Luxury Liner’s Removal to Begin Off Italian Coast The New York Times | ROME — One of the most expensive and challenging salvage operations ever planned, the removal of the luxury liner Costa Concordia from granite rocks off the Tuscan coast, where it ran aground in January, will begin next week, the companies in charge announced Friday. Enlarge This Image Costa...
Fact Check: Story about Romney and missing child is true The Florida Times Union | Times-Union readers want to know: | Is it true that Mitt Romney closed down his firm, Bain Capital, and flew 30 workers to New York to look for the missing daughter of one of his colleagues? | The fact-finding groups PolitiFact.com, Snopes.com and Truthorfiction.com all rate this as true, and medi...
To Do This Weekend: Comic Con National! The Beat | . | (There’s a large, 8904 × 6216 image available .) | If there was one weekend which could rival San Diego in July, it would be this third weekend in May. No, there isn’t one big convention happening to rival Comic-Con International, ...
Major League Teams Working on Social Media Message The New York Times | CHICAGO (AP) — Bridget Houlihan rifled through her gift bag and pulled out a gray T-shirt with a circular Chicago Cubs emblem on the front and FOLLOWER emblazoned across the back, resting on a row of logos from the top social media websites. ...
Facebook Stock Finishes Flat in Debut The New York Times | NEW YORK (AP) — In the hours before Facebook's stock began trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the first time, CEO Mark Zuckerberg reminded the company's 3,500 employees not to get caught up in the hoopla surrounding its long-awaited initi...
Barbara D’Arcy White, Interior Design Guru, Dies at 84 The New York Times | Barbara D’Arcy White, an interior decorator whose eclectic sense of style helped change Americans’ taste in home furnishings in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when she was a design and merchandising guru at Bloomingdale’s, ...
Michael Rosenbaum, Award-Winning CBS Producer, Dies at 64 The New York Times | Michael Rosenbaum, an Emmy-winning CBS News producer who served as Tel Aviv bureau chief during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 64. | The cause was a brain tumor, CBS News said. | Mr....
Luxury Liner’s Removal to Begin Off Italian Coast The New York Times | ROME — One of the most expensive and challenging salvage operations ever planned, the removal of the luxury liner Costa Concordia from granite rocks off the Tuscan coast, where it ran aground in January, will begin next week, the companies in...
Chesapeake Energy to Cut Directors’ Pay The New York Times | A blog about energy and the environment. Go to Blog » Add to Portfolio | Chesapeake Energy Corporation | Go to your Portfolio » | The natural gas and oil producer Chesapeake Energy said that it would cut the pay of outside directors on its bo...
Facebook Builds Network of Friends in Washington The New York Times | SAN FRANCISCO — For nearly five years, Facebook has quietly and deftly befriended the nation’s top lawmakers by giving them a little tech support. Enlarge This Image Facebook | Representative Bob Goodlatte, center, with Joel Kaplan, lef...
The Sport of Kings and Drugs The New York Times | At the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, racing fans will be watching to see if I’ll Have Another can duplicate its Kentucky Derby victory and claim the second leg of the Triple Crown. Attention should be focused no less on the horse’s trai...
Tourism outlook positive this year Daily Press | GLOUCESTER — New festivals and events coupled with old standbys and an improved economy has fed a good vibe about the outlook for this year's tourism prospects. | Hilton Snowdon, Gloucester County Tourism coordinator, said the community is adding more events and has more activities to lure tourists who in the past may have restricted their ...
Europe's banks on the brink Reuters | LONDON, May 17 (IFR) - The euro zone crisis was in full swing when Jean-Claude Trichet took the podium in Berlin last October 6 for his final press conference as president of the European Central Bank. Having helped create one of the longest periods of price stability in the history of central banking, Trichet was closing out his eight-year reign...
