George Entwistle, the director general of the BBC, resigned on Saturday night over a TV program the network had aired that wrongly...
<em>Epic</em> Fantasy Book Excerpt: Read 'Bound Man' in Full
Label: Technology Epic fantasy has become the literature of more. We equate it with more pages than the average book, more books than the average series. There are more characters, more maps, more names and more dates. The stories and the worlds are bigger to contain all of this more. And when all the books have been devoured, the fans want more.For my just-released anthology, Epic: Legends of Fantasy, I compiled...
“Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence will not diet for role
Label: Lifestyle
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – “The Hunger Games” star Jennifer Lawrence will not be dieting for a role any time soon.Lawrence, 22, who plays the famished Katniss Everdeen in the life-or-death thriller series, told Elle magazine in an interview to be published on November 13 that dropping a few pounds will not be part of her script.
“I’m...
The New Old Age Blog: The Emotional Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
Label: HealthLet’s talk about the emotional aftermath of the storm that left tens of thousands of older people on the East Coast without power, bunkered down in their homes, chilled to the bone and out of touch with the outside world.Let’s name the feelings they may have experienced. Fear. Despair. Hopelessness. Anxiety. Panic.Linda Leest and her staff at Services Now for Adult Persons in Queens heard this...
Hurricane Sandy and the Disaster-Preparedness Economy
Label: BusinessJeffrey Phelps for The New York TimesAn assembly line at a Generac Power Systems plant. Generac makes residential generators, coveted items in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. FOLKS here don’t wish disaster on their fellow Americans. They didn’t pray for Hurricane Sandy to come grinding up the East Coast, tearing lives apart and plunging millions into darkness. But the fact is, disasters are good...
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New Yorkers in long lines ask: Where's the gas?
Label: World When Mike Williams moved to New York City from Miami four months ago, he expected cold winters and slushy streets. He was not...
Game|Life Podcast: Xbox Tablet Surfaces and Gamemaker THQ Sinks
Label: Technology Rumors of a 7-inch tablet with Xbox branding and a gaming-centric spec sheet and the downfall of console game publisher THQ are the big topics on this week’s Game|Life audio podcast.Wired senior editor Peter Rubin and editorial fellow Bo Moore join me this week to report and analyze the big stories in the games industry. We also run down some new game releases that...
U.S. author Philip Roth says he’s done with writing
Label: Lifestyle
(Reuters) – Seminal American novelist Philip Roth, one of the world’s most revered authors, is retiring from writing, his publisher Houghton Mifflin said on Friday.The “American Pastoral” author slipped his retirement announcement under the radar in an interview with French magazine Les Inrocks last month.
“To tell you...
Advertising: Help Remedies Tries to Cure Ailments in Small Doses
Label: HealthDISAPPOINTED voters, runners with blisters and headache sufferers alike are getting some unexpected relief from a pop-up pharmacy that opened this week in the nation’s capital. The “help shop,” which offers low-dose drugs for everyday woes, is the idea of Help Remedies, a start-up company that sells minimalist white packets directed at single medical issues like nausea, headache or insomnia....
Your Money: After the Storm: Managing Your Homeowner’s Claim
Label: BusinessTom Mihalek/ReutersMark Baronowski shoveled sand from the living room of a beach front property in Bay Head, N.J., last week. Many victims of Hurricane Sandy are novices when it comes to catastrophic insurance claims. There is a sort of honeymoon period that occurs after a big storm like Hurricane Sandy, when insurance executives appear on the local news offering reassuring words. Their brightly...
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