CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday said he will ask his congressional allies to again grant him special powers to enact laws by decree. Chavez said he needs an “enabling law” for the fourth time in his presidency to pass emergency laws quickly in a range of areas, including housing, land use and banking. “There is no time to lose,” Chavez said on state television, citing the…
Continue reading …The son of an Oscar-winning songwriter was arrested Friday on charges of choking his girlfriend, a fashion designer found dead and half-clothed in a bathtub overflowing with water in a posh hotel. (Dec. 10)
Continue reading …ROBERT BURNS AP National Security Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — Without suggesting a new path toward Mideast peace, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed frustration Friday with the Israel-Palestinian impasse while insisting the Obama administration will “not lose hope.” She said the U.S. will keep pressing for a solution, and she called on Israelis and Palestinians to set aside their differences. “It is no secret that the parties have a long way to go and that they have not yet made the difficult decisions that peace requires,” she said in a dinner speech at the Saban Forum, a Mideast policy seminar sponsored by the Brookings Institution think tank. “And like many of you, I regret…
Continue reading …New guidelines call for people with type 2 diabetes to get at least 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous aerobic exercise over the course of at least three days during the week, and not to skip more than two days of exercising.
Continue reading …It can be difficult to review a phone like Google’s Nexus S in a world already populated by so many outstanding Android devices. Not only does the manufacturer of this phone make a series of handsets that are all essentially the same (the Galaxy S line), but countless other OEMs are cranking away on hardware for the platform. Of course, the Nexus S is a decidedly different phone altogether. Picking up where the company’s Nexus One left off, the S continues Google’s legacy of creating standalone, “pure Android” phone experiences, seemingly aimed less at the mainstream and more towards developers. Unlike the failed experiment of the Nexus One, Google appears to be taking a more realistic approach to the S; the phone will be sold through Best Buy (and Carphone Warehouse across the pond), which suggests that the company has bigger plans for this device. And what a device it is — the Nexus S boasts a 1GHz Hummingbird CPU, 512MB of RAM, a 4-inch, 800 x 480 curved Super AMOLED display (dubbed the Contour Display), 16GB of storage, a 5 megapixel rear and VGA front-facing camera, and near field communication capabilities. But hardware is only half the story here — the big news is that the Nexus S showcases the next major evolution of the Android OS, namely, Gingerbread (or version 2.3). The update comes with a slew of new features alongside some UI improvements that show Google isn’t slowing down when it comes to pushing its mobile operating system forward. So is the Nexus S a real standout in the Android world, or is it more of the “me too” tech we’ve seen lately? Read on after the break for the full Engadget review to find out! Gallery: Nexus S review Continue reading Nexus S review Nexus S review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Women who have false-positive results on a mammogram are at increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to findings of a large Danish study.
Continue reading …Saturday, 11 December 2010, 11:58 am Press Release: ITUC INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC) ITUC Online 190/101210 EU-India Summit: Unions Demand Attention to Impact on Workers Brussels, 10 December 2010 (ITUC OnLine): As the EU-India Summit meets in Brussels on 10 December, trade unions have reiterated their views on a draft free trade agreement. “As we have said since talks started in 2007, any agreement must contain a comprehensive and effective chapter on sustainable development entailing the commitment of both parties to the attainment of decent work, including respect for fundamental workers’ rights,” insisted ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow….
Continue reading …Women with metastatic breast cancer who have no tumor cells circulating in their blood after the first round of treatment live longer than those who do, French researchers report.
Continue reading …Click here to view this media BREAKING NEWS: Glenn Beck is certifiably insane!!! Oh. You knew that. Yeah, we could run that lede just about every day, actually. But this week, Beck has been whipping it to another level of Bats–t Crazy. Now he’s predicting IMMINENT VIOLENT REVOLUTION led by those evil progressive radicals who hate the Republic inside the Obama administration. In case he didn’t notice, the actual dynamic in Washington these days is actually just a wee bit different, since it’s become manifestly clear that President Obama is anything BUT a radical revolutionary. But hey, nothing ever deters the intrepid Beck in the pursuit of his apocalyptic conspiracy theories. Well, let’s be clear: Beck has been warning about this dire imminent threat for quite awhile now. You’ll recall he predicted last spring that eeevil progressives were planning a ‘summer of rage’ filled with violence, death and chaos . Yeah, that really panned out, eh? Instead we got Byron Williams . Hmmmm. This theory really is just a warmed-over version of the IMMINENT DIRE THREAT Beck has been shouting at us about since he signed onto Fox. It’s become repetitive but more intensified, a manifestation of Beck’s steadily creeping paranoia. After all, he’s been theorizing that Obama’s band of administration radicals are planning a “global redistribution of the wealth” for a long time — often flavored with black-helicopter militia theories about a “New World Order” . He’s been predicting George Soros would try to kill him, and warning that the eeeevil Left is plotting to frame the Tea Partiers for an act of domestic terrorist violence , adding that if right-wing violence does break out, it will have been provoked by Obama and the liberals. More recently, there have been such similarly credible theories that the European Union Parliament building was intended to resemble the Tower of Babel , and that the evil Holocaust survivor George Soros is plotting to take over the world . That provoked this rant, earlier this week, when he demanded an apology from Forbes for correctly calling him out for his vicious, classically anti-Semitic smear of Soros: Click here to view this media As you can see, it was a pretty complete meltdown. We could’ve run today’s lede then, too. This can only end badly for Fox. And they will richly deserve it. As Byron Williams put it : “Beck is gonna deny everything about violent approach and deny everything about conspiracies, but he’ll give you every reason to believe it.”
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