Matthew Staver for The New York TimesLambs inside pens at the Mountain View Lamb Feeders feedlot in Eaton, Colo. Many ranchers are cutting their flocks and selling at a loss. SEVERANCE, Colo. — Since he was a boy in western Colorado, John Bartmann seemed destined to become a sheep man. He raised lambs with the local 4-H club and sheared them for elderly German farmers. His office is lined with paintings...
Dec
09
Rise in renewable energy will require more use of fossil fuels
Label: World The Delta Energy Center, a power plant about an hour outside San Francisco, was roaring at nearly full bore one day last month,...
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day: Star Formation in Carina
Label: Technology The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. This picture was taken with the help of Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile, during his visit to the observatory on 5 June 2012 and released on the occasion of the new telescope’s inauguration in Naples on 6 December 2012.Image: ESO....
Alejandro González Iñárritu to direct “Birdman”
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Alejandro González Iñárritu is set to direct “Birdman” from a script he co-wrote with Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, a person familiar with the project told TheWrap.Known for more dramatic pieces like “Amores Perros,” “Babel” and “Biutiful,” Iñárritu will be tacking a comedic film for the first time.“Birdman” tells the story of an actor who once...
A Breakthrough Against Leukemia Using Altered T-Cells
Label: HealthPHILIPSBURG, Pa. — Emma Whitehead has been bounding around the house lately, practicing somersaults and rugby-style tumbles that make her parents wince. It is hard to believe, but last spring Emma, then 6, was near death from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy, and doctors had run out of options. Desperate to save her, her parents sought an experimental treatment at...
NBC Rides ‘The Voice’ to First Place
Label: BusinessTyler Golden/NBCBlake Shelton, left, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Adam Levine judging a contestant on "The Voice." Could it still be true that even the worst performing television network is only one hit away from a turnaround? Apparently so, as long as the hit is on for more than 40 hours in four months. NBC has managed that unexpected turnaround from worst to first this fall,...
Dec
08
Cooley leaves legacy of fighting corruption, increasing DNA use
Label: World He waged an insurgent campaign against his boss to become Los Angeles County district attorney, promising to act as a prosecutor...
New Crowdfunding Site Seeks to Protect Backers of Industrial Design
Label: Technology Entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff wants to build more credibility into crowdfunding — so he’s launching a new platform that takes responsibility for ensuring the viability of new projects.The crowdfunding process, pioneered by sites like Kickstarter, has had its share of huge successes, as well as failures. The problem, says Siminoff, is that when a venture fails, the funders are left holding the...
“Freaks and Geeks” revisited: “Everybody was so talented and nobody knew it yet”
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Looking back on “Freaks and Geeks,” Linda Cardellini – who led the (now) star-studded cast as Lindsay Weir – sums up the short-lived NBC series in one simple sentence: “Everybody was so talented and nobody knew it yet.”Thanks to Judd Apatow, the director of “Knocked Up” and sort-of-sequel “This Is 40,” everybody knows it now.And Vanity Fair’s in-depth oral history of the...
New Taxes to Take Effect to Fund Health Care Law
Label: HealthWASHINGTON — For more than a year, politicians have been fighting over whether to raise taxes on high-income people. They rarely mention that affluent Americans will soon be hit with new taxes adopted as part of the 2010 health care law. The new levies, which take effect in January, include an increase in the payroll tax on wages and a tax on investment income, including interest, dividends...
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