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?Sex And The City? Author Candace Bushnell Splits From Husband
“Sex And The City” Author Candace Bushnell Splits From Husband
Candace Bushnell, the author of “Sex And The City” that went on to become a television show and movie, has split from her ballet dancer [...]
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Apple's request to block Samsung Galaxy tablet, phone sales in the US is denied
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Obama administration backs education diversity (Reuters)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? The Obama administration released new guidelines on Friday aimed at promoting diversity and reducing racial isolation in education, replacing the policy adopted in 2008 under then-President George W. Bush.
Administration officials said the new guidance makes clear that educators may consider the race of students in certain plans designed to promote diversity and may reduce racial isolation among students in elementary and secondary schools.
The new policy reflected several Supreme Court rulings in recent years, including one in 2003 that reaffirmed that racial preferences can be used in university admission decisions.
But the Supreme Court since then has become more conservative and more skeptical of such programs. The court may soon decide whether to hear a case involving the University of Texas that would reconsider the 2003 ruling and the use of race in undergraduate admissions decisions.
The guidance from the Education Department and the Justice Department was sent to as many as 4,000 colleges and universities, 15,000 school districts and some 18,000 educational institutions nationwide.
It supports voluntary efforts by schools to foster diversity and recognizes learning benefits to students when campuses and schools include students of diverse backgrounds.
"Racial isolation remains far too common in America's classrooms today and it is increasing," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement accompanying the new policy.
Studies have shown that U.S. schools have become more segregated now than at the time of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the African-American civil rights leader.
Educators have told administration officials that the previous Bush administration guidelines failed to sufficiently make clear that race can be taken into account as part of efforts to achieve diversity at colleges and university.
(Reporting by James Vicini, Editing by Philip Barbara)
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Stealthy cellphone software stirs outcry
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Technology bloggers are asking if our cellphones are spying on us after a security researcher said a piece of software hidden on millions of phones was recording virtually everything people do with them.
Amid a broad outcry, Sen. Al Franken is calling for an investigation. A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the software's maker, Carrier IQ Inc. of Mountain View, California
The software, which Carrier IQ says is used on some 150 million mobile devices, appears relatively innocuous. It does watch what owners of Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Inc. smartphones do with them, including what people type and the numbers they dial. But it doesn't seem to transmit every keystroke to the company. Instead, it kicks into action when there's a problem, like a call that doesn't go through, and it lets the phone company know.
"It is software that is developed in partnership with carriers with the intent to improve network performance. As far as we can tell, it meets this description in execution," said Tim Wyatt, principal engineer at Lookout, a cellphone security company.
"In line with our privacy policy, we solely use CIQ software data to improve wireless network and service performance," AT&T said in a statement.
Carrier IQ says the data its software gathers is stored by the phone companies or at Carrier IQ's facilities. It doesn't sell the data to third parties. Phone companies, of course, already are custodians of a wealth of private information, including whom you call, where you surf and what your text messages say.
The brouhaha started a few weeks ago, when a programmer named Trevor Eckhart documented Carrier IQ's workings with videos on his blog. The software company threatened him with a lawsuit if he didn't take the information down. The Electronic Frontier Foundation took on Eckhart's case, and the company backed down.
Eckhart posted another video this week, showing Carrier IQ's software logging keystrokes on an HTC EVO 3D from Sprint.
A central privacy worry is what kind of data Carrier IQ is retaining.
Andrew Coward, a Carrier IQ vice president, said the software doesn't record every keystroke or send information about all of them back to the company. The only keystrokes it cares about are specific administrative commands, including those instructing the software to phone "home." The rest it discards, Coward said.
"We never expected to need the content of SMS messages, so we didn't code for it," Coward told The Associated Press in an interview.
Apple Inc. has said it has stopped supporting Carrier IQ in most of its products. Separately, the company came under fire last year over location-tracking features of the iPhone and made a software change to keep data on users' movements for less time.
For now, there's no easy way to uninstall the Carrier IQ software without unsanctioned third-party software. Coward said it is "too early to tell" whether the company will make any substantial changes to the software because of the uproar.
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Svensson reported from New York.
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Asian stocks soar on joint central bank action
Specialist Gregg Maloney, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. A move by the world?s central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 490 points and easing fears of a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. It was the Dow?s biggest gain since March 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Specialist Gregg Maloney, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. A move by the world?s central banks to lower the cost of borrowing exhilarated investors Wednesday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 490 points and easing fears of a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. It was the Dow?s biggest gain since March 2009. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
BANGKOK (AP) ? Asian stock markets soared Thursday after major central banks acted in concert to lower borrowing costs, hoping to prevent a global credit crisis similar to the one that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Japan's Nikkei 225 index rose 2.2 percent to 8,619.26. South Korea's Kospi gained 3.7 percent to 1,916.87 and Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 5.1 percent to 18,902.57. Benchmarks in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and mainland China all rose more than 2 percent.
Wednesday's action by the central banks of Europe, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Japan and Switzerland reduces the rates banks must pay to borrow dollars. The move aims to make loans cheaper so that banks can continue to operate smoothly.
Separately, China's central bank on Wednesday reduced bank reserve levels to release money for lending and help shore up slowing growth.
"The moves were cheered by markets, as it shows central banks are willing to work together to ease Europe's sovereign debt crisis," said Stan Shamu of IG Markets in Melbourne. "It seems China now thinks that slowing growth is more of a risk than inflation after cutting its reserve requirements for the first time since 2008."
Chinese banks soared on the news. Hong Kong-listed Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, the world's largest bank by market value, surged 7.7 percent. Bank of China Ltd. jumped 7.5 percent and Agricultural Bank of China, the country's largest rural lender, rose 7.4 percent.
Worries about Europe's financial system ? and the reluctance of the European Central Bank to intervene ? have caused borrowing rates for European nations to skyrocket. Central banks will now make it cheaper for commercial banks in their countries to borrow dollars, the dominant currency of trade.
But while it should ease borrowing for banks, it does little to solve the underlying problem of mountains of government debt in Europe, leaving markets still waiting for a permanent fix. European leaders gather next week for a summit on the debt crisis.
The move sent the Dow Jones industrial average soaring 490 points, its biggest gain since March 2009 and the seventh-largest of all time.
The Dow rose 4.2 percent to close at 12,045. The Standard & Poor's 500 closed up 4.3 percent at 1,247. The Nasdaq composite index closed up 4.2 percent at 2,620.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Palestinian cooks know that pizazz doesn't always mean better food
At an annual Palestinian cooking competition, the most successful competitors know that more spices and fancier ingredients don't always translate to more success.?
? A local, slice-of-life story from a Monitor correspondent.?
Skip to next paragraphIt?s a national dish that women have cooked for centuries, but Palestinian chef Agustin Shomali says cooks can easily ruin maftoul.
?They go to extremes,? Mr. Shomali says. ?They think ?the more spices, the better.? ?
Shomali was one of five judges at the fourth annual Palestinian maftoul competition, held on a chilly Saturday in early November just outside Ramallah. About 200 people came to see and taste dishes made with the oversized, soft couscous hand-rolled with water and whole wheat flour.
Traditional Palestinian maftoul dishes feature chickpeas, chicken and broth, cumin, a dusting of cardamom ? and not too much else. But the 12 women vying for the $540 prize marshaled ideas from near and far. They added cauliflower, almonds, and even a snowman made of a hard-boiled egg atop an orange. Ultimately, sticking to tradition paid off for Naima Rayed, a mother of seven from a refugee camp outside Ramallah. She cooked a classic maftoul with plenty of chickpeas, pumpkin, and tomato. In addition to the prize money, Ms. Rayed will travel to an upcoming couscous festival in Italy.
Raed Saadeh organized the evening through the Rozana Association for rural tourism. He said the competition united women of scattered villages.
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