McDonald's Corp. is urging U.S. restaurant owners to take the unusual step of opening on Christmas Day to deliver the world's...
Dec
17
Emanuel: Time for 'an assault weapons ban'
Label: WorldMayor Emanuel attended the ribbon-cutting for a new police station today but his thoughts were on the tragedy in Connecticut. ...
Beck looks for new connection with ‘Song Reader’
Label: LifestyleNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Beck Hansen wants you to think about the way music has changed over the last century and what that means about how human beings engage each other these days.Laboring over the intricate and ornate details of his new “Song Reader” sheet music project, he was struck by how social music used to be — something we’ve lost in the age of ear buds.“You watch an old film and see how...
John Rosen, Doctor Who Pushed to Prevent Lead Poisoning, Dies at 77
Label: HealthDr. John F. Rosen, a pediatrician whose discovery of high levels of lead poisoning among the New York City children he treated propelled him to campaign for a national effort to prevent the condition, died on Dec. 7 in Greenwich, Conn. He was 77. The cause was colon cancer, his wife, Margaret, said. When he arrived at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx in 1969, Dr. Rosen was mainly...
Reyes goes craft with Windy City deal
Label: Business Independent breweries are still a niche category in the marketplace, but interest in them continues to grow.Reyes Beverage Group,...
Dec
16
2nd quarter: Bears 7, Packers 0
Label: World Ignoring recent trends has been the message from Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith this past week, but reality arrived at Soldier Field on Sunday in the green-and-gold...
Leaked BlackBerry Handset Appears to Emulate iPhone’s Design
Label: TechnologyPhotos of RIM’s first handset that will run BlackBerry 10 — the company’s next operating system, which is scheduled for release in early 2013 — landed on a Vietnamese forum this week. If the 18 photos of the device on tinhte.vn are to be believed, the L-Series, codenamed BlackBerry London, looks quite similar to Apple‘s iPhone 5.The BlackBerry-branded device in the photos has a rectangular touchscreen...
Sundance film “End of Love” finds distributor
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Gravitas Ventures and Variance Films have acquired all North American rights to writer-director Mark Webber‘s drama “The End of Love,” the companies announced on Thursday.The father-son drama, which debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, stars Webber alongside Shannyn Sossamon (pictured), and Webber’s real-life son Isaac Love, and features appearances by Michael...
Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Cochlear Implant, Dies
Label: HealthDr. William F. House, a medical researcher who braved skepticism to invent the cochlear implant, an electronic device considered to be the first to restore a human sense, died on Dec. 7 at his home in Aurora, Ore. He was 89. The cause was metastatic melanoma, his daughter, Karen House, said. Dr. House pushed against conventional thinking throughout his career. Over the objections of...
Greener planet is goal for 3 startups
Label: Business If the glut of companies billing themselves as "solutions" providers is any indication, the world has no shortage of problems.Green...
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