Analysis: Germany's triangulated opposition

Analysis: Germany's triangulated opposition

Analysis: Germany's triangulated opposition

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:03 PM PDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Bill Clinton may have been the first to use a strategy of "triangulation" to win an election, co-opting policies of his Republican rivals to win a second term as president in 1996.

Suicide bomber kills two Pakistanis, wounds two foreigners

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:34 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a vehicle killed two Pakistanis and seriously wounded two foreigners in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, police said. The officials said the bomber rammed into another vehicle in an area of the city, near the Afghan border, where foreigners live. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which a police officer said took place near a building occupied by a United Nations agency. A police official said authorities had not determined the nationalities of the injured foreigners. ...


Car bomb hits US vehicle in Pakistan, kills 2

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:57 PM PDT

A car filled with explosives rammed into a U.S. government vehicle in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, killing two people and wounding 19 others, police said.


Syrians seek refuge in Turkey

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:52 PM PDT

More than 80,000 Syrians flee into Turkey to escape the bombing of their villages. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.

Hubble Telescope Finds A Distant Supernova

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:27 PM PDT

In the distant galaxy NGC 5806, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a supernova that happened 80 million years ago.


VIDEO: Redheads gather for Dutch festival

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:25 PM PDT

An annual festival of redheads has been taking place in Breda, Holland.


Deadly blast near US consulate in Peshawar

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:56 PM PDT

Car bomb close to offices of aid organisations in northwestern Pakistani city kills at least three people, police say.


Deaths reported in fighting in Turkey

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 10:14 PM PDT

Sources say nine "security agents" and up to 20 PKK members have been killed in overnight clashes.


Suicide bomber kills two Pakistanis, wounds two foreigners

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:04 PM PDT

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in a vehicle killed two Pakistanis and seriously wounded two foreigners in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday, police said.

OWNAGE! Bruce Willis To Sue Apple Over Right To Bequeath His iTunes Library

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:36 PM PDT

Willis' challenge to Apple raises an important issue, both about digital media in general and also about user's awareness of the terms and conditions of the sites they patronize. As with many other things in tech (privacy on Skype, for instance) it is more a matter of not correcting our misconceptions than engaging in outright deception


Breaking Bad "Gliding Over All:" There's No Redemption for Walter White

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:35 PM PDT

Spoilers for a whole lot of Breaking Bad "Chasing monsters." When Hank describes the criminals he hunts down as monsters, there's a hint of pride in Walter White's face. Hank was always the hero that made Walt feel like less of a man, but now the thing that Walt has become boggles [...]


VM World is a Flashy Place

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:08 PM PDT

Flush on the heels of the Flash Memory Summit, VM World in San Francisco was the haven of a great many storage system companies, many of who demonstrated flash memory as part of their storage architecture.   In addition, flash memory companies such as Fusion-io, HGST, Intel, LSI, Micron, OCZ, Samsung, [...]


IBM Insights Could Solve Andrew Cuomo's Healthcare and Education Challenges

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 04:02 PM PDT

New York has been a hotbed of much-needed healthcare innovation with efforts such as The Statewide Health Information Network for New York ("SHIN-NY" which connects the previously silo'ed/disconnected healthcare system) and the two most comprehensive programs for digital health startups -- the NY Digital Health Accelerator (9 month program with $300,000 of [...]


Football capitalism is functioning well

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 03:53 PM PDT

A friend pointed out to me an interesting article in LA Times by Kevin Baxter about the financial woes of European football. The story has a familiar plotline: A European football club (Manchester United in this case), seems to be doing quite well... but wait a moment... the club [...]


VIDEO: New Syria envoy talks of worries

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:00 PM PDT

The new international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has given a pessimistic assessment of the task ahead of him.


If Premium Support is 'Fatal' for Medicare, Why is it Good Enough for Obamacare?

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 03:38 PM PDT

I've written about how President Obama's Medicare advertisements deliberately and egregiously misrepresent the Romney-Ryan plan for Medicare reform. Today, I want to talk about the wonkier critiques of that plan from leading liberal economists. The irony is that the very same wonks who criticize private insurance and premium support in the context of Medicare have endorsed the use of the same concepts in a law they enthusiastically support: Obamacare.


Agile Property Shares Fall After Chairman Faces Indecent Assault Allegation

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:47 PM PDT

Shares in Chinese property developer Agile Property Holdings lost 4.6% on Friday after its Chen Zhuolin, was arrested by Hong Kong police a day earlier in connection with an allegation of indecent assault and released on bail. Chen, together with his wife, Fion Luk Sin-fong, ranked No. 75 on the 2011 [...]


Why Premier League Transfer Excesses Are Greatly Exaggerated

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:28 PM PDT

The European transfer window slammed shut on Friday. There was the usual frenzied action as many teams scrambled to move players on and to sign new recruits. Although there were exceptions, transfer spending throughout continental Europe was more tempered than that of the Barclay's Premier League in England. Bayern Munich spent $50M [...]


Back-To-School Season For Your Reputation

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:12 PM PDT

Living in Boston, which is the ultimate college town with 250,000 students flocking to the city each September, you really feel like the start of the academic year is a fresh start in business too.  Remember as a kid how exhilarating it was to get new pens, notebooks, and clothes [...]


Chinese Caterpillar Rival Sany Heavy's Shares Fall 4% After 1st-Half Profit Declines

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT

Shares in Sany Heavy Industry, the construction equipment manufacturer led by Chinese billionaire Liang Wengen, fell by 4% on Friday after the company reported a decline in first-half profit amid slackening economic growth in the country. Profit at the Changsha-based company fell by 13% to 5.16 billion yuan, or $806 million.  [...]


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