FIFA World Cup 2010 – Cities gear ...
Worldcup 2010 On the eve of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, FIFA.com spoke to some the Host City coordinators about the mood and the atmosphere in their cities just a few hours from kickoff. “Port Elizabeth has never had an iconic structure, like Cape Town has Table Mountain. Now we have our stadium. It has altered our skyline and we are proud of this,” said Nelson Mandela Bay/Port...How Brain Training Can Make You Signific...
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As many people hit middle age they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be. We suddenly can’t remember where we put the keys just a moment ago, or an old acquaintance’s name, or the name of an old band we used to love. As the brain fades, we euphemistically refer to these occurrences as “senior moments”.
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Mayor: 45 cases of ‘confirmed and ...
Twenty-eight students at a Queens parochial school have confirmed cases of the potentially lethal swine flu, with 17 others likely having the illness, New York City’s mayor said Monday. Mayor Michael Bloomberg emphasized that St. Francis Prep in Fresh Meadows appears to be the only cluster of the virus in the city. “We are still dealing with a single cluster,”...The costly secrets of hybrid cars...
Behold GMC’s hybrid, the K15 Sierra. This pickup truck scores a 3 on the EPA’s 0-to-10 emissions scale, with 0 being the worst. It gets a whopping 18 miles per gallon in combined city and highway driving. That compares with the 16 mpg attained by its non-hybrid sibling, the K1500 Sierra. So what, exactly, is green or even fuel-efficient about this vehicle? You might ask the...A Blockbuster of a Marketing Mistake...
The Blockbuster chain of video stores may be, in its current incarnation, parallel to a charging bull elephant with a bullet in its brain: It’s dead but doesn’t know it yet. Video rental is a perilous business to be in these days. So Blockbuster is testing new marketing ploys to keep its franchise in moderate health. The latest is a program called Blockbuster[R]...Impairment Charge Damps ValueClick’s E...
ValueClick Inc. generated $625.8 million during 2008, up from the $616.5 million it pulled in during 2007. But the online advertising firm took a net loss of $214.1 million in 2008, largely due to a $322 million impairment of goodwill charge. During 2007, it recorded $70.6 million in net income. With its operating units, the Media segment, which includes display advertising, lead...The Wrestler (2008) Movie Review Mickey ...
Everyone knows professional wrestling is fake. Everyone knows the same about movies. In both cases the eager spectators simultaneously admire the artifice and pretend it isn’t there, allowing themselves to believe that those people down in the ring or up on the screen are truly inflicting pain on one another. The Wrestler,” Darren Aronofsky’s fourth feature (and winner of the top...California’s Big Race to Succeed S...
L. to R.: Max Whittaker / Reuters; Chip Somodevilla / Getty Ever since gold miners first scraped their fortunes out of the hills of northern California, America’s most populous state has been a land of titanic dreams. These days, though, it’s a place with even bigger problems. Its $42 billion budget deficit would make an out-of-control Hollywood director blush — and...Clinton Says Don’t Blame Him for t...
AP – Former President Bill Clinton, speaks during the Jefferson/Jackson Democratic fundraising event in Richmond, … Given the sweep and severity of today’s global economic crisis, it would seem there’s plenty of blame to go around. But Bill Clinton doesn’t think any of it should fall on his shoulders. On Monday morning’s Today Show, Ann Curry‘s...UAW, GM make progress in auto talks...
DETROIT – With a government-imposed deadline for its restructuring plan just a day away, General Motors Corp. was making progress Monday in concession talks with debtholders and its main union, but deals may not come until after the deadline passes, according to people briefed on the situation. Talks at GM and Chrysler LLC, both of which are living off billions in government...