February 2012
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“Another loophole in Apple’s iPhone and iPad programming allows apps to...”
– Apps stealing photos without permission from Apple devices - OrlandoSentinel.com
“Mitt Romney needs to be left alone to limp across the finish line, so he can...”
– G.O.P. Greek Tragedy - NYTimes.com
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Salma Hayek tapping into her Lebanese roots to...
univisionnews:
Salma Hayek is adapting Khalil Gibran’s 89-year-old book The Prophet, widely considered a masterpiece. She shares the author’s Lebanese heritage. (Photo: Amazon.com)
By AMARIS CASTILLO Channel: Entertainment
You may have seen those new Got Milk? ads featuring Salma Hayek, but if there’s one thing the Mexican powerhouse knows how to do...
Cause and Effect: Interpol arrests 25 alleged... →
MAKERS: Women Who Make America →
joshsternberg:
Yesterday, I got to attend a neat little event at AOL HQ where the company, partnering with PBS, launched a documentary series about inspirational, influential and groundbreaking women of the past half century.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer did something quite remarkable. She became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, even dodging the attempt of a race organizer to stop...
“Recently retired Miami Dolphins linebacker Jason Taylor is giving back to the...”
– TheGrio’s 100: Jason Taylor, NFL player gives back to underserved youth in South Florida
“Fifty-nine percent of execs believe businesses that do not routinely leverage...”
– Execs: Embrace Social Media or Wither | ClickZ
“With its own fortunes sinking, Yahoo is angling for a windfall from rising...”
– Yahoo seeking patent windfall from Facebook - Yahoo! News
“Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes urged media industry executives...”
– Time Warner’s Bewkes talks up TV for tablets - The Tell - MarketWatch
“News Corp. (NWSA), facing inquiries by authorities over hacking and bribery at...”
– News Corp. Executives Weighed Spinoff of Newspaper Publishing, Carey Says - Bloomberg
The Collapse of Print Advertising in 1 Graph →
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“It is shocking that in 2012, Brown and his Republican colleagues would try to...”
– In the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren rightly notes that Scott Brown (R-MA) and his GOP colleagues are not men who trust women. (via unquietmindofamy)
“As thousands of teachers face layoffs across the country, teachers in Buffalo,...”
– Buffalo, NY teachers get free plastic surgery | todaysthv.com
Rick Santorum and prenatal testing: I would have... →
“Fifty-three separate programs run by four federal agencies provide economic...”
– From a GAO report showing that overlap in many areas of government is causing tens of billions of dollars in waste annually. Read more at The Washington Post. (via govtoversight)
“Officials have ruled the death of a 10-year-old girl who got into a fight last...”
– Death of 10-year-old involved in school fight declared a homicide - CNN.com
Chicago fugitive is captured in California after... →
Earth-Size Tornadoes On The Sun | Open Culture →
What a sight to behold. Earlier this month, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) beamed back stunning images of the sun’s plasma moving violently around the star’s magnetic field for 30 some hours, creating a tornado as large as the Earth itself, with gusts reaching up to 300,000 miles per hour.
“Mr. Perry invoked the provision last year, disclosing in December that he had...”
– Perry’s On-the-Job Retirement Lifts Pension Perk From Shadows - NYTimes.com
I know I posted about this story yesterday (at least I think I did) but it is so insane that it needs to be quoted more than once.
“But Bogan’s bank and many other community banks eventually held the line...”
– Customer exodus from big banks: J.D. Power survey outlines customer exodus from big banks - OrlandoSentinel.com
“Doctors are calling for a rethink of the use of sleeping pills after a large...”
– Sleeping pills increase risk of death, study suggests | Science | The Guardian
“The rich really are different from the rest of us, scientists have found — they...”
– Wealthy, motivated by greed, are more likely to cheat, study finds - OrlandoSentinel.com
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