LIUYANG, China — The Lunar New Year is fast approaching in China, and that means big business for fireworks sellers like Liu...
Apple Should, And Will, Make a Smartwatch
Label: Technology It isn’t a matter of “if” Apple creates a smartwatch, but rather “when.” And “why.”Moving into the hot “wearables” market with a smartwatch would allow Apple to compete against upstarts like Pebble and seasoned stalwarts like Sony and capitalize on a trend that is sweeping the industry — as shown by the vast number of “wearable” computing devices seen at CES this year. Companies like...
Well: Think Like a Doctor: A Confused and Terrified Patient
Label: HealthThe Challenge: Can you solve the mystery of a middle-aged man recovering from a serious illness who suddenly becomes frightened and confused?Every month the Diagnosis column of The New York Times Magazine asks Well readers to sift through a difficult case and solve a diagnostic riddle. Below you will find a summary of a case involving a 55-year-old man well on his way to recovering from a series of...
DealBook: Ireland to Liquidate Anglo Irish Bank
Label: BusinessLONDON – The Irish government passed emergency legislation on Thursday to liquidate Anglo Irish Bank, one of the country’s largest financial institutions.The legislation, which was signed into law after an all-night parliamentary session, came after negotiations with the European Central Bank over swapping so-called promissory notes, which were used to bail out the Irish lender in 2009, for long-term...
Feb
06
Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid shot dead outside home
Label: World The Unified Democratic Nationalist Party says Chokri Belaid was shot as he left his house in the capital Tunis. Witnesses...
Karen Russell's <em>Vampires in the Lemon Grove</em> Is a Darkly Surreal Treat
Label: Technology Karen Russell is one of America’s most lauded young writers. Her first novel, Swamplandia!, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and has been optioned by HBO. Her fiction combines a literary sensibility with a generous helping of the weird and surreal, which has made her popular with both literary magazines and fantasy and science fiction fans. This cross-genre approach is one that she sees in the...
Ipswich Journal: Paul Mason Is One-Third the Man He Used to Be
Label: HealthPaul Nixon PhotographyPaul Mason in 2012, two years after gastric bypass surgery stripped him of the unofficial title of “the world’s fattest man.” IPSWICH, England — Who knows what the worst moment was for Paul Mason — there were so many awful milestones, as he grew fatter and fatter — but a good bet might be when he became too vast to leave his room. To get him to the hospital for a hernia operation,...
DealBook: Debevoise & Plimpton Drops Trusts and Estates Practice
Label: BusinessLast month, the nation’s leading trusts and estates lawyers convened at a Florida resort to discuss the latest in estate planning.Between lectures and workshops, some of the lawyers exchanged whispers about an unsettling piece of gossip: Debevoise & Plimpton, the prominent white-shoe law firm, was eliminating its trusts and estates practice.Debevoise’s decision surprised members of the trusts...
Feb
05
Friends, investigators seek answers in killing of O.C. couple
Label: World They met in college, two highly regarded basketball players who seemed to have the same winning touch on the court and off.After...
Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
Label: Technology An excerpt from Exploding the Phoneby Phil Lapsley“Locke spent the next twenty-four hours in what felt like a scene from a 1940s detective movie: a barren room with nothing more than a wooden table, a chair for him, two chairs for his interrogators, and a bare lightbulb dangling from the ceiling. Sitting across from him, the FBI agent and the telephone security man worked hard to get him to...
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