Muhammad Najdet Qadour/Shaam News Network, via ReutersBuildings said to have been damaged by a Syrian Air Force fighter jet in Binsh, Syria, near Idlib, on Wednesday. GENEVA — More than 60,000 people have died in Syria’s 22-month-old civil war, the United Nations’ human rights chief, Navi Pillay, said on Wednesday, expressing dismay at the findings of an analysis that far exceeds previous estimates...
How to Sync All Your Calendars Onto One Smartphone
Labels: TechnologyIt’s a simple request: I just want my online calendars to sync with my smartphone… is that too much to ask? It took some initial research and finesse, but I’ve discovered the best ways to get your Yahoo and Google calendars to appear on either an Android or Apple IOS mobile device.Google Calendar on Android PhoneWhen you first set up your Android phone, you had to create or enter your Google account...
Paparazzo killed after taking shots of Bieber car
Labels: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — A paparazzo was struck and killed by a car while darting across a street after taking pictures of Justin Bieber's Ferrari when it was pulled over along a freeway in Los Angeles, police said Wednesday.Bieber was not in the car at the time. The singer later said his prayers were with the family of the 29-year-old photographer who was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after the...
Well: Good and Bad, the Little Things Add Up in Fitness
Labels: HealthPhys EdGretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness.The past year in fitness has been alternately inspiring, vexing and diverting, as my revisiting of all of the Phys Ed columns published in 2012 makes clear. Taken as a whole, the latest exercise-related science tells us that the right types and amounts of exercise will almost certainly lengthen your life, strengthen your brain, affect your waistline...
Case Study: A Start-Up’s Dilemma: A Lack of Capital, or Lack of Control
Labels: BusinessEatwhatever is a two-step, breath-freshening product created four years ago by a then-26-year-old Australian expatriate named Jacqui Rosshandler. Starting with $60,000 in capital, contracting out production and working solo from her New York apartment, Ms. Rosshandler and her company, Jacquii L.L.C., managed to grab a promising but tenuous toehold in the billion-dollar breath-freshening industry....
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House Takes On Fiscal Cliff
Labels: WorldJoshua Roberts/ReutersRepresentative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, arrived on Capitol Hill to meet with House Democrats and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Tuesday. WASHINGTON — As the new year began on Tuesday, Congressional efforts to head off tax increases on most working Americans shifted to the House, where members began to pore over details of a plan passed by the Senate in the early...
No surprise: YouTube, Angry Birds, Instagram and Facebook among 2012′s top apps
Labels: TechnologyTitle Post: No surprise: YouTube, Angry Birds, Instagram and Facebook among 2012′s top appsRating: 100%based on 99998 ratings.5 user reviews.Author: Fluser SeoLinkThanks for visiting the blog, If any criticism and suggestions please leave a comm...
Playboy Hugh Hefner marries his 'runaway bride'
Labels: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Hugh Hefner is celebrating the new year as a married man once again.The 86-year-old Playboy magazine founder exchanged vows with his "runaway bride," Crystal Harris, at a private Playboy Mansion ceremony on New Year's Eve. Harris, a 26-year-old "Playmate of the Month" in 2009, broke off a previous engagement to Hefner just before they were to be married in 2011.Playboy said on Tuesday...
Hispanic Pregnancies Fall in U.S. as Women Choose Smaller Families
Labels: HealthORLANDO, Fla. — Hispanic women in the United States, who have generally had the highest fertility rates in the country, are choosing to have fewer children. Both immigrant and native-born Latinas had steeper birthrate declines from 2007 to 2010 than other groups, including non-Hispanic whites, blacks and Asians, a drop some demographers and sociologists attribute to changes in the views of many Hispanic...
DealBook: Major Investigations Could Bring Penalties in 2013
Labels: BusinessIt is not really of question of whether there will be a major white-collar crime that captures the public’s attention in 2013; it’s a question of when and how costly it will be.If the cases of 2012 can serve as a guide, too many loopholes in the system allow fraud to go undetected.Take for instance the onetime futures trading firm PFGBest, whose founder confessed to having committed fraud for years...
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