LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – “The Office” might be preparing to close up shop, but the series’ creator is most definitely still open for business.Greg Daniels, who birthed the American version of “The Office” – which is preparing to wrap up its run at the end of this season – has sold a half-hour comedy to Fox via Universal Television and his own Deedle-Dee Productions.The project was sold through...
The New Old Age Blog: In the Middle: Helping Unhappy Couples
Label: HealthA post on Monday discussed the forces that can make an older couple’s good marriage suddenly go bad — an array of subtle, and often-misunderstood, mental, physical and emotional factors that can upset the equilibrium of even the happiest marriages.Now we have consulted marriage counselors and geriatricians to find out what caregivers — either the grown children of the couple, or one of the spouses...
DealBook: Massachusetts Fines Morgan Stanley Over Facebook I.P.O.
Label: BusinessMorgan Stanley is paying for its role in the troubled stock market debut of Facebook.On Monday, Massachusetts’s top financial authority fined the bank $5 million for violating securities laws, the first major regulatory action tied to Facebook’s initial public stock offering.William F. Galvin, the secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, accused the bank of improperly influencing the stock...
Dec
17
U.S. moves ahead on new downtown L.A. courthouse
Label: World Downtown Los Angeles is finally getting its new federal courthouse, and it's going to stand out amid the aging government buildings...
Q&A: Claire Diaz-Ortiz, the Woman Who Got the Pope on Twitter
Label: Technology At 30, Claire Diaz-Ortiz already has a pretty impressive resume. She works as the Manager of Social Innovation at Twitter, founded a charity to help orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa and literally wrote the book on how to use social networking for philanthropy. But last week she added something rather special to her curriculum vitae: She got the Pope on Twitter.Diaz-Ortiz, who has been...
Amy Winehouse inquest to be heard again
Label: LifestyleLONDON (AP) — Officials in London say the inquest into the death of soul singer Amy Winehouse was overseen by a coroner who lacked the proper qualifications and will be re-heard next month.Camden Council says a new hearing will take place on Jan. 8.Winehouse was found dead in her London home in July 2011 at age 27. An inquest in October 2011 found the “Back to Black” singer had died of accidental...
Experts Say Thimerosal Ban Would Imperil Global Health Efforts
Label: HealthA group of prominent doctors and public health experts warns in articles to be published Monday in the journal Pediatrics that banning thimerosal, a mercury compound used as a preservative in vaccines, would devastate public health efforts in developing countries. Representatives from governments around the world will meet in Geneva next month in a session convened by the United Nations...
DealBook: First Quantum Offers $5.2 Billion for Inmet Mining
Label: Business9:30 a.m. | Updated LONDON – The mining company First Quantum Minerals has begun an improved takeover offer of 5.1 billion Canadian dollars, or $5.2 billion, for a rival, Inmet Mining, in its latest effort to buy the copper producer.First Quantum, which operates mines from Australia to Zambia, said late on Sunday that it had offered Inmet Mining’s shareholders a cash-and-stock deal valued at a $72.87...
Dec
16
Speculation over autism, but shooter's 'why' has no easy answer
Label: World Among the details to emerge in the aftermath of the Connecticut elementary school massacre was the possibility that the gunman...
Stunning Views of Glaciers Seen From Space
Label: Technology To a geologist, glaciers are among the most exciting features on Earth. Though they seem to creep along at impossibly slow speeds, in geologic time glaciers are relatively fast, powerful landscape artists that can carve out valleys and fjords in just a few thousand years.Glaciers also provide an environmental record by trapping air bubbles in ice that reveal atmospheric conditions in the past....
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