"Live Wire" jumped to the top of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list on Thursday.The list is compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.Hardcover fiction Last Week1. "Live Wire" by Harlan Coben. - (Dutton, $27.95)2. "Toys" by James Patterson & Dennis McMahon (Little, Brown, $26.95) 13. "Sing You Home"…

s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Sunday. We don’t know if or when it will happen, as both parties are playing coy, or for how much. What we do know is that snagging Gibbs would make Facebook’s D.C. team one of the best in the tech industry.While Obama’s anti-lobbying rule doesn’t prohibit Gibbs from bending his…

stripes" in the remains of an exploded star may help astronomers learn how some of the highest-energy particles in our galaxy reach their incredible speeds, a new study suggests.NASA'sspacecraft detected a suprisingly regular pattern of X-rays in a well-known supernova remnant called Tycho. The new observations provide the first direct evidence that a cosmic event…

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Directors F. Gary Gray and Jon M. Chu are looking like the hot candidates to direct Paramount Pictures' "G.I. Joe" sequel.The franchise follow-up is a high-priority project for the studio, which hopes to have production underway by June for a 2012 release.Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has met with a number…

SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean has walked across the heavily mined border into South Korea, but few of his fellow citizens will hear of the rare defection amid choreographed celebrations for "Dear Leader" Kim Jong-il's birthday.Military and spy agency officials could not explain how the man managed to walk across the 4-km (2.5-mile) wide…

(Reuters) – The euro zone economy grew at the same quarterly rate in the fourth quarter as in the third, data showed on Tuesday, defying expectations of an acceleration.ECONOMISTS' COMMENTS:MARTIN VAN VLIET, EURO ZONE ECONOMIST, ING GLOBAL ECONOMICS"It's in line with the consensus and it's matching also the pace seen in the third quarter, but…

We page through the Fourth Edition of "American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle"; newly published librettos of Oklahoma!, Sound of Music and Avenue Q; and a biography of Serge Diaghilev.*Gerald Bordman altered the scope of American musical theatre history — and the weight of the American musical theatre history bookshelf — in 1978 with his 750-page…

Here in the Android-watching world, the air has smelled of uncertainty for quite some time. Ever since Google announced , the tablet-optimized edition of its mobile OS, there's been no shortage of questions about the platform's future and the direction in which it's headed.The big unknown, of course, has been what's next: Will Honeycomb make…

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's military said on Tuesday it hoped to hand over to an elected government in six months, while the Muslim Brotherhood said emergency law should be lifted and political prisoners freed now.Rumors swirled about Hosni Mubarak's health. Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat newspaper said it was deteriorating and the deposed president had refused to…

NEW YORK – A Chinese shar-pei threw a wrinkle into Westminster.With no clear favorite to win at America's top dog show, Miss Jayne Hathaway seized her chance. She became the first of her breed to reach the final best-of-seven ring."I knew she was good enough, but I'm surprised," co-owner Jeff Mauk said Monday night.Competing against…