The UEFA Europa League trail has already gone cold for both Rapid Bucuresti and Hapoel Tel-Aviv, but the Romanian side can guarantee a third-placed finish with a second Group C win against their visitors. Ovidiu Herea’s header (55) was enough to earn Rapid a 1-0 win at Bloomfield Stadium when the sides met on matchday [...]
Lenovo announced the results of the 2011 Global Student Science and Technology Outlook, a multi-country survey that concluded students in emerging countries – India, Mexico and Russia – are prioritizing and pursuing science-related careers over students in developed countries, including Canada, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. While virtually all (89 percent) of the respondents [...]
OLD IDEAS, an album by Leonard Cohen, will be released by Columbia Records on January 31, 2012. The album’s ten songs poetically address some of the most profound quandaries of human existence – the relationship to a transcendent being, love, sexuality, loss and death. Arguably the most overtly spiritual of the revered artist’s albums, OLD [...]
While families are gathering to stuff themselves with Thanksgiving dinner, eager shoppers are preparing to stuff their carts, and crooks are getting ready to stuff their wallets. Last year, holiday spending increased as more than 212 million U.S. consumers spent an estimated $45 billion in stores and online from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, according [...]
Just 28 percent of U.S. adults say they’ll travel by car to a Thanksgiving destination this year, according to a poll commissioned by InsuranceQuotes.com. The poll was conducted online by Harris Interactive from Oct. 4-6, 2011, among 2,171 adults 18 and older. Of Americans who do plan to travel by car this Thanksgiving, 31 percent [...]
American consumers continue to expand the number of devices and platforms they use to view TV shows and movies, yet report no significant change in the total time they spend watching on the traditional TV set. An annual study of consumer video consumption habits conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates reveals that while more than [...]
Successive defeats by Real Madrid CF have left Olympique Lyonnais with an uphill task to qualify from Group D and a three-point deficit to try and make up on AFC Ajax as the teams meet in France. The 14 September fixture in Amsterdam ended goalless. Lyon followed that with a 2-0 home win against GNK [...]
DJOKOVIC, FEDERER, NADAL HONOURED WITH 2011 ATP WORLD TOUR AWARDS Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal share honours in the 2011 ATP World Tour Awards presented by Moët & Chandon, which were announced in London on the eve of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. 2011 ATP WORLD TOUR AWARDS presented by Moët & Chandon [...]
GQ announcedthe 2011 Men of the Year: the magazine’s annual list of the men (and woman) who entertained, excited, and inspired us most this year. The biggest names in music, film, theater, and sports are recognized in the December issue and were on hand last night at GQ’s annual Men of the Year event, at [...]
Amazon.com announced its picks for Best Movies and TV shows of 2011. Chosen by Amazon TV and movie editors, The Social Network tops the list for best movie of the year with Walking Dead: Season 1 coming in as the best TV show of the year. Customers can browse the Best of the Year Movies [...]