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What are the odds that David Beckham will light the Olympic flame? That rain will fall every day? That Tokyo will host the 2020 Games? In Britain, you can bet on all of those questions and more.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://london2012.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/care-to-bet-on-that-for-olympics-you-can/
The intensity and sweep of the F.D.A.’s efforts to spy on the communications of whistle-blowing employees suspected of leaking trade secrets to outsiders were astonishing.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/opinion/the-spy-hunt-for-whistle-blowers.html
Unhindered by federal background checks or government oversight, the 24-year-old man accused of killing a dozen people inside a Colorado movie theater gathered what the police called a 6,000-round arsenal legally and easily.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/us/online-ammunition-sales-highlighted-by-aurora-shootings.html
The Justice Department is expected to file criminal charges against at least one big bank in connection with the interest-rate manipulation scandal. This is welcome news.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/opinion/a-week-in-the-life-of-libor.html
The notoriously press-shy mogul sat down with TV reporters to discuss his “American Masters” documentary, “Inventing David Geffen,” which premieres Nov. 20 on PBS.
via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tca-david-geffen-pbs-american-masters-352871?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thr%2Fnews+%28The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories%29
Absent from statewide office, the California party, once a symbol of Republican hope and geographical reach, has fallen back even as conservatives have prospered elsewhere.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/us/politics/california-republicans-seek-a-turnaround.html
Venture capitalists are hiring full-time public relations experts to tell bloggers and reporters of their investing prowess.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/business/venture-capital-firms-once-discreet-learn-the-promotional-game.html
The White House signaled today that President Obama, who has seldom shown much appetite to fight with the powerful National Rifle Association, did not intend to make a push for stricter gun controls in the wake of the shootings in Aurora, Colo. “The president’s views…
via Yahoo! News – Latest News & Headlines http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-suggests-president-obama-not-push-more-002905920–abc-news-politics.html
Ken Burns came to the summer TV press tour Sunday afternoon bearing clips from his latest PBS documentary, “The Dust Bowl,â€Â a four-hour, two-part film that will air in mid-November.
via L.A. Times – Entertainment News http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-st-tca-ken-burns-takes-on-the-dust-bowl-20120722,0,3870814.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fentertainment+%28Entertainment+News%29
Headlines have suggested that people who spend a lot of time sitting were in mortal danger. But it could be that people who spend more time sitting are less healthy to begin with.
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