When I first heard former President Bill Clinton talk about his vegan diet, I was inspired to make the switch myself. After all, if a man with a penchant for fast-food burgers and Southern cooking could go vegan, surely I could too.At the grocery store, I stocked up on vegan foods, including almond milk (that was the presidential recommendation), and faux turkey and cheese to replicate my daughter’s...
Bits Blog: Facebook Unveils a New Search Tool
Labels: Business 8:53 p.m. | Updated MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook has spent eight years nudging its users to share everything they like and everything they do. Now, the company is betting it has enough data so that people can find whatever they want on Facebook. And on Tuesday, it unveiled a new tool to help them dig for it.The tool, which the company calls graph search, is Facebook’s most ambitious stab at overturning...
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Cubans Take Advantage of Day 1 of New Travel Rules
Labels: WorldHAVANA — Cubans flocked to immigration offices and travel agencies on Monday, eager to take advantage of a lifting of government travel restrictions that have been in place since Fidel Castro was a dark-bearded firebrand in his 30s. The new rules eliminate the expensive bureaucratic hurdles long faced by Cubans wishing to go overseas, many of whom know loved ones who lost everything when...
Fortunes of Facebook May Hinge on Searches
Labels: TechnologySAN FRANCISCO — Nearly a year after it announced its bid to go public, Facebook is confronting the ultimate burden of the information age: how to help its users find what they are looking for amid the billions of pictures, “likes” and status updates they post every day. Ferreting out treasure from junk is its biggest challenge — and potentially its most lucrative opportunity, a chance...
Well: How to Go Vegan
Labels: LifestyleWhen I first heard former President Bill Clinton talk about his vegan diet, I was inspired to make the switch myself. After all, if a man with a penchant for fast-food burgers and Southern cooking could go vegan, surely I could too.At the grocery store, I stocked up on vegan foods, including almond milk (that was the presidential recommendation), and faux turkey and cheese to replicate my daughter’s...
Well: How to Go Vegan
Labels: HealthWhen I first heard former President Bill Clinton talk about his vegan diet, I was inspired to make the switch myself. After all, if a man with a penchant for fast-food burgers and Southern cooking could go vegan, surely I could too.At the grocery store, I stocked up on vegan foods, including almond milk (that was the presidential recommendation), and faux turkey and cheese to replicate my daughter’s...
In Hollywood Movies for China, Bureaucrats Want a Say
Labels: Business20th Century FoxThe film “Life of Pi” went through the approval process largely unscathed, but received some resistance over a line of dialogue. LOS ANGELES — When “Kung Fu Panda 3” kicks its way into China’s theaters in 2016, the country’s vigilant film censors will find no nasty surprises. Zade Rosenthal/Walt Disney PicturesThe makers of “Iron Man 3” arranged for bureaucrats to meet...
Jan
13
Egyptian Court Overturns Mubarak’s Conviction
Labels: WorldMohamed Abd El Ghany/ReutersSupporters of Hosni Mubarak celebrated on Sunday outside a High Court in Cairo. CAIRO — An Egyptian appeals court on Sunday threw out the guilty verdict and life sentence against former President Hosni Mubarak on charges that he allowed the killing of protesters. The court ordered a new trial, which would once again send the ailing autocrat rolling on a stretcher into the...
City Room: Free Outdoor Wi-Fi Comes to West Chelsea
Labels: TechnologyResidents of West Chelsea in Manhattan who were wondering what Google had done for them lately now have their answer: free Wi-Fi service for the whole neighborhood.Google, which houses most of its 3,000 New York employees in a massive building on lower Eighth Avenue, has invested about $75,000 to install the broadest wireless network that is open to the public in any neighborhood in the city, elected...
City Room: Cuomo Declares Public Health Emergency Over Flu Outbreak
Labels: LifestyleWith the nation in the grip of a severe influenza outbreak that has seen deaths reach epidemic levels, New York State declared a public health emergency on Saturday, making access to vaccines more easily available.There have been nearly 20,000 cases of flu reported across the state so far this season, officials said. Last season, 4,400 positive laboratory tests were reported.“We are experiencing...
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