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Featuring keynote speaker and 2011 Humanities Medal recipient Roberto González Echevarría, joined by a host of baseball historians and players, including never-before-seen historical archives, films, the Dodgers in 1950’s Havana, Cuban legends of the Negro Leagues, Cuban women in baseball, Habana vs. Almendares archrival mania, all-time records update, the story behind Esteban Bellán, Fordham alumnus [...]
August 16th, 2011 | Posted in Cuba Related,Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
I’ve been covering video conferencing (now often called “telepresence”) products since the late 80s and saw my first offering in the mid-60s as a child at Disneyland. Over the years, product wave after product wave has come to market with the promise of the next big thing in telecommunications only to fail to meet even [...]
August 15th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
Nato’s war in Libya has so far been one of false starts and missed deadlines. But with rebels now inside the key city of Zawiya, potentially isolating Gaddafi’s regime in Tripoli, the conflict has entered its decisive phase – and not before time. The campaign of air strikes to stop Col Muammar Gaddafi killing his [...]
August 15th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
Tampa teenager Melissa González wanted to visit her ailing grandfather in Cuba. But her travel agency told her that the Cuban government had turned down her request for an entry permit, without explaination. No doubt, said her father, Jorge Luis Gonzalez Tanquero, she was turned down because he is a former political prisoner who spent [...]
August 15th, 2011 | Posted in Cuba Related,Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
Wealthy Mexican families are flying rather than driving to Texas in order to bypass one of their country’s deadliest states as the drug violence rises along the border. Less than two years ago, trips from the industrial hub of Monterrey to visit family or shop here were so common that they had their own Spanish [...]
August 14th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
The class-action suit, filed in the US District Court here, claims HarperCollins, Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster had worked with Apple to break Internet retailer Amazon.coms discount pricing strategy and help Apples iPad compete with the Kindle marketed by Amazon. According to the suit, the publishers believed that Amazons popular Kindle e-reader device [...]
August 14th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider,Technology | Read More »
(Reuters) – As many as six suicide bombers and insurgent gunmen attacked the compound of a provincial governor in central Afghanistan on Sunday, the governor and a Reuters witness said, with bursts of gunfire heard soon after the attack began. The Reuters witness also reported hearing at least two large blasts during the attack on [...]
August 14th, 2011 | Posted in Current News | Read More »
It may have been England that was shaken by violence, looting and disorder. But many of the terms used by its perpetrators came from a very different place altogether – and, due to coverage of the rioting, they have found a wider audience than ever before. “If you see a fed… SHOOT!” read one message [...]
August 12th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
Liane and Tom Young became interested in Cuba while listening to the Buena Vista Social Club, the best-selling Cuban album in history, and through the allure of the island’s famed cigars. When the first Americans to participate in people-to-people exchanges with Cuba in 7½ years leave Miami on a Marazul charter Thursday afternoon, the central [...]
August 12th, 2011 | Posted in Cuba Related,Current News | Read More »
LONDON – Thousands more police officers flooded London streets Tuesday in a bid to end Britain’s worst rioting in a generation as nervous shopkeepers closed early and some residents stood guard to protect their neighborhoods. An eerie calm prevailed in the city, but unrest spread across central and northern England on a fourth night of [...]
August 10th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
By Marc Frank HAVANA, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Cuba arrested senior executives at state-run telephone company ETECSA in an anti-corruption sweep at one of the communist-run country’s top businesses, according to sources with knowledge of the scandal. Several executives at Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA were arrested in July while the company’s president Maimir [...]
August 10th, 2011 | Posted in Cuba Related,Current News | Read More »
There’s just no getting ahead when you’re a hobbit. Anthropologists are arguing yet again over whether a tiny 18,000-year-old Indonesian skull represents a separate species of little human cousins, or an ordinary Homo sapiens with an abnormally small head. New data compare the fossil to a large group of modern humans with microcephaly, a genetic [...]
August 9th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider,Science News | Read More »
Perhaps unsurprisingly, after the Fed painted such a gloomy growth picture and said that the federal funds rate will be kept where it is for two years, bond yields are falling. Yields on 10-year United States Treasury bonds are down to 2.2 percent (from 3.2 percent at the start of July) . And two-year yields, [...]
August 9th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
LAS VEGAS — A hacker group on Saturday claimed it has “defaced and destroyed” websites at scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrest of suspected peers accused of hacking into the CIA, British crime agency SOCA, and Sony. The group called AntiSec — in reference to “anti-security” — said in an online [...]
August 8th, 2011 | Posted in Current News | Read More »
One of the first travel companies to jump into the Cuba trips allowed by a new Obama administration policy has suspended the tours amid questions that trouble both opponents and supporters of increased travel to the island. The luxury travel firm Abercrombie & Kent advertised its tours for non-Cuban Americans, which included salsa dancing and [...]
August 7th, 2011 | Posted in Cuba Related,Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
A Purdue University scientist is urging federal officials to decide whether genetically engineered salmon would be allowed for U.S. consumption and arguing that not doing so may set back scientific efforts to increase food production. William Muir, a professor of animal sciences, said that based on data made available by the U.S. Food and Drug [...]
August 7th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider,Science News | Read More »
The United States has lost its sterling credit rating. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday lowered the nation’s AAA rating for the first time since granting it in 1917. The move came less than a week after a gridlocked Congress finally agreed to spending cuts that would reduce the debt by more than [...]
August 6th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider | Read More »
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The job market strengthened in July, a welcome piece of good news that sharply contrasted other recent data pointing toward an economic slowdown. Employers added 117,000 jobs last month, easily topping the 75,000 gain economists surveyed by CNNMoney had predicted. And the unemployment rate improved slightly to 9.1%. After a shockingly [...]
August 5th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Economy,Post To Slider | Read More »
I was not so informed of all the terms that were being used as analytical tools during the latest congressional fiasco which was finally sorted it out on the next-to-last day before the government of the United States defaulted. I was following the new developments closely but was not schooled on all the terminology that [...]
August 4th, 2011 | Posted in Current News,OP/ED Articles,Post To Slider | Read More »
Elk Creek, Neb. (population 112), may not be so tiny much longer. Reports suggest that the southeastern Nebraska hamlet may be sitting on the world’s largest untapped deposit of “rare earth” minerals, which have proved to be indispensable to a slew of high-tech and military applications such as laser pointers, stadium lighting, electric car batteries [...]
August 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Current News,Post To Slider,Science News | Read More »