The Fine Art of Quitting While She's Ahead

Categories: Entertainment | Nov 20, 2009

Oprah Winfrey delivered an oh-no moment on Friday, choking up as she told her audience that after a quarter-century on "the yellow brick road of blessings that led me to you," she would shut down "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in ...Read More

Senate Democrats Rounding Up Votes for Crucial Healthcare Test

Categories: U.S. | Nov 20, 2009

Washington Bureau - NOAM N. LEVEYReporting from Washington Senate Democratic leaders, having negotiated critical last-minute commitments, Friday stood on the verge of achieving the 60 votes they need to begin consideration of the most expansive healthcare legislation to go before the ...Read More

Students Continue to Protest California Tuition Increases

Categories: Most Viewed, U.S. | Nov 20, 2009

Students Continue to Protest California Tuition Increases BERKELEY, Calif. — The day after the University of California Board of Regents approved a 32-percent increase in fees that are the equivalent of tuition, protests continued on several campuses, with students occupying buildings at Santa Cruz and Berkeley. On the ...Read More

Microsoft Partners Yawn In Chrome's General Direction

Categories: Most Viewed, SciTech | Nov 20, 2009

Hear that snoring sound? That's the collective reaction from Microsoft channel partners to the details Google provided Thursday on its Chrome OS. They're just not impressed with the details Google has provided thus far on its Linux based entry to ...Read More

Hacked E-mails Fuel Climate Change Skeptics

Categories: Most Viewed, SciTech | Nov 20, 2009

Hundreds of private e-mails and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate scientists conspired to overstate the case for a human influence on ...Read More

Chrome OS: There Will Be Local Storage

Categories: Most Viewed, SciTech | Nov 20, 2009

, released in preliminary form , promises a major hardware transition, one that the rest of the PC industry has anticipated but not yet fully embraced: It will not support hard disk drives (at least until some enterprising developer writes the ...Read More

Berkeley Students Occupy Building in Protest

Categories: Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. | Nov 20, 2009

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Students occupied a building Friday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in an escalation of protests over large fee increases at UC campuses statewide that echoed the unrest here during the 1960s. The takeover by ...Read More

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart's Late-Night PDA at Club

Categories: Most Viewed | Nov 20, 2009

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart's Late-Night PDA at Club Thursday's official New Moon afterparty in New York was missing two crucial ingredients: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. What did Kristen, Rob et al look like back in the day? Check out our Before They Were New Moon Stars slideshow While their ...Read More

Swine Flu Declining in Some Parts of US

Categories: Health, Most Viewed, Top Stories | Nov 20, 2009

FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Some areas of the United States are seeing declines in H1N1 swine flu activity, a federal health official said Friday, and while the disease remains widespread in 43 states, that's down from the 46 ...Read More

us Senate leader at risk in healthcare battle

Categories: Most Viewed, Top Stories, U.S. | Nov 20, 2009

* Fight could affect Reid's re-election chances * Reid claims to be Nevada most powerful senator ever * Battle packs risks, possible rewards, for all senators WASHINGTON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Other than President Barack Obama, perhaps no one's political future is riding ...Read More