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Q&A with CNN Worldwide president
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – As president of CNN Worldwide, Jim Walton oversees the news operation's television, online and mobile businesses around the world.A day after CNN's parent company Time Warner reported its latest earnings, Walton spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about the cable network's 2010 financials, the early performance of Piers Morgan Tonight and…
Sony Profits Fall with TV Prices
Stiff price competition in the flat-screen TV market and the strong Japanese yen hurt profits at Sony in the last three months of 2010, the company said Thursday.Net profits at the consumer electronics giant dropped 8.6 percent on the same period a year earlier to 72.3 billion (US$886 million) as sales fell 1.4 percent to…
Funeral procession features 'legend of lowriders'
LOS ANGELES – She was a cover girl, had a bit part in a popular 1970s TV show and was an icon of car culture. "Gypsy Rose," an award-winning Chevy Impala admired for its elaborate floral paint job, was known in the world of cruising lowriders as one of the most tricked-out muscle cars of…
N.Z museum mulls options for mummified Maori heads
WELLINGTON (AFP) – For decades, New Zealand has campaigned for museums to repatriate the mummified and heavily-tattooed heads of Maori warriors held in collections worldwide -- now it must decide what to do with the gruesome but culturally valuable relics. New Zealand's national museum Te Papa has more than 100 of the heads, known as…
H&R Block agrees to improve access for deaf
WASHINGTON – The nation's largest tax preparation company, H&R Block, agreed Monday to improve its services for deaf and hard of hearing people.The Justice Department announced that H&R Block had agreed to a nationwide settlement to resolve a complaint filed by a deaf person in San Antonio, Texas, under the Americans with Disabilities Act."The agreement…
S&P says no plans to cut U.S. rating in medium term
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ratings agency Standard & Poor's does not have any plans to downgrade the U.S. sovereign debt rating, but it believes credit risk may increase in the long term, a senior official at the agency said on Thursday.Moody's Investors Service warned a week ago that a lack of U.S. government action on the…
In L.A. Noire Asking Questions Trumps Firing Bullets
Rockstar and Team Bondi'swants to upend your expectations about what's possible in a video game. Not their plans to replicate Los Angeles circa 1947, the game's stylish film noir aesthetic, or that it stars Mad Men'sandor Fringe's . No, I'm talking about L.A. Noire's remarkable digital performers.Their digital faces, I mean. They don't look like…
Max Cure Foundation and Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Form Collaboration and Fund a New Grant
The Max Cure Foundation/Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Collaborative Grant in Pediatric Cancer Research will fund novel research to develop minimally toxic therapies to improve the quality of life for children with cancer, with the ultimate goal of finding cures for pediatric cancers.New York, NY (PRWEB) January 26, 2011 The , a non-profit organization whose…
Obama's education focus faces big hurdles
WASHINGTON – Signs of trouble are arising for President Barack Obama's plan to put education overhaul at the forefront of his agenda as he adjusts to the new reality of a divided government.Giving students and teachers more flexibility is an idea with bipartisan support. Yet the debate about the overdue renewal of the nation's chief…
Woman, 3 kids found dead in violent Fla. scene
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A woman and her three young children were found killed at a violent crime scene in a north Florida home on Saturday, and homicide detectives were out looking for whoever might have had a reason to harm them, police said.Family and neighbors said the woman was a single, stay-at-home mother raising twin…
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