Plane Search Spans Asia, But Investigation Shows Little Progress
(Reuters) - An international land and sea search for a missing Malaysian jetliner is covering an area the size of Australia, authorities said on Tuesday, but police and intelligence agencies have yet...
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Photo Essay: Istanbul's Islamic Fashion
Twice yearly, Istanbul’s Fashion Week draws a varied crowd—from the religiously conservative to social liberals. Recent trends highlighted versatility, allowing the wearer to tailor designer outfits to...
View ArticleCourtney Love Thinks She Has Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
As we’ve long suspected, Courtney Love isn’t much of an aviation expert. She squarely acknowledges this fact on her Facebook page. Nonetheless, the longtime Hole singer apparently thinks she’s found...
View ArticleWorm Now Thrives in GMO Corn Designed to Kill It, Study Says
One of industrial agriculture’s biggest GMO crops may have just backfired. Scientists have confirmed that corn-destroying rootworms have evolved to be resistant to the Bt corn engineered to kill them....
View ArticleWhy Ukraine Hasn’t Sparked a Big Cyberwar, So Far
Cyberwar, we have been warned on countless occasions, will be a major part of the next global conflict. So how is it playing out in Ukraine? The answer is: so far, not so bad. A best-case scenario sees...
View ArticleGadget Lust: Nespress Yourself
Modern-day couples must make many difficult decisions: What religion to raise the children, whose family to visit on Thanksgiving and whether to record the game while watching Masterpiece Theater or...
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March Madness Needs More Madness: How to Really Bust Up Your Brackets
In the annual b-ball-meets-The Hunger Games festival known as the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, there is no greater surprise than the fact that people are still surprised by it. We may refer to the...
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Today in Tabs: The Dismal Science of Tabs
Dave Winer, gray-bearded human tab of the old school, who helped create RSS in the year 1240 and has been busy blogging about it since, published an anecdote yesterday about this one time when he hired...
View ArticleGoogle Targets Consumers' Wrists for Next Frontier with Android Watch Project
(Reuters) - Google Inc said on Tuesday that smartwatches based on its Android mobile software will be available later this year, enlisting a variety of partners and signaling the Internet company's...
View ArticleWhen Is a Mandate Not a Mandate? Ask the Supreme Court
In a famous scene from the classic sci-fi film The Matrix, in which the perceived world turns out to be a simulation instead of reality, the character played by Keanu Reeves encounters a young boy...
View ArticleWhy Joe Biden Is the Right Guy for the Ukraine Job
Joe Biden’s candor is both a good and bad thing, as it is for most people on the upper end of the speak-your-mind scale. For Biden, it’s bad in the sense that it’s led fewer people to take him...
View ArticleTrina Tries to Move On From Bad Girl Rap
"Is that a stripper pole?" Trina asks her entourage of a floor-to-ceiling metal pipe as she browses the many jeweled, studded, and tasseled bras at a South Beach boutique that caters to drag...
View ArticleMan Behind Goldman Sachs Elevator Twitter Feed Lands Another Book Deal After...
Everyone’s favorite sometimes-joke-stealing parody tweeter has just found himself a book deal to make up for the one Simon & Schuster snatched away earlier this month.Mark Lefevre, the...
View ArticleMissing Malaysian Jet Most Likely in Southern Indian Ocean: Source
(Reuters) - Investigators probing the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner with 239 people on board believe it most likely flew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the...
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Russian Forces Storm Ukraine Base in Crimea, U.S. Sees 'Dark Path' to Isolation
SEVASTOPOL/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States warned Moscow it was on a "dark path" to isolation on Wednesday after Russian troops backed by unarmed volunteers stormed Ukraine's naval headquarters in...
View ArticleJRR Tolkien Version of Beowulf to be Released
JRR Tolkien's version of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem 'Beowulf' is set to be released to the Tolkien-craving masses. Tolkien's son Christopher says the book focuses on the backstory of 'Beowulf,' which is...
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Today in Tabs: Picture a Tab
Picture a smart person," said Y Combinator founder and frequent source of inspiring tech quotesPaul Graham. Ok, you think, I can do that. You picture, perhaps, famously affable physics genius Richard...
View ArticleNirvana’s Original Drummer Has Been Spurned by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Early Nirvana drummer Chad Channing has presumably spent much of the past 22 years wondering why fate interfered with his close encounter with stardom. This week he suffered yet another indignity,...
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Scientists Add 'Chicken From Hell' Dino to the Fossil Record
Please welcome to the fossil record a feathered, flightless dinosaur resembling a nightmarishly giant chicken. Unearthed from the massive Hell Creek rock formation in North Dakota and South Dakota, the...
View ArticlePossible Malaysian Plane Debris Spotted in Indian Ocean Off Australia
Update 7:07 am ET: OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian car carrier Hoegh St. Petersburg has reached the area in the southern Indian Oceanoff Australia where two floating objects, suspected to be debris from the...
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