The Boston Herald Experts: Bet the bank on Mitt Romney with biz Former venture capital maven Mitt Romney soundly trumps The Donald as a businessman in the opinion of many experts â who laud the former Bay State governor for his analytical chops while slamming the New York real estate tycoon as a high-rolling gambler.
Mystery deepens as bodies turn up on Long Island In the summertime, the beaches along Ocean Parkway on Long Island are an American photo album of family picnics, July Fourth fireworks and minivans wedged bumper to bumper. But in the winter, this idyllic place is a windswept wilderness laced with thickets of brush that, it seems, provide the perfect dumping ground for murder.
The Psychology of Cheating To some it was a fitting end to a pointless witch hunt. On Wednesday, after weeks of graphic testimony about steroid use, a jury in San Francisco cleared the former baseball slugger Barry Bonds of all charges but one, obstruction of justice. And even that might not hold up.
BRA approves $136M slate of projects The Boston Redevelopment Authority has approved three new projects valued at $136 million and totaling more than 600,000 square feet of potential development.
The Christian Science Monitor Kobe Bryant slur: A window into ‘last bastion of homophobia’? Basketball star Kobe Bryant has been fined $100,000 for yelling a homophobic slur at a referee. Some observers say it points to a persistent and deep homophobia in pro sports. Others say too much is being made of a single incident.
Ready or Not For those parents and school administrators who believe it is never too early for students to begin preparing for the PSAT and SAT, the College Board has begun offering a junior version of its marquee college-entrance exams â this one specifically for eighth graders.
Chemistry World Microrockets aim at cancer diagnostics Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have made self-propelled microtube rockets that can find and capture cancer cells from blood samples.
Sun-Sentinel Jurors award $2.47 million to Lake Worth widow of smoker Mary Tullo was convinced her husband’s life was cut short by the greed of cigarette-makers. On Wednesday, a Palm Beach County jury agreed, ordering three tobacco giants to pay the 87-year-old Lake Worth widow $2.47 million for causing the 1998 death of her husband from lung cancer.
Trend Alert Abolishing subsidies to aggravate inflation in Iran Despite the Iranian governmentâs attempts, the decision to get rid ofsubsidies will significantly impact inflation in the near future, Professor at Northeastern University Kamran Dadkhah said.
Lender has shed 2,000 jobs in state Bank of America Corp. the state’s biggest bank, has eliminated roughly 2,000 jobs in Massachusetts over the past four years, company officials acknowledged yesterday.
Experts say Libyan assets will be hard to unfreeze Any attempt to unfreeze Libyan assets and hand them to the opposition, even for humanitarian purposes, faces legal obstacles that could take years to clear, U.S. and European officials and experts say.
‘Crazy’ killings scare some in beach towns Residents of Long Island, New York, neighborhoods where bodies have been found in a suspected string of serial killings said Tuesday the findings are “eerie” and “frightening” and have left some families shaken.