The last time the United States won the medal count at a Winter Olympics was in 1932. After a quick start in Vancouver catapulted the U.S. to the top of the tally (four medals on the first day of competition), hopes have been high that the 2010 Games would give the nation an unexpected victory [...]
RICHMOND, British Columbia – Sven Kramer peeled off his racing glasses and hurled them onto the infield, just as he had thrown away a Winter Olympic gold medal and nearly half a million dollars a couple of minutes earlier. “What did you do?” he screamed in Dutch as he skated past coach Gerard Kemkers, who [...]
What do you see when you look in the mirror? According to Chinese medicine, your face is a window to your health. Your forehead, nose, chin, right cheek, left cheek: Each of these five face zones gives you clues to what is going on inside your body–if you know what to look for! Read on [...]
Warren Buffett is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors of all time. Yet, as Buffett is willing to admit, even the best investors make mistakes. Buffett’s legendary annual letters to his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) shareholders tell the tales of his biggest investing mistakes. There is much to be learned from Buffett’s decades [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Chris Rudge, the CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee, plopped down at his daily morning media briefing here and got right to it. “We’re going to have questions about Own the Podium,” he acknowledged. He then launched into an unprompted five-minute defense of the $118 million government-funded albatross on the Canadian [...]
LOS ANGELES – The Dalai Lama said Monday he would have no misgivings ending his centuries-old spiritual position if Tibetans so choose amid worries that China would try to pick a pliant successor. The Dalai Lama, who fled his Chinese-ruled homeland in 1959, turns 75 in July and has increasingly focused attention on the search [...]
Acai berries are the latest weight loss fad. These so called Super Foods that you take as a supplement to lose weight have been getting a lot of international attention. And like you have probably already seen; they are all over the internet in blogs and success stories of people who have apparently used the [...]
Rescue workers in Madeira dug through heaps of mud, boulders and debris Sunday, searching for victims buried by floods and mudslides that have killed at least 42 people on the popular Portuguese island. Residents looking for missing loved ones were directed by local authorities to the resort’s international airport, where a makeshift morgue has been [...]
Credit cardholders, listen up: On Monday, new federal regulations will take effect, changing the relationship between you and your card issuer. The changes are part of the Credit Card Act of 2009, signed into law last May. Congress approved the legislation to end what consumer groups have called unfair and deceptive business practices. But critics [...]
Marines and Afghan units converged Sunday on a dangerous western quarter of the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, with NATO forces facing “determined resistance” as their assault on the southern town entered its second week. The Marjah operation is a major test of a new NATO strategy that stresses protecting civilians over routing insurgents as quickly [...]
You’re never too young—or too old—to start lowering your heart disease risk. Of course, exercising, eating healthy and reducing stress are key throughout life, but due to physiological changes that happen as we age, certain risk factors do become more of a threat. In Your 20s Stub Out a Social Smoking Habit Smoking is enemy [...]
What’s the key to the United States putting on its best performance in Winter Olympic history? According to the Winter Games debut of Fourth-Place Medal’s “real” medal count, it has a lot to do with judged sports. When throwing out the results of all events tainted by the influence of judges, the U.S. loses its [...]
The fog that chills Northern California summers and regularly buries the Golden Gate Bridge in a white cloud may be in decline. The California fog is a creature of a strange climate along the California coast. Biologist James Johnstone from the University of California, Berkeley, a native Virginian, realized just how strange when he moved [...]
Hopes for an economic upswing may rekindle ideas of a blissful retirement, but when will you really be ready? Nearly a third of working people aged 55 or older have less than $10,000 saved for retirement, according to a 2009 Retirement Confidence Survey. But even if you’ve saved more than that, deciding when to retire [...]
“Hackers.” “Coordinated global attack.” “Exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets.” “Nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months.” Whaaaaaaaa? News recently broke regarding a sophisticated and massive ring of hackers operating in Europe and China, a huge — and hugely successful — group that has apparently absconded with loads of [...]
If Lindsey Vonn is going to win a second gold medal at the Winter Olympics, it will have to wait. The world’s top skier fell and was disqualified Thursday during the slalom portion of the women’s super combined event at Whistler. She had been leading after the downhill run earlier in the day, but a [...]
