Published: Feb 21, 2012
LONDON — Pinstripes with an edge of cool, surfaces smooth and metallic, and fashion show locations in a high rise building in London’s financial district — could it be that city slick is making a comeback? The London equivalent of Occupy Wall Street may have seen its tents dismantled. But in other ways, young fashion designers,
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Shenneika Smith made a 3-pointer from the wing with eight seconds left to lift St. John’s to a 57-56 win over No. 2 Connecticut on Saturday night, bringing to a close the Huskies’ 99-game home winning streak. It was also UConn ’s first home loss to an unranked opponent in nearly 19 years. “It’s truly
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
A LITTLE over a year ago, Maine Huts & Trails opened its newest backcountry eco-lodge in the mountains of western Vacationland. Each of the lodges, now numbering three, has hot showers and private guesthouses and serves breakfasts and dinners prepared with locally sourced organic ingredients. Ditto the brown bag lunches. Connecting them is a
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Published: Feb 19, 2012
Jordan Morgan had 11 points and 11 rebounds, playing the all-American forward Jared Sullinger to a virtual stalemate as No. 17 Michigan beat No. 6 Ohio State , 56-51, on Saturday night to remain unbeaten at home. Trey Burke scored 17 points and Tim Hardaway Jr. added 13 for the Wolverines (20-7, 10-4 Big Ten), who improved to 15-0 at Crisler Center
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Published: Feb 16, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — The Yoda fountain greets you first, the little guy sagely standing sentry outside a former veterans hospital in the leafy acres of the Presidio. Inside there are a couple of Stormtroopers and the dark lord himself, Darth Vader. Around the corner E.T. is flying in his bicycle basket, over the head of Slimer, the green meanie
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Published: Feb 09, 2012
The most sweeping patent system changes in more than 50 years became law in September with enactment of the America Invents Act, which the White House has said will help turn inventions into businesses faster. Entrepreneurs and small-business owners who rely on the patent system to protect their intellectual property are just starting to understand
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Published: Feb 05, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO FOR barristers in 18th-century London, it was shoulder-grazing wigs. For the Mad men of 1950s New York, it was briefcases and fedoras. For the glass-ceiling-shattering women of the 1980s, it was shoulder pads. And for today's tech entrepreneurs in high-flying Silicon Valley, it is flamboyantly colored, audaciously patterned socks. In
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Published: Jan 30, 2012
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The connection between the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the iconic N.F.L. franchise it shares a city with goes back to the 1960s. As the story goes, Vince Lombardi, the legendary Packers coach, advised the university's first chancellor, Edward W. Weidner, to make men's soccer the signature athletic program rather than
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Published: Jan 29, 2012
PALO ALTO, Calif. IN March 2009, an eternity ago in Silicon Valley, a small team of engineers here was in a big hurry to rethink the future of books. Not the paper-and-ink books that have been around since the days of Gutenberg, the ones that the doomsayers proclaim -- with glee or dread -- will go the way of vinyl records. No, the engineers were
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Published: Jan 29, 2012
Skylar Diggins scored 24 points to help No. 2 Notre Dame beat host St. John's, 71-56, for its 18th straight victory. Devereaux Peters added 18 points, 15 rebounds, 5 blocks and 4 steals for Notre Dame (21-1, 8-0 Big East), which was coming off a 28-point blowout of No. 7 Tennessee on Monday. Da'Shena Stevens and Shenneika Smith each scored 10
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