Gretchen Ertl for The New York TimesJim Koch, who started brewing Samuel Adams Boston Lager at his house in 1984, and Carlene O'Garro, who runs a cake business, participate in a program in which big businesses help small ones. Carlene O’Garro’s cake business was barely a month old when she arrived at the Samuel Adams brewery in South Boston recently to meet with business counselors, but she brought...
Nov
13
White House Supports Top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan
Labels: WorldPresident Obama has faith in Gen. John R. Allen, the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, the White House spokesman said on Tuesday, after it was disclosed that the general was under investigation for what the Pentagon called “inappropriate communication” with the woman whose complaint to the F.B.I. set off the scandal involving David H. Petraeus’s extramarital affair. “The president...
Critic’s Notebook: Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Halo 4
Labels: TechnologyActivisionCall of Duty: Black Ops II. If you’re playing a popular video game on your television these days, there’s a good chance that you’re pretending to shoot something. ArtsBeatBreaking news about the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia and more.A sortable calendar of noteworthy cultural events in the New York region, selected by Times critics. ActivisionA...
‘Half-Match’ Bone Marrow Transplants Cure Sickle Cell in Trial
Labels: LifestyleIn her mid-20s, Yetunde Felix-Ukwu wore a Fentanyl patch that delivered enough narcotic to knock most adults out cold. Yet it barely kept her pain, caused by sickle cell disease, tolerable. Even with the patch, she was hospitalized almost every month for the pain, which she said was “like being hit with a hammer, searing, throbbing, you name it.” A debilitating genetic disorder, sickle-cell...
‘Half-Match’ Bone Marrow Transplants Cure Sickle Cell in Trial
Labels: HealthIn her mid-20s, Yetunde Felix-Ukwu wore a Fentanyl patch that delivered enough narcotic to knock most adults out cold. Yet it barely kept her pain, caused by sickle cell disease, tolerable. Even with the patch, she was hospitalized almost every month for the pain, which she said was “like being hit with a hammer, searing, throbbing, you name it.” A debilitating genetic disorder, sickle-cell...
Nov
12
Syrian Jet Strikes Close to Border With Turkey
Labels: WorldGAZIANTEP, Turkey — Syria pulled both Turkey and Israel closer to military entanglements in its civil war on Monday, bombing a rebel-held Syrian village a few yards from the Turkish border in a deadly aerial assault and provoking Israeli tank commanders in the disputed Golan Heights into blasting mobile Syrian artillery units across their own armistice line. The escalations, which threatened...
Preoccupations: Bridging the Hiring Gap for College Graduates
Labels: TechnologyMANY newly minted college graduates are filled with anxiety, fearing that they won’t find decent jobs despite their knowledge and skills, and that they will never be free of tuition debt. At the same time, executives say they can’t find qualified applicants for a wide range of jobs. So, this fall, I talked to about a dozen C.E.O.’s in a variety of industries, along with more than 135 graduates,...
Global Update: A Solar Device to Help Sterilize Instruments
Labels: LifestyleSolar power can steam-sterilize surgical instruments, according to a new study — but the contraption needed to do so is not pocket-size. Sterilizing instruments needed in surgical emergencies like Caesarean births or appendectomies can be a problem in rural clinics in Africa: There may be no electricity, jugs of bleach or tanks of propane. So a Rice University team recently modified...
Global Update: A Solar Device to Help Sterilize Instruments
Labels: HealthSolar power can steam-sterilize surgical instruments, according to a new study — but the contraption needed to do so is not pocket-size. Sterilizing instruments needed in surgical emergencies like Caesarean births or appendectomies can be a problem in rural clinics in Africa: There may be no electricity, jugs of bleach or tanks of propane. So a Rice University team recently modified...
Report Sees U.S. as Top Oil Producer, Overtaking Saudi Arabia, in 5 Years
Labels: BusinessCharlie Riedel/Associated PressA pump jack near Greensburg, Kan. Increased oil production and new policies to improve energy efficiency mean that the United States will become “all but self-sufficient” in energy in about two decades, the International Energy Agency predicted. The United States will overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by about 2017 and will become a net oil exporter...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Copyright © News shirt. All rights reserved.
Design And Business Directories