at the Royal Bank of Scotland for its role in an interest rate manipulation scheme that has emboldened prosecutors and consumed the banking industry.American and British authorities struck a combined $612 million settlement with the bank, the latest case to emerge from the global investigation into rate-rigging....
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Child porn suspect indicted by federal grand jury
Label: World A North Hills woman whom authorities allege plied a young girl with crack cocaine and photographed her being sexually abused...
Don't Call It a Tablet
Label: Technology The Surface Pro looks like a tablet, but it’s not a mobile device. It’s a portable device. Sure, put the Surface Pro next to the Surface RT and it’s hard to spot many differences. One’s a little thicker, but their shapes are otherwise identical. Both have the same matte-black, magnesium-based casing. They both can be used with snap-in keyboards and they’re both propped up into typing position...
Meryl Streep, Jean Dujardin returning to the Oscars
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep will likely get to induct Daniel Day-Lewis into that triple-Oscar club on February 24 at the Dolby Theatre, while “The Sound of Music” star Christopher Plummer will probably hand the Best Supporting Actress award to a new screen-musical star, Anne Hathaway.Those are two conclusions to be drawn from the Academy’s Tuesday announcement...
Vote This Week May Close Long Island College Hospital
Label: HealthState university trustees will vote this week on whether to close Long Island College Hospital, officials of the Brooklyn hospital said on Tuesday, despite protests from doctors and nurses that northern Brooklyn would lose an essential source of emergency care. Dr. John Williams, president of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which runs Long Island College Hospital, said on Tuesday that he would...
Economic Scene: Immigration Reform Issue: The Effect on the Budget
Label: BusinessThe stars could hardly have shone brighter on the prospects for immigration reform than in the early months of 2007. The coalition pushing for change included the oddest of bedfellows — roping together business groups like the United States Chamber of Commerce with the Service Employees International Union, the fastest-growing union in the country. It had an impeccable bipartisan pedigree,...
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