ROME — The political gridlock in Italy revives a question that hasn’t been heard lately: Is the euro zone crisis really over? Judging by the panic that seized financial markets on Monday, and carried over into European stock and bond trading Tuesday, the answer seems to be no. After months of calm, investors are jittery not only because Italy, once again, seems to have once again...
Feb
26
News Analysis: Italian Deadlock Rekindles Anxiety About Euro Zone
Labels: Business
Read More..
Feb
25
Lens Blog: The Largely Unknown Photography of Lola Álvarez Bravo
Labels: World The year 2007 was a pretty good one for rediscovering long-forgotten images in Mexico. Most people already know about Robert Capa’s Mexican suitcase, a trove of his work from the Spanish Civil War. But that same year an unknown archive of vintage prints by Mexico’s greatest photographers was also discovered, left behind in the longtime home of Lola Álvarez Bravo.The find, known as the Gonzalez-Rendon...
HTC Settles F.T.C. Charges Over Security Flaws in Devices
Labels: TechnologyWASHINGTON — More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC, a Taiwanese company that is one of the largest sellers of smartphones in the United States, had security flaws that could allow location tracking of users against their will and the theft of personal information stored on their phones, federal officials said Friday. The Federal Trade Commission charged...
Really?: Really? Annoying Songs Get Stuck in Your Head More
Labels: LifestyleReally?Anahad O’Connor tackles health myths.THE FACTSVirtually everyone experiences them, and rarely are they thought of fondly. They are earworms, the tunes that burrow into our consciousness and play on repeat.In a recent study involving hundreds of people, Ira Hyman Jr. of Western Washington University and colleagues looked at what made songs most likely to stick, exposing unsuspecting subjects...
Really?: Really? Annoying Songs Get Stuck in Your Head More
Labels: HealthReally?Anahad O’Connor tackles health myths.THE FACTSVirtually everyone experiences them, and rarely are they thought of fondly. They are earworms, the tunes that burrow into our consciousness and play on repeat.In a recent study involving hundreds of people, Ira Hyman Jr. of Western Washington University and colleagues looked at what made songs most likely to stick, exposing unsuspecting subjects...
Herald Tribune to Be Renamed The International New York Times
Labels: BusinessThe New York Times Company said on Monday that it was planning to rename The International Herald Tribune, its 125-year-old newspaper based in Paris, and would also unveil a new Web site for international audiences. Starting this fall, under the plan, the paper will be rechristened The International New York Times, reflecting the company’s intention to focus on its core New York Times...
Feb
24
Letter From Washington: A Struggle for Control of Republican Party
Labels: WorldWASHINGTON — The late William F. Buckley and Karl Rove have little in common, other than the Republican Party and intelligence. Mr. Buckley’s politics were guided by principles; Mr. Rove’s principles are guided by politics. Yet Mr. Rove, the party establishment’s money and strategy guru, is channeling Mr. Buckley, a founding father of contemporary conservatism, by trying to root out extremism...
Bits: Online Gambling Heats Up
Labels: Technology The two big casino states, Nevada and New Jersey, are racing into online gambling as a way of protecting their turf. They will in essence become laboratories for what is and is not feasible in Internet wagering.Nevada legislators, who previously authorized online poker, hurriedly passed a new bill this week that allows the state to enter into deals with other states to essentially pool their gambling...
The Texas Tribune: Advocates Seek Mental Health Changes, Including Power to Detain
Labels: HealthMatt Rainwaters for Texas MonthlyThe Sherman grave of Andre Thomas’s victims. SHERMAN — A worried call from his daughter’s boyfriend sent Paul Boren rushing to her apartment on the morning of March 27, 2004. He drove the eight blocks to her apartment, peering into his neighbors’ yards, searching for Andre Thomas, Laura Boren’s estranged husband. Expanded coverage of Texas is produced by...
Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States
Labels: BusinessMajor banks have quickly become behind-the-scenes allies of Internet-based payday lenders that offer short-term loans with interest rates sometimes exceeding 500 percent. With 15 states banning payday loans, a growing number of the lenders have set up online operations in more hospitable states or far-flung locales like Belize, Malta and the West Indies to more easily evade statewide caps...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Copyright © News shirt. All rights reserved.
Design And Business Directories