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| Helicopter’s blades blow stranded deer to safety Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:56 AM PST A helicopter used the wind generated by its blades to rescue a deer stuck on the middle of a frozen lake in Nova Scotia, Canada. The rescue was captured on video by Ian Waugh. The footage shows the deer sliding on its belly while the chopper flies incredibly close to the ice's surface. The deer [...] Full Story | Top |
| Scientist Stumbles onto a Cure for Color Blindness Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 10:06 AM PST Out in the world, one out of every 10 men have some form of color blindness. While it’s not the most debilitating genetic irregularity, color blindness can still make everyday tasks, such as getting dressed, difficult. Imagine being color blind and in a gang. That could become downright dangerous. Then, of course, color blindness becomes [...] Full Story | Top |
| Would You Pay to Kiss Postal Mail Goodbye? Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:45 AM PST A new service called Outbox promises to come to your house, collect your physical mail, and scan it so you can read it online via computer, iPad or smartphone. Clever, but worth paying for? The start-up already has over 600 customers in Austin, Texas and is now testing the service in San Francisco, with hopes [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bloomberg Businessweek editor wishes he hadn’t published controversial housing cover Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:34 AM PST Bloomberg Businessweek is taking a beating from critics who say the magazine's recent coverâ€"featuring a cartoon illustration of what appears to be a black family rolling in cash from a housing reboundâ€"is racist. "Our cover illustration got strong reactions, which we regret," Josh Tyrangiel, Bloomberg Businessweek's editor in chief, said in a statement to Yahoo [...] Full Story | Top |
| Civil rights leaders outraged over Scalia’s ‘racial entitlement’ argument Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 09:23 AM PST Civil rights leaders are up in arms over Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's skeptical questions about a key portion of the Voting Rights Act, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement that brought an end to Jim Crow-era racial discrimination at the polls in the South. In oral arguments over the law on Wednesday, Scalia, [...] Full Story | Top |
| Mom-to-be lets online voters pick baby’s name for $5,000 Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 08:14 AM PST A California woman expecting a baby in September has agreed to allow online voters name her child in exchange for $5,000. Natasha Hill, a 26-year-old art teacher from Los Angeles, won a contest launched by Belly Ballot, an Austin, Texas-based startup that allows expecting parents to crowdsource their baby names with friends and family. Hill [...] Full Story | Top |
| 106-year-old woman to get high-school diploma Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 08:13 AM PST Reba Williams, a 106-year-old Pennsylvania woman, is finally getting her high-school diploma. The Mansfield News Journal explains that Williams completed her 12 years of education when she was a teen in the 1920s. However, Williams refused to read a book (unnamed, but we'd love to know what it was) assigned by her teacher senior yearâ€"and [...] Full Story | Top |
| Bloomberg’s popularity slips amid opposition to soda ban Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 07:34 AM PST Michael Bloomberg has said he hopes to be remembered as New York City’s best mayor after he leaves office later this year. But his popularity appears to have taken a hit among New Yorkers who have mixed feelings about an upcoming ban on large, sugary drinks. A new Quinnipiac University poll released on Thursday found [...] Full Story | Top |
| The Catholic Church In Transition Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:56 AM PST As the Catholic Church prepares to appoint a new Pope after the unprecedented resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, a cloud hangs over the Vatican. Many Catholics are uneasy about the leadership of the church. To discuss the church in transition Christiane sat down with Italian Journalist Marco Politi.  In his book, “Crisis of a Papacy,†[...] Full Story | Top |
| Unions release ads attacking Republicans on sequester Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:34 AM PST Several major unions have teamed up to issue a public warning to Republican members of Congress over the sequesterâ€"across-the-board spending cuts which will go into effect March 1 if Congress fails to pass a budget measure. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Service Employees [...] Full Story | Top |
| ‘Marijuana cannon’ fires pot across border fence Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 06:10 AM PST Mexican police have confiscated an improvised cannon that they say was used to fire packages of marijuana across a border fence into California. The makeshift cannon was made of plastic pipe and powered by compressed air sourced from an old car engine, police in the border city of Mexicali said. The device was able to [...] Full Story | Top |
| Teachers use Wikipedia as much as students do: Study Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:54 AM PST Teachers who worry that their students rely on Google and Wikipedia too much use them just as often. The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project surveyed 2,462 of America's middle- and high-school teachers last year about the effect of digital technologies in their classrooms. The study found that 76 percent of teachers “strongly [...] Full Story | Top |
| Thursday in politics: Rival sequester votes expected in Senate, and more Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 03:18 AM PST Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have drafted alternative measures to replace the $85 billion in spending cuts â€" aka the sequester â€" set to begin phasing in Friday. Votes on the measures are expected Thursday and both are expected to fail. The strategy, as the Associated Press reports, is avoiding public blame for any [...] Full Story | Top |
| Justice Department poised to respond to states that have legalized marijuana Thursday, Feb 28, 2013 02:03 AM PST Amid the celebrations for President Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony in January, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper met with Attorney General Eric Holder during an inaugural reception in Washington, D.C., where the two men discussed an unorthodox topic, given their surroundings: marijuana. Colorado and Washington state legalized the recreational use of marijuana in 2012, and Hickenlooper was [...] Full Story | Top |
| Yosemite junior ranger returns two sticks to the park Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 04:12 PM PST When visiting a national park, one should always leave things exactly as they were. Hats off to Evie, a junior ranger at Yosemite National Park, for living the motto. After returning home from a trip to the internationally known park, young Evie discovered that she had "accidentally brought home two sticks." Honest Evie put the [...] Full Story | Top |
| Group fights to save JFK airport’s old Pan Am terminal Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 02:39 PM PST NEW YORKâ€"Kal Savi was just 10 years old in 1971 when he took his first flight out of the “flying saucer†terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. “It was just spectacular,†recalled Savi, the son of a former Pan Am employee who fell in love with the building. Built in 1960 as [...] Full Story | Top |
| Fraternity raises money for member’s sexual reassignment surgery Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:29 PM PST Emerson College's Phi Alpha Tau fraternity has raised more than $17,000 for a member seeking to undergo gender reassignment surgery. Donnie Collins, 20, is seeking to transition from female to male. After his request to have the "top half" procedure covered by his health plan was denied, his fraternity brothers launched a fundraising campaign on [...] Full Story | Top |
| White House says ICE acted on its own in releasing detainees ahead of sequester Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 01:17 PM PST (Photo: FOX News videos) On Wednesday, a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced its decision to release several hundred illegal immigrants from detention centers facing budget cuts, the White House stressed it had no hand in the decision. Jay Carney, White House press secretary, told reporters at Wednesday's White House press briefing that "this [...] Full Story | Top |
| NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Gun control tipping point of Illinois special election Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 12:03 PM PST During a victory lap in Washington on Wednesday, Michael Bloomberg hailed the issue of gun control as the reason why his PAC's favored candidate, state Rep. Robin Kelly, won Illinois' special election on Tuesday night. "We showed in Illinois that by explaining to the public what's at stake hereâ€"it's their lives, it's their kids' and [...] Full Story | Top |
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