Syrian air force on offensive after failed truce

affiliate marketing AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian warplanes bombed rebel targets with renewed intensity on Tuesday after the end of a widely ignored four-day truce between President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces and insurgents.State television said “terrorists” had assassinated an air force general, Abdullah Mahmoud al-Khalidi, in a Damascus suburb,...

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Daniel Craig, Bill Murray confirmed for “The Monuments Men”

affiliate marketing LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Daniel Craig and Bill Murray are joining Cate Blanchett and Jean Dujardin in George Clooney‘s ‘The Monuments Men,” as previously reported in TheWrap.A rep for George Clooney confirmed the castings to TheWrap. affiliate marketing Blanchett...

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Ted Wechsler: The Next Warren Buffett?

affiliate marketing A knack for finding value in distressed companies is helping Ted Weschler carve out a role at Berkshire Hathaway (BRK/A) that goes beyond the stockpicking job he was hired for. Since joining Warren Buffett’s company in January, the 51-year-old former hedge fund manager has made a bid for a bankrupt mortgage business,...

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Mammograms: For 1 life saved, 3 women overtreated

affiliate marketing LONDON (AP) — Breast cancer screening for women over 50 saves lives, an independent panel in Britain has concluded, confirming findings in U.S. and other studies.But that screening comes with a cost: The review found that for every life saved, roughly three other women were overdiagnosed, meaning they were unnecessarily...

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Sandy foils Facebook staffers’ long-awaited stock sales

affiliate marketing SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s Silicon Valley headquarters are far away from the eye of Hurricane Sandy, yet for employees of the social networking company, the storm hit home.After nearly six months of watching helplessly as the value of Facebook’s stock crumbled, Facebook employees finally got the greenlight...

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Cuba’s 2nd city without power, water after Sandy

affiliate marketing HAVANA (AP) — Residents of Cuba‘s second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island’s deadliest storm in seven years, ripping rooftops from homes and toppling power lines.Across the Caribbean, the storm’s death toll rose to 69,...

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Prowler at Cruise’s home turns out to be neighbor

affiliate marketing BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Police say a security guard at actor Tom Cruise‘s house used a stun gun on a would-be prowler, but the man turned out to be an intoxicated neighbor who may have mistakenly entered the property.Lt. Lincoln Hoshino says the confrontation occurred at Cruise’s Beverly Hills residence about...

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More Immigration, Not Less, Will Drive U.S. Growth

affiliate marketing For those in favor of immigration reform, it might have been a relief that the presidential candidates spent more time describing how workers overseas are stealing American jobs than they did accusing foreign workers of stealing jobs right here in the U.S.A. But the status quo on immigration apparently supported by...

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Plant compounds tied to less stomach cancer in women: study

affiliate marketing (Reuters) – Getting a moderate amount of plant substances called flavonoids through food may be linked to a lower stomach cancer risk in women – but not in men, according to a European study.The researchers, writing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that women with the highest intake of flavonoids...

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Facebook used to kidnap, traffic Indonesian girls

affiliate marketing DEPOK, Indonesia (AP) — When a 14-year-old girl received a Facebook friend request from an older man she didn’t know, she accepted it out of curiosity. It’s a click she will forever regret, leading to a brutal story that has repeated itself as sexual predators find new ways to exploit Indonesia’s growing obsession...

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