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VIA NEW YORK TIMES: Our story so far: Chapter 1: Apple creates the iPhone. Chapter 2: Apple opens the App Store, an online catalog of cheap or free programs that you can download straight to the phone. Programmers all over the world write 70,000 apps for it that perform every amazing feat you can name. […]
(Hyannis Port, MA) — A public wake is being held today for the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver. The wake is scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville, Massachusetts. A private funeral Mass is set for Friday morning at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, Massachusetts. […]
(Medford, MA) — Young people who focus all of their extracurricular activities on sports are putting themselves at risk. Researchers at Tufts University have found adolescent boys and girls who don’t get involved in activities other than sports tend to have the lowest test scores in competence, confidence, character, connection and caring. They have the […]
(Springfield, VA) — A local astronaut is going back to outer space. Patrick Forrester of Springfield will go on Space Shuttle Discovery’s next journey to the International Space Station. This is Forrester’s third shuttle mission. His first was in 2001 aboard Discovery. During the mission, he took two spacewalks and worked on key robotics equipment. […]
VIA OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY: Hillary Clinton’s Congo blow-up is a story that just won’t go away. Even those sympathetic to Obama and Clinton, like Jon Stewart, are having a field day with this. Mrs. Clinton’s answer on Monday has quickly become the No. 1 sound bite from her trip. Her whole seven-nation Africa tour, which […]
VIA WASHINGTON POST: PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Aug. 11 — President Obama began a personal effort Tuesday to reclaim momentum for his health-care initiative with a direct rebuttal of what he called “scare tactics,” rumors and misrepresentations. Senior adviser David Axelrod said the president had for weeks been “relishing” the opportunity to engage with people to defend […]
VIA STARPULSE: Jennifer Hudson has given birth to a baby boy, according to reports. The singer/actress and her fiance David Otunga welcomed little David Daniel Otunga, Jr. on Monday night, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The tot is the couple’s first. Hudson never confirmed her pregnancy news but reportedly staged a baby shower at a […]
VIA USA TODAY: A growing dispute about whether radio stations should pay royalties to artists when their music is aired may be temporarily eclipsed by a potentially precedent-setting fight about radio stations’ public-service obligations. Lobbyists and activists are preparing to descend on the Federal Communications Commission after the agency said it will accept comment by […]
(Guadalajara, Mexico) — President Obama is pledging that the U.S. will be a full partner with Mexico in combating drug trafficking. He made the statement at a news conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada as a North American leadership summit ended in Guadalajara, Mexico Monday. Obama also said it is important to “curb […]