Sunday 31 January 2016

What We Talk About When We Talk About Gun Violence

Like suicide, school shootings and mass killings are likely contagious. Here's how you can help.

Tuesday 19 January 2016

Meet The Chinese American Bank That Wants To Become Wells Fargo

Finding opportunity through crisis, Dominic Ng of East West Bank transformed a Chinatown thrift into a leading regional bank with $31 billion assets.

Monday 11 January 2016

Nissan Ad for New Titan XD Pays Homage To Big Three's Ground-breaking Pickup Trucks

Beginning with Monday evening during the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, Nissan is supporting the ongoing launch of its Nissan Titan XD with a new 90-second TV ad that will take an iconoclastic approach to truck advertising, devoid of chest-pounding -- and actually built on paying homage to the Detroit truck brands that built the business, and some of the trucks they used to do it.

Friday 8 January 2016

'Serial' Episode 4: Bergdahl's captivity, torture had him 'feeling every second'

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Editor's note: Miriam Ramirez, a freelance writer and former reporter for The Monitor in McAllen, Texas, served as an active-duty Military Police/Corrections Specialist in the United States Army. She'll be recapping Serial Season 2 for Mashable.

SPOILER ALERT! The following contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 4 of the Serial podcast.

After taking a week off, Serial is back and Episode 4, "The Captors," hits the ground running. But 2016's first installment is not easy to keep up with

Host Sarah Koenig attempts to break down the complexity of Pakistani/Afghan government along with many of cells of the Taliban, but even she pauses to realize how confusing it sounds. Mainly, Koenig wants to understand what U.S. Army Sgt Bowe Bergdahl endured during his five-year captivity by the Taliban, and who his captors were. Read more...

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New Hall Of Famers Ken Griffey, Jr. And Mike Piazza Reflect On Baseball, Family, And Prominence

The New York Athletic Club on Central Park South was this year’s host to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America annual press conference introducing the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza become the 311th and 312th elected members to baseball’s most prestigious club. Words such as humbled, honored, and grateful were used with great regularity as both men addressed the media as a group as well as in individual sessions.

Monday 4 January 2016

How Peyton Manning HGH Issue Could Attract Legal Scrutiny

Claims regarding Peyton Manning and/or Ashley Manning use of human growth hormone should not pose a threat to Al Jazeera, but the Guyer Institute may have cause for concern.