cited: New York Times
PHILADELPHIA — For the first time, the Army will require each of its 1.1 million soldiers to take intensive emotional training, which is meant to not only improve combat performance but also avoid mental health problems, like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about 20% of troops coming home from [...]
cited: New York Times
48 years after first publishing, Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” finally topped the best-seller list. With its rise to the top, the book brought all the fatty goodness home gourmets did their best to ignore while Lipitor swept the nation.
The book, given a huge lift from the recently released [...]
cited: The Movie Critics
Tarantino took plenty of liberties with Inglourious Basterds- from casting the gore-heavy director of the Hostels, Eli Roth, as the “bear Jew” who loves smashing Nazi heads, to transforming Christoph Waltz’s character (SS officer, Col. Hans Landa) into a light-footed, nimbly joyful philosophizing detective (and the most interesting character of the film)- [...]
Cited: Reuters
Discovery, the NASA space station, was fueled-up Monday for its launch early Tuesday. It will carry supplies, laboratory gear, and mice to the International Space Station for bone-loss research.
Liftoff was scheduled for 1:36 a.m. EDT (0536 GMT) Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians began the three-hour job of pumping 500,000 gallons [...]
cited: Time Magazine
With farms popping up everywhere from White House backyards to Brooklyn truckbeds, it’s easy to write off the upswing of modern-day victory gardens and organic produce aisles as a meaningless trend. Unfortunately, it is becoming rapidly more important to look at how much it’s costing us to save money at the grocery store.
Somewhere [...]
When the Times picked up a story about how the megawealthy are- for the first time in 30 years- not rapidly becoming wealthier, we were able to see how the impact of this recession has reached everyone, right? Well, not quite. At least us penny-pinchers go to feel the thrill of justice, reading about how [...]
cited: Time Magazine
Michelle Obama wore shorts! Egad! We’d seen it before- walking the dog, running around the house (that’s right, the White one). Stuck in the summer news doldrums, the media ate up the story as glamor queen Michelle Obama made the iconic walk down the Air Force One steps.
And people reacted. [...]
Cited: NewsDaily
A short novel- titled “Close to Zero”- appeared on bookshelves last month. Thursday, someone realized that the tale of corrupt Russian officials, bribed journalists, and dirty cops was penned by someone with definitive expertise on the subjects. Apparently, the author was none other than the Kremlin’s chief political strategist Vladislav Surkov, who published under [...]
cited: Washington Post
Facebook proposed a set of changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities on its blog today. The document establishes users’ rights and Facebook’s Terms of Service. The changes are reported to “mostly include clarifying changes and minor updates”, but at least one change carries significant weight: Facebook users are banned from “using [...]
cited: Time Magazine
Remember back-to-school time when you were a kid? Back then, it seemed like only you and the ice cream man were dreading September. Now, shopkeepers and retailers all over the country are sporting frowns as well- as sales in back-to-school clothing, supplies, and gadgets decline for the second year in a row.
“In my [...]
