Happy Tuesday! On this week’s rundown of the latest game releases, we take a look at a new game with a classic design, and a just-plain-old game that you can buy again for pennies on the dollar.We’ve talked a lot about Skulls of the Shogun here on Game|Life — I’ve known its creative director Jake Kazdal for quite a while, and it’s had a lot of time in the media spotlight...
Clinton coy about political future in joint interview with Obama
Label: LifestyleWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sidestepped questions about whether she would run for president in 2016 in a CBS television interview done jointly with President Barack Obama, her rival in the 2008 race.Clinton, 65, denied there were any political tea leaves to read in the unusual joint interview for the CBS show “60 Minutes,” and acknowledged that she still...
Well: Ask Well: Squats for Aging Knees
Label: HealthYou are already doing many things right, in terms of taking care of your aging knees. In particular, it sounds as if you are keeping your weight under control. Carrying extra pounds undoubtedly strains knees and contributes to pain and eventually arthritis.You mention weight training, too, which is also valuable. Sturdy leg muscles, particularly those at the front and back of the thighs, stabilize...
DealBook: R.B.S. Stock Drops Amid Concerns of Potential Guilty Plea in Libor Case
Label: BusinessShares of the Royal Bank of Scotland stumbled on Tuesday after it emerged that federal authorities are pursuing a guilty plea against an Asian subsidiary at the center of an interest rate manipulation scandal.Following a template developed in last year’s rare-rigging case against UBS, the Justice Department is pushing for the criminal action against the Royal Bank of Scotland, along with fines and...
Jan
28
'Argo' producer scours for the next stranger-than-fiction story
Label: World Hunched over a desk in his spartan Westwood apartment, David Klawans squints at his computer monitor and knits his brow in concentration....
Suicidal Sensors: Darpa Wants Next-Gen Spy Hardware to Literally Dissolve
Label: Technology Forget about a kill switch. Planned obsolescence? Already obsolete. The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers want tomorrow’s military hardware to literally cease to exist at a predetermined point. Welcome to the age of suicidal sensors.Darpa isn’t imagining planes or ships that melt into a metallic puddle when their replacements come off the production line. The research agency is thinking, in...
Barbara Walters, hospitalized after fall, recovering from chicken pox
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – Celebrity newswoman Barbara Walters, who was hospitalized earlier this month after falling and injuring her head, is recovering from chicken pox, her co-host Whoopi Goldberg said Monday on “The View” talk show.Goldberg said Walters, 83, who is in a New York hospital, has been told to rest and is not receiving visitors.“You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago and...
Well: Keeping Blood Pressure in Check
Label: HealthSince the start of the 21st century, Americans have made great progress in controlling high blood pressure, though it remains a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure and kidney disease.Now 48 percent of the more than 76 million adults with hypertension have it under control, up from 29 percent in 2000.But that means more than half, including many receiving treatment, have...
The Media Equation: ‘South Park’ Creators Fortify Their Content Empire
Label: BusinessWhen it comes to success stories in the entertainment world, it doesn’t get much better than the one about a pair of regular guys from Colorado, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who took cutout paper dolls, animated them and triumphed on cable television, on the Web, at the multiplex and on Broadway. Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesMatt Stone, left, and Trey Parker are...
Jan
27
Deadly nightclub fire in Brazil may have been started by flare
Label: WorldA fire in a crowded nightclub in Brazil has killed over 200 people. Police and firefighters say at least 200 people were injured. (Jan. 27) ...
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