MEXICO CITY — The antivirus software pioneer John McAfee was arrested in Guatemala City on Wednesday after he slipped over the border from his home in Belize where police want to question him in their investigation of the murder of his neighbor. Jorge Dan Lopez/ReutersJohn McAfee spoke during an interview in Guatemala City on Wednesday. The interior minister,...
The New Old Age Blog: How the 'Death With Dignity' Law Failed in Massachusetts
Label: HealthOn election night, Jim Carberry and others who had worked to put a “Death With Dignity” law on the Massachusetts ballot gathered in the back room of a Waltham restaurant and watched their effort go down to narrow defeat.“We were disheartened,” Mr. Carberry recalled. “For a lot of us, it was personal.”His wife Margie, diagnosed with a rare brain tumor in 1995, had sought aggressive treatment for years...
The New Old Age Blog: How the 'Death With Dignity' Law Failed in Massachusetts
Label: LifestyleOn election night, Jim Carberry and others who had worked to put a “Death With Dignity” law on the Massachusetts ballot gathered in the back room of a Waltham restaurant and watched their effort go down to narrow defeat.“We were disheartened,” Mr. Carberry recalled. “For a lot of us, it was personal.”His wife Margie, diagnosed with a rare brain tumor in 1995, had sought aggressive treatment for years...
Gadgetwise Blog: Tip of the Week: Bookmarks on the Home Screen
Label: TechnologyGoogle’s Android operating system and Apple’s iOS software both include a Web browser that lets you save bookmarks. For sites you visit frequently, however, it is often faster to get to your favorite page with the mobile equivalent of a desktop shortcut — an icon on the phone’s home screen — instead of fiddling around with the browser’s bookmark menu.To save a bookmark as a home screen icon on an...
British News Media Agree to More Powerful Regulator
Label: WorldLONDON — The editors of Britain’s principal national newspapers met Wednesday under pressure from Prime Minister David Cameron and agreed to the establishment of an independent newspaper regulator with far greater powers than those available to the existing watchdog. But the editors, meeting over breakfast at a London restaurant, steered a careful course, embracing most but not all of the...
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DealBook: HSBC Sells Stake in Chinese Insurer for $9.4 Billion
Label: BusinessHONG KONG – HSBC Holdings, one of the biggest banks in Europe, said on Wednesday that it would sell its entire stake in a leading Chinese insurer to a Thai conglomerate for 72.7 billion Hong Kong dollars ($9.4 billion).HSBC said it would sell its 15.6 percent stake in Ping An Insurance, based in Shenzhen, China, to the Charoen Pokphand Group, controlled by the Thai billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont,...
The New Old Age Blog: For the Old, Less Sense of Whom to Trust
Label: HealthThere’s a reason so many older people fall for financial scams, new research suggests. They don’t respond as readily to visual cues that suggest a person might be untrustworthy, and their brains don’t send out as many warning signals that ignite a danger ahead gut response.The research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show that older adults’...
The New Old Age Blog: For the Old, Less Sense of Whom to Trust
Label: LifestyleThere’s a reason so many older people fall for financial scams, new research suggests. They don’t respond as readily to visual cues that suggest a person might be untrustworthy, and their brains don’t send out as many warning signals that ignite a danger ahead gut response.The research, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first to show that older adults’...
Law Students in Austria Challenge Facebook Privacy Policy
Label: TechnologyBERLIN — An Austrian student group said Tuesday that it planned to challenge Facebook’s privacy policies in Irish court, alleging that the social networking giant had failed, despite repeated requests and formal complaints made by its members, to adapt to the restrictions of European data protection law. Herwig Prammer/ReutersMax Schrems, a student at the University of Vienna, said Facebook’s...
Typhoon Said to Have Killed Hundreds in Philippines
Label: WorldErik De Castro/ReutersResidents transported the body of victim in the southern Philippines on Wednesday. MANILA —Rescue teams were trying to reach isolated villages in the southern Philippines on Wednesday after a powerful out-of-season typhoon tore through the region, leaving more than 270 people dead, officials said. NASATyphoon Bopha moved toward the Philippines on Monday. ...
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