2012年5月24日星期四

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Photos of the day: Giant Baobab Tree sculpture and more amazing images

Posted: 24 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT

Photos of the day: Giant Baobab Tree sculpture and more amazing imagesMike De Butts adds the finishing touches to a giant Baobab Tree sculpture entitled 'Under the Baobab', outside the Southbank Centre on May 24, 2012 in London, England. The Pirate Technics' installation is made from a selection of brightly colored fabrics from around the world, and is part of the Southbank Centre's 'Festival of the World' exhibition, which includes a series of large scale pieces of art that will be in place around the Southbank centre over the Summer. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Pinky-sized artificial heart saves baby's life

Posted: 24 May 2012 12:05 PM PDT

An Italian heart surgeon holds the world's smallest artificial heart, which was implanted in a baby, in RomeAn artificial heart the size of a pinky finger kept a 16-month-old baby alive for nearly two weeks while he waited for a heart transplant, Reuters reported. The Italian baby, whose name has not been released, had dilated cardiomyopathy, a disease that stretched the muscular walls...


The dumb report on congressional dumbness

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:43 AM PDT

congressional leadersAre conservatives stupider than liberals?


Beginning of the end for internet anonymity?

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:25 AM PDT

Cyberbullying has led to many unfortunate tragedies for teenagers.Anonymity is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the United States was founded, in part, thanks to Thomas Paine's anonymously written, pro-revolution pamphlet Common Sense. On the other hand, 12-year-olds who post anonymously on the internet can be rather unpleasant … Continue reading →


Zimmerman flip-flopped on view of police

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:35 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 20, 2012 file photo, George Zimmerman, left, answers a question from attorney Mark O'Mara during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman accused the Sanford police department of corruption more than a year before he shot Trayvon Martin, saying at a public forum the agency covered up the beating of a black homeless man by the son of a white officer. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool, File)George Zimmerman's view of the Sanford, Fla., Police Department shifted during an eight-month period in 2011, CNN is reporting. Zimmerman, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of teenager Trayvon Martin, called what he saw on ride-alongs with police "disgusting" at a public community forum in January 2011. However Zimmerman changed his tune [...]


Man arrested in disappearance of Etan Patz

Posted: 24 May 2012 05:14 AM PDT

NYPD spokesman Paul Brown holds an original missing poster of Etan Patz during a news conference near a New York City apartment building, where police and FBI agents were searching a basement for clues in the boy's 1979 disappearance, in New YorkThe New York City police commissioner says a man in custody has implicated himself in the death of Etan Patz, the boy whose disappearance 33 years ago sparked the movement to put the faces of missing children on milk cartons.


Harvard alumni group apologizes for Unabomber entry in directory

Posted: 24 May 2012 12:25 PM PDT

Unabomber Updates Status in Harvard Alum MagazineHarvard University's alumni association has issued an apology for references made by Ted Kaczynski, a graduate of Harvard's Class of 1962, in the school's latest directory. A spokesman for Harvard told Boston.com that Kaczynski, the so-called "Unabomber," submitted the entry for the directory himself. "While all members of the class who submit entries are included, [...]


Gingrich to appear at Trump fundraiser for Romney

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:52 AM PDT

GOP Presidential Hopeful Newt Gingrich Meets With Donald Trump In New YorkBillionaire real estate investor and television personality Donald Trump is hosting a pricey fundraiser for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Las Vegas next Tuesday, and Newt Gingrich is expected to make an appearance, Yahoo News has learned. "Newt is expected to be there, along with many other well-known people," Michael Cohen, Trump's special [...]


Deadly year for Somali journalists

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:33 AM PDT

Somali Journalist Gunned Down, Sixth Killed in 5 Months2012 on pace to be deadliest year ever for journalists in Somalia.


Carney: 'No basis' for sentencing doctor who helped find bin Laden

Posted: 24 May 2012 01:40 PM PDT

White House: China human rights still a prioritySecretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday sharply criticized Pakistan for its "unjust and unwarranted" treatment of Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, sentenced to prison for 33 years on treason charges for his pivotal role in helping to hunt down Osama bin Laden. "The United States does not believe there is any basis for holding Dr. [...]


Daily Caller giving away guns to readers through Election Day

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:59 AM PDT

Daily Caller Wants to Give You a GunThe Daily Caller, the conservative website founded by Tucker Carlson, has launched an unusual publicity stunt to say the least: Now through Nov. 6—Election Day—the Washington, D.C.-based site will give away a handgun a week. The gun giveaway is part of the launch of a "Guns and Gear" section "devoted to Second Amendment issues and [...]


Biography paints Cronkite’s darker side

Posted: 24 May 2012 10:51 AM PDT

CronkiteTo millions of TV news viewers, Walter Cronkite might well have been the most trusted man in America. But, according to a new biography, he committed unethical, biased no-nos that would get him fired these days, writes Newsweek's Howard Kurtz. Kurtz describes the new book, Cronkite, by Douglas Brinkley, as "sweeping and masterful" in its [...]


Senate rejects dueling GOP, Dem student loan plans

Posted: 24 May 2012 03:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 24, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Senate has rejected Democratic and Republican plans for averting a doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)The Senate rejected dueling Democratic and Republican plans on Thursday for averting a July 1 doubling of interest rates on federal college loans for 7.4 million students, pushing back efforts to resolve the election-season showdown until next month.


Obama is ahead in swing states, but his lead narrows

Posted: 24 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT

President Barack Obama smiles while speaking at the Fox Theater in Redwood City, Calif., Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to new polls of the key 2012 swing states, although Obama's advantage has narrowed in recent months.


Cell phone users prefer Obama, landline users like Romney

Posted: 24 May 2012 08:39 AM PDT

Obama Goes After Romney's Time at BainPolitical pollsters have been under pressure to make sure their samples include Americans who rely solely on cell phones—and the latest NBC News/Marist polls of Florida, Ohio and Virginia exhibit why.


Video: TV weather reporter caught faking storm during live broadcast

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:40 AM PDT

A Romanian TV weatherman has put a new spin on the phrase "having sand kicked in your face," after he was caught faking a storm during a live news report. The Metro reports that the reporter was filing a story about heavy winds along the Black Sea coast, which were gusting at more than 60 [...]

Can Meg Whitman save Hewlett Packard?

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:25 AM PDT

FILE - In a Friday, March 9, 2012 file photo, Hewlett Packard CEO and President Meg Whitman speaks at a conference on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, Calif. HP is in the midst of a turnaround under a new chief, former eBay Inc. CEO Whitman. Hewlett-Packard Co. showed signs of recovery in the first three months of the year as it strengthened its position as the world's largest maker of personal computers and gained back some of the business it had lost while weighing whether to dump its PC division. HP's stock jumped nearly 7 percent by early afternoon Thursday, April 12, 2012, the first trading day since research groups Gartner and IDC released their quarterly PC shipment estimates. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)The former eBay executive who was hired as H-P chief last September announced the company would lay off about eight percent of its 300,000 workforce over the next two years, one of many changes that are coming to the troubled personal computer maker.


Fleet Week kicks off in NYC

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT

Fleet Week kicks off in NYCIn this May 23, 2012 photo released by Starpix, singer Katy Perry wears a patriotic dress as she performs at a Pepsi-sponsored event at Brooklyn Pier 9A, kicking off Fleet Week in New York. (AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab)

‘Ridiculously Photogenic Surgery Girl’ Creates New Meme Sensation

Posted: 24 May 2012 09:15 AM PDT

Last year, Zeddie 'Watkins' Little became an Internet meme sensation when a photo of him running a 10K went viral. He quickly became known as 'the ridiculously photogenic guy.' Well, now he has a female counterpart, and she's being called 'the ridiculously photogenic surgery girl.' A photograph of a 28-year-old woman named Rachel originally appeared [...]

A look inside the ‘world’s nicest prison’

Posted: 24 May 2012 11:05 AM PDT

Picture this: A small Norwegian island dotted with pine trees, rocky coasts, rustic farms and private, wooden cottages. It sounds almost like the perfect romantic getaway. But the residents are actually inmates confined to what some are calling the "world's nicest prison." CNN has an excellent, in-depth look at Bastoy Prison, located on a one-square-mile [...]

Photos: Another bear falls from tree in Colorado

Posted: 24 May 2012 12:08 PM PDT

The bears don't grow on trees in Colorado, but they sure are making a habit of falling from them. The Steamboat Pilot & Today reports that another black bear has been tranquilized and immortalized in photos as it fell from a tree to safety. The Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife tranquilized the bear after [...]

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