It isn't easy sometimes to be an ordinary person in Los Angeles, so near to and yet so far from the city's glamorous events.You...
YouTube data now part of Billboard Hot 100 chart
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Viral videos are hits on the Web, and now they can help propel a song to the top of the Billboard charts.Billboard has announced that U.S. YouTube data is now one of the factors when ranking Hot 100 songs and songs on its other charts.The new rule went into effect this week, with the viral-video hit "Harlem Shake" debuting at No. 1. Other factors include radio airplay, digital download...
Well: Getting Patients to Think About Costs
Label: HealthA colleague and I recently got into a heated discussion over health care spending. It wasn’t that he disagreed with me about the need to rein in costs; but he said he was frustrated every time he tried to do so.Earlier that week, for example, he had tried to avoid ordering a costly M.R.I. scan for a patient who had been suffering from headaches. After a thorough examination, my colleague was convinced...
Autopsy confirms Mindy McCready's death as suicide
Label: LifestyleHEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Authorities in Arkansas say preliminary autopsy results confirm country music singer Mindy McCready's death was a suicide.The Cleburne County sheriff said in a statement Wednesday that preliminary autopsy results from Arkansas' state crime lab show McCready's death was a suicide from a single gunshot wound to the head.Investigators have said McCready apparently shot and...
Well: Caffeine Linked to Low Birth Weight Babies
Label: HealthNew research suggests that drinking caffeinated drinks during pregnancy raises the risk of having a low birth weight baby.Caffeine has long been linked to adverse effects in pregnant women, prompting many expectant mothers to give up coffee and tea. But for those who cannot do without their morning coffee, health officials over the years have offered conflicting guidelines on safe amounts during pregnancy.The...
Office Depot to buy OfficeMax in $1.2-billion deal
Label: Business Office Depot Inc. is buying smaller rival OfficeMax Inc. in what it’s calling a “merger of equals,” creating a heftier office-supply...
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Four dead, including suspect, in series of Orange County shootings
Label: World Orange County sheriff's officials said they don't know what prompted a series of shootings across multiple cities early Tuesday...
Clive Davis reveals in memoir that he's bisexual
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Record executive Clive Davis says he's bisexual.In his new memoir, out Tuesday, the 80-year-old, who is twice divorced, reveals that he had sex with a man in the 1970s. Davis writes in "The Soundtrack of My Life" that he hadn't been repressed or confused during his marriages and that sex with a man "provided welcome relief."He also writes that he started dating a man from 1990 to 2004,...
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