The boy wizard is back, but these days he's not looking so boyish. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in theaters today, has been called the best Potter film yet, as our formerly pubescent students of sorcery find themselves very ...READ»
Though the nation is in a mid-summer slump, the national pastime and Mr. October himself are teaming up for a morale boost tonight at the 80th Major League All-Star Game, where Barack Obama will throw the ceremonial first pitch. But ...READ»
Warning: computer overload. The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing is actually 22 different conferences, drawing 2,500 attendees, all held simultaneously at one location and ...READ»
One tip to avoid the spread of infectious diseases: Don't gather in confined spaces.
Like, you know, a ship at sea. (We haven't forgotten all those news
stories about the stomach-churning, disinfectant-resisting norovirus.)
This ...READ»
The UFC has evolved considerably since the late 1990s, when Senator John McCain likened its battles to "human cockfighting."
Today, the professional mixed-martial-arts league discourages "eye
gouging of any kind," "stomping a ...READ»
Since 2001, seven of the nine athletes chosen for the cover of Madden
NFL have ended up injured or ineffective after that season. "I never
really thought the curse was real," says Madden NFL
senior project manager Anthony ...READ»
Let's not beat around the bush. Fifteen thousand of the world's medicinal plants are nearing extinction, thanks to pollution caused by population growth and rapid industrialization. Each die-off also produces a ripple effect; for ...READ»
Happy birthday, America! A 233-year-old needs a lot of candles, and for the fireworks industry, July 4 is Christmas. Over the past decade, the sector has almost tripled to nearly $1 billion in yearly revenue. But not everyone wants ...READ»
Business travel is expected to drop 5.6% this year, according to the U.S. Travel Association. Academics who study travel (sweet gig, right?) will convene in Greece to discuss the decline. There are only about 100 of them, so their ...READ»
Forgot to preorder your friend's Harry Potter tickets? Missed yet another anniversary? Today's the pseudoholiday when we pledge not to let it happen again. (We tried to find out who started this, but it seems everyone has forgotten.) ...READ»
No eating bugs. No "you're fired." This is a different side of renowned
television producer Mark Burnett, the man behind Survivor and The
Apprentice. In TNT's new reality series Wedding Day, nuptial planner to
the stars Diann ...READ»
Cocktail-party factoid for the day: German chocolate cake--that messy and ridiculous pile of layer cake, coconut, and pecans slathered with caramel-infused goo--has nothing to do with Germany. It's actually named for Samuel German, ...READ»
Most global-poverty workshops share a tedious format -- lots of
yakking, little action. But at this monthlong MIT-organized event,
delegates won't just lament third-world woe; they'll create real
devices to improve life for the ...READ»
Lawyers have their oath of attorney, and doctors have that Hippocratic one, but it struck Max Anderson, a Princeton alumnus who today graduates from the Harvard Business School, that MBAs have nothing. And so he and several of his ...READ»
Should we go to the hog races first or the PigCasso art show? Welcome to bacony bliss,
a three-day celebration of porcine proportions that draws 40,000
consumers, producers, and vendors to Iowa, the top pork-producing state
in ...READ»
Does Oscar the Grouch really celebrate anything? With grumbling perhaps! One of TV's most famous curmudgeons would rather kvetch his way through today, his birthday, and this year, which marks Sesame Street's 40th year on ...READ»
Fifty years ago, two girls, Able and Baker, went to space. After their brief spaceflight on May 28, 1959, the two pioneers were hailed as heroes and made the cover of LIFE, which lauded them as America's Space Travelers. Able, a ...READ»
These are turbulent times, even for the allegedly recession-proof food
industry. Here are the trends three leaders are seeing as they prep for
this gathering (June 17-19) in New York. --Theunis Bates
"You can't go into ...READ»
They came, they transformed, they slipped, and now they want revenge.
Uh-oh. We'd get outta Dodge, but Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox can't help
themselves -- they have to try to save the world.
Typical. The sequel to 2007's ...READ»
It's been a tough year for the Securities Industry and Financial
Markets Association. Two of its members -- Lehman Brothers and Bear
Stearns -- lost billions and are no more, leaving the industry feeling,
well, insecure.
Now ...READ»
Melting banks. A tumbling currency. More lousy Björk singles. Iceland's
pride has taken a pummeling over the past year. But delegates at this
summit will discover that the Arctic nation still has one thing to
boast ...READ»
Talk about white whales: Every year, the Japanese try to overturn the
commercial whaling moratorium, and every year, anti-whaling nations
lobby for a permanent ban.
This year, things might actually change, thanks to beneficiaries ...READ»
It's ironic that the world's sexiest airline --
RIP, Hooters Air -- is still a Virgin. But these days, that's a good
thing. As older carriers battle bad press (say, U.S. Airways) and
financial woes (pretty much everyone ...READ»
