At a party the other night, a fund-raiser for a literary magazine, I found myself in conversation with a well-known author whose work I greatly admire. I use the term “conversation” loosely. I couldn’t hear a word he said. But worse, the effort I was making to hear was using up so much brain power that I completely forgot the titles of his books.A senior moment? Maybe. (I’m 65.) But for me, it’s complicated...
WellPoint Hires Joseph Swedish of Trinity Health as C.E.O.
Label: BusinessWellPoint, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, announced on Tuesday that it had chosen an experienced hospital executive to lead it through sweeping changes created by the federal health care overhaul law. Joseph R. Swedish, the 61-year-old chief executive of a major nonprofit Catholic-owned health system, Trinity Health, will become WellPoint’s chief executive on March 25. He will...
Feb
11
Dorner could face death penalty as criminal charges filed
Label: World As a massive manhunt for Christopher Jordan Dorner continued Monday afternoon, prosecutors with the Riverside County district...
Why Thousands of Spiders Are Crawling in the Skies Over Brazil
Label: Technology Last week, spiders descended in droves upon a town in southern Brazil — literally.When 20-year-old web designer Erick Reis left a friend’s house on Sunday, he saw what looked like thousands of spiders overhead, reported G1, a Brazilian news site, on Feb. 8. The large, sturdy spiders were hanging from power lines and poles, and crawling around on a vast network of silk strands spun over...
Health Testing on Mice Is Found Misleading in Some Cases
Label: HealthEvan McGlinn for The New York TimesDr. H. Shaw Warren is one of the authors of a new study that questions the use of laboratory mice as models for all human diseases. For decades, mice have been the species of choice in the study of human diseases. But now, researchers report evidence that the mouse model has been totally misleading for at least three major killers — sepsis, burns and trauma. As a...
Media Decoder: A CBS Deal Bolsters Amazon's Challenge to Netflix
Label: BusinessSlowly but confidently, Amazon is building a library of television shows and movies to rival that of Netflix, much to the satisfaction of media companies like Time Warner and CBS, whose executives love to see the competition.Although Amazon will not unveil its own original television shows until the fall at the earliest, it is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to have the exclusive Web rights...
Feb
10
Ambitious makeover planned for old housing project
Label: World Denise Penegar puts a little extra effort into the teenage girls, the ones who've dropped out of high school to care for their...
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Wings of the Seagull Nebula
Label: TechnologyThis image shows the intricate structure of part of the Seagull Nebula, known more formally as IC 2177. These wisps of gas and dust are known as Sharpless 2-296 (officially Sh 2-296) and form part of the “wings” of the celestial bird. This region of the sky is a fascinating muddle of intriguing astronomical objects — a mix of dark and glowing red clouds, weaving amongst bright stars. This new view...
For Families Struggling with Mental Illness, Carolyn Wolf Is a Guide in the Darkness
Label: HealthWhen a life starts to unravel, where do you turn for help? Melissa Klump began to slip in the eighth grade. She couldn’t focus in class, and in a moment of despair she swallowed 60 ibuprofen tablets. She was smart, pretty and ill: depression, attention deficit disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, either bipolar disorder or borderline personality disorder. In her 20s, after a more...
Advertising: Self Magazine Widens Its Focus for a Younger Audience
Label: BusinessWHAT’S the point of having Michelle Obama’s triceps if you can’t show them off in a smart sleeveless sheath? That seems to be the thinking behind a remake of Self magazine, the Condé Nast publication best known for teaching women how to crunch their abs, tone their thighs and eat the right foods. Self is broadening its tight focus on exercise and wellness to become a more general lifestyle...
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