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Getting bearish on Facebook shares
The bears are after Facebook Inc.
Shares of the social networking giant continued a precipitous plunge since the company's much-hyped initial public offering. The stock notched a 10% drop Tuesday and has lost about a quarter of its value since going...Tags: Culture, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace, Mark Zuckerberg, Initial Public Offerings
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Nissan Leaf's U.S. sales may jump after production starts here
Nissan sold just 370 Leaf electric vehicles in the U.S. last month and only 2,103 so far this year. To put this in perspective, the U.S. auto industry has sold almost 4.7-million vehicles this year. But as Andy Palmer, executive vice president of Nissan&...
Tags: Automotive Equipment, Japan, Hybrid Vehicles, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Passenger Cars
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Indie Focus: A different take on addiction in 'Oslo, August 31st'
Amid the bumper-car hothouse atmosphere of the Cannes Film Festival, a small, serious film like "Oslo, August 31st" is easy to miss. Even director and cowriter Joachim Trier understands why his quiet study of addiction was met with a muted response when...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Film Festivals, Festive Events, Louis Malle, Health
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A dad's request for Mother's Day: Don't make me move to Iceland
Hey, happy Mother’s Day, U.S. moms! You’re No. 25! As my colleague Eryn Brown wrote, the aid organization Save the Children released its annual State of the World’s Mothers report Tuesday. And though the United States isn’t Niger,...
Tags: Mother's Day, Czech Republic, Iceland, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Birth Control
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U.S. ranks 25th of best places for mothers; Norway 1st, Niger last
The aid organization Save the Children released its annual State of the World’s Mothers report Tuesday. Once again, conditions for moms in the U.S. trailed that of many other developed nations. The country’s position climbed six places to...
Tags: Czech Republic, Demographics, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Health, Niger
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Norwegian masses sing 'rainbow' song Breivik despises [Video]
World NowIn a musical act of defiance, Norwegians crowded public squares Thursday to sing a gentle tune that confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik has argued was a Marxist song used to brainwash children to embrace multiculturalism.... -
Anders Behring Breivik, confessed Norwegian killer, goes on trial
World NowAnders Behring Breivik admits killing 77 but claims "self defense"; Oslo court given grim details of his killings.... -
Aung San Suu Kyi to leave Myanmar for first time in 24 years
World NowLong jailed, recently elected, Aung San Suu Kyi now plans to leave Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, traveling to Norway and Britain. The unprecedented trip provides a chance for the former political prisoner to collect the Nobel Peace Prize she won... -
Anders Breivik, on trial in Norway killings, has a U.S. pen pal
Anders Breivik, the Norwegian ultranationalist who killed 77 people in what he's called "the most sophisticated and spectacular political attack ... in Europe since World War II," has a new friend: Twenty-three-year-old Kevin Forts, who — according...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Europe, The Washington Post, John Grisham, Dave Matthews
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Media spotlight may not help Norwegian killer spread views
World NowNorwegian television has been banned from broadcasting the testimony of confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik as he goes on trial, yet his chilling declarations about why and how he murdered scores of people have still made headlines around the world.... -
Who can comment on motherhood?
In my April 19 column, I weighed in on the latest round in the "mommy wars": the firestorm ignited when Democratic pundit Hilary Rosen accused Ann Romney of "never working a day in her life"; a statement President Obama then condemned, saying, "There is...
Tags: Periodicals
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Help for needy countries too often politicized, aid groups say
World NowWhen the United States and other nations open their wallets to help countries in need, some groups fear their reasons are less than altruistic, according to a new report from a nonprofit that seeks to improve aid. Humanitarian aid has growing increasingly...
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