The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be surprising is that more leaders his age do not, considering the toll aging takes on bodies and minds amid a culture of constant communication and change.There may be more behind the story of why Pope Benedict XVI decided to leave a job normally held for...
Metrolink executive quits after report cites accounting problems
Label: Business A high-ranking Metrolink executive resigned over the weekend following a scathing report that revealed accounting irregularities,...
Feb
11
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: Feb. 11
Label: WorldNEWS For months, Damascus has hunched in a defensive crouch as fighting raged in suburbs, but a rebel advance has created a new level of alarm and disorder. An employee of the New York Times reports from Damascus and Anne Barnard reports from Beirut.President Obama will use his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to reinvigorate one of his signature national security objectives — drastically reducing...
How'd They Make Carrie Underwood's Glowing Gown?
Label: Lifestyle Stylewatch Style News Now 02/11/2013 at 12:25 AM ET Kevork Djansezian/Getty; John Shearer/Invision/AP (2) We can’t say we were surprised to see that Carrie Underwood had ditched her form-fitting Roberto Cavalli number for a princess-y...
What heals traumatized kids? Answers are lacking
Label: HealthCHICAGO (AP) — Shootings and other traumatic events involving children are not rare events, but there's a startling lack of scientific evidence on the best ways to help young survivors and witnesses heal, a government-funded analysis found.School-based counseling treatments showed the most promise, but there's no hard proof that anxiety drugs or other medication work and far more research is needed...
Dorner's LAPD firing case hinged on credibility
Label: Business For a Los Angeles Police Department disciplinary panel, the evidence was persuasive: Rookie officer Christopher Jordan Dorner...
Feb
10
IHT Rendezvous: Sharper Tongues in China's Year of the Snake?
Label: WorldBEIJING — The Snake is determined and smart, according to traditional Chinese beliefs. Today is New Year’s Day in China, the first day in the Year of the Snake, and a good day to ask: Will Xi Jinping, a “snake” set to become president in March (Mr. Xi was born in a Year of the Snake, in 1953) bring change to China?Whether or not one believes in feng shui – the thought system based on geomancy, astronomy...
Tiger Woods & Lindsey Vonn Are 'Spending More Time' Together: Source
Label: Lifestyle Buzz By Steve Helling 02/09/2013 at 06:00 PM EST Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn Mick Tsikas/Reuters/Landov; Luis Guerra/Ramey It was quite the gesture. After Lindsey Vonn suffered a devastating injury during the Alpine World Championships in Austria, she got a bit...
After early start, worst of flu season may be over
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — The worst of the flu season appears to be over.The number of states reporting intense or widespread illnesses dropped again last week, and in a few states there was very little flu going around, U.S. health officials said Friday.The season started earlier than normal, first in the Southeast and then spreading. But now, by some measures, flu activity has been ebbing for at least four...
Cardinal Mahony used cemetery money to pay sex abuse settlement
Label: Business Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned...
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