NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks barely budged on Monday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq trimming early gains as disappointing U.S. factory numbers dented optimism spurred by positive data on China's economy. Output by China's factories grew in November for the first time in more than a year, data showed. But that encouraging signal about the health of the world's second-largest economy was...
Dec
02
Taliban Bombers Attack Air Base in Afghanistan
Label: WorldKABUL, Afghanistan — KABUL, Afghanistan — Early Sunday morning, Taliban forces attacked a large coalition airfield in eastern Afghanistan early Sunday morning, detonating threecar bombs near the entrance of the base before sparking a two-hour gun battle that claimed the lives of nine insurgents, three Afghan security guards and at least four civilians whose vehicle was caught in the cross-fire, Afghan...
Larry Hagman, Boy Meets World Re-Boot Get Top Reactions This Week
Label: Lifestyle 12/02/2012 at 12:25 PM EST Danielle Fishel and Ben Savage; Larry Hagman Everett, Hulton Archive/Getty It was a post-Thanksgiving week of delightful highs and solemn lows. From the passing of favorite actors to confusion over the recent Two and a Half Men drama,...
Asperger's dropped from revised diagnosis manual
Label: HealthCHICAGO (AP) — The now familiar term "Asperger's disorder" is being dropped. And abnormally bad and frequent temper tantrums will be given a scientific-sounding diagnosis called DMDD. But "dyslexia" and other learning disorders remain.The revisions come in the first major rewrite in nearly 20 years of the diagnostic guide used by the nation's psychiatrists. Changes were approved Saturday.Full details...
Cliff fight may knock out December rally
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - In normal times, next week's slew of U.S. economic data could be a springboard for a December rally in the stock market. December is historically a strong month for markets. The S&P 500 has risen 16 times in the past 20 years during the month. But the market hasn't been operating under normal circumstances since November 7 when a day after the U.S....
Dec
01
Economic Frustration Simmers Again in Tunisia
Label: WorldMoises Saman for The New York TimesPeople in Tunis and across the country are struggling with high unemployment and inflation. TUNIS — Tahar Bayahi, who runs Tunisia’s largest grocery store chain, spent the days right after the revolution toting up his losses: one-quarter of his 60 stores nationwide incinerated and another quarter pillaged. Yet his company, Magasins Général, turned right...
The Kids Are All Right: How Social Media Created a Generation of Activists
Label: TechnologyThis week marked the nation’s inaugural “Giving Tuesday,” a UN sponsored initiative, which utilized social media to encourage businesses, schools, and community members to give back. The effort resulted in $ 10 million worth of donations made in a single day, a 53 percent increase over the same day last year.Conceived as a means to promote activism and charity, the campaign’s use of social media...
Harvey Weinstein & Georgina Chapman Expecting Baby
Label: Lifestyle Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 12/01/2012 at 12:00 PM ET Dave M. Benett/FFR/GettyThere’s another baby on the way for Georgina Chapman and Harvey Weinstein.“We are both over the moon,” the Marchesa co-founder, 36, tells the New York Post.The couple are already parents to daughter India Pearl, 2. The...
South Africa makes progress in HIV, AIDS fight
Label: HealthJOHANNESBURG (AP) — In the early '90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died.Two decades later the clinic is the biggest anti-retroviral, or ARV, treatment center in the country and sees between 600 to 800 patients a day from all over southern Africa....
Cliff fight may knock out December rally
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - In normal times, next week's slew of U.S. economic data could be a springboard for a December rally in the stock market. December is historically a strong month for markets. The S&P 500 has risen 16 times in the past 20 years during the month. But the market hasn't been operating under normal circumstances since November 7 when a day after the U.S....
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