Really?Anahad O’Connor tackles health myths.THE FACTSIn The New England Journal of Medicine last week, a prominent researcher noted that much of the conventional wisdom about weight loss has little basis in science. But his article did not address one oft-asked question: Is your waistline affected by when you eat, or is a calorie always just a calorie whenever you eat it?To seasoned dieters, the claim...
Southern California gasoline prices soar 23 cents in a week
Label: Business Expect a bit of a shock if you fill up your gas tanks in Southern California this week.The average price of a gallon of regular...
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L.A. County removing metal detectors from some hospital facilities
Label: World It was typically chaotic in the emergency room at Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center that February day in 1993. Richard May...
Kuwaiti gets five years for insulting ruler
Label: TechnologyKUWAIT (Reuters) – A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to five years in prison on Sunday for insulting the emir on Twitter, a rights lawyer and news websites said, in the latest prosecution for criticism of authorities via social media in the Gulf Arab state.The court gave Kuwaiti Mohammad Eid al-Ajmi the maximum sentence for the comments, news websites al-Rai and alaan.cc reported.In recent months Kuwait...
In Super Bowl broadcast, CBS hopes for history
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Ratings glory hangs in the balance for CBS's broadcast of the Super Bowl.Three years running, the NFL's championship game has set a viewership record, topped last year by NBC's broadcast to an average audience of 111.3 million people.But ratings are a mere point of pride for CBS heading into kickoff. The ads have already been sold (some at more than $4 million a pop), so the network...
Concerns About A.D.H.D. Practices and Amphetamine Addiction
Label: HealthBefore his addiction, Richard Fee was a popular college class president and aspiring medical student. "You keep giving Adderall to my son, you're going to kill him," said Rick Fee, Richard's father, to one of his son's doctors. VIRGINIA BEACH — Every morning on her way to work, Kathy Fee holds her breath as she drives past the squat brick building that houses Dominion Psychiatric Associates. ...
Love, money and the online dating industry
Label: Business At the heart of the new book "Love in the Time of Algorithms" is a philosophical question: does the billion-dollar dating industry,...
Twitter, Washington Post targeted by hackers
Label: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Social media giant Twitter is among the latest U.S. companies to acknowledge that it is among a growing list of victims of Internet security attacks, saying that hackers may have gained access to information on 250,000 of its more than 200 million active users. And now, The Washington Post is joining the chorus, saying that it discovered that it was the target of a sophisticated...
Why is Beckham sitting on the bench for nothing?
Label: LifestylePARIS (AP) — David Beckham has won league championships in three countries on two continents, earns millions of dollars in endorsements and his name is practically synonymous with celebrity itself. He has his own cologne, for goodness sake. So why is he even bothering to sit on the bench for the Paris Saint-Germain football club?His royal highness of football doesn't need the money — and he's said...
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