| Jeremy Lin graces Sports Illustrated cover for 2nd week in a row Jeremy Lin has made it to the cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine for the second consecutive week, becoming the first New York athlete to do so.
The undrafted point guard with a Harvard diploma... | |
| Aches and pains may mask the truth It seems a cruel twist of fate that nurse of 20 years Noreen Windsor was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer last year, given her sister devotes her professional life to helping women with... |
| Up and moving thanks to exercise During service in the SAS in his 20s, Mark Ford gave no thought to the back pain and stiffness he felt.With training exercises such as parachuting with a full backpack and supplies, followed by an... |
| Stay active to stay mobile Until they start to ache, creak or stiffen, most of us take the health of our joints for granted. It's usually not until our mobility is derailed by injury or arthritis that we appreciate the... |
| Drug offers hope to skin cancer patients In good news for Australian skin cancer patients, a new drug to treat advanced skin cancer, or metastatic melanoma, has been shown to nearly double average survival time in a study of more than 130... |
| Aussie Pejic the 'face' of new fragrance Australian model Andrej Pejic is reportedly the face of Jean Paul Gaultier's new male fragrance.The androgynous male model has apparently already signed on to promote Kokorico. It represents the... |
| Top Italian designers focus on China Italy's top designer brands are looking to China for salvation this year with revenues falling due to a debt crisis that has cast an air of gloom as Milan Fashion Week is about to kick off.With... |
| Britain can crush racism in sport: Cameron Prime Minister David Cameron listens during a joint news conference with Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 10 Downing Street in central London February 21, 2012. REUTERS/Peter... |
| Wanderlust: A Couple Goes Searching for a Lifestyle that Fits "There's no one way to live our lives," hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping between the prefab identity options available to them - squeezed,... |
| Week in Sports and Upcoming Events CIF winter sports playoffs, and two of them are playing today (Wed., Feb. 22). The Dos Pueblos Chargers host Long Beach Poly in the Division 2 girls soccer second round, and Providence Hall... |
| GPs paid to treat 'ghost patients' Taxpayers are footing a bill of more than 162m every year to cover the fees given to the GP practices for having the "ghost" patients on their books. The figure was released by the... |
| Mr Dotcom wins bail and vows to fight extradition Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail yesterday after a New Zealand judge determined that the authorities have seized any funds he could have used to... |
| Menswear finds its swagger to escape role as poor relation of British fashion Menswear is typically considered the poor relation to its feminine counterpart in the fashion world, and nowhere is this poor-relation status more evident than at London Fashion Week, where a day of... |
| Probe ordered into 'preferred sex' abortions Pregnant women are being given illegal abortions in the UK after complaining their unborn child is "the wrong gender", it was claimed last... |
| Apple fights it out with Chinese 'Ipad' manufacturer in Shanghai courtroom The escalating legal battle over the rights to the iPad name in China has reached a Shanghai courtroom, in a case that could prevent Apple selling the wildly popular tablet computer in the... |
| Will Dean's Ideas Factory: 'Get out of the shot, before I get you out of the shot' This - hopes Swedish mobile photography developer Scalado - will one day be as stuck in the past as, er, the Acropolis. The app is called Remove and gets rid of unwanted elements, presumably whether... |
| Can we pull the plug on the plug? Giler is the CEO of Witricity, a startup that hopes to revolutionise electronics by replacing wireless charging systems with ones that send power safely through the air. The nearly five-year-old... |
| Gucci targets luxury clientele with autumn collection It was clear at the Gucci show in Milan today which sectors are not yet feeling the pinch, with a series of red carpet dresses to tempt celebrities ahead of this weekend's Oscars ceremony, and... |
| Labour 'must take fiscally responsible route to solve care crisis' Elderly residents at a nursing home: Kendall will say that more than 1bn has been cut from local council budgets for older people's social care since the formation of the coalition government.... |
| What Happens When High School Sports Fans Are Accused of Racist Insults ';What Happens When High School Sports Fans Are Accused of Racist Insults.'; What I learned was that when you post about what happens when high school sports fans are accused of racist... |
| Garuda cuts sports luggage fees Hoping to increase sports tourism in Indonesia, Garuda has announced it will not charge travellers who bring sporting equipment onto their flight. Announced this week, the... |
| Whiting-Turner lowest bidder on Albany, N.Y., sports complex $24 million sports complex at the University at Albany in New York. The Baltimore-based construction giant had the smallest of the bids opened Feb. 21. Whiting-Turner beat eight other bidders,... |
| Lynd Sports Group acquires partial ownership of AFL Talons Follow this company 's newest franchise, has yet to play its first game. But the franchise already has some new ownership. Lynd Sports Group LLC, an affiliate of the Lynd Co., a San... |
| Sports Image signs 1st Colorado franchisees Follow this company -- a franchise marketing company that finds sponsors to help schools obtain team sports equipment -- has inked a deal to open its first Colorado franchise operation and... |
| Sports Image signs first western U.S. franchisees Follow this company has inked a deal to open its 18th franchise operation. The Miamisburg-based sports marketing company recently signed Traci... |
| 'There was someone who needed it...' 60 lives, 30 kidneys, all linked in longest donor chain It began with an electrical contractor in Riverside, California called Rick Ruzzamenti who, after chatting to someone in his yoga class, decided to donate a kidney to a... |
| NHS may need emergency cash bailout Ministers fear that the National Health Service could require an emergency cash bailout before the next general election to enable it to cope with the escalating demands of an ageing... |
| Peugeot shares leap as it talks to General Motors about an alliance Shares in PSA Peugeot Citroen, the second largest car maker in Europe, surged yesterday on news that it was discussing an alliance with General Motors (GM) of the US, which could see the two... |
| Made in China red wine tapping into demand A red wine produced in China and backed by the makers of Moet & Chandon champagne may be tickling Chinese consumers' tastebuds in four to five years' time. The so-called... |
| Milan fashion warms up for frosty season Italian designers will do their best to grab the attention of free-spending Asian consumers and any remaining luxury shoppers in austerity-hit Europe when they send their autumn/winter 2012... |
| Fashion Review: At Gucci, Frida Giannini Goes from Sexy to Sensual on Wednesday, from sexy to sensual, making a bold and beautiful start to the Milan winter 2012 season. Reaching back to the Art Nouveau period, with its "greenery yallery" colors, its wild... |
| Global Shopper: Excelsior in Milan Excelsior is a concept store that offers a mix of aspirational designers and relative unknowns. Behind its facade of video displays and nightclub lighting is a broad selection of fashion and home... |
| A Tuxedo Should Reflect the Man Tom Kalenderian of Barneys New York found that a tall customer looked best in a double-breasted tuxedo. "It's still a suit," he said, not something a shopper should... |
| Reem Acra Designs Keep Ending Up on Red Carpets And when she attended the Golden Globes in January, she chose a gown by Reem Acra, an offbeat design with a chain-mail bodice in gunmetal gray and a fluttery emerald green tiered skirt. It raised... |
| T Magazine: Winter Wonders | Fashion Week Special London Fashion Week came to a close yesterday, and the best-looking outerwear there, by a mile, fell on the masculine side of the style spectrum. Here, a slouchy gray topcoat with an exaggerated... |
| Scene City: Warm Reception in Brooklyn for Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Prima Donna.’ opera . In fact, it was broad daylight, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, to be precise, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where the New York City Opera was presenting the local premiere... |
| Skin Deep: Enzymes, Once Sidelined, Try to Grab the Spotlight The human body contains two kinds of enzymes: metabolic, which are found in every cell of the body and cause various chemical reactions, and digestive, which are released in the stomach and... |
| Trading Up: Bohemian Wrist Tangles, Also Known as ‘Kanye Bracelets,’ Trend, Rising Even Among Bankers Coachella music festival last spring with a wrist full of bracelets from Cartier and Burkman Bros., Mr. West has not only given his endorsement to a trend on the rise, but he has, whether he likes it... |
| Fashion Openings and Sales for the Week of Feb. 23. @NYTimesfashion for fashion, beauty and lifestyle news and headlines. This month, 10 years after opening her tiny boutique in the West Village, Juliana Cho has introduced a... |
| Disposable Razors and New Cosmetics - Beauty Spots @NYTimesfashion for fashion, beauty and lifestyle news and headlines. The handle of the Schick Xtreme3 Eco, a disposable razor, is made from recycled plastic, including old coat hangers, and... |
| Manolo Blahnik: The Shoe Sculptor at 40 Manolo Blahnik will celebrate 40 years in shoe design - since he came to England from the Canary Islands in the 1970s and was encouraged by the Vogue supremo Diana Vreeland to focus not on fashion... |
| Akiko Fukai Curates History at the Kyoto Costume Institute "Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion" was a landmark exhibit created by Akiko Fukai of the Kyoto Costume Institute. Here, the installation at the Barbican in... |
| Motherlode Blog: Growing Up Before Motherhood — or Because of It? KJ’s blog post from earlier this week -- didn’t really surprise my daughter Samantha and me. For the past year, we’ve been working on a book together called... |
| Motherlode Blog: Should Preschoolers Have Homework? A Facebook friend recently posted her frustration with trying to get her third-grade daughter to sit down and do her nightly homework. ';Oh, yeah?'; replied a friend of said friend in the... |
