Max Whittaker for The New York TimesFirefighters protested a law curbing collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin in 2011. Union membership fell by 13 percent in the state last year. The long, slow decline in the number of American workers belonging to labor unions accelerated sharply last year, according to data reported on Wednesday, sending the unionization rate to its lowest level in a century....
Let’s Welcome Back Hockey with This ESPN Commercial
Labels: TechnologyWe realize there’s only so much time one can spend in a day watching new trailers, viral video clips, and shaky cell phone footage of people arguing on live television. This is why every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: RELATED: Cookie Monster Batman and the Dog You Wish You HadHockey, schmockey. As a whole, the Atlantic...
Voice actor for Charlie Brown arrested in Calif.
Labels: LifestyleSAN DIEGO (AP) — The man who was the voice of Charlie Brown on many "Peanuts" television shows has been charged with stalking and threatening his former girlfriend and a plastic surgeon who gave her a breast enhancement he apparently didn't like.Peter Robbins pleaded not guilty Wednesday in San Diego Superior Court.Robbins was arrested Sunday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry after authorities doing...
Well: Long Term Effects on Life Expectancy From Smoking
Labels: HealthIt is often said that smoking takes years off your life, and now a new study shows just how many: Longtime smokers can expect to lose about 10 years of life expectancy.But amid those grim findings was some good news for former smokers. Those who quit before they turn 35 can gain most if not all of that decade back, and even those who wait until middle age to kick the habit can add about five years...
DealBook | The Trade: An Asset So Toxic They Called It ‘Nuclear Holocaust’
Labels: BusinessOn March 16, 2007, Morgan Stanley employees working on one of the toxic assets that helped blow up the world economy discussed what to name it. Among the team members’ suggestions: “Subprime Meltdown,” “Hitman,” “Nuclear Holocaust” and “Mike Tyson’s Punchout,” as well a simple yet direct reference to a bag of excrement.Ha ha. Those hilarious investment bankers.Then they gave it its real name and sold...
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Nechemya Weberman Sentenced to 103 Years in Prison
Labels: WorldBebeto Matthews/Associated PressNechemya Weberman and his lawyer, George Farkas, right, at Mr. Weberman's sentencing in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Tuesday. An unlicensed therapist who is a respected member of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn was sentenced on Tuesday to 103 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing a young woman, beginning the attacks when she was 12. The...
‘Atari’ Is in Trouble Again
Labels: TechnologyAtari is declaring bankruptcy — twice. Both the U.S. video game company and its French parent have done so, the latest twist for the company which largely invented the video game industry and remains synonymous with it, despite having seen its glory days end by the mid-1980s.But wait. Even though the Atari name celebrated its fortieth anniversary last year, it’s a mistake to talk about Atari...
Shakira gives birth to baby boy
Labels: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Shakira is a mama.A spokeswoman for the 35-year-old Colombian singer says Shakira Mebarak and 25-year-old soccer star Gerard Pique of FC Barcelona welcomed son Milan Pique Mebarak on Tuesday at 9:36 p.m. in Barcelona, Spain.A statement posted on the pop star's site in English, Spanish and Catalan says that "just like his father, baby Milan became a member of FC Barcelona at birth."...
The Well Column: Facing Cancer, a Stark Choice
Labels: HealthIn the 1970s, women’s health advocates were highly suspicious of mastectomies. They argued that surgeons — in those days, pretty much an all-male club — were far too quick to remove a breast after a diagnosis of cancer, with disfiguring results.But today, the pendulum has swung the other way. A new generation of women want doctors to take a more aggressive approach, and more and more are asking that...
Square Feet: Pittsburgh Seeks to Expand Riverfront Access to the Public
Labels: BusinessPITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh exists for three reasons: the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio. In the 20th century, the banks of those rivers were controlled by industrial behemoths. They largely lost that identity after the waning of the steel industry in the 1980s. Over the last two decades, however, the city’s progress in clearing and cleaning its waterfront has created 12 miles of recreational...
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