Archive for November, 2009

Dakota Gives Bees and Amazing Box Office Success a Chance

Dakota Fanning sported her “Give Bees a Chance” t-shirt after Pilates class in LA on Friday. She got some experience with the honey-producing insects when she made The Secret Life of Bees, but these days her biggest project is the Twilight saga. New Moon was once again number one at the box office over the [...]

Barnes & Noble Delays Nook Shipments To Stores

Barnes & Noble says it will delay shipments of its newly launched Nook electronic reader to stores as the company strives to deliver preordered devices to consumers before the holidays.[...] Click below to read the full story from the source… Barnes & Noble Delays Nook Shipments To Stores

Cop killing suspect holed up in Seattle

Authorities said they surrounded a house in east Seattle where the suspect in the fatal shooting of four Washington state police officers is holed up.[...] Click below to read the full story from the source… Cop killing suspect holed up in Seattle

Cyber Monday Shopping: Edible Christmas Gifts to Buy or Make

Whether you’re shopping online today, Cyber Monday, or just browsing for gift ideas, food makes a perfect present, and not just for the usual “showing your love through cooking” reason (though that’s a good one too). Edible gifts are ideal because they disappear. That means there’s no struggle on the part of the giver to [...]

Autistic toddlers make big gains with early, intensive training

In a head-to-head comparison with the kind of care most autistic youngsters receive, a program of intensive training aimed at autistic toddlers as young as a year old demonstrated better results in boosting IQ levels, communication skills and adaptive behavior. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics and released Monday, was the first clinical trial to demonstrate the effectiveness [...]