The Best Buy Company had better-than-expected holiday sales, setting off a gain of $2, or 16.4 percent, in its stock price, to $14.21 a share on Friday. The holiday quarter accounted for about a third of Best Buy’s revenue last year. The chain said that revenue at stores open at least a year fell 1.4 percent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 5. The company’s performance in the United States was flat....
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Business Briefing | Retailing: Best Buy Shares Rally on Improved Holiday Sales
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Former Lab Technician Denies Faulty DNA Work in Rape Cases
Label: HealthA former New York City laboratory technician whose work on rape cases is now being scrutinized for serious mistakes said on Friday that she had been unaware there were problems in her work and, disputing an earlier report, denied she had resigned under pressure. The former lab technician, Serrita Mitchell, said any problems must have been someone else’s. “My work?” Ms. Mitchell said....
Former Lab Technician Denies Faulty DNA Work in Rape Cases
Label: LifestyleA former New York City laboratory technician whose work on rape cases is now being scrutinized for serious mistakes said on Friday that she had been unaware there were problems in her work and, disputing an earlier report, denied she had resigned under pressure. The former lab technician, Serrita Mitchell, said any problems must have been someone else’s. “My work?” Ms. Mitchell said....
Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
Label: TechnologyAnnie Tritt for The New York TimesJesse Levinson of Stanford develops safety and self-driving systems like one on this Volkswagen Toureg that detects obstacles. PALO ALTO, Calif. — Driving around a college campus can be treacherous. Bikes and scooters zip out of nowhere, distracted students wander into traffic, and stopped cars and speed bumps suddenly appear. It takes a vigilant driver to avoid catastrophe....
IHT Rendezvous: IHT Quick Read: Jan. 12
Label: WorldNEWS A group of researchers worked for six years to locate the source of rifle and machine-gun ammunition in war-torn regions. The manufacturer was not one of Africa’s usual suspects. C.J. Chivers reports.France launched a military intervention on Friday in Mali, sharply escalating its involvement in the war there between government troops and armed Islamists after the militants, who now rule the...
Jan
11
Cracks Appear in Cockpit Window of Boeing 787
Label: BusinessHONG KONG — Cracks appeared Friday in the cockpit window of a 787 Dreamliner flying in Japan, the latest in a string of mishaps with Boeing’s newest and most sophisticated jet. The plane was operated by All Nippon Airways and was heading from Tokyo to Matsuyama, in southern Japan. The flight, NH585, which was carrying 237 passengers , departed from Tokyo’s Haneda airport at 9:35 a.m. local...
Parental Consent Rule May Proceed for a Circumcision Ritual, a Judge Says
Label: HealthNew York City health officials may proceed temporarily with a plan to require parental consent before an infant may undergo a particular Jewish circumcision ritual, a federal judge ruled Thursday. City officials say 12 cases of herpes simplex virus have likely resulted from the procedure, known as metzitzah b’peh, since 2000, including one Brooklyn case reported this week. Two infants died,...
Parental Consent Rule May Proceed for a Circumcision Ritual, a Judge Says
Label: LifestyleNew York City health officials may proceed temporarily with a plan to require parental consent before an infant may undergo a particular Jewish circumcision ritual, a federal judge ruled Thursday. City officials say 12 cases of herpes simplex virus have likely resulted from the procedure, known as metzitzah b’peh, since 2000, including one Brooklyn case reported this week. Two infants died,...
Visit by Google Chairman May Benefit North Korea
Label: TechnologyBEIJING — As a work of propaganda, the images that North Korea circulated this week showing Google’s executive chairman, Eric E. Schmidt, touring a high-tech incubation center are hard to beat. Adrian Bradshaw/European Pressphoto AgencyEric E. Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, at left wearing a tie, and former Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico spoke to reporters in Beijing on Thursday...
Hotel Fire in Philippines Kills 7, Officials Say
Label: WorldOLONGAPO CITY, Philippines — A fast-moving fire ripped through a small hotel early Friday morning near the former United States naval base in Subic Bay, killing seven people, including four foreign visitors to the area, officials said. The fire started on the ground floor of the Dryden Hotel Subic, in the Barrio Barretto entertainment district, sending flames and smoke into...
Jan
10
Chinese Firm Buys an American Solar Technology Start-Up
Label: BusinessAlexander F. Yuan/Associated PressThe chief of MiaSolé, John Carrington, left, at the announcement of the company’s purchase by Hanergy Holding Group, for which Zhou Jiesan is an executive. Just a few years ago, Silicon Valley investors were pouring money into solar technologies and talking about how they would bring the same kind of innovation to green energy that they had to the computer chip. ...
Recipes for Health: Tunisian Style Baked Cauliflower Frittata — Recipes for Health
Label: HealthAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesIn the authentic version of this frittata there is a lot more olive oil, as well as chopped hard-boiled eggs. This one is lighter and simpler. It is great for lunch or dinner and keeps well in the refrigerator. 1/2 medium head cauliflower (about 1 1/4 pounds), trimmed of leaves, bottom of the stem trimmed away 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil...
Recipes for Health: Tunisian Style Baked Cauliflower Frittata — Recipes for Health
Label: LifestyleAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesIn the authentic version of this frittata there is a lot more olive oil, as well as chopped hard-boiled eggs. This one is lighter and simpler. It is great for lunch or dinner and keeps well in the refrigerator. 1/2 medium head cauliflower (about 1 1/4 pounds), trimmed of leaves, bottom of the stem trimmed away 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil...
State of the Art: Mixing and Matching to Create the Near-Perfect Digital Calendar - State of the Art
Label: Technology60 Seconds With Pogue: Calendars: David Pogue reviews calendar apps and software.You know what’s kind of wild? We can identify products by their container designs. You’d know a ketchup bottle, even if it was empty and unlabeled, no matter what the brand. You’d know a pickle jar, or a milk jug, or a bottle of salad dressing, or a cereal box just by their container shapes. Same goes for the...
Three Kurdish Women Found Shot Dead in Paris, Police Say
Label: WorldPARIS (Reuters) - Three Kurdish women said to include a founding member of the PKK militant group were shot dead overnight in Paris in killings that appeared politically motivated, police and other sources said on Thursday. The bodies of the women were found early on Thursday at the Information Centre of Kurdistan in the city centre, a police source said. An employee of the centre,...
Jan
09
A Bold Dissenter at the Fed, Hoping His Doubts Are Wrong
Label: BusinessRICHMOND, Va. — Jeffrey M. Lacker, the Federal Reserve’s most persistent internal critic, does not much resemble a firebrand. He is personally cheerful, professionally inclined to see both sides of an issue and quick to acknowledge he may not be right. He says he would rather be wrong. Steve Ruark for The New York TimesJeffrey M. Lacker questions the Fed's tack. ...
Recipes for Health: Cauliflower and Tuna Salad — Recipes for Health
Label: HealthAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesI have added tuna to a classic Italian antipasto of cauliflower and capers dressed with vinegar and olive oil. For the best results give the cauliflower lots of time to marinate. 1 large or 2 small or medium cauliflowers, broken into small florets 1 5-ounce can water-packed light (not albacore) tuna, drained 1 plump garlic clove, minced...
Recipes for Health: Cauliflower and Tuna Salad — Recipes for Health
Label: LifestyleAndrew Scrivani for The New York TimesI have added tuna to a classic Italian antipasto of cauliflower and capers dressed with vinegar and olive oil. For the best results give the cauliflower lots of time to marinate. 1 large or 2 small or medium cauliflowers, broken into small florets 1 5-ounce can water-packed light (not albacore) tuna, drained 1 plump garlic clove, minced...
A Financial Service for People Fed Up With Banks
Label: TechnologySteve Dykes for The New York TimesShamir Karkal, left, and Josh Reich, center, the founders of Simple. Like many people, Josh Reich got fed up with his bank after it charged him overdraft fees and he endured painful customer service calls to fight them. But unlike most people, Mr. Reich, a software engineer from Australia, decided to come up with a better way to bank. Mr. Reich and a co-founder,...
Record Heat Fuels Widespread Fires in Australia
Label: WorldLukas Coch/European Pressphoto AgencyFirefighters battled a grass fire in Oura, near Wagga Wagga, Australia, on Tuesday. On Monday, Australia’s hottest day on record, the national average was 104.59 degrees. Australia on Wednesday was grappling with an unprecedented heat wave that has sparked raging bushfires across some of the country’s most populated regions – pushing firefighters to their limits,...
Jan
08
Japan’s Cleanup After a Nuclear Accident Is Denounced
Label: BusinessKo Sasaki for The New York TimesBags of contaminated soil outside the Naraha-Minami school near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. NARAHA, Japan — The decontamination crews at a deserted elementary school here are at the forefront of what Japan says is the most ambitious radiological cleanup the world has seen, one that promised to draw on cutting-edge technology from across the globe. ...
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