Adam Dean for The New York TimesA member of the Handan Winter Swimming Association, which has sued over a chemical spill. HANDAN, China — The first warning came in the form of dead fish floating in a river. Then officials in this city got confirmation that a chemical spill had taken place at a fertilizer factory upstream. They shut off the tap water, which sent residents into a scramble for...
Alec Baldwin Is Busy Fulfilling Expectant Hilaria's Fruit Requests
Label: Lifestyle Mark Davis/WireImageFatherhood is nothing new to Alec Baldwin. But daddy duty later in life? Now that’s a whole new playing field.Already dad to daughter Ireland, 17, the actor and his wife Hilaria are set to welcome their first child together this summer — and Baldwin is busy taking in the experience.“Being around a woman when she’s pregnant and I’m older now — quite a bit older, actually — it’s...
WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant's lifetime cancer risk."The additional risk is quite small...
Trutanich struggling in bid to keep his city attorney post
Label: Business With large numbers of Los Angeles voters yet to make up their minds, a new poll shows that first-term City Atty. Carmen Trutanich...
Mar
01
At War Blog: Remembering a Silent Success in Afghanistan
Label: WorldDecember in the mountains of southern Afghanistan greeted me and my men with strong and seemingly endless gusts of wind. The frigid temperatures were equally unforgiving. Our living quarters were constructed out of cardboard boxes and plastic sheeting, which didn’t create much of an escape. The highlight of my day, despite the obvious threat, was leading patrols as a squad leader. The physical activity...
Family Creates Bucket List for Dying 9-Month-Old Daughter
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 03/01/2013 at 12:00 PM EST Quinn Linzer and her parents, Brett and Eileen Linzer A Long Island family, facing the prospect of the death of their 9-month-old daughter, has created a bucket list of sorts to maximize her brief life.Quinn Linzer...
WHO: Slight cancer risk after Japan nuke accident
Label: HealthLONDON (AP) — Two years after Japan's nuclear plant disaster, an international team of experts said Thursday that residents of areas hit by the highest doses of radiation face an increased cancer risk so small it probably won't be detectable.In fact, experts calculated that increase at about 1 extra percentage point added to a Japanese infant's lifetime cancer risk."The additional risk is quite small...
Las Vegas Strip shooting suspect is arrested in L.A.
Label: Business A man suspected in a deadly car-to-car shooting in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip was arrested Thursday at a Studio City apartment...
Feb
28
Lens Blog: Gustav Arvidsson's Photos of Landless Peasants in Colombia
Label: World Land is no small thing in Latin America. Dynasties flush with wealth and power have arisen from plantations and cattle ranches owned by a select few families. For those left on the margins, taking over a tiny, fallow plot long forgotten by its owners may be the only thing keeping their family alive.Until someone pushes them out.Gustav Arvidsson has been following the plight of landless peasants in...
Ben Affleck & More Oscar Nominees Then and Now
Label: Lifestyle By Alicia Dennis 02/28/2013 at 12:30 PM EST Jason Merritt/Getty; Jim Smeal/WireImage The years may have passed, but the talent remains for Oscar nominees who have been there, done that and continue to look good doing it.Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro, Helen Hunt, Sally Field, Alan Arkin...
Medicare paid $5.1B for poor nursing home care
Label: HealthSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Medicare paid billions in taxpayer dollars to nursing homes nationwide that were not meeting basic requirements to look after their residents, government investigators have found.The report, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general, said Medicare paid about $5.1 billion for patients to stay in skilled nursing facilities that failed to...
Eric Garcetti showed political savvy during busy student years
Label: Business Fourth in a series of articles focusing on key periods in the lives of the mayoral hopefuls.Ben Jealous still recalls walking...
Feb
27
The Lede: Video of Pope Benedict’s Public Farewell
Label: WorldAn English translation from the Vatican of Pope Benedict XVI’s last general audience before his formal resignation on Thursday. As our colleagues, Rachel Donadio and Alan Cowell report, Pope Benedict XVI held his final general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, a day before he withdraws from the public for a cloistered life of prayer and meditation.Before tens of thousands of people gathered...
Josh Brolin and Diane Lane's Split Was 'Mutual,' Says James Brolin
Label: Lifestyle By Andrea Billups 02/27/2013 at 12:30 PM EST James Brolin said his son Josh is doing fine in the wake of his impending divorce from Diane Lane, calling their split "mutual."Brolin – who accompanied wife Barbra Streisand as she performed at the Oscars Sunday night – said his son, 45, was watching the Academy...
Vt. lye victim gets new face at Boston hospital
Label: HealthBOSTON (AP) — A Vermont nurse disfigured in a 2007 lye attack has received a new face at a Boston hospital.Carmen Blandin Tarleton's full facial transplant at Brigham & Women's Hospital included transplanting a female donor's facial skin to Tarleton's neck, nose and lips, along with facial muscles, arteries and nerves.Hospital officials say the 44-year-old Thetford, Vt., woman suffered burns on...
Imperial County betting its future on renewable energy
Label: Business Situated in the southeastern corner of California, bordering Arizona and Mexico, Imperial County has long depended on agriculture...
Ben Affleck Finally Comes Clean - and Shaves His Beard!
Label: Lifestyle 02/26/2013 at 12:40 PM EST Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck David Livingston/Getty And what did Ben Affleck do after his Argo won Best Picture on Sunday night? He took it all off – his facial hair, that is.A friend of the actor-filmmaker's confirms to PEOPLE that following the Oscars ceremony...
C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general.Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the best known and most influential person to carry that title. Koop, a 6-foot-1 evangelical Presbyterian with a biblical prophet's beard, donned a public health uniform...
Does Eric Garcetti keep his word? Accounts vary
Label: Business Santiago Perez and his neighbors went straight to Councilman Eric Garcetti when they heard that a developer planned to build...
Feb
25
South Korea’s Park Geun-hye Warns North Against Nuclear Pursuits
Label: WorldPark Jin-Hee/Getty ImagesPark Geun-Hye, South Korea's president, salutes during her inauguration ceremony in front of the National Assembly building on Monday in Seoul. SEOUL, South Korea — The country’s new president, Park Geun-hye, was sworn into office on Monday, facing far more complicated fissures both within South Korea and with North Korea than her father did during his Cold War dictatorship,...
Jennifer Aniston: The Real Reason I Loved My Oscar Gown
Label: Lifestyle Stylewatch Style News Now 02/25/2013 at 01:10 AM ET Jason Merritt/GettyNeed another reason to love Jennifer Aniston — and her elegant Oscars gown? Just wait until you hear why she picked it: “It fits, it’s comfortable and it’s easy...
FDA approves new targeted breast cancer drug
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.The drug Kadcyla from Roche combines the established drug Herceptin with a powerful chemotherapy drug and a third chemical linking the medicines together. The chemical keeps the cocktail intact until it binds to a cancer cell, delivering a potent...
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