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'Kissing disease' stalking tennis?
Christina McHale, energy sapped and unable to train properly, knew something was wrong last spring. Exercises McHale once did easily were becoming harder and getting through matches was proving difficult, too.
cnn.com (4 minutes ago)
Who Scares The Super-Rich Most?
The super-rich with a net-worth of US$500 million or more, by definition, have money. They also are very likely to have connections resulting in business and political clout. However, none of this means that the super-rich are safe. On the contrary, there are institutions and people that can easily put them on edge...
forbes.com (1 hour ago)
Four Location-Enabled Apps to Try This Summer
Let’s face it: location-enabled apps are not going anywhere. With more than 770 million GPS-enabled smartphones worldwide, a new crop of geo-location apps are announced every month. Regardless of user hesitation and drawn out privacy battles, which includes a recently proposed “Apps Act“ to make privacy policies...
time.com (1 hour ago)
Republicans Seem to Be Out of Economic Ideas — Here Are Two Suggestions
If you think about thrift as a moral quality, it’s easy to understand why Republicans have gotten things so wrong in terms of macro-economic policy over the last few years. Austerity, after all, has a folksy and intuitive appeal, the idea being that you can’t cure debt with more debt. No household could – and why...
time.com (1 hour ago)
LUPICA: Albany gang-leader Sheldon Silver finally shoves Vito Lopez out the door, but should be...
This comes from one of the great William Kennedy’s books, “O, Albany. ” Kennedy was writing about the old Sheridan Avenue Gang, but could just as easily have been writing about the Shelly Silver Gang in the Albany of today: “A band of . . . toughs who, by legend, guarded their turf rigorously and let no strangers...
nydailynews.com (3 hours ago)
SNAP Challenge, eating on $4 per day, starts Monday
While some Utahns can easily spend $4 a day on a latte or frappucino, others must stretch those four bucks to fund their entire daily food intake. The average food-stamp benefit is $4 per day, and on Monday the SNAP Challenge kicks off in participating areas around the United States, including Utah where the...
sltrib.com (4 hours ago)
LUPICA: A Shel of himself, but Silver hangs on
This comes from one of the great William Kennedy’s books, “O, Albany. ” Kennedy was writing about the old Sheridan Avenue Gang, but could just as easily have been writing about the Shelly Silver Gang in the Albany of today: “A band of . . . toughs who, by legend, guarded their turf rigorously and let no strangers...
nydailynews.com (5 hours ago)
A Shel of himself, but Silver hangs on
This comes from one of the great William Kennedy’s books, “O, Albany. ” Kennedy was writing about the old Sheridan Avenue Gang, but could just as easily have been writing about the Shelly Silver Gang in the Albany of today: “A band of . . . toughs who, by legend, guarded their turf rigorously and let no strangers...
nydailynews.com (6 hours ago)
Credit Suisse Says Wearable Tech "The Next Big Thing"
Wearable tech isn't new but Credit Suisse (as cited by Barron's here) is calling it “the next big thing” and forecasting the market to ramp from about $3B – $5B today to $50B over the next 3-5 years. The implications and opportunities for clinical healthcare (not just fitness/wellness) are intriguing. As this...
forbes.com (6 hours ago)
US adviser on board of firm that sold anthrax drug
Former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, who has served as a bio-warfare adviser to the president, the Pentagon, and the Department of Homeland Security, urged the government to stockpile an anti-anthrax drug while serving as a director for the company that supplied it, according to a report published Sunday. While...
foxnews.com (7 hours ago)
Young Americans waste no time qualifying for Indy
INDIANAPOLIS 8212 Josef Newgarden and Graham Rahal took care of business right away Sunday.Less than 24 hours after getting bumped out of the top 24 starting spots, Newgarden and Rahal posted the two fastest four-lap averages on Bump Day, easily earning spots in the race.
timesleader.com (9 hours ago)
Niagara County plans to hire second welfare fraud investigator
LOCKPORT – Niagara County’s sole welfare fraud investigator is having such a big year that county leaders have decided she needs a partner.The County Legislature is to vote Tuesday on creating a second welfare fraud post in the Sheriff’s Office.Sheriff James R. Voutour said that three deputies already have been...
buffalonews.com (9 hours ago)
Fusion Plate works with both camera shoulder straps and tripods
Combining a quick-release plate made from aerospace grade aluminum and a sturdy flip-up accessory loop, the Fusion Plate is designed to allow photographers to quickly and easily switch between a shoulder strap and tripod...
gizmag.com (9 hours ago)
What Is Tumblr?
Greetings, old-timer. In light of the recent Yahoo-buys-Tumblr news, my overlords at TIME have asked me to put together a guide of sorts explaining what Tumblr is. A Tumblr for Dummies, if you will. (Note: there is an actual Tumblr for Dummies book already. I did not write it.) If you’re a regular reader here at...
time.com (10 hours ago)
Platt: Lafayette Brings a Big Menu, Big Space, and Big Ideas to the Brasserie Craze
Certain cooks slavishly copy conventional wisdom during the course of their careers, while others go out of their way, perhaps too slavishly, to try to redefine it. Then there are those chefs, like Andrew Carmellini, who manage to negotiate the endlessly changing fashions of their day in an effortless, perfectly...
nymag.com (11 hours ago)
Big 5 bets on smaller, easily accessible stores
The sporting-goods chain believes that operating a large number of easily accessible, smaller stores is more profitable than offering fewer big ones.Sometimes smaller is better.
latimes.com (11 hours ago)
Offense breaks out behind Cashner's solid start
A four-run fifth and a five-run seventh helped Andrew Cashner and the Padres easily defeat the Nationals, 13-4, at Petco Park on Sunday.
mlb.com (11 hours ago)
Small changes coming for New York Knicks
While the Knicksâ 2012-13 season was easily the teamâs most successful campaign in more than a decade, the fact remains that it fell well short of a championship or even a conference finals berth against LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Surely, theyâll be in the thick of things again next season, but expect a few...
amny.com (12 hours ago)
Big Daddy made usual splash but rest of the Premier League just dried up | Sean Ingle
As one zillion-budget sequel returns, so the credits roll on another. Hollywood's latest upchuck, Fast & Furious VI, with its grunts and gloss and smack-crash-slam emptiness was dismissed by one reviewer as having a "generic plotline" and "an awful lot … to meander through" – which will sound strikingly familiar...
guardian.co.uk (14 hours ago)
Box Office Report: 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Dethrones 'Iron Man 3'
WINNER OF THE WEEK Star Trek Into Darkness JJ Abrams and his cast of Star Trek Muppet Babies pretty much had the film galaxy all to themselves this weekend With no other movie debuting in wide release Abrams' second Trek adventure easily won the weekend with an estimated $706 million take from Friday to Sunday Add...
rollingstone.com (14 hours ago)
Will Obamacare Reduce the Crazy Variation in Hospital Prices?
If you have been paying attention to US healthcare policy debates lately, you know that hospitals have a price problem. Walk across the street from one hospital to a competitor hospital, and you could easily find yourself facing a $30,000 increase in your medical bills. At one extreme for instance recent...
forbes.com (14 hours ago)
The Republican wolves are out for Obama but they are yet to draw blood | Gary Younge
The thing people often forget about the story of the boy who cried wolf was that, at the end of the day, there was a wolf. For the past six years – since Barack Obama announced his presidential intentions – Republicans have been crying themselves hoarse. Obama, if they were to be believed, was a Kenyan-born...
guardian.co.uk (15 hours ago)
Letters: Europe and the fight for fair wages
Bob Crow is correct to label the European Union as a free-market straightjacket increasing misery for the continent's majority (Exit Europe from the left, 18 May), but he is mistaken to imagine we can improve matters by leaving. Should we do so we will then be out in the cold and easily picked off by big business...
guardian.co.uk (15 hours ago)
Photography: top tips for storing and viewing your images
Apart from duds, keep your frames in safe, long-term storage: you never know when one might be useful, or more meaningful, in the future. Then make a tight edit of them and keep that in a more accessible place. This could be a tablet computer: easy to download to, edit on and great for showing your images. Printing...
guardian.co.uk (16 hours ago)
Guns, grenades and toy soldiers: museum explores children's war games
For a time in the sixties it was the toy that every American boy simply had to have – the stupendous Johnny 7 One Man Army gun that combined grenades and anti-tank weaponry and automatic firing with your more basic cap pistol. And more, all in one! You can't easily get one these days, but you can get a UK...
guardian.co.uk (20 hours ago)
Choking is easily averted, but always a tragedy
Choking claims 4,000 lives annually despite simple actions that could save themFred Y. Sasaki put on a red tie and his gray suit.
chicagotribune.com (22 hours ago)
This House is Haunted, by John Boyne – review
It is 1867, London, and Charles Dickens is giving a reading near the house of 21-year-old Eliza Caine and her ailing father. As Dickens reads a ghost story to an enraptured audience, Eliza notes how he creates terror, marvelling at "how easily he could manipulate our emotions". But things fall apart: her father's...
guardian.co.uk (23 hours ago)
Made in Chelsea: Flower Show preview
Chelsea is 100 years old, and in the swing of a gardening renaissance that probably matches the period in which it was born. The world has become a smaller place since 1913, but we have lost none of the excitement that comes with an exhibition famed for its sense of expectation. We all welcome the search for a...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background'
Anne-Marie Duff holds out her hand – a shy shake. She is wearing what looks like a child's white vest, jeans and no jewellery. There is nothing to give her away, apart from her face. Even her feet are bare – maroon nail varnish excepted. It is a sunny day – warm upstairs at the Jerwood rehearsal space in south...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
NHL playoffs: Detroit evens series vs. Chicago
Chicago - In case they weren’t aware already, the Chicago Blackhawks now know they’re going to have to earn it if they want to get past Detroit. The Red Wings hammered home that message on Saturday. Damien Brunner and Brendan Smith scored in the second period and Detroit beat the Blackhawks 4-1 in Game 2 to even...
sltrib.com (1 day ago)
