This article is by Steve Eder, Richard Sandomir and Alison Leigh Cowan. In March 2012, a group of online retailers was sued in federal court, accused of having participated in a cynical and longstanding scheme to cheat customers out of millions of dollars. One of the named defendants is 1-800-Flowers.com Inc., which says it is the world’s leading florist and gift shop. The plaintiffs...
Study Bolsters Link Between Routine Hits to Head and Long-Term Brain Disease
Label: HealthThe growing evidence of a link between head trauma and long-term, degenerative brain disease was amplified in an extensive study of athletes, military veterans and others who absorbed repeated hits to the head, according to new findings published in the scientific journal Brain. The study, which included brain samples taken posthumously from 85 people who had histories of repeated mild traumatic...
Study Bolsters Link Between Routine Hits to Head and Long-Term Brain Disease
Label: LifestyleThe growing evidence of a link between head trauma and long-term, degenerative brain disease was amplified in an extensive study of athletes, military veterans and others who absorbed repeated hits to the head, according to new findings published in the scientific journal Brain. The study, which included brain samples taken posthumously from 85 people who had histories of repeated mild traumatic...
App Maker Uber Hits Regulatory Snarl
Label: TechnologyJack Atley for The New York TimesThe Uber car-hiring app was introduced in Sydney last month. WASHINGTON — Summoning a taxi or car service with your smartphone feels like the future. City governments around the world can agree on that. But many of them are proposing new rules that would run Uber, one of the most prominent ride-requesting apps, off the road. James Best Jr./The New York TimesThe...
Tunnel Collapses Outside Tokyo Kills Nine
Label: WorldKyodo News, via Associated PressAn image from a monitoring camera showing the search for survivors after the tunnel collapse. Each of the concrete slabs weighs 1.2 tons, officials said. TOKYO — Nine people were found dead early Monday after their cars were crushed by slabs of concrete that fell from the ceiling of a tunnel in eastern Japan, severing a major highway leading to Tokyo. ...
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John McAfee Plays Hide-and-Seek in Belize
Label: BusinessPhoto Illustration by The New York TimesJohn McAfee, right, a pioneer in computer security who lives in Belize, is a “person of interest” in the murder of his neighbor. More Photos » DANIEL GUERRERO promised during his campaign for mayor here to clean up San Pedro, the only town on this island, a 20-minute puddle jump from the mainland. But if he ever runs for re-election, don’t expect him to mention...
Opinion: A Health Insurance Detective Story
Label: HealthI’VE had a long career as a business journalist, beginning at Forbes and including eight years as the editor of Money, a personal finance magazine. But I’ve never faced a more confounding reporting challenge than the one I’m engaged in now: What will I pay next year for the pill that controls my blood cancer? After making more than 70 phone calls to 16 organizations over the past few weeks,...
Opinion: A Health Insurance Detective Story
Label: LifestyleI’VE had a long career as a business journalist, beginning at Forbes and including eight years as the editor of Money, a personal finance magazine. But I’ve never faced a more confounding reporting challenge than the one I’m engaged in now: What will I pay next year for the pill that controls my blood cancer? After making more than 70 phone calls to 16 organizations over the past few weeks,...
Bits Blog: Study May Offer Insight Into Coca-Cola Breach
Label: Technology Spend enough time with cybersecurity experts and chances are you will hear some variation of this line: There are two types of companies in the United States, those that have been hacked and those that don’t yet know they’ve been hacked.Government intelligence officials and cybersecurity specialists say hackers — predominantly from China — are siphoning gigabytes, if not terabytes, of data from companies...
Tunnel Collapse Outside Tokyo Traps Motorists
Label: WorldKyodo News, via Associated PressA surveillance camera within the Sasago tunnel showed rescue workers at the scene of a collapse on Sunday. TOKYO — At least seven people were feared dead after part of a highway tunnel collapsed Sunday in eastern Japan, trapping them in their vehicles and starting a fire that filled the tunnel with thick, black smoke. Franck Robichon/European Pressphoto...
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