S Korea warns North against provocation |
- S Korea warns North against provocation
- A Lannister Always Pays His Debts (or IRS Would Tax Them)
- VIDEO: Who will be next to lead Cuba?
- Drug maker loses India patent battle
- India's top court dismisses drug patent case
- Do Nuclear Power Plants Cause Cancer?
- Alert: NCAA To Announce Each Sport's Season To Be Year-Round By 2016
- NKorea's parliament meets amid nuclear tension
- VIDEO: Who will be next to lead Cuba?
- VIDEO: Views on the Korean border crossing
- Dudamel and the L.A. Philharmonic at Lincoln Center
- YouTube To Shut Down, Google Search Goes Nasal (April Fool's!)
- VIDEO: 'We are praying for Mandela'
- South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth fighters
- South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth fighters
- Kevin Ware's 'Gruesome' Injury
- On Take-off Runway With A Chance of Runaway Growth: A Case of Social Products
- 'Finnegans Wake' Is Greek to Many; Now Imagine It in Chinese
- Famo.us Pushes The Physics Of Searchable HTML5 Into A Whole New Universe
- 'The Walking Dead' Season 3 Finale Review: 'Welcome To The Tombs' It Gets Worse Here Every Day
| S Korea warns North against provocation Posted: 31 Mar 2013 11:08 PM PDT South Korean president says country will respond strongly "without any political considerations" to an attack by North. |
| A Lannister Always Pays His Debts (or IRS Would Tax Them) Posted: 31 Mar 2013 10:34 PM PDT |
| VIDEO: Who will be next to lead Cuba? Posted: 31 Mar 2013 11:09 PM PDT Cuban politics has been dominated by the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, ever since it became the western hemisphere's first communist country in 1959. |
| Drug maker loses India patent battle Posted: 31 Mar 2013 11:00 PM PDT NEW DELHI (AP) — India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's right to patent a new version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that healthcare activists say ensures the poor will get continued access to cheap, generic versions of lifesaving medicines. |
| India's top court dismisses drug patent case Posted: 31 Mar 2013 10:37 PM PDT Landmark judgement against Swiss drug maker Novartis AG could change direction of country's pharmaceutical business. |
| Do Nuclear Power Plants Cause Cancer? Posted: 31 Mar 2013 10:20 PM PDT No. They don't. |
| Alert: NCAA To Announce Each Sport's Season To Be Year-Round By 2016 Posted: 31 Mar 2013 10:11 PM PDT In a bold move, the NCAA has planned to announce today that starting in 2016, all collegiate sports will each move to a year-round season. "We have been secretly extending the schedules for years, usually by a few days or weeks at a time," says a senior administrative official with the league. "We figured we would just go for it and make it year round." While details are sketchy, the early information shows how the major sports will see some dramatic changes over the next three years. Basketball Basketball will move to "Amazing April" in 2014, "Marvelous May" in 2015, and make the final jump to "Spectacular September" in 2016. "We were worried we would have to compete with the end of baseball, but when we heard that they were moving that to January to meet with their elongated schedule, we were relieved," says an NCAA marketer. "What do you think of 'Spectacular September?' I came up with that, but was voted down for 'Sexy September' as that is when Sports Illustrated is moving their 'Swimsuit Edition' and we didn't want to compete with that. We are really thinking this through." Football Football will move to a playoff schedule to finally clear the debate against the current bowl game picture. "We are still going to play our bowl game schedule as it stands today, but we have added an additional playoff picture of all division teams in a single elimination tournament. This will give us about 8 months of playoff games, culminating in the championship game in August," say a senior secretary with the NCAA regional office in Des Moines, Iowa. "Granted, this will cause some issues for teams who are in training for the new season during these months, but this won't be a problem for the lesser programs who can't win playoff games and for Ohio State who will still be ineligible. Naturally, the entire state of Florida, Oklahoma, and that team in Utah are worried. But I think if we give them a bigger 'tattoo allowance' they may be mollified." Hockey Hockey will move to playoffs every 3 months to try to make the sport interesting. Baseball Baseball will follow the new schedule being adopted by Major League Baseball for their "season that never sleeps" with a "best of 13" series finals in January. Like the NCAA, MLB is excited for the changes. For instance, a representative for Ballpark Hotdogs is thrilled with the new season schedule. "We have been asked to supply an estimated 3B - yes, billion - more wieners to the parks to keep up with the growing demand and enhanced schedule. With Opening Day happening simultaneously during the league playoffs, it means we sometimes will have a double-header, for say . . . The National League Championship, while those same two teams also play their Opening Day game for the next season. Pretty exciting if you ask me. Now we just have to make sure our mustard supplier can handle it." |
| NKorea's parliament meets amid nuclear tension Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:53 PM PDT
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| VIDEO: Who will be next to lead Cuba? Posted: 31 Mar 2013 11:09 PM PDT Cuban politics has been dominated by the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, ever since it became the western hemisphere's first communist country in 1959. |
| VIDEO: Views on the Korean border crossing Posted: 31 Mar 2013 11:02 PM PDT Lucy Williamson reports from the highly guarded border between North and South Korea, as South Korea's president promises a swift military response to any provocation from the North. |
| Dudamel and the L.A. Philharmonic at Lincoln Center Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:48 PM PDT Los Angeles's darling, conductor Gustavo Dudamel came to New York last week with the Los AngelesPhilharmonic, bringing an ambitious program ranging from Pulitzer-winning composer John Adams to Igor Stravinsky. The Venezuelan musician is currently in his fourth season as music director of the L.A. Phil, and his contract has already been extended until 2019. |
| YouTube To Shut Down, Google Search Goes Nasal (April Fool's!) Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:43 PM PDT It's almost April 1, and you know what that means: Prank products and videos from those cut-ups at Google. |
| VIDEO: 'We are praying for Mandela' Posted: 31 Mar 2013 04:51 AM PDT Churches across South Africa are to hold prayers for Nelson Mandela, who has been in hospital for four days being treated for pneumonia. |
| South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth fighters Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:48 PM PDT SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea will strike back if the North stages any attack on its territory, the new president warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of radar-evading fighters.      |
| South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth fighters Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:38 PM PDT
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| Kevin Ware's 'Gruesome' Injury Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:13 PM PDT If you are college basketball fan, it's likely that by now you have seen the replays of Kevin Ware's "gruesome injury" as he attempted to block a 3- point shot by Tyler Thorton in the Midwest Regional Final as Louisville played Duke. His unfortunate landing and his reported compound tibial fracture, have been captured and described as horrific as well as gruesome--and for good reason. |
| On Take-off Runway With A Chance of Runaway Growth: A Case of Social Products Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:11 PM PDT The expansionary social web consists of a myriad array of digital social products, jostling for fractions of our finite time and attention. In this competitive environment, user preferences shift fast and fads fade even faster. Yesterday was Draw Something. Today's Vine. It is the drive to become The Next Big Thing that is spurring bursts of entrepreneurial endeavors in the marketspace. To build a runway for a successful product take-off, traits like innovation, market intuition, leadership competency, growth strategy, team agility, and funding matter. But for social products, success is largely defined by user growth. Higher growth means higher commercialization potential and higher business valuation. |
| 'Finnegans Wake' Is Greek to Many; Now Imagine It in Chinese Posted: 31 Mar 2013 08:02 PM PDT A Chinese translation of the James Joyce novel, in the works for years, has become a modest but clear hit in China. |
| Famo.us Pushes The Physics Of Searchable HTML5 Into A Whole New Universe Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:03 PM PDT Through the history of digital content there has been a tension between the power of the open web and the desire for creative representation. As the web struggled its way through the rudiments of typography, CD-ROM games like Myst promised more immersive experiences. The introduction of more robust control of styles and JavaScript increased the expressive capabilities of web pages, but designers who needed absolute control of appearance and runtime chose Flash. In the present era of mobile devices the same scenario has been played out between HTML5 and native apps like iOS and Android. |
| 'The Walking Dead' Season 3 Finale Review: 'Welcome To The Tombs' It Gets Worse Here Every Day Posted: 31 Mar 2013 09:01 PM PDT 'The Walking Dead' comes to a surprising conclusion in Sunday night's Season 3 finale. |
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