NPR, LOS ANGELES TIMES, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE NATION, ABC NEWS (USA) Worldcrunch Gore Vidal, American author and essayist whose prolific career spanned six decades, died Tuesday at age 86, reports NPR. He died at home from complications of pneumonia. “Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.” RIP Gore Vidal, a great intellectual […]
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ITESPRESSO, LE POINT (France) Worldcrunch A column published on the New York Times’ website had the web abuzz on Sunday, reports French website ITespresso. It was revealed later in the day, after many people including journalists and college professors had retweeted the column, that the whole thing was a hoax. On Sunday, Bill Keller, former […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS (USA) Worldcrunch DENVER – Reports are emerging on Thursday that the alleged shooter at the Aurora, Colorado movie theatre last week sent a suspicious package to a university he used to attend, according to the Associated Press. The sender and exact contents of the package are still undetermined. The University of Colorado Denver […]
EYEWITNESS NEWS (United States) Worldcrunch A small plane towing a “Will You Marry Me?” banner crashed into Rhode Island’s Block Island Sound on Monday afternoon, US website Eyewitness News reports. Coast Guard officials were able to speak to the pilot’s 8 year old son who gave them a general idea of where his father was. […]
AP, 9NEWS Worldcrunch The Associated Press is reporting that at least 14 people were killed and 50 wounded at a shooting at the Aurora Mall near Denver, Colorado early on Friday morning, during a midnight screening of the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.” A suspect is currently in custody. Aurora police tell us […]
The unemployment rate on Montana’s Fort Peck Indian reservation can reach 70%, with scant signs of ways to turn around the local economy. Still, the recent reintroduction of the pure breed of bison can, in tangible ways and otherwise, means somet
NEWSDAY, AP Worldcrunch NEW YORK – Three people have been confirmed dead and several others are missing after a yacht carrying July 4 revelers capsized off the Long Island town of Oyster Bay. AP reported that the US Coast Guard and private boat owners rescued 25 passengers around 11 p.m Wednesday night, an hour after […]
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The Afro Is Back
A return to what is considered “natural” hair for African-American women is also showing up on Europe’s top fashion runways. The afro used to be a political statement, today it’s more likely a fashion statement.
Worldcrunch AP, CNN Nora Ephron, the Manhattan-born screenwriter, filmmaker and journalist best known for her romantic comedies (When Harry Met Sally…, Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia…) has died from leukemia in New York, aged 71. Ephron will be remembered as an author who “challenged and thrived in the male-dominated worlds of movies and journalism […]
To teach business ethics to students, several MBA programs are inviting convicted white-collar criminals to talk about how they defrauded their companies.
Worldcrunch L’EQUIPE, LE MONDE (France) PARIS – As the cycling world gets ready for the 2012 Tour de France, the man who dominated the competition for years is once again accused of taking performance-enhancing drugs, and risks losing all of his record seven titles. Lance Armstrong has confirmed that he is under investigation by the […]
Analysis: A Swiss correspondent in Washington, like others from the Old Continent, has concluded that Obama lacked the leadership skills necessary to meet the challenges of his times. He also made one crucial error from Day One.
Although 3.5 million tons of garbage are floating in the North Pacific, most of it is hard to track down. Could satellites help spot this elusive yet lethal garbage patch?
Worldcrunch BOSTON GLOBE, AP (United States) MIDDLEBOROUGH – When in Massachusetts, watch your language! Residents in Middleborough, a town of about 20,000 inhabitants outside of Boston, have voted to make the foul-mouthed pay $20 fines for swearing in public. Town Meeting members, by a 183 to 50 tally, voted to institute as a non-criminal civic […]
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Why Harvard Is Ruining Our Youth
Op-Ed: French Philosophy Professor Emmanuel Jaffelin tells us why we shouldn’t be “Harvardizing” the world’s universities, and reminds us that knowledge is not about securing a return on student debt.
A visit to Salt Lake City, Utah, finds some surprises about the Mormon faith, and the faithful, who are watching for the first time as one of their own has become nominee of a major party to bid for the presidency.
Op-Ed: Barack Obama’s decision to align himself with François Hollande, the recently elected president of France, could cost him politically.
Private company Space X successfully launched its unmanned Falcon 9 rocket into space early Tuesday morning from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, U.S.A. Though not quite Apollo 11, it is space flight history. Here’s what you should know. 1. SpaceX is the first private company to successfully launch a vessel to the […]
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Frog-Killing Fungus Sweeps The Globe
A skin fungus known as “Bd” is killing off amphibians the world over. Hikers may be inadvertently helping spread the microorganism, which scientists believe may be a hybrid of two less dangerous fungi. In Europe, Bd already affects 20 different amphibian
Lucas Santos was an illegal immigrant when he arrived with his family 13 years ago. His father eventually got a green card, and Lucas has landed in Congress with a prestigious internship where he works on immigration issues and dreams of a political caree
A version of “The Scream” by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch sold at Sotheby’s for a record amount, as far as public auctions are concerned. With private sales, however, prices can be in a whole other stratosphere.
Essay: Comic book writer Grant Morrison is known for being a bit outrageous. He once organized a “wankathon” to boost sales. And so his recent “outing” of Batman should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, fans of the caped crusader have long had reasons
The wife of Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney is a mix of trailblazer and tradition, Le Monde’s correspondent explains to French readers. Mother of five children, Ann Romney tries to humanize her husband and put to rest any final doubts about th
Ronan’s resume is about a mile long already – and he’s only 24. He has a Yale law degree, an undergrad diploma earned at 15, and a day job as an adviser to Hillary Clinton. He’s also the only biological child of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, though he hasn&
Official numbers are next to impossible to come by, but the ongoing debt crisis in Greece seems to be sparking a new wave of New York-bound emigration. For some, like “Mike” from Astoria, Queens, this is actually their second stint in th
Did the monumental scam artist make a suicide pact with himself way back in the 1990s? Has Madoff discovered that true happiness is a warm cell? A Swiss psychologist pieces answers the question: is Madoff a sociopath?
Analysis: Laws like Florida’s “Stand Your Ground,” which authorizes armed self-defense, are multiplying in the United States under the influence of a lobby that drafts bills and offers them ready-made to local governments. A French visit to the “Gunshine
Long appreciated in the U.S. as an icon of Italian style, the vespa scooter is now making real inroads into the American mainstream. Last year, it became the top-selling European two-wheeler in the States, with more than 5,300 units sold.
Investment bankers are often young men with too much testosterone. To add a bit of rationality to the global financial system, maybe it’s time banking giants like Goldman Sachs bring on more women and older men.
In the small town of Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of the infamous civil rights murders depicted in the movie “Mississippi Burning”, the first African-American mayor looks to the future to heal wounds of the past.
Op-Ed: By now, we can call the US intervention in Afghanistan a failure. It’s what happens when you go to into a drawn-out conflict without a plan B…and other lessons to be learned before the next war.
Essay: Roxxxy is always hot and bothered – and she can even be programmed to talk about sports. Our writer was pleasantly surprised to find a male version too, Rocky, who comes with blue eyes. Snuggle up, strip down, log on… the age of sex robots is upo
Americans are having a field day with Andrew Schiff, a Wall Street banker who complained in an interview with Bloomberg about his “paltry” $350,000-a-year salary. Says Schiff: “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”
That uniquely New World attitude that anyone can achieve success appears to be fading into history. Seen from Peoria to Paris, the so-called “Great Gatsby Curve” paints a picture of the United States with growing inequalities and stagnat
Has Nobel peace prize winner Obama’s foreign-policy agenda failed? Not entirely, as the big-think naiveté of his early presidency has given way to a practical search for individual victories.
Analysis: It’s morning again in America — for now. Obama’s odds on a second term have gotten a boost by good economic news. But the U.S. recovery is linked to the situation elsewhere, notably in downtrodden Europe, still the top consume
Until now, good marksmanship had everything to do with the person firing the gun. That could soon change. Researchers in New Mexico have developed a computerized super bullet that can guide itself to the target.
Deirdre McCloskey, an acclaimed professor and former University of Chicago protégé of Milton Friedman, stunned the academic world with a sex change in 1995. But that’s just one interesting part of a woman now focused on a more “human&
Slavery and states’ rights are what most say sparked the Civil War. Now a German scholar cites “youth bulge” demographic theory, which ascribes outbreaks of violence to the preponderance of young men in society.
Essay: The world probably won’t end in 2012, as some apocalyptic theorists predict. But things still look a bit scary, even from the relatively stable confines of Latin America, as an ever-interconnected global map sizzles with conflict.