Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 01/22/2013 at 09:00 AM ET FameFlynet She triumphed with her fancy footwork on the dance floor, but Melissa Rycroft may have finally met her match.Although completely head over heels in love with daughter Ava Grace, 2 next month, the first-time mom admits her little...
Foes of NYC soda size limit doubt racial fairness
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Opponents of the city's limit on the size of sugary drinks are raising questions of racial fairness alongside other complaints as the novel restriction faces a court test.The NAACP's New York state branch and the Hispanic Federation have joined beverage makers and sellers in trying to stop the rule from taking effect March 12. With a hearing set Wednesday, critics are attacking what...
Stock futures flat, but techs rally in premarket
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures were flat on Wednesday, with investors reluctant to make big bets following a five-day rally that took major averages to levels not seen since December 2007. Tech shares will be in focus with earnings due from tech heavyweight Apple and following strong results from both IBM and Google, which rallied in premarket trading and continued the string...
Jan
22
IHT Rendezvous: Oscar Anticipation in the Subtitle Category
Label: WorldPARIS—With the multiple nominations for “Lincoln,” “Django Unchained” and “Zero Dark Thirty,” Europeans may see this year’s Academy Award field as something of a celebration of American history, in the age of Obama.Still, “Amour,” Michael Haneke’s Austrian film shot in France and in French, made it into the best picture category, confirmation that the Academy thinks subtitled films can hold their...
I Might Be Too Old for Facebook Graph Search
Label: TechnologyOn Sunday, I turned 30.That’s not too old, I tell myself, yet the signs of aging are creeping in. Teenagers listen to music that I either haven’t heard of or believe to be mostly terrible. They use slang I don’t recognize, and I imagine my slang would sound to them like “groovy” or “far out” sound to me.But for the purposes of our tech blog, the most notable sign is how much more active teens...
The Biggest Loser's Alison Sweeney Blogs: The Entire Family Needs Fight Childhood Obesity Together
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch By Alison Sweeney 01/22/2013 at 08:30 AM EST Alison Sweeney hosts NBC's The Biggest Loser and is the award-winning star of Days of Our Lives, in addition to being an author, director, producer, wife and mom. Like she has for the past two seasons, Alison will blog each week about the latest episode of...
Flu season fuels debate over paid sick time laws
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Sniffling, groggy and afraid she had caught the flu, Diana Zavala dragged herself in to work anyway for a day she felt she couldn't afford to miss.A school speech therapist who works as an independent contractor, she doesn't have paid sick days. So the mother of two reported to work and hoped for the best — and was aching, shivering and coughing by the end of the day. She stayed home...
Stock futures flat at five-year highs, investors await earnings
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures were flat on Tuesday as investors held back from making large bets ahead of an onslaught of corporate earnings and after recently notching five-year highs. Both the Dow and S&P 500 closed at their highest levels the earnings season. U.S. markets were closed on Monday for a public holiday. Despite stronger-than-expected earnings...
Jan
21
IHT Rendezvous: Obama's Second Term: Not Necessarily Cursed
Label: WorldWASHINGTON — Second-term U.S. presidents encounter political turbulence, their poll ratings plummet as the public sours. Right? Wrong.In my latest Letter from Washington, I lay out who in Washington believes Barack Obama has a chance of actually accomplishing something in his second term and who doesn’t — and why.(Technically, Mr. Obama has already begun his second term. He was sworn in on January...
Why Google Isn’t Scared of Facebook’s Graph Search
Label: TechnologyFacebook may have just released a major search product that many are saying “declares war” on Google or may at least put the social network “on a collision course” with the search giant, but Google CEO Larry Page doesn’t sound all that worried about the new competition. Because who said Facebook and Google couldn’t get along someday? In an interview for the new issue of Wired published...
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