WASHINGTON — National health spending climbed to $2.7 trillion in 2011, or an average of $8,700 for every person in the country, but as a share of the economy, it remained stable for the third consecutive year, the Obama administration said Monday. The rate of increase in health spending, 3.9 percent in 2011, was the same as in 2009 and 2010 — the lowest annual rates recorded in the 52 years...
Jan
07
BofA to pay $3.6B to Fannie Mae
Label: Business CBS MoneyWatch's Alexis Christoforous reports for CBS2. (1/7/2013)...
Purse snatcher no match for Good Samaritans
Label: World Junior welterweight boxer Peter Heliotes came to Chicago recently to fight and he didn't have long to wait.Heliotes, 20, won...
LG kicks off CES with 55-inch ‘ultra-HD’ TV
Label: TechnologyLAS VEGAS (AP) — LG unveiled a 55-inch TV that sports “ultrahigh-definition” resolution with four times the sharpness of regular HD television sets, kicking off what is likely to be a mini-obsession with the latest super-clear format at the annual International CES gadget show.The model announced Monday is the smallest in a 2013 lineup that includes 65-inch and 84-inch versions. But the smaller size...
Letterman says he sees psychiatrist weekly
Label: LifestylePASADENA, Calif. (AP) — David Letterman says he sees a psychiatrist once a week, part of his attempt to be the person he once believed he was.The late-night talk show host gave an extraordinary interview to Oprah Winfrey in which he talked about his feuds with her and Jay Leno, and his own effort to make amends for the affairs that became public three years ago when a man tried to extort him.The interview...
When the Plague Came to New York
Label: HealthJakob Schiller for The New York TimesSurvivors Lucinda Marker and John Tull at home a decade after having the plague. It was November 2002, little more than a year after planes had been flown into the World Trade Center and anthrax mailings had killed five Americans. New York City was still in a state of high alert for suspected terrorists. Suddenly all eyes were on a middle-aged married...
Jan
06
Chicago restaurateurs shrug off economic worries
Label: Business Chicago may have lost a few of its Michelin-starred restaurants in 2012 and waved goodbye to the inimitable Charlie Trotter's,...
Man killed in expressway shooting
Label: World There is one person dead and another injured after a fatal...
Kuwaiti gets two years for insulting emir on Twitter
Label: TechnologyKUWAIT (Reuters) – A Kuwaiti court sentenced a man to two years in prison for insulting the country’s ruler on Twitter, a lawyer following the case said, as the Gulf Arab state cracks down on criticism of the authorities on social media.According to the verdict on Sunday, published by online newspaper Alaan, a tweet written by Rashid Saleh al-Anzi in October “stabbed the rights and powers of the Emir”...
‘Chainsaw 3-D’ carves out No. 1 debut with $23M
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — It took Leatherface and his chainsaw to chase tiny hobbit Bilbo Baggins out of the top spot at the box office.Lionsgate‘s horror sequel “Texas Chainsaw 3-D” debuted at No. 1 with $ 23 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The movie picks up where 1974′s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” left off, with masked killer Leatherface on the loose again.Quentin Tarantino‘s revenge...
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