DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian government forces for the first time hit the country’s largest Palestinian refugee neighborhood with airstrikes on Sunday, killing at least eight people in the Yarmouk district of Damascus and reportedly driving dozens of formerly pro-government Palestinian fighters to defect to the rebels. New signs emerged on Sunday of political pressure on President Bashar al-Assad....
Texans clinch AFC South with 29-17 win over Colts
Label: LifestyleHOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans have a message for the Indianapolis Colts:Now we own the AFC South.The Texans are division champions for the second straight year after beating the Colts 29-17 Sunday. Andre Johnson gained 151 yards receiving and a touchdown, Bryan Braman scored a special teams score on a blocked punt, and Shayne Graham kicked five field goals.The Texans (12-2) grabbed their first...
Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Cochlear Implant, Dies
Label: HealthDr. William F. House, a medical researcher who braved skepticism to invent the cochlear implant, an electronic device considered to be the first to restore a human sense, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Aurora, Ore. He was 89. The cause was metastatic melanoma, his daughter, Karen House, said. Dr. House pushed against conventional thinking throughout his career. Over the objections of...
Looking Ahead: Economic Reports for the Week of Dec. 17
Label: BusinessECONOMIC REPORTS Data to be released this week includes the current account deficit for the third quarter (Tuesday); housing starts for November (Wednesday); weekly jobless claims, final third-quarter G.D.P., existing home sales for November, the Philadelphia Fed index, and leading economic indicators for November (Thursday); and personal income and spending for November and the Thomson Reuters/University...
Dec
15
Google+ app for Android updated with new photo-sharing features, emoticons, GIFs and more
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With E.C.B. in Spotlight, Bundesbank Finds Itself in the Shadows
Label: WorldMustafah Abdulaziz for The New York TimesThe Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, built in 1967 in Frankfurt. FRANKFURT — The exposed-concrete slab of the Bundesbank headquarters stands like a bulwark outside the downtown financial district here, a stolid, Brutalist structure that in its sheer mass evokes not just the German central bank’s stubborn resistance to change but, above all, its obsessive...
7 leaving Big East to build basketball conference
Label: LifestyleThe seven Big East schools that don't play FBS football are leaving behind the conference many of them founded to build a league focused on basketball.The presidents of the seven schools made the announcement Saturday."Earlier today we voted unanimously to pursue an orderly evolution to a foundation of basketball schools that honors the history and tradition on which the Big East was established,"...
School Yoga Class Draws Religious Protest From Christians
Label: HealthT. Lynne Pixley for The New York TimesMiriam Ruiz during a yoga class last week at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School in Encinitas, Calif. A few dozen parents are protesting that the program amounts to religious indoctrination. More Photos »ENCINITAS, Calif. — By 9:30 a.m. at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School, tiny feet were shifting from downward dog pose to chair pose to warrior pose in surprisingly...
With E.C.B. in Spotlight, Bundesbank Finds Itself in the Shadows
Label: BusinessMustafah Abdulaziz for The New York TimesThe Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, built in 1967 in Frankfurt. FRANKFURT — The exposed-concrete slab of the Bundesbank headquarters stands like a bulwark outside the downtown financial district here, a stolid, Brutalist structure that in its sheer mass evokes not just the German central bank’s stubborn resistance to change but, above all, its obsessive...
Dec
14
Sony’s PlayStation 4 could lose to the next Xbox before it’s even released
Label: TechnologyI love all game consoles equally. My Xbox 360 is used equally as much as my PlayStation 3. The Wii — oh, I’ll just leave it at that. The current generation of consoles is all but over — 10-year life cycle be damned — and new consoles are rumored to be coming next fall. If not next fall, then in 2014. Whatever is the case, Sony (SNE) can’t afford to lag in third place again. Sure, the Xbox...
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