MADRID/CARACAS (Reuters) – Spain‘s influential El Pais newspaper apologized on Thursday for splashing a “false photo” of Venezuela‘s cancer-stricken leader Hugo Chavez on its front page, prompting a furious response from the government in Caracas, which vowed to take legal action.Within minutes of posting the image online as a global exclusive, El Pais said it had discovered from social media that...
Lindsey Vonn & Tiger Woods: Are They Dating?
Label: Lifestyle By Elizabeth Leonard and Dahvi Shira 01/25/2013 at 07:05 PM EST Lindsey Vonn and Tiger Woods Kevin Mazur/Wireimage; Stanley Chou/Getty Has Tiger Woods struck gold in his love life with Olympian Lindsey Vonn?They have the Internet buzzing with dating rumors, following...
CDC: Flu seems to level off except in the West
Label: HealthNew government figures show that flu cases seem to be leveling off nationwide. Flu activity is declining in most regions although still rising in the West.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitalizations and deaths spiked again last week, especially among the elderly. The CDC says quick treatment with antiviral medicines is important, in particular for the very...
St. John's in court fight over failed nurse recruitment effort
Label: Business Short of hospital nurses in recent years, St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica hired a recruiter in England and flew one...
Jan
24
India Ink: In India, a Rise of Private Universities and Liberal Arts Programs
Label: WorldHigher EducationThe Choice on India InkGuidance on American college applications for readers in India from The Times’s admissions blog.If you are a student who is interested in taking a variety of university courses and having time to narrow your career options, then a liberal arts education may be an ideal fit for you.A number of new private universities with liberal arts programs have sprung up...
Nintendo Reaches into Wii U Grab Bag, Pulls Out Some Vague, Some Fascinating Promises
Label: TechnologyIt’s been a ho-hum 2013 for Nintendo’s Wii U so far: some carry-over posturing about scads of “launch window” titles, but less than a handful of games with bankable release dates. When I checked the hopper for January, February and March, I counted four, maybe five Wii U titles with firm dates, all of them least a month or two off.That’s not how you move systems, and Nintendo ran damage control Wednesday...
Baby Born with Heart Outside Her Chest Goes Home from Hospital
Label: Lifestyle By Dahvi Shira 01/24/2013 at 06:40 PM EST Ashley and Audrina Cardenas Three-month-old Audrina Cardenas is a survivor.The infant, delivered on Oct. 15 with a rare genetic deformity called "ectopia cordis," was born with part of her heart outside of her body. Following...
Penalty could keep smokers out of health overhaul
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama's health care law, according to experts who are just now teasing out the potential impact of a little-noted provision in the massive legislation.The Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare" to its detractors — allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies...
For old-time vaudevillian, the show indeed goes on
Label: Business Carleton Ralston of Eagle Rock is a man of letters. Not a famous man of letters. Rather, a man of many letters.Since 1990, the...
Jan
23
IHT Special: Syrians Struggle in an Uneasy Lebanon
Label: WorldSam TarlingA Syrian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. AL-MINYA, LEBANON — For Mohammed al-Ahmad and his wife Zuhour, this is the second cold, wet winter of the war. They passed the first in the Bab Amr district of Homs, a onetime rebel stronghold that was taken back by government forces last February, after a long and unrelenting siege. Much of the neighborhood was destroyed. They have no...
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