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| Michelle Obama: Obesity fight is ‘generational’ campaign Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 04:39 PM PST What dishes would first lady Michelle Obama like to magically turn into guilt-free health foods? What’s her personal fitness regimen? What does she think of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s controversial restrictions on big sodas? And why are the Obamas “a broccoli householdâ€? The first lady answered those questions and more about fitness in [...] Full Story | Top |
| Obama administration files brief supporting gay marriage in California Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:32 PM PST The Obama administration has waded into the legal battle over California's gay marriage ban, filing a brief with the Supreme Court Thursday evening that argues the state's voters did not have the right to decide gay couples cannot wed. In the brief, the Justice Department--which is not involved in the case--argues that the gay marriage [...] Full Story | Top |
| 65th high school reunion to be held at funeral home building Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 02:53 PM PST Awkward or eerily practical? The 65th Lincoln (Wis.) High School reunion will be held at a funeral home's gathering center in Manitowoc, Wis. We first saw the news over at Jim Romenesko's media blog. Barbara Luhring, a daughter of a member of the class of 1948, wrote in and said that her first reaction was [...] Full Story | Top |
| MMA enjoying an ‘explosion’ in popularity with kids Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:39 PM PST Mixed martial arts, the rough-and-tumble fighting form more commonly known as “MMA,†has surged in popularity with children. An estimated 3 million children under the age of 13 are now taking MMA classes around the country, according to Orlando, Fla.'s WKMG. The sport, which has enjoyed massive mainstream popularity through leagues like the Ultimate Fighting [...] Full Story | Top |
| Pretty cool: Massive ice boulders make waves on the Web Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:39 PM PST You know it’s cold when the snowballs are so big they look prehistoric. The rounded ice boulders on the shore of Lake Michigan caught the attention of the Web when North Michigan resident Leda Olmstead posted pictures of them on Facebook. They proceeded to go viral. Olmstead, who lives near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, [...] Full Story | Top |
| 11-year-old reprimands City Council for rudeness Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 01:11 PM PST Who says you can't fight City Hall? Certainly not 11-year-old David Williams. The young man reprimanded members of the Dallas City Council for not giving him their undivided attention during a meeting. In a video that went viral, David stands behind a podium, with a room full of strangers to his back. Well, actually, he [...] Full Story | Top |
| Sequestration is coming. Now what? Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 12:39 PM PST The Senate on Thursday voted to reject all proposals for an alternative deficit-reduction plan that would avoid sequestration, a process that will trim $85 billion in across-the-board spending from the federal budget this year. Barring a sudden and unexpected outbreak of bipartisan cooperation (LOL) over the next 12 hours, most federal departments on Friday will [...] Full Story | Top |
| Spielberg debuts IWitness, a Holocaust testimonial project Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 12:26 PM PST "Schindler's List" is Steven Spielberg’s most critically acclaimed film, taking home seven Oscars, including the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1994. But as the film's 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Blu Ray debuts on March 5, its larger legacy may be a project from the director chronicling the stories of the men and women who [...] Full Story | Top |
| Helicopter’s blades blow stranded deer to safety Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:56 AM PST A helicopter used the wind generated by its blades to rescue a deer stuck on the middle of a frozen lake in Nova Scotia, Canada. The rescue was captured on video by Ian Waugh. The footage shows the deer sliding on its belly while the chopper flies incredibly close to the ice's surface. The deer [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientist Stumbles onto a Cure for Color Blindness Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:06 AM PST Out in the world, one out of every 10 men have some form of color blindness. While it’s not the most debilitating genetic irregularity, color blindness can still make everyday tasks, such as getting dressed, difficult. Imagine being color blind and in a gang. That could become downright dangerous. Then, of course, color blindness becomes [...] Full Story | Top |
| Would You Pay to Kiss Postal Mail Goodbye? Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:45 AM PST A new service called Outbox promises to come to your house, collect your physical mail, and scan it so you can read it online via computer, iPad or smartphone. Clever, but worth paying for? The start-up already has over 600 customers in Austin, Texas and is now testing the service in San Francisco, with hopes [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bloomberg Businessweek editor regrets publishing controversial housing cover Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:34 AM PST Bloomberg Businessweek is taking a beating from critics who say the magazine's recent coverâ€"featuring a cartoon illustration of what appears to be a black family rolling in cash from a housing reboundâ€"is racist. "Our cover illustration got strong reactions, which we regret," Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg Businessweek's editor in chief, said in a statement to Yahoo [...] Full Story | Top |
| Civil rights leaders outraged over Scalia’s ‘racial entitlement’ argument Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:23 AM PST Civil rights leaders are up in arms over Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's skeptical questions about a key portion of the Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement that brought an end to Jim Crow-era racial discrimination at the polls in the South. In oral arguments over the law on Wednesday, Scalia, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mom-to-be lets online voters pick baby’s name for $5,000 Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 08:14 AM PST A California woman expecting a baby in September has agreed to allow online voters name her child in exchange for $5,000. Natasha Hill, a 26-year-old art teacher from Los Angeles, won a contest launched by Belly Ballot, an Austin, Texas-based startup that allows expecting parents to crowdsource their baby names with friends and family. Hill [...] Full Story | Top |
| 106-year-old woman to get high-school diploma Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 08:13 AM PST Reba Williams, a 106-year-old Pennsylvania woman, is finally getting her high-school diploma. The Mansfield News Journal explains that Williams completed her 12 years of education when she was a teen in the 1920s. However, Williams refused to read a book (unnamed, but we'd love to know what it was) assigned by her teacher senior yearâ€"and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bloomberg’s popularity slips amid opposition to soda ban Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 07:34 AM PST Michael Bloomberg has said he hopes to be remembered as New York City’s best mayor after he leaves office later this year. But his popularity appears to have taken a hit among New Yorkers who have mixed feelings about an upcoming ban on large, sugary drinks. A new Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday found [...] Full Story | Top |
| The Catholic Church In Transition Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:56 AM PST As the Catholic Church prepares to appoint a new Pope after the unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, a cloud hangs over the Vatican. Many Catholics are uneasy about the leadership of the church. To discuss the church in transition Christiane sat down with Italian Journalist Marco Politi.  In his book, “Crisis of a Papacy,†[...] Full Story | Top |
| Unions release ads attacking Republicans on sequester Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:34 AM PST Several major unions have teamed up to issue a public warning to Republican members of Congress over the sequesterâ€"across-the-board spending cuts which will go into effect March 1 if Congress fails to pass a budget measure. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Service Employees [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Marijuana cannon’ fires pot across border fence Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:10 AM PST Mexican police have confiscated an improvised cannon that they say was used to fire packages of marijuana across a border fence into California. The makeshift cannon was made of plastic pipe and powered by compressed air sourced from an old car engine, police in the border city of Mexicali said. The device was able to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Teachers use Wikipedia as much as students do: Study Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:54 AM PST Teachers who worry that their students rely on Google and Wikipedia too much use them just as often. The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project surveyed 2,462 of America's middle- and high-school teachers last year about the effect of digital technologies in their classrooms. The study found that 76 percent of teachers “strongly [...] Full Story | Top |
| Thursday in politics: Rival sequester votes expected in Senate, and more Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:18 AM PST Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have drafted alternative measures to replace the $85 billion in spending cuts â€" aka the sequester â€" set to begin phasing in Friday. Votes on the measures are expected Thursday and both are expected to fail. The strategy, as the Associated Press reports, is avoiding public blame for any [...] Full Story | Top |
| Justice Department poised to respond to states that have legalized marijuana Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 02:03 AM PST Amid the celebrations for President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony in January, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper met with Attorney General Eric Holder during an inaugural reception in Washington, D.C., where the two men discussed an unorthodox topic, given their surroundings: marijuana. Colorado and Washington state legalized the recreational use of marijuana in 2012, and Hickenlooper was [...] Full Story | Top |
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