SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he is donating nearly $ 500 million in stock to a Silicon Valley charity with the aim of funding health and education issues.Zuckerberg donated 18 million Facebook shares, valued at $ 498.8 million based on their Tuesday closing price. The beneficiary is the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a nonprofit that works with donors to allocate their...
Little Big Town, LeAnn Rimes to Duet with X Factor Finalists
Label: Lifestyle TV Watch The X Factor By Andrea Billups 12/19/2012 at 10:40 AM EST from left: Fifth Harmony, Tate Stevens and Carly Rose Sonenclar Ray Mickshaw/FOX It's down to the wire for this season's The X Factor as teen sensation Carly Rose Sonenclar, country crooner Tate...
Experts: Kids are resilient in coping with trauma
Label: HealthWASHINGTON (AP) — They might not want to talk about the gunshots or the screams. But their toys might start getting into imaginary shootouts.Last week's school shooting in Connecticut raises the question: What will be the psychological fallout for the children who survived?For people of any age, regaining a sense of security after surviving violence can take a long time. They're at risk for lingering...
Wall Street steadies after two-day rally; Oracle gains
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed on Wednesday as investors found scant reason to continue buying following the best two-day rally for the S&P in a month. The Nasdaq notched slight gains, helped by technology shares following strong results at Oracle Corp . The S&P added 2.3 percent over the past two sessions, the first time it has notched two straight...
Dec
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Ancient Bones That Tell a Story of Compassion
Label: WorldLorna TilleyDISABLED Almost all the other skeletons at the Man Bac site, south of Hanoi, are straight. But the man now called Burial 9 was laid to rest curled in a fetal position that suggests lifelong paralysis. While it is a painful truism that brutality and violence are at least as old as humanity, so, it seems, is caring for the sick and disabled. And some archaeologists are suggesting...
Miley Cyrus Keeps Warm with Liam Hemsworth on Film Set
Label: Lifestyle 12/18/2012 at 10:10 AM EST Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Gilbert Carrasquillo/Splash News Online The warmth of love kept Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth happy on a cold night Monday in Philadelphia, as she flew in from Los Angeles to visit her fiancé on the set...
Experts: No link between Asperger's, violence
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — While an official has said that the 20-year-old gunman in the Connecticut school shooting had Asperger's syndrome, experts say there is no connection between the disorder and violence.Asperger's is a mild form of autism often characterized by social awkwardness."There really is no clear association between Asperger's and violent behavior," said psychologist Elizabeth Laugeson, an assistant...
Wall Street edges up on hopes "fiscal cliff" deal nearer
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose modestly on Tuesday as investors speculated negotiations between Democrats and Republicans would lead to a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff." The market's gains followed a steep rally in the previous session, which lifted the S&P 500 to its highest in nearly two months. Republican House Speaker John Boehner said he has hope for a broader...
Dec
17
In Spain, Having a Job No Longer Guarantees a Paycheck
Label: WorldWorking but Waiting: The Times’s Suzanne Daley reports on struggling Spanish workers who have avoided losing their jobs but often face weeks or months without paychecks.VALENCIA, Spain — Over the past two years, Ana María Molina Cuevas, 36, has worked five shifts a week in a ceramics factory on the outskirts of this city, hand-rolling paint onto tiles. But at the end of the month, she often went unpaid....
Clearwire accepts slightly sweeter bid from Sprint
Label: Technology(Reuters) – Clearwire Corp agreed to sell roughly half of the company for $ 2.2 billion to majority shareholder Sprint Nextel Corp, which would then have full ownership of spectrum that will help it offer high-speed wireless services.The $ 2.97-per-share deal is only 7 cents per share higher than a bid many minority shareholders said was too low days before. Clearwire shares tumbled 12.2 percent to...
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