WASHINGTON — Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet beyond our own in what is sometimes called the Goldilocks zone for life: Not too hot, not too cold. Juuuust right. Not too far from its star, not too close. So it could contain liquid water. The planet itself is neither too [...]
HENDERSON, Nev. – Tony Curtis shaped himself from a 1950s movie heartthrob into a respected actor, showing a determined streak that served him well in such films as “Sweet Smell of Success,” “The Defiant Ones” and “Some Like It Hot.” The Oscar-nominated actor died at age 85 Wednesday evening of cardiac arrest at his home [...]
Alberto Contador, winner of this year’s Tour de France, is the latest in a long line of cyclists to have tested positive for a banned substance. Contador’s press officer stated this morning that the cyclist “had tested positive for clenbuterol during a rest on the Tour in July”, the BBC report. The drug is a [...]
This is a heads up regarding Progressive Auto Insurance. You know who they are. They’re the ones with the clever television ads featuring the perky brunette actress all dressed in white. What you might not know is that the chairman of Progressive is Peter Lewis, one of the largest funders of the left in America [...]
McDonald’s Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul. The move is one of the clearest indications that new rules may disrupt workers’ health plans as the law ripples through the real world. [...]
HISTORIANS may look back on 2010 as the year when time sped up in continental Europe. A region that has been habitually slow to tackle its economic problems and that puts greater emphasis on reaching “consensus” than on reform has packed a decade’s worth of change into a few short months. First Greece, the euro [...]
It’s also not clear how the government will cope with the enforcement burden of regulating the new private sector. The list published Friday even specifies the characters Cubans can depict as street performers. But the logistics might not be as important as the ideology. For more than a year, the Raul Castro government has been [...]
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Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, September 27, 2010; 8:59 PM TEHRAN – Iran suspects that a foreign organization or nation designed “Stuxnet,” a quickly mutating computer worm that has been infiltrating industrial computer systems in the Islamic republic, a high-ranking official said Monday. “We had anticipated that we could root out the virus within one [...]
The opposition Democratic Unity umbrella group claimed it won a majority of the popular vote though only a third of seats. If confirmed, that would be a blow to Mr Chavez. With final results still coming in, however, Mr Chavez, was close to obtaining the three-fifths of seats he needs that would enable him to [...]
Semi-retired dictators, it seems, glide into old age pretty much the same way that other people do. Humbled by their own mortality and freed from the incessant demands of tyranny, they ruminate, and in those ruminations they find wisdom that eluded them in their youth. Or so it seems in the case of Fidel Castro, [...]
At most marine parks in the world the animals provide the entertainment. But at the Havana aquarium last month, Fidel Castro had a couple of humans eating out of his hand and clapping like trained seals. I refer here to the Atlantic Monthly’s Jeffrey Goldberg, who traveled recently to Cuba at Castro’s invitation with his [...]
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelans voted for a new parliament on Sunday, with President Hugo Chavez expected to keep control of the National Assembly in a poll that tests his support ahead of the next presidential election in 2012. Wearing a tracksuit top in the red, yellow and blue of the Venezuelan flag, Chavez arrived to [...]
Marines in helicopters landed in Marjah district, the last big Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, in the first hours of a NATO campaign to impose government control on rebel-held areas before U.S. forces start a planned 2011 drawdown. They fired at least four rockets at militants who attacked from compounds near the bazaar in Marjah [...]
The full ramifications of the Industrial Revolution on this planet may never be known, not because the scope of the those changes can’t be measured but because the same rapid, spastic technological changes that hurled industry forward into a new era did the same for science. As such, pre-industrial science didn’t possess many of the [...]
When Catherine Engelbrecht and her friends sat down and started talking politics several years ago, they soon agreed that talking wasn’t enough. They wanted to do more. So when the 2008 election came around, “about 50” of her friends volunteered to work at Houston’s polling places. “What we saw shocked us,” she said. “There was [...]
The US and other delegations at the 65th UN General Assembly have walked out in protest at the speech by the Iranian president. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said some saw the 11 September attacks on the US as part of a US conspiracy to protect Israel. He was speaking on the first day of the week-long UN [...]
Colombian drug traffickers are using a new secret weapon to smuggle cocaine north: drug submarines. Up to 100 feet long and nearly impossible to detect , they are capable of distributing several tons of coke in just one shipment. Dozens of subs are thought to be in operation between the coasts of Colombia and Mexico, [...]
Wall Street scuffled Thursday as investors remain uncertain about the path of the U.S. economy amid mixed readings on jobs and housing. The Labor Department’s weekly tally of initial jobless claims jumped back up to 465,000 after recent string of declines. While the increase was something of a surprise, the figure was in line with [...]
Abbott is initiating a proactive, voluntary recall of certain Similac-brand, powder infant formulas in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and some countries in the Caribbean. Abbott is recalling these products following an internal quality review, which detected the remote possibility of the presence of a small common beetle in the product produced in one production [...]