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Lara Logan Detained by Police in Egypt as Journalist Woes Continue
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIn yet another incident involving aggressive measures against foreign journalists, Lara Logan, chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, and her crew have been detained by Egyptian police, Time reports. "For security reasons CBS will not be commenting on, or revealing in any way, CBS personnel activity, movement or location," a CBS spokesman told Time. The detention is the latest occurrence in an ongoing series of harsh experiences for reporters covering the Egyptian revolution. The growing list includes Logan's fellow CBS News correspondent Katie Couric, CNN's Anderson Cooper, and ...
Lunar Eclipse December 2010 [PHOTOS]
By not in system - AOL Newshttp://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,localizationConfig,entry&id=966791&pid=966790&uts=1292944356 http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/media_gallery/v1/ke_media_gallery_wrapper.swf Lunar EclipseThe eclipsed moon glows in the predawn sky Tuesday morning in this view from Stedman, N.C. This picture is a 10-second time exposure made through an amateur astronomer's 12 1/2-inch telescope. Lunar EclipseThis combination of pictures shows the moon in various stages of a total lunar eclipse as seen from ...
Web Reacts to Time's Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year Pick
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Time magazine has named Mark Zuckerberg its Person of the Year, with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the tea party, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Chilean miners as runners up. In explaining the choice, Time managing editor Richard Stengel declares that Facebook's CEO: is both a product of his generation and an architect of it. The social-networking platform he invented is closing in on 600 million users. ... It is the connective tissue for nearly a tenth of the planet. Facebook is now the third largest country on earth and surely has more information about its citizens ...
Who Will Claim Time's 2010 'Person of the Year'?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- Debate is already heating up over who will claim the 2010 Time "Person of the Year," the annual distinction recognizing the "person or persons who most affected the news and our lives." Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently sitting atop the online user poll, but don't expect to find him on the cover (more on why later). Other top contenders include "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" tag team Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, President Barack Obama, singer Lady Gaga and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. After "You" won in 2006, the possibility of a group ...
Remember to Fall Back to Standard Time
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 6) -- It's time to reclaim that hour of sleep you lost last spring. That's right, the clocks are turned back in most of the country. The majority of folks will do the switch before hitting the sack Saturday night, even though the change doesn't become official until 2 a.m. Sunday local time. And, of course, a few will forget. You can recognize them because they'll be an hour early for church, golf or whatever. Residents of Hawaii, most of Arizona and some U.S. territories don't have to change since they did not observe daylight-saving time. Public safety officials say ...
iPhone iOS 4.1 Daylight Savings Glitch Plagues Users
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- Wake up...or not. In the United States and Canada, daylight savings ends on Nov. 7, requiring Americans to set clocks back one hour. Due to a software glitch, however, many iPhone users may experience a rude awakening when their alarms go off an hour early or an hour late. The iOS 4.1 software glitch first became apparent in Australia and New Zealand, where daylight savings ended on Oct. 3. and people who used their phones as alarm clocks discovered the gadgets going off an hour before the time they'd been set for, MacRumors reported. Here is one snafu that an iPhone user posted ...
Leahy Challenger Len Britton Wins Fans, Funds With Do-It-Yourself Ads
By Jeanette Friedman - Politics DailyHas your favorite political party harassed you for cash until you're ready to scream? Send them to Len Britton. The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Vermont can teach hundreds of campaign managers a thing or two about making great commercials while holding down costs. How cheap? We're talking three figures here. The secret? Write the script yourself and use your staffers, family, and friends as actors. If you do it right, it could even put you, an electoral neophyte, on the political map. Whether or not you agree with the ideas behind the commercials, the conservative Britton -- who ...
Is Reality Real or Are We All in a Hologram? Fermilab Aims to Find Out
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 21) -- This article, the computer you are reading it on, you yourself and the rest of the three-dimensional universe we appear to exist in are all merely a hologram. That's what Fermilab particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan is setting out to prove by developing the most precise clock in the world -- known as a "holometer" -- to "directly measure whether reality is an illusion," according to a report from Symmetry Magazine. Symmetry explains the origin of Hogan's project: "The idea that spacetime may not be entirely smooth -- like a digital image that becomes increasingly pixelated as ...
Afghanistan's 2010 Parliamentary Elections: Baby Steps or Backward Steps?
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 20) -- Afghanistan's parliamentary elections are over and the verdicts are in: The voting was both a tremendous success (just ask the government) and something of an abject failure (just ask the media). As we all know by now, the elections didn't run at Swiss efficiency levels, but how bad is bad, really, when you're talking about a war-torn nation run by a plethora of independent tribal leaders, warlords and elected officials who have close political ties to their alleged drug lord half brothers? Or more importantly, who's to judge? Afghan officials said there were 33 bomb ...
How Saudi Arabia's Enormous Ramadan Clock Clocks In Across Time
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 11) -- It's that time of year again: the holy month of Ramadan, when observant Muslims fast, pray frequently and abstain from alcohol and sex from dawn till sunset. Only this year, the season of humility, which began Wednesday, is being marked by a very ostentatious display. At least in Saudi Arabia, where the world's largest clock tower -- the Royal Mecca -- is set to begin ticking to life. Some Muslims view the Royal Mecca as an important step toward resetting the world's clocks away from the Western-centric Coordinated Universal Time (which since 1972 has been the same as Greenwich ...
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