A delicate new balancing act in senior healthcare

When Claire Gordon arrived at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, nurses knew she needed extra attention.She was 96, had heart disease...

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DC Comics Turns the Occupy Movement Into a Superhero Title

Eighteen months after the phrase first entered the collective public consciousness, the plight of the 99 percent is coming to mainstream superhero comics — via a new series from the second biggest publisher in the American comic industry, which just happens to be a subsidiary of a multi-national corporation that makes around $12 billion a year. Irony, anybody?In May, DC Comics will launch...

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In Nigeria, Polio Vaccine Workers Are Killed by Gunmen

At least nine polio immunization workers were shot to death in northern Nigeria on Friday by gunmen who attacked two clinics, officials said. The killings, with eerie echoes of attacks that killed nine female polio workers in Pakistan in December, represented another serious setback for the global effort to eradicate polio. Most of the victims were women and were shot in the back of...

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Degrees of Debt: College Costs, Battled a Paycheck at a Time

If Steve Boedefeld graduates from Appalachian State University without any student loan debt, it will be because of the money he earned fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and the money he now saves by eating what he grows or kills. Zack Tolmie managed to escape New York University with no debt — and a degree — by landing a job at Bubby’s, the brunch institution in TriBeCa, where he made...

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Big Bear locked down amid manhunt

The bustling winter resort of Big Bear took on the appearance of a ghost town Thursday as surveillance aircraft buzzed overhead...

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Watch Pirate Bay Documentary <em>TPB AFK</em> Here (Or on Pirate Bay, Naturally)

Get ready to pirate the pirates — legally. DIY indie documentary The Pirate Bay — Away From Keyboard (aka TPB AFK) premiered Friday at the Berlin International Film Festival, and quickly became available for viewing via YouTube, paid digital download, and, naturally, the torrent-based file-sharing site The Pirate Bay.Partially funded by Kickstarter, where director Simon Klose raised...

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Well: Think Like a Doctor: A Confused and Terrified Patient

The Challenge: Can you solve the mystery of a middle-aged man recovering from a serious illness who suddenly becomes frightened and confused?Every month the Diagnosis column of The New York Times Magazine asks Well readers to sift through a difficult case and solve a diagnostic riddle. Below you will find a summary of a case involving a 55-year-old man well on his way to recovering from a series of...

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European Union Leaders Agree to Slimmer Budget

BRUSSELS — As European Union leaders began their 14th hour of budget negotiations after a sleepless night, Valdis Dombrovskis, the prime minister of Latvia, took the floor early Friday to address what, for his Baltic nation of around just two million people, is a vital question: Why should a Latvian cow deserve less money than a French, Dutch and even Romanian one? In a system that requires...

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Ex-cop at center of manhunt called 'depraved,' 'cowardly'

The fired LAPD officer suspected of terrorizing Southern California in a bloody rampage opened fire on two Riverside police...

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It's Time to Make Vague Software Patents More Clear

Editor’s Note: The U.S. Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking input on software-related patents beginning with its first-ever public roundtable in Silicon Valley next week, so Wired Opinion is closing its special series on “The Patent Fix” with specific solutions like these that don’t require changing the law. This expert’s opinion is one of the proposals under consideration by...

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Well: The 'Monday Morning' Medical Screaming Match

I did not think I would ever see another “morbidity and mortality” conference in which senior doctors publicly attacked their younger colleagues for making medical errors. These types of heated meetings were commonplace when I was a medical student but have largely been abandoned.Yet here they were again on “Monday Mornings,” a new medical drama on the TNT network, based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta,...

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DealBook: Einhorn Sues Apple Over Plan to Discard Preferred Stock

11:41 a.m. | Updated The hedge fund magnate David Einhorn has long been known as a fervent fan of Apple. But he is making an unusually public stand to oppose a move by the company: a lawsuit.His hedge fund, Greenlight Capital, sued Apple on Thursday in an effort to block a move that would eliminate preferred shares. In a letter to fellow stockholders, Mr. Einhorn said the move to amend the company’s...

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Boy Scouts postpone decision on admitting gays

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Twitter Locks Kids Out of Its Vine Video App

Twitter now requires people to certify they are at least 17 years old before running the Apple version of the company’s video app Vine. Twitter says the iOS app is for adults because it contains ”frequent/intense sexual content or nudity,” among other things, signaling that Vine will continue to traffic in risqué content.People flipped out last week when a Twitter staffer...

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Personal Health: Effective Addiction Treatment

Countless people addicted to drugs, alcohol or both have managed to get clean and stay clean with the help of organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous or the thousands of residential and outpatient clinics devoted to treating addiction.But if you have failed one or more times to achieve lasting sobriety after rehab, perhaps after spending tens of thousands of dollars, you’re not alone. And chances...

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Trade Group Lawsuit Challenges Olive Oil Labeling

The North American Olive Oil Association, a trade group that represents the olive oil business in the United States and Canada, is suing Kangadis Food, saying that it falsely labeled its Capatriti brand as olive oil when the product is a fat from leftover olive skins and pits. That fat, known as olive pomace oil or olive residue oil, is extracted using high heat and chemical solvents...

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Obama urges short-term solution to prevent steep budget cuts

WASHINGTON – President Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to come up with short-term spending cuts and revenue increases that...

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Instagram Finally Feeds the Web, But We're Still Hungry

Instagram launched a web-based interface on Tuesday that largely mirrors its mobile app, allowing users to log in from a browser to view and interact with photos from people in your feed. It’s a big move from the company that grew to prominence as a mobile-only social network.Although Instagram had previously launched web profiles for its users and did give people the...

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Kristen Wiig joins “Anchorman” sequel

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Kristen Wiig will contribute to the lunacy in “Anchorman: The Legend Continues.”Director Adam McKay announced on Facebook that the “Bridesmaids” star had joined the cast of the follow-up to the 2004 hit.“Kristen Wiig is officially on board for Anchorman 2,” McKay wrote. “Couldn’t be more excited.”TheWrap first reported that Wiig was eyeing the project in December. McKay...

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