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Gritty movie Precious has swept the board at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual Image Awards in Los Angeles. The film tells the story of the abused, illiterate Harlem teenager Precious, who is expecting her second child. It won six awards including best movie, best independent movie and best actress for […]
The University of California San Diego has suspended a student who admitted to hanging a noose in a campus library, school officials announced Friday. “We are feeling real pain, and we will take real action,” said UCSD chancellor Marye Anne Fox told reporters. “The safety of our students, faculty, and staff is my primary […]
Americans are loaded up with credit card debt. What’s worse is that some husbands, wives and even children hide those money woes from their families. The results are often devastating. Hidden debt is a common and insidious problem. “It’s a form of cheating so subtle you don’t even know you’re doing it,” said Bonnie Eaker […]
Warren Buffett has an elegant solution for the thorny problem of too-big-to-fail banks: Put the bankers’ bank accounts on the line. Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lashed out at the damage wrought by overpaid, unaccountable finance-industry bigwigs in his annual letter to Berkshire shareholders, released Saturday. Buffett has been criticizing overreaching corporate […]
A massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, producing powerful aftershocks and triggering a tsunami. The epicenter of the earthquake was located off the coast in Maule, near the city of Concepcion, 212 miles (341 kilometers) from the capital of Santiago. The quake struck at 3:34 a.m. (1:34 a.m. ET). At least 47 people […]
PepsiCo’s Gatorade said Friday that it has ended its business relationship with Tiger Woods Full Story CNNMoney.Com
In a discussion of the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, apparently speaking on Rep. Peter DeFazio’s (D.-OR) time, Weiner laughs and says, “You know, you gotta love these Republicans. You guys have chutzpah.” Then Weiner yells that the Republican Party “are a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.” Some discussion is heard offscreen, […]
A 22-year-old graffiti tagger picked the wrong place Friday to leave his mark: a glass door at an aquatic center in Commerce that separated him from 100 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies discussing having enough backup when chasing suspects, authorities said. Joshua Vasquez looked shocked as a throng of deputies began running toward him, said […]
A chemistry professor at Harvard University is trying to shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that’s the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny. George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper “chip” technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, […]
A killer whale killed a trainer Wednesday afternoon at SeaWorld’s Shamu Stadium in Orlando, Florida, a spokesman for the Orange County Fire Department said. The woman, 40, was in the whale holding area about 2 p.m. when “she apparently slipped or fell into the tank and was fatally injured by one of the whales,” the […]
Ohioans will pick from a list of 10 finalists revealed Tuesday to represent the state in a collection of historic statues at the U.S. Capitol. The short list includes Olympic athlete Jesse Owens, Thomas Edison, one of history’s most influential inventors, and author Harriet Beecher Stowe. A state committee, guided by the public’s input, will […]
Hundreds of parents met in South Hadley MA on Tuesday night as an anti-bullying task force mobilized weeks after a case of bullying so extreme it drove a 15-year-old girl to end her life. Phoebe Prince, a freshman at South Hadley High School, died Jan. 14., and two students accused of bullying the 15-year-old have […]