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The Web site said an herbal remedy could cure cancer and offered miraculous firsthand accounts. One woman offered to "share my experience": The formula had routed her lymphoma, sparing her radiation treatment, she said.
The online journal gave a chatty account of a problem-free face lift. "You will never regret it," the patient wrote.
"Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-Two Days That Decided World War II" (De Capo Press, 400 pages, $27), by David Downing: Judging by its title, a reader might assume that this book focuses on a period in early 1945 with Germany on the verge of surrender and Japan coming to realize that it, too, was doomed to defeat. Not the case, however.
An electronics company says it is investigating one of its employees for offering to pay for positive online reviews of its products.
The number of new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration has ticked upward in 2008, even as regulators failed to meet review deadlines on more than a dozen drugs.
The fall TV season officially starts Monday, and NBC will pop the cork with its returning "Heroes" (a two-hour opener airs Monday at 9 p.m. EDT). CBS is ringing in the new year with "The Mentalist" (premiering 9 p.m. EDT Tuesday) and "Gary Unmarried" (8:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday). NBC hits the road with its new-model 'Knight Rider' (8 p.m. EDT Wednesday).
The new TV season's official start date (Sept. 21) is weeks away, but one of the most anticipated shows, "90210," has already arrived. Now comes the other: Fox's weird-science thriller "Fringe," which premieres Tuesday at 8 p.m. EDT. So what's left this fall? Well, CW's sunny youth drama "Privileged," debuting Tuesday at 9 p.m. EDT, offers evidence there are pleasant surprises ahead. But Fox's sitcom "Do Not Disturb," on tap for Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. EDT, isn't one of them.
The fall season is afoot, with these three shows among the first to hit the air: TNT's courtroom drama "Raising the Bar"; FX's series about an outlaw motorcycle club, "Sons of Anarchy"; and HBO's vampires-are-just-folks horror-comedy-romance, "True Blood."
Is the $20 million stage version of "Young Frankenstein" a monster hit or miss?
Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey says he is aiming to "achieve perfection" in a new drive to inform families of soldiers killed in combat about the circumstances of their deaths.
Perhaps it's really no more than a storm in a wine glass but prominent wine book publisher Mitchell Beazley is getting some off flavours in reviews of the latest edition of "The Juice 2010" written by Matt Skinner, an influential wine writer who oversees wine operations for Jami …
Good karma: an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.10Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In this comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes.
2012: Global Salvation Through Global DestructionAnd with its never-ending parade of glorious, ludicrous, and utterly improbable catastrophes, it more or less succeeds.
We have all heard of sleeper cells, but what if the cell was illegal aliens.
Mac mini (Late 2009) ReviewBack in March, when I reviewed the previous Mac mini models—officially called the Mac mini (Early 2009)—Apple's smallest desktop computer had just received a long-overdue refresh: it had been 19 months since the company had touched the Mac mini line.
I've recently watched the movie "Baraka" on Blu Ray and I must say that I've never experienced anything like it. It is literally beyond words. This amazing film was shot in more than 100 locations in 24 countries detailing "the thread of life" in all its majestic forms.
FTC: Bloggers must disclose payments for reviewsThe Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products.
Slowly working my way through my list of movies thus far this year, I present to you my second set of 25 haiku mini-reviews (part 1). 26 = Body of Lies A CIA spook / Hunting bombers in Jordan / Explosions galore
I sort of dropped off the radar with my progress on the "2009 Movie Challenge" after posting my reviews for the first ten movies I watched (part 1 and part 2), mostly because I just didn't have the patience to write out paragraphs for each movie.
Trying to Shake Off an Old Image - Review of Zune HDThe Web browser, and its accompanying on-screen keyboard, is new to the Zune. When you're in an Internet hot spot, you can call up Web sites, zoom in to magnify text, and so on, just as on the iPod Touch or iPhone.
WA teens garner loyal following with gadget reviews Three Redmond boys are proving you can have your zone and tweet it too while laying the groundwork for a promising future. Why not eh?
Whole Paycheck: Whole Foods CEO Angers Customers With Health Care ViewsMemo to Whole Foods CEO John Mackey: when much of your customer base consists of reusable-bag-using, wheatgrass-munching "progressive" types, it's probably not such a good idea to publish an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing current health care reform proposals.
At OpEdNews: British Author and Consciousness Theorist Anthony Peake drew a crowd of 300 ManhattanitesThat Anthony Peake was able - as a relatively unknown author in the U.S., and making his debut in New York - to draw a crowd this size on a Monday night in August is a sign that he is fated for a relative fame.
If Movie Posters Used Bad Reviews Don't you hate when you're really revved up to see a movie based off its awesome trailer only to find that the best part of the movie IS the trailer? That's because the studio didn't allow the press to review the movie in advance.
New York City Reviews in for Peake eventReviews mainly favorable for Anthony Peake's Manhattan debut.
Zune HD hands-on, impressions, tears of joyWell, having just geeked-out with a pair of Zune HDs for about an hour, I am tentatively reaffirming my faith in Microsoft. This thing was worth the wait, folks.
Ras Nas Norwegian Tour - Autumn 2009Ras Nas is to tour six towns in Norway in October-November this year bringing reggae and african music closer to a wider Norwegian audience.
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman ISBN: 978-0393071016
Book Review: 'The Ramen King and I'Portions of this memoir read very much like a Murakami novel—the quiet yet inexplicable obsessions of neurotic protagonists, interwoven with the mythicized stories of unknown figures and minor characters that stop just short of the surreal.
'Public Enemies' and a pivotal moment in American historyA brief fourteen-month period in 1933-34 witnessed the rise and fall of a group of legendary bank robbers and gangsters in the US—Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelley, Alvin Karpis and the Ma Barker gang, and John Dillinger.
Critics Laud Love - Laced Harry Potter Film .It may have had one of the wettest premieres in memory this week, but that did little to dampen critics' enthusiasm for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the sixth film in the blockbuster franchise.
FTC Eyes Blogs for Conflicts of Interest - PC WorldScanning Weblogs for product information and reviews has become a cornerstone in contemporary consumerism. Often, readers appreciate the opinion of someone who is not an expert to guide them to the right product.
In Midtown, the Pleasures of Paris Last year, Alain Ducasse brought in the chef Pierre Schaedelin to upgrade this New York branch of his bistro empire. Mr.
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