LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California man who has admitted to fabricating Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te‘o’s fake girlfriend in an elaborate hoax told talk show host Phil McGraw he felt a deep romantic love for the football player, McGraw said on Wednesday.“Here we have a young man that fell deeply, romantically in love,” McGraw told the television morning show “Today” to discuss his two part interview...
Patty Andrews of Andrews Sisters rallied troops
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Patty Andrews never served in the military, but she and her singing sisters certainly supported the troops.During World War II, they hawked war bonds, entertained soldiers overseas and boosted morale on the home-front with tunes like "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" and "I Can Dream, Can't I?"Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio, died Wednesday...
Well: Waiting for Alzheimer's to Begin
Label: HealthMy gray matter might be waning. Then again, it might not be. But I swear that I can feel memories — as I’m making them — slide off a neuron and into a tangle of plaque. I steel myself for those moments to come when I won’t remember what just went into my head.I’m not losing track of my car keys, which is pretty standard in aging minds. Nor have I ever forgotten to turn off the oven after use, common...
Avery Dennison to sell business units for $500 million
Label: Business Avery Dennison Corp. has agreed to sell two of its businesses for $500 million in cash to CCL Industries Inc., a Canadian maker...
Facebook Graph Search Still Doesn’t Speak Human
Label: TechnologyDespite hiring a couple of linguists to get its new search engine to move “beyond ‘Robospeak” and actually understand how people talk, Facebook hasn’t actually taught Graph Search how to do that very well just yet. And that’s a problem, no matter which way the social network spins it. Unlike Google‘s pattern-matching search engine, Facebook’s new recommendation-based social search platform tries to...
Actor Jason London arrested after Ariz. bar fight
Label: LifestylePHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say actor Jason London has been arrested on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct after an Arizona bar fight.Scottsdale police say London allegedly sneezed on a man who then asked him to apologize, but London refused and instead hit the man in the face.The Arizona Republic (http://bit.ly/VoULau ) says the two men were escorted out of the bar, but London began pushing...
Well: Helmets for Ski and Snowboard Safety
Label: HealthRecently, researchers from the department of sport science at the University of Innsbruck in Austria stood on the slopes at a local ski resort and trained a radar gun on a group of about 500 skiers and snowboarders, each of whom had completed a lengthy personality questionnaire about whether he or she tended to be cautious or a risk taker.The researchers had asked their volunteers to wear their normal...
Amazon.com sales jump 22% but profit drops 45% in fourth quarter
Label: Business Amazon.com Inc. saw big sales during the holiday season, reporting Tuesday that fourth-quarter revenue rose 22% to $21.27 billion...
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Mayoral debate focuses on city's troubled finances
Label: World In the highest-profile debate so far in the Los Angeles mayoral race, three longtime city officials defended their records Monday...
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