LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Regarding legendary MGM bathing beauty Esther Williams, producer Joe Pasternak once famously quipped, “Wet, she’s a star.”So it goes with “Chasing Mavericks,” a biopic that features not enough stirringly gorgeous surfing footage and way too many clunky biopic clichés in telling the story of surf legend Jay Moriarity. With a storyline as...
Modern Science Unravels Ancient Mummy Mysteries
Label: Health Reported by Dr. Julielynn Wong:Call it the coldest case ever. New York researchers have used modern-day forensic science to reveal the faces of four ancient mummies from the 1st century A.D.“It was pretty exciting,” said Bob Brier, an Egyptologist at Long Island University and lead author of a new study published in the journal ZÄS. ...
Anglo American chief to step down
Label: Business 26 October 2012 Last updated at 12:11 ETCynthia Carroll is to step down as chief executive of mining giant Anglo American after six years in the job. Earlier this year a group of shareholders, unhappy with a sharp drop in profits, asked the chairman to look for a new chief executive.Anglo said it was her decision to leave and chairman Sir...
Amnesty Int: Ivory Coast torturing detainees
Label: World ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast security officials are torturing dozens of detainees by administering electric shocks and other forms of abuse, Amnesty International alleged Friday.The victims include people charged with endangering state security in the wake of a recent spate of attacks targeting military installations. Since early August, unknown gunmen have...
Exclusive: Massachusetts’ regulator eyes other firms on research
Label: Technology BOSTON (Reuters) – Massachusetts‘ top securities regulator said on Friday that his office is looking into whether top Wall Street investment banks in addition to Citigroup have leaked research in violation of state law on how to share this kind of information.“We are looking at all of them, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan,” regulator William Galvin said in...
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