CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court convicted in absentia Wednesday seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor, sentencing them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world.The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United States, are all outside Egypt and are thus unlikely to ever...
Well: Ignoring the Science on Mammograms
Label: HealthLast week The New England Journal of Medicine published a study with the potential to change both medical practice and public consciousness about mammograms.Published on Thanksgiving Day, the research examined more than 30 years of United States health statistics to determine, through observation, if screening mammography has reduced breast cancer deaths. The researchers found that, as expected, the...
Embattled hedge fund tells investors of looming SEC action
Label: Business Steve Cohen is founder and head of the hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors. (Ronda...
Nov
27
Yasser Arafat's grave dug up in poisoning probe
Label: World RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Forensic experts from Switzerland, France and Russia on Tuesday took 20 samples each from the remains...
'Two and a Half Men' actor not expected on set
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The teenage actor who stars in "Two and a Half Men" and called the CBS comedy "filth" may have some time before he faces the show's producers.Angus T. Jones wasn't expected at rehearsal Tuesday because he is not going to be in the episode they are filming, according to a person close to the show who spoke on condition of anonymity because producers were not commenting publicly.Jones,...
Amid Hurricane Sandy, a Race to Get a Liver Transplant
Label: HealthIt was the best possible news, at the worst possible time. The phone call from the hospital brought the message that Dolores and Vin Dreeland had long hoped for, ever since their daughter Natalia, 4, had been put on the waiting list for a liver transplant. The time had come. They bundled her into the car for the 50-mile trip from their home in Long Valley, N.J., to NewYork-Presbyterian...
Apple fires Maps manager as it works to fix the widely panned app
Label: Business Apple has fired the manager in charge of its homegrown Maps app two months after the software debuted to harsh criticism.Richard...
Nov
26
Congress returns as 'fiscal cliff' talks slow
Label: World WASHINGTON – Congress returned in a lame duck session with no signs of quick compromise to prevent a tax hike for most Americans...
On average the Stones older than US Supreme Court
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — The Supreme Court used to be called Nine Old Men. That's nothing compared to the ageless Rolling Stones. The justices on average are the kid brothers and sisters of the forever young rock n' rollers.The average age for the four living members of The Rolling Stones is about two years older than the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and...
Hospitals Face Pressure From Medicare to Avert Readmissions
Label: HealthAfter years of gently prodding hospitals to make sure discharged patients do not need to return, the federal government is now using its financial muscle to discourage readmissions. Medicare last month began levying financial penalties against 2,217 hospitals it says have had too many readmissions. Of those hospitals, 307 will receive the maximum punishment, a 1 percent reduction in Medicare’s...
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