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• Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
The guild said it adjourned talks overnight with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers after two marathon sessions with federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez. SAG — representing more than 120,000 actors in movies, television and ...
• Reports: Airstrike kills suspect in jet bomb plot
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed the alleged ringleader of a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jets, Pakistani television and intelligence officers said on Saturday. Rashid Rauf, a British Islamist militant with links to al ...
• Is Alaska big enough for celebrity Palin?
The failed Republican vice presidential candidate, who is still Alaska's governor, crunched state budget numbers this week in her 17th-floor office as tumbling oil prices hit Alaska's revenues. Meanwhile, her staff fielded television requests seeking ...
• Unhappy people watch much more TV
The finding, announced on Thursday, comes from a survey of nearly 30,000 American adults conducted between 1975 and 2006 as part of the General Social Survey. While happy people reported watching an average of 19 hours of television per week, unhappy ...
• Study: Fast-food ad ban may cut obesity in kids
WASHINGTON - Banning fast-food advertising on television in the United States could reduce the number of overweight children by as much as 18 percent, researchers said on Wednesday. But the team at the National Bureau of Economic Research questioned ...