|  |  |  | | | | | Huffington Post | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Brain fitness ranks as one of the hottest topics at the water cooler these days. Suddenly everyone wants to learn more about what we can do to keep our minds sharp and stay in top intellectual form at the office.
Although the science of brain health remains young, research clearly indicates there is much we can do to improve our everyday memory. Building better brain health can help us boost work skills such as recalling important client information, learning training materials or just keeping track of key documents. It can also lower our risk of serious memory loss.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LOS ANGELES - The central innovation behind what has become one of the fastest-growing technology companies on earth was provoked by a pair of shoes – specifically, a pair of black-studded stilettos crafted by the Italian designer Cesare Paciotti.
Brian Lee eyeballed the shoes, purchased by his wife at an exclusive local boutique, and could not get past the price tag: $1,200. "I was just floored," he says. Why couldn't she simply go to one of the big-box retailers that specialise in shoes at more modest prices? Her response generated a business plan.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Day and night torrents of words cascade through every building down every telephone line and out of all our wireless paraphernalia. Every public space -- elevators, shopping malls, hotel lobbies, restaurants, airports -- is plastered with some variety of musical wallpaper. In her novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit," Jeannette Winterson comes up with an ingenious solution to all this noise: She has a sky-cleaner come on duty every night and mop up all the verbal and musical flotsam that is hovering over the city. Even better, perhaps, might be for every major city to take a five minute silence break every day. Imagine it: L.A. or New York, quiet as a country village for a whole five minutes every afternoon at 4 p.m.!
It won't happen of course. Quite apart from all the "important" information we have to exchange, we just love our chatter and banter too much. There is ordinary human warmth in it, the wish to communicate without really knowing what to say. There are the nothings we exchange which simply mean "We're here together, in this together," waiting for the bus, at the next table in a café, an expression of human solidarity and friendliness in a shared shower of rain. And there is the semi-articulate groping for words when we are trying to express interest, trying to tell a person we want to know who they are.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Premiering exclusively with HuffPost Entertainment is the video for the Ben Folds song "A Working Day," the kick-off track from his album Lonely Avenue. Co-written with novelist Nick Hornby, "A Working Day" is a commentary on popularity and hipness that skewers its topic while calling out the internet, blogs, and other social media in the process.
"We had done an a cappella version of 'A Working Day,' which tied together audiences of two thousand people apiece in seven different cities," explains Folds. "It's like a fifteen thousand person choir. We tied that all in with computer editing, so that all those people are singing together and it was all videotaped. So, we're releasing a video today of our fifteen thousand people choir across the Midwest."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON – Those who have known Tim Pawlenty for a long time are stumped by a simple question: What happened to him?
It's not just his presidential campaign, which is at a low point. His poll numbers have spiraled downward and his $4.2 million second quarter fundraising haul was disappointing. It's also Pawlenty himself. Numerous longtime friends and associates of the former Minnesota governor told The Huffington Post the problem is deeper: They don't recognize the man running for president.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  June 1967: on the eve of the sixth day of the Six Day War, I was the guest of the newly appointed governor of the newly conquered old city of Jerusalem, General Chaim (Vivian) Herzog, later to become president of Israel, who had earned his military spurs as major in the Scots Guard in World War II. Among the guests were Winston Churchill's son Randolph and grandson Winston junior as well as Lady Pamela Berry, wife of the chairman of The Daily Telegraph.
By that evening Egypt's Air Force was destroyed; the Sinai desert occupied by Israel, Jordan's elite troupes -- the Arab Legion -- thoroughly defeated. Only Syria seemed to be unscathed. The steep Golan Heights still menaced the Jewish settlements of Galilee. Suddenly a messenger stormed into the roof restaurant and brought the news that elite units of the Israeli Army had just succeeded in scaling the Golan Heights and defeated the Syrian army. The road to Damascus was open. The Six Day War came to an end.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony's eyes welled with tears and her lips trembled as the verdict was read once, twice and then a third time: "Not guilty" of killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Outside the courthouse, many in the crowd of 500 reacted with anger, chanting, "Justice for Caylee!" One man yelled, "Baby killer!"
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Orlando, Fla. -- Inside the courtroom, there was jubilation today for Casey Anthony and her defense team. Not only did they manage to avoid a first-degree murder conviction, they also dodged the possibility of a death sentence. However, outside on the courthouse steps, there was a lot of outrage and frustration at the verdict.
"It is not justice. I cannot believe this. How did an injustice like this happen? It is terrible, terrible," Scott Corfee of Orlando, who sat in court when the verdict was announced, told The Huffington Post.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LOS ANGELES -- The central innovation behind what has become one of the fastest-growing technology companies on earth was provoked by a pair of shoes – specifically, a pair of black-studded stilletos crafted by the Italian designer Cesare Paciotti.
Brian Lee eyeballed the shoes, purchased by his wife at an exclusive local boutique, and could not get past the price tag: $1,200. "I was just floored," he said. Why couldn't she simply go to one of the big-box retailers that specialize in shoes at more modest prices? Her response generated a business plan.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For the last decade, I think I have celebrated every 4th of July in the City of Lights. Yesterday was no exception. Although Giambattista Valli made his couture debut on Independence Day, I was not granted an invitation to the show. I heard it was full of over the top gowns and a long front row of socials. I don't know if any of these PYT's plan to buy anything, and certainly the ladies I know who buy Haute Couture were not in attendance since they were with me at some other events around town. Which makes me wonder: if you are doing a show, isn't it wise to invite those who actually are owners and not loaners? PYTs may garner press, but ultimately if a designer isn't selling the collection, I find the entire circus to then be a vanity act.
As for those selling their wares, Bruno Frusoni hosted a chic cocktail party Monday night to reveal his latest "demi" couture collection for the ultimate cobbler, Roger Vivier. The prices are steep: I have seen evening shoes in the $20,000 range and I am told they really do sell. With a strictly limited production for each model and exclusives granted to a particular client's territory (for $20,000 one should be assured that they are the only client in North America who owns a certain poie de soie pump with feather protrusion), Vivier is doing brisk business in Asia and Russia with these limited editions. And how prohibitive is a $20,000 shoe when one considers a $50,000 croco Birkin is de rigeur when lunching at L' Avenue?
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  PRESS ASSOCIATION - The Government's Finance Bill which will enact many of the tax and spending measures announced in Chancellor George Osborne's Budget has cleared the Commons.
Treasury Exchequer Secretary David Gauke said the Bill would help ensure the stability of the financial sector, protect the most vulnerable in society from the worst effects of the downturn and would "make Britain a better place to do business and stimulate private sector growth".
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More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  While Prince William and his wife Catherine's upcoming visit to LA has been hyped up by everyone from us to Rachel Zoe, the royal couple is actually trying to avoid any unofficial publicity.
The newlyweds have legally secured paparazzi-free zones in certain areas they're planning to visit. The LA Police Department has received no-trespassing contracts from the residents of seven homes surrounding the Hancock Park residence on June Street, where the couple is spending one night, reports the LA Times. Angelenos who reside by the British consul general building have also signed the no-trespassing agreements.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the unmitigated joys for an American living in London is to be part of the great Anglo-American friendship that transcends all political, religious or other differences. The Ronald Reagan Centennial Banquet on Monday night at Guild Hall was a glorious celebration of that historical and magical link. Festooned in Union Jacks and the Stars and Stripes, with the 800 year old walls adorned by the larger-than-life statues of Admiral Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, William Pitt and Sir Winston Churchill, the Guild Hall was the perfect setting to celebrate the greatness of two nations. The seven hundred guests were led by Foreign Secretary William Hague, Defence Secretary Liam Fox and former Prime Minister John Major. The generosity of Britain in celebrating our former President made this American grateful and proud of our shared values and shared history.
To provide such an evening in celebration of the man who, as Margaret Thatcher once said, "ended the Cold War without firing a shot," was generous and lovely and powerful. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave a beautiful speech about the freedom that was won when the Berlin Wall came down, about how unlikely it was when my generation was born, about how the generation being born now that might not understand how hard it was and about how it truly changed the world. William Hague gave an inspired speech about our nations standing together to reject oppression and to give optimism to people around the world. It was all together a wonderful night.
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My true inner-killer combatant was revealed as I underwent a personalized warrior assessment from the chief physician of Spike TV's "Deadliest Warrior," the show where civilization's most skilled military fighters are pitted against one another to determine last warrior standing: Vikings clash with samurais; Green Berets skirmish Spetsnaz; Maoris collide with Shaolin monks.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Alabama's new anti-immigration law includes provisions that serve no purpose other than to intimidate undocumented immigrants and discourage them from getting an education.
They don't call it the Bible Belt for nothing. In Alabama, leaders of the United Methodist Church, Episcopal Church, Lutheran Church, and Roman Catholic Church have spoken out against HB 56, the state's new anti-immigrant law. They say it runs counter to Christian principles.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Big. Bigger. Biggest. Somehow those words don't seem fitting descriptions for the new Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Biggeriest? Spectactimammogigantular?
In any case, it seems that Michael Bay's plan for redeeming himself for the universally reviled Transformers: Rise of the Fallen involves ironically jettisoning as much plot as possible and focusing on the fireworks, all in glorious, James-Cameron-approved 3D. That's maybe not a bad idea, considering that the film's less-than-innovative narrative once again centers on the noble Autobots trying to foil the Decepticons' plan for world conquest, with the hapless Sam Witwicky (Shia LeBeouf) serving his traditional role as the beanbag tossed around by the warring factions. He gets a new girlfriend (Rosie Huntington-Whitely), reunites with old associates (including John Turturro as the self-aggrandizing Simmons), and gains some new friends (John Malkovich) and enemies (Patrick Dempsey), plus a visit from (the voice of) Leonard Nimoy as the latest addition to the robot corps.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Detroit -- I'm going to oversimplify, but not by much. There's nothing wrong with America that three million new industrial jobs using innovative technologies wouldn't solve. Those three million industrial jobs would quickly generate the other three million jobs -- in construction, agriculture, and services -- that add up to the current jobs deficit in this country.
That's the power of manufacturing jobs. They would instantly start carving down the mountain of debt that constitutes the price America is paying for two wars, the Bush tax cuts, and the economic collapse produced by trying to substitute banking fees for making things as the foundation of our economy. Our deficit is not the result of ongoing, out-of-control federal spending, either for basic government goods and services or for entitlements. It is black swans like the wars and self-inflicted wounds like the tax cuts that put us in hock.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's been a crazy week in the American justice system.
First, the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn (aka DSK) fell apart because the credibility of his accuser, a hotel maid, got trashed. Coming on the heels of that news, 12 jurors agreed unanimously, and in record time, that Casey Anthony could not be found guilty of having anything to do with her daughter's death.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  With just about a year to go before the 2012 Olympics begin in London, the city is grappling with the kind of scandal it had hoped to avoid in the nearly decade-long prelude to the games.
An employee of the Olympic Park Legacy Company has been suspended amid allegations that she worked as a consultant for the football club, West Ham, that ultimately won the bid to use the Olympic Stadium after the games are finished. Now the club is suing the Sunday Times, which first reported on the row.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The case appears to be over. Dominique Strauss-Kahn will return to France a free man and be acclaimed for his triumph over the egregious elements of so-called U.S. legal justice. In fact, he may even be guilty of a violent attack on a hotel chambermaid. But that doesn't really doesn't matter anymore. The "alleged" victim (one must continue to use "alleged") is a liar -- and provably so -- and whether she lied also about the ultimate issue in the case (i.e. whether she was forced to give him sex) is now beside the point now. She has done irreparable damage to her own credibility and, perhaps more importantly, to rape victims everywhere. They will now know the cost of coming forward with rape complaints when it is they, perhaps even more than the accused, who will become the target. Indeed, legal protections of rape victims by rape shield laws and removing corroboration requirements may be in jeopardy.
Nor does it matter whether it was the prosecutors, the world-wide press, or the defense attorneys who discovered the maid's litany of lies. It appears, at least at the moment, that the prosecutors themselves either became suspicious or were told of some problems in her story by her own attorney. It was inevitable that DSK's able attorneys would have for use at trial at least some of the extremely-exculpatory material -- the false claims on her asylum petition; the phony tax deduction; the false account of her hiding just before she complained; the relationship with a drug dealer and multiple telephone numbers; the suspicious deposits to her bank account; and the recorded bragging that she knew how to deal with the "rich guy."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While the mainstream press has been silent on the issue, there is a growing movement in Colombia for a peaceful settlement of the decades-long civil war in Colombia between the FARC and ELN guerillas and the Colombian government. A step was made in the direction of building a process toward such a settlement on June 8th with the National Meeting of Peasant, Afro-descendent and Indigenous Peoples for Land and Peace in Bogota.
As an article from Justice for Colombia (JFC) notes, "the meeting launched the preparations for the National Conference on Peace that will be held in Barrancabermeja later this year [from August 12 - 15], aimed at using the experiences of different communities to begin a debate on how to achieve a peaceful solution to Colombia's social and armed conflict." JFC notes that speakers at this meeting included representatives of Colombia's peasant communities, a delegate of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, Jesuit priest Father de Roux, a delegate representing the Colombian government and the Jimmy Carter Foundation.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  It's no secret that Africa houses some of the longest-serving and most repressive dictators on the planet. Even among the states that have progressed past authoritarian rule, many governments still restrict basic rights with heavy-handed and often violent tactics. It's also no secret that Africa has the smallest Internet penetration of any continent, though it also cannot be denied that the advent of cheap, web-enabled phones has been precipitating broad changes in the continent's Internet landscape. Up until recently, these two facts may have seemed only peripherally related. Most governments had taken a pretty laissez-faire approach to the Internet; it wasn't enough of an issue for most leaders to take the time to learn about, let alone address with policy. But as the Arab Spring continues to roar just a stone's throw North, tremors have rippled well into the heart of the continent. In response, many African governments have begun taking strong stances on Internet freedoms, even before most of their populations have had the chance to experience the free and open Internet as it was originally formulated.
I was exposed to this issue most notably two weeks ago when I was helping host a workshop for African journalists, bloggers and activists who work in at-risk environments. First, let me say, I have never been so honored to be in a room full of people for whom I could not have more respect and admiration. These were people who risked their lives, often on a daily basis, to hold their governments accountable. And what stories they had to tell. Living in Africa and trying to spread the benefits of the web to more Africans for the last nine months, I was astonished to discover just how advanced many repressive regimes have become in their tactics.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The children are the future.
Whitney Houston said this in her iconic song "Greatest Love of All." Walt Disney said "Our greatest natural resources are the minds of our children." So we know that young minds are the fires behind revolutions and the catalyst for change, but when given the opportunity to vote -- they do very little with it. I wonder, why is that? Being a young adult myself, I know that many young adults feel like their vote won't matter, that only people 40+ care about the 'issues,' they don't have the time to make it to the polling place with their busy schedules, "why can't I just e-mail my vote," many aren't even registered, and the remaining would choose to nap a little longer, rather than make a difference.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Does U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have the legal authority to move forward with a proposal that allows states to bypass school performance requirements set out by a federal law in exchange for new requirements? He might, but he might also end up in court, according to a memo by the Congressional Research Service released Tuesday afternoon.
As an overhaul of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) -- the sweeping federal education law that sets most national school policy -- continues to lag in Congress, Duncan is beginning to get answers about the viability of his plan to relieve states of the law's requirements in exchange for implementing some of his choice reforms.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  THE CANADIAN PRESS -- BRACEBRIDGE, Ont. - A man who is challenging the constitutionality of Canada's nudity laws received a boost Tuesday from a handful of naturists who descended on the small town in Ontario's cottage country where his lawyers were making arguments.
Lawyers for Brian Coldin spent the day trying to convince an Ontario court judge that it should no longer be a criminal offence to be naked in public. About six self-described naturists were in the courtroom to support him.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A British soldier whose body was found after he went missing in southern Afghanistan was a man of "true grit" with a "heart of gold," his colleagues have said.
Highlander Scott McLaren of 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland, disappeared from a Nato checkpoint in central Helmand province on Monday, sparking a massive 17-hour search.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote a column lambasting Kentucky GOP elder statesman Larry Forgy -- a prominent supporter of David Williams for Governor -- for the following comments he made in an article about the role of faith in politics, written by Jack Brammer of the Lexington Herald-Leader:
The "only reason" Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear picked former Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson to be his running mate was "to attract New York and Hollywood Jewish money" for the campaign.
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More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With all the talk of Facebook, Twitter, blogging and other social media, we often forget how we used to promote a book: locally. Many books that hit big success did so by building a regional buzz. But regional seems a lot less sexy these days and often gets overlooked. If media is being pursued, it's often on a national level, bypassing individual markets altogether.
One of the things I've found about regional promotion is that it can often surprise you. When we worked on The Kennedy Detail last November, we had enormous success regionally, while major stations and national markets seemed to lag in interest for this exceptional title. In fact, I believe that part of the reason this book hit the bestseller list was because of the regional buzz.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - Canada's new official Opposition appealed directly to Israel not to harm a boatload of Canadian protesters determined to break the Gaza Strip blockade.
NDP Leader Jack Layton and foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar delivered that plea directly to Israel's ambassador to Canada, Miriam Ziv, during a meeting at the opposition leader's office in early June.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Journalism is an inherently arrogant profession.
From the nucleus of the idea -- journalists write something, the reader reads it -- it's something that thrives off a sense of superiority.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  THE CANADIAN PRESS -- MONCTON, N.B. - The fate of a New Brunswick man accused of abducting a stranger outside a Moncton shopping mall and keeping her prisoner in his dark, one-room basement apartment for almost a month is in the hands of a jury.
Romeo Cormier leafed through a paperback novel as the judge overseeing the case spent four hours instructing the five-man, seven-woman jury on the six charges he faces.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Trial began this afternoon in the trial of a California teenager accused of execution-style murdering a gay classmate at a middle school in 2008.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Brandon McInerney, then 14, walked into his eighth-grade classroom, took a .22-caliber handgun out of his backpack and shot 15-year-old Larry King, who was sitting directly in front of him. McInerney then threw the gun on the floor and walked out of the room.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only people who think it's fun to do book promotion and events are the ones who haven't written a book, at least in my experience. I hear it all the time from friends and family. "How exciting!" "I wish I could do something like that."
A writer friend squirms in sympathy over our occasionally shared breakfasts when I tell her what and where my latest book gig is. "Oh, my God!" she gasps, turning as green as her eggs, a local eatery's homage to Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham (or in this case, tempah.) "Better you than me."
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  Economic issues were in the spotlight on Tuesday, both on Capitol Hill and on the campaign trail. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney appeared to falter in taking aim at the president's fiscal policies while debate continued in the nation's capital over raising the debt ceiling.
All of that and more in your day in politics news.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bibi Netanyahu and his allies in Washington daydream about making the perfect match after next year's American presidential election. In this fantasy a Republican president will team-up with the Likudnik Prime Minister to revitalize U.S. hegemony in the Middle East with Israel acting as its dependable sheriff. Israel will then receive a green light from the White House to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear military sites, to do a rerun of operation "cast lead" in Gaza, and to bomb Beirut in retaliation against Hezbollah.
Netanyahu, who has all but signed in as a political advisor for the 2012 Republican election campaign, is operating under the assumption that if Barack Obama is ousted from the White House next year he would be replaced by a clone of George W. Bush. Driven by faith and ideology, the support of Christian evangelists and the advice of neo-conservative foreign policy intellectuals, the new Republican president will embrace a Middle East policy agenda aligned with that the Likud-led government.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  I am a Zionist. Like most Jews living in the United States and elsewhere in the world, I believe in the indispensability of a Jewish state as an ultimate haven and as representative of the Jewish people, whose long history of pogroms, mistreatment as second class citizens, mass expulsions and the extreme horror of the Holocaust demonstrates a need for a state of their own. Even before the recognition of Israel as the Jewish state, as a teenager I rode the New York subways soliciting contributions for the Jewish National Fund to purchase land in the Yishuv. After the establishment of Israel, I supported the state and its institutions in many ways, including political activities, contributions and investment. Like other Jews, I took great pride in the enormous accomplishments of the Israeli people in building a successful modern state on what had been farmland and living up to its promise by accepting close to one million Soviet Jews and integrating them into its society.
However, that promise now faces a serious threat. This comes not in the form of foreign militaries, Palestinian terror or economic instability, but in the very persons who purport to support it. The alliance of aggressive nationalists and religious expansionists is endangering the dream of Zionism as conceived of by Theodore Herzl and shared by millions of Jews. Through their overzealous efforts toward expansion, in which they seek to extend Israel's jurisdiction over the biblical "whole land of Israel" -- the Territories gained in the 1967 Six-Day War -- they are endangering the Zionist foundations of that land.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON -- Having the Senate declare that millionaires should share more of the pain involved in putting America's financial house in order is "rather pathetic," Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared Tuesday.
The top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee made that pronouncement after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) bowed to GOP pressure and yanked from the floor a resolution on U.S. military action in Libya in favor of moving to budget issues.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reposted with acknowledgements to WagingNonviolence.org.
"Please use your liberty to promote ours." -- Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's National League for Democracy
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  THE CANADIAN PRESS -- VANCOUVER - A UBC student who was brutally attacked during a trip home in Bangladesh is back in Canada, and says she hasn't given up hope she'll be able to see again.
Rumana Monzur was attacked last month, when her eyes were gouged and her face disfigured in an assault that Indian doctors said may have left her permanently blind.
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  The Lay's potato chip slogan "betcha can't eat just one" may not actually be so far from the truth. Researchers at UC Irvine found that fats in starchy foods such as french fries and potato chips trigger the body to produce natural marijuana-like chemicals called endocannabinoids. Endocannabinoids make these foods irresistible and stimulate a biological mechanism that encourages gluttonous behavior.
In the study, published in the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that when rats tasted something fatty, their upper gut cells produced endocannabinoids. This did not happen when the rats ate sugar or protein. The results suggested that it may be possible to curb overeating fatty foods by obstructing endocannabinoid activity (such as using a drug that "clogs" the receptors).
More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As the 2012 local, state and national campaigns get underway, The Huffington Post will be enlisting the help of smart readers who want to be more involved. It could include document reading, writing about campaign events or simply giving us a heads up when you get a strange campaign mailer from your local races. If you want to be a part of this effort, please leave your information below and we'll contact you.
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More... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signaled Tuesday that he won't support a short-term solution to resolving deficit and debt woes when he huddles with Congressional leaders later this week.
"I've heard reports that there may be some in Congress who want to do just enough to make sure America avoids defaulting on our debt in the short term, but then wants to kick the can down the road when it comes to solving the larger problem of our deficit," Obama said during brief remarks at a White House briefing.
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Turns out Brokeback Mountain isn't the only dramatic summit for Jake Gyllenhaal.
June 15, 2011
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