The US Abortion Rate Has Hit Its Lowest Level In More Than 40 Years
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The abortion rate in the United States dipped to its lowest since 1973, coinciding with a steep decline in overall pregnancy and birth rates, a study from a nonprofit sexual health...
View ArticleNFL Reporters Are Freaking Out About These Ridiculously Hot Lamps At The...
NFL media members are boiling hot at the first cold weather Super Bowl.In anticipation of chilly temperatures, the NFL installed heat lamps to the overhang above the auxiliary press box — an area of...
View ArticleCheck Out This Picture Of The Starting Quarterback In Super Bowl 1 Smoking A...
Bill Weir of CNN just tweeted this extraordinary photograph of Len Dawson, the quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs, during halftime of Super Bowl 1 in 1967 (See the original photo here).A few things...
View ArticleCoincidentally, This Week Will Be The Super Bowl Of Economic Data — Here's...
The next 24 hours will be huge. In fact, the whole week will be huge."This week’s data docket will be important in shaping investors’ initial expectations for current quarter GDP growth with January...
View ArticleWatch One Of The Most Controversial Stadium Features In American Sports Get...
The Metrodome in Minneapolis was birthed in 1982, at the tale end of the worst periods in American sports stadium history.While not quite as controversial as Houston's Astrodome, the Metrodome — named...
View ArticleChris Christie Needs To Own His Bullying
If you're attacking one of your former appointees for having been "publicly accused by his high school social studies teacher of deceptive behavior," you're probably doing something wrong.Chris...
View ArticleThe Government May Soon Mandate Technology That Could Prevent A Huge Number...
The government is moving toward mandating new technology that lets cars talk to one another and could prevent or mitigate up to 80% of car crashes involving non-impaired drivers, the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleA New Congressional Bill May Restore Net Neutrality (And Keep Netflix Cheap!)
Net neutrality aims to maintain the Internet as a civil sort of Wild West where people get to share/send/make nearly anything they want, and to have that data be considered equally important to all the...
View ArticleBillionaire Hedge Fund Manager Marc Lasry Bought A $33 Million Penthouse In...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry purchased the famed penthouse at 55 Central Park West last week, the New York Times reported. Lasry, who runs Avenue Capital, paid $33 million for the Upper...
View ArticleFacebook Accused Of Banning Ads From Catholic Dating Site Prior To...
A dating web site for Catholics says it has been blocked from advertising on Facebook before Valentine's Day, the company tells Business Insider.The site's owners believe that CatholicSingles.com has...
View ArticleRichard Sherman Says The Seahawks Figured Out What Peyton Manning's Hand...
The Seattle Seahawks decoded Peyton Manning's pre-snap audibles just a few drives into the Super Bowl, Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman told the MMQB's Robert Klemko.Manning is known for employing a...
View ArticleThe Terrible Reality Of Dining In The British House Of Lords
Few countries are as linked to the concept of the class system as the United Kingdom, and there's no greater symbol of class within the U.K. than the House of Lords.The Lords, as its referred to, is...
View ArticleThis May Be The Best High-Speed Parking Job We've Ever Seen [DASH CAM]
This dash cam video shows one of two things: It could be an amazing driver pulling off one of the most impressive parking jobs of all time. More likely, it's a terrible driver swerving through four...
View ArticleMORGAN STANLEY: The Global Economy Is Exhibiting Its 'Yin-Yang' Qualities
There's no question that the world has become increasingly globalized as shipping costs have tumbled and trade restrictions have come down.But this doesn't necessarily mean that macroeconomic forces...
View Article20 Beautiful Pictures Of New York City Taken By A Taxi Driver
Driving a taxi in New York City gives a unique eye-level view of the daily lives of the city’s 8 million residents.When David Bradford became a cab driver in the early ‘90s, he thought a view from the...
View ArticleChris Christie Lashes Out At The New York Times
For the second time in three days, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) slammed The New York Times for the paper's report Friday on claims made by former Port Authority official David Wildstein.In a memo...
View ArticleA CEO Of A Bank Voluntarily Gave Up His $4.4 Million Bonus For An Excellent...
Things are done a little differently in "The City"— London's version of Wall Street on the other side of the Atlantic.For example, if a bank is hit with scandal after scandal over the course of a year,...
View ArticleDisney Set To Lay Off Hundreds In Interactive Unit
Disney will lay off hundreds of workers in its interactive gaming unit this week, according to multiple reports. Variety reports the cuts will come from Playdom which the Mouse House purchased in 2010...
View ArticleThe 14 Best-Selling Cars In America (F, GM)
America's biggest automakers whiffed in January, with vehicle sales falling to an annualized rate of 15.1 million from 15.3 million in December.Ford's sales dropped 7.5% and GM plunged 12%. Chrysler...
View ArticleWhy Heroin Relapse Often Ends In Death
Philip Seymour Hoffman's death on Sunday, from what media outlets are calling an apparent heroin overdose, was a tragedy by all accounts. It was also — like the fatal overdose of Cory Monteith— a...
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