LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hugh Hefner is celebrating the new year as a married man once again.The 86-year-old Playboy magazine founder exchanged vows with his “runaway bride,” Crystal Harris, at a private Playboy Mansion ceremony on New Year’s Eve. Harris, a 26-year-old “Playmate of the Month” in 2009, broke off a previous engagement to Hefner just before they were to be married in 2011.Playboy said on Tuesday...
Study Suggests Lower Death Risk for the Overweight
Label: HealthA century ago, Elsie Scheel was the perfect woman. So said a 1912 article in The New York Times about how Miss Scheel, 24, was chosen by the “medical examiner of the 400 'co-eds'” at Cornell University as a woman “whose very presence bespeaks perfect health.” Miss Scheel, however, was hardly model-thin. At 5-foot-7 and 171 pounds, she would, by today's medical standards, be clearly overweight....
Tough decisions await new Tribune Co. board
Label: Business When the new seven-member Tribune Co. board officially convenes for the first time in the next few weeks, the group of media...
Dec
31
Chicago, Cook and State fees to rise in 2013
Label: World As the uncertain income-tax implications of the so-called federal fiscal cliff spread angst across the country, Illinois residents...
Sony No Longer Shipping PlayStation 2 in Japan
Label: TechnologyYou may have grown up with it. Your children may have, too.Sony‘s PlayStation 2 home game console, released in 2000, was one of the most popular game consoles of all time, rivaled in sales only by the different kinds of Nintendo DS handheld console. It continued to be sold new on store shelves until just recently, even years after Sony launched its PlayStation 3 successor.Now, however, Sony’s sent...
Green Day to get back on road in March
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (Reuters) – The members of Green Day said on Monday they will return to the road in March after the punk rock band canceled its fall club tour and postponed later dates as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong underwent treatment for substance abuse.“We want to thank everyone for hanging in with us for the last few months,” the band members said in a statement on their website. “We are very excited...
Well: Managing Diabetes, Then Told of Cancer
Label: HealthNine years ago, Brenda Gray, a former schoolteacher in North Carolina, discovered she had Type 2 diabetes.Since then, she has learned to manage the disease, diligently taking her medicine and keeping tabs on her blood sugar. But in September, she was told she had skin cancer, and her diabetes spun out of control.Ms. Gray started an aggressive course of treatment that included radiation therapy. But...
Tribune Co. emerges from bankruptcy
Label: Business The last day of 2012 is the first of a new era for Tribune Co.After spending more than four years embroiled in a contentious...
Dec
30
Fiscal deal stalls as clock ticks to deadline
Label: WorldSenate negotiators remain short of an agreement as a year-end deadline looms to prevent tax increases for nearly all Americans. (Dec. 30) ...
Autonomy’s Lynch defends record as HP confirms Federal probe
Label: TechnologyLONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch, the founder of the software firm sold to Hewlett-Packard last year in a deal tainted by accusations of accounting fraud, said he would defend the company’s accounts to U.S. Federal investigators.HP confirmed in a filing late on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating Autonomy‘s books.The PC and printer maker bought the British company for $ 11...
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