TOKYO (AP) — Nintendo‘s president Thursday ruled out price cuts for its new Wii U home console as a way to boost sales, vowing to become profitable again in its core businesses as smartphones and tablets increasingly threaten specialized game machines.Satoru Iwata, speaking at a Tokyo hotel to investors and reporters a day after earnings were released, acknowledged the sales momentum for the Wii U,...
Brooke Burke-Charvet Refuses to Say 'Fat' Or 'Diet' in Front of Her Kids
Label: Lifestyle By Dahvi Shira 01/31/2013 at 07:15 AM EST A healthy home is a happy home for Brooke Burke-Charvet.The mother of four kids – Neriah, 12, Sierra, 10, Rain, 6, and Shaya, 4 – hopes her lifestyle rubs off on them.
"I always tell other parents to lead by example," Burke-Charvet, 41, told PEOPLE on Tuesday. "My kids...
Sex to burn calories? Authors expose obesity myths
Label: HealthFact or fiction? Sex burns a lot of calories. Snacking or skipping breakfast is bad. School gym classes make a big difference in kids' weight.All are myths or at least presumptions that may not be true, say researchers who reviewed the science behind some widely held obesity beliefs and found it lacking.Their report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine says dogma and fallacies are detracting...
Stock futures edge lower ahead of data, earnings
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures edged lower on Thursday ahead of data on the labor market and a slew of corporate earnings reports. Facebook Inc shares dropped 6.7 percent to $29.14 in premarket trading. The company doubled its mobile advertising revenue in the fourth quarter but that growth trailed some of Wall Street's most aggressive estimates. Qualcomm Inc ...
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Letter from India: A Paradise for Those Who Take Offense
Label: WorldJAIPUR, INDIA — One of India’s favorite spectator sports is “taking offense.” People go about their lives, brushing their teeth, ironing their shirts, waiting for the bus. Then some man somewhere says something ordinary and a community erupts in what looks like joy even though they say they are offended. They go in a carnival procession to some place to announce that they are offended, often laughing...
Charlize Theron Relaxes With a Girls' Dinner in West Hollywood
Label: Lifestyle Caught in the Act 01/30/2013 at 06:00 AM EST Charlize Theron shared dinner with a girlfriend at Tortilla Republic in West Hollywood on Monday.Wearing a black blouse, blue jeans and high heels – while sporting her new short dark hair style – the Snow White and the Huntsman actress and her friend ordered up huarache...
Soldier with new arms determined to be independent
Label: HealthBALTIMORE (AP) — After weeks of round-the-clock medical care, Brendan Marrocco insisted on rolling his own wheelchair into a news conference using his new transplanted arms. Then he brushed his hair to one side.Such simple tasks would go unnoticed in most patients. But for Marrocco, who lost all four limbs while serving in Iraq, these little actions demonstrate how far he's come only six weeks after...
Stock futures flat ahead of data, Amazon climbs early
Label: BusinessNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures were flat on Wednesday as investors digested recent gains and awaited a new round of key U.S. economic data, though Amazon surged after its earnings results. Equities have soared in recent weeks, with the S&P 500 rising for nine of the past 10 sessions. The Dow Jones industrial average has been flirting with 14,000, a level it hasn't seen since...
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The Female Factor: Chinese Courts Turn a Blind Eye to Abuse
Label: WorldBEIJING — Before they married in 2009, Tan Yong admitted to Li Yan that he had beaten his three previous wives. He promised to change. The promises didn’t last, said Li Dehuai, Ms. Li’s brother. Soon after the wedding, Mr. Tan began abusing his wife. “He stubbed out cigarettes on her face and legs. He would take her hair and hit her head against the wall. He locked her on the balcony...
Troubled smartphone pioneer RIM prepares to raise the curtain on BlackBerry 10
Label: TechnologyNEW YORK, N.Y. – After several technical blunders, two unexpected delays and one major shakeup in its leadership, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion is about to raise the curtain for its new smartphone devices in hopes that consumers share the excitement.The unveiling of the phones and operating system on Wednesday marks the start of an advertising blitz that will stretch to social media, the Super...
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