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John Malone's Liberty Global Increases Stake in Top Dutch Cable Group
Matthew Staver/Bloomberg via Getty Images Malone’s Liberty Global already controls the number two Dutch cable group, UPC. COLOGNE, Germany — John Malone’s cable group Liberty Global has further boosted its stake in Ziggo, the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, from 12.7 percent to 15 percent. Continue reading
Rockaway Residents To City: Rebuild Our Beaches
A home along the shore in the Rockaways ravaged by superstorm Sandy Nov. 2, 2012 (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Residents of Rockaway Beach descended on City Hall in Lower Manhattan Saturday, demanding that their beaches be rebuilt right now. As WCBS 880s Jim Smith reported, residents of the Rockaways said they feel ignored in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, which devastated the peninsula in Queens. Continue reading
FIFA fears abusing of anti-inflammatory medicine
FIFA Chairman Sepp Blatter (left) and FIFA Medical Commission Chairman Michel D’Hooghe pose at a press conference last week. AFP/Getty Images BRUSSELS — The abuse of anti-inflammatory medicine by football players is a bigger problem facing the sport than doping, FIFA medical chief Michel D’Hooghe said Monday Continue reading
FIFA fears abuse of anti-inflammatory medicine
FIFA Chairman Sepp Blatter (left) and FIFA Medical Commission Chairman Michel D’Hooghe pose at a press conference last week. Continue reading
Tropical Islands indoor resort attracts winter escapists
KRAUSNICK, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 15: Visitors lounge at the ‘South Sea’ beach at the Tropical Islands indoor resort on February 15, 2013 in Krausnick, Germany. Located on the site of a former Soviet military air base, the resort occupies a hangar built originally to house airships designed to haul long-distance cargo. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Continue reading
The day Watson the super computer learned to swear
A computer that swears back. Photograph: Getty Images IBM has been trying to get a super computer (Watson) to pass the Turing test – a test that works out how intelligent – or human like – a machine is Continue reading
10 things medical schools won’t tell you
By Jonnelle Marte How a spoonful of bullying, plus a heaping pile of debt, helps turn students into doctors. By the time most medical school students are assisting in hospitals shadowing the doctors they aspire to someday become many are well-accustomed to being pushed around, yelled at, or called derogatory names.Such incidents arent new, but with the med student population only growing (admissions are up 17% since 2002, with schools working to address a projected shortage of 90,000 doctors by 2020), cracking down on the problem has becoming a matter of increasing urgency. Continue reading
Computer shipments down for first time in 11 years
An HP Spectre XT laptop computer featuring an Intel Ultrabook processor at the IFA 2012 consumer electronics trade fair in August. Worldwide PC shipments are expected to decline this year for the first time in 11 years. (Adam Berry / Getty Images) 1:20 p.m. Continue reading
Alamitos Bay Beaches Reopen Following Sewage Spill
(credit: Mark Ralston/Getty Images) LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) Beaches along Alamitos Bay in the city of Long Beach reopened Saturday morning following last weeks sewage spill. Water quality tests conducted by the citys health department showed safe bacterial levels. Given that the past two days have produced water quality findings within the States recreational water quality standards, the City of Long Beach is re-opening Mothers Beach and the other locations inside the Alamitos Bay that were previously affected by last weeks spill, Dr. Continue reading
Glenn Beck's extraordinary open letter to Muse
Glenn Beck. Photograph: Getty Images In a bizarre story of unrequited love, American conservative political commentator Glenn Beck has written a heartfelt open letter to Muse frontman, Matt Bellamy. The Fox News pundit, famous for his sharp tongue, was responding to recent comments made by the singer in an interview with the Observer on Sunday, in which Bellamy revealed that the band had repeatedly denied the use of the track Uprising for American political campaigns, calling its popularity among the farright weird Continue reading
Sewer Leak Closes 2 Ocean City Beaches
Getty Images August 6, 2012: The 8th and 9th street beaches in Ocean City, NJ were closed to swimmers due to a sewage leak. Continue reading
Health Care Ruling Turns 'Tax' Into A Four-Letter Word
Credit: Tetra images/Getty Images By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) NOTABLES: And another group, Crossroads GPS, announced this weekend they would be unveiling specific ads targeting House and Senate candidates on the health care issue. Heres one calling on North Dakota Senate candidate Heidi Heitkamp to support repeal of the law. The ad is titled Tax, and was updated to reflects the courts ruling. Continue reading
Health-Care Debate: ‘Settle This Thing,’ Say Execs
Tom Grill | Getty Images “Let me just thank the Supreme Court for not making a ruling today and messing up my presentation,” began Kay D. Continue reading
Beaches Are Open, Ice Cream Is Cold
Getty Images The beaches are open on this hot day. Today is the kind of day to stay inside, turn on the A/C and stay cool, but some people are bound to head to a local beach and all of the state swimming areas are open, except for Pachaug State Forest, at Voluntown. Green Falls Pond, at the park in Voluntown, was closed as of June 13 for dam work. Continue reading
Public Recruited For New Space Experiment Ideas In South Bay
In this artists impression supplied by the ESO (European Southern Observatory) on April 25, 2007, the planetary system around the red dwarf, Gliese 581, is pictured showing what astronomers believe is the most earth like planet found outside our solar system to date. (Photo by ESO via Getty Images) MENLO PARK (CBS 5) Citizens in Space, a non-profit group that hopes to use the new wave of private sub-orbital space flight to make scientific breakthroughs, has an informational meeting planned for this Thursday, where citizen scientists will be encouraged to develop experiments to be carried into space. Continue reading
Before Deep Space, NASA Heads Deep Under Water
Enlarge Miami Herald/MCT via Getty Images Astronauts Shannon Walker and David Saint-Jacques test a probe in the waters off Key Largo, Fla. Their research may help NASA set foot on an asteroid someday. Astronauts Shannon Walker and David Saint-Jacques test a probe in the waters off Key Largo, Fla. Continue reading
NASA Fishes For Tools To Tackle Asteroid
Enlarge Miami Herald/MCT via Getty Images Astronaught Shannon Walker of NASA and astronaut David Saint-Jacques of Canada test moving a probe in the waters off Key Largo, Florida. The program, part of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) is meant to test equipment and man’s reactions for a human rendezvous with an asteroid. Astronaught Shannon Walker of NASA and astronaut David Saint-Jacques of Canada test moving a probe in the waters off Key Largo, Florida Continue reading
Aerospace Businesses Increase Presence Near MacArthur Airport
Southwest Airlines planes are seen at MacArthur Airport Ronkonkoma, NY Nov 9, 2010 Photo: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -There are signs of new life for Long Islands once booming aerospace industry, WCBS880 Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs reported. WCBS880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs On The Story Weve seen recently within the town of Islip certain contractors, certain aerospace manufacturers actually expanding their space, Islip Town Supervisor Tom Crocitold Xirinachs. Continue reading
Anthony Bourdain Exits Travel Channel for CNN
John W. Ferguson/Getty Images Globe trotting No Reservations star Anthony Bourdain is leaving Travel Channel for CNN. The chef, author and media personality will get his own program on the cable news network in early 2013. Continue reading