NEW YORK — When her favorite band took the stage, Kristin Shires was in the front row. As the Misterwives started to play, the drums and saxophones blared from the trembling speakers. Shires soaked in the music — but on the way home, a different sound played in her ears. "The half hour ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A zoo in Taiwan's capital received a pair of endangered red pandas from China on Saturday, in the first exchange of animals in more than a decade as tensions between the two sides run high. The pandas, a 3-year-old male and a 2-year-old female, will be in quarantine ...
MEXICO CITY — Heat won't be the only environmental factor affecting players' performance at the World Cup. Teams playing in two of Mexico's host cities must adapt to another challenge: altitude. The Azteca stadium in Mexico City sits at more than 7,300 feet above sea level, while ...
Ewan McGregor, for a fleeting moment after "Trainspotting" came out, felt like a rock star. It wasn't his first significant project; it wasn't even his first film with director Danny Boyle. And he was, in his words, fairly arrogant and cocksure at the time. But that kinetic film about four ...
NEW YORK — If there's ever been a terrifying screen villain, it's got to be Max Cady. He's the sadistic, unhinged former inmate bent on getting revenge against the lawyer who put him away in "Cape Fear." Robert Mitchum played Cady in 1962 and Robert De Niro portrayed him in a chilling 1991 ...
Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series. By ELEANOR DOHRENWEND 8-18 Media Marketing is obviously successful. But what makes it so successful? And how much of it is evolved around gender? What gender-based differences are there around shopping, and how do marketers use ...
