Brad Pitt, Jimmy Fallon ‘Yodel' in NYC on rooftops (video)
Posted by: jodijill
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 00:57:27 -0700 | entertainment-news
The late night talk show hosts worked overtime on Tuesday night with some hysterical videos that folks are watching at work. While Jimmy Kimmel did a setgment with Chatum Tanning, in New York City Jimmy Fallon went "yodeling" with Brad...
Kerry calls Karzai to defuse tension over Taliban talks
Posted by: StephenManual
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 03:17:00 -0700 | disasters-news
Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly objected to the United States initiating formal dialog with the Taliban. Karzai said his government was not taken onboard before the decision, and therefore, in protest, he was announcing the suspension of all ongoing security...
Torre's daughter catches pitched baby
Source: CNN
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 01:45:31 -0700 | allnews
The woman who caught the baby is Cristina Torre, daughter of famed Major League Baseball manager and former National League All-Star catcher Joe Torre...He then climbed onto the fire escape and fell onto the awning of a frozen yogurt shop...
'Masterpiece' prepping 'Breathless' medical drama
Source: Associated Press
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 02:13:21 -0700 | entertainment-news
Masterpiece" is prescribing a new drama set in a London hospital in the early 1960s. The series, "Breathless," will put medical practice at the brink of the tumultuous `60s. Set in a busy gynecology unit, it inhabits a world where...
Investigation sought in U.S. plane crash missile-strike theory
Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 01:11:13 -0700 | political-news
Paris-bound jet off the coast of New York City, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the flight. more » Why Canadians get sick from tap water Jun. 19, 2013 5:11 PM...
Ex-Yankees manager Torre's daughter catches baby
Source: Fox
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 03:02:36 -0700 | sports-news
The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has confirmed...Police said a 44-year-old woman...
BOOK REVIEW: 'The Gershwins and Me'
Source: The Washington Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 03:02:23 -0700 | entertainment-news
Many edifying accounts of the towering 20th-century iconic Gershwin brothers have been published in the 76 years since George (the composer) died at age 37. The Gershwin legacy also survived well beyond the ripe-old-age departure (decades later at age 86)...
Of Lab Rats, M.I.C.E & Getting Most Anyone To Do What You Want
Source: Forbes
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 03:02:16 -0700 | business-news
This is not intended to be demeaning (though lab rats might find it insulting). The reference to lab rats means that there are ways to influence nearly all behavior at least to some extent. While this viewpoint has its limits,...
Innovation Zombies, and Other Hazards For Great Ideas
Source: Forbes
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-20 03:02:15 -0700 | business-news
Then the danger starts. Companies tend to kill great ideas in three ways. Seldom is the peril overt. Rather, the hazards attack in a slow, insidious, and devastatingly effective manner: 1. The Zombie Scenario Many projects never really die, they just...
Waltham artist offers a personal story across generations
Source: The Boston Globe
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 22:39:25 -0700 | political-news
A lifelong activist, Hodes was a cofounder of Artists for Survival, a group that educated the public about the dangers of nuclear arms for 15 years. Her well-known pieces include depictions of the Kennedy and King assassinations, the threat of...
Lawmaker, university spar over 'control' of Chinese dissident in U.S.
Source: Reuters
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 21:50:03 -0700 | political-news
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng speaks to journalists following an appearance in New York May 3, 2013. A U.S. congressman who has been blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's main champion in Washington said people working...
Two-fifths of U.S. adults care for sick, elderly relatives
Source: Reuters
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 21:34:03 -0700 | technology-news
News Analysis & Opinion Related Topics A woman is pushed on a wheelchair underneath blossoming trees inside Central Park during a warm day in New York, March 22, 2012. Four in 10 U.S. adults are now caring for a sick...
Robin recs trailers for 'Jax and the Beanstalk Zombies,' 'Undying Destiny,' 'Wolf Fever'
Source: USA Today
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 21:33:48 -0700 | entertainment-news
The kiddos are out of school at my house, and we are all settling in for a fun, long summer. For me, that means that I will get reading time by the pool on weekends. And I have a ton...
Samardzija defends Marmol, Sveum
Source: Chicago Tribune
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 20:49:48 -0700 | sports-news
The Cubs may not be a strong team on the field, but the one thing they have managed to do is stick together in the clubhouse. The departures of Ryan Dempster and Kerry Wood last year left the team without...
DealBook: In Wake of Pay-to-Play Scandal, Riverstone Raises Its Largest Fund
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-19 19:48:52 -0700 | business-news
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times Andrew Cuomo, when he was attorney general of New York in 2009, reached a $30 million settlement with Riverstone Holdings. Four years ago this month, the private equity firm Riverstone Holdings agreed to pay...
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