NEW YORK (AP) — Arnold Schwarzenegger's post-governorship comeback fizzled at the box office, as his "The Last Stand" earned just $7.2 million over the three-day holiday weekend.Instead, the Jessica Chastain horror film "Mama" surpassed expectations with a chart-topping $32.1 million opening from Friday through Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In its second week of wide release, the Osama bin Laden hunt...
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...
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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,...
Well: Microbes Linked to Colic in Babies
Label: HealthNo one knows what causes colic, the intense pain and stomach cramping that commonly begins in otherwise healthy infants at about a month and disappears a few months later. But now researchers have found a possible explanation: the kinds of microbes that inhabit babies’ intestines.Researchers at Radboud University and Wageningen University in the Netherlands collected nine stool samples from each of...
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...
Notre Dame football star says he was not in on hoax – ESPN
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o has denied ever being in on an elaborate hoax, telling ESPN he had believed his relationship with a woman who turned out to be an online fabrication was real.The tragic story of his girlfriend and her injuries from a car accident and death from leukemia was one of the most widely recounted U.S. sports stories last year as Notre Dame made a drive toward...
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