Jesse James seeks professional help

Jesse James reportedly is seeking professional help to deal with “personal issues” after a cheating scandal that has put his nearly five-year marriage to Sandra Bullock on the line. His representative told People magazine in a statement Tuesday that James “realized that this time was crucial to help himself, help his family and help save [...]

Freeing the iPad from AT&T

AT&T isn’t the only company hoping to cash in on wireless service for Apple’s iPad. In the runup to the Apr. 3 U.S. release of Apple’s (AAPL) highly anticipated tablet computer, Wi-Fi service providers and cellular carriers are angling to sell consumers and small businesses that buy iPads add-on wireless data services. The services would [...]

European Collider Begins Its Subatomic Exploration

After 16 years and $10 billion — and a long morning of electrical groaning and sweating — there was joy in the meadows and tunnels of the Swiss-French countryside Tuesday: the world’s biggest physics machine, the Large Hadron Collider, finally began to make subatomic particles collide. After two false starts due to electrical failures, protons [...]

Suicide Attacks Strike at Police in Southern Russia

Two bomb attacks aimed at the police killed at least 12 people in the volatile North Caucasus region of Russia on Wednesday, according to the Russian prosecutor’s office, further heightening security concerns two days after deadly suicide bombings struck the Moscow subway. Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin said he did not rule out that Wednesday’s [...]

Overhaul Will Lower the Costs of Being a Woman

Being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition. That’s the new mantra, repeated triumphantly by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara A. Mikulski and other advocates for women’s health. But what does it mean? In the broadest sense, the new health care law forbids sex discrimination in health insurance. Previously, there was no such [...]

Obama to Open Offshore Areas to Oil Drilling for First Time

The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday. The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling [...]

AIG Increases Compensation for Most Top Managers Who Remained

American International Group Inc., the bailed-out insurer, was allowed by U.S. paymaster Kenneth Feinberg to increase 2010 compensation for most top executives in a group that had their pay slashed last year. Six of eight managers who had their 2009 awards set by Feinberg, the Obama administration’s special master on executive pay, had their overall [...]

‘Dragon’ stokes up box office with $43.3M debut

“How to Train Your Dragon” breathed a bit of box-office fire with a $43.3 million opening weekend and a No. 1 debut, according to studio estimates Sunday. Distributed by Paramount, the DreamWorks Animation adventure came in well behind the studio’s last cartoon comedy, “Monsters vs. Aliens,” which opened with $59.3 million over the same weekend [...]

Duke and Michigan State Return to Final Four

When Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski was asked Thursday where his top-seeded team ranked among the other Blue Devils squads that he had coached, he declined to speculate. But he did emphasize that he loved this team despite the fact that the senior class had not previously advanced beyond the Round of 16. “Not more than some [...]

Ford Agrees to Sell Volvo to a Fast-Rising Chinese Company

Ford Motor reached an agreement on Sunday to sell its Volvo subsidiary to a Chinese conglomerate, in the clearest confirmation yet of China’s global ambitions in the auto industry. The Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, based in Hangzhou, agreed to pay $1.8 billion for Volvo, with $1.6 billion in cash and the rest in a note [...]

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